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Live Life in the Arts - March 18, 2025 |
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Friday, March 21, 7 pm
Saturday, March 22, 11 am - 9:30 pm
Sunday, March 23, 10 am - 5 pm
The Sherwood Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd., Fairfax
Women’s Stories Shared – In-person and online
Visit our site for more details and ticket information!
Join Better Said Than Done in Fairfax, VA, or online, for the 6th Annual Women’s Storytelling Festival. The festival features 19 storytellers performing over 3 days in-person at the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center, 3740 Blenheim Blvd, Fairfax, VA 22030, March 21 – 23, with a special virtual only showcase premiering on March 20, 2025. The festival will be live-streaming and ticket holders will be able to watch the recordings for one month after.
Find links to all of that, plus the schedule, and more, at:
https://bettersaidthandone.org/womens-festival/
If you want to jump right to the tickets, they're here:
https://bettersaidthandone.org/wsf-tickets/
In light of the economic situation, Better Said Than Done is offering a limited number of free tickets to the 2025 Women’s Storytelling Festival.
If you are unemployed, underemployed, retired, a student, or a teacher, you can apply by filling out this form.
The application closes on Wednesday. Apply by March by 19th.
We are thrilled with our phenomenal cast of storytellers: Karin Amano, Sarah Brady, Laura Deal, Swapna Deshpande, Linda Gorham, Jennifer Hillery, Tobey Ishii Anderson, Andrea Kamens, Amanda Lawrence, Carol Moore, Miriam Nadel, Sarah Beth Nelson, Ingrid Nixon, Laura Packer, Jessica Robinson, Aimee Snow, Sarah Snyder, Shani Womack, and Janel Woodland.
The festival emcees are as amazing as the storytellers. We are excited to be joined by Bonnie Gardner, Sherry Grimes, Jeanna Lee, Jamie McElhatton, Miriam Nadel, Kristin Pedemonti, Fairfax City Mayor Catherine Read, Miss Virginia Lauren Stephens, and host of NPR's 1A Jenn White.
Clare and Don’s Beach Shack is providing Saturday and Sunday lunches, and Saturday dinner. We highly recommend that you purchase food in advance. You can check out menu options and order 1, 2, or 3 meals at the link below.
https://bettersaidthandone.org/2025-wsf-meal-selection-payment/
Advance orders must be received no later than Wednesday at 11:00pm. Order by the 19th.
The Women's Storytelling Festival is intended for a mature audience.
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Organ Recital at Truro Anglican Church - Dr. John J. "JJ" Mitchell
Friday, March 28
8 p.m.
Truro Anglican Church
10520 Main Street
Free
"Wow, I never knew an organ could do that!"
Get ready for a spellbinding, colorful concert that will leave you saying A member of Diapason Magazine's Class of 20 under 30 (2021), Dr. John J. "JJ" Mitchell will give a pipe organ concert lasting approximately one hour. The repertoire will feature standard works by familiar composers as well as gems by underrepresented composers. Join us at Truro Anglican Church, 10520 Main Street, Fairfax City, for this special presentation!
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Adam Nimoy: Reconciling with My Father
Thursday, March 27
7 p.m.
The Sherwood Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd., Fairfax
FREE, but reservations required. Click here to reserve your space today!
In The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father Leonard Nimoy, Adam Nimoy explores his complicated and often tumultuous relationship with his father, Leonard, the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek. Despite their differences, father and son travelled parallel paths from divorce, to addiction, and finally to recovery. More importantly, Adam Nimoy shares how he and his father reconciled with the help of AA meetings and over Shabbat dinners. George Takei says "The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics."
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Old Town Hall Chamber Series
Friday, March 28, 2025
12pm
The Sherwood Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd., Fairfax
Please note: This concert takes place at the nearby Sherwood Community Center during the Old Town Hall renovation.
Program:
- Scarlatti: Four Keyboard Sonatas. Steven Schwarz, piano
- Gaspar Cassado: Suite for Solo Cello. John Kaboff, cello
- Five Bagatelles, op. 23. Karin Caifa, clarinet; Simon Finlow, piano
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Dinaw Mengestu
Tuesday, April 1
6:30 pm
The Sherwood Center
3740 Blenheim Blvd., Fairfax
RSVP for this free event here
Doors open at 6:00
6:30 - 7:30: Introduction and 45-minute lecture
7:30: Discussions and questions
8 - 9 pm: Book sale and signing
Extra{ordinary} Courage: the politics of language and masculinity. By exploring courage, Mengestu will present us with his ideas on the politics of language and masculinity. Through his work the multitudes of men and women at work in the cities and small towns in America become personal and quietly heroic.
Mengestu is the author of four novels, including Someone Like Us (Knopf 2024), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), all New York Times Notable Books. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo.
He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, among other honors. The lecture is brought to you by the Cheuse Center, Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL), the City of Fairfax & Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). This lecture series is made possible by the generous support of William Miller & Elisabeth Vermilye.
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