Weekend to Weekend Pick 7-29-10 Cinderella

From the Rockville Civic Ballet Flyer

Perhaps because of my name, I’ve always loved the Cinderella story, especially her positive attitude when faced with constant adversity. She never stopped appreciating the wonders of life. Prince Charming was a side note, but I’m glad that worked out for her too.

See a live performance of Cinderella by the Rockville Civic Ballet including a presentation of Gershwin’s Concerto in F.

Saturday, August 7, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Sunday, August 8, 2010 2 – 4 PM
At the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (603 Edmonston Drive)

The production is directed by Claudia Mangan. You also won’t want to miss the wonderful bake sale and famous Craft and Gift Table.

Event Fees: $16 Adult, $12 Senior, $12 Child
To purchase tickets in person at the walk-in Box Office: Hours are Tuesday - Saturday: 2pm to 7pm except it’s closed Saturday July 31st. Directions by phone: 240-314-5004

To purchase tickets online: Leap Frog Tickets

During the past three years, I’ve often highlighted events in and around Rockville. For a year and a half I researched and wrote the Weekend to Weekend listing of all the happenings in Rockville before we asked Helen Triolo at Rockville Living to automate the process and encouraged everyone to post event announcements on her wonderful calendar. For a while I picked the best of the week to highlight here on Rockville Central. Now I’m back at it again with the W2W Pick.

Don't Give Up Registering for Ride and Stride (Updated)

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Fun Bike On The Streets During the 2009 Ride and Stride

Update: Jon McLaren has let us know that the small glitch was fixed last week and on-line registration is working for children under 13.

When I tried to register my family for Ride and Stride 4 Rockville, Rock Enroll wouldn’t allow me to include my 9-year old and was charging the $25 adult fee for my 13-year old. Since both are free, a quick call to the staff in the Department of Recreation and Parks (240-314-8620 during business hours) had them registered in no time, but Rock Enroll was unfortunately having technical difficulties with youth signups today. They’re working on fixing the system.

The ninth annual Ride and Stride during Hometown Holidays on Sunday, May 30, 2010 offers running, walking or biking options. Short or long, there’s an option for everyone so all ages can participate: 2K or 5K run/walks, and 12-mile or 28-mile bike rides.

The funds raised from Ride and Stride provide financial assistance for children who can’t afford City recreation and after-school activities, and support the Rockville Bike Fund to promote safe bicycling in the city.

My family has never ridden in the Ride and Stride and we’re looking forward to giving it a try with some friends. Yes, we’re biking! Staff are supposed to be on hand with maps. We’ve been promised food, prizes and health info. Participants can bring a t-shirt, backpack or cycling shirt to be silk screened with the Ride and Stride for Rockville logo.

Residents can register online here using activity number 31709. Rockville residents older than 13 are $25, non-resident adults are $35. Event time is 8 AM until 12 PM. The start and finish location is in front of the Red Brick Courthouse.

Who else is going and what can we expect?

Pick of the Week 12/10/09: Trains

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Free Train Rides for Children Up to 7 Years Old and “Living Art” Displays On the Stage
This Saturday and every Saturday until January 2nd
Rockville Town Square
1 PM to 5 PM

12/12 Santa’s Workshop
12/19 Winter Wonderland
12/26 Visions of Sugarplums
1/2 Into the Future

I wish we had cool winter activities like this when my kids were younger. People keep commenting on how festive our Town Square is this holiday season.

The Toy and Gift Drive continues until 12/20 at the Fenestra Leasing office next to Taste of Saigon. Hours: M-F 10-10, Sat: 10-6, Sun: Noon-5

Free parking starts in the City garages and surface lots starts on 12/14 until 1/3 (still have to pay at the meters on the streets).

Events in Rockville

Here’s the links to Rockville Living’s events in two formats - a one week list or six week calendar.

Six Week Calendar

This community event listing is a partnership between Rockville Central and Rockville Living. If you would like your community event listed, submit your information to Rockville Living using this form. Please become a regular contributor by requesting a username so that you can enter the information directly to the database. If you have a special event and would like to tell everyone why they should attend in a feature article please email us: [email protected].

If you attend an event in Rockville, we invite you to write a Contributor Review Share the experience. Let everyone know about an event worth attending. Tell us about the school play, fair, or city activity, as long as it’s recent and you are not offering it for publication elsewhere. We prefer short, not more than 500 words. Please include a photo if you have one. Send it along to [email protected] for consideration.

Gaudete! from the National Philharmonic Singers 12/5/09

>Christ Episcopal Church in Rockville will be the setting for the National Philharmonic Singers’ holiday program, presented on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8 p.m. Join Conductor Stan Engebretson, Guest Vocal Artist Molly Donnelly, The Singers, and Theodore Guerrant on organ as they perform choral music from Renaissance to Contemporary periods.

Kate Gordon sent along this recommendation:

This concert, always my favorite of the year, promises to be a beautiful event with candlelight processionals and a chance for folks to hear their favorite carols and experience pieces they may not be as familiar with. Both of our Maestros, Piotr Gajewski and Stan Engebretson, have looked at the outreach work of the National Philharmonic Singers and our free concerts at Christ Episcopal as a gift we give back to the community that supports us with such enthusiasm. And, given the proximity of Christ Episcopal to the Town Center, it is a great chance to make an evening of it with shopping and dinner.

There will be an excerpt from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio sung by special guest, mezzo-soprano Molly Donnelly. In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth, the ensemble will perform Ave Maria for tenor solo and eight-part choir as well as the anthem There Shall a Star appear from Jacob. Also on the program will be Gaudete, a contemporary Swedish arrangement of old traditional carols by Anders Ohrwall. Spirituals and other traditional carols and works by Praetorius and Gabrieli will complete the evening. The finale will be a celebration of traditional carols for all to sing.

All free-will donations will benefit the Community Ministries of Rockville.

The National Philharmonic Singers is the chamber ensemble of the National Philharmonic Chorale, conducted by Maestro Engebretson, and is the resident choral group of the Music Center at Strathmore.

Christ Episcopal Church is located at 107 South Washington Street.

Two additional friends have emailed me about this performance so I know it is an evening we should not miss!

Tree Lighting In Town Square 12/3/09

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Head on over to the Holiday Open House on Thursday, December 3, 2009 from 6:30 PM till 9 PM.

The whole evening sounds festive:

• Tree lighting ceremony
• Complimentary photos with Santa
• Holiday music
• Horse and Carriage rides (Bring an unwrapped toy to benefit residents of Montgomery County’s Housing Opportunities Commission. Monetary donations to HOC will also be accepted for the rides.)
• Dinner specials are promised and you can register to win prizes including a “Dining Spree”.

You can make donations to the HOC toy drive until December 20th in th Fenestra Apartments leasing office at th corner of Beall and Maryland. (M-F 10-10, Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5)

If you spend $150 at two or more Rockville Town Square shops or restaurants between December 1 - 13, you will receive a Fraiser Fir single poured candle. (Get the gift with your receipts at 10,000 Villages or Cottage Monet.)

Bring the festive feeling home.

Russian Folk Music This Saturday? Da!

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Photo from the Washington Balalaika Society

One of my favorite parts of living in the Washington DC area is having so many cultures at my fingertips. From the many parents sharing their heritages at Ritchie Park Elementary’s International Night to the never-ending performances emanating from around the world at our local venues, Rockville is truly a little United Nations.

This Saturday, November 21, 2009, the Washington Balalaika Society (WBS) will perform the traditional folk music of Russia, “Russian Revelry,” with guest artist Alexander Chemabaev, internationally renowned percussionist, at 7:30 p.m. at our very own F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre.

What’s so wonderful is that children under 12 are free with a paying adult so a family can experience this special performance together at a reasonable cost. Adults are $20, seniors $18, and students with IDs $15.

The WBS consists of more than 60 musicians from professional to amateur, who practice together in Arlington to be the best of their genre. Since 1988 the WBS has performed the music of Russian, Ukraine and eastern Europe on traditional Russian folk instruments in the historical tradition of the great orchestras of Russia but it also explores new possibilities for this very unique family of instruments.

The WBS Orchestra has performed at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall with the Paul Hill Chorale and The Choral Arts Society of Washington; Carnegie Hall in New York; the Round Lake Auditorium in New York’s Adirondacks; Lisner Auditorium, the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Constitution Hall and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; NOVA-Annandale; NOVA-Alexandria; James Madison University; The Theater at Washington, VA; Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; Walters Gallery in Baltimore and the Ceres Mansion and Weinberg Theatre in Frederick.

Now you can hear the largest orchestra of Russian folk instruments in North America right in our neighborhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Walk-in Box Office Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday: 2pm to 7pm except:
Friday, Nov 20 until 5:30
Saturdays, Nov. 21 until 9:30
Closed Nov 26-28

Call for tickets: 240-314-8690.

Pick of the Week 11/12/09: Pink Panther

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Pick of the Week

Calling All Jacques Clousseau fans!
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Friday November 13 and Saturday November 14
7 PM
Rockville High School Auditorium
Tickets are $5 for students/kids/Senior citizens and $10 for adults, and are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.
(Overflow parking at Meadow Hall School)
ASL and Cued Speech translation available on 11/14

Rockville High School Drama will have you rolling in the aisle with ” The Pink Panther Strikes Again,” by William Gleason, based on the film by Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman. When I was a kid I totally loved the movies and now my sons are big fans so maybe it’s in the genes.

Thanks to Rockville Central friend, John Cooper-Martin for telling me about this classic comedy. He sent along the promo flyer:

In this version, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus has gone insane and wants Clousseau (Johan Clarke) as ransom, lest the world suffer the consequences. Things get complicated when Olga Berriosiva arrives on the scene, in love with Clousseau and under orders to kill him! Join an colorful cast of characters for a side-splitting evening of classic comedy.

How much trouble will he get himself in and out of? We’ll have to investigate!

Events in Rockville

Here’s the links to Rockville Living’s events in two formats - a one week list or six week calendar.

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This community event listing is a partnership between Rockville Central and Rockville Living. If you would like your community event listed, submit your information to Rockville Living using this form. Please become a regular contributor by requesting a username so that you can enter the information directly to the database. If you have a special event and would like to tell everyone why they should attend in a feature article please email us: [email protected].

If you attend an event in Rockville, we invite you to write a Contributor Review Share the experience. Let everyone know about an event worth attending. Tell us about the school play, fair, or city activity, as long as it’s recent and you are not offering it for publication elsewhere. We prefer short, not more than 500 words. Please include a photo if you have one. Send it along to [email protected] for consideration.

Job Search Workshop and Information Fair

Montgomery County Councilmember >Nancy Floreen invited me to this Job Search Workshop and Information Fair she is co-sponsoring with Congressman Chris Van Hollen.

Date: This Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time: From 10 AM to 1 PM
Location: The Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Avenue.

The event will provide tips for a traditional job search but it will also cover other avenues to obtaining work such as volunteering or starting your own business. You can attend one or all of the seminars, so you don’t need to stay the whole time. Information will be available at the presenters’ booths throughout the Fair.

The day begins at 10 AM with welcome remarks in the 3rd floor hearing room followed by a series of hour-long seminars designed to help you in your job search. The event is free, however pre-registration is requested by calling 240.777.7959.

Here’s the full schedule:

10 AM - Welcome Remarks

10:10 AM - Concurrent Sessions: Making the Most of Non-Work Time or Applying for a federal job

11AM - Concurrent Sessions: Effective Job Search Strategies or Applying for a County Job

12 PM - Concurrent Sessions: Interviewing Skills or Starting Your Own Business

Free parking is available in the visitors’ garage behind the building, or it is a short walk from the Rockville Metro.

Partners: Montgomery County Office of Human Resources, Commission for Women Counseling and Career Center, U.S. Census, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Montgomery Works, Montgomery County Volunteer Center, Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, Latino Economic Development Corporation, Montgomery County Department of Recreation and Coffey Consulting.

The Fair sounds like a great opportunity to build job seeking skills and explore new avenues to employment.

Visit the American Indian Rockville Festival

This Saturday November 7, 2009, the 12th annual American Indian event will boisterously fill the terrace and lobby levels of the Montgomery County Executive Office Building at 101 Monroe Street from 10 AM - 5 PM. Artifact displays, drumming musical performances, and cultural crafts will transform the government building into a lively exhibition hall. Since I have two boys who are scouts, my family enjoys all the lore, costumes, bows, and arrows.At noon, all the official sponsors (the City of Rockville, Montgomery County, The Indian Health Service and the >American Indian Society of Washington, D.C.) will make the proclamations recognizing November as American Indian Heritage month, then they’ll be a Grand Entry parade with dancers.

As Rockville Central is a 2010 Census Partner, the Bureau sends us statistical information on all sorts of things including American Indians:

The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. Red Fox James, a Blackfeet Indian, rode horseback from state to state, getting endorsements from 24 state governments, to have a day to honor American Indians. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating November 1990 as “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations have been issued every year since 1994.

As of July 1, 2008, the estimated population of American Indians and Alaska Natives, including those of more than one race was 4.9 million. They made up 1.6 percent of the total population. The median income of households from the 2008 American Community Survey where the householder reported being American Indian and Alaska Native and no other race was $37,815. The 2008 poverty rate 24.2% for people who reported they were American Indian and Alaska Native and no other race.

Number of states with more than 100,000 American Indian and Alaska Native residents on July 1, 2008 were California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, New York, Washington, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and Alaska. Combined, these states were home to 61 percent of the nation’s American Indian and Alaska Native residents.

As you can see, the majority of American Indians live out west so take advantage of this close-to-home opportunity to experience the traditions of our local American Indian neighbors.

Public parking is available at street meters and in lots on Monroe Street and Middle Lane.

Pick of the Week 11-5-09: Friday Night Out

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Friday Night Out: Art, Theater or … Bingo!

This Friday night’s Art After Hours will jazz it up with very jazz duo “Unstrung” featuring Howie Jung on Vocals/Keyborard and Vince Calcaterra on Violin/Mandolin, while Michelle Ava directs AVAdance &ImproVolutions DC in performance art throughout the evening. 6:30 - 8:30 PM at VisArts. You can also visit the artists’ studios and start the holiday shopping exploration.

Rockville Musical Theatre’s entering its second weekend of performances of “the world’s greatest love story on the streets of 1950′s New York when two young lovers struggle in a world of violence and prejudice” at 8 PM Fridays: Nov. 6 & 13, and Saturdays, Nov. 7 & 14. 2 PM Sundays: Nov. 8 & 15, at F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre. Tickets cost $20, adult; $18, seniors (62+); $16 students (18 and younger).

Family Bingo Night at Twinbrook Community Recreation Center, 12920 Twinbrook Parkway from 7-9 PM is an affordable way to have a night out together and some fun to boot. Cost is $2 per person.

Events in Rockville

Here’s the links to Rockville Living’s events in two formats - a one week list or six week calendar.

Six Week Calendar

This community event listing is a partnership between Rockville Central and Rockville Living. If you would like your community event listed, submit your information to Rockville Living using this form. Please become a regular contributor by requesting a username so that you can enter the information directly to the database. If you have a special event and would like to tell everyone why they should attend in a feature article please email us: [email protected].

If you attend an event in Rockville, we invite you to write a Contributor Review. Share the experience. Let everyone know about an event worth attending. Tell us about the school play, fair, or city activity, as long as it’s recent and you are not offering it for publication elsewhere. We prefer short, not more than 500 words. Please include a photo if you have one. Send it along to [email protected] for consideration.

Very Special National Philharmonic Concert for a Big 200TH

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Photo By Pia Rabea Vornholt

National Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Predrag Gosta will be making his Strathmoredebut this Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8 PM in a concert which celebrates Mendelssohn’s birth and pays homage to Haydn’s passing 200 years ago. I had the great pleasure of asking him about this tremendous new experience and would like to share his answers.

What makes this concert special to you?

Last year I had a privilege of being appointed as the Assistant Conductor of the National Philharmonic - a post which I successfully completed this past August. I am happy to return to the Philharmonic in the capacity of a Guest Conductor. In addition, this concert will be my conducting debut in Washington DC, and the first with a major symphony orchestra in the United States. I very much look forward to it, and to everything that it may bring. I also am very happy that, at the performance of this concert, I will be surrounded by my friends, including four magnificent soloists, who will appear along the orchestra and 200-member Chorale.

Why is the concert significant in musical history?

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of both Haydn and Mendelssohn. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born in 1709, which is the same year when Franz Joseph Haydn died. This year symbolizes in some sense the end of Classicism and the beginning of Romanticism. And we will celebrate this anniversary with two great monumental pieces by both of these composers - Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass”, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang” (“Hymn of Praise”). These pieces are magnificent works, and everyone would enjoy hearing them in a venue such as the Music Center at Strathmore. Of special importance will be the revival of Mendelssohn’s Symphony-Cantata “Hymn of Praise,” which wasn’t performed in Washington DC area since 1980s. So, this will be its modern, 21st century premiere.

What are the highlights of the performance?

This concert will present a wonderful opportunity for anyone who likes vocal, choral or instrumental music for large ensemble, as it will feature the National Philharmonic Chorale of around 200 singers, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in its usual rendering of around 70 players, as well as four extremely talented soloists, some of them having their Stathmore debut together with me - soprano Sherri Seiden from Atlanta, Polish mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór (who was until recently member of the National Opera’s Young Artist program under Placido Domingo), fabulous Swedish tenor Leif Aruhn-Solén, and Washington-favorite bass Kevin Deas.

A free pre-concert lecture will be offered in the Education Center at 7 PM. Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, named for the British admiral who defeated Napoleon in Egypt and Italy, “calls for dramatic soaring runs for the soprano and culminates in a jubilant finale.” Rediscovered in the 1980s, Mendelssohn’s grand choral Symphony No. 2 “was composed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing.”

Predrag Gosta, conductor; Sherri Seiden, soprano; Magdalena Wór, mezzo-soprano; Leif Aruhn-Solén, tenor; and Kevin Deas, bass.

Tickets can be purchased online. As you can tell, this promises to be an uplifting and special evening of music. Don’t miss it!

Pick of the Week 10/29/09 ROCKVILLE ZOMBIE WALK

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Rockville Zombie Walk
Friday, October 30, 2009
7 PM meet up, 7:30 Walk begings
Meet at the Apollo, 12 North Washington Street

For the absolute fun of it, turn yourself into a zombie and walk through Rockville Town Center among the unsuspecting. Who used to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Shows? Who just wants to laugh and have fun on a Friday night? What else are you going to do? Rockville Central friend Bill Bird and I are hosting this flash mob.

7:00 PM All the undead in Rockville will meet up at the mall at 12 North Washington Street to form the mob. Have a soda, drink or coffee while you wait. There’s full bar in the Apollo Restaurant /or/ coffee and gelato/desserts at Lola’s Cafe right next door. Get to know your fellow zombies. BUT MAKE IT QUICK!

7:30 PM The mass of zombies will limp off around the streets of Town Center to see who’s still among the living in Town Square.

7:50 PM Zombieland at the Rockville Regal 13!!!! What could be better than a theater full of zombies? See it with any and all of the undead in Rockville. It’s a ZOMCOM!!

From the WaPo, “Don of the Dead” features DC native Ruben Fleischer as Director. Here’s a bit:

“…”Zombieland,” which was written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, turns out to be just plain hilarious, as Fleischer manages to keep the gore apolitical, the gross-outs appealing and, in between, the story surprisingly touching. (The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin.) But Fleischer allows that there’s something symbolic at the core of why zombie movies — be they dead serious or scathingly satirical — continue to fascinate audiences.”

You might want to get your tickets in advance especially if you limp slow (but hey really, those trailers last forever):

http://www.fandango.com/regalrockvillecenter13_aaixz/theaterpage?date=10/30/2009

or

http://www.moviefone.com/theater/regal-cinemas-rockville-center-13/1750/showtimes

9:30 PM The movie is 1 hr. 21 mins. Austin Grill is thrilled to host the mob after the movie and will even put on a scary movie for us! So we can socialize after too.

Tell everyone. Spread the word around like a zombie virus.

Turning yourself into a zombie can be as easy as some powder and lipstick or much more elaborate. Who might have died that you could come back as? (If you are still among the living and not undead, come in your street clothes and be sure to bring a pencil. No survivor goes anywhere without a pencil as a weapon. Larger weapons are not advised!)

If you don’t want to zombie, the Rockville Sister City Corporation’s Annual Fall Wine Tasting of Red Wines of France is also this Friday, October 30, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Rockville Senior Center. $25 for RCSS members, $30 for non-members. Heavy Hors d oeuves included.

Events in Rockville

Here’s the links to Rockville Living’s events in two formats - a one week list or six week calendar.

Six Week Calendar

This community event listing is a partnership between Rockville Central and Rockville Living. If you would like your community event listed, submit your information to Rockville Living using this form. Please become a regular contributor by requesting a username so that you can enter the information directly to the database.

If you attend an event in Rockville, we invite you to write a Contributor Review. Share the experience. Let everyone know about an event worth attending. Tell us about the school play, fair, or city activity, as long as it’s recent and you are not offering it for publication elsewhere. We prefer short, not more than 500 words. Please include a photo if you have one. Send it along to Cindy Cotte Griffths for consideration.

Two Recommended Women Writers, But You’ll Have to Choose

Rockville will be so literary on Wednesday November 4, 2009. Two different opportunities feature women with far-reaching experiences. Delve into a new world with one of these invitations.Professor >Monica Parrish Trent of Montgomery College sent along this announcement for DC author Marita Golden, who will hold a lecture and book signing at Montgomery College Rockville at 6:30 PM in the Theatre Arts Arena:

Golden’s talk, which is based on writers and their authority to speak, will cover her experiences and expertise as a novelist, nonfiction writer, creative writing teacher and her recent trip to Israel as a Fulbright Scholar. This event is free and open to the public.

Her novel “AFTER” won the 2007 Fiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association the 2008 Maryland Author Award from the Association of Maryland Librarians. Her other fiction includes “Long Distance Life”, “AWoman’s Place,” “And Do Remember Me,” and “The Edge of Heaven.” In the genre of nonfiction, Golden has edited three anthologies, most recently “Black Writers on Soul Mates Family and Friends.” As a memoirist and essayist, Golden has authored “Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World,” and “A Miracle Everyday: Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers.”

Currently, Golden, born in Washington, D.C., serves as writer-in-residence at the University of the District of Columbia. She founded and served as the first president of the Washington, D.C.-based African American Writers Guild. In 1990 she co-founded the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which presents the nation’s only national fiction award for college writers of African descent and an annual summer writer’s workshop for black writers. She now serves as president emeritus of the organization.

For more information about this event, please contact Professor Monica Parrish Trent at 240-567-7976 or e-mail [email protected].

Local poetry musician, Uli Zislin, also sent along an invitation for the same evening, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:30 PM at the Rockville Library to hear Washington poet, Marina Tyurina Oberlander, who he describes as a writer, poet, translator and philologist. She recently had a big performance in Moscow and will be reading at Pushkin’s House in London next month. We’re lucky to have her here in Rockville now.

Washington poet and translator of Scandinavian and English poetry Marina Tyurina Oberlander will read poetry from her Book of Poetry, Na Ostrom Rubezhe Prostranstva (On the Sharp Edge of Space) from Vodoley Publishers, Moscow, 2008. The book is published with the support of the distinguished Russian literary contemporary, Eugene Witkowsky and is available at the Russian book store, Russia on Line, 301/933-0607.

Pick of the Week 10/22/09 Politics!

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Rockville Central’s Candidate Forum!!
First — please attend Rockville Central’s Candidate Forum on Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM at the Thomas Farm Community Center. Then in the afternoon head over to:

Rockville Antique and Classic Car Show
Will be held on this Saturday on the RAINDATE October 24, 2009
11 AM to 3:30 PM
Grounds of Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center

It was last week’s Pick and because of the rain, it’s this week’s Pick too! This year Italian cars will be featured among the 400 antique and classic vehicles during this 48th Rockville show which has grown to be an East Coast destination. You can vote for the people’s choice while listening to the Rockville Swing Band. If we need to check, the inclement weather hotline is 2401-314-5022. Let’s hope it doesn’t rain again.

Look ahead to the Rockville Zombie Walk
If you are into this kind of thing, mark your calendars for the Rockville Zombie Walk on October 30, 2009, 7:30 PM. Meet at the Apollo Bar and Restaurant then walk through Town Square in a mob of zombies! Wind up at the Regal to view Zombieland (#1 last weekend. Let’s hope it’s still playing.) Spread the virus!! Tell your friends!! Hosted by Bill Bird and Cindy Cotte Griffiths.

Events in Rockville

Here’s the links to Rockville Living’s events in two formats - a one week list or six week calendar.

Six Week Calendar

This community event listing is a partnership between Rockville Central and Rockville Living. If you would like your community event listed, submit your information to Rockville Living using this form. Please become a regular contributor by requesting a username so that you can enter the information directly to the database.

If you attend an event in Rockville, we invite you to write a Contributor Review. Share the experience. Let everyone know about an event worth attending. Tell us about the school play, fair, or city activity, as long as it’s recent and you are not offering it for publication elsewhere. We prefer short, not more than 500 words. Please include a photo if you have one. Send it along to Cindy Cotte Griffths for consideration.

Rockville Science Cafe Features My Friend

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I haven’t been able to attend any of the previous Rockville Science Cafes but I am going to be at the next. My good friend and motorcycle buddy, Dr. Constance Bertka, will be speaking on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. You can see us here in this photo after returning from a weekend motorcycle rally back in June. (Please ignore the helmet hair!)

Her topic is The Earth and Carbon: The Inside Story. The Cafe will be held on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 6 PM at the restaurant Branded 72 (formerly O’Briens BBQ).

Connie is the Program Director of the new Sloan Deep Carbon Observatory at the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory. She coordinates the efforts of researchers around the world who are studying the nature of carbon in the earth’s interior. She’s a knowledgeable and insightful conversationalist on many broad-reaching topics.

In 2008, Connie was quoted in The Washington Post article Discoveries Out There Require Preparation Right Here about how the discovery of life forms on other planets would impact our religious and philosophical beliefs.

Admission to Science Cafes is free. Obviously, since Cafes are in a restaurant, you can purchase dinner and beverages.

I’m sorry I’ll have to miss the Twinbrook Citizens Association Candidate Forum but I’m glad it will be televised.

The Rockville Science Center has planned a series of Science Cafes in Rockville during 2009 through the beginning of 2010.