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Monthly Guide for the DC Area

February 12-14, 2016

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Friday, February 12 from 9 AM - 5 PMOn a day when DC public schools are closed due to a staff

development day, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation is putting on a day of kid-oriented activities,

including sports, arts, and crafts, for children ages 6 - 12 at DC recreation centers throughout the city.

All programs are free but you must register at http://bit.ly/20oGUzW http://bit.ly/20oGUzW before 12

noon on Thursday, February 11.

More info at http://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fun-day-20152016http://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fun-day-20152016

Fun Day for Kids at DC Parks & Rec.

Valentine's Day Crafts at the Cleveland Park Library.

Friday, February 12 at 4 PMWe will be making greeting cards, bookmarks and

much more. This program is for children of all ages. Children under two will need adult assistance. Come

and have some fun while showing off your artistic side. Free.

The Cleveland Park Library is at 3310 Connecticut Avenue

NW, http://dclibrary.org/node/51715http://dclibrary.org/node/51715

How to Leave a Legacy, An Educational Workshop sponsored by the Sibley Senior Association.

Friday, February 12 from 1 - 3 PM

Judge Carolyn Miller Parr (ret.) and Sig Cohen, a mediator for the DC Superior Court, will lead a

workshop on wills, trusts, power of attorney and other matters that seniors need to know when

making decisions about the management of their estates. Doors open at 12:45.

At Sibley Memorial Hospital, Renaissance Conference Rooms 1 and 2. Advance registration required - call 202-364-7602. Tickets cost $10 and must be paid in advance, either by credit card or by mailing your check, made payable to the Sibley Senior Association and marked “Legacy” to Sibley Senior Association, 5255 Loughboro Road, NW, Washington, DC,

20016.

Full details at http://bit.ly/1T7v24X http://bit.ly/1T7v24X.

A Valentine Party for All Ages at Guy Mason Rec Center.

Friday, February 12 from 5:30 - 8 PM,

Join us for an early celebration of Valentine’s Day – a day dedicated to love and caring. You can bring one of

your favorite desserts. There will be music; dancing (bring a partner or enlist someone there); light

refreshments, and a corner table for you to make that special Valentine a special card. Free.

Guy Mason Rec Center is at3600 Calvert Street NW.

For more information please call the staff at Guy Mason Recreation Center at

202-727-7527.

Casey Trees presents Buds Story Time at Rock Creek Park Nature Center.

Saturday, February 13 at 10 AM

“Buds” is a tree-focused story time aimed toward an audience of toddlers and preschoolers (2 to 4 years). Buds

will be held in the area outside the auditorium on the lower level of the Rock Creek Park Nature Center at 5200 Glover

Road NW. The story time will feature three to four tree and environment focused books interspersed with songs and a craft project. Each family will leave with a list of seasonally

appropriate “scavenger hunt items” to track down while exploring Rock Creek on their own after the Buds program

has concluded. Please note that children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Free, but advance registration requested at http://bit.ly/1TdD79z http://bit.ly/1TdD79z

RFK STADIUM Saturday, May 30

“Sweet Tea - Manners, Etiquette and Social Skills.”Saturday, February 13 from 1 - 3 PM,

This event brings youth, primarily young ladies, together to experience afternoon tea. Free, but

advanced registration is required.

At Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Avenue, NW.

For more info email Fran Scott, Fran.Scott@ dc.gov or visit: http://doh.dc.gov/event/sweet-

tea-chevy-chase-community-center http://doh.dc.gov/event/sweet-tea-chevy-

chase-community-center

"Frederick Douglass/ Harriet Tubman: Parallel Lives from the Eastern Shore“Saturday, February 13 at 1 PM

A Book Hill book talk at the Georgetown Library. Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist and contributor to USNEWS.com, discusses how Frederick Douglass worked by day under the sun

and Harriet Tubman worked by night under the stars.

Free. The Georgetown Public Library is at 3260 R Street NW.

More info:

http://dclibrary.org/node/51524http://dclibrary.org/node/51524

“Just Mercy: A Conversation with Bryan Stevenson.”

Sunday, February 14 at 10:10 AM

Join Cathedral Canon Theologian, the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas as she talks with widely acclaimed public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice

Initiative (EJI) and author of the New York Times bestselling book, Just Mercy. Under his leadership, EJI has initiated major new anti-poverty and

anti-discrimination efforts challenging the legacy of racial inequality in America. EJI has also won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting

abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as adults. Free. At the Washington National Cathedral,

Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues NW.

More info: http://bit.ly/1Wfj5JF http://bit.ly/1Wfj5JF

DC’s Chinese New Year Parade

Sunday February 14 from 2 - 4:30 PM

This year's parade will bring out almost a dozen new groups who have never marched in the CNY Parade!

From Irish Dancers to Shriner's Clowns to Whitman HS Drumline to the US Army Old Guard Fife & Drum Corp, there will be something for everyone! Plus everything you have come to expect: Lions, Dragons, Firecrackers.

Beauty Queens. Kung Fu. Chinese Folk Dancers. And this year, plenty of cute monkeys!

Take Metro to Gallery Place/Chinatown on the Red Line. Starting at H Street NW between 6th and 7th Streets.

More info:http://on.fb.me/1Q5UEA2 http://on.fb.me/1Q5UEA2

Presidents’ Day Open House at Tudor Place Historic House and Garden.

Monday, February 15 from 11 AM - 2 PM

Mrs. Peter Invites You: On Presidents Day, see one of our nation’s largest collections of George and Martha

Washington objects, including rare artifacts not usually displayed, and meet the Martha Washington

granddaughter who built Tudor Place with her husband as a showplace for capital society. “Martha Parke CustisPeter” (as played by an interpreter) will showcase her

family heirlooms and share fascinating stories of life in the new and growing Federal City.

For all ages. $10 for adults, $5 for children, free for Tudor Place members - tickets available

at http://bit.ly/1TSuLDJhttp://bit.ly/1TSuLDJ.

Tudor Place Historic House and Garden is at 1644 31st Street, NW.

Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical

Olney Theatre CenterFebruary 10- March 6, 2016

The show brings the action of one of the most sensual stories of all time to Cuba on

the verge of revolution in 1958. The passion-fueled opera is a sexy, swinging

Afro-Cuban Jazz musical. Kaufman’s Carmen is a gun-runner for the rebels, who falls fiercely in love with José, a Batista loyalist. When Cuba’s boxing

legend Camilo returns to Havana, Carmen and José’s love falls tragically apart.

Sweat - Arena Stage –January 15-February 21,

2016.

Set in 2000 and 2008, the play explores America’s industrial decline at the turn of the

millennium with a look inside Reading, PA where a group of close friends shares

everything: drinks, secrets and laughs. But when rumors of layoffs shake up the local steel

mill, the fragile bonds of their community begin to fray and a horrific crime sends shock

waves across two generations.

The Glass Menagerie –Ford's Theatre

- January 22-February 21, 2016.

This emotional and enduring family drama by Tennessee Williams features Southern matriarch Amanda who frets

constantly over her two live-in adult children—the painfully shy Laura and

Laura’s restless poet brother, Tom. With great cajoling, Tom brings home a

possible suitor for Laura, but reality soon casts a shadow on Amanda’s

dreams for both her children.

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