Join FGI DC virtually on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 from 6 – 7:30PM for an interview with Elaine Mensah, Founder & CEO of Showroom Etc. and former FGIDC Regional Director. She’ll provide her take on the latest trends, the role of influencers and what she’s seeing through the designers in her showroom.
Plus, an exclusive Fall/Winter report that highlights influences, styles and color trends from New York, Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks.
This event is open to members and non-members.
Register today and be sure to share this opportunity with a fashionable friend!
Registrants will receive the Zoom link via Eventbrite email
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Panelist:
Elaine Mensah | Founder & CEO, Showroom Etc.
Moderator:
Heather Nunley, CPC | Founder & CEO, Culture Fuel Group
FGIDC Programming Chair
Tuesday, March 29
6 – 7:30 p.m. ET
Registrants will receive the Zoom link via email.
Sip, Stroll & Adult Easter Egg Roll
Saturday, April 2, 2022
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Check-in at Barrel + Bushel on The Plaza, egg roll will be held inside the mall
This event allows the adults to get in on the Easter fun with an Adults-Only Egg Hunt. This free event will include cocktails, brunch snacks, live music, a visit from the Easter Bunny, and over $5,000 in prizes from Tysons Corner Center retailers. Pre-registration is required. Participants must be at least 21 years of age. Learn more and pre-register here.
Cherry Blossom Paint Class with Painted Palettes – Thursday April 7th 5:30-7:30PM
- Samantha Testa is the owner and artist behind the Brookland DC watercolor and calligraphy studio, Painted Palettes. As a former first grade teacher, Sam enjoys teaching workshops to adults, making custom watercolor house portraits for clients, making custom gifts at live events, and finding inspiration around her home city, Washington DC.
After going virtual in 2020, DC Central Kitchen’s iconic Capital Food Fight returns live and in person for a raucous night of fighting hunger on April 7th at The Anthem, presented by craigstable. Tickets on sale starting Friday, February 18th at capitalfoodfight.org.
First hosted in 2004 by DC Central Kitchen Board Chair Emeritus José Andrés, Capital Food Fight has long been a favorite event of food lovers, TV stars, and philanthropists alike. Some of the District’s biggest culinary names have battled on the Capital Food Fight stage over the years, and 2022 will be no different! Cranes Chef/Partner Pepe Moncayo, Chef Brittanny Anderson from Leni, Oohh’s & Aahh’s Chef Oji Abbott, and The Point DC’s Executive Chef Benjamin Lambert will face off in head-to-head cook-offs on the main stage featuring secret ingredients. Each dish will be judged by a panel of culinary icons, including Top Chef’s lead judge, restaurateur, and James Beard award-winning chef Tom Colicchio, Food Network star and renowned chef Maneet Chauhan, Top Chef season 10 winner and star of truTV’s Fast Foodies Kristen Kish, and James Beard award-winning chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern.
Celebrity chef and DC-based restaurateur, Spike Mendelsohn, and local media personalities Tommy McFly and Kelly Collis return as the evening’s host and MC’s, respectively, to keep things entertaining from the main stage with one of DC’s most in-demand performers, DJ Neekola, on the decks all night long as attendees feast on delicious bites from more than 50 of the DMV’s best restaurants.
Tickets are available for purchase at www.capitalfoodfight.org starting on Friday, February 18th at 9 am. General admission tickets are $325, with VIP access going for $550. VIP ticket holders will have exclusive access to the second floor with balcony seating and full open bar. All proceeds from the event, including donations and silent auction, go to support DC Central Kitchen’s ongoing mission to use food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities.
Capital Food Fight is a 100% vaccinated, 21 and older event. All attendees and staff must present proof of vaccination at the door. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.capitalfoodfight.org.
National Museum of Women in the Arts’ 2022 Spring Gala
On Friday, April 8, 2022, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) hosts its annual black-tie gala, made possible by Dior. This year’s gala will honor Dior’s first woman Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri, feminist artist Judy Chicago and co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments Mellody Hobson each with NMWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Join gala co-chairs Ashley Davis and Marlene Malek alongside luminaries from Washington’s diplomatic, governmental and social communities. The Ambassador of France, Mr. Philippe Étienne will be our Honorary Diplomatic Chair. The event will feature a seated dinner and entertainment. This will be the first gala held since 2019. NMWA looks forward to continuing this much-loved tradition of gathering each spring in celebration of the museum’s important work and honoring groundbreaking women in arts.
WHEN
Friday, April 8, 2022
Cocktails: 6:30 p.m.
Dinner and Entertainment: 7:30 p.m.
WHERE
National Building Museum
401 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Valet parking available
For the first time ever STC’s sold-out Mock Trial will be streamed live. Tune in on April 11 at 7:30 p.m. to see Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer preside over the Mock Trial bench, as Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and D.C. litigator Debra Katz act as advocates in a case inspired by Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
During the judges’ deliberation, STC Bard Association Chair Abbe Lowell and Artistic Director Simon Godwin will discuss the merits of the case further before you cast your own opinion in a live online vote.
Tickets for the livestream are just $25—reserve your spot today!
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Head to Whino for a whisky tasting with local, woman-owned-and-operated Catoctin Creek Distilling Company on Wednesday, April 13th! Catoctin Creek Distilling, located an hour away in Purcelville, VA, currently produces the 5th highest-selling Rye Whisky in Virginia: Catoctin Creek Roundstone Rye, inspired by the whiskeys made in Virginia by the American forefathers centuries ago. Guests will get to taste and learn about three different expressions of this whisky: the original Roundstone Rye, the Roundstone Rye Distiller’s Edition, and the Roundstone Rye Cask Proof Series.
Ticket price is $35 + tax and fees and includes the Three 1oz Tastings of the following:
Roundstone Rye
40% ABV: 100% Unmalted Rye Grain sourced from within 100 miles of the distillery, Single Barrel, Non-Chill Filtered aged to taste in 30 gallon Minnesota white oak barrels at a number 3 char. Solar Power made, Organic and certified Kosher, 100% made in house from grain to glass. From grain to glass 100% American made.
Roundstone Rye Distiller’s Edition
46% ABV: 1 out of 10 barrels are uniquely selected for the Distiller’s Edition Roundstone Rye. The grain is exclusively made from 100% Virginia Rye and aged in Virginia White Oak Barrels at a number 3 char. These casks have been aged further for a more intense barrel extraction and then bottled at a higher proof creating a more aromatic, rich, robust, brown cabinet spicy, woody rye with floral, dried fruit and dark fruit notes leading to a smoother mouthfeel and a longer, lingering and assertive finish.
Roundstone Rye Cask Proof Series
58% ABV (limited availability in VA ABC Stores): Only 1 out of a 100 barrels are selected for our cask proof series. Hand picked and unbridled rye from our barns in Virginia. Excellent quality casks that are too good to cut. We simply take these barrels back home and bottle them as they are. Our highest awarded whisky to date. Each release is unique but we are looking for casks that truly have a beginning, middle and end with a sweet and aromatic nose, a big round buttery mouthfeel and flavorful long lasting finish.
