Apr
22
Sat
2nd Annual Leesburg Beer Fest @ Village at Leesburg
Apr 22 @ 12:01 PM – 6:00 PM

WHAT:           2nd Annual Leesburg Beer Fest

 

WHO:             Hosted By the Trigger Agency for the Benefit of The Spirit of Hope Children’s Foundation

 

WHERE:        Village at Leesburg

◦ 1602 Village Market Blvd SE #215, Leesburg, VA 20175

 

WHEN:           SATURDAY, April 22nd, 2017 – VIP 12:00 P.M. TO 6:00 p.m. General2:00 p.m. to 6:00 P.M. 

 

WHY:             Join us for 75+ Beers, Food and Live Music all along the Village Market Blvd for this NEW BEER FESTIVAL!  Bring your friends and family and enjoy a beautiful Spring day with your favorite beers along for the ride.  Guests receive a sampling glass upon entry and are free to try the beers as they stroll the avenue. While sipping your favorite suds make sure to enjoy The Main Stage with live music. There are beer games for the adults and even a kid’s activity area.  Feel free to bring along your lawn chairs or picnic blankets to make yourself at home.

 

There will be great food joints and food trucks along with all of your

favorites in the Village.

 

Guests are welcome to bring lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy the lawn.  Bring the

family, bring your friends and take a day to TAP INTO THE FUN!

 

TICKETS:        VIP Admission ticket: $49 advance only. Valid Saturday Noon – 6 p.m. Exclusive

tasting experience with TWO EXTRA HOURS of tastes, specialty beers, souvenir

tasting glass, unlimited beer, and live enter

 

Regular Admission Ticket: $39 in advance – Valid Saturday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Includes admission to the event, a souvenir tasting glass, unlimited beer sampling, and live entertainment.

 

Apr
23
Sun
14th Annual Blue Jeans Ball @ Marriott Marquis Hotel
Apr 23 @ 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM

The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) has increased its fundraising goal for the 14th Annual Blue Jeans Ball to $500,000—enough to provide 1.25 million meals to those in need around metropolitan Washington. Following its recent move to stop accepting junk food donations, the CAFB received national praise among leading voices in the fight against hunger, resulting in record levels of pre-event exposure and sponsorship. Consequently, the organization is introducing new elements at this year’s gala celebration, slated for Sunday, April 23, with the goal of funding more nutritious meals than ever before.

 

New food and drink:

  • New restaurants serving 40+ savory and sweet bites include Colada Shop (“Little Havana Done Right”Washington Post), Arroz by Mike Isabella, Pub and the People
  • Mixology Chair Gina Chersevani, Buffalo & Bergen, to pour specialty cocktail
  • Chef Chair Ryan Ratino, Ripple to feature kampachi crudo with uni botarga and leche de tigre mousse

 

New entertainment:

  • New Orleans-style band Dupont Brass will entertain throughout the evening
  • Unique bottles from outstanding distilleries will be offered at a special “Spirits Pull,” where a $35 donation offers guests the chance to take home a bottle of prized liquor

 

New auction items:

  • One week’s stay at an 18th century farmhouse in Umbria, Italy
  • Tour for 20 of BrightFarms’ hydroponic greenhouse, with catered lunch and as many greens as you can carry
  • Austin, Texas dream trip: 7 days for four guests with live music, famous Austin dining, and much more
  • Tickets to the 117th U.S. Open golf tournament, with hospitality included

 

As always, guests arrive in their most fashionable denim and taste to their hearts’ content. Each ticket to the Blue Jeans Ball provides 500 life-changing meals for people in need in our area, and can be purchased at capitalareafoodbank.org/blue-jeans-ball/.

 

          When:  Sunday, April 23, 2017

                                        5 pm: VIP reception

6 pm: Tastings, cocktails and silent auction

8 pm: Program & live auction

 

Where: Marriott Marquis Hotel

                                        901 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC  20001              

Hotel valet parking available for a fee

 

 

Why: The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease and obesity. By partnering with nearly 450 community organizations in DC, Maryland and Virginia, as well as delivering food directly in hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.  That’s 12 percent of our region’s mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, and grandparents. Visit: capitalareafoodbank.org, facebook.com/CapitalAreaFoodBank, and Twitter at @foodbankmetrodc.

Blue Jeans Ball @ Marriott Marquis
Apr 23 @ 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Meet Lisa Messerschmidt, whose life was changed by the Blue Jeans Ball. With a parent who needed care and no sibling to rely on for help, she had to leave work and rely on her husband’s salary alone. When he then lost his job due to the government shutdown, they couldn’t pay their bills, had their car repossessed, and their credit crashed. Lisa spent the next couple of years at the mercy of others, at times living without heat, running water, medical care, or, very often, food.

Enter her neighborhood nonprofit, supplied with food by the Capital Area Food Bank. They provided her family with the training and resources needed to get back on their feet – starting with vegetables, fruit and other ingredients to cook with. In Lisa’s words, “having food on the table made everything else seem possible.” The Capital Area Food Bank helped to turn crisis into stability for her family, and by attending this year’s Blue Jeans Ball, guests can do the same for others.

Each ticket to the Blue Jeans Ball provides 500 life-changing meals for people in need in our area. Today, Lisa works for the food bank, helping distribute food made possible by the Blue Jeans Ball.

When:  Sunday, April 23, 2017

                                        5 pm: VIP reception

6 pm: Tastings, cocktails and silent auction

8 pm: Program & live auction

 

Where: Marriott Marquis Hotel

                                        901 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20001

Hotel valet parking available for a fee

 

What:   40+ savory and sweet tasting stations from Oyamel, The Palm, Ripple, Occidental and more…Made-to-order cocktails from Mixology Chairs Gina Chersevani (Buffalo & Bergen) & Eddie Kim (Bar Dupont)…and the Washington Redskins Foundation has joined this year’s effort to end childhood hunger!

How:     Ticket details available at capitalareafoodbank.org/blue-jeans-ball/; as always, guests arrive in their most fashionable denim and taste to their hearts’ content!

About:  The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease and obesity. By partnering with nearly 450 community organizations in DC, Maryland and Virginia, as well as delivering food directly in hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.  That’s 12 percent of our region’s mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, and grandparents. Visit: capitalareafoodbank.org, facebook.com/CapitalAreaFoodBank, and Twitter at @foodbankmetrodc.

 

Apr
25
Tue
CAKE Comedy Tour @ Drafthouse Comedy
Apr 25 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“… with stints on “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” “Broad City” and “Last Comic Standing,” and a previously successful tour, the CAKE tour sounds like one you wouldn’t want to miss.” -amNY
WHO: Carrie Gravenson (Caroline’s on Broadway), Abbi Crutchfield (truTV), Kaytlin Bailey (MTV, SiriusXM), and LA-based comedian Erin Judge (NBC’s Last Comic Standing)
WHAT: The CAKE Comedy Tour features smart stand-up comedy from female comedians, ranging from philosophical to raunchy.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 25th at 7:00pm
WHERE: Drafthouse Comedy – 1100 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20005
HOW: $25 general admission – tickets
The CAKE Comedy Tour is coming to Drafthouse Comedy on Tuesday, April 25th at 7:00pm, featuring smart stand-up comedy from Carrie Gravenson (Caroline’s on Broadway), Abbi Crutchfield (truTV), Kaytlin Bailey (MTV, SiriusXM), and LA-based comedian Erin Judge (NBC’s Last Comic Standing), ranging from philosophical to raunchy. Tickets are $25 general admission.
2017 CAKE Comedy Tour Dates:
4/21 – Boston, MA (Women in Comedy Festival) – Middlesex Lounge – tickets
4/24 – Philadelphia, PA – Good Good Comedy – tickets
4/25 – Washington, DC – Drafthouse Comedy – tickets
4/27 – Pittsburgh, PA – Arcade Comedy Theater – tickets
4/30 – Indianapolis, IN – White Rabbit Cabaret – tickets
5/2 – Nashville, TN – Zanies – tickets
5/3 – Asheville, NC – currently funding via Kickstarter
5/5 – Raleigh, NC – Kings – tickets
More about The CAKE Comedy Tour:
The women of CAKE, featuring NYC-based comedians Carrie Gravenson (Caroline’s on Broadway)Abbi Crutchfield (truTV)Kaytlin Bailey (MTV, SiriusXM), and LA-based comedian Erin Judge (NBC’s Last Comic Standing), started out together as the Pink Collar Comedy Tour in 2012. They launched their original tour with a Kickstarter campaign then traveled successfully as the Pink Collar Comedy Tour for 4 years, hitting more than 60 cities, including Austin, Raleigh, New Orleans, Toronto, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Charleston, and many more. In 2017, the tour rebranded as CAKE, an acronym of the for comics’ first names. They’re still serving up “smart comedy by female comics,” according to the Boston Globe.
The women of the CAKE Comedy Tour will kick off their 2017 tour in Boston at the Women in Comedy Festival on April 21! For the first time, the tour is teaming up with Kickstarter to pioneer a brand new way for indie tours to sell more tickets and reach more fans. CAKE founder Kaytlin Bailey worked closely with Kickstarter to design the new ticket sales platform, which helps independent artists launch self-produced tours. “We’re not asking for donations,” explains Bailey. “We’re just offering tickets and rewards well in advance, so fans can make sure our tour gets to their town.” Once they reach $1000 in tickets and swag for each city, that means the ladies of CAKE are on their way.
Taste of Shaw Gala @ Howard Theatre
Apr 25 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Shaw Main Streets will host its annual Taste of Shaw Gala on Tuesday April 25, 2017from 7pm to 9pm. The annual event celebrates the neighborhood’s diverse businesses and residents, and is a fundraiser for initiatives that enhance and promote commerce within the Shaw neighborhood. DC’s beloved Howard Theatre will be the backdrop for live music and libations and delicious bites from some of DC’s best bars and restaurants. Proceeds from the event support Shaw Main Streets’ economic revitalization and historic preservation activities in the Shaw neighborhood of DC, which have helped bring about the transformation of central Shaw since 2003. This year’s hashtag, #LoveShaw, represents the comradery of Shaw’s business owners and the citywide support and accolades the neighborhood continues to receive. From Michelin stars to Rammy nominations and stellar reviews, Shaw’s bars and restaurants continue to help raise the Shaw neighborhood’s profile locally and nationally.

 

A hospitality renaissance led by top chefs and mixologists has been under way in recent years, bringing fresh concepts and perspectives in cuisine and beverage, as well as a host of new talent, making Shaw the city’s top dining and imbibing destination. Recent openings such as the neighborhood craft cocktail bar Service Bar DC (a new take on the local watering hole from veteran bartenders Chad Spangler and Glendon Hartley), the Chinese-French concept Kyirisan from husband and wife team Tim and Joey Ma, and neighborhood anchors such as The Passenger, DC’s favorite industry bar, and Convivial, which was one of 2015’s opening highlights; will be among the many participants in the annual Shaw Main Streets Gala. Shaw Main Streets invites the entire region to explore some of the best of the neighborhood has to offer at one venue, on one special evening.

 

Guests can expect a festive atmosphere, open beer and wine bar, and unlimited cuisine and cocktails from a Taste of Shaw’s stellar host committee of chefs, restaurateurs, and mixologists.  Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen will receive the 2017 Shaw Champion Award, chosen by the Board of Directors of Shaw Main Streets for his consistent support of economic revitalization in Shaw and SMS’ efforts to create the thriving community that Shaw is today. Appearances by Mayor Bowser and other public officials are also slated.

The 2017 Taste of Shaw host committee includes the following bars and restaurants:

 

The Brixton                             Buttercream Bakeshop           Cava    

Convivial                                 Dacha                                     Dino’s Grotto

The Tavern at Henley Park     Eat the Rich                            El Rey

Etete                                       French Quarter Brasserie       Haikan

Half Smoke                             Kyirisian                                  La Jambe

The Passenger                       Service Bar                             Seylou

Southern Efficiency                Tiger Fork

 

Advance tickets are $80 and can be ordered online at www.smsgala17.eventbrite.com. On the day of the event, tickets will be $100. Tickets include unlimited food and cocktail tastings, beer and wine, and complimentary valet parking.

Apr
26
Wed
7th Annual Great Ladies Luncheon @ Ritz Carlton
Apr 26 @ 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM

The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s (ADDF) Seventh Annual Great Ladies Luncheon &

Fashion Show will be held in partnership with Neiman Marcus Mazza Gallerie. All proceeds benefit the ADDF and

its mission to find effective treatments for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The event opens with a morning

presentation, “The Symposium to Conquer Alzheimer’s.” After the scientific presentation, guests enjoy lunch

followed by a runway show featuring the Fall 2017 Collection of Brunello Cucinelli.

WHO: Leonard A. Lauder will welcome guests to the luncheon. The morning’s presentation will be given by

ADDF neuroscientists Howard Fillit, MD, and Penny Dacks, PhD, with an introduction by Andrea Mitchell.

Sally Quinn is the Honoree and other guests scheduled to attend include the event’s Founding Executive Chairs

Elise and Marc Lefkowitz; Honorary Chairs Ambassador of Italy Armando Varricchio and Mrs. Armando

Varricchio; Committee Co-Chairs include Shelley Banks, Nancy Taylor Bubes, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly Ripkin

and Patricia Sagon; Committee Members include Amy Baier, Lisa Brandt Beek, Grace Bender, Tracy

Bernstein, Wilma Bernstein, Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, Buffy Cafritz, Sharon Collins Casey, Meryl

Comer, Debbie Dingell, Liz Dubin, Samia Farouki, Alma Gildenhorn, Marlene A. Malek, Melanie Nussdorf,

Mary Ourisman, Thomas Pheasant, Genevieve McSweeney Ryan, Lorraine Wallace, Tony Verstandig, and

Carol Gildenhorn Winer; Nancy Goodes and Judy Glickman Lauder will also be in attendance.

WHERE: The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.

1150 22nd Street N.W.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | 10:30 am – 2:00 pm

10:30 am | Scientific Presentation

12:00 pm | Luncheon & Fashion Show

Apr
28
Fri
Friends of the National Arboretum Garden Fair and Plant Sale @ National Arboretum
Apr 28 @ 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

The Friends of the National Arboretum Garden Fair and Plant Sale will be taking place on April 28 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and on April 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the U.S. National Arboretum.

The 27th annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale, hosted by Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA), has moved to a new central location in the U.S. National Arboretum, which is celebrating its 90th year.

This year’s event, April 28-29, has been relocated and will now be outside the Administration Building and Visitor Center, adjacent to the National Capitol Columns, Azalea Collection and the Grove of State Trees. Attendees will see more of the Arboretum grounds as they shop for traditional and rare plants from nurseries around the world, including new offerings like Gentiana acaulis hybrids, Beesia deltophylla, Phygelius cultivars and eight different types of Cypripedium orchids.

The Garden Fair and Plant Sale is a weekend designed for gardeners of all levels in the D.C. area searching for their perfect plant, herbs from the Potomac Unit of the National Herb Society or horticulture guidance from expert horticulturists. The 2017 Garden Fair and Plant Sale will also feature food and drink vendors, a performance by the Washington Revels, and a strawberry potting activity for children.

 

For more information please visit www.fona.org/gardenfair. I am available to answer any questions you may have.

 

Black, White, and Read All Over
Apr 28 @ 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

The Child & Family Network Center announces its Spring Benefit, its largest fundraising event of the year, that will take place on Friday, April 28, 2017 at 7:00pm at the beautiful home of Ray and Shaista Mahmood (4290 Neitzey Place in Alexandria). Their gorgeous house on the shores of the Potomac River has been a sought-after location for many local and international philanthropic events, and gatherings of diplomats and other political and business leaders. With 200 guests, an exclusive venue, and the theme Black, White and Read All Over, this year’s benefit is sure to be bigger and better than ever.

 

Since 1984, The Child & Family Network Centers has brought education and opportunity to thousands of families in need. In 2017, our critical focus continues to be meeting the ever increasing needs of the community we serve, the working poor of Northern Virginia. Your help is essential to ensure hundreds of children don’t enter kindergarten without the basic skills necessary to succeed. Please join us for a memorable night and help us give Alexandria’s most vulnerable children the preschool education they deserve.

For more information click here or contact Maggie Klefstad at mklefstad@cfnc-online.org

This is the link to purchase tickets: https://thechildfamilynetworkcenters.cloverdonations.com/2017-spring-benefit/

Rents Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp Reunite @ Music Center at Strathmore
Apr 28 @ 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

As much as Jonathan Larsen’s unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent impacted popular culture, it also transformed the lives of the actors that embodied a group of young friends trying to forge a life for themselves in New York’s bohemian East Village. 20 years after Rent’s Broadway debut, original cast members Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp reunite at the Music Center at Strathmore on Friday, April 28, 2017 at 8 p.m. to commemorate this cultural touchstone and 20 years of friendship. The concert of duets and solos will include originals, reimagined Broadway classics, and favorites from Rent. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.

Throughout the set, the duo will share stories about their careers, including what it was like working on one of the longest running musicals in Broadway history. Rent has proved a thread throughout their careers that has periodically brought the two back together—prior to the 20thanniversary concert tour, both reprised their Rent roles during the national tour in 2009.

Tony-nominated Adam Pascal recently returned to Broadway’s Nederlander Theater, where Rent lived for years, in the new musical Disaster! Since his days playing Roger in Rent, Pascal has starred in Aida, Chicago, and Memphis. He is currently playing Shakespeare in the national tour of Something Rotten!

After originating the role of Mark in Rent, Anthony Rapp went on to originate another character in If/Then alongside previous Rent co-star Idina Menzel, which debuted at Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre. He wrote the book Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent, about the demands of life in the theater during his mother’s battle with cancer, which he later adapted into a one-man show. It was recently announced that Rapp will star as “astromycologist” Lt. Stamets in Star Trek: Discovery for CBS All Access, the first series developed specifically for this platform and the first Star Trek series since Star Trek: Enterprise (2005). Stamets is also the first openly gay character conceived for the Star Trek franchise.

Apr
29
Sat
Friends of the National Arboretum Garden Fair and Plant Sale @ National Arboretum
Apr 29 @ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The Friends of the National Arboretum Garden Fair and Plant Sale will be taking place on April 28 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and on April 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the U.S. National Arboretum.

The 27th annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale, hosted by Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA), has moved to a new central location in the U.S. National Arboretum, which is celebrating its 90th year.

 

This year’s event, April 28-29, has been relocated and will now be outside the Administration Building and Visitor Center, adjacent to the National Capitol Columns, Azalea Collection and the Grove of State Trees. Attendees will see more of the Arboretum grounds as they shop for traditional and rare plants from nurseries around the world, including new offerings like Gentiana acaulis hybrids, Beesia deltophylla, Phygelius cultivars and eight different types of Cypripedium orchids.

 

The Garden Fair and Plant Sale is a weekend designed for gardeners of all levels in the D.C. area searching for their perfect plant, herbs from the Potomac Unit of the National Herb Society or horticulture guidance from expert horticulturists. The 2017 Garden Fair and Plant Sale will also feature food and drink vendors, a performance by the Washington Revels, and a strawberry potting activity for children.

 

For more information please visit www.fona.org/gardenfair.