DC recreational focus organization, DC Fray. today announced the 2nd Annual DC Field Day will take place on Saturday, July 28th at the RFK Stadium Grounds. Known for their mission to make fun possible for adults throughout the DMV through their sporting leagues and events, this signature event is a throwback to grade school, built with adults in mind. The event brings out hundreds of professionals wanting to let their hair down and enjoy a nostalgic time over classic games with a twists such as sack races, tug-of-war, giant ping-pong, dizzy flip cup, giant bowling, two legged hula hoop relay, an obstacle course, and a few other surprises. In addition to the lawn fun, the event will include, food trucks, a bar, live music and a Field Day market with samples & swag for individuals and teams. Individuals are encouraged to grab their friends, start a team, join as a group, or sign up solo and get ready for the ultimate day of fun, friends, and games to celebrate summer.
Standard team tickets cost $45/per person and includes a beer ticket voucher and a voucher to spend in the Field Day shop and all the field game fun. There is also options for corporate level team pricing in which a business can cover up to 25 players to participate from their firm.
Last year’s inaugural event had approximately 300 individuals come out for DC Field Day fun. For event details, game list and ticket information, visit www.dcfieldday.com. DC Field Day is presented by Events DC.
EVENT DETAILS
What: 2nd Annual DC Field Day
Hosted by: DC Fray Presented by: Events DC
When: Saturday, July 28, 2018
Where: RFK Stadium Grounds, Washington, DC
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Cost: $45 per player. Corporate team packages also available.
Website/Event Registration: http://retrofieldday.com/
Start your Sunday off right by flowing to a hip hop playlist featuring a mix of hits from the 90’s and today! Alia’s playlists are always a blast, and this one is peppered with old favorites and fun surprises. Join us Sunday, August 12th for the Now vs. The 90’s Hip Hop rendition of our Sanity Sunday Yoga Series. Doors open for exclusive shopping access at 9:30am, yoga starts at 10. Bring your mat, grab some La Colombe, and let’s wring out whatever’s left of your Saturday night. Tickets are just $10 and will go fast, so sign up today!
VIDA Fitness is mixing things up and taking National Coking Day to the next level. On Tuesday, September 25 from 6:00-7:30 p.m., VIDA’s City Vista location will host Cook & Crunch – a free 30-minute full body workout followed by a 30-minture healthy cooking seminar led by in-house dietitian Rachel Sheahan. Mighty Meals is providing healthy bites and Grape Intentions is offering wine sips. The complimentary fitness and cooking workshop is open to the public.
The National Cooking Day celebration was established to honor and commemorate the joys of home cooking with the purpose to experience something new and enjoyable in the kitchen, while preparing extraordinary and delicious food for loved ones. Embracing healthy lifestyles, VIDA Fitness decided to expand upon National Cooking Day with nutrition and wellness educational tips.
To reserve your spot, please register at www.vidafitness.com/cookcrunch.
WHO: VIDA Fitness City Vista
WHAT: Free Cook & Crunch Fitness and Nutritional Cooking Workshop
Bites from Mighty Meals
Wine from Grape Intentions
WHEN: National Cooking Day
Tuesday, September 25
6:00-7:30 p.m.
WHERE: VIDA Fitness City Vista
445 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Visitors have the rare chance to flip through and purchase a piece of history at the 43rd annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair: September 28 & 29, 2018 at Holiday Inn Rosslyn.
WABF is the D.C. region’s only curated festival of rare and collectible books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, drawings and other fine ephemera.
Among this year’s highlights:
1st edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897): bound in publisher’s original cloth
Limitededition copy of Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book: signed by the author
1st edition of Thunderball (1961): Ian Fleming’s first novel featuring notorious James
Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1st printing of Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 novel, Gravity’s Rainbow
You needn’t be a veteran collector – or a gazillionaire – to enjoy WABF. More than 60 exhibitors
will offer items for all budgets and interests.
WABF director Beth Campbell says the personal nature of WABF is something worth
celebrating, especially “with the advent of doing business online.” She calls WABF “an active
museum, a forum to access diverse knowledge gathered in one place.”
WABF is “about connectedness and discovery,” Campbell says. “The exhibitors are connected
to their collections, each other and the fairgoers. The fairgoers are connected to a particular
genre, author or time. We all discover more when we connect and converse with one another.”
Special features at the 43rd annual WABF include personalized impromptu haikus from
“wordsmith minimalists” Haiku Gals, and the chance to make bookmarks and bind pamphlets
with renowned bookbinder and conservator Jill Deiss of Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding.
What: 43rd Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair (www.wabf.com)
When: Friday, September 28, 2017: 5pm – 9pm
Saturday, September 29, 2017: 10am – 5pm
Where: Holiday Inn Rosslyn: 1900 Fort Myer Dr., Arlington, VA, 22209
Tickets: Fri. + Sat.: $15. Sat. only: $10 ($5 for students & librarians w/valid ID).
Children 12 & under free. Purchase tickets at wabf.com or at the door.
Find Us: Twitter: @theWABF (#WABF18) / Facebook: facebook.com/thewabf
Contact: Beth Campbell: bcampbell@wabf.com / (202) 3634999
Visitors have the rare chance to flip through and purchase a piece of history at the 43rd annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair: September 28 & 29, 2018 at Holiday Inn Rosslyn.
WABF is the D.C. region’s only curated festival of rare and collectible books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, drawings and other fine ephemera.
Among this year’s highlights:
1st edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897): bound in publisher’s original cloth
Limitededition copy of Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book: signed by the author
1st edition of Thunderball (1961): Ian Fleming’s first novel featuring notorious James
Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1st printing of Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 novel, Gravity’s Rainbow
You needn’t be a veteran collector – or a gazillionaire – to enjoy WABF. More than 60 exhibitors
will offer items for all budgets and interests.
WABF director Beth Campbell says the personal nature of WABF is something worth
celebrating, especially “with the advent of doing business online.” She calls WABF “an active
museum, a forum to access diverse knowledge gathered in one place.”
WABF is “about connectedness and discovery,” Campbell says. “The exhibitors are connected
to their collections, each other and the fairgoers. The fairgoers are connected to a particular
genre, author or time. We all discover more when we connect and converse with one another.”
Special features at the 43rd annual WABF include personalized impromptu haikus from
“wordsmith minimalists” Haiku Gals, and the chance to make bookmarks and bind pamphlets
with renowned bookbinder and conservator Jill Deiss of Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding.
What: 43rd Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair (www.wabf.com)
When: Friday, September 28, 2017: 5pm – 9pm
Saturday, September 29, 2017: 10am – 5pm
Where: Holiday Inn Rosslyn: 1900 Fort Myer Dr., Arlington, VA, 22209
Tickets: Fri. + Sat.: $15. Sat. only: $10 ($5 for students & librarians w/valid ID).
Children 12 & under free. Purchase tickets at wabf.com or at the door.
Find Us: Twitter: @theWABF (#WABF18) / Facebook: facebook.com/thewabf
Contact: Beth Campbell: bcampbell@wabf.com / (202) 3634999
Runners, head to the starting line! VIDA Fitness is hosting its fourth annual 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, October 13 at East Potomac Park. The local fitness club will donate proceeds from the event to Thrive DC – a local non-profit organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the D.C. area. Local radio personalities Kelly Collis and Jen Richer, co-hosts of 94.7 Fresh FM’s The Tommy Show, will emcee the race and awards ceremony. The 5K Run/Walk is open to the public and participants can submit their event registrations at: www.vidathrive5k.com.
Nicknamed Hains Point by locals, East Potomac Park’s flat running course, which circles the Potomac River, will again serve as the backdrop for the event. Both dog and stroller friendly, the VIDA Thrive 5K Run/Walk is geared toward families, kids, weekend athletes and fitness enthusiasts alike. There will be special race heats for both children and pets.
Events and prizes for the race include:
- VIDA memberships, personal training sessions and guest passes.
- Gift cards from SweatBox, Aura Spa and Bang Salon.
2018 Packet Pick-Up will take place at VIDA Fitness-Gallery Place on Thursday, October 11 from 9 a.m. — 6p.m. and U-Street on Friday, October 12 from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Parking space is extremely limited at East Potomac Park, so VIDA encourages race participants to leave their cars at home. Convenient methods of transportation include: walking, Capital Bikeshare, DC Metro, Uber, Lyft or taxicab.
Continuing a race tradition, VIDA Fitness is again hosting a sock drive to benefit Thrive DC, which runs now right up to race day. Runners and spectators are encouraged to bring new socks of all sizes and styles to all VIDA locations or on race day where donation boxes will be located. VIDA Fitness is doubling the efforts and will match each pair of new socks donated to Thrive DC. Since their partnership began in 2015, VIDA Fitness has raised more than $50,000 for Thrive DC.
To purchase your race entry and receive more information on the VIDA 5K Run/Walk, please visit:www.vidathrive5k.com or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/442012079595140/. Registration costs $45 per person.
WHO: VIDA Fitness, Thrive DC and The Tommy Show
WHAT: 5K Run/Walk benefiting Thrive DC, with Tommy Show Hosts, Grand Prizes including PT sessions, massages and free month of membership
Tickets: $45
Schedule of Events on Saturday, October 13:
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- 7:00 AM – Packet Pick-Up Opens
- 7:00 AM – Bag Drop Opens
- 7:40 AM – Warm-Up & Stretch
- 7:55 AM – National Anthem
- 8:00 AM – Race Begins
- 9:00 AM – Awards Ceremony
- 9:30 AM – Course Closes
WHEN: October 13, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.
WHERE: East Potomac Park at Hains Point
14th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024
1350 Okie St NE,
Washington, DC 20002
Cocktail Seminar and Book Signing with Phillip Greene, Author of A Drinkable Feast and Co-Founder of The Museum of the American Cocktail.
Date: Thursday, October 18th
Time: 7pm-9pm
Ticket Price: $60.00
(Must be 21 years of age and have valid photo ID)
A history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved
In the Prohibition era, American cocktail enthusiasts flocked to the one place that would have them–Paris. In this sweeping look at the City of Light, cocktail historian Philip Greene follows the notable American ex-pats who made themselves at home in Parisian cafes and bars, from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein to Picasso, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and many more.
A Drinkable Feast reveals the history of more than 50 cocktails: who was imbibing them, where they were made popular, and how to make them yourself from the original recipes of nearly a century ago. Filled with anecdotes and photos of the major players of the day, you’ll feel as if you were there yourself, walking down the boulevards with the Lost Generation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Phillip Greene is one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans and author of To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion and The Manhattan: The Story of the First Modern Cocktail.
He is a sought-after speaker on topics within cocktail history, as well as, a mixology consultant for restaurants and institutions across the world, and he is a regular cocktail columnist for The Daily Beast. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three daughters.
