Live band, open bar, and hors d’oeuvres. Black tie optional.
On February 9, the Junior League of Washington invites you to join us for Fête to toast the League’s 100 years of service to the D.C. community. This black-tie gala will be held at the National Building Museum starting at 6:30pm. Guests will enjoy a cocktail reception before sitting down to a plated dinner and program featuring JLW leaders and guest speakers. The celebration will then continue with drinks, desserts, and dancing.
Benefits from the gala will go towards the League’s centennial project, “JLW Resolution Read,” which is our is our effort to purchase and distribute 100,000 new books to Washington, DC’s neediest children throughout the 2012-2013 year.
For more details, please visit www.jlw.org/?nd=centevents or see the attached save the date.
Honorary Chef Chair Adam Sobel of Bourbon Steak and more than 40 of Washington, D.C.’s top chefs representing the city’s best restaurants are preparing a unique sampling of the finest gourmet cuisine for guests to enjoy at the 15th annual St. Jude Gourmet Gala, presented by Hanover Research.
WHAT: The St. Jude Gourmet Gala and related auction support the pioneering research and exceptional care offered to children at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, which is celebrating 50 years of finding cures for pediatric cancer and other deadly diseases, so no patient family ever pays St. Jude for anything. Other sponsors include Everfresh.
WHY: The St. Jude Gourmet Gala brings together the area’s most critically acclaimed chefs to raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which freely shares its research discoveries with the medical community. By doing so, every child saved at St. Jude means thousands more saved worldwide.
This annual sell-out event is attended by more than 750 business, financial and political leaders in the D.C. area. It is organized by an Honorary and Advisory Committee including Peter Dodge, Hanover Research CEO; David Gorodetski, Sage Communications COO; General George A. Joulwan, U.S. Army (Retired); and Chef Adam Sobel, Bourbon Steak Executive Chef.
Come celebrate Valentine’s Eve with true tales of psycho high school girlfriends, celebrity crushes, and bad teen fan fiction!
Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent writing, art, and media. Hailed as a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek, Mortified is a live show that allows us to relive the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness adults sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories, and more. Open to anyone from actors to accountants. Must be 21+.
Tickets have been selling quickly for the show! If you don’t want to miss our tales of childhood obsessions, teenage angst, and young adult adventures, get your tickets in advance!
Buy yours at http://mortified-dc.
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
Join us Thursday, February 14th at 9pm for a night of love power.
No other emotion has inspired the humanity more than LOVE. The pursuit of it has resulted in great poetry, great music, and great stories. After all, there is a reason as to why it is one of the most common themes in arts!
To remind you that Love is not just an emotion or a sentiment, but is the most powerful force in the world we are turning on Love Power and projecting it throughART
at the historic POWERHOUSE, which once again opens its doors to the public! Constructed in 1917 by the D.C. Paper Manufacturing Company, this three-bay brick-and-steel structure was built to serve as the power house in Georgetown!
SINGLE? Come and may be you’ll meet that special one
IN LOVE? Well, bring your date and share in this incredible night
HAVE A CRUSH? Let us know and we’ll be your best CUPID
Let’s turn on the LOVE POWER!
Tickets: Please get your tickets in advance
SPECIAL THANKS TO
& RISEEVENTS
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
The Pier is a simple story of the personal, and very human, battle between an Irish father and his emigrant son. Called home from New York by his long-estranged father, who reportedly is on his deathbed, Larry McCarthy finds the old man has worked yet another con on him. An amusing battle of wills follows.
Filmed in New York and West Cork, Ireland, The Pier stars Karl Johnson, Gerard Hurley and Lili Taylor. Hurley wrote, directed and acts in this film.
“… never comes close to striking a bum note.”
– The Irish Times critic Donald Clarke
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.Run time: 86 minutesLobby
FREE admission and FREE popcorn!
(seating is on a first-come, first-served basis)
The Greater Washington Heart Ball has moved to the District this year, and for the first time ever will take place at the iconic National Building Museum and will be adding a young professional’s event, Heart After Dark that will take place in conjunction with the Heart Ball. American Heart Month activities are rounded out with this black-tie affair. Proceeds from the Heart Ball and Heart After Dark benefit lifesaving research and education and advocacy campaigns by the American Heart Association. Heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of people in the United States today.
WHAT: The Heart Ball is a premier society even and a celebration of the life-saving work of the American Heart Association. The event brings together more than 500 of the region’s most prominent physician, corporate, health care, and community leaders. The night will be hosted by actor, director, producer, writer, composer and heart survivor, Robby Benson. Benson is best known for starring in films such as “Ice Castles”, “Ode to Billy Joe”, “The Chosen”, “Running Brave”, in his own screenplay for the Warner Bros. basketball classic, “One on One” and to a new generation as the voice of Beast in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” The night will also feature a live performance piece of Christopher Janney’s “HeartBeat” sung by music sensations, The Persuasions. The evening includes, live and silent auctions, dinner, dancing and special presentations to honor the United States Military and support organizations through the Heart Heroes program. Also new this year, there will be an after party for young professionals.
WHEN: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 6:30pm-1:00am
- · 6:30 p.m. – Cocktail Reception, Silent Auction
- · 7:30 p.m. – Opening remarks, Dinner, Live Auction
- · 9:00 p.m. – Heart After Dark hosts a private reception upstairs
- · 10:00 p.m. – Heart After Dark joins the Heart Ball for dancing and live entertainment
- · 1:00 a.m. – Evening concludes
WHERE: The National Building Museum, 401 F St NW
WHO:
- · Actor and survivor Robby Benson – event host
- · Matt Voorhees, Chief Executive Office/Co-Founder of Anybill and 2013 Heart Ball Chair
- · Heart Hero Honorees and survivor honorees
- · Prominent business leaders, cardiologists, dignitaries and AHA Leadership
WHY: Events such as the Heart Ball bring the community together to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke and raise money for research. The fact is that heart disease kills more people annually than the next five causes of death combined – and this is a shocking statistic to many. The key is to raise awareness on issues like the fact that while 1 in 31 women will die of breast cancer, almost one in three will die from a cardiovascular disease.
The funds raised by the Heart Ball go toward local community outreach efforts to educate the public about heart disease, stroke and the effects of childhood obesity. Funds also go toward critical cardiovascular research. Research funded by the American Heart Association has led to important scientific breakthroughs that include: Artificial Valves, CPR, Clot-Busting Drugs, Pacemakers, Angioplasty, Bypass Surgery, Medicines to Control High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol. It has also led to important discoveries like the link between smoking and heart disease and to food labeling guidelines.
