Live band, open bar, and hors d’oeuvres. Black tie optional.
Cupid’s Undie Run is a ‘mile-ish’ run in your bedroom-best on 
Valentine’s weekend. No, we’re not crazy, we’re just crazy serious about raising money for The Children’s Tumor Foundation.
Festivities start at noon on Saturday, February 9th 2013*, then we strip down for the Undie Run at 2pm, have our fun and come back for post-race festivities and awards.
MORE NEW CITIES FOR 2013! In addition to the current lineup of DC, NYC, Atlanta, Seattle, Denver and Cincinnati, this year we’ll also be undierunning in LA, San Fran, Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Orlando, Minneapolis, Philly, Cleveland*, St. Louis* and Detroit. Get ready! It’s gonna sell out fast!
You can fundraise as an individual or join a team, and the prizes are better than ever this year! Custom undies, VIP Open Bar, embroidered bathrobes, engraved iPod Nanos, romantic getaways… tons of cool stuff for doing your good deed and fundraising for such a great cause. With facebook and twitter, fundraising is easier than ever!
Help us make this amazing day worthwhile! Your effort means a lot and February is just around the corner. Get ready to run for the kids… but let’s just hope they aren’t watching!
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.
The 65th annual Luncheon and Fashion Show is one of the oldest annual fund-raising events of any nationally recognized non-profit group with proceeds earmarked to reduce death and disability from heart disease. The fashion show will feature MaxMara presented by Bloomingdale’s.
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.
