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All players are welcome. There is no commitment to play every week. Up to 16 players. No cost to participate. We cannot accommodate “drop ins” due to time and space limitations. Please contact Kathy Thelin at rwthelin@mac.com or call 203-240-2662 to arrange a date to play and meet the group!

This program is presented by Potomac Community Village. Avner Ofer will present some of his photographs and talk about his travels. Ofer travels to many remote and off the beaten path locations, and attempts to capture intimate moments, and glimpses into other cultures. Potomac Community Center, 11315 Falls Rd., Potomac.

Meet fellow Wine Enthusiasts from the Kentlands and surrounding communities near you! Come to our next meeting to taste new wines; learn about noses and legs; and discuss great vintages and estates. Everyone’s welcome, from new bouquet-sniffers to educated connoisseurs. There is always something for all wine lovers! The Kentlands Wine Club meets the 2nd Friday of every month from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, at the Kentlands Clubhouse. Individual memberships are available to adults over 21 for a $30 per person annual fee, along with the required signed waiver per person.

Open to all musicians, regardless of skill level. Arrive as early as 1:30 pm to set up. Please bring a music stand in addition to your instrument. Please also bring a power strip as outlets are at a premium. We play everything from Beatles to Foo Fights to BB King and everything in between. We keep things light and fun.

Sponsored by Reston for a Lifetime in partnership with Positive Aging Community, Hunters Woods at Trails Edge and the Residences at Calvin Run. Dr. Bill Thomas discusses his fourth book which is dedicated to helping older people and their families perfect the process of “aging magnificently.” Thomas has spent many years working to combat ageism in American society. He continues to be a “culture change” leader who seeks to humanize how we treat and care for our elders, especially in institutions like nursing homes.

All players are welcome. There is no commitment to play every week. Up to 16 players. No cost to participate. We cannot accommodate “drop ins” due to time and space limitations. Please contact Kathy Thelin at rwthelin@mac.com or call 203-240-2662 to arrange a date to play and meet the group! Kentlands Carriage House, .

Establishing the Rosenwald Schools: The Partnership of Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington 12 – 1pm Sponsored by Northwest Neighbors Village. Aviva Kempner‘s film, Rosenwald, tells the incredible story of how philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck Julius Rosenwald partnered with Booker T. Washington, educator, author and orator, in establishing over 5,000 schools for African Americans in the Jim Crow South. The Rosenwald Schools exclusively served more than 700,000 black children over four decades, thereby shaping the educational and economic future of an entire generation of African American families. Aviva will share with us what it was like to bring this remarkable story to the screen and show some bonus material from the film. Registration required by 9/13 and limited to 100.

Offered by Little Falls Village in cooperation with Friendship Heights Neighbors Network and Little Falls Library. Author and filmmaker, Chris Palmer discusses why decluttering is important and how to do it. Those who register will receive a zoom link via email a day or two prior to the event. All attendees must login into their own personal zoom room and “join” the event from there by entering the Meeting ID and Passcode. This is due to the security policies on the public library partnering on this event.

Open to all musicians, regardless of skill level. Arrive as early as 1:30 pm to set up. Please bring a music stand in addition to your instrument. Please also bring a power strip as outlets are at a premium. We play everything from Beatles to Foo Fights to BB King and everything in between. We keep things light and fun.

Offered by Northwest Neighbors Village. In the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt, there were 20 or more talented composers who found ways to write and perform while imprisoned. They called themselves the New Music Studio and their music was saved under floorboards or passed along from prisoner to prisoner. This new music reflected life in the camp, sustained hope, provided spiritual and cultural resistance for both the prisoner composers and audience, and promised a future. Some of the music contained hidden messages or served as eye (or ear) witness to the horrors of the camp, or of the broken heart. Murry Sidlin will honor the work of these composers by sharing with us some recordings from Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezin Composer. He will also speak of what music means in the most desperate of times. Registration is required by 9/18 and limited to the first 100.

To Tell the Truth: The Life of a Foreign Correspondent with Lewis Simons. Offered by Chevy Chase at Home. What is it like to be a foreign correspondent, covering the most dramatic stories in some of the world’s most hostile places? How—and why—has the state of the American press changed in the last 20 years and what are the challenges facing journalists today? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis M. Simons will address these questions and more. Simons began his career in 1967 as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, at the height of the Vietnam War. He went on to international postings for The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Simons has been a foreign correspondent and investigative journalist for half a century, reporting throughout Asia and the Middle East. He covered the Vietnam War, opened the world‘s eyes to the terror in Tiananmen Square, was expelled from India for revealing Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s abuses and saved the life of a teen-aged Tibetan monk.

All players are welcome. There is no commitment to play every week. Up to 16 players. No cost to participate. We cannot accommodate “drop ins” due to time and space limitations. Please contact Kathy Thelin at rwthelin@mac.com or call 203-240-2662 to arrange a date to play and meet the group!

This is a very popular event. It is open to VKL members, volunteers and anyone interested in becoming a member or volunteer. Please RSVP by sending an email to Jean Mocarski at jeanmocarski@gmail.com or call 240-449-9002.

COVID-19 Discussion: The impact of the pandemic on our social well-being. Presented by Greater Stonegate Village (GSV). Marla Lahat from Home Care Partners will discuss how no one escaped the impact of the last 3 1/2 years of the Covid pandemic, but the physical and emotional toll of Covid had a tremendous and lasting effect on older people. During this discussion, we‘ll talk about some of our memories of the Covid years - difficult, funny, and good! We‘ll also discuss ways to resume some of our former activities and share our experiences of going out and traveling now that the pandemic is officially over.

Open to all musicians, regardless of skill level. Arrive as early as 1:30 pm to set up. Please bring a music stand in addition to your instrument. Please also bring a power strip as outlets are at a premium. We play everything from Beatles to Foo Fights to BB King and everything in between. We keep things light and fun.

The Lunch Bunch is a new program to engage Village at Kentlands & Lakelands members and foster social connections. Come on out and join us to meet new friends and neighbors!

All players are welcome. There is no commitment to play every week. Up to 16 players. No cost to participate. We cannot accommodate “drop ins” due to time and space limitations. Please contact Kathy Thelin at rwthelin@mac.com or call 203-240-2662 to arrange a date to play and meet the group!

Daughter of History Author Presentation by Holocaust Refugee Susan Suleiman Sponsored by Friendship Heights Neighbors Network. A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evoke to tell the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In this coming-of-age story that probes the intergenerational complexities of immigrant families and the inevitability of loss, Susan looks to her own life as an example of how historical events shape our private lives. After the Nazis marched into Hungary in 1944, five-year old Susan learned to call herself by a Christian name, hiding with false papers in Budapest with her parents. While her relatives in the provinces would be among the 450,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz, Susan‘s close family survived and even thrived in the years following the war. But when the Communist Party took over Hungary, Susan and her parents emigrated to Chicago by way of Vienna, Paris, Haiti, and New York. In her adult life as a prominent feminist professor, she rarely allowed herself to think about these chapters of her past--but eventually, when she had children of her own, she found herself called back to Budapest, unlocking memories that would change the direction of her scholarship and career.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Expert Carl Szabo on What We Need to Know. Potomac Community Village Speaker Series returns for the fall, with nationally known Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology expert Carl Szabo, Vice President and General Counsel at NetChoice. He will be speaking on what we need to know and understand about AI. Potomac Community Center, 11315 Falls Rd., Potomac.

Musica Viva Kentlands Outdoor Concert Series, 6pm – 8pm, Kentlands Club House The Kentlands Community Foundation is sponsoring an ongoing initiative by a group of dedicated volunteers to organize a series of classic music concerts each year in Kentlands. These outdoor concerts continue to be a Kentlands community favorite and are led by Musical Director, Simeone Tartaglione.