Monday, October 27 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hybrid Event From plantations to punks….and everything in-between! When you think of history in Northern Virginia, your mind might go to Mount Vernon, Colonial Alexandria, and Arlington Cemetery. Not mentioned in the history books is the area’s amazing and forgotten history of celebrated music, from gospel,…

Friday, October 31, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12 Noon Join us for a tour of the first ever survey of the many talented female visual artists from the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, Washington D.C. area), curated by Lenny Campello. This event will be closing on November 1st. The McLean Project for the Arts…

Thursday, November 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM This is an encore opportunity to tour the Victims of Communism Museum on McPherson Square.  An earlier Encore tour this summer quickly filled the roster of 25.  The VOC Museum opened in 2022 as “the first museum in the world dedicated to describing both the history of communism…

Sunday, November 16 3:15 PM Reception, 4:00 PM Concert The Arlington Philharmonic is a nonprofit, professional orchestra with the mission of making classical music accessible to every Arlington resident, promoting the value of classical music in civic life, and building strong, creative partnerships with schools, local government, business, and other organizations. As part of its…

Monday, December 8, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Emma Violand-Sanchez knew little English when she arrived from Bolivia in 1961 to finish high school in Fairfax County. Her Memoir, Dreams and Shadows, is the story of her immigration journey and her lifelong quest to affirm her bicultural identity and ease the path for other immigrants through education,…