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The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 PM
The popular series, now in its 11th year, features the work of a wide range of poets from across the region. This installment features readings by Hiram Larew, Shenandoah Sowash, Laureen Summers, and Matthew Westbrook.
Visit Monthly Events for more information on Third Thursday and We Are Takoma’s other events.
Creating Abstracts: A Coloring Book Workshop
The Takoma Park Community Center
Art Studio, 2nd Floor
Wednesday, March 16, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Abstract painter Gladys Lipton will host a free workshop that will show adults and children (ages 12 and up) how to create their own 2-dimensional abstract art work and coloring book pages.
Registration: There is limited space, and this workshop is first come, first serve to the first 10 registrants. To register, send an email with your name and the subject line “Creating Abstracts” to arts@takomaparkmd.gov, or call 301-891-7220.
Learn more about We Are Takoma events and gallery exhibitions on the Arts & Humanities page!
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, March 17 at 7:30 PM
The popular series, now in its 11th year, features the work of a wide range of poets from across the region. This installment features readings by E. Laura Golberg, Rebekah Remington, and Fred Zirm.
Visit Monthly Events for more information on Third Thursday and We Are Takoma’s other events.
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, March 26, 7:30 PM
House of Tap combines elements of jazz, tap, and modern dance in a performance that’s as musically beautiful as it is spectacular. During Hyperballad, House of Tap will also invite audience members on stage to learn a quick tap routine.
Learn more about We Are Takoma events on the Arts & Humanities page!
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, March 19, 7:30 PM
Maelstrom, a fiddle ensemble of three DC teens, plays music that experiments with the intersections of multiple folk traditions. Fiddle-Folk-Fusion takes the audience on a musical journey that starts in Ireland and travels through England, Scotland, France, and Canada on its way to America.
Learn more about We Are Takoma events on the Arts & Humanities page!
A Seat at the Table
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, March 10, 6:30 PM
Crossroads Community Food Network presents a series of short
documentaries about the farmers and market vendors who come together each week to nurture our community. Since 2007, Crossroads Farmers Market has been making fresh, healthy food more accessible in the Takoma/Langley Crossroads. Suggested $10 donation. Reception at 6:30 PM, film screening and discussion to follow.
Learn more about We Are Takoma events on the Arts & Humanities page!
Sick of Signs Week is happening on September 13-19, 2015!
Monday, September 21, 6:30 PM
Takoma Park Community Center
Azalea Room (208)
City residents can win prizes for illegally-posted signs they remove from public utility poles, bus shelters, transformer boxes (and for free-standing signs in the public right of way).
The City will serve refreshments, tally signs, and give prizes for the wackiest sign, most colorful sign, and most signs collected at the Awards Ceremony on Monday September 21.
During the week, residents can bring signs as they collect them to The City’s Housing & Community Development office at 7500 Maple Ave., or they can bring them in all at once to the Awards Ceremony.
“Street Spam” can be signs that offer to buy your house, tow your unwanted car, help you lose weight, or advise enrolling your children in a camp. Signs displayed on someone’s front lawn are legal and should not be collected.
Find a really outrageous sign or a really common sign, a really confusing sign or a really big sign — just make sure you tear them down!
