To celebrate our new season, Grammy Award-winning singer Kathy Mattea presents “My Coal Journey,” a one-hour program incorporating stories from her family history and her current advocacy for the environment, combined with a slideshow and sample songs from her critically acclaimed album, “Coal.” The evening traces Mattea’s motivation for beginning the recording project, her research into the musical genre’s history and elemental style, and her family’s ties to coal mining culture in Appalachia, along with a discussion of environmental and social justice issues surrounding coal mining methods in today’s world.

“Calling Me Home” is a collection of songs that celebrates the Appalachian culture of Kathy Mattea’s native West Virginia, and expands the vocabulary of acoustic roots music that has always served as her artistic center. Mattea has gathered songs and stories of bravery, pride and grief that further define and describe the life and times of her home place. This concert presents her new material alongside her long-standing radio hits.

Wednesdays-Thursdays: 12-6pm (until February 4^th, closed February 5^th-March 2^nd on Wed/Thur)

Fridays: 12-9pm

Saturday-Sunday: 12-6pm

Monday-Tuesdays: Closed

This five-channel video installation by Japanese artist Chiho Aoshima traces the cycles of nature in a surreal, vibrantly colored landscape full of fantasy and wonder. Influenced by Japanese manga, anime, and woodblock prints, Aoshima depicts a hybrid world in which the past and future and the organic and inorganic have merged. Beginning with a garden paradise, Aoshima’s scenes morph into cityscapes where living skyscrapers sprout during the day, only to be overgrown at night by a landscape filled with ghosts and fairies. Cycling from day to night and from rural to urban, this mesmerizing work presents both an apocalyptic and utopian vision that nonetheless offers a promise of hope and regeneration. The exhibition will be open during regular gallery hours until February 9; after February 9, the exhibition will be open Friday-Sunday until the exhibition ends March 2.

Created more than 44 years ago, The Senegal St. Joseph Gospel Choir interprets gospel/negro spirituals, traditional African songs, and the magnificent masses that its founder Julien Jouga composed in his country’s four national languages. Their voices rise in a local polyphony representing Senegal’s language, rhythms, and music traditions. Catholic liturgy and the indigenous Muslim songs of Senegal are combined to create an extraordinary harmony between the two cultures that comprise the nation of Senegal.

Together with Montgomery County Economic Development, join us for the 2014 MCCC Golf Classic!

We're filling up fast!! $300 per team ~ Some sponsorships available!

2 flights 8:00 am & 1:00 pm 

Come for the golf, stay for the Business After Hours & Reception!

Don't golf? Then simply come to the awards reception!  Open to the entire Membership (not just golfers).

Now taking reservations for sponsors, teams, goody bag participants and more! 

Teams & Sponsors are limited. Contact Lea Wall at 540.382.3020 to reserve your place on the course!



Note:  The September awards reception will be the September Business After Hours and will be open to the entire membership.







 

You are invited to watch an hour-long movie "Winning Never Gets Old," at Warm Hearth Village. The Washington Post said the movie is "Infectiously Inspiring."

The movie is part of the many activites that will be held at Warm Hearth Village as we celebrate Active Aging Week.

The activities promote active, healthier lifestyles.
 

Intergalactic Nemesis is an uproarious and nostalgic look back at the glory days of radio plays, but with a twist. The show combines the tour-deforce voice work of a cast of three actors, live sound effects, a live musical score, and the visual spectacle of more than 1,250 individual, hand-drawn, full-color comic book images blown up to two stories high.

Help Feeding America Southwest Virginia compete for a $60,000 award from Walmart for hunger relief in our area!  FASWVA is one of 128 Feeding America food bank members competing for 50 awards of $60,000 from Walmart to help fight hunger in our region.  Get involved today and each day until Oct. 5, by voting for our local efforts in hunger relief.   Here's how you can help: 

Visit Walmart's fight hunger page and cast one vote per day. You'll help direct grants towards those in need in our area.  Visit the Website www.walmart.com/fighthunger, scroll to the bottom and type VA in the search area, then click VOTE TODAY. Click on Feeding America Southwest Virginia, then type in your Facebook verification and repeat until Oct. 5!  For more information or to help get out the votes, please contact FASWVA at (540) 342-3011.

Intergalactic Nemesis is an uproarious and nostalgic look back at the glory days of radio plays, but with a twist. The show combines the tour-deforce voice work of a cast of three actors, live sound effects, a live musical score, and the visual spectacle of more than 1,250 individual, hand-drawn, full-color comic book images blown up to two stories high.