NB: New date! Share your
Travel Photos & Stories! Travelogues
VIII: Postcards from the Edge Planes,
Trains & Automobiles with SSTCi
Executive Director Lisa Martin Monday,
August 16th 8pm-9.30pm |
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Join us
for part VIII of an SSTCi special event: Travelogues: Postcards from
the Edge facilitated by SSTCi Executive
Director Lisa Martin Monday, August 16th at 8pm
as we connect and share travel stories. For this session, let's
focus on planes, trains and automobiles and other modes of
transportation, including hitchhiking. Please note, this event
was originally scheduled for Friday, August 13th, but we had to
change the date due to another event. Share photos and a story of a special place you've
visited One photo of you, plus up to 5 others and tell us
about your trip! * Pick your 5-6 photos of ONE special
place/destination in the world you have visited. * Include a photo that includes you at the site. * Then share with a 3 minute or less story. During the
share & tell time, we will also be enjoying an international
happy hour, so please come prepared with a cocktail (or other
beverage) from a special place in the world. You may be asked to
share the recipe! This is a FREE event & everyone is welcome, but
space for "presenters" is limited. Others who may not
want to share, are still welcome to join us. But everyone needs
to RSVP for the Zoom info. |
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About Our Facilitator Lisa
Martin has over 25 years of experience working with arts and
cultural organizations on both US coasts, as well as across
Europe. Lisa has
served as Executive Director of Silver Spring Town Center
Inc since November 2011. As the first Executive Director of
SSTCi (a 501c3), she has oversight of over 100 ongoing SSTCi
programs and events that take place throughout the year in
Downtown Silver Spring primarily at the Silver Spring Civic
Building and Veterans Plaza. These events include the Silver
Spring Blues Festival & Blues Week, the Harvest
Moon Festival, Tribute to America's Veterans Concert, as
well as SSTCi's Arts Salon and Civic Café, plus
performance series on Veterans Plaza, including Twilight
Tuesdays and Wednesday Night STARZ. Lisa has also
created a number of special events, as well as SSTCi's World
Bazaars two other popular programs: SSTCi's Film &
Lecture Series and SSTCi's SPARKLE "Senior
Programs Aimed at Re-Kindling Lifetime Engagement presented
in collaboration with Silver Spring Village. She has over
25 years of experience working with arts and cultural
organizations and events, both domestically and abroad, including
the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, VSA Arts
International Festival in Washington, DC; San Diego
Opera, the San Diego Museum of Man, the Parnu
International Anthropology and Documentary Film Festival in
Estonia, as well as a wide variety of embassy events. She has
also worked in research and evaluation for museums, galleries,
science centers and historic sites. Lisa is a
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer having served as an English
Teacher in Estonia 96-98. She has served on boards related to
international development and cultural exchange, including the
international board of directors of Partners of the
Americas, and as president of the Returned Peace Corps
Volunteers of Washington DC. In 2013, as part of a Partners of
the Americas cultural exchange, she traveled to Brasilia on an
Education and Culture Program travel grant sponsored by the US
State Department. As part of this exchange, she gave several
presentations entitled Community Building Through the Arts
in Public Spaces, which details her work with SSTCi in particular
and creative placemaking in general. She has a
Master's Degree in Arts Management from American University,
a BS in Cultural Anthropology and BA in Journalism from San
Diego State University, as well as an Executive Certificate in
Facilitation from the Institute of Transformational
Leadership at Georgetown University. Lisa is recipient of the 2016 Montgomery County
Executive's Award for Excellence in the Arts &
Humanities for Community Leadership, and is a member of the
2017 Core Class of Leadership Montgomery. Lisa is an
avid traveler having visited over 30 countries and over 40 of the
50 states with a tendency to visit certain places of the world
over and over again where she has family and/or friends, or
simply a special connection. In her
spare time, she also enjoys visiting festivals and museums,
films, theatre, comedy writing, doing art (encaustic, mosaics
& collage), and singing in two choirs, including
the Washington International Chorus and
the Baltimore Washington Estonian Choir. |
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Twilight
Tuesdays Every
Tuesday 5pm-8pm Veterans
Plaza |
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Stealing
Liberty Grateful
Dead Tribute Band Tuesday,
August 17th 5pm-8pm |
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Stealing Liberty returns to Downtown Silver Spring
for groovy open-air fun and sweet evening breezes at Veterans
Plaza! Come on out and let the good times roll as
Stealing Liberty celebrates the roots-infused repertoire and
free-spirited ambience associated with the good ole' Grateful
Dead! We will be recreating a show from an original set list, or
piecing together our own list of songs? Be the first to call it
and win the mystery prize! |
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The
Eclectiks Pop,
Celtic, R&B Tuesday,
August 24th 5pm-8pm |
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The Eclectiks are
a Celtic Fusion Group from Montgomery County Maryland.
The members of this ensemble come from a wide range of
musical backgrounds. Classical, Jazz, Blues, Pop and Rock.
You will hear elements of all these styles blended in a
Celtic centered repertoire. The sound is a refreshing blend of
old and new music. The songs range from slow thoughtful
classical centered pieces to high energy tunes.
The Eclectiks are Simona Patanga, flute; Gary Daum,
flute, electric guitar, and vocals; Regina Koenig, violin;
Charles Tolbert, violin,harmonica, and vocals; Francis Eargle,
cello and mandolin; Jeff Sparks, bass, and Pete Stover, 12
string guitar, electric guitar, and vocals. |
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Ukulele Hui Hawaiian
Music & Dance Tuesday,
August 31st 5pm-8pm |
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The
Hawai`i State Society (HSS) ‘Ukulele Hui, including the hula
dancers, has been in existence for more than 20 years. Under the
direction of Carol Takafuji, the group meets weekly for good
music, food, and fun. The `Ukulele Hui has performed at many functions,
including lu‘au, church and school events, retirement homes, and
multicultural festivals, to name a few. They are all ambassadors
of the HSS of Washington, D.C. in promoting and perpetuating the
culture of Hawai‘i in song and dance, spreading the Aloha Spirit
wherever they go. |
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