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Open mic with poetry and hip hop

From our neighbor Rodney over at Eastern Village:

On Sunday morning the 18th of May EVC is hosting a community pancake breakfast from ten am until noon. It is open to the public. We would appreciate a two dollar donation per person to cover costs of food. Please bring chocolate chips, fruit, or other pancake toppings for to share.

Everyone is welcome to come, but we would appreciate it if you register to let us know you are coming so we can get enough ingredients to serve everyone. You can register at http://tinyurl.com/4w2e4g

May 9, 2008
7PM to 3AM
$3
Backroom at Jackie's, 8081 Georgia Ave

On Wednesday May 14th, 2008, Manna Food Center, in partnership with Whole Foods Markets and Ride On Montgomery County Transit, will hold a Stuff-A-Bus event at the Whole Foods Markets in Bethesda, Rockville, Kentlands, and Silver Spring. The goal of this event is for shoppers to fill Ride On buses with non-perishable food to help feed our hungry
neighbors.

On this day, Whole Foods Markets will also hold a 5% Day and donate 5% of sales from those four Whole Foods Markets to Manna Food Center.

Manna Food Center is experiencing a twenty percent increase in the number of families turning to Manna for food assistance. You can help fight hunger and feed hope by doing your grocery shopping at Whole Foods Markets
on May 14 and by helping to fill a Ride-On bus with donated nonperishable food.

For more information, contact:
www.mannafood.org
i...@mannafood.org
301-424-1130.

Saturday, May 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The Silver Spring Historical Society sponsors a FREE open house of the historic 1945 B&O Railroad Station, 8100 Georgia Avenue (at Sligo Avenue) in downtown Silver Spring, MD.

Bring the young ones to play with our Thomas the Train set (they can also watch real trains go by outside)!

Limited free parking is available in front of the station (please do not park next door at the fire station!) with ample street parking and a parking garage available nearby. The railroad station is also an easy four block walk from the Silver Spring Metro
station on the Red Line.

Information 301-495-4915

You're invited to the next South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association social event at Mayorga on Thursday April 24. This will be an exciting event featuring the jazz quartet "Aire Lune" and is also being co-sponsored by the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc.

So come have some coffee, food or drink, listen to live jazz and meet the people in your neighborhood.

What: Community Social
When: Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm.
Where: Mayorga Coffee Factory
Cost: Free!

There will be no admission charge for this event, but there will be a "cash bar."

The Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization which has been formed to provide community-based arts, entertainment and educational programming for the new Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza.

Come visit Jackie's Back Room tomorrow night! (Friday the 18th)

FLASH is an evening of cutting edge electronic music, LIVE projected animation and digital photography.
Featuring:

Music

• Deyv(88)
• Measax + docindo dorsey (StirSound)
• All Good Funk Alliance

Photography

• Dakota Fine

Animation

• Marc Alamari

Silver Spring Town Center, Inc.
"Community Conversation"
April 24, 2008
6 to 9 pm
Mayorga Coffee Factory
8040 Georgia Avenue

You are cordially invited to the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc.'s next "Community Conversation," featuring the exciting jazz quartet "Aire Lune."

It will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm at Mayorga Coffee Factory, 8040 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Our partner for this event will be the South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association!

There will be no admission charge for this event, but there will be a "cash bar."

The Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization which has been formed to provide community-based arts, entertainment and educational programming for the new Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza.

Our objective for this event is to continue the networking process for the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. and a community vision for programming the new Civic Building and Veterans Plaza.

We'll also be helping the "Mayorga Coffee Factory" –a great local Silver Spring business!

Please join us and support our work to building and dynamic and exciting Silver Spring.

It will be a great time!

What: A Community Conversation
When: Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm.
Where: Mayorga Coffee Factory, 8040 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
Cost: Free!

Check out the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Blog at www.silverspringtowncenter.blogspot.com

On Display: March 17 – June 1, 2008
Reception: Saturday April 26, 3-5 pm

Space88, a new exhibit space in Silver Spring, is proud to present this examination of Tom Block's ongoing public art project, Cousins. Permanently installed just a few blocks away at the entrance to the Kennett Street Parking Garage (along the Eastern Ave. access), Block has also installed Cousins in bus shelters in Tempe, AZ (2005-2006) and taught workshops to college students about his process at American University (DC) and Hanover College (IN).

Cousins public art project uses art and text elements to echo the highest aspects of our American community, combining an
Eastern-inspired visual language with sayings from wisdom masters from a variety of ethnicities, religions, geographic regions and time periods. Fusing words representing the highest aspirations of humankind (taken from Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Lao Tzu, Simone Weil, the Buddha, etc.) with specially created paintings, Cousins transforms public venues into wisdom galleries, available to local citizens everyday. This project uses our country's diversity as an asset, by emphasizing not only the different cultures that make up our society, but also how they positively interrelate. This public art piece honors that aspect of our country that offers a uniquely livable and respectful community, mirroring the best that humanity can achieve.

The pieces featured in this exhibit come from two series, representing those on view in bus shelters in Tempe, Arizona, in 2005-2006, as well as outtakes from the series that has been permanently installed along the Kennett Street Art Wall, in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has included originals from both series, in addition to some of the actual prints that were installed in Tempe, AZ. He has proposed installing further panels, created from new images with different sayings, at the University of Oregon, Salem, OR; University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA; University of Maine, Orono, ME and in the City of Takoma Park, MD.

From Jackie's Restaurant:

Please join us in welcoming a delegation of Lamas from the Sakya Dokho Monestery in Tromthar, Tibet, who are currently touring the US. This is a rare opportunity to visit with these esteemed spiritual leaders and, in so doing, give financial support to their Monastery in Tibet. A $10.00-$20.00 donation is suggested, or whatever amount you can afford.

Proceeds from this evening will go toward rebuilding their 150 year old Monastery building (pictured above) and toward preserving the Tibetan heritage and culture.

This fundraiser will be held in the Back Room at Jackie’s, an art and event space adjacent to the dining room. The Back Room presents Troika theater company in April, and 88’s FLASH on April 18. Please see www.jackiesrestaurant.com “fun” page for the current calendar of events. Or email us to request notices of our programs.

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and cash bar; proceeds to Sakya Dokho. Please give generously!