PAST: HIGHLIGHTS: Art Opening in Silver Spring + Wellness Expo at LAYC in Columbia Heights THURS, Sept 26th Thanks to Gravy - a Fab new events website and free App for iPhone and Android

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Thursday, September 26th

Back to School Wellness Expo at LAYC in Columbia Heights

5:30pm - 7:30pm

This free, fun-filled event for both youth and parents will feature health education information sessions on nutrition, fitness, skincare/personal care and reproductive health, along with breaks for healthy snacks. The fitness portion will be interactive with a chance to move to the music. Free giveaways for the first 25 people to register!

Latin American Youth Center 

in the Large Community Room

1419 Columbia Rd NW
Metro: Columbia Heights

Opening Reception for "Metaphors and the Mundane" at the King Street Gallery in Silver Spring, MD featuring works by Mark Earnhart, Mary Frank, and Chloe Watson

6:00pm - 8:00pm 

On view Monday, September 16th - Thursday, October 17th

Regular Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm

This exhibit features three sculptors who explore objects as symbols and storytellers. Each uses the vernacular language of everyday things to reflect on the lives we live or the lives lived by others in history. Exhibit will be at the King Street Gallery at The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center in Silver Spring at the Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus 

930 King St - Gallery 

Metro: Silver Spring and walk (see walking map from metro) about .6 miles, 14 minutes

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