McLean Community Center Announces Winter Events & Performances

McLean Community Center has announced winter events and performances.

The fun includes:

Winter Break Trips at OFTC:

Tuesday Dec. 27- Laser Tag at Shadowland. Activity No. 8107.211. Tickets are $35 and $30 for district residents.

Wednesday Dec. 28- Climbing at Sportrock. Activity No. 8108.211. Tickets are $40 and $35 for district residents.

Thursday Dec. 29- Ice Skating. Activity No. 8109.211 Tickets are $30 and $25 for district residents.

For more detailed information, call the Old Firehouse Teen Center at 703-448-8336, TTY: 711.

Additional events include:

The Airborne Comedians on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and $15 for district residents. Dan Foley and Joel Harris are The Airborne Comedians. An act that began 20 years ago as a snowball juggling contest in a laundromat, has now escalated to riding six- and seven-foot high unicycles and juggling flaming lawn chairs. For ages 10+. Adding 21st Century flash to vaudeville tradition, this duo juggles a cornucopia of objects: baseball bats, lawn chairs, children and random objects from the audience. 

Young Soloists Recital on January 8 at 3 p.m. Admission is free. Tickets are not required. The premier showcase for great chamber music in Northern Virginia. The Concerts at the Alden series is sponsored by the Music Friends of the Fairfax County Public Library and the Alden Theatre.

This concert features: Wiley Skaret, 9, a homeschooled fourth-grader who studies piano with Marjorie Lee; Elena Anne Olshin, 16, a freshman at The Learning Community International who studies flute with Marcia Kamper; John Kirchenbauer, 15, a sophomore at Washington-Lee High School who studies violin with Ronda Cole; and Sarah Barham, 17, a homeschooled senior who studies piano with Rosita Kerr Mang. 

Take a Day Away Winter/Spring Day Trips- Resolve to have more fun in 2012! MCC can help you do that in a variety of ways, including a number of exciting new day trips. Destinations include art gallery tours to the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery of Art (sponsored by the McLean Project for the Arts), the Philadelphia Flower Show, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and the Kennedy Center. These popular day trips fill quickly, so register now.

McLean Project for the Arts - On Exhibit Through January 7:

Emerson Gallery
Roberto Bocci: Streams, Consciousness and Spaces In Between
In this multimedia installation combining photography, video and sound, Arlington-based artist Roberto Bocci brings together a finely tuned combination of elements meant to engulf, engage and involve the viewer in a holistic, multi-sensory experience. Image Credit: Roberto Bocci, Streams Travel Strip, Piena to Genova, 12-15-2005-01 (detail), archival digital ink jet print, 16" x 90"

Atrium Gallery
Imaginary Botanicals by Elizabeth Whiteley
Washington, D.C. artist Elizabeth Whiteley, who works in both two- and three-dimensions, will exhibit this series of drawings that are inspired by her abstract sculpture.

Ramp Gallery
McLean Art Society Juried Exhibition
This show features two-dimensional works in various media and styles by members of the McLean Art Society. Image Credit: First Place Winner Betty Ganley's Marina Diva.

For more information, visit MPA's Website at http://www.mpaart.org/exhibitions.php.

Christmas Holiday Closings

The McLean Community Center and the Old Firehouse Teen Center will be closed on Friday, Dec. 23 and Monday, Dec. 26, for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (observed).

MCC will be open on Saturday, Dec. 24, but will close at 5 p.m.

The centers will reopen at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27. For more information, call the Center at 703-790-0123, TTY: 711 or visit http://www.mcleancenter.org/.

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