Bloomingdale Oral History Project seeks 40 participants

Forty participants are sought for the Bloomingdale Oral History Project. We are seeking people to be interviewed on video for 45 minutes. The interview will focus on your history and experience of living in Bloomingdale. We are seeking individuals who have lived here for any amount of time - old-timers and new comers. We also want diverse demographics in respect to sex, race, class, etc. 

                

This is a part of the Humanities Council of DC Grant for the Bloomingdale Village Center. There is a plan to post a short, edited version of the interview on a public, interactive board in Bloomingdale. Full interviews may be posted online. Full interviews will also be donated to the District of Columbia Archives. Please e-mail us if you are interested in being interviewed or know someone who should be. 

                                   

Please e-mail Horacio Sierra at horaciowrites@gmail.com or Bertha Holliday at bhollidaypsy@gmail.com to be added to our list of potential participants.
        

Wednesday on the Porch featuring DC Smokehouse's popular dishes this Wednesday, 08-05-2015

See this tweet:

Wed on the Porch ‏@WOTPDC  3h3 hours ago

Very happy to announce that DCity Smokehouse will be providing some of their popular dishes this Wednesday on the Porch! @dcitysmokehouse

5:02 PM - 2 Aug 2015

make plans for St. George's Episcopal Church's Free To Be Me Summer Camp, which starts Monday, 08-17-2015

From: Janis Evans
Subject: FTBM Summer Camp
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:46:45 +0000

Please post the "Free To Be Me" flyer and forms on your respective sites and/or place copies in designated areas.

Thank you,

Janis Evans 

St George's Episcopal Church Free to Be Me 2015 Flyer by Scott Roberts

                                           

St George's Episcopal Church Free to Be Me Invitation Letter 2015 by Scott Roberts

                   

St George's Episcopal Church Free to Be Me Registration 2015 by Scott Roberts

local Bloomingdale singer/actress Shayna Blass hosting 5th Secret Monkey Social Club -- Monday, 08-03-2015

Local Bloomingdale singer/actress Shayna Blass will host the 5th Secret Monkey Social Club. 

Live music, punch bowl cocktails, and local food vendors.

Dolcezza Gelato Factory, Monday August 3rd. Doors open at 7:30pm.

 Admission is free!

Shamanic Living : A Celebration of the Circle as the Self with Alex Kugler and Madhu Anziani of One Fire Wellness at Samsara House 2023 -- Saturday, 08/29/2015

Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:22:31 -0400
Subject: Shamanic Living : A Celebration of the Circle as the Self with Alex Kugler and Madhu Anziani of One Fire Wellness at Samsara House 2023 8/29 1PM-4PM
From: wakeup@samsarahouse.org

You are invited to attend: Shamanic Living : A Celebration of the Circle as the Self with Alex Kugler and Madhu Anziani of One Fire Wellness Shamanic Living : A Celebration of the Circle as the Self with Alex Kugler and Madhu Anziani of One Fire Wellness  Saturday August 29th - 1:00pm - 4:00pm Another mind-blowing event at Samsara House 2023   Circle Limited to 14 people - A waitlist will be created in case someone cancels Tickets:  http://ShamanicJourney3.eventbrite.com  On visit from California, Shamanic Practitioner Alex Kugler returns to Samsara House 2023--this time with Sound Healing Artist Madhu Anziani--to offer another mind blowing experience of exciting self-exploration and adventure!      About this Event:  Are you tied of being controlled by your fear of the unknown? Are you hungry to find your own source of wisdom and guidance? Are you desiring more community and support on your path?   Join us for an exciting 3-hour workshop on the day of the Full Moon where we will gather in sacred community to deepen our connection with Self, other and the natural world. You will be initiated in the art of the Shamanic Journey where you will meet and interact with your personal Spirit Guides and Teachers. We will be making devotional music together and have ample time to speak our hearts, to be heard and held by the Circle. With the aid of the drum, deep listening, limpias (energetic clearings) and other Shamanic tools you will reconnect with your Spirit Family and experience the power of our human birthright - direct communication with Spirit. This workshop will include music, playfulness and profound depth.  It is appropriate for ages above 12 and all levels of shamanic understanding. Come share and be held in the re-membering of the circle as the self. Cost - $90 - $75   - $75 Earlybird On-line Ticket (until Sunday August 23rd at midnight) - $90 August 24th through Day of the Event  - $90 At the Door - Cash Only Items to bring: Journal and pen Sacred item (stone or ritual object) Rattle & Drum (if you have them) Water bottle Eye cover (not necessary)   About Alexander and Madhu Alexander & Madhu have been studying the healing arts for over a decade each and currently are apprentices in the Pachacuti Mesa Tradition.  Regularly holding ceremony in rhythm with the phases of the moon and offering healing sessions to clients all over the bay area, Alexander & Madhu are committed to rooting deeply into community and acting as catalysts and supporters for the birthing of the new paradigm.  Madhu's training in Sound Healing, Pranic Healing and Medical Chi Gong give him unique qualifications to work with those needing support, and Alexander's extensive work in Waking Down in Mutuality, WePractice, Rainbow Bridge Shamanic School, and Sound Healing harmonizes with Madhu's healing skill set.  And having just released their first album of ceremonial music, Alexander and Madhu bring to ceremony their years of musical study as professional opera singer (Alexander) and jazz musician (Madhu).  Their ceremonies have been described as an interactive shamanic revival. Alex with be available for private healing sessions.  Please contact him via email (alexanderkugler@gmail.com) or phone (917.755.3304)  * * * * *  Circle Limited to 14 people - A waitlist will be created in case someone cancelsTickets:  http://ShamanicJourney3.eventbrite.com Location Hosted by Samsara House 2023 36 R Street NW Washington DC 20001 Contact: 202-505-0735 E-Mail: wakeup@samsarahouse.org   Coming by Metro is advised.     Parking: 2hr Street parking on R Street NW, Best to park on Quincy, S Street NW or North Capitol Street.   Metro: NoMa New York Ave Red line stop or Shaw green line for a short walk, or get off at Chinatown and take the P6 to Randolph Rd Stop or the 80 to Lincoln and R Street NE Stop (both stops 1 block from R Street NW). Website: www.samsarahouse.org Twitter: @samsarahouse Facebook: facebook.com/samsarahouse Add Google Event Calendar/E-mail: wakeup@samsarahouse.org Shift Happens at Samsara House 2023 www.samsarahouse.org About Samsara House 2023, (est. 2013) *  "Samsara House 2023" at 36 R Street NW is an Awareness-based shared space where world-shifting communities are meshworked to expand each other's world-views and experience and spread that which is emerging.  Samsara House 2023 rapidly prototypes models for the new world to template upon and ignite a revolution in consciousness within ten years. Samsara House 2023’s strategy is to exemplify a gift-economy over the market economy, one that values giving over having. While all events cost at least one dollar to cover utilities, any additional contribution will go towards periodically giving half back to a socially responsible organization or cause in need that you also help identify. Going together as a river, we build a thriving community of communities and pave the way for a new world. Samsara House 2023 is a Holacracy powered organization founded by Cullen Kowalski at a row house in Bloomingdale, New Washington, D.C. You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller  Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Gandhi Join the Samsara House 2023 mailing list: http://samsarahouse.org                                                                           Samsara House 2023 36 R Street NW

Experience Awareness and Love of the Infinite, the Self, and the Other - A transformational workshop at Samsara House 2023 -- Saturday, 08-22-2015

Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 17:36:30 -0400
Subject: Experience Awareness and Love of the Infinite, the Self, and the Other - A transformational workshop at Samsara House 2023, Saturday, August 22nd 10:00AM - 12:30PM
From: wakeup@samsarahouse.org

You are invited to attend: Experience Awareness and Love of the Infinite, the Self, and the Other at Samsara House 2023, Saturday, August 22nd 10:00AM - 12:30PM   Experience Awareness and Love of the Infinite, the Self and the Other with Adrian Heizmann-Checa A transformational workshop at Samsara House 2023 * * * * *   Saturday 8/22/15 - 10:00AM - 12:30PM (please arrive early, starts promptly)     Group limited to 20 people.  A waitlist will be started in case someone needs to cancel.  Register Here: http://ExperienceAwareness2.eventbrite.com  (Please register and pay online before arriving.) About the Event:  Back for the second time, come and sit in a circle of awareness and love as we experience the Infinite, the Self, and the Other.  We will be holding space for each other to see and be seen as we share in pairs and in circle, practice authentic movement, open to an experience of high intensity sound, and create a personal practice to bring this experience with us into our lives, in all ways that serve.  All in service to all. Adrian Heizmann-Checa is an Awareness Creator, finding and sharing ways for individuals, couples, families, and groups to "Experience Awareness and Love of the Infinite, the Self, and the Other".    Since 1993, Adrian has experienced and shared practices taught by many remarkable teachers and organizations, including: Landmark Education, Pathways Institute, Butterfly Workshops, Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki, Recovery Programs, Sri Yoga, Indigo Light Institute, Transcendent Solutions, Inner Journey Seminars, and David Neagle.  Today, Adrian offers Awareness Coaching and Consulting, Voice Dialogue, Reiki Energywork, Reiki Bodywork, Yoga, and Meditation at A Healing Awareness. Recently Adrian began working in the field of recovery, and can provide Alcohol & Drug Interventions as well as Recovery Consulting and Companion services at Recovery Interventions. Cost:  - $25 Earlybird Online Ticket (by midnight August 18th) - $30 August 19th and after - $30 At the Door Group limited to 20 people.  A waitlist will be started in case someone needs to cancel.  Register Here: http://ExperienceAwareness2.eventbrite.com  (Please register and pay online before arriving.) Location Hosted by Samsara House 2023 36 R Street NW Washington DC 20001 Contact: 202-505-0735 E-Mail: wakeup@samsarahouse.org How to get here: Coming by Metro is advised. Metro: NoMa New York Ave Red line stop or Shaw Green line for a short walk (about 7 blocks from either metro), or get off at Chinatown and take the P6 to Randolph Rd Stop or the 80 to Lincoln and R Street NE Stop (both stops 1 block from R Street NW). Parking: Parking space is restricted to 2 hours on R Street NW.  Best to look for parking on North Capitol Street NW, Quincy NW or S Street NW.   Website: www.samsarahouse.org Twitter: @samsarahouse Facebook: facebook.com/samsarahouse Add Google Event Calendar/E-mail: wakeup@samsarahouse.org Shift Happens at Samsara House 2023 www.samsarahouse.org About Samsara House 2023, (est. 2013) *  "Samsara House 2023" at 36 R Street NW is an Awareness-based shared space where world-shifting communities are meshworked to expand each other's world-view and experience and share that which is emerging.  Samsara House 2023 rapidly prototypes models for the new world to template upon and ignite a planetary revolution in consciousness within ten years. Samsara House 2023’s strategy is to exemplify a gift-economy over the market economy, one that values giving over having. While all events cost at least one dollar to cover utilities, any additional contribution will go towards periodically giving half back to a socially responsible organization or cause in need that you also help identify. Going together as a river, we build a thriving community of communities and pave the way for a new world. Samsara House 2023 is a Holacracy powered organization founded by Cullen Kowalski at a row house in Bloomingdale, New Washington, D.C. You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller  Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Gandhi * * * * * Join the Samsara House 2023 mailing list: http://samsarahouse.org                                                                           Samsara House 2023 36 R Street NW

Street Sense: "Developers prepare to break ground at long-neglected park"

Click on the link to read the entire Street Sense article by Colleen Cosgriff:

Developers Prepare to Break Ground at Long-Neglected Park

by COLLEEN COSGRIFF

McMillan Park is a 25-acre parcel of land near the large medical complex that includes Children’s National Medical Center, Medstar Washington Hospital Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The Ward 5 site, which is bordered by North Capitol Street, First Street Northwest, Michigan Avenue, and Channing Street Northwest, was once part of a 92-acre Reservoir and Filtration Plant. The land has been unused since 1987.

The historic row houses across from the park have had the same view for decades: a chain link fence that was erected during World War II when the U.S. government feared someone would attempt to poison our water supply. The fence was built with the promise that it would come down, but it has remained a constant in the lives of the residents of the Bloomingdale and Stronghold neighborhoods.

Now, after 28 years, the Office of the D.C. Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) and partner developer Vision McMillan Partners (VMP) expect to break ground in 2016 on a long disputed redevelopment plan.

McMillan Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr, and built in the late 1800s as a public park. Olmsted designed the site to be part of the “Emerald Necklace,” the series of parks that surrounded D.C. The park was named after Michigan Senator James McMillan, who helped plan the park and reservoir as part of an city beautification project in the early years of the 20th century. The park was one of the first integrated parks in the city, and was enjoyed by both black and white families.

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tonight at Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church: EXPRESSions Open Mic -- a 4D experience through song, dance and spoken word

See this event announcement at Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church passed along by Bloomingdale resident Gwenn Bush-Hodge:

             

Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church Open Mic 2015 08 01 by Scott Roberts

tonight at Old Engine 12: @playitcool with djfacemusic and marnfinit

Tonight at Old Engine 12:

adrinkw/friends ‏@adrinkwfriends  Jul 25

Sat 8/1:: #playitcool #fromtheleftdc #westcoastparty w/ @djfacemusic & @MarcNfinit #Bloomingdaledc #DCEvents

11:24 AM - 25 Jul 2015 

adrinkw/friends ‏@adrinkwfriends  1h1 hour ago

#DCEvents #playitcool #fromtheleft w/@djfacemusic & @MarcNfinit #Bloomingdaledc #westcoastmusic

4:31 PM - 1 Aug 2015

the Bloomingdale Village Project seeking volunteer videographer and/or video editor

See this 08-01-2015 request:

The Bloomingdale Village Project is seeking a volunteer videographer and/or video editor to help with our Oral History Interviews as part of a grant from the Humanities DC Council. This is a volunteer position but there are some funds available to pay for equipment and editing costs. We plan to conduct about forty interviews. We could use one or multiple videographers, but are seeking one master editor (who could also be a videographer). The interviews will be conducted throughout August and September.

Please e-mail Horacio Sierra at horaciowrites@gmail.com if you are interested or have more questions. 

Open Houses in and around Bloomingdale scheduled for 08/02/2015

1901 4th St NW is a mixed use property on the market at $1,799,000. and open 1-4pm on Sunday

The featured property is located at 1901 4th St NW and is open Sunday from 1pm to 4pm.  The listing is represented by Jeffrey Jackson with Keller Williams Capital Properties.  You can find more information in the link below.

The list of open houses scheduled for Sunday in and around Bloomingdale can be seen here.  The same info can be seen in a map format here.

*Agents, to have your open houses included in this weekly post, please have them tagged in MRIS by 10am on Friday.  If you don't see your open house in the links, feel free to add in the comments.  Also, if you would like your open to be featured with a picture for this post, please e-mail suzanne at 10 square team dot com by 10am on Friday before the open.

Skanska/Jay Dee 1st Street Tunnel project makes the Washington Business Journal's "Construction Projects" list

The current issue of the Washington Business Journal includes a subscriber-content list of DC-area construction projects, ranked by estimated project cost.

Here is the link.

The Skanska/JayDee 1st Street Tunnel project in Bloomingdale is #18 on the list.

Construction projectsRanked by Estimated project cost

Locally Researched by: Carolyn M. Proctor, Washington Business Journal

 SUBSCRIBER CONTENT: Jul 31, 2015, 6:00am EDT

  

18

First Street Tunnel Washington, DC

$157 million

October 2013

March 2016

D.C. Water

Skanska/JayDee Joint Venture

visit Cafe Los Suenos today and tomorrow at Showtime Lounge

The Cafe Los Suenos Roasting Co. pop-up is back at Showtime Lounge today and tomorrow from 9 am to 1 pm.

Stop by!