KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY CONNECTED and ENGAGED
LFV's UPDATED DECEMBER EVENTS
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TUESDAYS 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22, 12/29. 10:00 am - Noon LFV Tech Tuesdays Unlock the capabilities of your iPhone, iPad, laptop, iMAC, MacBook! Sessions address issues, questions and/or problems raised by those in attendance. Basic to advanced levels welcome. To RSVP send an email to Bob: RFG1647@icloud.com
FOR LFV MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS ONLY
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2, 1:00-2:30
“A Conversation with Deborah Tannen” presented by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Deborah Tannen. Deborah, an internationally renowned professor of linguistics at Georgetown University is a frequent guest on national television and radio, including 20/20, The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC’s Today, and NPR’s Fresh Air and 1A. She has written for an been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, and Harvard Business Review, among many others.
Join Deborah Tannen as she discusses her just-published memoir, Finding My Father and reflects on how her father’s life mirrors the historic times he lived through. Deborah describes how writing this book forced her to question her assumptions about her father, her parents' marriage, and her own life. She also draws on insights from her many books to discuss how our ways of speaking can shape our relationships – and how our ways of speaking have changed, and changed our relationships, during COVID-19.
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In her newly published memoir, Finding My Father, Deborah traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell.
In addition to her groundbreaking communication research, Deborah is also the author of You Just Don't Understand, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years, the New York Times bestsellers You're Wearing THAT? about mothers and daughters and You Were Always Mom's Favorite! about sisters.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Sawbuck Salon
Discussion of financial topics as determined by the group. Hosted by Gabrielle Grunau
and Bill Grosshandler. RSVP by sending email to: bill.gabrielle@gmail.com
FOR LFV MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS ONLY
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THURSDAYS 12/3, 12/1 and 12/17 10:00 am - Noon LFV Tech Thursdays Unlock the capabilities of your iPhone, iPad, laptop, iMAC, MacBook! Sessions address issues, questions and/or problems raised by those in attendance. Basic to advanced levels are welcome. RSVP by sending an email to Bob: RFG1647@icloud.com FOR LFV MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS ONLY
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MONDAY DECEMBER 7, 2:00- 3:30 World War I and II Art. To honor Pearl Harbor Day, we are presenting a docent-led tour from the Smithsonian American Art Museum featuring World War I and II Art. Beginning with World War I and stretching through World War II, artists’ depictions of America during troubled times reflect a changing national identity. Come and explore these two conflicts and the time in between. Norman Rockwell’s and Abbott Thayer’s work will be shown along with the art of many others. Themes include the effect of the two Wars on soldiers and families, the Great Depression and WPA programs, and the World War II home-front experience. This event is a collaboration between Little Falls Village and Friendship Heights Neighbors Network.
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 and 15, 1:00-1:30 pm
Mindfulness Meditation with Stephanie Klein
Stephanie Klein will lead LFV's weekly meditation sessions during Anuka's absence. She is a certified professional coach and mindful emotional intelligence teacher of the Google born program Search Inside Yourself (SIY), building on 30 years of experience at Fortune 500 firms, with over a decade as Chief Marketing Officer. She is CEO and founder of Mindfire Mastery to help business leaders navigate challenges and change, so they catapult from functional to optimal. Stephanie specializes in being a creative catalyst so clients can accelerate or pivot their careers, connect more deeply to their authentic purpose and create even stronger resilience, productivity and impact without burnout. Learn more about Stephanie at mindfiremastery.com.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
RSVP: email info@littlefallsvillage.org & put "Meditation" in the subject line.
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 10, 1:00-2:30 PM "How We Have Understood the Universe" with Pierre Larroque
From the origins, women and men have looked at the night sky and wondered about it all. They observed the moon phases and the appearance of constellations at regular places and times in the night’s horizon (the Zodiac). The Greeks specifically recorded the consistent retrograde movements of five wanderers (“planets” in Greek) amongst all stars, which they strove to explain in an orderly earth-centered Universe. It is only early in the 17th century that Kepler described the solar system correctly, and late in that century that Newton published the laws which underpin not only the planets’ movements but all classical gravitational phenomena. It took Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century satisfactorily to synthesize and justify the laws of gravity, and numerous followers later in that century to establish quantum mechanics as the theory which explains what the basic constituents of the Universe are and how they behave.
Pierre Larroque will lead you through this extraordinary journey of discoveries, culminating with how certain we are of how the Universe was created in a Big Bang 13.79 billion years ago, and why it is today as we live it. Pierre Larroque obtained a degree in mathematics and sciences from École Polytechnique in Paris. After a master’s in economics and finance from Stanford University, he joined the World Bank to help fund natural resources (mining, oil & refineries, petrochemicals) projects in Emerging Markets. From there, and for the remainder of his career, Pierre held increasingly senior positions in corporate finance with leading global investment banks for natural resources transactions. Pierre has always been interested in, and studied, the history of Ancient Greece and the development of mathematics and philosophy.
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FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
12:45 Log-in recommended in order for the speaker to begin on time.
To request Sign Language Interpretation, Closed Caption or other deaf/hard of hearing services for library-
A Partnership Between Little Falls Village &
Little Falls Library of Montgomery County Public Libraries .
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 15, 2:00-3:00 PM 17th Century Dutch Art The 17th century in the Netherlands was a time of remarkable prosperity and artistic output. It has been estimated that between five and ten million works of art were produced during this period. This tour will give us a chance to step back in time and get a feel for what it was like to live in those days. The works we will see give us insight into Dutch culture and the specialties of the artists in a very competitive art market. Estelle Quain, a National Gallery docent and Friendship Heights Neighbors Network member, will lead us on this Zoom tour. This event is a collaboration between Little Falls Village and Friendship Heights Neighbors Network.
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 17, 1:00-2:30
"Edison, Einstein, Ellington, and Ernst: The Many Faces of Genius" with Dr. Michael Geselowitz.
Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Max Ernst, and Duke Ellington have all been described as creative geniuses. Yet, one was an engineer, one was a scientist, one was a visual artist, and one was a musical composer. This lecture will explore the meaning of creativity and genius by looking at the lives and work of four giants and others who have been given the title genius. Are invention, scientific discovery, and artistic production essentially the same human endeavor? What are the similarities and differences? If they are distinct activities, can the concept of genius somehow link them together, or is genius another idea that has different meanings in different contexts? Tune in to find out.
Our speaker, Michael Geselowitz, PhD is Senior Director of the IEEE History Center. Through an arrangement between Stevens Institute of Technology and IEEE, Geselowitz is currently Industry Associate Professor of History of Engineering at Stevens. Immediately prior to joining IEEE in 1997, he was Group Manager at Eric Marder Associates, a New York market research firm, where he supervised Ph.D. scientists and social scientists undertaking market analyses for Fortune 500 high-tech companies. Geselowitz holds S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and in anthropology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Harvard University. His research focus has been on the history and social relations of technology. He has worked as an electronics engineer for the Department of Defense, and he has held teaching and research positions relating to the social study of technology at M.I.T., Harvard, and Yale University, including a stint as Assistant Collections Manager/Curator at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
To request Sign Language Interpretation, Closed Caption or
A Partnership Between Little Falls Village &
Little Falls Library of Montgomery County Public Libraries
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ADMINISTRATIVE ZOOM-IN MEETINGS (M/V)
Wednesday 12/16, 7:00 - 8:30 pm: LFV Board Meeting
Monday 12/21, 1:00-2:30 pm: LFV Planning Committee
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MONDAY DECEMBER 28, 1:00-2:00 PM
Docent-led Zoom tour of the The Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art Nature, and Culture Exhibition at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum.
If the pandemic has you safely tucked in at home you can visit The Smithsonian American Art Museum from the comfort of your couch! Enjoy a Zoom Event: Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. The Smithsonian’s American Art Museum’s current exhibition reveals how Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) shaped American perceptions of nature and the way American cultural identity became grounded in our relationship with the environment. Humboldt was one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. And although he spent only 6 weeks in the United States his ideas continue to influence artists writers and politicians into the 21st century. On September 14, 1869, the centennial of Alexander von Humboldt’s birth was celebrated worldwide. In Pittsburgh President Ulysses Grant attended the celebrations together with 10,000 revelers who brought the city to a standstill, and there wasn’t a terrible towel in sight! Come and learn about the most famous man you may never have heard of. We won’t ignore the "elephant in the room" as we explore works by American artists in SAAMs collection as well as other international works on loan for this special exhibition.
FOR LFV MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS ONLY
Group size is limited! RSVP now to confirm your space. The Zoom login info will be sent to confirmed registrants
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Looking forward to sharing our events with you!
Lisa Rosenthal, Executive Director of Little Falls Village
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4701 Sangamore Road, Suite S-232
Bethesda, MD 20816
301-320-3267
info@littlefallsvillage.org
www.littlefallsvillage.org
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