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C�������� N��� � N���� Update on School Renaming Consideration Process The first of two public hearings on the renaming consideration for George Mason High School and Thomas Jefferson Elementary School will be held on Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. Community members who want to register to speak at the second hearing on Oct. 29 should visit bit.ly/schoolrenaming. Community members may also submit feedback via a survey on the website. The survey is open through Oct. 28. A timeline for this process, possible costs associated with a name change, and background on George Mason and Thomas Jefferson can also be found on the website. Questions may be directed to renamingquestions@fccps.org.
Creative Cauldron Holds Movie Premiere The Creative Cauldron is debuting an original movie in Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church) on Saturday, October 24 at 7 p.m. The movie, “Cinderella’s Dream: Movie Musical,” will showcase the Creative Cauldron’s acclaimed Learning Theater program that has
pivoted in the time of Covid-19 to create an original movie, complete with professional special effects and musical scores by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith. When Ella has trouble fitting in at school, she turns to her old favorite fairy tale for guidance — and falls in. But is this Cinderella the meek, marriage material she always knew? And are there somehow more stepsisters? The theatre group will be having a home town socially distanced premiere in the park to celebrate. Very limited tickets available. Learn more at creativecauldron.org/cinderellas-dream-movie. html.
F.C. Arts Crowns Winners Of Plein Air Festival Artists competed for over $4,800 in prizes at the socially distanced Falls Church Arts Plein Air Festival competitions on Oct. 17 at the grounds of Falls Church’s City Hall. The event featured 60 artworks created during the previous week by 23 artists who painted outdoor scenes around the city, and works completed by 14 artists during a three-hour “Quick Draw” competition that morning. The festival competition drew
SLIGHTLY LATE, but Saint James School Girl Scout Troop 1109 were the featured artist(s) at Art and Frame Falls Church’s FIRSTfriday event to start October. Special guests in Falls Church City Council member Phil Duncan (foreground, left) and Mayor David Tarter (center, wearing t-shirt). All the artwork sold, and the proceeds go to Smile Train, which provides life changing surgeries to children with cleft palates around the globe. (P����: C������� B�� R����) over 180 onlookers who cast votes for their favorite artwork, with Rajendra KC winning the $350 People’s Choice Award for his “Northside Social.” That same painting also won the $1,000 Rock Star Realty Group Artists’ Choice Award. The festival juror, Lynn Mehta, chose the remaining prize winners: “Farmers’ Market” by Rajendra
KC won the $1,250 Beyer Auto Group Plein Air Prize. The $500 Barb Cram Prize, awarded in honor of Falls Church Arts’ beloved past president, went to Jill Banks for “Pumpkins for Sale.” Robert Gilbert’s “West End Park” captured the $500 Kensington Prize, and Ingrid Matuszewski took home the $250 Young Group Prize for her “Step off the Beaten
Path.” William Hendricks’s “Isaac Crossman Park” and Tracy Burk’s “The Birch House” garnered $100 gift certificates from Falls Church Distillers and Solace Outpost, respectively. The June Beyer Art Quick Draw Prizes went to Jill Banks ($350, “House on the Hill), Tracy Burk ($250, “The Shed”) and Rajendra KC ($150, “Harris Teeter”).
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