Events - Month View

We are a fun group of game lovers, and we are learning this new one together. Come to watch or play. We welcome all levels. Register with Kate so you get updates on the locations and times. We also meet on July 15th.

Please join our email list to stay up to date with changes. With the weather heating up, class will begin at 8 am. In class, we continue to focus on breathing and taking in the surroundings. After a quick water and photo break, we will practice in silence to focus on the flow of the exercises. Classes meet this month on July 6, 20, and 27. For more information, email Kate Smith.

Please join the Gardening Crew at the Triangle on July 6 as part of our regular work to keep the garden looking beautiful and welcoming to people and wildlife alike. Note the earlier time in deference to the current heatwave and come prepared with hat, water and hand tools. There is no pressure to stay for the entire time, just join us when you can, even if just to share a word of encouragement!

Ever wonder about those restrictive deeds in some Bethesda homes that excluded Black and Jewish people from home ownership? If you are curious about how the pattern began in Northwest DC where the whites-only exclusionary design was perfected, visit Undesign the Redline exhibit with a BHV group at the Cleveland Park Public Library on July 9 for an hour and have lunch afterwards to talk further. The five descriptive panels include the history of practices and policies that undervalued Black property, displaced Black families, and had cascading negative effects on DC’s Black community economically, socially, and educationally in successive generations. What was done in Northwest DC was repeated around the country. The final panel challenges today’s citizens to invent ways to Undesign the consequences of what were once legal racial and religious exclusions.Come with questions and with stories. Watch this short video to learn more. Contact Caryn McTighe Musil if you would like to go on this Field Trip (cmusil@outlook.com).

We continue to meet at the Triangle Garden most Wednesdays and walk new routes in the neighborhood and sometimes beyond. To get on our walking list, please email Betsy Carrier. This list will notify the group of changes due to weather and any new walks. Walks this month are scheduled for July 10, 17, 24, 31. Note earlier start time–we are also looking for shady options!

Men’s Group meet up at Oaxaca at 4905 Fairmont, Bethesda. We are open to anyone joining our group. We catch up on current events, learn about cultural happenings, and find a variety of ways to connect with BHV. Come join us. We are the newest group. No need to register, but if you want to learn more or need more information, email Kate Smith.

Happy Hour at Guardardos at 4918 Delray, Bethesda. July 11 is in the middle of the festival of San Fermín so we‘ve decided to meet up and celebrate at Guardados. Red bandanas are recommended (wink wink). Happy Hour is a new group, and we welcome everyone to join this fun-loving group. Carpools available upon request. Register.

July 13, 6:30 - 8:00 PM - Front Yard Live Jazz and Sing-Along with Dessert - Village members Don Resnikoff and Fred Talcott and friends invite BHV members and neighbors to Front Yard Live Jazz, Sing-Along and Dessert. Music by the Perdido Jazz Small Ensemble. Walk on over and bring a chair if you wish to 5805 McKinley Street.

We continue to meet at the Triangle Garden most Wednesdays and walk new routes in the neighborhood and sometimes beyond. To get on our walking list, please email Betsy Carrier. This list will notify the group of changes due to weather and any new walks. Walks this month are scheduled for July 10, 17, 24, 31. Note earlier start time–we are also looking for shady options!

Book Group discusses An Immense World by Ed Yong - The Bradley Hills Book Group will meet on July 17 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm to discuss An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Register. This book provides a grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you see the world. The Earth teems with sights and textures, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. The author coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism and pulses of pressure that surround us. Register.

July 18, 2:30 - 4:00 PM - Coffee and Conversation with Judy Hanna. Ballet to a Stormy Daniels’ Turf (striptease/exotic dancing) to TikTok with Merrick Hanna. Judith Lynne Hanna, Ph.D., has been dancing since age 8 beginning with ballet and most recently dancing with her grandson, 18 year-old influencer Merrick Hanna on TikTok and YouTube. Her research beginning in 1963 focuses on dance as nonverbal communication. Her many publications focus on dance semiotics, education, healing (coping with stress), the performer-audience connection, sex and gender, children, politics, culture, and the brain (cognition, emotion, and movement). Since 1995 she has served as an expert court witness in 126 First Amendment and even murder cases related to striptease/adult entertainment in 29 states and D.C. with 58 attorneys. See www.judithhanna.com. Register.

July 20, 8:00 - 10:00 AM - Triangle Garden Work Crew. Please join the Gardening Crew at the Triangle for a final tidy up in preparation for our summer celebration on July 27 (see below). It will almost certainly be hot and humid so come prepared with a protective hat and water bottle, in addition to your favorite hand tools. If it is extremely hot, some of us may start earlier (7:00 a.m.) and/or finish sooner, or we may announce an alternate day. The same applies if rain and/or thunder are forecast. If you would like to be notified directly of any changes and are not already on our Garden Crew email list, please send a note to: BHVTriangleGarden@gmail.com

Help Feed The Homeless: Making Sandwiches For Bethesda Cares - BHV members asked what they can do to support other communities and as a way to give back. We will meet at a BHV member‘s home and make 150 sandwiches that Bethesda Cares will distribute to the homeless. This event is open to families in the neighborhood and members who have time to meet up and make sandwiches. After we finish making sandwiches, we will have time to socialize. BHV will buy the supplies and coordinate the program; we just need you to come and to make a small donation to cover the costs. Interested in helping others and working with your neighbors? Register by emailing Betsy Carrier.

July 26, 5:45 - 8:00 PM- Friday Nights in Bethesda - Juliet Lloyd Band. Join with other BHV members and enjoy the popular Bethesda Friday night concerts near the Woodmont Triangle area. Washington, DC singer and songwriter Juliet Lloyd Band. Look for Erna Silberstein who will try to save tables on Norfolk Avenue somewhere between St. Elmo and Cordell Avenues. Parking at the Cordell/St. Elmo Garage is a possibility. If desired, you can purchase beverages and food at some of the various restaurants in the area and bring them to our BHV table.

(Rain date July 28) - Family Day at the Triangle Garden: Art, Crafts, Wading Pools, and Sprinklers! Bradley Hills Village is partnering again with Huntington Terrace Citizens Association for a frolicking kid-centered event. Arts and crafts include among other things, painting more rocks for Bradley the Snake, making butterflies and caterpillars to hang from the Dogwood Tree in the Triangle Garden, and cooling off in wading pools or running through sprinklers. Both sides of Garfield Street will be closed between McKinley and Roosevelt Streets. Invite your neighbors and their children to cavort in this happy summer activity. Children should come with a bathing suit and a towel! Ginny Ingram-Wells and Caryn McTighe Musil, the point people for Bradley Hills Village on this event, could really use some help putting up flyers, planning, setting up, serving watermelon, helping with the art activities, or loaning your chairs and benches. Contact Caryn at cmusil@outlook.com.