TranslateEvents & Public Meetings
| Date | Time | Event | |
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| Feb 18, 2025 | Tue | 7:00 PM | Historic Alexandria Resources Commission (HARC) In-person meeting |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Wed | 7:00 PM | Alexandria Archaeological Commission Meeting In-person Meeting |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Thu | 7:00 PM | Meaningful Conversations About Racism Join us as we resume our meaningful conversations that explore and celebrate the diversity of cultures and peoples in our area, address the attitudes and behaviors that still divide us, and seek remedies grounded in the recognition that we are one interconnected, interdependent human family. |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Fri | 7:00 PM | Vive Lafayette Wine Challenge To commemorate the Bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette’s February 21, 1825, visit to Alexandria, join us at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum for a France vs. Virginia wine challenge. Meet the Marquis de Lafayette, enjoy tavern games, listen to live 19th-century music, and taste twelve wines paired with heavy hors d'oeuvres and charcuterie. |
| Feb 23, 2025 | Sun | 11:00 AM | Specialty Tour: A Magical Apothecary Learn about the muggle botanical science that inspired the potions and herbology of Harry Potter's wizarding world on a tour of this 19th century apothecary, and make your own magical potion! Recommended for ages 8 and up. |
| Feb 23, 2025 | Sun | 4:00 PM | Choir of William and Mary Concert for a Cause The Choir of the College of William and Mary will perform a concert at Old Presbyterian Meeting House, 323 South Fairfax Street. Free with an offering to benefit two scholarships for the Alexandria Community Remembrance Project. |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Mon | 6:00 PM | Comprehensive Plan: Murray-Dick-Fawcett House The Office of Historic Alexandria is engaging with the community and stakeholders to create the Comprehensive Plan for the Murray-Dick-Fawcett House at 517 Prince Street. The Comprehensive Plan will provide a road map for the future use, interpretation, and preservation of the site. Presentation available virtually or in-person at The Lyceum. |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Sat | 6:00 PM | Tables of Conscience Book-Themed Dinners Back by Popular Demand! Tables of Conscience book-themed dinners to raise money for the 2025 scholarships in the names of Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas. Book: How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Thu | 7:00 PM | Lecture: Robert Colby Between Fort Sumter and Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands of men, women, and children through a persisting trade in enslaved people. These transactions had profound impacts on the enslaved, their lives and families, and the ways in which they pursued freedom during the war. |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Fri | 6:00 PM | Specialty Tour: A Toast to the Ladies! Specialty Tour: A Toast to the Ladies! This special tour and discussion will highlight the many women over the centuries associated with Gadsby's Tavern Museum. From Hannah Griffith, the first woman to operate a coffeehouse in the tavern, to the spearheading preservationist Rebecca Ramsay Reese. |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Sat | 10:00 AM | Storytime for Little Historians Dynamic storytellers use books written by and about African American people and other communities of color to engage with ages 5-8. |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Sat | 6:00 PM | Specialty Tour: A Toast to the Ladies! Specialty Tour: A Toast to the Ladies! This special tour and discussion will highlight the many women over the centuries associated with Gadsby's Tavern Museum. From Hannah Griffith, the first woman to operate a coffeehouse in the tavern, to the spearheading preservationist Rebecca Ramsay Reese. |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Sat | 7:00 PM | An Evening of Irish Music Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day early with The Irish Breakfast Band. Most Irish Breakfast Band performances feature 15 or more musicians, often several fiddles and flutes, a guitar or two, a drummer, a hammered dulcimer, banjo, pipes, and at least one vocalist. The band performs extensively in the Washington Metropolitan area at festivals and other events. ... |
| Mar 9, 2025 | Sun | 11:00 AM | Specialty Tour: Poisons at the Apothecary Museum Come explore the sinister side of medicine on the Apothecary Museum's Poisons Tour. This one-hour tour explores several different types of poisons, their historic uses at the Apothecary, and what we know today. Recommended for ages 18 and up. |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Tue | 7:00 PM | Traditional Music Series Concert Lunasa’s Colin Farrell and Dave Curley in Concert at The Lyceum. Curley is one of Ireland’s leading multi-instrumentalists and vocalists. Farrell has performed and recorded with an array of great musicians in Europe and the US, including singers and groups such as Mary Chaplin Carpenter, and is currently playing with the Ashley Davis band and Lúnasa. |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Sat | 10:00 AM | Women's History Walk Did you know Alexandria was home to one of the most revered female fundraisers of the American Revolution, or that President Woodrow Wilson sent an Alexandria woman on a mission aboard a U.S. battleship? If you have wondered how women helped put our city on the map, now is your chance to learn about them! |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Tue | 7:00 PM | Historic Alexandria Resources Commission (HARC) In-person meeting |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Thu | 7:00 PM | Meaningful Conversations: Loving Our Neighbors Join us as we resume our meaningful conversations that explore and celebrate the diversity of cultures and peoples in our area, address the attitudes and behaviors that still divide us, and seek remedies grounded in the recognition that we are one interconnected, interdependent human family. |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Fri | 6:30 PM | Specialty Tour: Midwifery Midwives did more than deliver babies! Explore the role, knowledge, and challenges of Midwives through the lens of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum and its collection of historic medicines and archives. Content note: this tour will cover the complex history around contraception, abortion, and miscarriage; recommended for ages 18 and older. Guests ... |
| Mar 22, 2025 | Sat | 6:30 PM | Specialty Tour: Midwifery Midwives did more than deliver babies! Explore the role, knowledge, and challenges of Midwives through the lens of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum and its collection of historic medicines and archives. Content note: this tour will cover the complex history around contraception, abortion, and miscarriage; recommended for ages 18 and older. Guests ... |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Sun | 11:00 AM | Specialty Tour: A Magical Apothecary Learn about the muggle botanical science that inspired the potions and herbology of Harry Potter's wizarding world on a tour of this 19th century apothecary, and make your own magical potion! Recommended for ages 8 and up. |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Fri | 7:00 PM | Tavern Games Night: Remember the Ladies! Cover includes tavern games and a themed presentation with the crowd-favorite jeopardy game. This month's presentation + jeopardy theme: Remember the ladies! Women's History month might be over, but Women's History never stops! |
| Apr 13, 2025 | Sun | 11:00 AM | Specialty Tour: Poisons at the Apothecary Museum Come explore the sinister side of medicine on the Apothecary Museum's Poisons Tour. This one-hour tour explores several different types of poisons, their historic uses at the Apothecary, and what we know today. Recommended for ages 18 and up. |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Tue | 7:00 PM | Historic Alexandria Resources Commission (HARC) In-person meeting |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Thu | 7:00 PM | Meaningful Conversations:Building Your Own Network Join us as we resume our meaningful conversations that explore and celebrate the diversity of cultures and peoples in our area, address the attitudes and behaviors that still divide us, and seek remedies grounded in the recognition that we are one interconnected, interdependent human family. |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Sat | 10:00 AM | Specialty Tour: A Magical Apothecary Learn about the muggle botanical science that inspired the potions and herbology of Harry Potter's wizarding world on a tour of this 19th century apothecary, and make your own magical potion! Recommended for ages 8 and up. |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Wed | 6:30 PM | ACRP McCoy Remembrance Alexandria Community Remembrance Project McCoy Remembrance at Roberts Memorial with a special guest speaker. |
| May 20, 2025 | Tue | 7:00 PM | Historic Alexandria Resources Commission (HARC) In-person meeting |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Tue | 7:00 PM | Historic Alexandria Resources Commission (HARC) In-person meeting |