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Our knitting group meets the first Wednesday of the month at Woodridge library from 6-7:30pm. Do you already have a project you are working on but want a group to support your progress and to chat with while you work? Are you a beginner in knitting or crochet and want to learn? Join our Knitting group! We will have supplies to help get you started if you need them. Email programs@brooklandvillage.org or call (202)658-5958 if you have any questions or need help with registration.

Woodridge library presents, Civic Engagement Conversations, with a panel of guests that features our neighbor and member Laura Worby.

Join Bluebird Sky Yoga instructor, Steve Krzyzanowski, for a gentle yoga class! Beginners welcome and mats are provided free of charge. Masks optional.

Do you love board games? Join the Greater Brookland Intergenerational Village on Wednesday, June 12, from 6–8pm for a neighborhood “game night” featuring Scrabble, Yahtzee, Rummikub, and more for the adults. Your kids are welcome too! For the littler ones, we will have Sorry, Memory, and Connect 4.

This event is held at Right Proper Brewery on Girard Street. We’ll plan to play on the patio, but Right Proper has kindly offered to host us in the back production space if it rains. Bring a game of your own (or use ours), grab a drink, and have fun! Right Proper does not sell food but you may bring your own (Tastemakers or Menomale are both nearby options).

We meet the second Wednesday of the month!

Join Jacque Ballard, the president of the National Hand Dance Association, for a one hour Hand Dancing class at Green Valley‘s Community Room (basement level). These classes are for GBIV members and their guests, plus residents of Green Valley.

Village members are invited to stop by Barbara Burton‘s backyard anytime between 4:30-6:30pm to socialize over light refreshments and pick up your GBIV tote bag (that contains Village goodies).

Can‘t make this one? There will be other opportunities to get your bag. Please register so we know how many bags to have ready.

Join Bluebird Sky Yoga instructor, Steve Krzyzanowski, for a gentle yoga class! Beginners welcome and mats are provided free of charge. Masks optional.

Meet at Art Enables, gallery space on the bottom floor, for Art Class with Marja, our Village member and practicing artist. This month we will explore self-portraiture using graphite and text. Bring a photo of yourself to look off of. All materials provided!

Attention volunteers and members -- please join us for a fun village gathering at Kraken on Bryant St. NE from 6-8pm on Sep 27th. We will enjoy pickleball, ping pong, and giant Jenga, and each other‘s company (over drinks if you‘d like). We have reserved a pickleball court at Kraken on Bryant st. that also has a nice seating area to mingle while you wait for your turn to play. We are so thankful for our members and volunteers! Many of whom are both :)

What do our belongings say about us? Everything has a story, from the t-shirt you‘ve kept for decades, to the photo of your grandmother, or the container of baby teeth in your jewelry box. Bring an object to share during this grown-up Show & Tell. We‘ll explore, reflect and pass on a nugget of wisdom about life to the world. 

This is our forth Gardening Group workday. We will help a GBIV member do some manual garden work - weeding and prepping the yard for native plantings. We may divide plants too if it‘s cool enough. This informal group rotates between member‘s homes and helps each other with garden projects small and large. The address to this Brookland home will be shared with those who register.

Join us for a village outing to visit the Congressional Cemetery. We will participate in that Saturday‘s featured "Death Doula Days" program in the chapel, led by Death Doula, Laura Lyster-Mensh. This Saturday‘s topic is on yoga, breathing and the role and meaning of the corpse pose. Yoga instructor, Laura Gabisch, will also lead us in a bit of “chair yoga.” Village members - let us know if you would like to carpool. Pastries provided!