Coming Up in Rockville
Friday, March 12
English Conversation Club
10:15 am at Rockville Library
The English Conversation Club, for new speakers of English, meets every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and Friday at 10:15 a.m.(in… (more)
Cuddle ups for pre-walkers
10:15 am at Rockville Library
Stories, songs, and rhymes for ages 0-12 months, with an adult. (more)
Résumé-Writing as Marketing Tool
1:00 pm -4:00 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
In today's competitive job market, only the best résumés lead to interviews that result in job offers. Is your résumé… (more)
Curry-Oke
9:30 pm at Spice Xing
Grab some friends and head to Spice Xing to sing the night away to your favorite tunes; enjoy beverages and… (more)
Saturday, March 13
Book Sale sponsored by the Friends of the Library, Rockville Chapter
10:00 am -2:00 pm at Rockville Library
On Saturday, March 13 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. the Friends of the Library will hold a huge book… (more)
Book Sale
10:00 am at Rockville Library
Gently used and a few new books for sale from 10-2. Children’s books, young adult books, fiction, nonfiction, books on… (more)
Barnes & Noble Jr. Storytime
11:00 am at Barnes & Noble
Saturday Adaptive Technology Sessions
1:00 pm at Rockville Library
Adaptive technologies are tools and gadgets that make it easier or possible for people with disabilities to use computers, read,… (more)
Preparing for Birth
1:00 pm -3:00 pm at Thrive Yoga
Pregnancy is an exciting time for family bonding! Preparing for childbirth may bring anxiety over the changes and discomforts that… (more)
Swan Lake, Acts III & IV, and Saturday Night Social presented by Rockville Civic Ballet
7:30 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
Swan Lake (Acts III & IV) and Saturday Night Social will be performed by Rockville's own Ballet company, for 2… (more)
Sunday, March 14
Broadman-Kaplan ECC annual Carnival and Raffle Extravaganza
10:30 am -2:00 pm at Tikvat Israel Synagogue
Join us for the Broadman-Kaplan ECC annual Carnival and Raffle Extravaganza. Bid on fantastic items including a week at an… (more)
Swan Lake, Acts III & IV, and Saturday Night Social presented by Rockville Civic Ballet
2:00 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
Swan Lake (Acts III & IV) and Saturday Night Social will be performed by Rockville's own Ballet company, for 2… (more)
150th Rockville History Lecture and Publication Release
7:00 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
Eileen McGuckian, local historian and preservationist, will speak about milestones in Rockville's History and launch the new book "The Sesquicentennial… (more)
Monday, March 15
Conversation Club
6:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Join us as we practice our English conversation skills in an informal setting. Lead by an experienced volunteer.
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Act it Out Kids Book Club
7:00 pm at Rockville Library
For children in grades Kindergarten, first and second grades. We will share stories and act them out. Please register at… (more)
American Sign Language Practice Club
7:05 pm at Rockville Library
Volunteer coaches will be available to help participants practice sign language. Basic knowledge of sign language is required. Registration is… (more)
Tuesday, March 16
English Conversation Club
10:00 am at Rockville Library
The English Conversation Club, for new speakers of English, meets every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and Friday at 10:15 a.m.(in… (more)
Managing Your Emotions at Work
6:30 pm -8:30 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
Managing your emotions doesn't mean denying their existence or ignoring them, but instead learning how to channel them productively. Learn… (more)
Twinbrook Book Club
7:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Join us every third Tuesday as we discuss the choice of the month.
Call the library to find out this… (more)
Rockville Chinese Book Discussion
7:00 pm at Rockville Library
This group meets the third Tuesday of each month. Books are available at the check-out desk. This month’s book is… (more)
Divorce Legal Seminar, Part I (non-child-related issues)
7:00 pm -8:45 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
Attorney-led overview of grounds for divorce, spousal support, property distribution, settlement agreements, choosing an attorney, and methods of dispute-resolution other… (more)
Wednesday, March 17
Barnes & Noble Jr. Storytime
10:00 am at Barnes & Noble
Baby Program
10:30 am at Twinbrook Library
Very short stories, lots of songs with musical instruments, chants, rhymes, and finger plays. Ages 0-24 months. (more)
Talking Book Discussion Group
11:00 am at Rockville Library
We will be discussing "March" by Geraldine Brooks(DB/RC 64617) in the Reader’s Cafe. The group meets the third Wednesday of… (more)
READ TO OUR DOG
4:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Katie our Reading Dalmation Dog loves to hear a good story!
Come read some of your favorites to her. She… (more)
Hooks and Needles
6:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Bring a friend and learn to crochet and knit, too! Bring your own supplies. Or if you already know how… (more)
Thursday, March 18
Conversation Club
10:00 am at Twinbrook Library
Join us as we practice our English conversation skills in an informal setting. Lead by an experienced volunteer. (more)
Poetry Club
4:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Join us as we read poems, learn how to write and tell poems, with guidance by Eve Burton, childrens’ librarian.… (more)
Spanish Conversation Club
6:00 pm at Rockville Library
Practice and improve your Spanish through conversation. Every Thursday, 6:00-7:30. (more)
African American Book Discussion Group
6:00 pm at Rockville Library
The African American Book Discussion Group of Rockville Library will meet in Meeting Room One, on the first floor and… (more)
Friday, March 19
Storytime for 2's and 3's
10:15 am at Rockville Library
Stories and activities for ages 2-3 with an adult. (more)
English Conversation Club
10:15 am at Rockville Library
The English Conversation Club, for new speakers of English, meets every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and Friday at 10:15 a.m.(in… (more)
Strong Interest Inventory
10:30 am -12:30 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
The Strong Interest Inventory is one of the most respected and widely-used career planning instruments in the world and is… (more)
Basic Interviewing Techniques
1:00 pm -3:00 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
It's important to know all the rulse of interviewing so you can get the position you're looking for. Learn what… (more)
Spotlight on Broadway 2010 presented by Musical Theater Center
7:30 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
The talented students of Musical Theater Center will entertain you with their annual revue of Broadway with song and dance!
Saturday, March 20
Cuddle ups for walkers
10:15 am at Rockville Library
Stories, songs, and rhymes for ages 12 to 24 months, with an adult. (more)
Barnes & Noble Jr. Storytime
11:00 am at Barnes & Noble
Family Storytime
11:00 am at Twinbrook Library
Join us for a storytime designed for families with young children. All ages welcome. (more)
SpringacominAsana Master Class with Susan Bowen
12:30 pm -2:45 pm at Thrive Yoga
A vinyasa class to open the body, mind and spirit to Spring!
Whether you feel it yet or not, after… (more)
Spotlight on Broadway 2010 presented by Musical Theater Center
2:00 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
The talented students of Musical Theater Center will entertain you with their annual revue of Broadway with song and dance!
Birds and Brew Campfire
7:00 pm -8:30 pm at Croydon Creek Nature Center
Join us for a campfire and beer tasting at the Nature Center hosted by Gilly's of Rockville which will include… (more)
Spotlight on Broadway 2010 presented by Musical Theater Center
7:30 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
The talented students of Musical Theater Center will entertain you with their annual revue of Broadway with song and dance!
Sunday, March 21
VisArts’ 2nd Annual All Kids Can Create Family Day!
12:00 pm -4:00 pm at VisArts at Rockville
Free family day open to all families and especially devoted to children with disabilities and their families.
This free… (more)
Spotlight on Broadway 2010 presented by Musical Theater Center
2:00 pm at Fitzgerald Theater
The talented students of Musical Theater Center will entertain you with their annual revue of Broadway with song and dance!
Monday, March 22
Conversation Club
6:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Join us as we practice our English conversation skills in an informal setting. Lead by an experienced volunteer.
(more)
American Sign Language Practice Club
7:05 pm at Rockville Library
Volunteer coaches will be available to help participants practice sign language. Basic knowledge of sign language is required. Registration is… (more)
Tuesday, March 23
English Conversation Club
10:00 am at Rockville Library
The English Conversation Club, for new speakers of English, meets every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and Friday at 10:15 a.m.(in… (more)
Communicating at Work with Tact and Credibility
6:30 pm -8:30 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
When you're overwhelmed or stressed, do you blow up or react with poise and professionalism. How well you communicate can… (more)
Divorce Legal Seminar, Part II (child-related issues)
7:00 pm -8:45 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
Attorney-led overview of legal and physical custody, visitation, child support, and health insurance. [Non-child-related issues covered in Divorce Legal Seminar,… (more)
Wednesday, March 24
Barnes & Noble Jr. Storytime
10:00 am at Barnes & Noble
READ TO OUR DOG
4:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Katie our Reading Dalmation Dog loves to hear a good story!
Come read some of your favorites to her. She… (more)
Hooks and Needles
6:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Bring a friend and learn to crochet and knit, too! Bring your own supplies. Or if you already know how… (more)
Relay For Life Spirit Night at Buffalo Wild Wings
6:00 pm -9:00 pm at Buffalo Wild Wings
All Families and Members of Rockville and surrounding Community
are invited to participate in a fundraising event on
Wednesday,… (more)
Loving Yourself as You Are: Building a Healthy Body Image
6:30 pm -8:30 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
Women are under pressure to measure up to certain unreasonable social and cultural ideas of beauty, often resulting in negative… (more)
Thursday, March 25
Conversation Club
10:00 am at Twinbrook Library
Join us as we practice our English conversation skills in an informal setting. Lead by an experienced volunteer. (more)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
10:00 am -1:00 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
The Myers-Briggs Type indicator is the world's most trusted and widely-used personality assessment tool. It can help you improve your… (more)
Joint Pain Seminar
1:00 pm at Rockville Library
Learn how to reduce or eliminate joint pain. Co-sponsored by Rockville Friends of the Library and Montgomery General Hospital (more)
Your Myers-Briggs Type and Your Career
2:00 pm -4:00 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
We'll discuss how your Myers-Briggs type can affect your career decisions and how your MBTI results can help you achieve… (more)
Magic Sack of Poetry
6:00 pm at Twinbrook Library
Using poetry with young children. Please call the library to register starting on March 11, 2010. (more)
Spanish Conversation Club
6:00 pm at Rockville Library
Practice and improve your Spanish through conversation. Every Thursday, 6:00-7:30. (more)
Rockville Library Book Discussion
7:00 pm at Rockville Library
This month’s book is Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford. Book can be picked up… (more)
Friday, March 26
StartRight Women's Business Plan Competition Deadline
at Rockville Economic Development, Inc.
2010 StartRight! Business Plan Competition Guidelines
This business plan competition for women is designed to give new businesses a… (more)
Building Self-Esteem for Work and Life
10:00 am -3:00 pm at MC-CFW Counseling & Career Center
Self-esteem is like good nutrition: the more of it you have, the healthier and stronger you are. This day-long workshop… (more)
English Conversation Club
10:15 am at Rockville Library
The English Conversation Club, for new speakers of English, meets every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and Friday at 10:15 a.m.(in… (more)
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THINGS TO DO IN ROCKVILLE
Live Music/Nightlife · Performing Arts · Movie Theaters · Sports/Fitness/Outdoors · Art & Photography · Music & Dance · Make Something · Workshops, Discussion Groups · Historic Places
Live Music, Entertainment
In summer, Rockville has tons of (mostly free!) outdoor music events, including First Friday Deck parties at The Rooftop above VisArts in Town Center and Concerts in the Square at Rockville Town Square Plaza.
Inddors, you can also enjoy live music at Potomac Grill every Friday and Saturday night, and Open Mic nights on Thursdays. Austin Grill also has occasional live music performances.
Another fun place to eat and listen to live music on weekends is Outta The Way Cafe. If you like a little country with your barbeque, you'll find both at Branded '72.
La Tasca, a tapas restaurant, features a live band every Saturday evening starting at 10pm, and flamenco dancers on Fridays at 7:30 and 8:30pm.
Performing Arts
Rockville has so many good venues for the performing arts, you won't know which one to choose on any given night or weekend!
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater is our local theater, and hosts performances by everyone from the Rockville Civic Ballet and the Victorian Lyric Opera Company to The Musical Theater Center, as well as special events like the Inauguration of the Mayor and Council and the annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference.
Glenview Mansion is right next door, also on the beautiful grounds of the Rockville Civic Center. The Mansion Conservatory hosts a Sunday Afternoon Concert Series on the first Sunday of each month.
Our local fabulous concert hall, the Music Center at Strathmore, presents artistic offerings in the Music Center including world-class performances by major national artists of folk, blues, pop, jazz, show tunes, and classical music. You can get there easily by taking the Metro to the Grosvenor-Strathmore station. The Mansion at Strathmore, on the same grounds, is home to more intimate artistic programs presented by Strathmore in the warm and acoustically superb 100-seat Dorothy M. and Maurice C. Shapiro Music Room, the Gudelsky Gallery Suite exhibition spaces, the outdoor Gudelsky Concert Pavilion, and outdoor Sculpture Gardens.
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, on the Rockville campus of Montgomery College, is another wonderful place to see plays, musicals, children's shows, and concerts.
In the summer, all sorts of concerts and events take place in the new Town Center Plaza, which is within walking distance of the Rockville metro station.
Gildenhorn/Speisman Center for the Arts at the JCC also has all sorts of concerts, dance and literary events, and an art gallery. The Kreeger Auditorium, Goldman Art Gallery, Kass Judaic Library, and the Weiner Judaic Museum host countless shows, concerts, exhibits, literary festivals, and classes each year.
Movie Theaters
There are three great movie theater complexes in the area.
Regal Cinemas, with 13 screens, is located right in downtown Rockville, next to Town Center. It's within walking distance of the Rockville metro station, as well as lots of restaurants and shops.
Further north is the Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg with AMC Loews Rio 18. Lots of restaurants and shops here too, and in the summer you can take a pedal boat out on the lake.
White Flint Mall in North Bethesda/Rockville includes AMC Loews White Flint.
Do It! Sports, Fitness, Outdoors
Enjoy the outdoors, get in shape -- Rockville has great parks, rec & sports facilities.
Croyden Creek Nature Center is a recent and welcome addition to the Rockville Civic Center grounds, featuring lots of classes and activities for kids. It's also, incidentally, a nice place to go for bird-watching, as the area behind the center has been allowed to grow wild and has feeders for all kinds of birds scattered in the trees on the periphery.
Another great outdoors place is the Meadowside Nature Center, with activities for all ages, summer camps, a planetarium and a nice place to hike.
If golf is your preferred outdoor activity, Rockville operates the Redgate Golf Course, ranked among the top 10 public golf facilities in the Washington metropolitan area by Golf Digest Magazine.
Fitness First is a popular place to work out, for people of all ages, as well as the recently-opened Golds Gym in Town Center.
Are you a martial arts enthusiast? Check one of the exhibitions of Ten Shin Ichi Ryu Martial Arts or one of the other Martial Arts Centers in Rockville.
The City of Rockville offers all kinds of sports classes, leagues, teams, and recreational facilities for practicing in the Recreation Guide.
For other local facilities, from swimming pools and batting cages to Rec Centers and the Rockville SportsPlex, see the Park & Recs page.
REI has periodic free introductory classes on camping, maintaining your bicycle, and the like, and of course, they also sell everything you need to go out and enjoy the outdoors.
Do It! Art & Photography
Several places in Rockville offer classes and workshops in drawing, painting & photography.
VisArts Rockville, which opened in a beautiful new building in Town Center in September 2007, offers drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography classes.
Montgomery College also offers classes in ceramics, drawing, jewelry, printmaking, and sculpture' at their Rockville campus.
Penn Camera offers classes on digital photography, SLR photography, RAW file editing, amd more at their Rockville store in Federal Plaza and other locations in the metro area.
Another good way to learn and practice photography is to attend one of the workshops offered by Washington Photo Safari.
Do It! Music & Dance
If singing and dancing are your thing, there are several places to learn and perform in Rockville.
MTC (The Musical Theater Center) offers classes in all kinds of dance and theater, as well as voice lessons. They put on several musical productions each year, and have two very talented ensemble groups (one for middle school and one for high school age kids) who perform locally and nationallly.
Montgomery College presents a very popular Summer Dinner Theater each year, which is the culmination of a college-level course that focuses on the production of musical theatre.
The City of Rockville Recreation Guide is the place to look for dance classes, from ballet to auditions for The Finest!, the City of Rockville's Youth Performance Troupe.
Rockville Civic Ballet, "one of the Washington area's most accomplished community-based ballet troupes," performs the holiday classic "The Nutcracker" every winter, and also perform a spring and summer production at F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater.
Do It! Make Something
Crafters, scrapbookers, jewelry makers: Rockville has classes and workshops for you.
Michaels and A. C. Moore both offer classes on all kinds of crafts, knitting, cake decorating, candy making, scrapbooking, and more.
Local fabric stores offering sewing and decorating classes include G Street Fabrics and Hancock Fabrics, in addition to their big selection of fabrics and sewing accessories. See the Fabric Shops page for a list of fabric stores in Rockville.
Accents Bead Shop offers classes on making beaded jewelry for beginning, intermediate and advanced students.
Do It! Workshops, Discussion Groups
Learn something new, discuss, get advice, enjoy the company of other Rockville residents.
Both Borders Books and Barnes and Noble have regular book discussion groups, and chances to hear and meet authors at the store.
The Rockville Library and Twinbrook Library also have all sorts of book discussions, for low vision readers, children, and various cultural groups, some with lunchtime meetings, some evening.
Both libraries mentioned above also have weekly or even twice-weekly Spanish Conversation Clubs and English Conversation Clubs, for people wishing to gain greater fluency in either. Check the Events calendar for date & time.
The Commission for Women Counseling and Career Center provides programs and services designed to help women with life and work transitions. It offers workshops on topics ranging from divorce and stress management to résumé-writing and finding the right job. In addition, the Center's professional counseling staff provides affordable, results-oriented counseling to individuals and couples on personal and work-related issues. A sliding fee scale is available to Montgomery County residents, based on income and family size.
Montgomery County CHADD offers monthly educational programs with local experts, support groups for parents and support groups for adults with AD/HD.
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital offers workshops on a wide range of health-related topics.
Check the list of other local non-profit organizations to find other opportunities.
Historic Places
Find out about the people who made Rockville what it is today.
Period tour guides make the Beall-Dawson House come alive for visitors.
The Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine next door is also worth a visit, if for no other reason than to make you glad you were born after the 19th century.
Other historic buildings in Rockville include the Pump House and the Cottage at Glenview Mansion (as well as the Mansion itself).
