AL WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS | October 20– 26
AL Campus New Academic Building Under Construction
AL Campus Announcement !!!
Please visit our AL Campus “NEW” Academic Building blog (http://blogs.nvcc.edu/alnab/ )for construction photos.
We will keep you posted on our AL Campus “NEW” Academic Building blog (http://blogs.nvcc.edu/alnab/ ), as we move into various phases of the project.
For more photos please follows us at the following:
Blog: http://blogs.nvcc.edu/alnab/
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Dawes Parking Garage Upcoming Repairs
AL Campus Announcement !!!
Traffic pattern will change leading into and out of the Dawes Garage effective Monday October 20, 2014 for repairs until completion. We are carrying out corrective repairs to the Dawes Parking Garage.
Follow new temporary Traffic signs and pattern if you plan to park inside.
We apologies for any inconvenience.
AL Campus Department of Operations.
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Time: Until repairs are completed
Location: Alexandria campus
Dawes Parking Garage
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Community Event !!!
Admission: $49.50
Robert Earl Keen is an American singer-songwriter and entertainer living in the central Texas hill country.
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Birchmere
3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22305
Phone: 703-549-7500
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MEC Exchange Workshops
AL Campus Event !!!
This workshop is aimed at increasing your knowledge about the admission process and empowering you to prepare for admission into our Allied Health and Nursing fields.
You must register for this workshop. Register here.
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Time: 9:30am – 11:00am
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room: 158
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Re-Thinking Reading Workshop
AL Campus Event !!!
Strategies for Effective Academic Reading (and myths about it):
Seven reading myths
Pre-reading skills
Backwards reading strategies
Effective reading tips
Conversations with your text
Hands-on activities and practice
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room: 158
Contact Information:
Name: Rachel R. Martin
Phone: 703.933.1422
Email: rrmartin@nvcc.edu
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Green Club Meeting
AL Campus Event !!!
Our campus environmental club is called the Green Club. We meet every Wednesday (except 11/26) at 1:30pm in Bisdorf 362-B. New members are always welcome. Even if you can’t attend meetings, you can attend events. Get on the mailing list: NovaAlexandriaGreenClub@gmail.com or like us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/NovaGreenAlexandria
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room 362-B
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Career and Majors in the Liberal Arts
AL Campus Event !!!
Faculty Discussion Panel- Hear from those who have found satisfying and rewarding careers with degrees in Economics, Political Science, Foreign Language and many other Liberal Arts areas.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room: AA-196
Contact Information:
Name: Marjorie Kinnaman
Email: mkinnaman@nvcc.edu
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Columbia University Information Session
AL Campus Event !!!
Columbia University representatives will be on campus to speak with prospective students.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 200pm – 4:00pm
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room: AA 262 B
Contact Information:
Name: Amira Al-Khulaidy
Email: aalkhulaidy@nvcc.edu
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Transfer Visit: Columbia University
AL Campus Event !!!
Columbia University will be coming to the Alexandria Campus to conduct an information session with students interested in transferring.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 200pm – 4:00pm
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room: 196
Contact Information:
Name: Amira Al-Khulaidy
Phone: 703.575.47001
Email: aalkhulaidy@nvcc.edu
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Community Event !!!
Admission: $45
The Marshall Tucker Band is an American Southern rock/country rock band originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina. The band’s blend of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country, and gospel helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Birchmere
3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria VA 22305
Phone: 703-549-7500
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Alexandria Campus Transfer Fair
AL Campus Event !!!
Over 60 Colleges and Universities represented! Come learn about admission requirements, majors available and financial aid opportunities at your transfer institutions!
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014
Time: 10:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Bisdorf Building, Phase III 3rd & 4th Floors
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Lecture by Frederick Downs Jr.
AL Campus Event !!!
The Alexandria Honors program and the Lyceum committee are honored to be hosting veteran and author Frederick Downs. Jr.
Frederick Downs Jr. is a veteran and the retired national director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service. He served with distinction in Vietnam as a combat platoon leader. Because of his service in Vietnam he earned the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with “V” Device for valor, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Gold Star, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, and four Purple Hearts.
In addition to having appeared on numerous television shows, Frederick Downs Jr. is also the author of three books, The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War; Aftermath: A Soldier’s Return from Vietnam and No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam. All are invited!
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Alexandria – Bisdorf
5000 Dawes Ave
Alexandria, VA 22311
Room: 196
Contact Information:
Name: Michael Amey
Email: mamey@nvcc.edu
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The NOVA Alexandria Band to play Halloween concert
AL Campus Event !!!
Admission: Free
Audience Members are encouraged to dress in Halloween Costumes for Prizes!!!!!!!
Spend a night listening to frighteningly good music at the 2014 “Spooktacular Sounds in the Haunted Hall: A Halloween Concert” at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Attendees are encouraged to come in costume.
The NOVA Alexandria Band will play a selection of music from various composers, including “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by Edvard Grieg, “Graceful Ghost Rag” by William Bolcom, “Godzilla Eats Las Vegas!” by Eric Whitacre, and “Hammersmith, Op. 52: Prelude and Scherzo” by Gustav Holst.
The band includes both NOVA students and community members. Lisa C. Eckstein, a music instructor at NOVA-Alexandria, will direct the band.
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014
Time:7:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Schlesinger Center
Contact Information:
Name: Lisa Eckstein
Email: leckstein@nvcc.edu
Parking: Beauregard Parking Garage
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Last Day to Drop with a Tuition Refund or Change to Audit -Second 8 Week Session
AL Campus Announcement !!!
Last Day to Drop with a Tuition Refund or Change to Audit -Second 8 Week Session
Date: Friday, October 24, 2014
Time: 12:00am – 11:59pm
Location: All NOVA Campuses
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Ghost & Graveyard Special Halloween Tour
Community Event !!!
Admission: $15/adults, $7/ages 7-17
For one night only, Alexandria Colonial Tours will end its special Halloween tour in the very room where one of Alexandria’s most mysterious women became a ghost. Weave your way through some of Alexandria’s most haunted locations hearing tales of this historic city’s past and end in the bedroom of the “Female Stranger” at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum. Tours will run every 15 minutes. Reservations are suggested and tickets can be purchased online or in person. Partial proceeds benefit Gadsby’s Tavern Museum.
Date: Friday, October 24, 2014
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
134 N. Royal Street
Alexandria VA 22314
Phone: 703-519-1749
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John Carlyle 1780 Funeral, Vault Visit and Historical Haunt Tour of Alexandria
Community Event !!!
Admission: $20/person; $30/couple; $10/child (ages 12-17); children ages 11 & under are free. Reservations are recommended.
In the middle of the American Revolution, Death visited Carlyle House during the fall of 1780 and claimed the life of town founder John Carlyle.
On Saturday, October 25th from 6 to 9 pm, step back in time and be a part of this historic funeral as you learn about mourning practices in Revolutionary War America. Visit the candlelit Carlyle House to view the coffin and pay respects to surviving family members. Then, follow your guide into the rarely seen underground vaults to learn more about spirits and legends of the 18th-century. Return to Carlyle House at 9pm to join a funeral procession to the Old Presbyterian Meeting House where a short 18th-century benediction and blessing will be held followed by a mock internment at John Carlyle’s lantern-lit grave in the cemetery.
Please call Alexandria’s Footsteps to the Past at 703-683-3451 to purchase your ticket: $20/person; $30/couple; $10/child (ages 12-17); children ages 11 & under are free. Reservations are recommended.
Located at 121 N. Fairfax Street in Old Town Alexandria, visit our website for more information: www.novaparks.com.
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2014
Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Carlyle House
121 N. Fairfax Street
Alexandria VA 22314
Phone: 703-549-2997
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New Dominion Chorale
24th Season – Handel: Acis and Galatea
AL Campus Event !!!
Tickets Required
Featuring finalists of the Washington International Vocal Competition:
Abigail Mitchell, soprano
Allan Palacios Chan, tenor
Matthew Hill, tenor
Jeffrey Tarr, bass
With Orchestra
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center, 4915 East Campus Lane, Alexandria, VA 22311
Website: www.vgmb.com
Phone: 703-426-4777
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