Name: Giant used book sale
Start: 2026-10-17T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Georgetown Neighborhood Library

Georgetown Neighborhood Library

5,000+ gently used books for sale. Hardbacks $4, paperbacks $2. Proceeds benefit library programs.

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Giant used book sale

5,000+ gently used books for sale. Hardbacks $4, paperbacks $2. Proceeds benefit library programs.

4,500+ gently used books in all genres. Proceeds go to library programs.

Local Event: Used book sale

Used book sale

4,500+ gently used books in all genres. Proceeds go to library programs.

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The Alexandria A Cappella Collective is excited to announce that registration is open for the ’26-’27 season of its youth chorus, Capital Force! Students learn barbershop from top educators and will perform locally and on the Barbershop Harmony Society International stage at Virginia Beach in February in the beautiful Sandler Center for the Performing Arts.Join the kickoff rehearsal

The kickoff meeting on October 18 includes voice placement, an informal audition, vocal warm-ups, and singing together. You will also learn about the season’s dates and rehearsal expectations. Interested singers are welcome to register and try the first rehearsal before deciding whether to join.
Who can join?
Capital Force welcomes singers in grades 7-12 from the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. Seventh graders are considered on a case-by-case basis with a recommendation from a parent and teacher.
Location and registration
Rehearsals take place in Alexandria. For participant safety, the exact rehearsal location is emailed to registered participants. Capital Force is supported in part by a grant from the Alexandria Commission for the Arts. Questions to info@aaccsings.org. For more information and registration go to <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/capital-force-youth-chorus/home" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sites.google.com/view/capital-force-youth-chorus/home</a>

Local Event: Capital Force Youth Chorus Kickoff

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Capital Force Youth Chorus Kickoff

The Alexandria A Cappella Collective is excited to announce that registration is open for the ’26-’27 season of its youth...

Fletcher's Cove

Join the Water and Wilderness Church community for a pre-Sunday service kayak trip at Fletcher's Cove.&nbsp;Bring your own kayak or reserve one from Adventures Unbound.<a href="https://www.waterandwilderness.org/events-1/pre-service-kayak-trip-2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>We'll have outdoor service immediately following at 5pm. Learn more on our site.&nbsp;We'd love to have you join us!

Local Event: Pre-Service Kayak Trip

Pre-Service Kayak Trip

Join the Water and Wilderness Church community for a pre-Sunday service kayak trip at Fletcher's Cove. Bring your own kayak or...

Penn Social

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “The Macabre Poe,” a look at Edgar Allan Poe’s most gruesome and horrifying works and what inspired them, with Amy Branam Armiento, professor of English at Frostburg State University, past president of the Poe Studies Association, and editor of two books on the acclaimed American author.&nbsp;
Stephen King has said that he and other horror writers are all “the children of Poe,” a reference to how they’re unable to escape his shadow. Although Edgar Allan Poe penned works in a long list of genres, including fantasy, detective fiction, and poetry, his most prominent legacy is as the master of the macabre. Over the nearly two centuries since Poe lived, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Masque of the Red Death” have haunted millions of readers.
Who, exactly, was Poe? Why does he remain as one of the United States’ best-known writers at home and abroad? Why do his works continue to resonate with readers more than 150 years after they were published?
Come hear such questions tackled by Amy Branam Armiento, a leading Poe scholar who edited More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe, co-edited Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision, and formerly served as president of an international organization that supports the scholarly and informal exchange of information on Poe’s life, works, times, and influence.&nbsp;
Professor Armiento will look at which people and events influenced Poe’s literary works. His troubled life included the slow deaths of his mother, brother, foster mother, and wife, as well as a problematic relationship with alcohol and a difficult relationship with his foster father. All shaped his relationship with death, horror, and the unknown.
She'll also look at how Poe’s horror tales laid the groundwork for the characters, circumstances, and other conventions of horror stories. We’ll explore how Poe shattered literary conventions of his own time by embracing lurid descriptions of violence, especially violence perpetrated between family members and loved ones. You’ll learn how Poe adapted conventions of the fairy tale to create his memorable, haunting tales, an aspect of his work that is hidden in plain sight.
The presentation will also include examples of evocative artwork used to illustrate editions of Poe's works. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-the-macabre-poe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Poe as depicted in a modern retouched version of a daguerreotype by Mathew Benjamin Brady. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: The Macabre Poe

Profs & Pints DC: The Macabre Poe

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Macabre Poe,” a look at Edgar Allan Poe’s most gruesome and horrifying works and what...

Monday, October 19, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
Step away from the demands of daily life and reconnect with yourself through the transformative practices of yoga, breathwork, and meditation. This immersive workshop is designed to help you cultivate greater awareness, reduce stress, and create a deeper connection between mind and body.
Through mindful movement, intentional breathing techniques, and guided meditation, you'll learn practical tools to support physical well-being, emotional balance, and inner calm. Whether you're new to these practices or looking to deepen your existing journey, this workshop offers a nurturing space to slow down, listen inward, and rediscover the wisdom that already exists within you.
Leave feeling grounded, refreshed, and empowered with techniques you can easily incorporate into your everyday life.
 Age group: 16+
8 Participants
$77
Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, pillow and anything else that helps you feel comfortable.

Local Event: Embodied Presence: Yoga, Breathwork & Meditation with Uyen Nguyen

Embodied Presence: Yoga, Breathwork &...

Monday, October 19, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
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Embodied Presence: Yoga, Breathwork & Meditation with Uyen Nguyen

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Medieval Monsters,” with Lilla Kopár, a professor of medieval literature and culture at Catholic University who teaches courses on medieval monster lore and Norse mythology.
Bar the door and clutch your sword. Profs and Pints is about to bring you a visit from the monsters that kept medieval people awake throughout long, dark nights.
Your guide in touring this menacing menagerie will be Dr. Lilla Kopár, an expert on early medieval England and Scandinavia who teaches Catholic University’s students about things that terrified in days of yore.&nbsp;
Dr. Kopár’s illustrated talk will explore the origins of medieval monster lore in the classical, biblical, and Norse mythological traditions. It also will give us a much more nuanced understanding of monsters, explaining how we don’t just fear them, but love them and badly need them in our lives.
Among the questions Dr. Kopár will tackle: What, exactly, is a monster? Where do monsters come from? Why do all cultures treat them as serving a valuable purpose?
She’ll discuss how monsters are highly functional constructs. They help us define who we are and who were aren’t, and to explain, structure, and control the world around us. They highlight differences and they mark cultural categories and boundaries—which they then trespass. We can project our fears onto them and then feel better when we confine and kill them. Without monsters there are no heroes.
We’ll encounter categorization-defying monsters that are a mixture of beasts or half beast and half human. We’ll spend time with famous literary monsters, including dragons, giants, and the monsters of Beowulf and the King Arthur legends. We’ll get to know monsters that found a place on old maps or the sides of cathedrals.
On the much darker side, we’ll learn how monstrosity was attributed to people who were somehow different—through disease, disability, or belief in another religion—often as a means of justifying their exclusion or persecution. Sometimes belief in monsters turned people into monsters themselves. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-medieval-monsters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: A gargoyle at England’s Magdalen College. (Photo by Chris Creagh / Wikimedia Commons.)

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: Medieval Monsters

Profs & Pints DC: Medieval Monsters

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Medieval Monsters,” with Lilla Kopár, a professor of medieval literature and culture at Catholic...

Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Early American Witch Hunts,” on the colonial hysteria that led to the tragedy of Salem, with Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland.
Salem, 1692: Two young girls living in the household of one of the town’s ministers are acting strangely and having fits. A doctor is summoned and tells the minister that his girls are suffering from the action of the Devil’s ‘Evil Hand’ upon them. News of the doctor’s diagnosis quickly spreads and confirms what many in town are already whispering: These girls are the victims of witchcraft. They have been cursed by witches living somewhere in Salem.
The notorious Salem witch hunts that resulted were hardly isolated incidents. Instead, they marked the culmination of anti-witch hysteria that had crossed the Atlantic with early colonists, inspiring laws banning witchcraft and the execution of accused witches elsewhere.
Learn in depth about witch hunts in the colonies from Dr. Richard Bell, a University of Maryland historian who has given terrific talks about the history underlying the Hamilton musical, Benjamin Franklin, the “reverse underground railroad,” and other subjects.&nbsp;
We’ll begin at the beginning, looking at what people in colonial America believed about witchcraft and how they carried out witch hunts to fight it. You’ll learn about the hallmarks of an American witch hunt and where else they had taken place.
Why is the 1662 outbreak of witch-hunting in Salem, a sleepy port town in Massachusetts, so well-known today? We’ll examine that infamous episode in depth, probing its most troubling corners and why that tragic episode claimed so many innocent lives. Among the questions Professor Bell will tackle: Did anyone face justice for their role in perpetrating this outrage? How have historians tried to explain the peculiar dynamics, impact, and legacy of what happened in Salem? (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/hc-early-american-witch-hunts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: From the 1869 painting “Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr)” by Thomas Satterwhite Noble (New York Historical Society Museum and Library / Wikimedia Commons).

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: Early American Witch Hunts

Profs & Pints DC: Early American Witch Hunts

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Early American Witch Hunts,” on the colonial hysteria that led to the tragedy of Salem, with...

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