Name: The Georgetown Garden Shop Book Signing - Libby Cameron
Start: 2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00

Please come sip, shop and visit with acclaimed designer Libby Cameron, author of Notes From A Decorator's Life.
Libby's book will be available for purchase and for signing.

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The Georgetown Garden Shop Book Signing - Libby...

Please come sip, shop and visit with acclaimed designer Libby Cameron, author of Notes From A Decorator's Life.
Libby's book...

The Georgetown Garden Shop Book Signing - Libby Cameron 

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<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “A Guide to Witches,” on the figure of the witch in history, legend, folklore, and fairy tales, with Linda Lee, lecturer in folklore and literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Get ready for something spellbinding: A look at various depictions of witches as reflections of ideas about female sexuality, independence, agency, and power.
Offering up this pre-Halloween treat will be folklorist Linda Lee, who earned rave reviews in previously giving this talk in other cities.
We’ll start with an introduction to witches from European folklore, fairy tales, and legends. You’ll learn how they’re generally portrayed as powerful, solitary, and defiant figures who can be either helpful or harmful. They may appear as mothers, helpers who aid heroes on quests, or monsters to be vanquished. They can represent a threat to the community by snatching children or by pilfering cows’ milk.
Individual witches who will be conjured up include the child-eating witch from Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” and Baba Yaga, the ambiguous witch of Slavic folklore who lives in a hut on chicken legs and flies around inside a giant mortar while clutching a big pestle. Lee contrasts such fictional depictions with the ideas about witches and witchcraft espoused by Christian demonological thought.
You’ll learn how witches are described by early modern sources like Malleus Maleficarum, the 15th-century treatise on witchcraft which also served as a witch hunters’ manual. Such texts presented witches as entirely malevolent figures who gain magical powers through a pact with the Devil (usually signed with menstrual blood). They depicted witches as using a special ointment that empowers them to fly to a Witches’ Sabbath to dance and perform demonic rituals.
You’ll see how such ideas were visually reinforced through engravings, woodcuts, and drawings, by artists like Albrecht Dürer, that depicted naked women riding broomsticks and dancing with devils.
You’ll come away with a better understanding of why witches are among the most versatile, notorious, and enduring figures from fairy tales and legends and remain an iconic part of contemporary Halloween traditions. Feel free to dress witchy if you wish. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-guide-to-witches" 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: From “Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath,” by 17th Century Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger.

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: A Guide to Witches

Profs & Pints DC: A Guide to Witches

Profs and Pints DC presents: “A Guide to Witches,” on the figure of the witch in history, legend, folklore, and fairy tales,...

Monday, October 26, 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
Discover the fascinating connection between your energy, emotions, thoughts, and overall well-being through an in-depth exploration of the chakra system. This workshop goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights and experiential exercises to help you better understand and balance your energy centers.
Together, we'll explore the qualities, strengths, and challenges associated with each chakra while incorporating affirmations, mantras, guided reflection, and simple practices that support energetic harmony. You'll gain a deeper understanding of how energy influences your daily life and learn ways to cultivate greater confidence, clarity, creativity, compassion, and personal empowerment.
Whether you're new to chakra work or looking to expand your knowledge, this workshop offers a meaningful opportunity to align with your highest potential and create greater balance from within.
Age group: 16+
8 Participants
$77
Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, pillow and anything else that helps you feel comfortable.

Local Event: Energy Alignment: A Journey Through the Chakras with Uyen Nguyen

Energy Alignment: A Journey Through the Chakras...

Monday, October 26, 2026  from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
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<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “The Haunted House,” on scary dwellings and their grip on us, with Brittany Warman, former instructor at Ohio State University and co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
The haunted house has long held a place in the imaginations of those who enjoy a bit of uncanny terror, posing the ultimate threat to security and normalcy. It’s where something familiar becomes strange and unsettling, even threatening. You initially might have thought you're safe—after all, you should be safe indoors—but you're not. Sanctuary and shelter have turned against you. The very walls trouble your dreams.
Come tour some of the most terrifying real estate ever imagined with Brittany Warman, who has earned herself a large and devoted following among Profs and Pints audiences with excellent past talks on folklore, fairy tales, and horror.&nbsp;
She’ll show you the fascinating folkloric, literary, and real-world history of the haunted house. She’ll leave you wondering about the creepy old places in your town with doors that you’re afraid to approach on Halloween, and she might even leave you eager to turn your own home into such an eerie dwelling.
She’ll begin by discussing the scary structures of fairy tales, such as gingerbread houses and Bluebeard's castle, exploring how the early stories told about them influenced the terrifying tales of Henry James' Bly Manor and Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher. She’ll consider the impact of haunted spaces on the Gothic and horror genres and explain why haunted houses are often so opulent and so decadent in their decay.&nbsp;
Among the questions Dr. Warman will tackle: What might the haunted house have to say about history, culture, and society? What draws us, again and again, to haunted houses, making us want to visit them, find their ghosts, and uncover their stories?
She'll conclude by examining how these tales still resonate today, in haunted houses both purportedly real and those decidedly fake, meant for shocks and thrills. Even Disney's Haunted Mansion ride will make an appearance. It’s a scary world after all. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-haunted-house" 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: An abandoned house near Pocomoke City, Md., in 2008. (Photo by Matt Trostle / Creative Commons.)

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: The Haunted House

Profs & Pints DC: The Haunted House

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Haunted House,” on scary dwellings and their grip on us, with Brittany Warman, former...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Digging Up Vampires,” on the origins and evolution of vampire beliefs, with Jordan Wilson, bioarchaeologist, skeletal biologist, and assistant professor at Georgetown University.
Hollywood has taught many of us that vampires are alluring undead creatures that drink blood, recoil from garlic and crucifixes, and turn to dust in sunlight. The truth, however, is much creepier.
Venture into DC’s Penn Social to learn what we know about real vampire beliefs based on research by archeologists, forensic scientists, and psychologists.&nbsp;
Dr. Jordan Wilson, who gives excellent Profs and Pints talks, will discuss how vampires prowled long before Dracula emerged from Transylvania.&nbsp;
You’ll learn how folkloric traditions from the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East spoke of fears of restless dead, nocturnal demons, and spirits that preyed upon the living. In later Europe, fears of revenants and vampires took on new forms as disease outbreaks swept through communities and the exhumed dead were seen as having undergone mysterious transformations.
Drawing on mortuary archaeology and paleopathology, Dr. Wilson will examine real graves of individuals believed to be vampires, their skeletons found with stones in their mouths, iron stakes through their bodies, or sickles across their throats to prevent them from rising. She’ll explore what these burials reveal about fears of disease, death, and social marginalization, and how modern anthropology can help explain the beliefs that created them.
We’ll also investigate how sleep paralysis inspired encounters with demons, how diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria contributed to vampire traditions, and how misunderstandings about decomposition convinced communities that the dead were feeding on the living.&nbsp;
You’ll emerge with an appreciation of how the real history of vampires is far stranger—and far more revealing of basic human fears—than the stories about vampires in popular culture. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-digging-up-vampires" 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: The skeleton of a suspected vampire buried with head between legs in Gliwice, Poland. (Photo by Andrzej Grygiel/EPA/Creative Commons.)

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: Digging Up Vampires

Profs & Pints DC: Digging Up Vampires

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Digging Up Vampires,” on the origins and evolution of vampire beliefs, with Jordan Wilson,...

Wednesday, October 28 th to November 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M.
Budget frames cost $200-$300 and high-quality frames cost $400-$800. For any artist, framing is always a pervasive problem and sometimes a crippling cost. Fortunately, with a little bit of knowledge and the right tools and materials, it doesn’t have to be you can build the highest possible quality frame for approximately $80. This class will cover everything from basic woodworking with hand tools to cutting glass to archival matting for artwork. By the end of this class, you will have a complete frame and all of the knowledge you need to make your own frames going forward.
Please note: Students will be expected to bring their own artwork to frame. Artwork must be under&nbsp;20” x 26”. The price of the class reflects the cost of artwork framed with UV protective glass.&nbsp;The maximum dimension frame that glass is practical is 24” x 30”.
If any artist is interested in larger, the price of class will be adjusted to reflect the cost of UV Plexi.
For classes, a syllabus: 4 Weeks
Week 1: Cut and Glue Frame stock.
Week 2: Finish Frame stock &amp; cut mat board.
Week 3: Cut glass, cut spacers, Cut strainer.
Week 4: Mount artwork, Cut Backing, &amp; Assemble frame.
Age group: Adult - beginner
Number of participants: max 3
Cost: $400
Required supplies:
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Supplies Included in the Price
Frame stock, wood, archival matt boards, UV protective Glass, wood, spacers, hand tools, power tools, wood finish, fasteners

Local Event: Frame it Yourself! Works on Paper with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

Frame it Yourself! Works on Paper with William...

 Wednesday, October 28 th to November 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M.
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Frame it Yourself! Works on Paper with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

1675 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007

Wednesday, October 28 to November 18 from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
Have you ever wondered how and why the impressionist painted the way they did?&nbsp;
Would you like to learn to paint like an impressionist yourself?
Around the turn of the 20th century, there were dramatic changes in the art world. Where previous generations of artists once favored rigid techniques and spending thousands of hours in studios glazing hundreds of layers of paint, now artists aspired to create more immediate paintings and tried to more directly capture the world they saw.
This class, meant for students at all skill levels, will start from the ground up teaching students how to mix colors like the impressionists and introduce students to various techniques that evolved in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
All supplies are included with the class as students will be encouraged to try out different paints, brushes, and other painting materials throughout the class.&nbsp;
Syllabus
Week 1: Basics of composition
Week 2: Blending Color
Week 3: Breaking down paintings into achievable steps
Week 4: Finishing Painting!
Adult, all skill levels
 Participants 9
$200
Supplies: All supplies included. Students will be provided with professional grade brushes, canvas, and paint

Local Event: Intro to Oil Painting: Alla Prima and Impressionism - Fall Session with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

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Wednesday, October 28 to November 18  from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
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Intro to Oil Painting: Alla Prima and Impressionism - Fall Session with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

Fairmont Washington D.C. Georgetown

Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown’s Canine Ambassador Georgie*, invites friends and neighbors to stop by with their canine companions for Fairmont’s 15th annual Howl-O-Ween.The event, takes place on Thursday, October 29 in the Courtyard Bar from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
Prizes, awarded at 7:00pm, are for best-costumed doggies with their people, including overnight stays, dinners and more. Local celebrity judges will award prizes for most creative, most adorable, funniest and honorable mentions.

Local Event: Fairmont's 15th Annual Howl-O-Ween

Fairmont's 15th Annual Howl-O-Ween

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