Weekend Planner (Photos and Video)

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The weather forecast is promising a beautiful weekend and we have so many activities to choose from right here in Montgomery County. Take a drive to the country and visit artists at their studios in the Countryside Artisans Studio Tour, help clean up the environment at the Little Falls Watershed Alliance Cleanup or at Making the Patuxent Trash Free event (visit MyGreenMontgomery.org website to find more options), celebrate jazz at BlackRock’s Grace Kelly Quintet concert and so much more. Happy Spring!

Don’t miss Stone Ridge School’s 46th annual and final Used Book Sale today through Monday.

Here are some of our other weekend picks from the MyMCMedia.org calendar.

Friday, April 11

Atomic Mosquitos
Photo | Atomic Mosquitos

• Ride On Food Drive continues. Donate a can of food and ride free on the County’s Ride On bus service.
• Participate in Gaithersburg’s Make a Difference Day for the benefit of the environment.
• Stone Ridge Annual Used Book Sale from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Enjoy meeting artists and visiting studios in the Bethesda Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m.
• Bethesda Liteary Festival begins at 7 p.m. at various locations in Downtown Bethesda
• Olney Theatre’s new family musical Once on this Island at 7 p.m.
• Takoma Park’s Storytelling Series continues at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Center
• Local bands inlcuding Atomic Mosquitoes, The Yachtsmen, and Tru Fax perform at the Strathmore Mansion from 8 to 11 p.m.
• Rockville Musical Theatre’s The Great American Trailer Park Musical continues at Gaithersburg’s Arts Barn at 8 p.m.
• Other Desert Cities at the Silver Spring Stage at 8 p.m.
• Round House’s show Two Trains Running at 8 p.m. in Bethesda
• Round House’s Snow Angel at 8 p.m. in Silver Spring (closes 4/12)

Saturday, April 12

Grace Kelly
Photo | www.gracekellymusic.com

• Final day of the County’s Ride On Food Drive.
• Takoma Park Arbor Day Celebration from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Takoma Park Community Center.
• Walk through Historic Rockville in support of Multiple Sclerosis Society. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.
• Gaithersburg hosts an indoor baby bazaar at the fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Stone Ridge Annual Used Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Rockville Baseball Opening Day at Dogwood Park at 9 a.m.
• Help clean up the Patuxent River watershed at this event sponsored by the WSSC from 9 a.m. to noon
• BlackRock presents TreeHouse Shakers-Hatched for very young children at 10 a.m. and again at 1 p.m.
• The Bethesda Literary Festival begins with Children’s Story Time at Barnes & Noble. Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• The Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union’s annual paper shredding event includes digital and electronic media from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in their Silver Spring branch
• Take a ride in the country and visit open studios with the unique Countryside Artisans Studio Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Join Peerless Rockville on a guided walking tour of the Hungerford neighborhood at 10 a.m.
• Gaithersburg invites children ages two to six to “Things That Roll” at the Skate Park from 10 a.m. to noon.
• Help clean up the Little Falls Watershed, take the garlic mustard challeng from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at various locations
• Adventure Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book continues at 11 a.m., 2 and 4:30 p.m.. in Glen Echo Park
• the Puppet Co.’s Hanzel and Gretel continues at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Glen Echo Park
• Learn bicycle skills, safety and maintenance at Gaithersburg’s Bike Rodeo at Boher Park from noon to 2 p.m.
• Voter registration drive sponsored by Board of Elections at Chevy Chase, Germantown, Little Falls, Long Branch and Twinbrook Libraries from 1 to 3 p.m.
• Round House’s show Two Trains Running at 3 and 8 p.m.in Bethesda
• Olney Theatre hosts a family event to meet Sesame Street’s Alan Muraoka who is directing Once on this Island from 4 to 6 p.m.
• Enjoy Olney Theatre’s family musical Once on this Island at 7 p.m.
• It’s time to go out to the Ballpark for the Bethesda Big Train FanFest and Celebrity Classic from 5:30 to 10 p.m.
• Pianist Sungah Kim-Medwin will perform at the Montgomery College Recital Hall on the Rockville Campus at 7:30 p.m.
• Celebrate Earth Day around the campfire at the Croydon Creek Nature Center in Rockville at 7:30 p.m. Registration required.
• Enjoy a bawdy song concert and sing along at the Takoma Park Community Center at 7:30 p.m.
• Enjoy jazz with Grace Kelly at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown at 8 p.m.
• Rockville Musical Theatre’s The Great American Trailer Park Musical continues at Gaithersburg’s Arts Barn at 8 p.m.
• Rosa Lamoreaux and the National Philharmonic perform at Strathmore at 8 p.m.
• Other Desert Cities at the Silver Spring Stage at 8 p.m.
• Final day of Round House’s production of Snow Angel with shows at 3 and 8 p.m. in Silver Spring
• Fillmore presents Brother Ali at 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 13

Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux
Photo | Dvaid Rogers

• Final day of the Bethesda Literary Festival at various locations in Downtown Bethesda from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Adventure Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book continues at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Glen Echo Park
• the Puppet Co.’s Hanzel and Gretel continues at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Glen Echo Park
• Take a ride in the country and visit open studios with the unique Countryside Artisans Studio Tour from noon to 5 p.m.
• It is half-price day at Stone Ridge Annual Used Book Sale from Noon to 6 p.m.
• Voter registration drive sponsored by Board of Elections at Germantown and Long Branch Libraries from 1 to 3 p.m.
• Pitch in and pull invasive weeds at the Croydon Creek Nature Center from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
• Green Your Backyard information session at Croydon Creek Nature Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Pre-registration requested.
• Rockville Musical Theatre’s The Great American Trailer Park Musical continues at Gaithersburg’s Arts Barn at 2 p.m.
• Rosa Lamoreaux and the National Philharmonic perform at Strathmore at 2 p.m.
• Other Desert Cities at the Silver Spring Stage at 2 p.m.
• Rockville Concert Band will perform a young people’s concert at 3 p.m. in Rockville
• Round House’s show Two Trains Running at 3 p.m.in Bethesda
• Soprano Laura Choi Stuart and pianist Jeffrey Chappell perform at Sandy Spring Museum at 3:30 p.m.
• Come out to Boyds to see Washington Spirit’s season opener against the Western New York Flash at 4 p.m.
• Fillmore presents the Decibel Magazine Tour at 6:20 p.m.

For more things to do: see our Do & Go video calendar:

Please consider participating in our second annual “A Day in the Life of Montgomery County” event on April 22. Show us your Montgomery County.

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