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November 20th, 7:30pm

3025 Floyd Avenue

Guest speaker

Lori Russell, VA Film Office’s Locations Manager

We are thrilled to have Lori Russell as this month’s guest speaker. Lori will be speaking to us about the VA Film Office’s location selection process and the Museum District.

As the Film Office Locations Manager, Lori supports filmmakers with a broad range of location needs throughout Virginia, maintains the office’s location library and coordinates the internship program.  She joined the team after ten years as a Key Assistant Location Manager and Scout for the film and television industry in Los Angeles, California.  She has worked on many projects including Rush Hour 3, Taken 3, Interstellar, Westworld and Loving. As a Virginia native and George Mason University graduate, she was excited to return home and start a new chapter here in the Commonwealth. During free time you can find her with her toes in the sand at the beach, stand-up paddle boarding, enjoying time with friends at new restaurants, watching the Pittsburgh Steelers and adventuring around the world with camera in hand.

This month’s guest speaker is beekeeper, educator and pharmacist Jody Conway. Jody is the owner of Uptown Girls Honey and the co-owner of Dandelion Springs Apiary. Jody will be speaking about scarcity of bees and what we can do in the Museum District to help repopulate.

For more information, please visit https://www.uptowngirlshoney.com

WHEN: Wednesday, October 16th @ 7:30pm

WHERE: 3017 Hanover Avenue

Please join us for our first meeting to kick-off the 2019 – 2020 year of the Museum District Women’s Club!

An evening of wine-tasting, conversation, delicious food, and a RAFFLE!  Members and non-members are welcome!!!

WHEN: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 7:30pm
WHERE: 2914 Monument Avenue

Our final meeting of each year is the Spring Potluck.  Please join us on Wednesday May 15th at 3009 Grove Avenue.  Please bring a dish to share with the group.  It can be anything- appetizer, dessert, entree, salad, big or small.  As always, we will provide the wine!!!

Growing up Gretchen was never a dancer, didn’t play sports, and wasn’t particularly athletic. She was a shy kid who was usually too scared to get involved with any organized activities. In high school she became more comfortable in her skin while also got really into running. Gretchen loved the time to herself to clear her head and jam out to her music. For years all she did was log miles, which ended up leading to an injury that forced her to seek out other forms of exercise. Although she had never been interested in group exercise, a dear friend of Gretchen’s finally convinced her to try barre, and it opened her up to a whole new world.

 

Not only did Gretchen love the physical challenge that barre brought but she loved the community of motivational women she was introduced to. From then on she made barre a priority in her fitness routine, and just continued to fall in love with everything about it. When Gretchen was asked to teach she reverted to her middle school fears thinking she could never try to lead a group of such strong women! What she learned was how supportive and encouraging they really were, and it made her want to give back to them. Gretchen has been teaching for over 5 years, and jumped on the opportunity to extend her vibe and reach into the City. She had zero hesitation of quitting her corporate life and plunging into the full time barre world, and every moment since opening the doors of City Barre has done nothing but validate that!

 

City Barre offers classes for all levels, both morning and evening, seven days a week, and is beautiful space (with a patio!) in Scott’s Addition.  To learn more about Gretchen, and her barre studio, please visit:  https://www.city-barre.com/

April 17th, 2019 @ 7:30 pm at 3017 Hanover Avenue

Kathi Lynn Austin is an internationally recognized expert on arms trafficking, peace and security, and human rights. She is founder and Executive Director of the Conflict Awareness Project, an international nonprofit that investigates, exposes, and brings to justice major arms traffickers, war profiteering networks, and transnational criminal operations that fuel war and conflict around the world.­ ­

For nearly 30 years, Ms. Austin has carried out original, precedent-setting and in-depth field investigations into the illegal trade in weapons, illicit trafficking operations, illegal resource exploitation, transnational crime and terrorism. She has documented conflicts spanning Africa, Latin America, East and Central Europe, and South Asia. Her work has been featured and she has been a guest expert on major media worldwide, including the New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, PRI and the BBC. In 2011, she was named the Arms Control Association’s “Person of the Year.”

Ms. Austin served with the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC and Liberia as well as Chief of the Joint Mission Analysis Centre for the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions in Timor-Leste and Burundi.

As a lead investigator, advisor and senior consultant, Ms. Austin has not only served with the United Nations but a broad array of multi-lateral institutions and non-governmental organizations, including the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, the Fund for Peace, and the Open Society Justice Initiative, where she currently serves as Senior Advisor for the Anti-Corruption Program. She has also served as visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley.

Ms. Austin’s dramatic investigative field memoir, due to be released by Random House, focuses on her 15-year personal and professional odyssey to bring Viktor Bout, one of the world’s most notorious arms traffickers, and other war criminals to justice.

An influential and accomplished public speaker, writer and filmmaker, she has presented at major fora and conferences around the world, and has contributed articles and op-eds in an array of top international publications and news media. Her award-winning documentaries include Killing Tradition: The Arming of Africa (2002); Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda (1997); and Africa: Environmental Degradation, Human Deprivation (1994). In 2012, she starred in A Short Film About Guns (winner, 2013 Tribeca Film Festival).

Please join us on March 20th at 7:30 pm at 3304 Hanover Avenue.

Morgan graduated from UVA with a degree in English; however, decided she decided to move to New York and attend the International Culinary Center (formerly the French Culinary Institute) where she was taught the essence and art of French pastries.

Armed with a culinary degree in pastries, Botwinick decided to move home to Richmond and worked at the Jefferson Hotel before venturing out on her own, selling baked goods at farmers markets and later setting up her own shop, Whisk, which is located in Shockoe Bottom and is known for its croissants.

When Botwinick first opened Whisk in 2015, she wanted to incorporate ice cream but decided to hold out for the right time and place. However, Whisk did allow her to play around with ideas and test flavors via the shop’s famous macaron ice cream sandwiches. In 2018, Botwinick found her ideal space, in the former Video Fan location on Strawberry Street.

Scoop opened in 2018 and offers both signature and seasonal flavors.  Click here for more info on Whisk and Scoop

February 20th @ 7:30 at 3010 Floyd Avenue

This year’s Progressive Dinner will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2019! Tickets are SOLD OUT.  Please contact Paige at alcornpn@gmail.com if you are interested in being added to the wait list.

Our January meeting we will be joined by guest speaker, Ali Greenberg, founder of The Broad.

The Broad is a workspace, social club and community center for women and gender minorities in Richmond’s Arts District – the first space of its kind in the state.

With a background in strategy at NYC ad agencies, Ali spent much of the last few years seven layers deep into Google – occasionally climbing out to advise Prime Ministers and CEOs on branding.

A lifelong traveler, Ali lived on four continents before calling Richmond home in 2017. Here, Ali has focused on making more space for women in our city as an in-clinic volunteer at Planned Parenthood, an intake counselor for the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, an advisor to female entrepreneurs, and a voter. Ali’s plan is to help create the new female-driven economy of Virginia, and she hopes to pet lots of dogs along the way.

See you on January 16th at 3009 Hanover Avenue, at 7:30 PM