Blog Events Join Us Grants & Programs Latest PostsWomen In Networking – Feb 26February 17, 2020This is a free event. “More than just another networking group”. FRWRC WIN is open to all the women in our community. It was founded on the concept of women lifting each other up, through meaningful connections, opportunities to learn from one another and shared interests. We hope you will join us. Bring your lunch and business cards to share and a door prize if you like. Wednesday, Feb 26 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM 213 E Main Street (Open House-Meet in the Middle) Guest Speaker: Dr. Tess Hegedus Topic: Innovation in Education: How to Prepare Students to be Future Ready Dr. Tess Hegedus is the Dean of Instructional Leadership and Innovation at Randolph-Macon Academy. Dr. Hegedus’ experience spans the educational spectrum from elementary to higher education. She has created, developed, and fundraised for innovative educational programs and has led faculty to become both technically proficient and digitally savvy to promote instructional best practice. Her work at R-MA has been to build innovative programming such as the Pre-Professional Pathways and J-Term as a way to help prepare students to be future ready. In this talk, Dr. Tess Hegedus will share the innovative academic initiatives her team has put into place at Randolph-Macon Academy to help prepare our students for the future. She will discuss how schools and educators today need to set their sights on developing students holistically to be prepared for careers that don’t yet exist. Specifically, she will discuss key literacies needed for the 21st century, how to develop content and skills mastery, and how to cultivate creativity in all of our youth. https://www.rma.edu/ Thank You What Matters W2, Beth Medved Waller for being a FRWRC Gold Business Partner & for sponsoring this event: In late March 2016, we opened a new space on Main Street in the Middle of Main building. It is called What Matters Open House: Meet in the Middle” and will serve as a resource to our community. We will offer a wealth of real estate and community information, as well as cutting edge technology to learn more about listings, the buying process, and our local community attractions and resources. This space is for the entire community. We will open our doors to community groups to educate the public about the causes that are close to their hearts and also offer our space as a meeting venue to anyone in need of a local location. Helping our community grow and serve as a resource to our neighbors is "What Matters” to us.... Read more...Dare to Dream Breakfast – March 26February 17, 2020Click Toggle Arrow to view ticket options Breakfast Ticket $35.00 USDGuest Ticket with purchase of Full Price Breakfast Ticket $25.00 USDSponsor a Grantee $25.00 USD Online tickets available, or checks can be mailed to FRWRC, P.O. Box 1748, Front Royal, VA 22630. Questions or RSVPs can be directed to the office phone, 540-636-7007, or emailed to wrc@frwrc.org. Please join us in supporting these phenomenal women. We invite the community, members, non-members and friends to attend. The cost of this breakfast is $35 per person, which includes a plated breakfast and donation to the FRWRC. If you would like to bring a non-member guest, a guest ticket ($25) may be purchased when you purchase your ticket. In addition, please consider sponsoring a Dare to Dream Grant recipient to the breakfast ($25) Thank you! Thursday March 26 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM at Shenandoah Golf Club, 134 Golf Club Cir, Front Royal The 2020 Dare-to-Dream grants and Elaine Bromfield Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to Warren County women to follow their dreams. Members, non-members and friends are invited to attend. Reservations are a must and advanced ticket payment is preferred. Please RSVP by Friday, March 20... Read more...WomanGathering – February 20February 5, 2020This is a free event Please join us and other women looking to be inspired! WomanGatherings are informational and inspirational evenings intended to nurture the womanspirit in each of us. Guest Speaker: Rebecca Wilson Topic: Rooted Wombs Integrative healing; Soulful connection rooted in deep, loving presence 5:30 PM to 7 PM at OpenHouse 213 E Main Street, Front Royal FB LIVE @ 6 PM with host Eka Kapiotis Videographer: Jen Avery About Rebecca: Her passion is providing a nurturing, supportive and safe environment for women as they journey to rediscover Self and start living the fullness of their soul's essence through Holistic Pelvic Care and Integrative Energetic Medicine & Coaching. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.rootedwombs/ Email: rebecca@rootedwombs.com Website: http://rootedwombs.com Thank You What Matters W2, Beth Medved Waller for being a FRWRC Gold Business Partner & for sponsoring this event: Beth supplies this great meeting space. In late March 2016, we opened a new space on Main Street in the Middle of Main building. It is called WhatMatters Open House: Meet in the Middle” and will serve as a resource to our community. We will offer a wealth of real estate and community information, as well as cutting edge technology to learn more about listings, the buying process, and our local community attractions and resources. This space is for the entire community. We will open our doors to community groups to educate the public about the causes that are close to their hearts and also offer our space as a meeting venue to anyone in need of a local location. Helping our community grow and serve as a resource to our neighbors is "What Matters” to us.... Read more...2020 February Book CommentaryFebruary 5, 2020Groupius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Architecture has been a notoriously male and ego-dominated profession. Frequently the architect’s name alone is associated with prominent building projects while the armies of designers, engineers, and junior architects who made the project possible are rarely mentioned. Many of the most well-known architects – Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, and Philip Johnson – lived well into their 90’s and continued to jot down ideas on paper for their studios and students to complete while still taking the credit for the project. Women and minorities in architecture were often poorly treated and sadly overlooked. The heyday of modern architecture in mid-century Europe and the United States was a time when famous architects wielded their egos and powers recklessly. This era brought forth the angular and spare structures of glass and steel that are now common in most cityscapes. The book, Groupius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus, written by the seasoned design historian Fiona MacCarthy, reveals a very different way of working. The Bauhaus school, which laid much of the groundwork for architectural modernism, was, MacCarthy argues, fundamentally collaborative. Founded 100 years ago in Germany by Walter Groupius, the Bauhaus was arguably the single most influential modernist art school of the 20th century. Its approach to teaching, and to the relationship between art, society, and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and in the United States long after its closure under Nazi pressure in 1933. Unlike many modernist masters, Groupius was far more interested in community and education than in huge projects branded with his own name. Groupius designed a number of famous buildings – the Pan Am building in NYC, the Fagus Factory in Germany – but his true legacy was the talent he nurtured in others. The Bauhaus allowed artistic visions to flourish and became the ultimate art school. Women’s artistic endeavors were encouraged while argument was considered intrinsic to creativity. Groupius tells the poignant and personal story of the man whose vision for the Bauhaus influenced art education and schools worldwide. It also offers a fascinating look at the urges that drove European and American modernism that brought forth the architecture we know today with its emphasis on simplicity, primary colors, elemental shapes, and light filled and spare interiors. If you are a student of architecture or simply interested in architecture, this beautifully written and carefully researched book will be one you will want to read. Fiona MacCarthy, a former design correspondent for The Guardian and architecture critic for The Observer, she has curated exhibits at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London. MacCarthy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. She has received numerous awards and prizes for her nonfiction works on art and design.... Read more...
