Forest Hills Connection | News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
These self-guided tours offer a remarkable look at amazing architecture, and a chance to learn directly from the architects, designers and homeowners who create, build and live in these incredible spaces. Just imagine - "that house" that you drive by every day? A MA+DS Modern Home Tour is your chance to get inside and be […]
Exploring the Sky is an informal program that for over sixty years has offered monthly opportunities for anyone in the Washington area to see the stars and planets through telescopes from a location within the District of Columbia. Sessions are held in Rock Creek Park, in the field just south of the intersection of Military […]
The Van Ness Main Street Design Committee has selected three finalists for the Van Ness Public Art and Wayfinding project. The artists/artist teams will meet with the Van Ness community […]
The final summer concert of the summer at Forest Hills Playground's amphitheater. Pizza sales begin at 5:30pm, the music begins at 6pm. The artist is Big Hillbilly Bluegrass. Friends of […]
UDC is inviting the neighbors over for the Van Ness Neighborhood Social on Saturday, August 19th. From 11 to 3 p.m., the UDC Student Center (4200 Connecticut) is hosting what […]
Volunteer with the Rock Creek Conservancy and the National Park Service to help remove invasive plants from the trees and the ground in the eastern section of Melvin Hazen Park, a section of Rock Creek Park. Learn more at http://www.rockcreekconservancy.org/what-we-do/upcoming-events/2017-invasive-plant-removal-melvin-hazen-east-7-15-2017
Two embassy tours in DC will feature the embassies in our neighborhood. Passport DC, on May 6, starts at Van Ness and has four embassies on International Drive. On May 13, the European Union Open House has five embassies in Forest Hills/Van Ness area. Both tours are free. Of course food is a main attraction […]
Rock Creek Conservancy will host its 9th annual Extreme Cleanup on Saturday, April 22, with the goal of cleaning Rock Creek and its tributaries, the parks connected to Rock Creek, and the neighborhoods near Rock Creek where trash originates. This large-scale volunteer effort includes trash cleanups at more than 75 locations along the 33-mile length […]
The Carnegie Institution of Washington's Broad Branch Road Spring 2017 Neighborhood Lecture Series kicks off with Carnegie Science President, Dr. Matthew P. Scott. Scott will present "Jumping Genes: What They Mean for Evolution and Medicine" at 6:30 p.m on Thursday, March 16, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. Lecture Hall […]