It’s that time of year again. Break out the cleats, flags, and pigskin – it’s football season! Join your fellow GW alumni in their third season of flag football. The season starts in late September, but the team is forming now. The first practice will be held September 10th or 11th on the Ellipse. If you are interested in playing, please contact Amit Shashidharan by September 9 at amitasd@fbw.com.

The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is proud to announce its first exhibition this fall, John Walker: Works on Paper 1990 – 2004. This exhibition is organized by The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, and is free to the public.

September 6 – October 30
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
Media and Public Affairs Building, 2nd floor
801 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20052

GW alumni are invited to get in shape through the Kukuwa dance workout, a high-energy dance class with African, Caribbean, and Latin influences offered weekly on GW’s Mount Vernon Campus. Classes are free to all GW students, faculty, and staff with a valid GWorld card. The cost is $5 per class or $40 for all 10 sessions for alumni and the general public.

September 14 – November 16
Wednesdays, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Parking is available in the Mount Vernon Campus parking garage (just inside the Whitehaven Parkway entrance) or visitors can take The Express shuttle service between the Foggy Bottom campus and Mount Vernon. For more information about The Express shuttle please visit their website.

For more information about the Kukuwa dance workout, please contact GW Recreational Sports and Fitness Services at fit4life@gwu.edu, or call 202-994-6251.

Join fellow Colonials for an end-of-summer happy hour at the chic Eleventh Street Lounge. The first 40 alumni to arrive will receive a free drink, compliments of the GW Alumni Association. Happy hour specials run until 8 p.m. and include half-priced martinis, half-priced Belgian beers, and $4 house wines.

Thursday, September 8
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Eleventh Street Lounge
1041 Highland Street
Arlington, VA 22201

Eleventh Street lounge is located one block from the Clarendon Metro. For more information, visit www.eleventhstreetlounge.com.

The GW Alumni Association is excited to announce the creation of the GW Entrepreneurs Roundtable, an interdisciplinary effort to bring faculty, students, alumni, and University administration together to advance the mission of entrepreneurship. The Roundtable seeks alumni, including entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, attorneys, accountants, and others who can help foster entrepreneurship among GW graduates.

Our first event is a brown bag discussion entitled Commercializing University Research and Development, featuring faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. This event brings together faculty, students, and alumni to discuss technology transfer and the creation of technology start-ups.

Thursday, September 8th
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Academic Center
Phillips Hall, Room 736
801 22nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20052

For more information on this event, please contact Tony Stanco at Tony@egovos.org. For more information about the GW Entrepreneurs Roundtable and how you can get involved, please contact Joe Bondi.

The United in Memory 9/11 Victims Memorial Quilt, a 16,000 square-foot quilt memorializing the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks, will be on public display at GW. The quilt includes more than 3,000 panels with personalized photos, love letters, patches, and drawings honoring individual victims.

United in Memory 9/11 Victims Memorial Quilt
September 9 – 11
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Charles E. Smith Center
600 22nd Street NW
Washington, DC 20052

This event is free and open to the public.

Are you planning to buy a home in the D.C. metro area? Curious to know if the real estate market is cooling off? What about interest rates? Then the GW Home Buying Seminar is must!

Join Anslie Stokes, BA ’01, of W.C. & A.N. Miller Realtors, and Mark Richards as they explain the ins and outs of finding an affordable home in Washington, D.C. Light refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, September 20
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Alumni House
1925 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20052

Please respond to this event by Wednesday, September 14, by calling 202-994-7429 or by clicking here.

All GW alumni are invited to attend the first program of the 2005-2006 season of The Kalb Report featuring a conversation with former CBS news anchor Dan Rather.

Monday, September 26
8 p.m.
National Press Club Main Ballroom, 13th floor
528 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20045
(Two blocks from Metro Center Station on the Red, Orange, and Blue lines)

For free tickets, please contact Matt Lindsay at mlinsday@gwu.edu or visit the GW Ticketmaster in the Marvin Center, 801 21st Street NW. For more information on The Kalb Report, please visit www.gwu.edu/~kalb.

Politics & Port is an opportunity for GW’s political junkies to discuss current events and the hot-button issues of the day. Join Chuck Todd, editor-in-chief of The Hotline, Washington’s premiere daily briefing on American politics, as he leads the inaugural Politics & Port. A light reception featuring port wine will follow the discussion.

Wednesday, September 28
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Alumni House
1925 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20052

Seating is limited for this program. To reserve your seat for this event, please click here.

GW and the FRIENDS Group invite you to attend this year’s block party. Each year GW works with the FRIENDS Group to host a large community celebration in the Foggy Bottom/West End neighborhood. This year’s block party will feature over 65 booths highlighting local groups, businesses, and organizations. The day will be filled with live music, children’s activities, face painting, a cooking demonstration, and more than 10 local restaurants serving their culinary delights.

Sunday, October 2nd
1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Eye Street Mall
Foggy Bottom Metro Station – between 23rd and 24th Streets NW
Washington, DC 20052

For more information, please contact Lina Musayev at linam@gwu.edu or call 202-994-3201.

The GW Athletic Department invites you for a day of golf at the 7th Annual Colonials Athletics Club Golf Tournament.

Friday, October 7
11 a.m. (Registration)
11:30 a.m. (Lunch)
1 p.m. (Shot gun start)
The Virginia Oaks Golf Club
7950 Virginia Oaks Drive
Gainesville, VA 20155

For more information on how to participate or to learn about corporate hole sponsorship, please contact Cara Esposito at csavino@gwu.edu or call 202-994-6650.