Community Calendar

The Jewish Community Services Memory Cafe is the 3rd Tuesday of each month at The Edward A. Myerberg Center, 3101 Fallstaff Road, Baltimore 21209. The JCS Memory Café offers a supportive and welcoming space for individuals with memory changes and their care partners. This is an opportunity to participate together to build support networks and engage in personal enrichment. Please join us for refreshments, conversation and meaningful programs. Contact Amy Steinberg at 410-843-7457 / [email protected] for more information.

TU composition students have written pieces for Whistling Hens, a duo comprised of TU clarinet professor Natalie Groom and soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick. Whistling Hens will perform the student works and provide feedback from the performer perspective. Guest composer Sonia Morales-Matos will provide feedback from the composer perspective.

This 3-part, in-person course covers using the free genealogy site FamilySearch.org to build a family tree (class 1), search historical records (class 2), and save family memories including images, documents, and audio files (class 3). Each class offers a 30 minute instructional presentation, and 90 minutes for students to work in FamilySearch with individual help from the instructor. Students may attend all 3 or only some of the classes. Use our computers or bring your laptop. Please contact us by email or phone/text to register. Space is limited.

This session will provide an overview of recent data related to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and discuss the American public’s current perspectives related to caregiving and treatment. We will explore the importance of maintaining brain health throughout our adult lives and the benefits of early detection, which can lead to improved health outcomes. Offers 1.0 Category I CEUs.

Sonia Morales-Matos, featured guest composer, joins the TU Composition Studio for a masterclass.
Sonia Ivette Morales-Matos is a Puerto Rican composer, performer, and educator who belongs to a family of distinguished musicians. Her compositions explore a wide variety of styles and genres such as chamber music, the concerto, choral music, Latin Jazz, pop, sacred and/or contemporary Christian, and Latin or Tropical music.

Harford County Public Library hosts So You Want to be a SFX Artist? on October 22 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Fallston Library, 1461 Fallston Road. Up your Halloween game by learning the fundamentals of special effects makeup. Materials will be provided. Each person participating (grade 9 and up) must register prior to the program at https://programs.hcplonline.org/event/14053623. The event is supported by the Fallston Friends of HCPL.

Join Morgan Herum and Steve Lannon for a calming 2-hour workshop designed to help you harness the power of your subconscious mind to reduce stress and ease anxiety through hypnosis.

In this experiential session, you’ll learn what hypnosis really is, how your subconscious shapes stress responses, and how to use a simple, step-by-step self-hypnosis method to quiet racing thoughts and create a sense of inner balance. You’ll experience a guided hypnotic session to promote deep relaxation and reinforce techniques for staying calm, centered, and present in daily life.

This workshop is perfect for anyone seeking a natural, empowering approach to managing stress and anxiety—whether you feel overwhelmed, tense, or simply want to deepen your resilience. You’ll leave with a practical skill you can use anytime to relax your body, calm your mind, and tap into your natural ability to restore peace within yourself. If you’re ready to feel lighter, more grounded, and more in control, this workshop is for you.

Open to ages 12+ (Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult—you do not need to take the class, but you must remain on the property for the duration of the workshop; no dropping off minors, please!).

Chairs are provided. Bring a yoga mat and/or blanket if you would like to lay down on the floor for the hypnosis portion.

DIY PD @City Neighbors is an emergent professional development opportunity, driven by the community of practitioners in attendance. At our DIY PD Sessions, we gather and connect - and have four short breakout sessions for you to choose from, with participants sharing a great strategy, a great question, or a problem of practice.

Come together, build community, share practice, get a new idea, share a problem of practice, or just keep innovating, broadening, and thinking.

60 powerful and efficient minutes of learning, connecting, and collaborating, followed by free dinner!

Join us for a discussion with the composer to learn about the works programmed for the concert later that evening. Bring questions of your own to participate in the Q&A.
Sonia Morales-Matos was the 2016 recipient of the Dr. Herman Hudson Alumnus Award presented by the African American Arts Institute of Indiana University for her excellence as an educator, performer, and composer. She is the June 2019 recipient of recognitions from the City of Santa Ana, the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and the Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana, CA, for her participation in the “Latino Masters Concert” as a composer, performer, and educator.

Mindfulness Meditation + Sports & Positive Psychology + Neuroscience + Group Coaching = mPEAK

mPEAK (Mindfulness, Performance Enhancement, Awareness & Knowledge) is a mindfulness training program for anyone seeking to achieve personal and professional goals, as well as attain new levels of performance and success. This cutting-edge training program is built around the latest brain research related to peak performance, resilience, focus, and “flow”.

The mPEAK program enhances the human capacity of mindfulness through established and empirically supported practices and exercises. Mindfulness is effective precisely because it is a way of being and relating to all aspects of life, rather than a specific technique or tool for a particular goal. As with physical training, this brain training program is based upon the understanding that optimal outcomes occur most often when participants continue to engage in the practices and exercises on a daily basis as a part of their training regimen.

This program was specially designed for athletes, first responders, leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, musicians, dancers, and busy professionals or parents who set big goals, face consistent challenges and stretch themselves towards excellence. mPEAK is appropriate for beginner and seasoned mindfulness practitioners alike. Previous meditation experience is not necessary to participate, but can facilitate a deeper learning experience.