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The merry month of May is a great time to celebrate moms, Spring, the school year wrapping up in just a month, and the general wellness of the world!  Is there a better way to celebrate wellness than with a relaxing massage?  I don’t think so.

AND we have a special opportunity to get a massage and support our favorite teaching center for providing arts instruction to our elementary kids — Fillmore Arts Center!

In the month of May have a massage at The Spa Room, centrally located just below Tenley Circle on Wisconsin Ave, mention the discount code: Fillmore5, and you’ll get $5 off your massage and a $5 donation will be made to the Friends of Fillmore.

We will also be raffling off a free massage, so buy your tickets at the Spring Arts Show on Friday, May 11th.

Yes!  This coming Wednesday, March 28th is Fillmore Arts Center’s second dining day at ALL D.C. locations of HomeMade Pizza — Upper Georgetown, Spring Valley, and Logan Circle.

Time:  1pm (group lunch at the office??) to 9pm this coming Wednesday

The Payoff for Fillmore:

• Every large pizza, $5 goes to Fillmore
• Every salad, $2 goes to Fillmore
• Every order of breadsticks, $1 goes to Fillmore
• Every medium gluten-free pizza, $5 goes to Fillmore
• Every gift card purchase, 20% goes to Fillmore

Easy Ordering:  Order by phone or online anytime, and then go pick up on March 28th. (NOTE:  No Delivery for this offer!) Use this link to order online:  https://www.homemadepizza.com/our-menu.html?view=menu

Anybody who gets the above items on March 28th has their purchase included in the Fillmore donation, so tell all your hungry friends to go.  They don’t need to know about Fillmore, but just want dinner and love good pizza! 

Print a flier and post in your office, neighborhood, coffee shop, etc — anywhere there are eyeballs! Logan Circle flier ** Georgetown flier ** Spring Valley flier

Fillmore Arts Camp director extraordinaire, Sara Friendly, has been working to create a fun-filled, active, and artistic summer for your kids by hammering out this year’s camp structure and offerings.  As usual it should be a great time.  Also, you should realize what a bargain Fillmore Arts Camp is!  Camp fees for a three week session M-F from 9AM to 3:45PM break out to just $9.30 per hour and the After Camp, which goes until 6pm, comes to just $5.80 per hour.  Those don’t sound like Washington, D.C. prices for anything but a few lattes!

Keep an eye out for the revised brochure, which continues the new Fillmore branding with the new logo, typology, and color scheme, in your child’s folder from Fillmore.  Also, you can open pdf files of the brochure in the upper right-hand corner of this site.  We hope you like it!

Wondering what creative projects your kids have underway this Spring?  Come by for the Fillmore Arts Center Open House week, Monday, March 12th through Friday, March 16th, to find out what your pint-sized Picassos are up to!

Drop in the day your student is at Fillmore or any day in the week that works best for your schedule.  The Open House hours are 10 to 11 am and 1 to 2 pm each day that week.

As most Fillmore families know, this Friday is a short day for DCPS students.  So, have you been wondering what to do with your children that afternoon?  How about taking them to see their fellow students, third through fifth graders, perform dance, music, and drama?  (There will also be associated visual arts pieces on display too!)

This performance will be the culmination of the Journeys theme the children have been considering over the first half of the year.  The idea of journey is one of telling the story of one’s life and the experiences and situations encountered along this path.

The show will be at 3pm, Friday, January 20th, in the Hardy/Fillmore Auditorium.  Come support the work of our amazing Fillmore students and take a  journey of discovery!

Key Parent and Friends of Fillmore school rep, Tilman, has happily pulled from the archives an outstanding, student-created and produced video that captures the essence of what Fillmore Arts Center does for its students and how it operates.  Thanks to students from the following Fillmore classes, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2014, for your impressive efforts!  Pass this on to a friend and LIKE us on YouTube.

Fabulous Fillmore Video

The Winter Concert for 3rd to 5th grade Fillmore West students takes place next week! Yes, Monday, December 12 at 7 pm in the Fillmore/Hardy Auditorium.  We hope we have a strong showing of parent and community support.  You don’t need to have a child in the concert to attend.  You can give your child a sneak peek into what they’ll do in future years with Fillmore and help the whole family get into the musical spirit of the season.

The participating groups for the concert are Chorus (Ms. Daniel), Strings (Ms. Purdie), and Intermediate Band (Mr. Bowie).  Also, each group of performers will have an after school rehearsal at Fillmore; see the schedule below.
- Strings:  Dec. 9 from 3:30 to 6pm
- Chorus:  Dec. 7 from 3:45 to 5pm
- Intermediate Band:  Dec. 9 from 3:30 to 4:15pm

Those children who are performing are asked to wear black bottoms and white tops with dark shoes and should report to the auditorium at 6 pm the night of the show.