Send announcements to The Loudoun Connection, 7913 Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102, e-mail to loudoun@connectionnewspapers.com or fax to 703-917-0991. Deadline is Friday, two weeks before the event. Photos/artwork encouraged. For more information, call Jennifer Lesinski at 703-917-6454.
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Kinderdance of Loudoun will offer a free dance demo day Wednesday Dec. 14, at the Broadlands Community Center. KinderTots, at 9 a.m., for 2-year-olds and Kinderdance, at 11:30 a.m., for 3- to 5-year-olds. RSVP to 703-728-7862 or e-mail KDofLoudoun@aol.com.
Sterling Annex Community Center, 22084 Shaw Road, is offering a hearth basket workshop with instructor Deborah Wells, Saturday, Dec. 17, from 9:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Open to ages 12 to adult. Cost is $28 for county residents and $42 for nonresidents, plus a $15 supply fee to the instructor. Preregistration required, call 703-430-6673. Must bring a bucket, towel, an awl or ice pick, scissors, pencil, tape measure and spring-type clothespins.
The Sterling Annex Community Center, 22084 Shaw Road, is offering several holiday classes for children 3-9, space is available in the stocking workshop, ornament and card making, graham cracker houses and gingerbread people classes. Call 703-430-6673 for dates and times.
Artist/cartoonist Andy Farkas will teach a four-day cartooning workshop for children aged 10-14. The workshop will run Tuesday-Friday, Dec. 27-30, from 9 a.m.- noon, at the Loudoun Academy of the Arts in Leesburg.
Students will develop their own characters as well as learn about design and production. Farkas will also work individually with students to teach them how to tell their stories and how to draw their comics, cartoons and caricatures. The cost of the workshop is $130 plus $15 supply fee. Advance registration is necessary.
The Loudoun Academy of the Arts is a 501c3 educational organization that offers fine art instruction, gallery exhibition space and studio art facilities. Visit www.loudounacademy.org or 703-777-8043.
In response to the rising incidence of childhood obesity, Inova Loudoun Hospital is conducting the research study, KidsLivingFit designed by Karen Gabel Speroni, Ph.D., R.N., study investigator and n