Coming Up:

Get Ready for Art All Night 2023

Published on August 18, 2023September 12, 2023

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PAEMS Art All Night 2023-Friday, September 29

Mayor Muriel Bowser in partnership with the Pennsylvania Avenue East Main Street Pennsylvania Avenue East Main Street(PAEMS) will host the 3rd annual ART ALL NIGHT 2023 along Pennsylvania Avenue, SE on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023!!! Be sure to join us for live music, fashion, beauty, vendors, food trucks, musical performances and much more at three locations including:

FT. DAVIS PARK (3800 Pennsylvania + Alabama Avenue SE)

DC Dream Center / Southeast Whitehouse (2826 Q Street SE)

DINE ALL NIGHT @ HIGHLAND’S CAFE + GRILL (The Shops at Penn Branch )

Be sure to visit us at: paemsartallnight.org for all the updated artist listings, performance times.

SAVE THE DATE! Penn Branch Fall Meet-up: Happy Hour at Highlands Cafe and Grill, Thursday, October 5th

Published on August 17, 2023September 12, 2023

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Chef Moe Garay, Owner of Highlands Cafe and Grill

Come hang out with neighbors on Thursday, October 5th from 5:30-7:30PM at the Highland’s Cafe and Grill, located in the rear of Penn Branch Shopping Center. Also, be sure to thank our good friend, owner Chef Moe Garay and this amazing team for their donation to our recent community day and block party.

Don’t forget to wear your Penn Branch T-shirt!!

Penn Branch Community Holiday Gathering Tuesday, December 13th

Published on November 8, 2022November 8, 2022

Community Activities/Community Meetings/Penn Branch News/Ward 7

Penn Branch Community Holiday Gathering (2022)

Save the Date! Please join us on Tuesday, December 13th for our December holiday gathering /meeting. The meeting will be held in-person at the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church (lower level meeting space) from 7:00PM – 9:00PM. This will be our first in-person community meeting since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020.

New Officer Elections
Light Refreshments
Special Presentations
Music
Fellowship

More event details will be announced soon!

Community Kids Play Date, Saturday, March 19th

Published on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

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PBCA will host an informal Penn Branch Playdate at the playground so that families with children in the neighborhood can get together.

Join us at Pope Branch Park Playground from

Date / Time:

2:00pm. –4:00pm

Saturday, March 19

(Rain date: March 24)

Light refreshments will be served.

PBCA Officer Elections on Tuesday, Jan. 11th

Published on January 10, 2022January 11, 2022

Community Meetings/PBCA Leadership

At Tuesday’s meeting PBCA will hold elections for the following candidates and positions on our executive board:

POSITIONS

1st Vice President

2nd Vice President

Recording Secretary

Parliamentarian

Treasurer

CANDIDATES

Sarah Byun

Marie J. Fritz

Erica Nichols

Natiya Curtis

VACANT

Candidate Bios

Marie Fritz | Marie was born and raised in northeast Pennsylvania and has lived in DC for over 20 years. After college she participated in a one-year volunteer service program in New York in which she lived and worked in a homeless shelter for women and children. She has worked in community development, direct social services, evaluation, and low-income housing policy. Marie completed her PhD in government and politics at the University of Maryland and teaches courses on social policy, social science research, and U.S. politics at American University. She has served as PBCA Recording Secretary, since January 2021.

Natiya Curtis | Natiya grew up in the Eckington neighborhood of DC in the 1990s. She attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Spelman College, and Howard University School of Law. After law school she briefly practiced law in Philadelphia, but quickly realized there is no place like home. She is currently employed at the Social Security Administration (SSA) as an attorney. She has been a resident of Penn Branch since 2016. She has served has Parliamentarian, since 2021.

Sarah Byun | A resident of D.C. for nearly 20 years, I am more certain than ever that our capital is my favorite city in the world. I moved here from Kentucky after college, to complete graduate school (American University) and begin my career on Capitol Hill. While I’m grateful for those years working in the House and Senate, and then lobbying for medical associations, no job has been more fulfilling than parenting my two children. In addition to homeschooling my kids, I also work for an online meal planning company (www.cooksmarts.com), providing marketing and communications support, and managing special projects. My family and I are members of National Community Church. We enjoy walks around the neighborhood, traveling, hosting friends and family, dog sitting, and doing anything touristy in D.C.

Erica M Nichols | I currently reside and work in the Penn Branch Community. I moved to the DMV area from Tampa, FL, Go Buc’s, with my husband Brian Nichols and two dogs Callie and Bo Nichols. I’m a fine arts major with a BFA from the University of North Florida out of Jacksonville, FL and a MA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA. I’ve been married to my amazing partner and father Brian T. Nichols for 11+ years and we just added an addition to our family last year with our son who is 1, Sterling Silver Nichols. I currently teach at our community school Randle Highlands Elementary as an Art Teacher.

We heard about the great Penn Branch area through a student bike ride I volunteered for in 2015 and fell in love with the neighbors and the beauty of the mature natural landscape. We’ve been residents of Penn Branch since Aug. 2017 and look forward to making more joyous memories as the years pass.