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A $10,000 Grand Prize + local songwriters...want to be in the room? 🎤✨

We’re giving away 2 tix to the 10th Anniversary Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards at Strathmore on April 24. Hear original music from the DMV's top emerging talent live! 🎸🏆

Enter by noon on April 22: culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

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Tix giveaway in #MoCo 🎸🎟️

Two world-class guitarists, Aniello Desiderio + Zoran Dukic, are bringing a poetic, high-energy performance to Montgomery College’s Cultural Arts Center on May 3.

Want in? Enter here by April 17: culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

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#LocalVoices #FilmFestival #Documentaries #Filmmaker #ThingsToDo

Bethesda Film Fest is back for year 14! 🍿🎥

Featuring 5 short documentaries by local filmmakers tonight + tomorrow at Landmark’s Bethesda Row Cinema. It’s a weekend full of storytelling + community voices. 🎬✨

Details: bethesdamagazine.com/2026/04/08/s...

#CultureSpotMC #BethesdaMD #MoCo

If the algorithm brought you here, you’re welcome 🎨

New mural at the Twinbrook Community Recreation Center in Rockville

Mural by artist LaToya Peoples
📸 City of Rockville

#MoCo #PublicArt #Mural #Community

#CultureSpotMC #MoCo #ThingsToDo #FamilyFun #TYA #ChildrensTheatre #Giveaway

Jack really traded a whole cow for beans...but you can get these tickets with a simple "click". 🐮🌱

We’ve got a family 4-pack to see a puppet version of Jack and the Beanstalk on May 2! 🏰✨ Sensory-friendly with music + hand-crafted puppets. 🧶

🔗 Enter here: culturespotmc.com/giveaway/?mc...

Rose-Budd Home in Sandy Spring earns historic designation Members of the Budd family were founding settlers of several of the mid-nineteenth century free Black communities in the area.

A Sandy Spring landmark is getting its flowers 🌹📍

The Rose-Budd House just earned historic designation + tells the story of generations of middle-class Black life in the community.

📖 Read more: www.mymcmedia.org/rose-budd-ho...

Story via @mymcmedia.bsky.social

#history #MoCo #blackhistory

Congrats to the winners of @mcdotnow.bsky.social's 2026 ‘Heads Up, Phones Down’ Teen Video Contest! 🎉 👏

A great example of young people using creativity to raise awareness about safe driving + responsible phone habits among their peers.

🎥 Check out their work: mocoshow.com/2026/03/26/m...

#MoCo cinematic talent in Hollywood! 🎥

Zainab Azizi spoke with Bethesda Magazine about her journey to becoming a film producer, her latest big screen release "Send Help", working with acclaimed director Sam Raimi + more!

Check it out. 👉 bethesdamagazine.com/2026/0...

New art opening in #MoCo 🧵✨

Familiar Threads' opening reception is next Wednesday, April 1 at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery in #DTSS. It explores how family, culture, and personal history shape who we are.

Free + open to all.

RSVP: familiarthreads.eventbrite.com

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GIVEAWAY: Win 2 tix to Abbie Gardner at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn on March 28! 🎸✨

Abbie is a fierce dobro player + vocalist whose solo album DobroSinger reached #11 on the Billboard Blues chart.

Enter by March 19 to experience her top-notch picking + heartfelt vocals: culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

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#MoCo is turning 250! 🥳🎂

To celebrate, Montgomery History launched a digital timeline covering 250 years of local milestones. It’s a fascinating look at how our community has evolved through the centuries. 🗺️✨

Check out the full interactive experience: ➡️ montgomeryhistory.org/timeline/

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#Giveaway alert 🎸 Win 2 tickets to see the Volterra Project Trio on March 22!

This intimate guitar trio performs Mediterranean folk melodies, European impressionism, and cinematic scores full of expressive sounds worth experiencing. ✨

Enter by March 12: culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

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Strathmore Announces Spring Lineup of Free Bloom at Good Hope Concerts Strathmore has announced the return of its free Bloom at Good Hope Concerts series this spring at the Good Hope Neighborhood Recreation Center in Cloverly.

Free concerts? Say less. 🎶✨

Strathmore ’s Bloom at Good Hope Concerts series returns this spring with pop, soul, jazz, global traditions, and hip-hop at the Good Hope Neighborhood Recreation Center on select Saturdays from March - June.

Full lineup here: www.sourceofthespring.com/silver-sprin...

Heads Up, Phones Down ➡️ www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-PedSafet...

#PedestrianSafety #ArtsAndTransportation #MoCoStudents #TeenFilmmakers

#MoCo high schoolers have until Feb 28 to enter the Heads Up, Phones Down video contest. ⏰🎬

📱 Submit a 30-sec PSA about pedestrian safety for a chance to win prizes like a MacBook Air, Apple Watch, or $800!

🌟 Bonus: Students may earn up to 5 SSL hours just for entering!

Entry link below. 👇

#CultureSpotMC #MoCo #BethesdaMD #MoCoParents #KidsTheatre #MoCoEvents

🎟️ GIVEAWAY: Win a family 4-pack of tix to Good Morning, Good Night at Imagination Stage ! ☁️✨

This multi-sensory show is perfect for ages 1–4. Kids get to help "wake the birds" + "release fireflies" in an interactive daytime + nighttime adventure! 🐦🌟

Enter by Feb 25: culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

Note: Seated RSVPs are full but standing room is available.

#TakomaPark #LocalHistory #BookEvent #CultureSpotMC

Jason G. Green for Too Precious to Lose A moving and inspiring memoir from a former Obama White House staffer, about his rural Maryland family’s untold history, the merger of three churches—one Black, two white—and how a radical embrace …

Former White House staffer Jason Green will discuss his new memoir, Too Precious to Lose, at @peoplesbooktakoma.com in Takoma Park on 2/23. ✨📖

This book explores the "lost" history of the Quince Orchard community right here in #MoCo.

Check it out! ➡️ peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/too-pr...

Germantown’s Link to the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - The MoCo Show The Lincoln Assassination Connection, by Susan Soderberg of the Germantown Historical Society  If you’ve seen the movie The Conspirator you know that George Andrew Atzerodt (alias Andrew Atwood), was ...

Germantown, are you okay? 👀

We just learned this #MoCo town has a direct link to one of the biggest moments in American history. ☕️📜

The tea is piping hot + 160 years old! Read the full story: mocoshow.com/2025/12/17/g...

#History #GermantownMD #LincolnAssassination

🎟️ GIVEAWAY: Want to win a family 4-pack of tix to Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical at AdventureTheatre? 🍓✨

This funny, heartfelt show is the perfect "core memory" outing for the kids. Enter to see it! 🎭 ➡️ culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

#CultureSpotMC #MoCo #KidsTheatre #Giveaway #ThingsToDo

🎟️ GIVEAWAY: Ready to master the rhythm of Brazil? We’ve got 2 tix to EducArte’s Samba Dance Classes up for grabs! 💃🏽✨

Open to all levels—from beginners to pros. No auditions, no pressure just good energy! 🥁

Entry link! culturespotmc.com/giveaway/

#CultureSpotMC #MoCo #Samba #Giveaway