Promoting and supporting Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium as an accessible community resource for all people to learn, engage, and be inspired by the wonders of science and the universe.
FOAP will bring its portable planetarium to: Spooky Mad Science
at the Patrick Henry Recreation Center
On November 30, 2025
FOAP will partner with Shirlington Public Libray at the
An Afternoon Under the Stars event.
We hope you were able to join us at the Arlington County Fair where we welcomed 1,377 people to 83 free shows on our portable planetarium. We also premiered our accessible planetarium headset. We were even featured in ARLnow!
Friends of Planetarium Public shows in Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium will resume on September 20 and 21. See the schedule for 2025-2026 shows here.