Are you planning a trip to Richmond, VA?

We hope you enjoy our insider travel tips for Richmond. As avid travelers who base our work here we will share our expertise one of the best kept secrets in the country. Historically rich, creatively grounded, this is a city of artists, musicians, actors and innovators make things happen. Richmond is a great place to come home to. We welcome your comments and questions as we continue our journey.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen presents


The Legend of Johnny Cash

Philip Bauer has been recreating the music and live performance of Johnny Cash since 1985 and features the following top hits: “Get Rhythm,” “Man in Black,” “I Walk the Line,” “Ring of Fire,” etc.
  • Sat., Nov. 19 • 7pm
  • The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Road Glen Allen, VA 23060
  • $35

Tattoo You


Richmond Tattoo Arts Festival

Richmond is the third most tattooed city in the country. The RTAF will feature top tattoo artists, contests and a high percentage of hipsters.
  • Fri., Nov. 18 – Sun., Nov. 20 • 6pm
  • Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd Street
  • $20 for a day pass, $40 for a weekend pass, children under 12 are FREE

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond presents:


 47th Annual Richmond Craft and Design Show

Sixty artists from across the United States are represented in a variety of media: clay, wood, jewelry, metal, glass, mixed media, fiber, and wearable art. Ticket proceeds go to help the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
  • Sat., Nov. 19 – Sun., Nov. 20  •
  • Science Museum of Virginia
  • $12 – $15, or $20 for a weekend pass


The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents:


Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb

Over 100 objects related to death and burial are coming to town from the renowned Egyptian collection of the British Museum. The exhibition opens with a film narrated by Patrick Stewart, which shows the virtual unwrapping of Nesperennub’s mummy
  • Nov. 19 – Mar. 11 • Regular museum hours
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Boulevard
  • Free for VMFA members, $12 – $15 for everyone else

The Carpenter Center presents Joan Baez


Joan Baez

Fri., Nov. 18 • 7:30pm
Carpenter Theater at Richmond Center Stage, University of Richmond 

$10 – $50


    Saturday, October 1, 2011


    Time
    Friday, October 7 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

    Location
    Linden Row Inn
    100 E. Franklin St.
    Richmond, VA

    Sponsor

    More Info
    Join us for the artist reception of "Pushing Boundaries: Art as Metaphor in Love and War", 1708 Gallery’s latest satellite exhibition at Richmond’s historic Linden Row Inn. The reception will include a talk by the artists at 7:30 p.m.

    The exhibition features work in the following media by noted Virginia artists:

    Genesis Chapman, Bottom Creek, VA (ink drawings)
    Ed Dolinger, Roanoke, VA (mixed media paintings)
    Kris Iden, Charlottesville, VA (color intaglio prints)
    Greg Kelley, Richmond, VA (mixed media sculptures)
    and
    Joshua Poteat and Roberto Ventura, Richmond, VA (mixed media and installation).

    Pushing Boundaries is on view the Parlour Lobby and Dining Room of the Inn with the mission of showing contemporary art that complements and creates a bridge with the historic interior and unique architecture of the Linden Row Inn. For more information on our satellite exhibition program please visit this link:

    http://www.1708gallery.org/education-and-outreach/satellite-exhibitions.php

    Thursday, September 29, 2011

    NO BS live @ The Camel


    Time
    FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 
    9:30pm

    Location
    The Camel

    LIVENO BS! BRASS BAND! GLOBAL!!!!!

    How to toast Tennessee Williams 100th Birthday in RVA...


    The Richmond theater community created The Tennessee Williams Centennial Celebration to honor his legacy. If you missed the  screening of “A Sreetcar named Desire” at the Byrd Theater its not too late to toast Tennesse

     as programs run through October 22nd.
    The Firehouse Theater presents Pulitzer Prize Winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” the story of a dysfunctional Southern family with a dying patriarch, Big Daddy. It is dark, gritty and hilarious... with a few surprises for those who are familiar with the film version.
    If you missed the staged reading of “The Night of the Iguana”, one of Williams’ rarely seen works. at the Firehouse its not too late to catch the Richmond Triangle Players  production of “Suddenly, Last Summer” in their dramatic Scott’s Addition Theater. 
    The rare and autobiographical “Vieux Carre”,  can be seen on the Richmond Triangle Players stage on October 2nd while the film classic “The Glass Menagerie”, will be shown on October 4th and the 1976 screen adaptation of  “The Eccentricities of a Nightingale” on October 11th; featuring  Blythe Danner and Frank Langella.

    Visit the Tennessee Williams Centennial Celebration to learn more.

    Wednesday, September 28, 2011

    2011 RICHMOND SOLAR HOMES TOUR



    Time : Thursday, September 29 · 3:30pm - 9:00pm

    Location : Greater Richmond

    Organized
    by: 
    Virginia Solar Energy Association 

    Details: Learn About Conservation and Energy Independence at the 2011 RICHMOND SOLAR HOMES TOUR - both self-guided and guided tours of area homes and buildings with solar and sustainable features. The self-guided tour is Free, suggested donation for the guided tour on Thursday, September 29, 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

    Visit: http://www.VirginiaSEA.org/
    to learn more regarding locations.








    Monday, September 26, 2011

    7th Annual Richmond Zombie Walk October 29th


    Zombie Barry documented by the fearless photographer Scott Sayre
    Please visit this link to learn more about the two hour rain delay for the Zombie Walk!


    Date    Saturday, October 29th
               1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Location  
    Pre-walk meet up at Byrd Park (Boat Lake) is at 1pm and the actual walk will begin on the sidewalk in front of Kroger on W. Cary Street in Carytown immediately after. (About 2:30p)

    Queries
    Richmond Zombie Walk


    HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?

    Pre-walk meet up at Byrd Park (Boat Lake) is at 1pm and the actual walk will begin on the sidewalk in front of Kroger on W. Cary Street in Carytown immediately after . (Around 2:30pm)

    MAKE UP & COSTUME WORKSHOPS
    Visit the link above for date/time/locations for “How To” workshops, which are usually held locally the week before the main event.

    CONTESTS
    Prizes will be awarded at the pre-walk meet up!

    - Most Disgusting

    - Best Couple/Group Theme

    - Best Pop Culture Theme (TV/Movie/Comic/Gaming)

    - Best Zombie Kid

    - 2011 Zombie of the Year (Best Overall)

    ZOMBIE CAUSE
    All 2011 activities will benefit The American Cancer Society. Again,we won’t require anyone to make a donation, but if everyone can pitch in $5 each it adds up. Zombiewalk raised almost $1000 in 2010!

    ZOMBIE RULES MUST BE OBEYED IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE.
    The organizers of the Richmond Zombie Walk will not be held responsible for the actions of the event participants. By attending this event you agree to follow these rules. Your cooperation will ensure that this event continues for years to come.

    1) DO NOT touch anyone/anything (especially storefront windows). NO EXCEPTIONS. Yes, this means dripping.splattering blood, too!

    2) DO NOT attempt to scare anyone who is not a willing participant.
    If anyone is freaking out, turn and shamble in the opposite direction.

    3) NO walking out into the street or traffic

    Avoid creating more zombies - prevent accidents!
    Richmond zombies use crosswalks and obey the walk/don’t walk signs. it’s okay to break character to cross safely by using what little bit of brains you have left in your head, people.

    4) Any weaponry should be easily discernible as fake
    Keep bright obnoxious orange caps on the end of toys guns.
    NO REPLICA WEAPONS, the word replica implies “like the real thing”.
    NO PAINTBALL OR AIRSOFT GUNS. Not only are they dangerous, they are illegal to use in public areas. These are projectile weapons capable of inflicting serious injury. DO NOT BRING THEM.

    Police officers will be present. You have been warned.

    5) As fun as it would be, no part of your costume should squirt or project any liquid or objects

    6) No profanities
    We will most likely walk by many innocent children during the walk, no need to warp their minds any further than seeing the walking dead already will.
    Keep it in character, i’ve never heard a zombie drop the F-bomb.

    7) Ham it up!
    You’re wearing fake blood and ripped up clothes and walking around moaning in public, doing that louder will not be any more embarrassing.

    8) Walk like a zombie
    This is not a speed-walking event, zombies lurch, crawl, limp, slither, etc.
    Think more Romero zombie, not “run” zombie except for avoiding traffic. see #2.

    9 ) Stay in character
    Zombies do not truly have the motor or cognitive abilities to operate a camera or cell phone. We have plenty of people who will be documenting the event, so please try to refrain from taking pictures during the actual walk. There will be time before the walk to take photos and/or vids. also, zombies don’t have conversations or text their friends. They’re dead, they’re all messed up.

    10) Stay on public property
    DO NOT go into stores or other private properties. stick to the sidewalk.

    11) Have fun
    Come up with a theme and stay in character as much as possible. it’s a celebration of a great time of year, moan like you mean it!


    Visit http://richmondzombiewalk.com for all the gory details..

    Wednesday, September 21, 2011

    Hotel X celebrates 19 years at the Crossroads!



    Location

    Time
    Friday, September 23 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm


    Hotel X turns 19 this month. Still not old enough to drink, but able to serve our country... and all the countries/cultures/peoples of the world we can, by blending their influences into a delicious fresh tossed salad! Mighty happy to add some crawfish to it with SPECIAL GUEST, our former drummer extraordinaire, direct from New Orleans and endless gigging w/Crescent City legends, Chris Davis, making his bold return to Richmond to kick off our 20th year.

    Sunday, September 18, 2011

    OUR YASU / installation and collaborative works by Jiha Moon and Rachel Hayes @ ADA Gallery


    OUR YASU
    installation & collaborative works by
    Rachel Hayes & Jiha Moon


    September 17 - October 29, 2011
    wednesday - saturday noon - 5pm.


    ADA gallery is pleased to announce new collaborative works by installation artist Rachel Hayes and painter Jiha Moon. Jiha's gestural marks and seductive imagery are painted on, and embedded in, Rachel's sculptural panels that are sewn from fabric and Korean mulberry paper. Rachel's use of shiny swatches of colorful fabric contrast nicely with Jiha's soft fuzzy brush strokes as they attempt to tame the wild beast they envision their collaboration to be. Yasu means "Beast" in Korean, therefore "Our Yasu" is a tribute to their team effort.


    With separate studios in Kansas City, Brooklyn, and Atlanta, there is a great deal of negotiation and compromise necessary as they construct and deconstruct work before meeting face to face onsite to create their installations. Hayes and Moon have been working together since meeting in 2007 at the Art Omi residency in New York. Their first collaborative effort, "Outflow" was featured in the group exhibition "More Mergers & Acquisitions" curated by Stuart Horodner at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2009. They followed this with a large work entitled "Chutes and Tears" at The Lab Gallery in New York last April, a grand landscape of fabric and paint which unfolded and revealed itself as one walked past the corner window gallery. This work featured the use of recycled blue jeans, which were collected, shredded, often bleached, and reassembled into curtain-like forms creating cascades and shelters. For their exhibition at ADA gallery, the team will site specifically re-install "Chutes and Tears".


    Jiha has finished her recent project with The Fabric workshop and Museum and was in four person show at The Fabric workshop and museum in Philladelphia this past spring 2011. Rachel had her fellowship exhibition at Saint-Gaudens national historic site in Cornish, NH in 201o and is getting ready for her one year residency at Mary Walsh Sharpe foundtion in Brooklyn this September, 2011.


    This is Jiha and Rachel's third collaborative exhibition and debut exhibition at ADA gallery as a team.
    for more information and images contact
    john pollard at info@adagallery.com

    ADA gallery
    228 W. Broad St., Richmond, Va 23220
    804.644.0100
    www.adagallery.com














    Friday, September 16, 2011

    TONITE: Steve Earle @ The National


    Time
    Friday, September 16 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm

    Tickets   Ticketmaster outlets, nattickets.com, and The National box office

    Location

    More Info
    STEVE EARLE and the Dukes
    (and Duchesses) featuring Allison Moorer
    Friday September 16th @ 8pm

    Steve Earle's 2004 album, The Revolution Starts Now, which features several songs relating to the Iraq War, was deliberately released to coincide with the run-up to the 2004 US presidential election, with the aim of encouraging votes for John Kerry.[18] The song "The Revolution Starts Now" was used in the promotion of Michael Moore's anti-war documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 and appears on the album Songs and Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11, the songs for which were selected by Moore. The song also opened Earle's weekly Sunday-night show on Air America Radio

    VCU DANCE Presents BALLET HISPANICO


    Time
    Friday, September 23
    Saturday, September 24
    8:00pm

    Location
    The Grace Street Theater
    934 W. Grace St.
    Richmond, Virginia

    Tickets
    $20/$10 students and may be reserved at www.showclix.com
    More information at 804-828-2020.

    More Info
    BALLET HISPANICO is a New York-based company that explores, preserves, and celebrates Latino cultures through dance, Ballet Hispanico will perform a new work by renowned choreographer Ronald K. Brown, which will explore the intersection of the African and Latino Diasporas in the Caribbean and Latin America. VCU Dance will also offer a community master class with Ballet Hispanico on Saturday morning, September 24, 2011, hosted by the Richmond Ballet.

    Reserve tickets online at http://www.showclix.com/ or
    Call 804-828-2020 for details.
    934 West Grace Street
    Richmond, Virginia
    Phone: 804-828-2020 Fax: 804-827-0154
    Email: jbware@vcu.edu

    The presenting program of VCU Dance is committed to building and engaging dance audiences in the University and Richmond community while providing opportunities for artists to present and create work. Funding for the 2011-2012 season is graciously provided in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; and the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project.

    Free Film Screenings at The Visual Arts Center of Richmond


    When
    Thursday, September 22 at 7:30 pm 

    Location
    1812 West Main Street, 
    Richmond, VA 23220
    (804) 353-0094

    Film           
    FREE SCREENING

    More Info
    It all began in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. Herb and Dorothy presents the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in the world with very modest means. In the early 1980s, Herb and Dorothy Vogel purchased over 40 works by Martin Johnson, a Richmond-based artist whose exhibition, Martin Johnson: FORward, is now on view in the True F. Luck Gallery of the Visual Arts Center (visarts.org/exhibitions).

    Thursday, September 15, 2011

    Gallery A: The A Team in a new fall show opening September 29th










    Marty Johnson  "Mona Lisa"
    from a series of 21 Big Box Paintings

    Opening Reception
    Thursday, September 29th

    5 to 8pm


    Gallery A


    114-A Virginia St,
    Richmond, VA 23219



    Featuring:
    Painting and Sculpture by John Antone
    Photographs by Lee Brauer
    Paintings by Al Calderaro
    Sculpture by Tom Chenoweth
    Photographs by Al Davis
    Sculptures by Myron Helfgott
    Paintings and Sculpture by Marty Johnson
    "Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup, Minestrone, 1962", by Richard Pettibone
    "Tree Trunk" drawings by Jim Sullivan


    (804) 771-5454

    info@gallerya.biz
    www.gallerya.biz