Events Around Virginia

Adults & elders are invited to come together to embrace the second adulthood. Enjoy opportunities for silent meditation & reflection, plus presentations & workshops.
All levels of experience welcome!

U.S. Navy Band Country Current Giving Free Concert at Montpelier Center on September 13.

More Information | $40-85, $10 students with ID and youth 18 and under Renée Elise Goldsberry, a multi-hyphenate actress and singer who has delivered award-winning performances both on Broadway and the screen, opens the Moss season with a memorable evening of Broadway hits and American songbook classics. Best known for her role as the original Angelica […]

Born on December 25th in Detroit, Michigan Althea René began her musical journey at the tender age of four years old. She studied classical music while attending Howard University. For more than 10 years she worked as a Wayne County Deputy Sherif…

Our September headliner is Vannessa Jackson! Vannessa is a comedian and writer currently writing on the 49th season of Saturday Night Live. Joining Vannessa from are some of the Southeast’s funniest people: Joe Perrow, Caitlin McDevitt, Omar Sharief, and our host is Charlie Waring!

Sinkland Farms offers a wide variety of events throughout the length of the festival. We open with our Friday Night VIP event which provides an intimate shopping experience with our hand crafted vendors. This limited access event is a dream come true for all of those diehard shoppers! On our open festival weekends we have […]

In Ted Joans: Land of the Rhinoceri, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents a suite of 31 works—in watercolor, pencil, ink, crayon, and collage—that the artist completed in 1956 and gathered in a portfolio titled Drawings from Africa. 

Explore the seven-acre MSV gardens and marvel at 30 larger-than-life glass sculptures of flowers, insects, and more! This stunning outdoor exhibition showcases the work of Craig Mitchell Smith, one of America’s most innovative kiln-glass artists. Highlights of Gardens of Glass include a chandelier of 600 autumn-colored glass leaves suspended from a maple tree, a 16-foot-tall […]

Heather Beardsley’s Tell the Bees is an art exhibit focused on sustainability and the importance of bees. Concerned about the decline in biodiversity, Beardsley created bee hotels from local materials to support native pollinators. The main feature is an interactive sculpture called Conversations with Bees. Visitors can speak into a microphone, sending messages to bees […]

Join AARP Virginia for Grandparents Day at the Norfolk Botanical Garden!

Are you ready to step into a world where imagination meets technology? Join us for an exciting Immersive Art Workshop. In this workshop, you’ll dive into the cutting-edge realms of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) to bring your wildest artistic visions to life. You’ll explore the vibrant possibilities of Tilt Brush VR, where you can paint with light, craft sculptures out of thin air, and unleash your creativity in a fully immersive 3D environment. Additionally, you’ll discover the fascinating world of mobile AR apps to design interactive artworks that spring to life on your mobile device.

Amy Bruni started her professional ghost hunting career just over a decade ago, but her experience with ghosts started when she was very young. She began as a paranormal investigator in 2007, when she began appearing on Ghost Hunters, in which sh…

Author and Harrisonburg resident Evan Friss presents his new release The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (Viking, 2024), described as “a love letter to bookstores,” at New Dominion Bookshop. It’s books on books on books—what more could a reader ask for?

Enjoy an evening dedicated to the great Carole King album Tapestry. Her album is one of the best-selling albums of all-time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. In the U.S., it has been certified diamond by the RIAA with more than 10 mill…

Sinkland Farms offers a wide variety of events throughout the length of the festival. We open with our Friday Night VIP event which provides an intimate shopping experience with our hand crafted vendors. This limited access event is a dream come true for all of those diehard shoppers! On our open festival weekends we have […]

In Ted Joans: Land of the Rhinoceri, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents a suite of 31 works—in watercolor, pencil, ink, crayon, and collage—that the artist completed in 1956 and gathered in a portfolio titled Drawings from Africa. 

Explore the seven-acre MSV gardens and marvel at 30 larger-than-life glass sculptures of flowers, insects, and more! This stunning outdoor exhibition showcases the work of Craig Mitchell Smith, one of America’s most innovative kiln-glass artists. Highlights of Gardens of Glass include a chandelier of 600 autumn-colored glass leaves suspended from a maple tree, a 16-foot-tall […]

Heather Beardsley’s Tell the Bees is an art exhibit focused on sustainability and the importance of bees. Concerned about the decline in biodiversity, Beardsley created bee hotels from local materials to support native pollinators. The main feature is an interactive sculpture called Conversations with Bees. Visitors can speak into a microphone, sending messages to bees […]

Draw inspiration from Virginia’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s stained glass gallery and make your own with the help of a local artist! Admission is $100 for members and $115 for nonmembers.

First Features is a film series showcasing the very first feature-length works of filmmakers. Each screening is followed by an in-depth Q&A session that provides insight into the creative process. September’s viewing will spotlight Griffin in Summer, directed by Nicholas Colia. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the director and VCU Cinema Professor Danny Caporaletti. […]