May 18 Sunday
WATERWORKS festival at Live Arts Theater
Public Service Announcement to be read May 1 through May 31
Contact: Andrew Bryce, andrew@livearts.org
Kill Date: May 31, 2025
10 second: The third WATERWORKS new theatrical works festival runs May 15 through May 31 at Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville. Visit livearts.org for tickets and information.
20 second: The third annual WATERWORKS new works festival runs May 15 through May 31 at Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville. The three-week theater festival features 18 new plays from local and global playwrights, 17 directors and over 60 performers. Visit livearts.org for tickets and information.
30 second: The third annual WATERWORKS new works festival runs May 15 through May 31 at Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville. The three-week theater festival features 18 new theatrical works from local and global playwrights, 17 directors, and over 60 performers. Other featured works include Locally Sourced, Community Deep Dive educational workshops and a Comedy Night. Visit livearts.org for tickets and information.
161st Battle of New Market CommemorationSaturday May 17th – 10:00am-4:00pmSunday May 18th – 10:00am-3:00pm
The Virginia Museum of the Civil War at New Market Battlefield State Historical Park will host numerous living historians who will tell the story of the battle through programs and presentations designed to educate and entertain. Visit with the Society of Civil War Surgeons and delve into the aftermath of battle and the people responsible for caring for the wounded. Take time to visit the military camps and ask what daily life was like for Civil War soldiers. Watch and learn military drill, and experience live black powder demos. Explore the home built by Jacob and Sarah Bushong where they sheltered with their family as the heaviest fighting raged outside their door. These and many other activities await you!Author Karl Rhodes will be on site to present on his book "Peggy's War"
For more information call 540-740-3101 or email nmbshp@vmi.edu.
May 22 Thursday
The Washington and Lee University Department of Theatre, Dance and Film Studies presents Vertical Dance, a free performance for the community, on May 22 at 12p.m. and 9 p.m. and May 23 at 12 a.m. The concert will be held outside on the wall of Wilson Hall at W&L. You are welcome to bring blankets or chairs and a picnic for lawn seating across from the performance wall.Aerial dance is an emerging form of modern dance, in which dancers are suspended 50 feet in the air in harnesses, tethered to steel cables that allow them to perform against the vertical surface of a wall. Rotating the dance “floor” 90 degrees in this manner creates new relationships to gravity for the artists and introduces the illusion of flight into their choreography.This concert of 10 student works is the culmination of the four-week spring term aerial dance class. Directed by Professor Jenefer Davies, the aerial dance program at Washington and Lee is one of the first academic programs in aerial dance in the country. Student choreographers Elise McPherson, Madison Lilly, Rebecca Bundrant, Morgan Stoudt, Hayden Myer, Georgia Busbee, Barclay McGinley, Skyler Hollins, Olesia Soukhoveev, Emmie Rose, and Virginia Newmann spent spring term learning aerial dance vocabulary, elements of composition, performance techniques and technical, production and artistic components of performance. They created new pieces of aerial dance choreography for themselves and in collaboration with their classmates.
May 23 Friday
The Washington and Lee University Department of Theatre, Dance and Film Studies presents Vertical Dance, a free performance for the community, on May 22 at 12p.m. and 9 p.m. and May 23 at 12 a.m. The concert will be held outside on the wall of Wilson Hall at W&L. You are welcome to bring blankets or chairs and a picnic for lawn seating across from the performance wall.
Aerial dance is an emerging form of modern dance, in which dancers are suspended 50 feet in the air in harnesses, tethered to steel cables that allow them to perform against the vertical surface of a wall. Rotating the dance “floor” 90 degrees in this manner creates new relationships to gravity for the artists and introduces the illusion of flight into their choreography.
This concert of 10 student works is the culmination of the four-week spring term aerial dance class. Directed by Professor Jenefer Davies, the aerial dance program at Washington and Lee is one of the first academic programs in aerial dance in the country. Student choreographers Elise McPherson, Madison Lilly, Rebecca Bundrant, Morgan Stoudt, Hayden Myer, Georgia Busbee, Barclay McGinley, Skyler Hollins, Olesia Soukhoveev, Emmie Rose, and Virginia Newmann spent spring term learning aerial dance vocabulary, elements of composition, performance techniques and technical, production and artistic components of performance. They created new pieces of aerial dance choreography for themselves and in collaboration with their classmates.
May 31 Saturday
Mt Solon Vol Fire and Rescue will host our 1st CAR SHOW fundraiser at our station, 86 Emmanuel Church Road, Mt. Solon, Va on Saturday, May 31, 2025. We welcome cars, trucks, motorcycles and tractors! The show will start at 10am and end at 2pm, followed by a PARADE thru Natural Chimneys Park for those wishing to participate. Registration fee is $15.00, you can register upon arrival or call 540-572-0463 to pre register. Trophies to be awarded, great food will be available too. Hope to see you there