May 03 Friday
Arts Council of the Valley invites you to join in the arts-focused fun on the First Friday of EVERY month! Throughout Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, 40 venues offer a variety of new art exhibitions, live performances, poetry, comedy, music, artmaking activities, food, and so much more. You can find a list of venues, online map, and pdf with links to First Fridays of the Valley events – all updated monthly – at valleyarts.org/first-fridays-venues! Thanks to Kathy Moran Wealth Group, Exclusive Sponsor for 2024 First Fridays of the Valley.
Enjoy a day on the greens with friends or colleagues while supporting athletes and all EMS students. Athletes benefit from funding for essential costs like uniforms, equipment, and professional support. Learn more about our athletics program. 89% of our students receive some type of tuition discount and 31% receive financial aid. And alumni benefit from increased connections with our community during homecoming.
Your registration of $125 includes green’s fees, cart, range balls, 1 power ball, 2 mulligans and lunch. Sign up for email updates to make sure you get information for the 2024 tournament!
7:30 a.m. Registration
8 a.m. Morning Flight - Shotgun start
12 - 1 p.m. lunch with Hank's Catering
12 p.m. Registration
1 p.m. Afternoon Flight - Shotgun start
May 04 Saturday
Traveling the country since 2014, Letters Aloud has been delighting audiences with thought-provoking, relevant, hopeful, and humorous stories told through the real voices of real people via their personal correspondence. Letters Aloud – The Road to Fame brings together letters from every era that chart the course of luminaries from their humble beginnings to fame and chronicle their achievements and surprising lessons learned. With a core of acclaimed actors, live musical accompaniment, and a dynamic media backdrop, Letters Aloud is guaranteed to inspire!
The Piedmont Master Gardeners will hold their annual Spring Plant Sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Albemarle Square Shopping Center in Charlottesville. The sale will offer thousands of annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruit-bearing plants, trees, shrubs, herbs and houseplants, including a large assortment of native plants. In addition, shoppers can purchase gently used garden implements, yard ornaments and other “Green Elephants,” as well as bags of locally produced compost. The sale will also feature a Help Desk for answering gardening questions and an array of displays and information tables on such topics as conservation landscaping, soil health, composting, trees and shrubs, pest management, and invasive plants. Cash and credit cards will be accepted. All proceeds support the many free and low-cost programs the Piedmont Master Gardeners offer to the community. Learn more at http://piedmontmastergardeners.org/events/.
The Staunton Augusta Art Center opens the Staunton Emerging Artist Showcase, running April 5 – May 11, featuring the work of the next generation of Staunton artists.
STAUNTON, VA— The Staunton Augusta Art Center announces the opening of the Staunton Emerging Artist Showcase, running from April 5 – May 11 in the downtown galleries. This exciting and unique showcase features the multi-media artwork of over a dozen emerging artists, a next generation of local artists at various stages in their artistic careers who redefine the cultural landscape within their community. These artists reflect remarkable backgrounds and cross-cultural roots.
An opening night reception will be held in the galleries on Friday, April 5 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
This exhibition is proudly sponsored by the Staunton-Augusta-Waynesboro Habitat for Humanity ReStore whose staff and volunteers support the creative work of local artists and affordable housing.
Openings are FREE and ALL are welcome.
Location: Staunton Augusta Art Center, R. R. Smith Center for History & Art,
20 S. New Street, Staunton, VA 24401
Admission: FREE and open to the public, all are welcome.
Website: https://www.saartcenter.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Angus Carter and Carolyn Maloney
(director@saartcenter.org/info@saartcenter.org), 540-885-2028
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Batesville Day, Saturday, May 4, 2024Thrills in the Hills8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Make plans to come to the 47th annual village fair celebrating this vibrant community in the Blue Ridge foothills. Enjoy activities for all ages – the famously-challenging 10k race; an eclectic Country Parade; yoga in the field; cake walks; Maypole dance; samurai sword demonstration; Albemarle Morris Men; fairy house trail; plant exchange; free books for kids; a Talking Batesville History tent; Not-So-Ugly truck raffle; games; bake sales and more!
Music by the Henley Middle School Marching Band, Bluzonia, Monsters Under the Bed, Shannon Williams and the Go To’s, The Cry Babies – all FREE!
8:00 am 10k Race10:00 am Yoga for All Bodies10:30 am Country Parade11:00 am – 3:00 pm Fair, Music, Food
For event details, registration, and parking information, visit www.batesvilleva.org. Organized by the Batesville Community Club (Ruritans).
May 05 Sunday
9 to 5 The Musical is a musical based on the 1980 film of the same name, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. It features a book by Patricia Resnick based on the screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins.
9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL tells the story of three women pushed to boiling point by their sexist and egotistical boss. Concocting a plan to kidnap and turn the tables on their despicable supervisor, will the ladies manage to reform their office – or will events unravel when the CEO pays an unexpected visit?
All tickets will have a fee of $6 added at purchase. ($3 for the Historic Preservation of the Wayne and $3 for Ticket Handling)
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May 06 Monday
Four-time GRAMMY winner Sarah Jarosz has announced her new album, Polaroid Lovers. The record is set for release on January 26th, 2024 via Rounder Records. To mark the occasion she has shared the album opener, "Jealous Moon," and its companion video. WATCH HERE. The song finds Jarosz backed by a decidedly more electric band, with her Texas lilt as clear and evocative as ever. Polaroid Lovers is available for pre-order today digitally and on vinyl with gray, lavender, orange and green splatter variants. Indie retailers will also have a special blue and green splatter vinyl. For more information visit https://store.sarahjarosz.com/
May 07 Tuesday
The Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU are pleased to present The Howard Levy 4 in concert on Tuesday, May 7th. The concert will be held at Belmont Arts Collaborative on Carlton Road at 8 pm.
Led by the Grammy-Award-winning diatonic harmonica master, pianist, and composer Howard Levy, well known for his long-time tenure with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, this powerhouse ensemble delivers musical magic in a range of styles that includes Jazz, Latin, World Music, and Blues. Besides several distinctively reworked American and Brazilian compositions, the band has a diverse repertoire of original compositions that combine and blend many cultures and rhythms, creating an extraordinary original sound. In addition to Howard, this amazingly accomplished Chicago-based quartet is comprised of guitarist Chris Siebold, the outstanding upright and electric bassist Joshua Ramos, and the exceptional Brazilian drummer Luiz Ewerling.
A prolific recording artist, Howard Levy has released 17 albums under his name and appeared in hundreds more. He was a founding member of Bela The Flecktones and has performed and recorded with an incredibly diverse range of artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Donald Fagen, and Kurt Elling. The revolutionary technique that hedeveloped on the diatonic harmonica transformed it into a fully chromatic instrument for the first time, opening up possibilities for limitless musical exploration while still retaining the cry of the Blues. Sounding like no other on stage, it has been said of Howard’s unparalleled harmonica playing, “As Art Tatum was to the piano, so is Levy to the harmonica: a hyper-virtuoso whose feats can be admired and studied but never really replicated.”
The rest of this remarkable band is very much up to the task of complementing a virtuoso like Howard. Chris Siebold, house guitarist for A Prairie Home Companion for four years has recorded and toured with Chicago’s most eclectic Jazz and fusion groups; Joshua Ramos, one of Chicago’s most in-demand bassists, spent five years with jazz legend Ramsey Lewis, while drummer/composer Luiz Ewerling contributes rhythmic and compositional fire and depth to The Howard Levy 4.
May 11 Saturday
The Blue Ridge Irish Music School presents Joey Abarta on the Irish uilleann bagpipes. has spent the last sixteen years touring North America, Europe, and Asia, teaching and performing music on the uilleann pipes, the irish bagpipe. A Los Angeles native, he first received instruction on the pipes from Dubliner Pat D’Arcy, a founding member of the Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club.The evening will feature music from Brightwood, Irish music on harp, flute and fiddle plus Irish dancers.
May 02 Thursday
May 2, 16, 23 and 30, 6:30-7:45: “Life is a Tapestry”. This print workshop will be taught by OASIS member Susan Elliott. Each week, Susan will teach a different print technique (Chinese wood block, Gelli print, Japanese fish printing and West African batik). The cost is $45 for the four sessions. Reservations are required: call Susan at 571-277-3024 to reserve. Advance payment will be required. These workshops are made possible by a grant from The Arts Council of the Valley.
More information can be found on our website: oasisfineartandcraft.org, and on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/oasisfineartandcraft.
Please contact Barbara Camph (tbcamph@aol.com) if you have any questions.
Free Celebration featuring workshops, lectures, demonstrations, and performances located in and around Court Square Theater and the Smith House Galleries!
Court Square Theater:11am, Frida Kahlo Documentary1pm, Rocktown Improv Workshop3pm, ARTEINMOVIMENTO Dance Co Performance4pm, Arts Impact Panel Discussion2pm, Commedia Dell’Arte Mask Workshop5pm, The 3 Fairies of the Wind Performance7:30pm, Dr How and the Reasons to Live Concert
Court Square Marketplace Gallery:11am – 6pm, Day of the Arts Mural12 – 1:30pm, Mask Decorating Workshop with Abigail Huneycutt1 – 2:30pm, OASIS Art Mosaic Project3:30 – 5pm, Playtime with Puppets with JP Gulla2 – 3:30pm, Face Painting with Valerie Smith4 – 4:45pm, Wreath Decorating Workshop with Kevin Boyd
Smith House Galleries and Outside:9:30am – 3pm, Chalk Art at Asbury UMC with Robert Mott10am – 1pm, JMU ArtsMobile10am – 4pm, Smith House Galleries Open1 – 2:30pm, Music on the Front Porch by iRon Lion2:30 – 3:30pm, James Albright Artist Talk: Artomatic
All included programming is provided at no cost to the community, thanks to support, in part, from The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County’s Earlynn J. Miller Fund for the Arts.
May 4, 12-4: “Day of the Arts” in Harrisonburg!!!!!! The on-site OASIS activities will include demonstrations by Natalie Darling, Delaney Westwood, Bill Nelson and Shelley O'Connor. Other members (Brenda Fairweather, Jackson Taylor, and Bahir al Badry) will be at OASIS to answer questions about their processes and suppliers (or any other questions you may have). Cousin Jimmy’s String band will be playing outside OASIS; bring your dancing feet!
May 4, 1-2:30: Marketplace Gallery (outside Capital Ale House), Barbara Camph will be doing a mosaic activity. We invite you to come and contribute to the mosaic!
Need to relieve some stress? Tess Yergin invites you to come join the fun in her painting class, Introduction to Meditative Dot Painting. The class is open to ages 16 and up, requiring no previous art experience. While the focus is on freestyle, you will explore the whimsical world of dots as a daily meditative practice as well as sharing tips and secrets for creating your own colorful pieces! There are two dates left to accommodate busy schedules. You are welcome to register for as many as you’d like. (Jan 13- 1:00-4:00pm, Jan 15- 6:00-9:00pm, $95, SVAC Studio at 416 W. Main Street) To register: svartcenter@gmail.com.
Do you have a cool mom? We do too! Grab her and get her out to the farm for a special and interactive way to celebrate Mother's Day! Not only will you leave with a beautiful floral arrangement, but you'll also create precious memories that will last a lifetime. And remember, "mom" isn't defined by biology! Bring your mother figure and get ready to have some fun playing with flowers together.
Your tickets include everything you need to make a flower arrangement. Double tickets include everything you need to make two arrangements! We'll laugh, we'll cry (from laughing), but more importantly - we'll bond! And you better believe our "cool mom" will be there to steal the show (since it's mother's day, we'll let her this time!)
Spaces are limited, so be sure to reserve your spot today. We can't wait to see you at the farm!
May 13 Monday
May 16 Thursday
May 17 Friday
The second annual WATERWORKS new works festival runs May 17 through June 2 at Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville. The three-week festival features 19 new theatrical works from local and global playwrights, 16 directors, and over 50 performers. Other featured works include Locally Sourced, the Charlottesville Playwrights Collective, and Community Deep Dive educational workshops. Start and end times vary; visit livearts.org for tickets and information.