Arts & culture, every day.



Events

← →

Friday, September 9

#ArtsHuntRVA

#ArtsHuntRVA

Richmond Performing Arts Alliance

What is #ArtsHuntRVA? Richmond Performing Arts Alliance (RPAA) and CultureWorks have partnered to bring a unique and interactive arts experience to the...

Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, Petersburg, Powhatan , Free
Greater Richmond & Tri-Cities area
CSz Improv class sign ups

CSz Improv class sign ups

CSz Richmond

Sign up for one of our Improv classes! More information and registration here: www.cszrichmond.com/classes

Henrico, RVA West End , $
CSz Richmond Theater
dana washington-queen: Resume at the Point of Interruption

dana washington-queen: Resume at the Point of...

Institute for Contemporary Art

Lens-based artist dana washington-queen (b. 1985) uses writing and video-making as an inquiry into freedom and escape. What are freedom’s possibilities?...

RVA Arts District , Free
Institute for Contemporary Art
Love Letters by Robert Winne

Metro Richmond Artists presents Kind of Blue...

Metropolitan Richmond Artists Association
9am

Blue is the color of trust, responsibility, and relaxation. Depending on the tone, blue symbolizes loyalty or authority. Within blue’s emotional range is the...

Free
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
There's Just Us represented the struggle communities fight with hate & bigotry and the collective voices that were strong enough to stand up and strong against all odds.

There's Just Us: A Photo Exhibit by Alec R....

Virginia Holocaust Museum
9am

August 11-12, 2022 marks the five-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally that shook the quiet, central Virginia city of Charlottesville. To recognize...

RVA Downtown , Free
Virginia Holocaust Museum
Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity

Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity

Science Museum of Virginia
9:30am

Skin has a number of impressive features: it’s shape shifting, color changing and highly adaptive. But it’s also thought provoking, interaction changing and...

RVA Downtown, RVA The Fan , Prices Vary
Science Museum of Virginia
James River Art League Exhibit at Crossroads Art Center - January/February 2022

James River Art League Exhibit at Crossroads...

James River Art League
10am

Five talented artist-members of James River Art League (JRAL) are featured at the JRAL Gallery at Crossroads Art Center during the months of January and...

Ashland, Charles City, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, New Kent, Petersburg, Powhatan, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Fluvanna County , Free
Crossroads Art Center, JRAL Gallery
James River Art League Exhibit at Crossroads Art Center - September/October 2022

James River Art League Exhibit at Crossroads...

James River Art League
10am

Please visit the James River Art League Gallery at Crossroads Art Center during the months of September and October to see the new works of league artists...

Ashland, Charles City, Colonial Heights, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, New Kent, Petersburg, Powhatan, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan, Dinwiddie, Prince George , Free
Crossroads Art Center, JRAL Gallery
Library Yarns

Library Yarns

Richmond Public Library
10am

If you like to knit or crochet, join this fun time of creativity at the Belmont Library. Bring you portable handwork project for an informal group...

RVA West End , Free
Belmont Meeting Room
M&T Bank Butterflies LIVE! as part of Pollinator Power

M&T Bank Butterflies LIVE! as part of...

10am

Butterflies LIVE! allows you to get up-close and personal with hundreds of fluttering beauties. This is an indoor exhibit filled with fun family activities...

Henrico , Prices Vary
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Naima Green: I Keep Missing My Water

Naima Green: I Keep Missing My Water

Institute for Contemporary Art
10am

I Keep Missing My Water is a newly commissioned exhibition by photographer Naima Green that continues the artist’s ongoing investment in documenting intimacy...

RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown , Free
Institute for Contemporary Art
Pop-ins at St. John's Church

Pop-ins at St. John's Church

St. John's Church
10am

Get a tiny bite of Patrick Henry's story and his "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!" speech from inside the place where it happened. Pop into the church for...

RVA Downtown, RVA East End , $
St. John's Church
Rafael Domenech: The Medium is the Massage

Rafael Domenech: The Medium is the Massage

Institute for Contemporary Art
10am

The Medium is the Massage is a new commission by the Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech for a year-long pavilion for self-publishing, collective reading,...

RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown , Free
Institute for Contemporary Art
Kat reading in the Garden.

Storytime at the Garden

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
10am

Join in the fun each Friday and Saturday at 10 a.m. as Library and Archives Manager Katarina Spears reads a few of her favorite stories outside in the Garden...

Henrico , Free
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Virtual Genealogy Workshop | Immigration Records: From Ellis Island Forward

Virtual Genealogy Workshop | Immigration...

Library of Virginia
10am

Reference archivist Cara Griggs leads a webinar exploring the changes in the naturalization process and related records such as passenger lists from the late...

Virtual Event
dana washington-queen: Resume at the Point of Interruption

dana washington-queen: Resume at the Point of...

Institute for Contemporary Art
10am

Lens-based artist dana washington-queen (b. 1985) uses writing and video-making as an inquiry into freedom and escape. What are freedom’s possibilities?...

RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown , Free
Institute for Contemporary Art
Keenan Cross

August – September Exhibits @ Art Works

Art Works Gallery
11am

See these new exhibits and 85 artist studios Tuesday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm. Admission is free and open to the public All Media Exhibit and James River...

RVA Downtown, RVA Southside , Free
Art Works Gallery
Carol Meese, Only when they spread their wings, 2022

August/Septemeber Exhibitions

12pm

Artspace Gallery’s new exhibitions challenge the perception of communications Four solo exhibitions will be on view at the nonprofit gallery in Richmond,...

Free
Artspace Gallery
The Residency: Exhibition Opening

The Residency: Exhibition Opening

Art180
5pm

Come out on Friday, September 9 to see ART 180’s Atlas gallery taken over by the vivid creativity of the 8 young artists in The Residency. In the Residency,...

RVA Arts District , Free
ART 180
VisArts Gallery Opening: Community Build

VisArts Gallery Opening: Community Build

Visual Arts Center of Richmond
5:30pm

Community Build: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Lil Lamberta, Valeska Populoh and members of their respective communities  September 9 – October 31, 2022 Opening...

RVA The Fan , Free
Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Fall '22 Season Premiere

Fall '22 Season Premiere

Institute for Contemporary Art
6pm

Celebrate the unveiling of the ICA’s Fall 2022 season as we open three new exhibitions: Naima Green: I Keep Missing My Water, dana washington-queen: Resume...

RVA Arts District , Free
Institute for Contemporary Art
A single male figure is painted on a black background with light skin, a tight ruffled collar, and long-sleeved, front buttoned shirt with horizontal double lines that are gold in color. An elaborate, multi-length chain rests below the ruffed collar. The male figure's waist is cinched to appear small in comparison to the pantaloons that are balloon out from the waist and are visible from just above the knees to the waist. The figure rests his left hand on the gold hilt of a sword, only partially visible.

Special Focus Tour: Wealth & Weapons

Agecroft Hall
6:30pm

Explore the history of hunting and military service among the aristocracy of Tudor England during this special focus tour. Join local historians Elliot...

RVA West End , $
Agecroft Hall
ComedySportz

ComedySportz

CSz Richmond
7pm

ComedySportz is improvisational comedy played as a sport, with two teams and a referee taking suggestions from the loyal fans and creating scenes, games and...

Henrico, RVA West End , $
CSz Richmond Theater
DC's Reflecting Fools - Featuring former members of the Capitol Steps

DC's Reflecting Fools - Featuring former...

7pm

FEATURING FORMER MEMBERS OF CAPITOL STEPS! The stairway to heavenly political satire originally laid by the Capitol Steps continues upward with DC’s...

Henrico , $$
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
GABRIEL

GABRIEL

7:30pm

Book by Jerold Solomon, Foster Solomon, and Ron Klipp Music & Lyrics by Ron Klipp directed by Foster Solomon musical direction by Billy Dye Thu September...

RVA The Fan
Firehouse Theatre
School's Back in Session - Family Comedy presented by Pearl St Comedy

School's Back in Session - Family Comedy...

7:30pm

The Perkinson Center and Pearl St Comedy are proud to present "School's Back in Session", a comedy show good for all ages! Join us at 7:30pm to experience...

Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Petersburg , Prices Vary
Perkinson Center for the Arts and Education, Jimmy Dean Theater
School’s Back In Session!

School’s Back In Session!

Perkinson Center for the Arts & Education
7:30pm

Family Friendly Comedy Night

Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Prince George, RVA Arts District , Prices Vary
Perkinson Center for the Arts and Education
Gaslight

Gaslight

Swift Creek Mill Theatre
8pm

With an inheritance at stake, a husband attempts to drive his wife to insanity through incremental manipulation. This British, Victorian era psychological...

Chesterfield , Prices Vary
Swift Creek Mill Theatre
The Inheritance

The Inheritance (Parts One & Two)

Richmond Triangle Players
8pm

n contemporary Manhattan, Eric and Toby are 30-somethings who seem to be very much in love and thriving. But on the cusp of their engagement, they meet an...

RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA West End, RVA The Fan , $$
Richmond Triangle Players' Robert B. Moss Theatre
Whitesplaining (Postponed)

Whitesplaining (Postponed)

VCUarts Theatre
8pm

Whitesplaining Please note: The opening of “Whitesplaining” has been postponed. There will be no performances this weekend Sept. 9th- 11th. Ticket holders...

RVA Arts District , $
Basement
Photo credit: Joan Marcus

Wicked

Altria Theater
8pm

WICKED, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young...

Ashland, Charles City, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, New Kent, Petersburg, Powhatan, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan, Dinwiddie, Prince George , $$
Altria Theater
Pours and Pasties Burlesque and Variety Show

Pours and Pasties Burlesque and Variety Show

8:30pm

Get ready for another fun-filled evening of burlesque and variety entertainment! Burlesque Right Meow is back at Strangeways brewing with a glorious cast of...

Ashland, Chesterfield, Henrico, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan , $
Strangeways Brewing
← →

Friday, September 9

Submit an Event
All Events Places to Go Groups & Artists
Switch to August 2022 Switch to October 2022

September

Calendar Date Navigation
S M T W T F S
28293031123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
2526272829301
View Today
Within miles of

Subscribe to These Results