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Friday, March 24

Celebrate Women's History Month at VMFA

March is Women’s History Month, and VMFA’s growing collection includes the voices and stories of women artists across time and cultures. Throughout March,...

RVA Arts District , Free
Creative Art- Butterflies
Richmond Public Library

Celebrate National Butterfly Week and come make some beautiful butterflies with your creativity. Directions provided.

RVA Downtown , Free
Youth Art Month
Richmond Public Library

Stop by any of our Richmond Public Libraries during the month of March to see some amazing art by Richmond Public School Students.

RVA Downtown , Free
Library of Virginia Exhibition | 200 Years, 200 Stories
Library of Virginia
9am

The Library of Virginia, one of the oldest state libraries and archives in the nation, will mark its bicentennial in 2023 with a free exhibition — 200 Years,...

RVA Downtown , Free
Church Tours
St. John's Church
9:30am

Visit St. John's Church, the location of the Second Virginia Convention, and hear the fascinating story of Patrick Henry and his 'Liberty or Death" speech in...

RVA Downtown, RVA East End , $
Andras Bality, View From Middlebrook Mountain, 2022, Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches
Reynolds Gallery
10am

Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce Andras Bality: Terroir, a solo exhibition of new paintings at our Main Street location. The exhibition will open...

RVA The Fan , Free
Carlton Newton, Drawing 2, 2020, Brush and opaque ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches/Esther Ruiz, Well XXXIII (left), 2022, Neon, acrylic, MDF, hardware, paint, 27.25 x 23.5 x 3.5 inches, edition of 5
Reynolds Gallery
10am

Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce Carlton Newton and Esther Ruiz: Shapes in Space, a two-person exhibition of drawings and sculpture at our Main Street...

RVA The Fan , Free
FORGING FREEDOM, JUSTICE, and EQUALITY 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Black History Museum and Cultural Center
10am

Forging Freedom, Justice, and Equality is a riveting interactive, multi-themed immersion into the Black experience in the history of the Commonwealth of...

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 , $
Kid's Still Life Painting
10am

Our Art Studios are focusing on Watercolor Paint in March. Join us from 10:00-11:30am to participate in drawing then painting a still life of fun...

Chester Artists Association: Impressions of Spring
Perkinson Center for the Arts & Education
11am

Saturday, February 18, 2023 through Saturday April 1, 2023 Please join us to see this collection of art from the Chester Artists Association. The...

Chesterfield , Free
Share Your RPL Stories and Memories @ West End Branch
Richmond Public Library
2pm

Richmond Public Library is celebrating one hundred years in RVA! Has the library been a part of you and/or your family's life? Has the library or its...

RVA West End , Free
Spin Art Painting
2:30pm

Our Art Studios are focusing on Watercolor Paint in March. Join us from 2:30-4:00pm to participate in painting with watercolors on a spinning...

Loving Psyche
Art Works Gallery
6pm

We are putting winter behind us and preparing for spring with the annual Recycle Show. This year we plan on contributing and donating a project of recycle...

RVA Downtown, RVA Southside , Free
Loving Psyche
Art Works Gallery
6pm

We are putting winter behind us and preparing for spring with the annual Recycle Show. This year we plan on contributing and donating a project of recycle...

RVA Downtown, RVA Southside , Free
DysFUNctional Beauty by Danielle Escadero
Artspace
6pm

Three solo exhibitions that examine contrasting themes of beauty and disruption will be on view at the nonprofit gallery in Richmond, VA Artspace...

Free
Prem Krishnamurthy: Department of Transformation
6pm

Join us for a presentation of Department of Transformation with Prem Krishnamurthy.

Free
Richmond Ballet dancers in Lifeline by Sarah Ferguson performed at the New Works Festival in March 2022. Richmond Ballet. All Rights Reserved. Photo by Sarah Ferguson.
6:30pm

STUDIO THREE New Works Festival Choreography by Norbert De La Cruz III, Nancy Paradis, Claudia Schreier, and Yury Yanowsky Four choreographers, all new to...

Alice in Wonderland Promo
7pm

SOUL Aerial & Performing Arts Center presents a mystifying, family-friendly, full-scale aerial cirque production of Alice In Wonderland at Dominion Energy...

RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown , Prices Vary
War in Pieces
Virginia War Memorial
7pm

WAR IN PIECES A festival of one-act plays written by veterans DIRECTED BY DAVID L. ROBBINS MARCH 17 - 26, 2023 AT VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL'S ALUMNI HALL, 621...

"Classic Meets Cool" - A Night with Barron Ryan
7:30pm

The Perkinson Center for the Arts is proud to welcome back to the Jimmy Dean Theater stage Barron Ryan for his latest musical tour, Classic Meets...

Chesterfield , $
FIRST RESPONSES Festival
Firehouse Theatre
7:30pm

FIRST RESPONSES Festival world premiere plays by Anthony Jackson, Kathryn Kahlson, Betty Migliaccio, and Ben Toderico March 22-April 16, 2023 A one-act...

RVA The Fan , $
AFTER DECEMBER
Virginia Repertory Theatre
8pm

When a particle collider deep beneath the earth’s surface malfunctions, a mysterious woman appears. She cannot say where she’s from or how she got here; she...

$$
Les Misérables
8pm

STILL THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR MUSICAL. Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony...

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 , $$
Mrs. Kasha Davis: There's Always Time for a Cocktail!
Richmond Triangle Players
8pm

Drag Queen! International Celebrity Housewife! Storyteller! Author! Parent! Mrs. Kasha Davis is the ultimate WORKHORSE QUEEN! With a BA in Theatre from...

RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA Northside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan , $$
SILENT SKY by Lauren Gunderson
CAT Theatre
8pm

SILENT SKY is based on the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt exploring a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific...

$

Friday, March 24