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Saturday, April 1

LEGO Club
Richmond Public Library

Come by any time every other Saturday at the Ginter Park Library to unleash your creativity. We provide the LEGOs, you provide the imagination!

RVA Northside , Free
May 2023 Call for Entries

Crossroads Art Center is excited to announce an online call for entries for the May 2023 All-Media Show. There is no theme for this exhibit. All work...

$
Poe's Enchanted Garden Family Day
Visual Arts Center of Richmond
12am

Join the Poe Museum for an afternoon of family festivities on Saturday, April 1st from 12:00pm-2:00pm. This free event is for children and families of all...

RVA Downtown , Free
Westover Teens: Tissue Paper Flowers
Richmond Public Library

Visit Westover Hill’s young adult section to check out our take and make kits! This month’s craft is tissue paper flowers. Kits will be available starting...

RVA Southside , Free
24th Corp charging fort on left
9am

Led by author Dr. Phillip Hatfield, this Civil War educational caravan driving tour about the “West Virginia Troops in the Fall of Hatcher’s Run Line” on...

Dinwiddie , $
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
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 , $
Bricks 4 Kidz
10:30am

Explore your interest in architecture and engineering through this hands-on building program using LEGO® bricks, Technic® bricks, motors and batteries to...

Chesterfield , Free
Come, Read To OLLIE The Dog! PUP READers
Richmond Public Library
10:30am

~Ollie loves to listen to kids read!~ On Saturday, April 1st at 10:30am- 11:30am, Ollie and his 2-legged buddy, Landon (from PUP READers)- will be at the...

RVA Northside , Free
LovingPsyche
Art Works Gallery
11am

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
READY READERS at Hull Street Library
Richmond Public Library
11am

Ready Readers are elementary-age children learning the joy of books through reading. Two Saturdays in every month from 11 am to 12:15 pm children in grades...

RVA Southside , Free
DysFUNctional Beauty by Danielle Escadero
Artspace
12pm

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

Free
Bricks 4 Kidz
1pm

Explore your interest in architecture and engineering through this hands-on building program using LEGO® bricks, Technic® bricks, motors and batteries to...

Chesterfield , Free
Cinema Saturdays: Paddington
Richmond Public Library
1pm

Come join us at the Ginter Park Library for a bi-weekly free movie. This week's movie is: Paddington

RVA Northside , Free
Lego Club
Richmond Public Library
2pm

Come by Hull Street Library to unleash your creativity. We will provide the LEGO's you provide the imagination!

RVA Southside , Free
National Poetry Month Kickoff Reading
2pm

Join CommonWealth Poetry Readings and Events as we bring 4 poets to read their work at the Tuckahoe Library! Culminating with Richmond Poet Laureate Roscoe...

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
ComedySportz
CSz Richmond
6pm

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 , $
1st Saturday Dance
USA Dance - Richmond, Chapter #6006
7pm

This is a ballroom dance sponsored by the Richmond Chapter of USA Dance, Inc., an organization that promotes ballroom dancing in over 140 chapters across the...

Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan , $
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 , $
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 , $
The 2023 RVA Burlesque Festival
7pm

The 2023 RVA Burlesque Festival is a 3-day event that will be taking place on March 30th-April 1st in Richmond, VA. The festival will feature burlesque...

Ashland, Hanover, Henrico, Petersburg, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan , $, $$
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 , $
The Auld Country performs at the Shady Grove Coffeehouse April 1
Shady Grove Coffeehouse
8pm

Join us on April 1 as we welcome The Auld Country to the Shady Grove stage. The Auld Country is a world-spanning group of friends and colleagues bringing...

Ashland, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico , $
Mahler Resurrection Symphony
Richmond Symphony
8pm

A concert experience unlike any other. Valentina Peleggi leads the Richmond Symphony, Chorus, and soloists in Mahler’s monumental Symphony Number Two. The...

RVA Downtown , $
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...

$
April Fools Day with Virginia Comedy Legends - presented by Pearl St Comedy
8:30pm

It's not a prank! The Perkinson Center and Pearl St Comedy are proud to present an April Fools Day special, featuring a variety of Virginia Comedy...

Chesterfield , $
Zero Hour
8:30pm

This is a one-man retrospective play about theatre legend, Zero Mostel. When a naïve reporter attempts to interview the famously volatile artist, it prompts...

Saturday, April 1