The region’s largest performing arts organization has just launched another legendary lineup of events. The Virginia Arts Festival’s formally announced the 26th season; with its reputation, you should be paying attention. Each year VAF hosts over 110,000 attendees...
They say 7 is a lucky number, and with the looks of this year's NEON Festival, it seems to hold. The seventh annual NEON Festival kicks off October 20th & 21st, and the lineup looks luckier than a truckload of horseshoes and rabbit's feet. The festival organizers...
This Saturday marks eight years of Crafted Indie Arts and Craft Markets. The market series known for curated selections of creative handmade goods is back again with its most robust market of the year. Over 40 vendors will squeeze into the parking lot of Reaver Beach...
From the furthest corner of The Venue a weighted baritone breaks through the mumbles of the crowd: “VERB BENDERS!” The response comes in a choir, “GET BENT!” Once more, the call goes out, “VERB BENDERS!” This time, with grit, the choir chants, “BEND ‘EM TIL THEY...
Local artist Kate Thomas has invigorated Norfolk’s thriving arts scene for the past decade with her colorful, cool-toned canvases. Now, she’s established a more permanent place to promote the city’s creative character: the Kate Thomas Art Studio, due to open on...
Picture this: cool breezes from the river, standout architecture, bumping beats, wafts of pizza, and a legion of curated handmade artists and crafters. That’s what organizers say is in store for this Saturday when The Hermitage Handmade Festival returns for its 7th...
Derrin Thompson is a true creative at heart. His endeavors in visual and musical arts span multiple mediums and decades. Yet, in 2010, he almost gave it up forever. Mounting frustrations over the lack of artistic connections and peers, he struggled to gain traction...
Local creatives, you won't want to miss this one: The Contemporary Arts Network (CAN) invites you to join them for CAN Fest 2022. The curated event series, celebrating the contemporary arts, will be hosted at Assembly, one of Norfolk's premier community spaces for...
Just before where the sidewalk ends on 24th street, an inconspicuous gravel lot beneath a looming cell tower is usually full of cars. Most days, it serves as the overflow parking for Toast and Perro Blanco, two of Park Place's favorite spots for kicking back with the...
Norfolk is one of the East Coast's leading creative epicenters, and the Chrysler Museum is one of the city's best spots to enjoy fine art. The museum offers rotating exhibits for locals to enjoy works from curators worldwide. The newest exhibit is one of a kind,...
2012 feels like a century ago, given the weight of world happenings. Thankfully, a band of merry women has been helping us stay light-hearted for over ten years. Back in 2012, the Norva paused its usual production of concerts for a performance of a different sort. 30+...
When you think of art, you rarely think of advanced mathematics—those things just don’t sit together. It’s like the idiom of oil and water or the age-old high school clique caste system of nerds and art outcasts; those opposites just don’t mesh. And while some of...
Stepping into Quixotic Arts, you'll find a menagerie of treasures - ranging from the colorful and eclectic to the mysterious and macabre. The entryway features displays of funky socks, crocheted plushies, and secondhand children's books. As you meander towards the...
The premier organizer of independent music in the region, LAVA Presents, has already brought dozens of acts to the stage. That momentum is carrying them into NorFunk Fest this Saturday. For fans of jam bands like Umphrey's McGee, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Goose,...
“Just two lovebirds singing without reverb.” That’s all that the War and Treaty offer up as a self-description on their website. But damn, does that undersell this duo of musicians. Tanya Blount and Michael Trotter are a husband and wife musical team throwing out the...
Norfolk's festival season is in full swing, and up next is Hope House's biannual Stockley Gardens Arts Festival this weekend, May 21-22. This free, two-day, juried event will showcase more than 115 artists, musicians, and food vendors in Ghent's beautiful and blooming...
Situated at the northeast corner of Monticello Avenue and Charlotte Street, the Wells Fargo Center will become the stage for one of Norfolk's most exciting spectacles this year. BANDALOOP, a dance troupe specializing in vertical performance, will soon grace the glass...
What better way to celebrate the quickly approaching warmer season than by relishing in the outdoors' natural beauty with Coastal VA Plein Air's Sixth Annual Plein Air Festival? The festival is a six-day event, starting on Tuesday, April 19th, through Sunday, April...
The Totality of Time Lusters the Dusk’s story is one of parallels and ironies, ultimately bound by the fate that we as humans have created for ourselves—or perhaps, it’s the fate into which we were born. However you look at it, Lauren Fensterstock’s latest body of...
History is being made at The Chrysler this summer with Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful. The late artist and educator has arrived in Norfolk with the most extensive retrospective to date and honors the museum's walls by being the first African American woman...
Art and Community. That is what For All Handkind, also commonly known in short as FAHK, is all about. FAHK is a space where artists both local and beyond can showcase and sell their unique handcrafted creations. 5% of all sales go to charity, making a long list of...
For over 35 years, the D'Art center has been a pillar of the local arts community. The organization has transformed and moved a few times, but it remains true to its purpose of connecting artists and their communities. In 1986, d'Art opened its doors on College Place...
The Norfolk Botanical Garden has always been a leader in caring for the environment. That’s why they’ve brought in Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea to help educate the community on the detrimental impact that plastics have on sea life. The art display, running from...
Teens With a Purpose is partnering with an all-star team of organizations to bring an exceptional event to the outdoor space at 801 Church St this weekend. Saturday from 3 to 9 pm, the 8th Annual Fuse Fest will be filling Purpose Park with music, art, culture, and...
