
Harrisonburg’s Valley Fourth offers day of activities
Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance has big plans for this year’s Valley Fourth in downtown Harrisonburg, including a variety of family-friendly activities for all interests and ages.

Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance has big plans for this year’s Valley Fourth in downtown Harrisonburg, including a variety of family-friendly activities for all interests and ages.

A total of $59,000 in funding for faculty-student summer research projects has been awarded to 17 Bridgewater College students who will live and work at the college throughout the summer.

The critically-acclaimed “Dirty Barbie and Other Girlhood Tales” is coming to the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro June 21-23.

Crafted from personal narratives from communities, kitchens, living rooms, and social media, dance company Urban Bush Women’s “Hair and Other Stories” tackles matters of race, gender identity, and economic inequality in the lives of African-American women.

The seventh annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship, culture, and innovation, launches today in Charlottesville.

Its wide acclaim – The New York Times called it “soul-satisfying” and “freeing” – isn’t the only reason The Spitfire Grill musical is Eastern Mennonite University’s spring theater production: It also “fits the ethos of EMU,” said music professor James Richardson.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Washington and Lee University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts presents L.A. Theatre Works’ “The Mountaintop,” a fictional retelling of how the legendary civil rights leader spent his final hours on earth before his tragic assassination.

Bridgewater College will celebrate 138 years of its founding on Tuesday, April 3, and will present three awards during the 11:15 a.m. convocation in Nininger Hall.

The state tourist motto is Virginia is for Lovers. Here are ten great Virginia events and attractions that demonstrate how easy it is to love Virginia.

The Traveling Players Ensemble returns to Lime Kiln Theater on Saturday, Aug. 19, with a family-friendly performance of The Frog Prince.
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