
Community Foundation honors Dawbarn Education Award winners
The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge presented awards of $10,000 to each of ten individuals during the 22nd annual Dawbarn Education Awards ceremony Wednesday evening.

The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge presented awards of $10,000 to each of ten individuals during the 22nd annual Dawbarn Education Awards ceremony Wednesday evening.

The Virginia Film Festival is opening its Downtown Festival Headquarters at the brand new Violet Crown Cinema at the Downtown Mall on Wednesday.

Black Swan Books & Music team with the SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series to present a reading by fiction writers Clifford Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know and In an Uncharted Country) and Chris Cleary (The Ring of Middletown).

The Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at Washington and Lee University will examine “The Ethics of Citizenship” during its 2015–2016 lecture and conference series.

On Tuesday night, foppish knights and dancing showgirls took the stage at the University of Virginia’s Culbreth Theatre for a rousing performance of Monty Python’s Spamalot, the headline musical in this year’s Heritage Theatre Festival.

Harrisonburg’s annual Independence Day celebration, Valley Fourth, returns for the 14th year with a full day of activities on Saturday, July 4th from 8:30 am to 9:30 pm in Downtown Harrisonburg.

World-renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako has covered the globe. Born in Mauritania and raised in Mali, Sissako studied in Moscow before settling in France in the early 1990s. He now travels the world directing and screening his films – and accepting awards for his work.

The Valley Playhouse and Court Square Theater present Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet – a dry, witty comedy, an amusing fantasy of two women struggling to adjust to life in a retirement home.

February’s Writing Show celebrates James River Writers’ new partnership with Firehouse Theater by discussing one of the oldest plot devices in storytelling, The Hero’s Journey.

New this year, the Richmond International Film Festival expands to more than 120 films and brings a one-day creative conference, the FLOW Collective.
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