What’s Booming RVA: Art Speaks
Boomer’s top picks for the week ahead
This week in Richmond, artistic creations can beautify, honor Indigenous culture, educate, inspire, and even bring the dead to life! What will art say to you? In “What’s Booming RVA: Art Speaks.”
43rd Street Festival of the Arts
Juried show of 75 regional artists and crafters displaying and selling along the streets of the Forest Hill neighborhood – paintings, prints, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, glasswork, and more. Plus music, local food and street art for kids. Benefits CARITAS.
FREE to attend. Sept. 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in and around 43rd Street Gallery, Richmond.
Kennanee Native Arts Festival
Celebrate Indigenous culture, community, and connection in collaboration with the Virginia Native Arts Alliance and Indigenous voices from across the East Coast. Rooted in the spirit of kennanee, the Powhatan Algonquin word for friendship, the event uplifts Native traditions through art, storytelling, food, and play. Presenting short films by Indigenous creators, a live Shinny game, music, crafts, storytelling, seed-saving, a bustling arts market, native food trucks and community partners.
Sept. 14, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond.
“The Mischlinge Exposé” by Carolyn Enger
The internationally celebrated American pianist presents a powerful live documentary that explores a little-known aspect of Holocaust history through a blend of live piano performance, video, and audio testimony. Covering the Third Reich’s laws against individuals known as Mischlinge, a derogatory term for those with one or two Jewish grandparents, considered neither fully Jewish nor fully German under Nazi ideology. Enger shares the stories of her father and godmother, both of whom were labeled that term by the Nazis. FREE, registration required.
Sept. 14, 5 to 7 p.m., at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond.
Yasmin Williams
The innovative guitarist and composer is known for her unique compositional approach and expansive instrumental style. Her creative process involves ruminating on single notes until compositions emerge naturally. Beyond traditional fingerpicked guitar, she demonstrates mastery of multiple instruments including kora, harp guitar, banjo, and electric guitar. Her music is rooted in folk traditions and transcends conventional structures to incorporate elements of progressive rock and experimental composition.
Sept. 17, 8 p.m., at The Tin Pan, Richmond.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Modern technology reunites the band: Carl with his two bandmates, playing along with Keith Emerson & Greg Lake, who both passed away in 2016. The show combines video performance of Emerson and Lake from a legendary sold-out 1992 show with live on stage performances of Carl Palmer with his own ELP Legacy band. All the musicians play together in sync to present a complete and authentic Emerson, Lake & Palmer show.
Sept. 17, doors at 6:30 p.m., at Beacon Theatre, Hopewell.
Check websites for more details, including prices and registration requirements.
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