Start of Folk Festival:
Irish music and dancing:
Broom dancing (I imagine this probably happened in some Oregon Hill kitchens):
Funana music and the Great Bitori:
A bluesy end to the first night:
More Richmond Folk Festival on the way today and tomorrow!
John Murden recently took this photo while visiting Belle Island.
From email announcement:
Community Movie Night
Friday, October 13
7:00 pm
Pleasants Park
As always, free refreshments served:
grilled hot dogs, sides, dessert, and beverage
From FaceBook event page:
To celebrate Artober, we will be exhibiting the Veterans’ Impact Project Monument at The Virginia War Memorial.
This sculpture was created in partnership with artist James Robertson.
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 12th from 5-7pm. The monument will remain on display until October 27th.
About the Project:
In what is likely America’s 1st crowd-sourced veterans monument, The Veterans’ Impact Project honored over 170 veterans through a participatory process where community members and veterans operated a custom-built Roman Ballista to fire symbols of military service into a large clay panel. Those impressions were cast on site to create a large-scale relief sculpture with Principal Artist for the project, James Robertson. The resulting 5’x17’ sculpture is one of the largest in Richmond.
There will be restricted parking in Oregon Hill this year for the this year’s 13th Annual Richmond Folk Festival.
Councilperson Parker Agelasto announced this at last night’s City Council meeting and OHNA President Jennifer Hancock confirmed that they are going over plans now.
Some portions of the neighborhood will be password protected for residents and some barricaded streets will be in effect.
While many neighbors are thankful and relieved to hear this, it is somewhat curious. With the roundabout construction, the route through or into the neighborhood is going to be congested anyway. There have been a few complaints from Southside residents about the lack of a Folk Festival bus shuttle to/from Southside. While the schedule is definitely rich in fantastic talent that should not be missed, there are no huge, blockbuster, headliner names. The Tredegar Civil War Center construction will also take up a lot of space that was previously used for the Festival.
In other words, while folks should look forward to attending the Richmond Folk Festival and expect to hear some great music, and certainly encourage others do so also, it seems like it will be purposely smaller this year. It’s a good year to use mass transit or ride bicycles to the Festival.
This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.
If you have not done so already, don’t forget to sign up for your Recycling Perks.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.
Also, congratulations to Suffolk, VA for their recent, successful recycling drive.
While its not in the neighborhood, I know many neighbors who enjoy the close by Little Mexico restaurant.
From the FaceBook event page:
Hi guys, its Nivi, as you all know there’s been alot of things going on right now. Rosio & I wanted to do our part & throw a little fundraiser to raise/collect donations (whether money or necesities) for Mexico & Puerto Rico.
TUESDAY, OCT 10 from 3PM to 7PM, Little Mexico will take a percentage of the proceeds made during this time and date will be donated to United for Puerto Rico & Omaze to help the victims of the hurricanes in Puerto Rico and earthquakes in Mexico, as well as accept items (LIST BELOW) that are gonna be sent to PR. Unfortunately I havent found anyone whose going to be shipping to MX to send items, so if anyone knows PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
This is something that is very personal to me, as I’ve had very little communication with family but I’ve been made aware of family members who have lost their homes completely and/or belongings. Hope to see ya’ll there! Anything is appreciated!
If for any reason you can’t make it to the event and/or would like to make an additional donation, you can donate online to the websites or donate to a little fundraiser I’ll have open on FB until OCT 11TH! These orgs aren’t an option so I put it under my name and I’ll personally donate the funds to them!
https://www.facebook.com/donate/347360749039938/
https://donate.omaze.com/mexico
http://www.unitedforpuertorico.com/—-LIST OF ITEMS THAT CAN BE DONATED—-
Water, Canned Food, Batteries, flashlights, water purifying tablets, first aid kits, bandages, small tool kits, hygiene products, sewing kits, small fire extinguishers, manual can openers, wrenches to turn off gas lines, battery-operated radios, garbage bags, dish soap, disinfectant, paper cups, plates, napkins, latex gloves and work gloves, baby wipes, sterile eye wash, sun screen, hand sanitizer, antibiotic ointment, adhesive tape and prepackaged tarps
St. Andrew’s School will be holding a Middle School Fair for its 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade families on Wednesday, October 11, at 5:30pm. Learn more about the middle school options that are available throughout the Richmond region.
