Community Craft Night & Pumpkin Decorating This Thursday

From FaceBook event page:

Join the monthly Community Craft Night at Pine Street Church. This month, we will also have pumpkin decorating at our gathering. Bring your own craft to work on, a snack to share, and conversations to enjoy with your neighbors. All ages and crafting abilities welcome. Enter through the Albemarle Street door.

Dada the Data! A Funeral March for Intelligence! – Halloween Parade Announced

From All The Saints Theater Company:

Dada the Data! A Funeral March for Intelligence! Our 21st Annual Halloween Parade!!! What is dada but the ether, the string and the oscillation, the vibes are Dada. The oppressors who push for a post human realization, 100 years aftter Dadaism was born because the deranged taste for violence, war, and tyranny had left the people no choice! Again we must stand up to the oppressors and their mania for improvement, all the while we sell our blood and days for the promise of intelligence and a glimpse of immortalizzed bourgeoisie. We do not consent! Saintly Dadaist believe in the divine ability to be silly in the face of war. Join us in this Requiem of data collection. Let us smash the flocking reality that does not serve us. We have the right to privacy, we do not consent to surveillance. As the late great Dada Parton taught us, 9-5 blue collar dadaists roll out of bed and sip out of the holy grail of ambition and take to the streets every Halloween and to go to work on Monday!!!!!so we can go head to head with the Money God system and their liquid intelligence. So intelligence is dead!! And so what?? What for do we care ? What for do we love?? What for makes us shiver when the wind touches our scalp? The stocks are nothing but paper plates!to be trades people to burn the meat robot makers from the inside out! Time to play dumb, intelligence is dead, the resistance is full of fools, and boo hoo, big scum!! Create your own world, mimes the word, and pie the clowns is the new eat the rich!!!!

And…

All the Saints Annual Halloween Parade is a labor of love, supported through community fundraising and donations. This year, Puppets Off Broad Street is thrilled to help with fundraising in celebration of the 21st Anniversary of this Richmond tradition. Your donation is tax deductible.
Dada your dollars!
This year we are using everything but the kitchen sink to bring you a ready made revolution. All the Saints humbly ask for some money love from the Richmond community to help support the small but mighty crew of blue collar Dadaists coming together to bring you the parade. In the last few years, our crew has been larger, encompassing more traveling artists. This year we are scaling back to a small core team and using up our existing materials in order to shrink our overhead and fundraising goal to make the parade more sustainable. Please help us keep the parade alive this hallows eve by throwing us some bones.
Donations go towards
Material Costs & Art Supplies:
We strive to use recycled and donated materials primarily, but additional material costs do come up! Paint, brushes, fabric, hardware, bells, tape, cornstarch. Art ultimately is free, but paint is not. It shouldn’t be unsustainable to create art, a little goes a long way to help us manifest the full colorful world we build (and repair) every year without putting the saints in debt.
Transportation
Every parade is a beautiful storm of coordination, favors, and a love for Halloween. We pull upon a network of friends with vehicles able to transport the puppets all around town during October and to ferry our cardboard creations to the parade and back. Additionally we rent a truck. Donations help keep gas in the tank and us able to show up with more and more puppets.
We’re really just trying to cover costs and keep our crew fed this year, but anything additional gets distributed amongst the artists as compensation for all the hard work they do.
Thank you for supporting us Richmond, see ya on the streets 🙂
Our goal is $5500 this year✨
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=TNLAK5SEALHPQ
If you’d prefer sending us donations via Venmo, send donations to @saintmarkoos

Community Craft Night Thursday

Pine Street Baptist Church is hosting ‘Community Craft and Pizza Night’ tomorrow, Thursday, night from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.

From FaceBook event page:
“Join us for another Oregon Community Craft Night at Pine Street. Enjoy your craft and your neighbors’ crafts, good conversation, and a slice of pizza. All ages welcome.”

(Editor’s note: I would have loaded the flyer for this post, but I am having technical difficulties)

Community Craft Night Tonight

From FaceBook event page:

Join us for Oregon Hill’s Community’s Craft Night. A monthly gathering of crafting and conversation among neighbors and friends. Bring your own creativity, crafts, as we share together in community. The informal gathering is a great way to meet your neighbor. All ages welcome. Bring a snack to share if you like. Enter the Pine Street building at the side door on Albermarle Street.

RVA Environmental Film Festival Continues…

The RVA Environmental Film Festival, which has a long history here, and has been mentioned here many times in the past, continues tonight at the Main Library, Oregon Hill’s branch.

Wednesday, February 25, 6:00 PM – “The Street Project”
Main Library – Richmond Public Library
“The Street Project” will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives from local organizations who seek to make the streets safer for anyone not in a car, including pedestrians, cyclists, and public transportation users.

More upcoming…

Thursday, February 26, 6:00 PM “The Cigarette Surfboard”
University of Richmond, Jepson Hall, Room 118
Hosted by University of Richmond Office of Sustainability
There is a reception with the filmmaker, Ben Judkins, and a Q&A following the film!
Yes – it is about a surfboard made of discarded cigarettes and the activism around that.

Friday, February 27, 5:30 PM – “Common Ground”
ICA/ VCUarts hosted by VCUarts Cinema program.
This film highlights how regenerative farming practices can heal the soil, improve health, and stabilize the economy, while also addressing issues of racism in the food industry.

Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM- “Teach Me to Be Wild”
The Robins Nature Center – Maymont
A beautiful and touching film about an animal sanctuary and a therapeutic program for ‘at-risk’ youth.
(Free – ticket to Robins Nature Center not required)

Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 PM- “The Little Things that Run the World”
@LaPrade Library hosted by Chesterfield County Public Library
Through striking visuals and authoritative voices, “The Little Things That Run the World” uncovers the essential role insects play in sustaining life on earth.

Stay tuned for the festival’s grand finale, March 7th! (See www.rvaeff.org)

In addition, the MountainFilm On Tour is a great little traveling film festival that is coming to the Ashland Theater this Saturday Night. And, though it is not free admission like the RVAEFF, it is also highly recommended.