The Virginia War Memorial will host their 2nd annual 5K Run/Walk to Remember on Saturday, April 6 at 8 am. The route goes through Oregon Hill and Hollywood Cemetery. Between 8:30 am and 9:30 am there will be 500 participants traveling on the streets.
The event will only close 2nd Street from the Lee Bridge to Byrd Street the morning of the race. No others streets will be closed. Soldiers from Ft. Lee will be along the race route directing participants.
In exciting local entertainment news, the public/private partnership Venture Richmond announced plans to release their schedule for a new concert series that would take place every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday summer evening at their proposed new amphitheater.
While a full listing will not be available until Friday of this week, some of the bigger names that rumored to be part of this series include metal band Trixter, American Idol country singer Danny Gokey, rapper Machine Gun Kelly, goth rocker Marilyn Manson, hip hop’s Keyshia Cole, Nickelodeon’s Fresh Beat Band, and megastar David Bowie (supporting his new album). There were also hints that there would be multiple performances by ‘Center Stage Stars’, subsets of the Richmond Symphony that play at reduced rates (minimum wage). Local band “Six Sheets to the Wind”, which plays yacht rock’ from the ’70’s as well as ’90’s ‘skacore’ has been suggested as one of the opening bands, with more to be announced.
Oregon Hill residents were both enthralled and disturbed by the news. “WoooooHoooooo!” exclaimed VCU sophomore Rich Berry. In contrast, the Overlook Condo Association immediately released a statement in protest, mainly due to sound concerns. “This goes against the deal”, said one Overlook resident who wished to remain anonymous. In response, a Venture Richmond said that “While it is true we told Overlook residents we would not host Friday Cheers at the amphitheater, that was before the Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday Cheers series was developed.”
In other news, the City government announced a plan to raise admission taxes and release new nightclub restrictions.
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From email announcement:
The deadline for entering the Richmond Peace Education Center’s 2013 Peace Essay contest is April 22, 2013. The theme for this year’s contest is “Learning to live in peace.” The writing prompt asks students to think and write about the roles their families or other care-givers play in teaching them about peace. They are further asked to write about how this teaching affects their actions in the community and the world; and to support their ideas with examples from their personal lives and from history and current events.
The contest is open to any elementary, middle, or high school student in Virginia. It offers a top prize of $100 in each of four grade divisions: K-3, 4-5, middle, and high school. Seven additional cash prizes are also awarded in each division.
Entry forms, along with contest rules and a conplete description of the writing prompt are available at www.rpec.org, or by emailing rpec@rpec.org.
The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) meets tomorrow night at 7 pm at the William Byrd Community House.
“Les Misérables” runs March 26-31 at the Landmark Theater.
Style magazine featured an interview with actor Andrew Varela this past week. An excerpt:
Based on Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name, the popular musical follows the lives of the proletariat in post-Napoleonic France. Weaving through uprisings, tuberculosis and poverty, Claude-Michel Schönberg’s emotive and melodious score has entertained American audiences since it first crossed the pond in 1987. The show comes to the Landmark Theater next week.
Though audiences may be familiar with the show through last year’s film adaptation, Varela says there’s nothing like seeing the musical as it was meant to be performed. And for those familiar with the stage version, this production is quite different from the original ’87 staging.
“We had a meeting with Cameron [Mackintosh, the musical’s producer] about doing the show in a much more modern way,” director Laurence Connor says. “I think the original production was quite an eclectic sort of production. It was very theatrical, and it was quite romantic in many ways. We took a slightly more realistic approach. [It’s] a bit grittier in places.”
This production eschews the minimalist sets and features new costumes and orchestrations. It also does away with the show’s signature rotating stage, a revolutionary set piece in all senses of the word in 1987. Instead, today’s musical uses high-definition projectors and plays off some of Hugo’s illustrations.
“It is every bit as powerful musically as the original,” Connor says, “it’s just a different way of telling the story.”
On Saturday, March 23rd, between 8:30 and 9:30pm local time, you can join the Earth Hour movement to by turning off your lights and electric devices to raise awareness about climate change and the importance of a healthy planet.
2013 marks the 9th anniversary of Earth Hour, an event that has grown to include hundreds of millions of people, businesses, and governments around the world.
From email announcement:
And you will begin to notice a slow but steady increase in the appearance of early spring crops – greens, lettuces, microgreens, Brussels Sprouts and brassicas of many kinds…at BHM and area markets… Enjoy these early fruits of the sun, soil, H2o and daylight savings time. Tuesdays, 3 to 6pm through April. byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com (or use logo link below)
Server Crash
Greetings all, my apologies for no update last week, but our server crashed and there it all went from Thursday to Tuesday. Maybe it was a thunk from the “Gods” because this week the rain will hit Monday and dry out to fairly warm and breezy as this week launches the Spring season. Of course immediately following the first day of spring our nighttime temperatures will plummet to the upper 20s for the following few nights so enjoy those Tulip Magnolias and early sproutlings now before they become freezer burned and mushy. :( so sad.Ranch Dressing?
I’m looking for a recipe for making this popular with carrot sticks and children salad dressing FROM SCRATCH (whole fat buttermilk, sour cream or mayonnaise, herbs, spices, instructions)! Open to all suggestions and variations on the theme! Post it on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/byrdhousemarketUrban Agriculture Learning Series
On behalf of the WBCH Eat Good Grow Great Nutrition Education program, I will be at this coming Saturday’s urban agriculture learning session, March 23 to demonstrate “Cooking What You Grow!” If you attended last Saturday the 16th you heard all about WORMS from Daniel Finney of Tricycle Gardens and about Garden Planning from Matthew Daniel of WBCH Byrd House Farmlet. Duron Chavis of McDonough Community Garden (http://mcdonoughgarden.com/), Domoinic Barrett of Shalom Farms, Lisa Taranto of the city, David Stover our fine beekeeper and many others make this FREE series all profit for you. http://www.facebook.com/events/403986199684915/And speaking of …
Women’s History Month, did you know that Shelia Givens is the first African American woman to serve as executive director in its 90 year history?More goings on at www.wbch.org
_____________________Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306
From RPEC announcement:
Join the Richmond Peace Education Center for a timely community forum, “The Cost of War: Dismantling the Military-Industrial Complex and Building a Peace Economy,” Tuesday, March 19th, in the VCU Commons Theater on the Monroe Park Campus. The timing of the event–as Tax Day approaches–is intended to underscore the large proportion of tax dollars that go towards military spending.
The forum will focus on the history of U.S. militarism and the current defense budget and address possible strategies for converting a military-oriented economy to a peace economy.
Speakers will include VCU professor Mark Wood, PhD, and Miriam Pemberton, Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. There will be a Q&A session following their presentations. The evening will close with break out groups for follow-up action, for those who wish to participate. The program will be moderated by Adria Scharf, PhD, director of the Richmond Peace Education Center.
“The Cost of War” is part of the Richmond Peace Education Center‘s
programming on global peace/antiwar issues. The forum is free and the
public is invited to attend.For more information: www.rpec.org, 232-1002, or rpec at rpec.org