2012 Girls of Summer Tonight At The Public Library

The Main Street branch of the Richmond Public Library holds Girls of Summer 2012 at 7pm. A literary girls night out at the library – a special conversation with friends Gigi Amateau, Meg Medina, and Wendy Shang, author of “The Great Wall of Lucy Wu.” It makes one perfect evening – library park, books, authors, friends and ice cream!

From the Richmond Public Library event page:

Local Richmond children’s authors Meg Medina and Gigi Amateau present their annual annotated reading list of 18 handpicked titles that celebrate strong girls in a fun-filled night for book-loving girls of every age.

This year’s live launch event at the Main Library will feature:
• Outdoor refreshments in the library park
• An intimate conversation with award-winning, middle grade Wendy Shang, author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
• Readers’ theater
• and book giveaways
• Plus, one lucky winner will win an entire collection of the 2012 Girls of Summer reading list.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012
7 – 9 pm
Richmond Public Main Library
Library Park area (bring a lawn chair)

The full list of reviews and author interviews will be available online at
www.girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com beginning June 20, 2012.

Richmond Zine Fest’s Movie Night This Tuesday

The Flying Brick Library hosts a fundraiser for the next Richmond Zine Festival on Tuesday around 8 pm.

From Facebook event page:

Join us for a night of short documentaries and snacks!

There will be small bags of popcorn and cupcakes made with care by Becca (one of our newest Richmond Zine Fest organizers and creator of the food zine “‘A Monsterous Appetite for Cake”).

At dusk, we’ll view Grrlyshow by Kara Herold, All Night, All Day, and Occupy America by Mark Strandquist .

This is a fundraiser for Richmond Zine Fest 2012. All funds will go toward the cost of a venue and other fees involved with planning and publicizing a non-profit event for independent, alternative publishing. Thank you for supporting Richmond Zine Fest!

Summer Solstice Power Jam 2012 on Belle Island Tomorrow

From the Facebook event page:

A Free + Unplugged Show Featuring:

1 – 1:30 p.m. Herro Sugar
1:30 – 2 p.m. The Mothball Fleet
2 – 2:30 p.m. Paul Ivey & The Rubes
2:30 – 3 p.m. Bermuda Triangles
3 – 3:30 p.m. The Milkstains
3:30 – 4 p.m. Tyrannosaurus Awesome
4 – 4:30 p.m. The Garbers
4:30 – 5 p.m. Peace Beast
5 – 5:30 p.m. THE DOG SHOW (not a band, a real dog show)
5:30 – 6 p.m. Broken Pony
6 – 6:30 p.m. Black Liq
6:30 – 7 p.m. Nervous Ticks

Here’s some footage from 2010 (by Silver Persinger):

The Diamond Center: http://vimeo.com/14978251
Nervous Ticks: http://vimeo.com/12815648

The power plant looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRt_W5F_jQ

Fun for all. No plugging in allowed. Bring your dogs and smiles. PICK UP YOUR TRASH, TOO.

TONIGHT: MOJOS KARAOKE CHALLENGE FINAL!

From FaceBook event page:

It’s finally here! The championship!! We have selected 6 lucky finalists! Come on and watch as they compete to become the ultimate karaoke champion!!

All 6 finalists will need to be at Mojos before karaoke starts, before 10:30 pm. At that time they will need to give our DJ the 3 songs you will perform to win the BUSCH GARDENS SEASON PASS!!

We will be looking for crowd reaction to select our winner, so make sure you bring all your friends!!!

If all 6 finalists aren’t there at 10:30, we just might pick some wild cards… so everyone is encouraged to come ready to win!

This is the VERY LAST night of karaoke at Mojos!! So let’s make sure we make it a good one!!!

See you all there!!