Category Archives: Main Street library

RVA Archeology Hosts Public Lecture POSTPONED

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UPDATE: This event has been postponed.

UPDATE: Due to an unavoidable development, the RVA Archaeology meeting and public lecture will NOT be held this weekend. We are working to reschedule it and will let you know when there’s a new date.

RVA Archeology is hosting a public lecture and business meeting this Saturday. From the FaceBook event page:

We will be hosting our first meeting and public lecture of the new year on Feburary 6th, 2016 at the Richmond Public Library! The meeting will be from 10-12 for members, and then at 12:30 Archaeologist Lyle Browning will give a presentation entitled “Riparian and Riverine Sites in the Richmond Falls Zone”, discussing the many archaeological sites that are part of the James River in Richmond!

Richmond CoHousing: Building a Gingerbread Community

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Laurel Street neighbor Caroline Cox has written a column in support of the Richmond CoHousing group for their website. It describes a family-oriented promotional program at the Richmond Public Library.

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Caroline is a long time resident of Oregon Hill, vegan cheesemaker, and gingerbread planner extraordinaire. She is also one of the founding members of Richmond Cohousing – if you’d like to hear about how our group came to be, she’s a great one to ask!

Indian Music At Main Library Saturday

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The 2015-16 Gellman Room Concert season features a variety of concerts performed by musicians and composers from Richmond and across the country on Saturday afternoons at 2 pm in the Gellman Room of the Main Library.

This Saturday, Soumya Chakraverty will be playing sarod (Indian classical fretless string lute) accompanied by Souvik Ghosh on tabla (Indian percussion hand drum).

Here is a previous concert featuring Chakraverty:

This Week At The Main Library

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Check it out, at the Main Richmond Public Library.

Monday, November 9
5:30 – 7 p.m.
ESTATE PLANNING BASICS
RPL community Law Program taught by local Attorney Thomas Neal “Tom” Jamerson. For details call: 646-7223

(Meanwhile at the Broad Rock branch, Homework Buddies from 3:30-5:30 pm
Students from Open High School will be available to help with homework! Free!)

Tuesday, November 10
12 noon – 1 p.m.
LUNCH BOX BOOK CLUB
Join us for a book discussion of Dead Wake by Eric Larsen. For details call: 646-7223

2 – 4 p.m.
TECH TUESDAYS
Computer, cell and all tech questions, call the Computer Lab: 646-2551, to reserve a 30 min sessions

2 – 4 p.m.
COMMUNITY LAW SERIES: Free and open to the public
For details call: 646-7223 “Love shouldn’t Hurt….The Crime of Domestic Violence” Helivi L. Holland, City Attorney of the City of Suffolk, VA

4 p.m.
STEM TUESDAYS
Explore, Learn and Create through STEM centers. Build exciting circuits, explore with magnets, computer gaming and more. ages 5 and up with an adult. For details call: 646-4768

Wednesday, Nov. 11
Closed for Veteran’s Day

Thursday, Nov. 12
10:30 – 12:00
Introduction To Finding Nonprofit Grants
Free. Seating limited. General Collections Training Lab. Call 646-7223 to register.

Library Book Sale This Weekend

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Friends of the Richmond Public Library will be holding a book sale this weekend at the Main branch, also coinciding with First Friday celebrations.
From the announcement:

Give in to your book buying addiction and attend the Friends’ Fall Book Sale. The sale will offer thousands of great hardbacks at $2, paperbacks, large print and children’s books at 50 cents, DVDs and CDs at $1, and cassettes at 25 cents. There are collectible books at a fraction of the going internet prices available in the Special Collections Room on Friday and Saturday.

The sale is open to the public:
Friday, November 5 from 12 noon – 5 p.m. and 7 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, November 6 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Monday, November 8 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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YAVA Author Celebration Wednesday At Main Library

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The Richmond Public Library is hosting 14 Virginia authors of books for children and young adults at its YAVA Book & Author Party from 6:00 to 8:30 pm on Wednesday, October 21, at the Richmond Main Library (101 E. Franklin Street).
The event is FREE to the public and will feature book sales and signings, raffles, and music by the Hanover High School jazz band. The authors are Gigi Amateau, Tom Angleberger, Cece Bell, Anne Blankman, Bill Blume, Martina Boone, Lana Krumwiede, Sarah McGuire, Jodi Meadows, Sara Raasch, Madelyn Rosenberg, Wendy Shang, Kat Spears and Steve Watkins.

Richmond Folk Festival/Richmond Zine Festival/Richmond Record Fair

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Of course, for anyone who does not already know, this is the weekend of the Richmond Folk Festival. I am always surprised by how many locals still do not understand that this is not folk rock as in Bob Dylan, but folk musics and traditions of all types from all over the world. It’s an incredible chance to grow your musical tastes and it happens right next to Oregon Hill. Yes, there are community concerns about how Venture Richmond is using the Folk Festival to push inappropriate riverfront development, but that should not stop people from enjoying what the festival itself has to offer.

And that’s not all that’s happening this weekend…Whurk Magazine, ‘Virginia Cultural Review’, has a nice article on the Richmond Zine Festival, which takes place this Saturday at the Main Public Library, Oregon Hill’s City public library branch. (One footnote- although the festival is billed as the ninth annual one, Throttle Magazine started and sponsored a few earlier renditions of the Richmond Zine Festival years earlier)
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If that is not enough, Oregon Hill’s Vinyl Conflict record store is co-sponsoring the Richmond Record Fair at Hardywood Brewery on Sunday. The description has “20+ tables spanning all genre, tones, culture, subgenre, sub-sub-genre, feedback, texture, vibrations and libations”. It includes a concert by local band The Milkstains.
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Here’s hoping that everyone has a great weekend.