Starry eyed: Prepare to blast off with longtime Charlottesville favorite We Are Star Children. The band boasts peppy beats, catchy lyrics, and a sparkling smatter of horns, not to mention the vocal power of an eight-piece lineup. The performance benefits Roots and Wings, a program that provides comprehensive music education to kids throughout Charlottesville.
Sunday 6/6, $40-120, 6pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd., 244-2767.
Don’t look twice—run! Run to join the fun at University of Virginia’s Festival of the Moving Creature as several man-made giants emerge at sunset for an illuminated parade through the heart of UVA Grounds. The monstrous movers are built by students from the Art of the Moving Creature class in an homage to the work […]
“Perhaps you are sick and fear you will never be well, the brochure said, more or less. Perhaps you spend your days off on the couch, half napping, half awake. Perhaps your thighs, stomach, feet, and arms have become not so much you but accessories to you, things to hold and prod. If any of […]
Are you a verbally pompous know-it-all? Prove it at Wordplay, the annual fundraiser for Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle, where fans of vocabulary, pop culture, history, and literature show off their smarts to support adult literacy, one-to-one English lessons, and citizenship tutoring. Form a team, or play along in the audience, and take your chance on […]
