EventHispanic Heritage Month Celebration
Join us for our 3rd annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration at Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Roanoke. The multi-faceted cultural heritages of Latin America will be on display through a …
Event6th Annual Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival
The Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival aims to raise awareness about Native American language, cultures, and societies by showcasing great films by and about Indigenous peoples. The Festival brings together artists, …
EventWalter Reed’s Birthday at the Birthplace
Join the Fairfield Foundation for the second annual Birthday at the Birthplace celebration including: House Tours Archaeology New Kids Signs Ribbon Cutting Exhibits Birthday Cake Walk 19th Century Reenactors & …
NewsMore Than a Fraction: The Power of the Merry Tree
A recent grant from Virginia Humanities, awarded to More Than a Fraction Foundation, supported the first public phase of a long-term project, that is bringing together the descendants of two families—one whose ancestors were enslaved; the other whose forebears enslaved them.
NewsAnnouncing Eighteen Grants
Today, Virginia Humanities announced eighteen new grants totaling $153,200 to nonprofit organizations across the Commonwealth. “We’ve been supporting humanities-based projects across Virginia since our founding in 1974,” said Matthew Gibson, …
EventColumbia Pike Movie Nights
The Columbia Pike Documentary Project has created a twelve-minute video highlighting the people and culture of Columbia Pike. Consisting of powerful still photographs expertly collaged with the voices of our diverse …
NewsHelping Teens Make Sense of the Refugee Experience
An innovative program uses the imaginary world of “Fruitopia” to help refugee and non-refugee teens better understand each other.
EventReconstructed
Join us for a free screening of “Reconstructed: The Rebuilding of African American Communities Through Faith and Education,” a film by Horace Scruggs. This film was produced by the Fluvanna …
EventIndependence Day Celebration
Would you like to experience Independence Day at the final home of America’s first patriot? Come spend this Independence Day at the garden spot of the world, Patrick Henry’s Red …
NewsRestoring & Preserving Fluvanna’s Black Cemeteries
In the fall of 2021, we awarded the Fluvanna County Historical Society a grant through the Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan program. The historical society is using the funds …
EventReclaiming Our History
See how one rural Virginia county has used Ancestry.com and overlooked resources to discover ancestors who lived here before Emancipation and tell their stories.
EventJuneteenth at Red Hill
Come and enjoy Juneteenth, Sunday, June 19, 2022, with free admission to Patrick Henry’s Red Hill.
