
Aesthetics of Sound: An Evening of Spoken Word and Poetry
With poets Ryan Kent, Devine Oke, and more! Doors at 7pm; show at 8pm.

On the Battlefield: Advance Private Screening
The documentary film explores the life and career of Cora Tucker, a native of Halifax County who tirelessly advocated for her community.

Do Whales Judge Us?: Interspecies History and Ethics
Join VCU’s Humanities Research Center for a public lecture with Bathsheba Demuth, Ph.D., writer, environmental historian and assistant professor at Brown University.

Announcing Nineteen Grants
Today, Virginia Humanities announced nineteen new grants totaling $204,827 to nonprofit organizations across the Commonwealth including a grant to Roanoke College for an exhibit titled “Fossil Tales—Connecting the Appalachian Mountains to Dragon Folklore.”

Locks Opened: Left Behind
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold, looks at the fugitive slaves from the Underground Railroad and shares what they left behind – family, clothes, name, even life.

Locks Opened: Sanctuary
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares stories and songs that remind us that we should be a people lighting the way to a refuge of freedom.

Buried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools
Through a Virginia Humanities grant, Randolph College’s Endstation Theatre Company is bringing the play “Buried Deep” to Riverside Park for a week-long run.

Locks Opened: Waterways to Freedom
Through story and song, Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares about local waterways that were part of the Underground Railroad.

Locks Opened: Children at the Border
The Underground Railroad of the 1800s did not just help free adults. Many a child came with, and without, parents, often through the same perils and sometimes in “plain sight.”