What’s Booming RVA: Fests Galore & Photos
Boomer’s top 5 picks for the week ahead
Highlighting three of the weekend’s many festivals, plus photos and belly laughs. For Oct. 3 to 10, 2024: “What’s Booming RVA: Fests Galore & Photos.”
The Second City 65th Anniversary Show
Oct. 4, 6:30 and 9:45 p.m., at The Tin Pan, Richmond
The legendary Chicago-based comedy legend presents favorite songs, sketches, and characters written for them by some of their illustrious alumni, including Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Amber Ruffin, Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray, Joan Rivers, Eugene Levy, and more, with material handpicked from our iconic comedy archive and brought to life by an all-star ensemble.
Armenian Food Festival
Oct. 4 to 5 at St. James Armenian Church, Richmond
Richmond’s oldest food festival presents cuisine such as chicken shish kabobs, cheese boreg, Armenian meat pies, stuffed grape leaves, mouth-watering pastries, and the famous and original Hye Burger, plus traditional music and dancing. FREE, pay as you go.
Powhatan’s Festival of the Grape
Oct. 5, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., in Historic Courthouse Village, Powhatan
Party in the streets with reds, whites, roses, and some sparkling surprises – plus craft breweries, local distillers, ciders, meads, arts and craft vendors, live entertainment, food, and lots of Virginia wines.
2nd Street Festival
Oct. 5 to 6, in Jackson Ward, Richmond
Celebrating the rich culture and vibrant present of the historic Jackson Ward neighborhood, when it was the heart and soul of Richmond’s African American community and known as “the Harlem of the South.” The two-day festival features three stages of live musical entertainment, including Grammy Award-winning Arrested Development on Saturday and Desiree Roots on Sunday, along with other performing artists, a Kidz Zone, food vendors, a marketplace and Artists Row, and the Richmond Metropolitan Antique Car Club.
Two New Photography Exhibitions at VMFA
Oct. 5 to Jan. 26, 2025, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
Take an epic journey through the American South, meeting everyday lives and ordinary places captured in evocative photos that contemplate the region’s central role in shaping American history and identity and its impact on the development of photography. Organized chronologically, the exhibition traces the South’s shifting identity..
American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy
Poetic street scenes, Hollywood portraits, fashion photos, and images of war produced by more than 30 Hungarian-born artists who transformed photography in the 20th-century. The émigrés and exiles from Hungary reinvented themselves and American photography. Oct. 5 to Jan. 26, 2025, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
VMFA.museum: American, born Hungary
Check websites for more details, including prices and registration requirements.
More of What’s Booming in Richmond besides fests galore
More fun to fill your plate
- MORE EVENTS from October 3 to 10, plus announcements and road trips
- Lots of future Richmond happenings
