For all the details, check the website at www.workplacesandlivingspaces.com. Note that if you click on the properties’ addresses, you can find information specific to each of the participating properties.

Bring your canine buddy to historic, charming Old Towne Petersburg, VA and enjoy a fun day of fabulous sales at this special dog-friendly shopping extravaganza. Most stores in Old Towne will be participating in an outdoor/indoor sale of discounted merchandise and introduction of new Fall items! Well behaved dogs on leashes will be welcome in several stores. Water and doggie treats will be provided throughout Old Towne. For more details, click here for a flyer, or read on.

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Bring your memorabilia, antiques, and vintage collectibles to Historic Battersea on September 27, 10am to 5pm, for analysis and appraisal by our team of experts in: Furniture, Militaria, Art, Dolls, Sports Memorabilia, Clocks, Textiles, Silver and Porcelain. A written description and analysis of your items will be available! Food and period craft vendors will be on site.

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This year’s Nostalgiafest will be Oct 3-5. The City of Petersburg’s Nostalgiafest Committee invites you participate in the 10K race or 4K walk/run to help kick off the weekend’s festivities on Oct. 3, 5pm. Pre-registration is due no later than Sept. 29. Click here for the registration form and additional details.

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier will host “A Stitch in Time: A Beginner’s Journey to Quilting” on Saturday, August 23 and Saturday, November 8. Each class will start at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Participants will learn about quilting from different perspectives and actually make a 16-inch quilt block by hand using reproduction Civil War-era fabrics. The cost is $18 per person for Park Members and $20 per person for non-members. Reservations are required for this event.

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… or, at least, 10 minutes behind a microphone in a public venue.” Minerva Books is hosting a poetry reading September 12 at 7:30pm. Sign-ups for one of roughly 15 slots will begin August 15 and will be first come, first served until all the slots are filled. Note: you must stop by the store to sign up. And I quote: “You are allowed to perform your own original work, read from a favorite author’s work, or do some combination. But you will be limited to no more than 10 minutes of time, after which you will be gonged, drawn in crayon, and burned in effigy on the deck.” How cool is that?

Historic Battersea will host an Antiques Appraisal Fair on Saturday, September 27 from 10:00am until 5:00pm. Bring your memorabilia, antiques and vintage collectables for analysis and appraisal by a team of experts in: Furniture, Militaria, Arts, Dolls, Sports Memorabilia, Clocks, Textiles, Silver and Porcelain. A written description and analysis of your items will be made available. Food and period craft vendors will be on the lawn of Battersea.

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To mark the 1/2-way point to Mardi Gras, this Friday (August 8, from 7pm to 10pm) Java Mio will be serving up Po’boys, cajun specialities, and king cake, to be complemented by a wine tasting presented by Cooper’s Vineyard and music by Shadee. In addition, the walls will feature photographs by Tom Peterson.

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“Runway”, the most series by artist Carol Meese, opens with a reception Friday, August 8, 7pm to 9pm, at the Friend House Gallery.  The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibit will remain on display through November 1.

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The Destiny Inn B&B will host an Open House celebrating completion of the newly renovated Carriage Barn Recreation Room during Friday for the Arts, August 8, 6:30pm to 10pm.

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Get your feast on at the Brickhouse Run pub August 17, from 4pm to 8pm. By ticket only; tickets $40 per person. Featuring live music and tables of crabs, mussels, shrimp, scallops, oysters, fish and more!

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The Gallery at Enteros Design presents a series of works from Arkansas based artist, Jarrett Murphy. Murphy’s silver gelatin photographs offer a fantastical look into ordinary subjects.  They reject and embrace a great disappointment; that with a deluge of commercial imagery, what was once extraordinary has become common.  To draw people back to reality, it must become hyper-real.

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Come sample and compare St George’s American Style Beers vs. British Beers, at Java Mio Coffeehouse this Friday, July 25, at 7pm. Harry Clary will provide entertainment.

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The Phoenix Project (www.phoenixproject.org) is proud to partner with Petersburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Cassandra Stroud-Burns for the 5th Annual Petersburg Intercultural Festival.  This year’s festival is planned for Saturday, July 26 (10am - 5pm) and Sunday, July 27 (Noon - 5pm), at Poplar Lawn Park in Petersburg.  There will be a wide array of musical performers and activities for kids of all ages.  It promises to be a great event.  For more information about the event, click here.

The Tennessee Williams favorite A Streetcar Named Desire opens Friday, July 18 at 8pm at Sycamore Rouge, complete with a champagne reception with the cast and crew after the show.

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1) See the Stars Up Close at the Grant’s Headquarters Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield
2) “Hard Liquor and Women” – How Off-Duty Soldiers Amused Themselves During the Siege of Petersburg

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Friday for the Arts is tonight! Click here to check out the full line-up. And don’t forget: STELLA! calling contest at Sycamore Rouge at 8pm, and Narissa Bond will be performing at Minerva Books as of 8pm.

The Friend House Gallery & Studios announces its upcoming July 2008 exhibit. The 1st floor Gallery presents ”THE HEAT IS ON”, a ½ price sale by established regional painters: Ann Sylvest, Ann Piland, Susan Singer, Maggie Chalifoux, Carol Meese and Kitty Hedgepeth. “THE HEAT IS ON “ opens with a reception Friday, July 11th, 7 to 9 PM. It is free and open to the public. The exhibit will remain on display through August 6th.

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What do you get when you mix art, windows, and downtown Petersburg? Stories-n-Storefronts! Petersburg’s new initiative, which helps to clean, restore and decorate the windows of vacant buildings, is expected to take the city by storm.  The grand unveiling of the first phase of the project on Upper Sycamore Street will take place this Friday, July 11 in conjunction with Friday for the Arts!, beginning at 6pm at the Downtown Express Building, 110 N. Sycamore Street.  Come out and watch the story unfold!

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Narissa Bond will perform at Minerva Books at 233 Bartow Alley, Petersburg July 11th at 8pm. The recipient of a Kansas Arts Commission fellowship, Bond has opened for national touring artists Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky, Nina Gerber, L.J. Booth, Vance Gilbert and Ulali.

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The Main Gallery at PAAL presents SCENES FROM THE CARRIBEAN, oil paintings by Richard Leslie.  Mr. Leslie is originally from Belize City, British Honduras, and now resides in Chesterfield County.  He is a former President of PAAL, and has shown his work frequently in this area. Mr. Leslie will also be showing portraits, for which he is well known.

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Sycamore Rouge will host a “STELLA!” Calling Contest/FUNdraiser at the upcoming Friday for the Arts, July 11 at 8pm. The winner will receive two tickets to the opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire (which will be July 18)! The entry fee to participate in the contest is $10.

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The week of July 21 - 25, the Petersburg Area Art League will sponsor a Summer Arts Camp, geared toward young artists eager to learn exciting art techniques. Five different area artists will each take a day of that week to instruct in the following art forms: Collage, Mono-printing, Cartooning, Bookmaking, and Portfolio Building.

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Sagan Lacy, a student of animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design, will offer a class on cartooning and caricature at Petersburg Area Art League.

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