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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Chris Calkins, National Park Service veteran and renowned Civil War author, will give a talk on September 12, 2008, at 7 p.m., on the development and importance of the railroad in Petersburg before and during the Civil War. The program, rescheduled from its original date in May, will occur during Friday for the Arts! in Old Towne Petersburg.

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Pamplin Historical Park and The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier invites history enthusiasts to the 12th Annual Symposium, which will take place at the Park’s Education Center from October 17 to 19, 2008.  The theme for this year’s Symposium is “Blue Water and Brown: Naval and Combined Operations in the Civil War.”

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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?

Living historians will be present during two consecutive weekends at the Grant’s Headquarters Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield:
1) Meet General and Mrs. Julia Grant at the Grant’s Headquarters Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield
2) Jack Tars at City Point – The Navy Side of the Siege of Petersburg

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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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“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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During this month’s Friday For the Arts! (August 8), Minerva Books will host author Ella E. Schneider Hilton, who will read from and discuss her book entitled Displaced Person. The gripping and universally relevant book “chronicles Hilton’s remarkable childhood–one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before finally granting her access to the American dream.” 

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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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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.

Come and witness history being unearthed at Historic Battersea in Petersburg, VA! City officials, Battersea Inc. representatives, and Chief Archaeologist Josh Duncan from Cultural Resources Inc. will be on hand to showcase Battersea’s first complete Phase I Archaeological Survey on Wednesday, July 16, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm at Battersea, 1289 Upper Appomattox St., Petersburg, VA 23803. This event is free to the public. For more info, contact Richard Baugham (804)732-9882.

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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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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Sycamore Rouge presents Like Mother, a musical journey through six showers, three receptions, and one cheese sculpture of the Empire State Building. Through multiple musical characters, including her own mother, one woman recollects the highs and lows of a zany wedding planning process.  After theme-reception battles, perfect-gown victories, and a few tearful confessions, the bride discovers it’s not that bad being just a little LIKE MOTHER. The performance will be Friday June 27, 8pm. Tickets are $10. Note: this is a workshop performance, with an audience talkback session after the show!

1) Lyric Ave — Richmond, Va’s Own Poetry Based Variety Show — presents “Poetic Justice” at Sycamore Rouge Friday June 20, at 8:00pm.
2) QuintEssential Jazz — a six-piece Jazz Band — comes to the Rouge Saturday June 21 at 8:00pm.

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One Voice Chorus will present AN’ ALL THAT JAZZ at Anderson-Turner Auditorium in Virginia Hall on the campus of Virginia State University in Petersburg at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 28th. In collaboration with the Richmond Jazz Society, the all jazz concert features music of the Harlem Renaissance era with popular guest artists Desiree Roots and a jazz combo led by pianist Dr. Weldon Hill.  The concert will be conducted by One Voice Artistic Director, Glen McCune, and Associate Conductor Frank Williams.  B.J. Brown, executive director of the Richmond Jazz Society will narrate.

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1) Tours commemorate anniversary of the opening assaults on the City of Petersburg
2) Explore historic cemeteries by caravan tour
3) Celebrate freedom and family during Petersburg’s Juneteenth event

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The series ‘Color and Light Revisited’, recent work by Carol Meese, comprises views from rooftops of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The series can be viewed as part of this week’s Friday for the Arts at the Friend House Gallery, June 13, 7-9pm.

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