PVCC presents Fusion Music Project, an eclectic mix of local bands who explore the musical ground between genres. Featuring Appalachian electronica with Dave Watkins, Latin Reggae music by Bosque and Taiwanese surf rock band Dzian!

Piedmont Virginia Community College
501 College Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22902

PVCC Box Office: (434) 961-5376 / boxoffice@pvcc.edu / www.pvcc.edu/performingarts

A Halloween-inspired party starts with a costume parade led by Seymour the Dinosaur at 10:30 a.m. Children and adults will also be invited to visit CMoR’s decorated Halloween Village and enjoy spooktacular music, art projects, games, and story readings!

Children’s Museum of Richmond
2626 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220

Main number: (804) 474-7000 / secondary number: (804) 474-CMOR / www.c-mor.org

PVCC’s art gallery kicks off the 2010-11 arts season with two new exhibits. Half Life features works by local photographer Will May and Serial Thrillers features works by Randy Bill, Reba Peck and Sharon Shapiro. A reception with the artists will be Friday, Sept. 10, from 5-7 p.m. at the PVCC gallery in the Dickinson building. The reception is free and open to the public.

Piedmont Virginia Community College
501 College Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Beryl Solla: (434) 961-5362 / bsolla@pvcc.edu / www.pvcc.edu/performingarts

On Saturday, September 11, Poplar Forest will introduce the Poplar Forest Chestnut Rose. Visitors will enjoy a lecture from a panel of experts about rose cultivation, Jefferson’s use of roses in landscape design and landscape restoration at Poplar Forest. Speakers include Jane Baber White, Don Davis, and Jack Gary, Director of Archaeology and Landscapes. Tickets are $20.00. Admission includes access to the lecture, a guided landscape tour, light refreshments and a chestnut rose. Reservations are highly recommended. Please call the Museum Shop at (434) 534-8120 to reserve your space. The chesnut rose plants are propagated by Michael Kayes of Blue Ridge Boxwood, LLC, from the antique roses growing in the center of the boxwood turnaround in front of the house at Poplar Forest.

Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
1542 Bateman Bridge Road
Forest, VA 24551

General number: (434) 525-1806 / Event Information: (434) 534-8120 / events@poplarforest.org / www.poplarforest.org

Join us for a night of spooky fun as kids enjoy trick or treating in our child-sized village! Thanks to our supporters, Halloween is safe, fun, and FREE for kids at the Children’s Museum of Richmond’s 10th annual Halloween Hoopla. Children can have an authentic Halloween experience trick-or- treating in our kid-size neighborhood consisting of six Fan-District-style houses complete with spooky decorations. Other activities will include Halloween art projects, pumpkin painting, and games. Adult admission tickets can be purchased at the Children’s Museum for $4 each.

Children’s Museum of Richmond
2626 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220

Main number: (804) 474-7000 / secondary number: (804) 474-CMOR / www.c-mor.org

The Chesterfield Historical Society of Va will provide for young and older its “HAUNTED LANTERN TOURS” at Magnolia Grange on Rt.10 in Chesterfield. $5/adult and $2/child for any of the 3 tours 7PM, 8PM or 9PM. Reservations (804)796-7003. Join us for a ‘goulish’ good time on this ‘haunted’ fun tour.

Magnolia Grange Plantation House
10020 Iron Bridge Road
Chesterfield, VA 23832

Information: (804) 751-4946 / Magnolia Grange: (804) 796-1479 / admin@chesterfieldhistory.com / www.chesterfieldhistory.com

Tavia Nyong’o is associate professor of Performance Studies at New York University. His research interests include the intersections of race and sexuality, visual art and performance, and cultural history. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), which investigates musical, aesthetic, and political practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Presented by the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music Critical and Comparative Studies )

Old Cabell Hall, Room 107
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Marcy Day: (434) 924-3052 / music@virginia.edu / artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/pressreleases/10-11/101022nyongo.html

Refreshments by jack-o-lantern candlelight in the Earley Memorial Shrub Garden following service. Seating is very limited so arrive early!

Old City Cemetery Chapel
401 Taylor Street
Lynchburg, VA 24501

Phone: (434) 847-1465 / dawn@gravegarden.org / www.gravegarden.org

You are invited to Edible Landscaping’s Annual Persimmon Festival. Last year was a great success with everything persimmon. Fresh fruit tasting, persimmon in pie, cakes if you can imagine it someone probably made it with persimmons. We look forward to another great persimmon tasting this year and hope you can join us.

Edible Landscaping
361 Spirit Ridge Lane
Afton, VA 22943

Office: (434) 361-9134 / info@ediblelandscaping.com / www.ediblelandscaping.com

Magnolia Grange Plantation from the Chesterfield Historical Society will present an “All Hallows Eve” Tea with lots of delictable goodies with your tea. Tours of the plantation are provided along with a guest speaker. Pre-paid reservations are needed. 804-796-1479. Admission Fee – $25/attendee.

Magnolia Grange Plantation House
10020 Iron Bridge Road
Chesterfield, VA 23832

Information: (804) 751-4946 / Magnolia Grange: (804) 796-1479 / admin@chesterfieldhistory.com / www.chesterfieldhistory.com