Shows of paintings by Marti Fann and photograph by Alison Overton will open the 2008-2009 season at 12 12 Gallery on August 24th with an artists’ reception that afternoon from 2-5PM. The show runs through Sunday, September 28th.

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22,000 miles for peace; 6th District Town Meeting; Carib Fest; Saturday Growers; Bohemian Market; Women’s Roles in Civil War History; Bikes in the Bottom; Sunday Vintage Market; Back Porch @ GlobeHopper: Our Ecological Footprints; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; Eek A Mouse; James River Writers meet&greet; Mini Flicks & Stories; Thursday Fresh Market; RPG, Adam West, Throttle Rod, Switched On; Richmond’s Civil War Prisons walking tour; MORE…

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The National Park Service has 3 Civil War walking tours remaining this month: Industrial Work Force Tour tomorrow, Richmond’s Civil War Prisons walking tour on 8/16, and Walking Tour of Historic Tredegar Iron Works on 8/23. [via]

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GlobeHopper will celebrate their first 180 days or so on August 23rd, stay tuned for more details… Booted from Shockoe Espresso, catch The Shockoe Poets at the GlobeHopper open mic. GlobeHopper has also announced a “Game Night” for Saturdays:

For starters, we’re going to buy a Backgammon board for the store, and then we were hoping that people would just bring in their favorite board games to play with others. Or even just to play cards or something less strategic like charades!

The Caribbean Islands come to Richmond this Saturday at Carib Fest 2008 with the live entertainment of the Calypso King of the World The Mighty Sparrow, the Reggae band Ever-G, the Panjammers Steel Orchestra, and Son Quatro Salsa Band. Come enjoy Caribbean crafts, children’s activities, book sales and authors, vendors and much more! Brown’s Island, $10 admission, children 12 & under are free, Noon-9:00PM.

Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte Co-Headline the “Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour”; Shockoe Bottom walking tour; Sunday Vintage Market; Back Porch @ GlobeHopper: Intentional Communities; Dig begins at Lumpkin’s Jail location; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; Getting Started with Organic Gardening; Mini Flicks & Stories; Mos Def @ Toad’s Place; Thursday Fresh Market; Fridays at Sunset; River District Canal Cruises (Friday-Sunday); The Whigs @ Canal Club; 22,000 miles for peace; 6th District Town Meeting; Carib Fest; Women’s Roles in Civil War History; Bikes in the Bottom; MORE…

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The 10 year run of the Shockoe Poets 2nd&4th Sundays open mic @ Shockoe Espresso has come to an end:

Apparently, the parent company Mill Mountain ( anything to do with the theater?) had some sort of problem somewhere and somebody screwed it up for the rest of us and the order is out for NO MORE ENTERTAINMENT at their establishments.

Straight from the shopkeeper herself:

The barista’s are taking over!!! We’re having an open mic at GlobeHopper on Thursday, hosted by Nathan! Share a story, play an instrument or sing us a song! We’ll also have drink specials and a dinner plate special of penne pasta with grilled portabella mushroom or chicken tossed with locally grown basil pesto and served with a summer salad! Made fresh by GlobeHopper’s Kimmy!

Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte, co-headlining the Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour, will take over 18th Street this coming Sunday (8/3). “Featuring live music from pop/rock band Boys Like Girls, multi-platinum selling punk/rock band Good Charlotte, and up and coming Metro Station and The Maine”. $10 in advance, $20 at the gate, all ages, 12-7PM

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Back Porch @ GlobeHopper is tonight:

This Monday July 27, we will view clips from The Business of Being Born which explores the political, scientific and environmental implications of our current maternity care system. Prompted to explore modern delivery practices after the birth of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruited filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore and document the ins and outs of the modern American Birth Care system. Join birth activist and educator Thérèse Hak-Kuhn to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the current American birth system and to discuss the possible benefits of choosing alternatives to hospital birth.

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Sunday Vintage Market; book signing @ Fountain Bookstore; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; Mini Flicks & Stories; Thursday Fresh Market; Fridays at Sunset; River District Canal Cruises (Friday-Sunday); Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte Co-Headline the “Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour”; Shockoe Bottom walking tour; MORE…

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A message from Scott Sibley of the Richmond Farmers Market Advancement Association:

Offering and the RFMAA invites you to participate in Arts In The Alley
in Shockoe Bottom August 24, 2008. We are asking talented Richmond artists like yourself to display your work in Walnut Alley during the Sunday event designed to reclaim Richmond’s alley ways from neglect and upgrade there condition. This is a perfect opportunity to both show and sell your work to visitors of the event and the 17th Street Farmers Market. Displaying in the alley is free, however, as this is a non profit event, we gently encourage you make a donation once you sell a piece of your work.

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Come experience a unique phenomenon as 10,000 Purple Martins rush to nest at sunset at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market! The Shockoe Chef Showdown and the Gone to the Birds Festival, part of a full day at The 17th Street Farmers’ Market, both run this Saturday, July 26. The Showdown runs from 11AM-4PM and Gone to the Birds runs from 6-9PM.

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August has a wide variety of extra items on the calendar already: Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte Co-Headline the “Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour”, Shockoe Bottom Walking Tour, Carib Fest @ Brown’s Island, Women’s Roles in Civil War History, Arts in the Alley, and Canal Boats and Cobblestones Walking Tour, MORE…

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Manchester merchants, galleries and eateries are uniting to provide an evening of art, food and fun south of the river, starting @5PM this Friday, July 25th.

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Sunday Vintage Market; Back Porch @ GlobeHopper: Eco-Friendly Painting 101; Planning Commission meeting on June 2008 Draft Downtown Master Plan; Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Meeting; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; Introduction to Organic Gardening ; Mini Flicks & Stories; Thursday Fresh Market; Unhappy Hour @ the Poe Musem; 4th Friday Artwalk; Christine Gibson Memorial Concert; 19th Annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Duck Race; Shockoe Chef Showdown; MORE…

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TONIGHT AT BROWN’S ISLAND: 80’s Was the Greatest - Old Skool Concert featuring MC Lyte, Doug E Fresh, KRS-1, EU Band, DJ Kool, and hosted by Dee Dee Renee. $25, starts @ 4PM.

To celebrate their numerous accomplishments and to raise awareness about upcoming projects and initiatives, Back Porch Initiatives invite you to join them for their First Annual Wine and Cheese Benefit Concert on the evening of July 26 from 5PM-8PM.

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To celebrate the return of the flock of purple martins to 17th Street, the neighborhood will celebrate a “Gone to the Birds” festival July 26 from 6-9PM. The flock is currently at just under 4,000 birds; by festival time there could be 10,000 birds. [via]

The gregarious birds fly around eating insects by day; then at dusk they form a whirling mass over the Bottom before swooping down to roost in the line of pear trees on 17th Street, one block north of the Farmers Market.

Bikes in the Bottom; Sunday Vintage Market; Back Porch @ GlobeHopper: Affluenza; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; Ben (Cooter) Jones: Congressman/TV Star; Mini Flicks & Stories; Thursday Fresh Market; 80’s Was the Greatest - Old Skool Concert; Fridays at Sunset; River District Canal Cruises (Friday-Sunday); Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Meeting; MORE…

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