Grab OML RSS FeedThere are some great events coming up this winter for all of you living in townhomes in Lynchburg. Try to get in some of these great productions while you are out on school’s winter break.
This January’s events include music, art and theater productions. Here are some to keep an eye out for over the next months:
Friday, Jan. 6
Members of the Blue Ridge Photographic Arts Society will open a new exhibit, “Winter Solstice,” in the Academy of Fine Arts’ Up Front Gallery during First Fridays. The reception will run from 5 to 8 p.m., with music by Jay Daniels.
Saturday, Jan. 7
Amherst County Habitat for Humanity’s annual benefit concert, Bluegrass: Working On A Building, is set to run from 3 to 9 p.m. in Sweet Briar College’s Murchison Lane Auditorium. Performers include Hand Picked Grass, Corbin Hayslett, Long Mountain Grass, New Standard and Ridge Runners of Virginia. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students and $5 for children younger than 12.
Tuesday, Jan. 17
E.C. Glass High School’s production of the Tony Award-winning Children of a Lesser God will open at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Studio Theatre. Other performances are at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18-21. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors.
Lynchburg College’s Daura Gallery will host an opening reception at 4 p.m. for Aggregations. The exhibit features new work by Korean-based artist Kwang-Young Chun, who specializes in monumental sculptural installations; it will remain up through March 2.
Friday, Jan. 20
The exhibit Mirror of a Passing World: Ephemeral Places, Vanishing Spaces will open with a reception at 5 p.m. at The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. The exhibition is the being curated by six students from the museum’s first-ever Curatorial Seminar class.
Sweet Briar College will also open a new exhibit, This Green Earth: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, at 5 p.m. It will remain up through April 1.
Liberty University’s Department of Music and Humanities will present Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance at 7:30 p.m. in the Tower Theater. Other performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21, 26, 27 and 28 and 2:30 p.m.
Jan. 22.
Lynchburg College will hold a lecture and concert, Voices in Peril: Music of the Holocaust, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sydnor Performance Hall.
Saturday, Jan. 21
The American Shakespeare Center will bring its production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the Academy of Fine Arts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and $13 for students.
Thursday, Jan. 26
The Foreigner will open at 7:30 p.m. at Jefferson Forest High School, with other performances at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 29.
Saturday, Jan. 28
Opera on the James will present Love Makes the World Go ‘Round, a concert of opera and Broadway tunes and more, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy of Fine Arts’ Warehouse Theatre. Another performance is set for 3 p.m. Jan. 29.
Richmond-based band Blue Line Highway, who play a mix of blues, contemporary pop and traditional country, will perform at The Hamner Theater at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15, and reservations are recommended.
Appomattox Courthouse Theatre’s production of First Baptist of Ivy Gap, about a group of women planning their church’s 75th anniversary celebration and, later, its 100th, opens at 7:30 p.m. Other performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, 4, 10 and 11 and 2 p.m. Jan. 29 and Feb. 5.
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