Grab OML RSS FeedSometimes in February, the month stuck between winter and spring in Virginia, it is hard to think of things to do. Well, as residents of townhomes in Lynchburg, Va, you have loads of ideas right here:
Friday, Feb. 10
• The Maier Museum of Art’s Ninth Annual Love at the Maier event is set for 5:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for the general public and $4 for Maier members. A related event, Love at the Maier Family Program, in which children are invited to create valentines inspired by the exhibit, is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Feb. 12
• Riverviews Artspace will pick its On Screen/In Person Film Series back up with a screening of Concrete, Steel and Paint, a documentary about a prison art class collaborating with crime victims to design a mural.
Friday, Feb. 17
• Dance Theatre of Lynchburg’s annual Leaps and Bounds performance is scheduled for 7 p.m., with more shows at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 and 3 p.m. Feb. 19.
• Ragtime: The Musical will open in Liberty University’s Tower Theater at 7:30 p.m. Other performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18, 24, 25 and March 2 and 3; 2 p.m. Feb. 18 and March 3; and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 26 and March 4.
Thursday, Feb. 23
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream will open at Randolph College at 7:30 p.m. The theater department’s winter production also has performances at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, 25 and 27 and 2 p.m. Feb. 26; all are in the Thoresen Theatre, and tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for Randolph faculty, staff and alums and $5 for students and seniors.
• Lynchburg College’s theater department will also open its latest production, The Miss Firecracker Contest, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dillard Fine Arts Center theater. Other performances are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23, 24 and 25 and 2 p.m. Feb. 26. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $5 for students; the box office opens Feb. 20.
• That same night, LC hosts A Night at the Movies, in which the Wind Symphony and Orchestra will perform selections from films like “JFK,” “Forrest Gump,” “1941” and “Paradise Road” in the Sydnor Performance Hall. Another performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24.
Friday, Feb. 24
• Bedford’s Little Town Players will open Arsenic and Old Lace at 8 p.m., with other performances at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 and March 2 and 3 and 2 p.m. Feb. 26 and March 4. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for children 12 and younger.
Saturday, Feb. 25
• The 8th annual Downtown Lynchburg Loft Tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with ticket sales benefiting the Free Clinic of Central Virginia. Tickets go on sale Feb. 1 and cost $20 in advance or $25 on the day of the tour.
• Later that night, the Jefferson Choral Society will present Water Music, featuring tunes like “Shenandoah,” “Deep River,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Ol’ Man River,” at 7:30 p.m. at Timberlake United Methodist Church. Another performance is set for 4 p.m. Feb. 26. Tickets are $20 for adults and $8 for kids 12 and older.
• The Blues Brother Revue will come to the Academy of Fine Arts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $27 for adults, $24 for seniors and $15 for students.
Sunday, Feb. 26
• Sweet Briar College will kick off its annual Gospel Fest, featuring some of the area’s best gospel choirs and singers, at 5 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. The event is free.
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