This weekend in Lynchburg (Aug 28-30)

Heads up: 88 or so events this weekend, and the Howlers are home all three days, with fireworks after Saturday night's game. Saturday stacks up fast around it: Always Whitney takes the Warehouse Theatre, the Music Hall turns into a Y2K dance floor, Super Rad runs a second night of shows, Drag Bingo lands at Starr Hill, and Love Heals LIVE puts a room of songwriters together at Benaiah Prints. It's also the last weekend Ivy Creek rents canoes and kayaks before the season ends. Sunday winds down with a bridal expo, a coffee-painting class, and Brian Goering on the Trailhead patio. If I'm missing something, or you've got an event you're hosting or want to share, let me know.

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Fri Aug 28

🟠 Mission Thrift $3 Parking Lot Sale · 9:00am · Mission Thrift · $3 items
🟢 Recreation Shuffle · 10:00am · Fairview Center · rotating drop-in games and social hour, ages 50+ · Parks&Rec
🟠 Open Studio · 10:00am-6:00pm two-hour blocks · Needle Ninja · $25 · machines, sergers and cutting table, bring your own project
🟠 Open Studio · 10:00am-2:00pm · Hammer & Stain · $25-$50 · drop-in DIY across five project tiers
🟠 Little Picasso Art Club · 10:30am · Scrappy Elephant · $13 · a toddler art class built around a book, ages 18 months-3 years
🟢 Ride for the Residents · 10:30am · Harley-Davidson of Lynchburg · charity motorcycle ride benefiting nursing-home residents
🟠 Using a Sewing Machine · 12:00pm · Needle Ninja · $98 · beginner level, thread the machine and make a pillowcase or tote bag, one booking covers all three sessions
🟠 Clear the Shelters Adoption Event · 12:00pm · Lynchburg Humane Society · runs through Sunday · all cats and kittens $50, all dogs and puppies half off adoption fees
🟢 Live Music: Enslow · 4:00pm · Rivermont Pizza · an after-school set ahead of Friday night football
🟠 Sit and Stitch · 4:00pm · Needle Ninja · $10 · bring your knitting, crochet or embroidery project, six seats
🟢 Teen Movie Night: The Greatest Showman · 4:00pm · Forest Library · free library program in the community room
🟠 CO2 Laser Cutting + Engraving · 5:30pm · Vector Space · $45 · learn Lightburn and the laser cutter
🟢 Live Music: Bang Bang Trio · 5:30pm · Charley's Restaurant · Live in the Tavern series
🟢 Forest Friday Cheers: Stargazer Band · 6:00pm · Apocalypse Ale Works, Forest · live music, local vendors, food and a bounce pad for kids
🟠 Sober Socials Craft Night · 6:00pm · Scrappy Elephant · $5 · a fourth-Friday craft night for anyone who wants a night out that isn't the bar scene, ages 18+, a painting pass-along this month
🟠 Peacemaker + Traumatization + A Kiss Before Burial + Twisted Nature · 6:00pm, doors · Super Rad Arcade Bar · $15-20
🟠 Hill City Howlers vs. Kannapolis, Faith & Family Night · 6:30pm · City Stadium · minor league baseball, Carolina League
🟢 Hill City Mindfulness Recovery Group · 6:30pm · Clarity House · ages 18+, doors 6:30 and the group starts at 7 with no admittance after
🟢 Live Music: Winegrass · 6:30pm · Trailhead
🟠 FNM Weekly Booster Draft · 7:00pm · Dragon Fire Games · $26.99
🟠 Digimon Weekly Locals · 7:00pm · Dragon Fire Games · $8.99
🟠 Star Wars Unlimited Weekly League Play · 7:00pm · Dragon Fire Games
🟢 Friday Night Magic: Commander · 7:00pm · Underground Cards & Disc Shop, Forest
🟠 Colombian Salsa Night · 7:00-9:00pm · Palmera House · $15 · beginner lesson 7-8pm then a social dance with Diana Ibarra, no partner needed
🟠 Rumba Tropical · 7:00pm · Palmera House · beginner Latin dance, admission includes a complimentary drink · ticketed, price not published
🟠 Haunted Pub Crawl · 7:30pm · meets at the Historic Bragassa Toy Store · $35 · history on tap between haunted stops
🟢 Live Music: Junkyard Jones · 7:30pm · The Vault · acoustic loop-pedal act, hosted for Raven Lounge
🟠 Echoes on the Avenue · 8:00pm · Miller-Claytor House · $25 · lantern-led walk through Historic Upper Rivermont
🟠 Ghosts of Gallows Hill · 8:00pm · meets at the Old Court House steps · $25
🟠 Public Investigation at Miller-Claytor House · 8:00pm · Miller-Claytor House · $35-65
🟢 Live Music: Virginia Sky · 10:00pm · Dish
🎤 Karaoke: Scoreboards 8:00pm-12:30am (DJ Cameron Wheeler)

Sat Aug 29

🟢 Saturday Market · 8:00am-1:00pm · Lynchburg Community Market
🟠 Open Studio · 10:00am, 12:00pm and 2:00pm blocks · Needle Ninja · $25 · two hours a block, stack them if you want longer
🟢 Vendor Pop-Up Market · 10:00am-2:00pm · Cafe Monte Bello · local vendor market, next one Sep 12
🟢 Salty Tiger Lemonade Pop-Up · 11:00am · Palmera House · fresh-squeezed lemonade from Salty Tiger Drink Club
🟠 Hardanger Embroidery · 12:00pm · Needle Ninja · $68 · a Norwegian counted-thread technique, supplies included, needs a base in counted-thread work like cross stitch
🟢 Underground Card Show · 12:00pm · 1219 Burnbridge Rd, Forest
🟠 Clear the Shelters Adoption Event · 12:00pm · Lynchburg Humane Society · all cats and kittens $50, all dogs and puppies half off
🟠 Jewelry Workshop: Hand Chain Bracelets · 1:00pm · Scrappy Elephant · $40 · a solar system bracelet or a pendant hand chain, beginner friendly, ages 13+
🟠 Pokemon Casual League Play · 1:30pm · Dragon Fire Games
🟠 Sewing Circle · 2:00pm · Needle Ninja · $25 · sew alongside other people on the studio's machines, eight seats
🟠 Sit and Stitch · 2:00pm · Needle Ninja · $10 · bring your own needle-arts project
🟠 Yu-Gi-Oh! Weekly Locals · 2:30pm · Dragon Fire Games · $4.99
🟠 Wheel Throwing for Beginners · 4:00pm · Firebrick Pottery · $65 · two hours on the wheel with Alex Milhous, no experience needed, ages 12+ with a parent or 16+ otherwise
🟠 Truck & Tractor Pull · 4:30pm · Sims Farm, Forest · run by Dragon Motorsports
🟠 Ashes of the King Priest · 5:00pm · Mythic Hall · $25
🟠 Who's the Werewolf? · 5:00pm · Mythic Hall · $18
🟠 Smoke + Iguanahead + Materializer · 6:00pm, doors, music at 7 · Super Rad Arcade Bar · $12 · Smoke close out a short run
🟢 Bluffwalk Brass Band · 6:00pm · Second Stage, Amherst
🟠 Riftbound Nexus Nights Weekly Play · 6:00pm · Dragon Fire Games · $8.99
🟠 Hill City Howlers vs. Kannapolis, Fireworks Night · 6:30pm, gates 5:30 · City Stadium · Carolina League baseball with postgame fireworks; buy through craveABLEs' link for a discount, and $3 of every ticket supports their employment program for people with intellectual disabilities
🟢 Live Music: Mixed Company · 6:30pm · Trailhead
🟠 Drag Bingo with Enya Salad · 7:00pm, first ball · Starr Hill On Main
🟠 Love Heals LIVE · 7:00pm · Benaiah Prints · $5 min. donation · Lynchburg's Tiny Desk, a monthly curated show of singers, songwriters and storytellers benefiting neighbors facing medical debt; HEARTBEAT members free, free parking
🟢 Live Music: Caroline Guske · 7:30pm · The Vault · jazz piano, no cover
🟢 Live Music: The Pete Turpin Band · 7:30pm · Big Lick Tropical Grill
🟠 Y2K Dance Party · doors 7:00pm, show 8:00 · The Music Hall · $12 · DJ Josh "DJ Q" Quintero on late 90s and early 2000s pop, hip hop and R&B, Y2K outfits encouraged, everyone needs a ticket regardless of age
🟠 Always Whitney · 8:00pm · Joy & Lynch Christian Warehouse Theatre · $44.50-$89 · Whitney Houston tribute produced by Moxie Events
🟠 Echoes on the Avenue · 8:00pm · Miller-Claytor House · $25-45
🟠 Ghosts of Gallows Hill · 8:00pm · meets at the Old Court House steps · $25
🟢 Live Music: The Pinschers · 10:00pm · Dish
🎤 Karaoke: Lola's 7:00pm (Mogu Entertainment)

Sun Aug 30

🟢 Lynchburg Bridal Expo · 12:00pm · The Virginian Hotel
🟠 Clear the Shelters Adoption Event · 12:00pm-5:00pm · Lynchburg Humane Society · final day · all cats and kittens $50, all dogs and puppies half off
🟢 Sunday Sessions: Christian Q · 1:00pm · The Water Dog · $1 Chesapeakes and wings alongside the set
🟠 Hill City Howlers vs. Kannapolis · 2:00pm · City Stadium · minor league baseball, Carolina League, the series finale
🟢 Banned Book Club: Last Night at the Telegraph Club · 2:00pm · Fox Burrow Books & Stationery · RSVP only, part of a monthly banned-book series
🟢 Coat & Blanket Drive · 2:00-5:00pm · Clarity House · drop off lightly used jackets, coats and blankets
🟠 Painting with Coffee · 2:00pm · Scrappy Elephant · $35 · paint a monochromatic piece using brewed coffee as the pigment, ages 10+
🟠 Relax & Resin Workshop · 2:00pm · Hammer & Stain · $35-75 · a resin tray, coasters or suncatcher using crushed glass, sea glass or dried flowers
🟢 Riftbound Play · 3:00pm · Underground Cards & Disc Shop, Forest
🟢 Weekly Lorcana Play · 3:00pm · Underground Cards & Disc Shop, Forest
🟢 Live Music: Brian Goering · 4:00-7:00pm · Trailhead
🟢 Community Summer Sing-Along · 4:00pm · Second Stage, Amherst
🟢 Disc Golf Putting League · 5:00pm · Apocalypse Ale Works, Forest · weekly, played at Mays Mill DGC
🎤 Karaoke: Stadium Inn 8:00-11:00pm (Rhodey Entertainment)

All weekend

🟠 Canoe & Kayak Rentals at Ivy Creek Park · Sat + Sun 10:00am-5:00pm · canoes $10/hour, kayaks $8/hour · the last rental weekend of the season · Parks&Rec
🟢 Riverside Park Sprayground · 10:00am-7:00pm daily · Riverside Park · dumping buckets, pop jets and tulip sprays, through Labor Day
🟢 Riverfront Park Fountains · 10:00am-7:00pm daily · Riverfront Park · zero-depth splash fountains off the Riverwalk, through Labor Day
🟢 Robert Sulkin · Fri 11:30am-5:30pm, Sat 9:30am-5:00pm · Steven Francis Fine Art, Main Street gallery · solo show through Sep 12, with an artist talk Sep 4

🚗 Worth the Drive

🟢 Food Truck Friday: Thai Naka · Fri 11:30am · Heart of Nelson Artisan Collective, Lovingston
🟠 August Country Line Dancing Night with Dancin' Cat · Fri 6:00pm · Hazy Mountain Vineyards, Afton · lesson and party, no experience needed
🟢 Craft Swap at Loving Fibers · Sat 10:00am · The Nelson Center, Lovingston · bring what you're not using and take what you are
🟢 Nelson Farmers Market Cooperative · Sat 8:00am · Nelson Farmers Market, Nellysford · 35+ farmers, producers and crafters, plus food and live music
🟢 Silverback Distillery 12th Anniversary Party · Sat 11:00am · Silverback Distillery, Afton · a special release, cocktails, food and music
🟢 Remembering Camille: Book Signing · Sat 11:00am · Heart of Nelson Artisan Collective, Lovingston
🟢 The Meadery at Graham Ordinary Anniversary Celebration · Sat 12:00pm · The Meadery at Graham Ordinary, Bedford · four years in, with mead, live music and food
🟢 Ultimate Long Drive Mid-Atlantic Qualifier · Sat 12:00pm · Wood Ridge Farm Brewery, Lovingston · the regional qualifier for long-drive golf
🟢 Heart 2 Heart Car & Bike Show · Sat 1:00pm · Rockfish Valley Community Center, Afton
🟠 An Afternoon with Tony Franko · Sat 1:00pm · Peaks of Otter Winery, Bedford
🟠 Grief & Connection with Lizz Quinn · Sun 2:00pm · Peaks of Otter Winery, Bedford
🟢 D-Day, Omaha Beach Traveling Exhibit · Fri-Sun 10:00am · National D-Day Memorial, Bedford

🗓️ Coming up next week

Four worth putting in the calendar now, and the full list lands in Tuesday's email.

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