Hot glass and live music come together for memorable evenings during Glass After Dark. Each month, watch the Perry Glass Studio team take the molten material to exciting places and enjoy entertainment by local musicians.
Arts and Entertainment
Hot glass and live music come together for memorable evenings during Glass After Dark. Each month, watch the Perry Glass Studio team take the molten material to exciting places and enjoy entertainment by local musicians.
Support local makers and shop for unique gifts created by Perry Glass Studio artists. Find jewelry, décor, and more.
Harvest your own fall collectible at our outdoor pumpkin patch. Shop
for unique, handcrafted pumpkins created by artists at the Perry Glass Studio, and guarantee bountiful fall décor for your home. Glass pumpkins will be available in an array of shapes, patterns, and colors. Support local makers and shop for unique gifts created by Perry Glass Studio artists. Find jewelry, décor, and more.
Are you curious about how we can live in harmony with nature and adapt to the challenges of climate change? Do you want to see how cutting-edge design and technology can create a resilient and sustainable urban coastal community? Do you want to learn more about the Elizabeth River Project and its vision for the future?
Join the Elizabeth River Project for a tour of our new globally significant resilience model, the Ryan Resilience Lab. This state-of-the-art building showcases how we can protect both the ecosystem and humans as sea levels rise, incorporating replicable, environmentally sustainable design and construction.
The Ryan Resilience Lab is also the key anchor for the Eco-District, a collaborative effort to transform the northern part of Norfolk’s Colley Avenue near Knitting Mill Creek into an innovation corridor that fosters economic development, social equity, and environmental stewardship.
During the tour, you will get to see the inside and outside of the building, learn about its features and functions, and hear from our staff and volunteers about the organization’s work and goals.
The tours are free and open to the public, but space is limited and pre-registration is appreciated. Donations are always appreciated to support a healthy Elizabeth River. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Riverside Yoga with Live Cello by Rebecca Gilmore
Join us for a harmonious blend of movement and music at our upcoming Riverside Yoga events! 🌿🎶
Immerse yourself in the serene beauty of the Elizabeth River as you flow through yoga poses accompanied by the soulful melodies of live cello music. Our talented cellist, Rebecca Gilmore from the Virginia Symphony, will create an enchanting atmosphere that resonates with the natural surroundings.
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Come help make the Elizabeth River a cleaner and healthier place for all by participating in a kayak litter cleanup! All cleanup supplies provided. Participants must use Elizabeth River Projects fleet of kayaks. Limited slots available.
Join us to “Do Something Beautiful” by assisting in maintaining the native landscape, including the shoreline buffer, living shoreline, green roof, and rain gardens at the Elizabeth River Project’s new Ryan Resilience Lab. Volunteers with interest in sustainable landscaping practices encouraged as we build our cadre of conservation landscaping volunteers at the Lab. All supplies will be provided (including gloves). Dress to be working outdoors, bring your reusable water bottle and preferred work gloves (if you have them).
At the Park Before Dark, is an event curated for Norfolk, exposing opera to the BIPOC community with local BIPOC singers.
Opera For Us will be incorporating live collaboration with the attending audience by sharing a couple of life experiences and putting that to opera and art song. This program will integrate other performing arts mediums with dance, spoken word, and other styles of singing.
This is free and open to the public, highly encouraging everyone to bring lawn chairs. Their goal with this program is to not only educate and expose opera to the community but make opera accessible by collaborating with the community, and in turn continuing the support of opera and classical vocal music as a whole, while amplifying voices of color to people of color.
The Haunted Norfolk Tour will walk you through some of Downtown’s otherworldly-histories; from ghost stories and real life tragedies, to experiments from another dimension. You’ll crawl the depths of Norfolk and explore all the spooky charm it has to offer. Join them, if you dare.
The tour meets right in front of the Moses Myers House. Further instructions via email to those who purchase tickets.
Hampton, VA based African American visual artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Jackie Merritt’s solo exhibition opens in Norfolk Arts’ Offsite Gallery at MacArthur Center with a reception on Saturday, August 3, 5-7pm. The event and gallery are free and open to the public.
In the Hampton Roads area, Merritt taught painting and drawing at Norfolk State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Thomas Nelson Community College. Merritt was also an instructor at the University of Wisconsin in both graduate and undergraduate studies.
In 2010, Merritt received the Alli Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Cultural Life of Greater Hampton Roads. In 2015, one of her original songs was featured on the internationally acclaimed CD, Blues Harp Women, produced by Ruf Records in Germany, that celebrated only female harmonica players. Jackie was accepted into the Library of Congress “AMERICANA WOMEN”- Roots Musicians – Women’s Tales and Tunes, as part of the MusicBox Project collection.
For 20 years, Merritt was a Visual Information Specialist for the US Navy. Jackie Merritt received a BFA in Art Education from Norfolk State University, and an MA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Do something beautiful by assisting Elizabeth River Project and ODU staff with installing a thin layer placement among our living shoreline at the Ryan Resilience Lab! All supplies will be provided for you, though waders and muck boots are encouraged if you have them. A water bottle and sunscreen are also encouraged. NOTE: This volunteer shift may require lifting up to 50lbs
Once registered, a staff member will reach out to confirm your shift and include any additional information. Volunteers will be notified within 24 hours of shift if any changes or cancellations have been made due to weather or tides.
