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At d’Art Center our mission is to provide unique opportunities for our community to experience the visual arts. Every summer we offer an art camp designed for children grades 1 through 8 to watch, learn, create, and enjoy art in an interactive environment.
This year we are offering 10 weeks of themes, from June 9th to August 22nd, with a break during the June 30th to July 4th week. Throughout these weeks, campers will learn about different art mediums and techniques from weekly 30-minute demonstrations led by d’Art Artists, create a variety of themed projects that nurture their imagination and encourage creative thinking, and enjoy diverse activities led by special guests (previous guests have included Norfolk Master Gardeners, The Norfolk Zoo, Virginia Aquarium) and trips to The Chrysler.
Ages 6-14 years old
Starting June 9th and ending August 22nd, 2025
Monday – Friday, 8:30am-3:00pm
Registration closes for each week the Friday before!
Camp Weeks:
Week 1, June 9-13, STEAM (STEM + Art)
Week 2, June 16 -20, Stop Motion Animation
Week 3, June 23-27, Time Traveler Adventures
BREAK June 30 – July 4 BREAK
Week 4, July 7-11, 3D Art
Week 5, July 14-18, Across the Universe
Week 6, July 21-25, Deep Sea Explorers
Week 7, July 28-Aug 1, Mythical Creatures
Week 8, August 4-8, Great Outdoors
Week 9, August 11-15, Animal Planet
Week 10, August 18-22, Natural or Recycled Art
Jason’s Lyric Live is a fiery, high stakes love story set in the heart of the Houston ghetto, where love and danger walk hand in hand. Jason (Allen Payne reprising his role), a man haunted by the ghosts of his violent past, meets serendipitously and falls deeply for Lyric (Eva Marcille), a guarded woman who’s built walls around her heart in order to survive the mean streets. Their passion becomes undeniable, but both are chained to scars they can’t escape.
Jason’s unwavering loyalty to his troubled brother, Josh (Tyrin Turner), recently released from prison and headed right back into the life of crime, stalls Jason’s promising future to escape the traps of poverty. But his spark for his bright future is ignited when he meets Lyric. But there’s just one problem. Lyric’s fear of her love being ripped away by the streets that are terrorized by her own brother, Alonzo (Treach reprising his role), makes her hesitant to trust love. Not being able to deny their feelings, their relationship is tested by family betrayal, dangerous choices, and life-threatening consequences. In a city where survival is uncertain, Jason and Lyric must decide if their love is strong enough to overcome the past—or if it’s doomed to fall apart.
Jason’s Lyric Live is a premiere play with music that tells the heart-pounding tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption that will leave audiences breathless, as two souls battle against the odds for a chance at real happiness.
The Tidewater African Cultural Alliance and the Tema Committee of the Norfolk Sister City Association present Afro MANIA Ghana: A Cultural Experience, a FREE celebration of Ghanaian culture for the whole community!
Join interactive workshops on dancing, drumming, storytelling and crafts. Taste authentic Ghanaian cuisine from Yendidi restaurant. Enjoy a cultural presentation of dance and drum performances from each of Ghana’s four regions, along with a Ghanaian fashion show.
Stay for the whole event for a chance to win some cool prizes!This performance is FREE and open to the public! No tickets or RSVPs needed!
Arts at the Attucks is made possible by Norfolk Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Children must be accompanied by adults.
Shamrockin’ In Ghent takes places on Friday, March 7th, 6pm-10pm on Colley Avenue between Gates and Shirley Avenues. There is live music from the Fighting Jamesons. The Tidewater Pipes and Drums kick the event off! There are beer trucks. Irish whiskey, and local food vendors. The event is free and open to the public and benefits Hope House Foundation. Drink tickets can be purchased at the “Ticket Tent” at the event- cash and credit cards are accepted.
More info can be found here: https://hope-house.org/events/shamrockin-in-ghent-information/ or https://www.facebook.com/share/14yh9zrqQn/
Every once in a while, a group emerges with the flavor, focus, and fire to light up the entire game. That group is FLO. Formed in 2019, the BRIT Award-winning UK trio—Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma, and Renée Downer—flipped 21st century R&B on its head with a hip-hop attitude and global pop ambition. During 2022, the three-piece exploded on the world’s stage with their debut EP The Lead powered by the single “Cardboard Box.” Nearing half-a-billion streams, they’ve notably delivered showstopping performances on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, Later…with Jools Holland, The Glamour Women Of The Year Awards, Soul Train Awards and the MOBOS. All of this momentum culminated with the group taking home the coveted “Rising Star” honor at the 2023 BRIT Awards in addition to earning BBC Sound Of 2023, while also receiving nominations at various 2023 awards shows including the BET Awards, MTV VMAs, MTV EMAs, Soul Train Awards, and the NAACP Image Awards. Meanwhile, they attracted the adoration of high-profile supporters, including Brandy, JoJo, SZA, Victoria Monét, Missy Elliott, Destiny’s Child’s Kelly Rowland, and Sugababes, to name a few. They’re the rare force who can comfortably shine on a collaboration with UK rap insurgent Stormzy or during a wide-ranging interview with Sir Elton John. With their first full-length on the way, they’re the R&B group for the future, starting labor.
Across his career, Shakey Graves — a.k.a. the performance moniker of Austin, Texas-born Alejandro Rose-Garcia — has intentionally created thrilling musical adventures tailored to each fan: burning CDs and putting them in personalized decorated bags; building intricate scavenger hunts that send fans in search of unique tapes; and Bandcamp-exclusive releases.
“The fans and musicians that really resonate with me — and the inexplicable ways that I find things that I like — are usually entirely through randomness and chaos and accident,” Rose-Garcia says. “I’ve always been on this quest to make people feel like my own music is a choose your own adventure.”
As Rose-Garcia releases his new Shakey Graves album Movie of the Week — a collection of songs whittled down from epic-length recording sessions — he has devised one of his most innovative musical adventures yet. “For the album release, I’m setting up a website,” he says. “On this website, there will be a way to shuffle a collection of alternate tracks and unique songs from the sessions in seemingly infinite combinations to create new albums.” Thanks to this cutting-edge technology, fans will be able to own this alternate version and do whatever they want with it — giving them control over the destiny of the music.
“Imagination really is the tool,” Rose-Garcia says. “The point is to make and create something yourself. Any way that I can allow people to apply their imagination over my music — and allow them to sculpt it using their own prompts — will let them create something new.”
Blue-collar, Tennessee native Larry Fleet grew up with a love of music sparked by an eclectic mix of influences spanning from Merle Haggard to Marvin Gaye. To make ends meet, Fleet spent tireless hours working construction jobs – never losing his dream of making music. A chance encounter with Jake Owen in 2017 led to a collaborative friendship and an opening slot on the road with Owen. Not long after, Fleet was sharing the stage with a living legend and one of his heroes – Willie Nelson – and etching his mark in the Nashville songwriting community co-writing with esteemed tunesmiths including Rhett Akins, Brett James and Kendell Marvel. The hard-working family man is now turning heads with his “Where I Find God” – a powerful ode to finding peace in the higher power’s presence. Garnering Fleet praise for his “emotive vocals” (Billboard), the song’s official music video continues to resonate with fans, amassing 19 MILLION+ YouTube views. “Where I Find God” follows the release of Fleet’s aptly-titled debut on Big Loud Records, WORKIN’ HARD. On September 24, Fleet will release his brand-new, full-length album, STACK OF RECORDS, produced by studio ace Joey Moi.
Romance amid approaching armageddon. Life in a snowglobe, a pastoral scene made ever precarious, teetering on chaos created by the flick of the wrist. Love as an antique, that generations after us will only understand from history books. Fontaines D.C.’s fourth album ROMANCE interrogates amorphous concepts of love and relationships, alienation and identity, fantasy and reality – all building to a central statement that Chatten sings of hauntingly, invitingly, on the opening track: “Maybe romance is a place”.
11 tracks constellate ideas that have been percolating among Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass), and Tom Coll (drums) since 2021’s No.1 record Skinty Fia and tour with Arctic Monkeys. The record builds upon sonic sensibilities the band started to experiment with on Skinty Fia, now reaching into grungier textures, hip-hop breaks and beats, shoegazey tones and contemporary electronic sounds. It is as indebted to their times listening to Shygirl and Sega Bodega as it is to old Hollywood soundtracks, Korn, Outkast, and A$AP Ferg. The band introduces more assured production skills. ROMANCE’s bones were set in time spent apart, experimenting as individuals across Mexico, the Spanish countryside, and LA, and an intense production period together with Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Blur) in a French chateau.
The album represents a provocative sonic and aesthetic era for the Dublin-made, now London-based band. Released via XL Recordings on 23 August, the James Ford-produced record has been met with an incredible response from fans and critics alike. Selling more than twice as much as their acclaimed 2022 release Skinty Fia in the first week, ROMANCE received a host of five-star plaudits from the likes of NME, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone UK meanwhile songwriting legend Elton John recently declared that they’re “the best band out there at the moment”. With its innovative sound and captivating artistry, ROMANCE cements Fontaines D.C.’s status as “the defining band of their generation” (NME).
A summer of international live shows and festivals has drawn fans deeper into their rapidly expanding universe. After landmark performances on Glastonbury’s Park Stage and at the Reading & Leeds Festival, the band announced their biggest show yet: a now sold-out, 45,000-capacity headline concert at London’s Finsbury Park in August 2025. That same month, they will deliver an equally impressive 26,000-capacity outdoor show at Wythenshawe Park in Manchester. In the meantime, Fontaines D.C. continues their extensive world tour, which will take them across North America, Canada, Europe, the UK, and Ireland throughout 2024, playing multiple sold-out shows.