The first day of school is creeping up! You have a few more weeks to run with your kids before they get caught up with school work, friends, and weekend and after school activities.
For our friends who don’t have kids or who are looking for a fun date night, Hampton Roads has you covered. No one is going to be disappointed around here.
Make it an amazing weekend!
All Weekend
Norfolk
Friday, August 14-Sunday, August 16/The Marriage of Figaro/Governor’s School for the Arts
Mozart’s hilariously romantic opera gets the roaring 20’s treatment in our new, intimate production, featuring many of Virginia’s finest singers. Don’t miss the wedding of the year!
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Poquoson
Friday, August 14-Saturday, August 15/60th Anniversary Fire Carnival/Poquoson Fire Station #1
The Poquoson Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary is hosting a 60th Anniversary Fire Carnival on Friday, August 14th from 5pm-10pm and on Saturday, from 10am-9pm. It will be held at Poquoson Fire Station #1, 1035 Poquoson Avenue, Poquoson, VA 23662. Events include live entertainment, featuring Crazy X Band, rides, games, $5,000 cash raffle, food and craft vendors. FREE
Suffolk
Saturday, August 15-Sunday, August 16/Nansemond Indian Tribal Pow Wow/Pembroke Lane
Two-day cultural celebration including music, dance, authentic crafts and food. Admission and parking are free, although donations are gladly accepted. The powwow grounds are located at the end of Pembroke Lane, which runs off Godwin Blvd., across from Oakland Elementary (in the Chuckatuck area of Suffolk.) FREE
Virginia Beach
Ongoing/Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA/Virginia Beach Convention Center
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Friday, August 14-Sunday, August 16/Virginia Beach Tattoo Fest/Virginia Beach Convention Center
The Virginia Beach Tattoo Arts Festival is unlike any other arts festival you’ve been to before. Come out for live music, live tattooing, side show acts, suspension acts, local art, and more! This is one festival you’re bound to be amazed by!
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Friday
Newport News
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m./Chronicles of Blaqmagie/Downing Gross Cultural Arts Center
Traprock Misfit presents a fantastical stage show to delight and astound. $20
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Norfolk
11:00 a.m.-noon/Friday Family Fun/Chrysler Museum of Art
Visit on Fridays this summer for an hour of fun at the Museum. The activities, a tour or craft, vary each week, but always focus on our exhibition The Artist’s Garden. Mark your calendars and come to the Museum ready to create and learn with your kids! FREE
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m./GSA Jazz Band Performs at MacArthur Center
The Governor’s School for the Arts Jazz Band will be performing in the Center every Friday from 5-7pm beginning April 24th and continuing through August 28th. FREE
7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m./Muse Jam/The Muse Writers Center
Join us for an evening where everyone is welcome to make music, sing, read, laugh, or just hang out and listen. This is not an “open-mic” with a sign-up list. The Muse Jam is more fun! We’ll alternate between individual-led and collaborative performance and pure unplugged jams. Who’s welcome? Anyone from beginners to professionals, whether you like to play an instrument or just listen, sing or be sung to, read your work or hear great stories and poems, practice your standup or improv or laugh yourself silly. Feel free to bring songbooks, sheet music, instruments, and friends. Suggested donation: $2 (goes to our scholarship funds; donation not required to attend).
Suffolk
6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m./TGIF Summer Concert Series: Wesley Spangler Band/Bennett’s Creek Park
Join your neighbors at Bennett’s Creek Park for the second half of the TGIF Summer Concert Series in Suffolk. Enjoy this free and family-friendly event in the park, as the Wesley Spangler Band plays a variety of hits and kids enjoy the children’s area. Our aim is to get you out of your seat and enjoying your Friday night! FREE
Virginia Beach
8:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m./ABBA The Concert, a Tribute to ABBA/Sandler Center
21st Century Artists, Inc. has been presenting its ABBA tribute show throughout North America for well over a decade, known as ABBA The Music, ABBA The Concert, and ABBA The Hits. The audience and press all agree – “This is the closest to ABBA you’ll ever get.” ABBA The Concert brings one of the greatest pop phenomena back to life.
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Williamsburg
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m./Around the World in Three Sips/Taste Studio
All aboard! Travel around the world and taste as you go these fine barrel-aged spirits. This interactive afternoon of tasting, small bites food pairings, and education is hosted by the Williamsburg Inn’s knowledgeable and affable Chefs Travis Brust and Scott Watson.
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8:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m./Movies Under the Stars: Planes Fire & Rescue/Chickahominy Riverfront Park
Bring lawn chairs, blankets and snacks and enjoy some of the biggest movies on our outdoor BIG SCREEN! Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Movies subject to change. Movies begin at 8:30 p.m. FREE
Saturday
Chesapeake
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m./Annual Fun-n-Shine Car Show/Khedive Temple
Join the Khedive Autos Shriners’ for the 24th Annual Fun-n-Shine Car Show. As part of this event is the 17th Annual Craft Show inside the comfortable air conditioned building with lots of crafters, vendors, food, and restrooms. FREE
Hampton
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m./Aberdeen Gardens fish fry and jazz session/Aberdeen Gardens
Support the efforts of the Historical Foundation of Aberdeen Gardens by stopping by their annual fish fry. A jazz session will also be held following the fish fry. Dinner $7, Sandwiches $4
Noon – 10:00 p.m./Downtown Hampton Block Party
Listen to the sweet sounds of Slapnation and hang out with your neighbors! FREE
Newport News
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m./Handling History/Mariner’s Museum
Want to experience the spine-tingling, goosebump-raising feeling of holding an original artifact of great historical significance? On August 15, Museum visitors will be able to handle of some of the original artifacts recovered from the wreck of USS Monitor — with gloves of course. FREE with museum admission
Norfolk
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m./5th Annual Virginia Honey Bee Festival/Norfolk Botanical Garden
Experience the BUZZ! Garden guests will enjoy children’s activities, demonstrations, honey & bee products, handmade jewelry and ceramics, refreshments, door prizes, live music, honey samples, a costume parade and much more! Come see the inside of a real live bee hive and purchase your own bee friendly plants. Children that dress as a bee will receive a free honey stick!
The Honey Bee Festival is included with Garden admission ($11-adults, $10-seniors/military, $9-ages 3-17)
11:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m./10th Annual Carbifest/Town Point Park
The 10th Annual CaribFest is an exciting cultural explosion of Caribbean, Latin, African and Folklore music, cuisine, and revelry. The festival takes place at Town Point Park Saturday, August 15 from 11am-10pm. You can also enjoy a colorful Mardi Gras style parade that is part of the festival starting at 11am on Waterside Drive and St.Paul’s.
General admission $15, kids 11-17 $10, 10 and under FREE
12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m./Commemoration of the end of World War II/MacArthur Memorial
On August, 15, 2015, the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, VA will host a series of events to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945. At 12:30 there will be a Masonic procession through MacArthur Square and wreath-laying at General MacArthur’s grave in the MacArthur Memorial’s Rotunda. At 2 P.M. Christopher Kolakowski, MacArthur Memorial Director, will make a presentation in the Memorial’s Theater entitled “The First Eight Weeks: Douglas MacArthur and Japan, August 15 – October 15, 1945.” FREE
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m./Back-to-School Kickoff Event/MacArthur Center
Join MacArthur Center as kick off Back-to-School Anti-Bullying campaign on Saturday, August 15th in partnership with the nation’s leading anti-bullying organization STOMP Out Bullying. Teens will be encouraged to take the anti-bullying pledge, create a fun video for the cause and post it to Instagram for a chance to win 4 very special iHeart Radio concert tickets! PLUS…Meet iHeart radio NOW 105’s DJ Corey, enter to win a $250 MacArthur Center Gift Card, get a mini-makeover from Sephora and receive a free anti-bullying bracelet. FREE
7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m./Documentary Screening: “Blood, Sweat, & Beer”/Coelacanth Brewing
Blood, Sweat & Beer is a feature documentary about the explosive growth of the craft beer industry and the dramatic journeys of two start up breweries. Four entrepreneurs, two brand new breweries, and one ultimate goal: to quench the thirst of the craft craving masses. The screening includes a Q&A session with the film makers. FREE
Portsmouth
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m./Builder Fest/Portsmouth Cultural Arts Center
Join us for a day of creating and building. Visit with hobbyists and professionals to explore the process of building and making. Discover everyday items made by hand as in times past and play with futuristic toys.
$12, which includes admission to the Children’s Museum of Virginia
8:00 p.m./The Australian Pink Floyd Show/nTelos Wireless Pavilion
Having sold over three million tickets to concerts that have taken place in 35 countries, The Australian Pink Floyd Show is rightfully hailed as one of the most in demand touring entities currently operating. The Times Newspaper in London described them as “The Gold Standard” Gates open at 6PM.
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Virginia Beach
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m./Farmer’s Market Family Picnic and Craft Show/Virginia Beach Farmer’s Market
Fun for the whole family, shop our Farmers Market vendors and Craft Show Vendors! Register to win tickets to KOOZA by Cirque Du Soleil. Enter our Watermelon Eating Contest! FREE
Sunday
Norfolk
5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m./Fiona Corinne’s Slow Down Summer Tour/Cure Coffeehouse & Brasserie
Join Fiona Corinne on her Slow Down Summer Tour in Norfolk, VA! Come hang out at Cure Coffeehouse and Brasserie on August 16th from 5-8pm. Show is FREE and all ages
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m./Tell Me More: Anticipation/Push Comedy Theater
Join Tell Me More… for our storytelling night on Aug. 16 at the Push Comedy Theater in Norfolk, Va., where we tell stories inspired by one word and song. $5
Portsmouth
7:00 p.m./Sunday Movies at City Park: Paddington
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven. FREE
Williamsburg
8:30 p.m./Summer Movies on Prince George Street: Cinderella
Summer Movies on Prince George Street – every Sunday night at Dusk. Tonight’s Movie: Cinderella (2015) Sponsored by the Shops at Merchants Square! FREE
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