 Earth Day Every Day on Langston Boulevard
Sun, Apr 21 | 11a-5p | Lee Heights Shops | Waverly Hills
The festival is a family-friendly event featuring live music, a sustainable art market, environmental education exhibits, hands-on children’s activities, great food, and more! Come out and meet your creative neighbors and shop small and local! More
Music Schedule:
- 12:00pm: Jacqueline Pie Francis w/ Pat Mackin
- 1:15pm: Spice Cake
- 2:30pm: Elena La Fulana
- 3:45pm: Sol Roots
Arlington Art Truck:
Climate Hope
by Monica Jahan Bose
Contribute to a community created art project by writing a poem, pledge, or an illustration focused on climate change directly onto a hand woven 18-foot-long cotton sari that is from Monica Jahan Bose’s ancestral village in Bangladesh and has been adorned with climate themed wood block prints. A representative from EcoAction Arlington or Climate4Change will be with us to help you write your poems and pledges. More
- Sat, April 20, 8a-12p: Lubber Run Farmers Market
- Sun, April 21, 11a-5p: Earth Day Every Day at Langston Boulevard
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The Poet is IN
Sat, Apr 21 | 11a-5p | Earth Day Every Day | Waverly Hills
The Poet Is IN returns for National Poetry Month! Keep an eye out for the pop-up booth featuring noted regional poets who will create a free, personalized poem just for you in real time. On Sat, April 21, join Susan Mockler (11a-1pm), former Arlington Poet Laureate Holly Karapetkova (1-3p) and Angelique Palmer (3-5p) at Earth Day Every Day. More
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Teen Poetry Night
Thurs, Apr 25 | 6-8p | Central Library | Virginia Square
Join the Arlington Public Library and Arlington Arts to celebrate National Poetry Month with an evening of poetry readings by amazing Arlington high school students. Current and former Arlington Poet Laureates Courtney LeBlanc and Holly Karapetkova will co-host this open-mic evening of poetry open to all Arlington-area teens. More
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In Conversation: Nekisha Durrett + Zaq Landsberg
Sat, Apr 27 | 1-3p | MoCA Arlington’s Innovation Studio + Store | National Landing
Join artists Zaq Landsberg and Nekisha Durrett for a conversation about the rewards and challenges of public art and the complex nature of monuments and memorials. Their experiences working in Arlington will provide a foundation for the conversation. Zaq Landsberg’s popular Reclining Liberty is on view at MoCA Arlington through July of 2024 and Nekisha Durrett’s acclaimed Queen City was unveiled in Metropolitan Park in 2023. The conversation is co-sponsored by MoCA Arlington and Arlington Public Art. More
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 Bette Smith Headlines All-Woman-fronted Lineup Celebrating Women In Blues at 27th Columbia Pike Blues Festival!
Save the Date!
Critically acclaimed soul artist and New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Brooklyn-native BETTE SMITH headlines The Columbia Pike Blues Festival on Saturday, June 15th, 2024, from 1:00 – 8:30 pm. Just weeks prior to Blues Fest, Bette unleashes her much anticipated third album, Goodthing (Kartel Music Group) with Grammy-winning UK producer Jimmy Hogarth. This year the Festival celebrates women in blues with a lineup of all-women-fronted bands offering a full array of blues, R&B, and funk performers of national and regional note that includes: three-time Blues Foundation Awardee Eden Brent; Mama Moon & the Rump Shakers; The Stacy Brooks Band; and The Honey Larks (Carly Harvey, Jenny Langer and Holly Montgomery). Bring your whole family to this free event. More
Encore Stage & Studio: Flip the Script Double Feature
Apr 26-28 | Theatre on the Run | Green Valley
Encore Stage & Studio is delighted to remount these original theatre pieces focused on Arlington’s African American voices for one weekend only!
The Day Nothing Happened is an original Encore piece that explores the 1959 desegregation of Arlington’s Stratford Junior High School, the first school to desegregate in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Inspired by the Green Valley neighborhood, formerly known as Nauck, the play From Nauck to Green Valley, Transforming a Community, looks at the history of one of the country’s oldest African American communities through the eyes of four fictional characters. This contemporary story explores and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit that thrives there today. More
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Arlington Artists Alliance: Creating Mood with Watercolor
Apr 30-May 21 | St. Michael's Episcopal Church | Bluemont
Tony Neville, watercolorist, invites you to explore creating distinctive lighting and mood within this magic medium. Exercises will form a basis for presenting a variety of moods in your chosen subjects or optional class subjects. This 4-class series will offer one-on-one support in small classes, easy step-by-step exercises and take-home handouts. The class is ideal for both beginners and those expanding their skills. More
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10th Annual Arlington Festival of the Arts
Apr 27-28 | 1051 N Highland St | Clarendon
Discover a stunning array of handmade-in-the-USA artwork, carefully selected by Howard Alan Events' rigorous vetting process. Visitors can expect to be impressed by a diverse range of artistic mediums, including sculpture, pottery, jewelry, photography, mixed-media, painting, and much more. This event caters to a wide range of artistic preferences, ensuring that each attendee finds a piece of art that speaks to them. Don't miss your chance to experience this exceptional celebration of the arts in Clarendon! More
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Columbia Pike Artist Studios: Open Studios
Apr 20-21 | Columbia Pike Artist Studios | Arlington Heights
Columbia Pike Artist Studios (CPAS) is a visual art cooperative providing 21 working studio spaces for artists in the region. Come and see a lot of exciting new art work, paintings, collages, prints, and sculpture. More
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She Drags in Crocs
Apr 27 - June 8 | Friends Artspace | Woodmont
Friends Artspace is delighted to present She Drags in Crocs by Brazilian-born, Arkansas-based artist Bia Furtado. At the exhibition’s center is legendary Brazilian folklore villain, Cuca, the crocodilian woman who eats disobedient children. Furtado reimagines her Cuca centerpiece as a prodigious drag queen with long blonde hair, and playfully surrounds her heroine with 100 Croc shoes, glazed in the same finish as the alligator herself. Each Croc memorializes a different BIPOC drag queen. Their emblazoned names and custom Jibbitz transform the shoes into vessels of resistance, mirroring Cuca to celebrate queer glamor without apology. Join on Saturday, April 27, 5-7pm for an opening reception. More
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The Incubator: Call for Art
Arlington Public Library is launching a new art program to provide opportunities and space for artists to showcase their work in a public setting. Each library location features opportunities for artists to display their artwork and to engage the public. The Incubator will spotlight local artists and community arts so that a greater number of diverse perspectives can be seen and more voices can be heard. More
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