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🌿Founder / Artistic Director @rvarenfaire
⚔️Founder / Artistic Director @viragoalley
🖼Founder / Creative Director @gallery5arts
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Sometimes life is hard. But we have our BIKES! And bikes make everything better. Which slide got you thinking?
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#rvapickleparty representing at @8news with @gallery5arts @rvamoonmarket @rvapickleparty
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The annual Carnival of 5 Fires returns to bring in the spooky season on First Friday, October 2nd here in Historic Jackson Ward as part of the Richmond Arts District’s First Fridays Art Walk! Richmond Moon Market will be on the usual two blocks of Brook Rd from 5-10pm with local vendors, artisans, performances, tarot readers, food trucks, and more! This year we are also celebrating 20 YEARS of PLF with an extra fiery Pyro Circus on the street, complete with fire performances of all kinds, DJs to make you move n’ groove, fire sculptures, and more surprises to light up your night! Inside Gallery5 you’ll find a multi-media PLF group art exhibit with 16 artists, special performances, bands, and a PLF Variety Show with plenty of shenanigans you’ll want to witness. Visit our libation station for all the tasty bevs and travel to the second floor above G5, to the new Virago Alley HQ, where this month’s spotlight is Richmond Ren Faire’s Fire Guild/PLF and friends (stairs on to the left of the G5 entrance). There will be an installation of video projections by Todd Raviotta showcasing PLF’s two decades of dedication to participating in Richmond’s arts and culture with countless performances, workshops, events (including Decemberween, one of the biggest NYE celebration in the city)! Blue Bee Cider will also be on the top floor serving an array of options for you to enjoy as you check out photography of the Fire Guild from the inaugural Richmond Ren Faire by Dennis Garnett. Inside Stage: Athanor Dance Collective -7:30pm Blair Mountain -8pm The Embalmers-9pm PLF Variety Show-10pm Starring: Bunny Senpai (MC) Madame Spinsei Dragon Dryad Leila Lovely Lexi TinTin Sevyn and Mystique of Bandits Troupe PLF Group Art Show: Curated by Katie Kat  With artwork by: Anna Bowden Molly Chopin Josh Cromwell Parker Galore Katie Kat Emily Legge Aube Myrr Kevin Murphy Todd Raviotta Lana Reinhold Steven Warrick Liam Ward Jenny Wolf Courtney Zeitler Mariyam Zamorski Justin Zamorski PLF Pyro Circus (music 5pm, fire starts 7pm-11pm) DJs Danny Boy-5pm T RAV-6pm Reinhold -7pm Godiva- 8pm Akasha-9pm Gon-10pm Visuals by Imocean and Squash
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YOU SOLD OUT THE FIRST ONE. 👽✨ Which means I am officially adding a SECOND Theremania Theremin Workshop! If you’ve ever wondered how the heck someone plays an instrument without touching it, this is your chance to find out—and actually try it yourself. We’ll learn how the theremin works, how to control pitch and volume with your hands, and how to make music with your whole body. No musical experience necessary. Five theremins. Maximum weirdness. Part science experiment, part music lesson, part tiny portal into another dimension. The first workshop filled up, so if you’ve been thinking about it… 👀 NEW WORKSHOP: October 3 · 4PM Virago Alley Limited spots. 🎟️ Tickets are live now. #Theremania #Theremin #ThereminWorkshop #RichmondVA
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Someone on TikTok told me I should post all the videos where I don’t hit the target. 😂 So here you go. A little series of me trying to pin a 1-inch roll of washi tape after a very long day of work. I did manage one ringer, but honestly, sometimes getting this close over and over is more fun than actually hitting it. At least you can see I’m consistently on the mark. It forces you to lock in, make tiny adjustments, and keep trying. Especially when the damn target is moving. 🏹
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The @viragoalley @rvarenfaire crew took a field trip to the Maryland Ren Faire today!!! @mdrennfest
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Incredibly honored to have been trusted by the amazing board of directors @gallery5arts to resurface these gallery walls in this beautiful historic fire station. As a former employee and current regular of this establishment, I couldn’t be more happy to be a part of what goes into keeping an amazing local gallery/ venue alive and thriving. Thank you so so much. #longlivegallery5
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🥒 CALL FOR ARTISTS + PICKLE MAKERS 🥒 Artists, makers, fermenters, and devoted pickle enthusiasts: we invite you to pay homage to one of humanity’s most enduring, perplexing, and delicious phenomena: THE PICKLE. We’re accepting submissions for THE ART OF THE PICKLE, featuring 2-D and 3-D artwork inspired by pickles, pickling, fermentation, preservation, recipes, food traditions, history, and all the strange and wonderful places the humble pickle can take us. AND THEN THERE ARE THE PICKLES THEMSELVES. 🏆 BEST PICKLES IN RICHMOND COMPETITION Bring us your finest homemade, shelf-stable pickles in a sealed jar for a good old-fashioned state-fair-style showdown, juried by the RVA Pickle Party Festival Committee! 🥒 BEST PICKLED CUCUMBER Dill, sour, sweet, spicy, fermented, funky, bread & butter, or anything in between. If it’s a cucumber and you pickled it, it counts. 🫙 BEST OF EVERYTHING ELSE Carrots, onions, beans, peppers, beets, watermelon rinds, eggs, fruit, okra, garlic, or whatever wonderfully strange thing you decided to pickle. Each category receives 1st, 2nd, 3rd + Honorable Mention, plus special awards including Most Creative, Sweetest, Spiciest, Most Unexpected & more! Pickles will be judged on flavor, texture, cut/presentation, color, and food safety. All entries must be properly labeled, safely canned, and shelf-stable. No quick or refrigerated pickles. 📅 Artwork submissions + pickle competition registration due October 17, 2026. Pickle jars will be collected during exhibition week. WHO HAS THE BEST PICKLES IN RICHMOND? LET’S FIND OUT. 🥒 Application link in bio! Design by @mended_arrow
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It was around this time of day (7am), 4 years ago, that I woke up after drinking heavily one night and not really certain how my night had ended. After a few minutes I remembered falling off my scooter and, wondering if it was a dream or not, I looked out the back window to find a bunch of grass sticking out the side of my Honda Ruckus. I realized my milk crate was gone and so was all the important stuff I had in it (laptop, hard drive, phone, business cards, drugs), so I got back on it and went on a search mission. I found where I crashed but some of my things had been stolen (laptop & hard drive), but I found my phone, my bag and everything else. I realized I could have hurt myself, someone else, gotten arrested, or worse. While thinking about all this I looked over at the sign for the restaurant across the street, it read “Halfway House.” I decided if I didn’t stop drinking I was going to totally lose control of my life and end up even more miserable than I already was at the time. So I quit. It was the most difficult decision I’ve ever made in my life and there are days where I still struggle with my sobriety. Thanks to @bob_byjoe and all the wonderful people at @bensfriendshope for getting me started with going to meetings. Otherwise I would’ve never met @bevelcut_shawti and started @riffsandrecovery. Being a part of a sober community is the most empowering thing an addict can do. If it wasn’t for them I would have probably relapsed by now. Instead I can say today that I have been 4 years clean without a single drop of alcohol and that’s something I never thought I could do. Thank you to everyone along the way that has shown their support and given me strength when I felt powerless. You all mean so much to me and words cannot express my gratitude. So today Aspen and I are going to get matching tattoos to celebrate our friendship, Riffs and Recovery and everything else about being sober in this world.
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Our fearless and fierce leaders of @viragoalley being cute as hell and recording me during my set at First Fridays in July @black.iris.social.club for @afterdarkrva @ashmeanythingg @rvaamanda sm luv n respect n admiration for u two!!!!🤍🖤 ((Keep watching to see Ash’s POV📷)) Im so lit to play for First Fridays again TODAY🎨 I’ll be w @little.giant.society at 313 W Broad St. Live painting, murals, music noon to midnight I’m playing 4-6 (and plugging into a DJ set or two🎛️🔊💥)
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🔥 THE @gallery5arts STAGE IS ON FIRE TOMORROW NIGHT! 🔥 @wrir97.3fm’s @djboylichtenstein kicks off the night and keeps the energy moving between acts, spinning beats and building an immersive soundtrack for the Virago Alley Grand Opening + Gallery5 Season Kickoff. ✨ 7PM • CAROLINE SCRUGGS Theremin extraordinaire, pulling otherworldly soundscapes straight from thin air. 🖤 8PM • THE VELVET RUIN Dark, atmospheric goth rock takes over the stage. ⚔️ 9PM • FOREST OF WIRESi The wizards descend upon the earthly realm for a wizard-metal experience for the ages. 🔥 10PM • SHAGWUF Closing out the night with their signature collision of psychedelic rock and raw, explosive energy! And the stage won’t just belong to the people inside. We’re throwing open Gallery5’s massive historic bay doors, making the performances visible and audible both indoors and out as the celebration spills into the street. TOMORROW NIGHT • FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY5 + VIRAGO ALLEY GRAND OPENING 🔥⚔️✨
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We ❤️ you, Richmond!!! Thank you to everyone who donated to the 🔥HEAT WAVE🔥 fundraiser. We are currently sitting at 85% of our goal and today is the LAST DAY to make a gift toward the campaign. Help us reach our goal of raising $10,000 this month to help us through our slow season. Gallery5 is held together by an entire community of passionate people who care deeply about carving out a space for artists to have a platform that is accessible. This space has served as a launch pad for the arts at a grassroots level for more than two decades and it is through the support of everyday people like you that the space continues to serve that purpose. Please consider a donation today in an amount that is meaningful to you. Every little bit helps ❤️ 👉Visit the link in our bio to donate today! - 📸: Thank you to @jeetspics for the photos 🔥
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