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January 2023
200 Years, 200 Stories
“200 Years, 200 Stories” 200 Years, 200 Stories On view through October 28, 2023 Free and open to the public. Free parking is available below the Library at 800 East Broad Street. Every photograph, letter, text, social media post or other artifact that we create, manipulate and save or discard tells a story about ourselves. The Library of Virginia has collected literally millions of pages and hundreds of terabytes of such data during its 200-year history. But what are the…
Find out more »February 2023
Free Income Tax Preparation Program (VITA Site)
Virginia Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Tax Program is a Greater Richmond’s Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition (EITC). Their mission is to make a difference in the lives of working families, to achieve greater financial independence by advocating for EITC, providing cost free tax preparation and offering financial literacy guidance and education. Capital Area Partnership Uplifting People, Inc. will serve as a VITA site for the 2023 tax season. Bookmark this page to reference these details after the holidays. We look…
Find out more »Job Readiness Skill-Building Workshop
Our job readiness workshops are designed to help individuals create and define their professional persona. These workshops are interactive and informational giving people a safe space to develop and discuss how to work with different personalities, how to resolve conflict, communicate, and listen to each other. We’ll help you develop skills like communication, professionalism, teamwork, and conflict resolution. We’ll also cover career management topics such as job searches, resume writing, and interview skills training to help you land your next…
Find out more »SHRM Exam Prep
Over 14-weeks (Tuesdays), explore HR functions and prepare for your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP exam. This course is facilitated by a practicing HR leader and SHRM-certified instructor who is on hand to answer your questions, guide you through interactive discussions, review sample test questions, and provide exclusive test-taking tips. The exam prep course includes four modules that cover the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge.
Find out more »Portfolio Development: A Course in Content Creation
Learn the basics of visual content creation from photo and video, to set design, styling, and developing a creative process in this new hybrid course with VCUarts alum Emma Manis. Courses meet through March 29, 2023. Coupon codes are available for VCU Alumni, VCU students, VCU and VCU Health employees, active-duty military, reservists, Guard members, veterans, and military spouses. Register today! Bring your concepts to life and develop a professional portfolio to advance your career.
Find out more »PMP Exam Prep
Ensure you’re prepared for the rigorous PMP exam with our PMP Exam Prep Course. This 6-session program combines expert instruction with The CertWise® Learning System for PMP® Exam Preparation training materials. Our course will help you learn faster, retain more knowledge, and stay on track for success on the PMP exam. This course runs February 28, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2023 from 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Find out more »March 2023
LMR Nonprofit Board Governance Workshop Series
Are you new to board service or searching for best practices to improve your board’s efficiency? Join us on March 2nd at 9:00 am for the first of four sessions in our Nonprofit Board Governance Workshop series! Claire Gastañaga will present a session on Purpose Driven Board Leadership – a mindset shift for board leaders to prioritize their organization’s purpose versus the organization itself. Location: The Collaboratory of Virginia at U-Turn Cost: $75 per session Scholarships are available; please e-mail…
Find out more »Working Towards Systemic Change
VCU Continuing and Professional Education hosts Working Towards Systemic Change: Understanding Social Determinants of Health with the Early Childhood Mental Health Virginia Initiative at the VCU Partnership for People with Disabilities. Participants will gain knowledge about trauma-informed principles and begin to reconceptualize current understandings of social determinants of health through experiential activities and discussions. Visit the website for workshop requirements, and more details.
Find out more »Toddler Time: Down on the Farm
Introduce your little explorer(s) to the joys and wonders of Maymont. Each session provides fun, engaging and active learning through story time, a craft and a guided exploration. Plus, you and your toddler might even make a few new friends!
Find out more »Homeschool Days: Industrial Innovations of the Gilded Age (grades 4-7)
Calling all homeschoolers! Enrich your learning experience with one of Maymont’s field investigation programs in March. On Monday, March 27, explore how coal powered the Gilded Age through immersive activities to learn about work conditions and how the energy resources that we use impact more than just the environment. Designed for fourth to seventh graders, parents welcome. Advance reservations advised, meet at 2pm at the Stone Barn Active Learning Classroom. A Maymont Mansion tour is included.
Find out more »Tutus & Ties on Tuesdays
Movement and play are good for children’s bodies and brains. In fact, movement can help increase memory, perception, language comprehension, attention, emotional understanding, and decision making! Join us from 2-2:30 pm in the Downtown Playhouse for Tutus and Ties Tuesdays, where we’ll dress up and move, move, move! This event is free with Museum admission.
Find out more »Leadership Metro Richmond Spring Board Connector 2023
Board Connector is LMR’s bi-annual networking event, bringing together community leaders seeking board service opportunities with nonprofit organizations. This event is always free and open to the public.
Find out more »LMR Spring Board Connector
Leadership Metro Richmond is excited to host our Spring Board Connector on Thursday, March 28, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. This free networking event allows you to meet representatives of nonprofit organizations seeking new board members in a casual, open-house atmosphere. New to board service? We welcome board service newcomers, those with years of experience, and everyone in between to engage and connect at Board Connector! (Nonprofit registrations are closed; representatives interested in participating may register to be added to the…
Find out more »Citizen Science: FrogWatch Workshop
What’s that sound in your backyard? Is it a bird? Is it a cricket? More likely, you’re hearing the nocturnal chorus of frogs and toads! Become a herpetology hero by joining the thousands of FrogWatch USA volunteers nationwide. FrogWatch USA is a frog and toad monitoring program, created by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, that collects data on local species, helping scientists in their battle to stop amphibian population decline. This training workshop will prepare you to contribute to…
Find out more »Studio Time
Join our CMoR Play Guides every Wednesday from 2:30 – 3:30pm in the Art Studio for structured craft time. We’ll explore new materials and creative skills while making something fun to take home! This program is ideal for ages 2-5 years. This program is free with Museum Admission.
Find out more »A Woman’s Place is in the House…of Delegates
In 1923 the first women won election to the Virginia House of Delegates. In the century since then, 109 women have served in the House, with a record number of 37 women in 2023. Virginia has often lagged the nation in the percentage of women in its governing bodies. How have women battled Virginia’s “old boys’ network” and pushed through barriers to take their place in the halls of power? Join the Library of Virginia in celebrating a century of…
Find out more »HAPPY HOUR POETRY
Break out of the work week routine with a dose of hot verse at Firehouse. Featuring showcase poets and an open mic sign up for those with a verse or two to drop, and a cash bar with happy hour specials. It’s a great way to make the most of a long day. Want to get heard yourself? Open mic signup is onsite starting at 5:45. Come catch the night on fire with us!
Find out more »Playhouse Bilingual Storytime
Join us every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00am in the Downtown Playhouse for bilingual storytime! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.
Find out more »Playhouse Bilingual Storytime
Join us every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00am in the Downtown Playhouse for bilingual storytime! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.
Find out more »Playhouse Bilingual Storytime
Join us every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00am in the Downtown Playhouse for bilingual storytime! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.
Find out more »Bilingual Storytime
Join us for a bilingual story time! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.
Find out more »Tech4All 8.0 presented by IT4Causes
The Tech4All event is a primary fundraiser for IT4Causes, an RVA nonprofit that provides other charities with information technology solutions to enable their missions, at reasonable rates. This year’s theme is centered around Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) (P.L. 117-169) and the $30 billion in clean energy tax credits for resources such as solar power, electric vehicles, wind energy, battery storage, heat pumps, and a host of other technologies. The event will use product demos and displays to showcase ways that…
Find out more »April 2023
The Robins Nature Center: Special Spring Break Hours
The Robins Nature Center, a 29,000-square-foot attraction, is the largest facility of its kind in central Virginia and holds close to 30,000 gallons of aquaria showcasing animals of the James River and Chesapeake Bay.
Find out more »Maymont Mansion: Special Spring Break Hours
Explore the Gilded Age home of James and Sallie Dooley with a self-guided audio tour. Learn more about the people who lived and worked here, balancing technological advances of the time with the labor-intensive operations of a home this size, including the complicated story of the New South and Jim Crow.
Find out more »Dominion Energy Family Easter
Bring the whole family to Maymont on Saturday, April 8, for Dominion Energy Family Easter, one of Richmond’s favorite spring traditions! This year’s “eggs-travaganza” spreads out across the Carriage House Lawn and beyond, all the way to the Maymont Mansion, and is packed with activities, crafts and games, as well as live entertainment from local performance groups, plus Jonathan the Juggler and a live DJ Dance Zone. Learn about pollinators at the Planting Station, meet the Easter Bunny, or join…
Find out more »Toddler Time: Out and About
Introduce your little explorer(s) to the joys and wonders of farm animals at Maymont through age-appropriate activities. Each session provides fun, engaging and active learning through story time, a craft and a guided exploration. Plus, you and your toddler might even make a few new friends!
Find out more »Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction-Express
Presented in partnership with The Innerwork Center, VCU Continuing and Professional Education presents a course on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, taught live online over eight sessions on Tuesdays from 6-8 p.m. Eastern from April 11-May 30, 2023. Learn the science and application of mind-body medicine to promote resilience and healing. You will leave this workshop with proven techniques for living in the present and reducing the worries and fears that cause unnecessary stress.
Find out more »Making History with LVA
Volunteer with us! The Library of Virginia acquires, preserves, and promotes access to unique collections of Virginia’s history and culture. With more content and research moving online, we seek to make digital documents as accessible as possible by crowdsourcing their contents. Volunteers will transcribe handwritten pages and historical newspapers by reading the text and typing it into digital form. Join us for a virtual volunteer session to learn how you can help make historical documents more searchable and usable for…
Find out more »Literary Virginia Book Group (Virtual) | Children Under Fire
Read and discuss the best of today’s Virginia literature—including books by Library of Virginia Literary Award winners and finalists in fiction and nonfiction. On the second Wednesday evening of each month, join a book group discussion online through Zoom at 6:00 PM. This month, we’ll discuss “Children Under Fire: An American Crisis” by John Woodrow Cox (finalist for 2022 Literary Awards in Nonfiction). Next month, we’ll discuss “My Monticello” by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (winner of 2022 Literary Award for Fiction).…
Find out more »HAPPY HOUR POETRY
Break out of the work week routine with a dose of hot verse at Firehouse. Featuring showcase poets and an open mic sign up for those with a verse or two to drop, and a cash bar with happy hour specials. It’s a great way to make the most of a long day. Want to get heard yourself? Open mic signup is onsite starting at 5:45. Come catch the night on fire with us!
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