Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking community workshop designed to strengthen our collective understanding of addiction, recovery, and the power of supportive community. “The Courage of Recovery” invites participants to explore how stigma, language, and individual perspectives can create barriers for those seeking healing—and how we can actively work together to remove them.

Questions? Contact: info@georgiasfriends.org

The one and only @buckgooter is playing their first show and they are not to be missed! They are a great live band and always have a surprise or two in store. Also playing live for only the second ever time is Choppers Choice, which is a large live crew put together by @provenrecording & @orgonedonor to realize a live version of their recent explorations. Come grab a tape at the show! Dais Queue Ensemble will open things up with a set of massed open-tuned string moves. Music starts a little after 8pm, all ages, $10-15 suggested donation but no one will be turned away for lack of funds and all levels of donations are welcome. Head on out!

This free-entry author talk dives deep into the 19th century origins of anarchism, communism, and the labor movement amid the genocidal settler colonial context of the "wild west." Topple your idols and question how we might destroy leviathan itself rather than simply demanding a rank-and-file democratization of the spoils of colonization.

Questions? Contact: historicalseditions@riseup.net

“In The Alabama Solution, incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of the United States’ deadliest prison systems.”

@movie.friend in collaboration with @rivannaabc we will be screening The Alabama Solution (2025) on Sunday, April 12th! we can’t wait to bring you this very important documentary feature film! Hopefully we’ll see you there!

Movie friend is a monthly movie screening series in Charlottesville where friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends come to gather and watch a movie <3
Doors are at 7:30 and the screening will start around 7:45pm
Our screenings are free but we do encourage donations to @Visible_Records, our lovely hosts!
The space can be a little cold at times so bring a blanket if you want!
Feel free to bring your own chair, but we have lots of folding chairs available if you dont!
Masks are encouraged and provided!

We'll be gardening starting at 10, and firing up the grill at 11am. Come hangout!

This month we'll be writing to the defendants from the prairieland case. In March of 2026 nine defendants were found guilty for participating in a Noise Demo in solidarity with ICE Detainees that occurred on July 4th 2025 at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, south of Fort Worth. This is the first case in the U.S. where “antifa” is considered domestic terrorism. For more info: https://prairielanddefendants.com/

All supplies provided, no experience necessary, bring a friend!

The C'ville Mural Collective is a group of self-identified muralists and folks committed to creating murals for and by the community. The aim of our first gathering is to re-invigorate the conversation around locally-made murals and outline a vision moving forward.

Questions? Contact: christy@greenyellow.blue

ONE YEAR of Charlottesville Community Potluck means it’s time for a CELEBRATION, and YOU are invited 🥳🎂🍰🧁

Come out on Sunday, April 5th from 12:30-3:30pm to enjoy a bevy of beautiful cakes! If you’re able, bring a cake to share! If you’re not, bring your mouth to eat with!

For the first time, we’re asking for small $$$ donations to help keep the next year of potluckin’ going, but that should not be a deterrent if ya’ ain’t got it right now—no one turned away for lack of funds, EVER!

@communitypotluck.cville on instagram

Monthly Play Reading Group! Think book club, but for theatre! This is an opportunity for those interested in theatre, discovering new scripts, trying out a bit of light acting, or hearing stories brought to life. All are welcome! There will be some scripts printed, but bring along a laptop if possible so that you can access the play online.

This Month's Play: Fefu and her Friends by María Irene Fornés 

A landmark 1977 feminist play by one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century. Fefu has gathered her friends to drink lemonade, play croquet, and plan and rehearse a fundraiser to benefit arts in education. Beneath this surface lies a probing investigation of friendship, gender, sexuality, class, and disability.

"Imagining Safe, Queer Futures Here: what life looks like when queer people are thriving"

Trans Day of Visibility (03/31) - 6pm

Join the Queer Liberation Front, Jess Walters, Charley Burton, The Women’s Initiative, Scrappy Elephant, and others for Imagining Safe, Queer Futures Here — a facilitated, collaborative vision board making session where we ask: what does life in Central Virginia look like when queer people are actually thriving?

Food by Botanical Plant-Based Fare and childcare provided on site. Plenty of materials will also be provided but feel free to bring anything you'd like as well.

Questions? Contact: The Queer Liberation Front, thequeerliberationfront@proton.me or @thequeerliberationfront on Instagram

Come see Yvonne Rainer’s “MURDER and murder” with Movie Friend. Watch with friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, for free and for fun!

@movie.friend on instagram

3.26.26 8pm (doors at 7:30)

Visible Records (1740 Broadway Ave, Charlottesville)

$10 Suggested Donation

Questions? Email gorgonparis@gmail.com

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On catalog highlights including 2020’s 'Auto' and the 2024 free-jazz sprawler 'Viewfinder', they’ve made a signature of ambition.
As Eisenberg told fellow guitarist Nick Millevoi in an interview for Premier Guitar in 2021, “I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs. All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.” Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism, but a genuine artistic essence.

Wendy’s new self-titled album is available for pre-order from Joyful Noise Recordings.

JoVia Armstrong is a percussionist, composer, and educator whose work blends rhythm, technology, and experimental composition. Born in Detroit, Armstrong has performed with artists including El DeBarge, Nicole Mitchell, Isaiah Sharkey, Jeff Parker, and Malian musicians Ballaké Sissoko and Babani Koné. Her performance style bridges acoustic and electronic percussion, drawing influence from a diverse range of global traditions.

She leads the electroacoustic ensemble Eunoia Society, which explores sound as a healing tool through immersive audio and contemplative composition. Their albums The Antidote Suite (2022) and Inception (2023) received widespread acclaim in The New York Times, DownBeat, JazzTimes, and The Wire. Armstrong earned her Ph.D. in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology from UC Irvine. She now serves as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Virginia, where she teaches composition and electronic music while researching the intersection of Black music, sonic healing, and urban space.

Jordan Perry is a guitarist currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia.  His recordings of solo guitar compositions and improvisations have been issued by Feeding Tube Records, Good Cry Records, and 20/20 Records and Tapes. He is also a collaborator with a bunch of different folks including Big Bend, New Boss, Night Teacher, Ned Oldham, Uncle Pen, Kass Richards, David Menestres, and Ear Infection.

Please join us on Wednesday March 18th at 6pm to hear from our current Artist in Residence, Serena Caffrey, about her recent work and residency experience. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Release party for Chad A. Hutchinson's mixtape chapbook "Jeannette". Refreshments and book signing at 330, with music from The Dapper Tramps. Performance at 4 PM with special guests. Closing set by The Pollocks.

3:30 PM Refreshments | Book Signing
4:00 PM Performance

Featuring Rock and Roll from The Pollocks💥

Plus: Jazz music! Ukulele band! Special guests!

Free event, donations accepted.

Please consider bringing canned or dried goods for the onsite food pantry.

Additional parking at Johnstone Supply across the street.

Check out more details on instagram.

While a $10 donation is suggested to compensate the bands for their time, travel, and talent, No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds (NOTAFLOF)!

Sensor Ghost: Angular art punk from a trio Washington, D.C. scene veterans with an album out on Dischord Records.

Clenchers: Skronky freaky post-punk from Richmond, playing Charlottesville for the first time.

Radon Abatement: Four locals and a drum machine doing drive-y no wave with a post-punk edge. "It makes me feel stoned, but then it's also not like, chill," they've been told.

We'll be writing letters to the solitary gardeners this month as well as get-well-soon cards for a community member at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail who will soon be undergoing open heart surgery. Snacks and supplies provided! No experience necessary!

Come see a free screening of Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” with Movie Friend. Watch with friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends.

Questions? Email cy.f.march@gmail.com

Come join us at 10am if you want to get involved with the community gardens!

The monthly potluck will happen, as always, from 12:30-3:30pm following the volunteer meeting. Come hungry or bring a dish! Meet your neighbors!

Please join us for the rescheduled date of the Stand Up For Palestine show! This event is free and will feature a range of artistic approaches to discussing and processing the ongoing genocide. Now featuring a community art build where we will be painting a replacement “FREE PALESTINE” banner for VR after the theft of our last one.

Learn from a true visionary, Fred Oesch, about building a regenerative future through ecological building techniques suited to the central Virginia region, particularly how to address issues of mold and other concerns arising from local weather patterns.

Please RSVP so event organizers can have a rough head count! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-design-an-evening-with-fred-oesch-tickets-1983229048471?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Questions? Email antemmink@gmail.com

This is an opportunity for those interested in theatre, discovering new scripts, trying out a bit of light acting, or hearing stories brought to life. All are welcome! There will be some scripts printed, but bring along a laptop if possible so that you can access the play online.

The play: Pity by Rory Mullarkey 

A normal day. A person stands in the market square watching the world go by.
What happens next verges on the ridiculous.

There's ice cream. Sunshine. Shops. Some dogs. A wedding. Bombs. Candles. Blood. Lightning. Sandwiches. Snipers. Looting. Gunshots. Babies. Actors. Azaleas. Famine. Fountains. Statues. Atrocities. And tanks. (Probably).

Rory Mullarkey's one-act play asks whether things really are getting worse. And if we care.

The Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU present jazz vocalist Laura Ann Singh and her Fracas Quintet at Visible Records at 4 pm on February 22nd. Tickets are available at CJS.Ticketbud.com. General Admission is $20; $15 for paid supporters of The Charlottesville Jazz Society.

Laura Ann Singh is a multilingual American singer, composer, and recording artist, known for her vibrant interpretations of Brazilian popular music, Latin boleros, and beyond. A founding member of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Miramar, she has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and on NPR’s Tiny Desk and All Songs Considered. With Miramar, Singh has toured internationally, from Russia to France. Her projects span genres and continents, such as the Brazilian-focused projects Quatrona Bossa, Os Magrelos, and her jazz work withthe Doug Richards Orchestra. Laura Ann Singh’s performance on Scott Clark’s 2023 Dawn &amp; Dusk (OOYH 021) got the album attention as one of the Best Vocal Releases of the Year by the New York City Jazz Record, and of Singh Free JazzCollective said “She has a hauntingly angelic voice, that is at once assertive and fragile.” Soon after the release of Dawn & Dusk Singh began composing her own material, first lyrics to Ornette Coleman’s Broken Shadows, then her own compositions for the Fracas Quintet that would become her new album Mean Reds. She will debut music from that album at this Charlottesville concert. The band will include Scott Clark on drums, Adam Hopkins on bass, John Lilley sax and Bob Miller trumpet.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information visit cvillejazz.org, or call 434-249-6191.

Please join us on 2/19 from 6-8pm to hear from Häsler Gómez about his creative practice and recent works! Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Marshal Training II: Advanced Practice

Sun, Feb 15, 2-4 pm

How do we keep each other safe at protests, rallies, and public events? This mostly outdoor, active session focuses on crowd and traffic coordination. Practice using your body, voice, and confidence in various marshal roles and scenarios to contribute to our collective safety. Because who keeps us safe? We keep us safe! Note: participants must have completed Marshal Training I to attend.

Questions? contact@indvisiblecharlottesville.org

We'll be writing to Michael Kimble, one of common field's solitary gardeners who's currently imprisoned in Alabama, along with several others in the Alabama prison system: Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray, and Raoul Poole. Council, Ray, and Poole were all featured in the recent documentary The Alabama Solution, which showcased the ongoing abuse and wretched conditions of Alabama prisons. All three have recently been moved into solitary confinement, ahead of plans for another organized prison strike. You can read more about them in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/alabama-solution-activist-solitary-confinement

No experience required, supplies and pizza provided.

Marshal Training I

Sun, Feb 8, 2-4 pm

How do we keep each other safe at protests, rallies, and public events? This session focuses on how to help identify and de-escalate tense or risky situations that might come up. Learn how to take on roles to contribute to our collective safety. Because who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!

This training is repeated from April and October 2025, although folks who participated in those previous marshaling training sessions are encouraged to come again.

Questions? contact@indvisiblecharlottesville.org

Thương / Nhớ (Loving/Remembering)

a new installation work by Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn

Thương / Nhớ 

Vietnamese, verbs: Loving / Remembering 

is a home being (re)built from deceptively flimsy-looking forms, fueled by fragmented memories. 

is a home being (re)constructed from the outlines of apartment complexes, schools, and markets that populate my homeland. 

is a home being sewn together because sewing is a caring, tender, healing act.

Drop-in Sewing and washing performances will be held through out the exhibition:

Saturday, December 13th-11-1 • Sewing

Wednesday, December 17th- 6-8 • Washing

Saturday, February 7th-11-1 • Washing

Wednesday, February 11th-6-8• Sewing

Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn (she/they) is a Vietnamese-American multidisciplinary artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Vietnam and moved to the US as a teenager, Nguyễn’s experiences and perspective as an immigrant inform and enrich her work. She sews threadbare, abstract structures and forms. To Nguyễn, abstraction is a tool to process and articulate  - a formal construct upon which she restructures her stories. It is an act of obscuring the painful details, distilling the most beautiful aspects, and transforming them into tangible objects. 

She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2022 and her BA from the University of Virginia in 2015.