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We're hosting Two Size Inclusive Clothing Swaps in Charlottesville this August!

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Excited to be setting up @visible_records & @raqc.cville again 🥰

Please wear clothes that you're comfortable trying clothing on over and tote bags! (Some bathrooms/dressing spaces available)

There will be sizes from XS-5X+, various snacks and plenty of wholesome vibes to be had!

We accept donations year round via scheduled pick ups and at Rivanna Area Queer Center during drop in hours.

Can't attend a swap but have clothes to donate? We can arrange it leading up to the event! We can also schedule for you to shop for clothing another time!

Please feel free to DM/Email us leading up to the event if you have any questions, need clarity, or if you'd like any accommodations!

Experience the magic of puppetry at The Modest Puppetry Festival IV: A New Hope, featuring a night of captivating short puppet shows from talented performers across central Virginia. Join us on July 26 at 6:30 PM at Visible Records in Charlottesville for an unforgettable evening filled with laughter, creativity, and a special mystery guest. Tickets are required at the door, ensuring everyone can

The Modest Puppetry Festival IV: A New Hope brings together new and experienced puppeteers from around central Virginia for one great night of short puppet shows! From serious and contemplative to laugh out loud and everything in between and beyond, be entertained and moved by puppets of all sizes and styles. Puppetry beyond your wildest expectations! Stage performers include The Three-Brained Robot (RVA), Nettle Shirts Puppet Works, Lucky Rat Studios (RVA), Lee Connah (Baltimore), autumndaisy, Prim Bitch Productions, Zae Wilder, and The Off Center (Staunton). Musical interludes by Richmond band Susan Loquat. Tickets at the door: $15 encouraged but no one turned away for lack of funds. Our intermission half-time show will feature local favorites the Webley Twizzle Project and a special visit from a mystery creature! Find out how YOU can help defeat the evil empire...with puppets!

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. No pressure to read aloud if you would rather just listen in and join the discussion after. All are welcome! 

There will be some scripts printed, but bring along a laptop if possible so that you can access the play online.

Description of this month's play: Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron’s raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power.

Content Advisory: DANCE NATION contains coarse language, gore, depictions of self-harm, simulated masturbation, descriptions of masturbation, sex and sexual violence.

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Let’s eat cake! 

Join Shenandoah Liberation Collective on July 17th for a Cake (and other baked goods) Auction fundraiser at Visible Records! All proceeds will be allocated between A Better World Bookfair transportation fund and the SLC mutual aid fund.

We will have both silent and live auction baked goods to bid on, representatives from rad local orgs, bang trims by Leslie Lowry and music DJ’d by Thomas Dean. Come ready to drop some cash and boogie down!

Recommended donation of $10 entry fee, cash preferred Venmo accepted. 

And don’t forget to mark your calendars for the second annual A Better World Bookfair, Saturday September 19 from 12pm-dinnertime, 565 Pine Ave, Waynesboro, VA.

Contact betterworldbookfair@protonmail.com with questions, or visit @shenliberation 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.

Description of this month's Play: Asian American playwright DHH, fresh off his Tony Award win for M. Butterfly, leads a protest against the casting of Jonathan Pryce as the Eurasian pimp in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, condemning the practice as “yellow face.” His position soon comes back to haunt him when he mistakes a Caucasian actor, Marcus G. Dahlman, for mixed-race, and casts him in the lead Asian role of his own Broadway-bound comedy, Face Value. When DHH discovers the truth of Marcus’ ethnicity, he tries to conceal his blunder to protect his reputation as an Asian-American role model. Confronting the shifting boundaries of race, and the ways in which we interpret ourselves, David Henry Hwang (and DHH) reveal that our faces are always more complex than they appear.

Content Advisory: Racism and Anti-Asian sentiments, mild profanity, euphemistic mentions of pornography and sex toys. 

Please join us 12:30pm on Saturday, June 27th for a screening of the film All That's Left of You (Cherien Dabis) with honorable guest lecturer Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, founding Director/Senior scholar of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at SFSU (joining us by Zoom). Doors at noon, film at 12:30pm, lecture at 3:30pm EST.

RSVP at the link below by selecting "Get on the list"!

https://partiful.com/e/u7CkDKVFd3XLH3VdXss0?

Free to enter. Links will be provided on-site for donations to humanitarian relief organizations, Dr. Abdulhadi's "Teaching Palestine" program, and Visible Records.

RSVP here for a Zoom link alternative to the talk. Film available to stream online for $9 at Watermelon Pictures.

https://partiful.com/e/4Yfz23wYXl6w5sz32f79?c=hH_y5aeG

This June we here at Movie Friend are excited to bring you… Nashville (1975) directed by Robert Altman! This screening will be on Sunday, June 21st with doors at 8pm! Come join us!

Join leaders and organizers from the hospitality workers union UNITE HERE to learn important organizing skills!

Questions? Contact: awhite@unitehere.org

This is a free event for queer and trans folks who identify as plus size! Come hangout with fellow fat babes in a safe and inclusive environment! Allies are welcome for support and solidarity!

Contact: cvillefatties@gmail.com

Please join us for the opening of Aida Lizalde’s ceramics show, come tierra, canta fuego (earth eater, fire singer) on Friday, June 12th, from 5-8pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided!

June 11th is the International Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. Join Rivanna ABC to write some letters! Thursday, June 11th, 6-8pm. Materials are provided and no experience is necessary. Drop in anytime! For more information on the history of June 11th, visit https://june11.noblogs.org/ 

Potlucks happen on the first Sunday of each month. Check out @communitypotluck.cville on instagram for details, questions, and an archive of past events!