June 22 to June 28, 2009

YOUR WEEK IN EVENTS IS WAITING! So get out there and heart your community! If you want to see everything happenin’ in our fantastic little corner of Virginia, check out our main calendar of events here or for the best of the best, pick up A Useful Paper today! It’s all FREE, yo!

MONDAY-FRIDAY

Public Art Week Fun!

Time: 9am-4:45pm
Place: Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA
Price: $375/$410
Info: Choose between “Clay in Community: A Collaborative Public Mural,” pottery with Elisa N. Di Feo or ” Pulp Sculpt: Paper Sculptures for the Outdoors” with Lee Chichester. Workshop runs M-F, June 22-26.
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TUESDAY

Discover Saltville, VA Daytrip

Time: 7am
Place: Leave from Brambleton Center at 7am or Hollins at 7:30am
Price: $46
Info: Trip highlights include a visit to the Museum of the Middle Appalachians, Salt Park, with its reconstructed salt furnace, Palmer Grist Mill and more. Fee includes breakfast, tours, lunch and travel.
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WEDNESDAY

Erin McCarley

Time: 8pm
Place: Kirk Avenue Music Hall, 22 Kirk Avenue, Roanoke, VA
Price: $15
Info: McCarley ignited SXSW this year with her elegantly crafted, deeply melodic music that resounds with echoes of the Beatles and Aimee Mann, Alanis Morissette and Amy Winehouse.
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THURSDAY

Retro Market

Time: 5:30pm
Place: Vinton Farmer’s Market, Vinton, VA
Price: FREE
Info: Buy and sell collectibles from the 1950’s thru the 1980’s. Decorating items, vinyls and tapes, clothing, housewares. Fun music, specialty coffee, children’s area, and more.
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY

Army of Darkness: Midnight Movie

Time: Midnight
Place: Grandin Theatre, Roanoke, VA
Price: $6.50
Info: Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick! It’s time to stay up late and watch this cult classic on the big screen. Our chainsaw toting hero, Ash is stuck in the 13th century… uh-oh!
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FRIDAY

Pinche Gringo with Eternal Summers

Time: 7pm
Place: The Water Heater, 813 5th Street, Roanoke, VA
Price: $5
Info: Pinche Gringo, one-man-band garage blues stomp! Eternal Summers, sparse clean, dirty jangly garage pop. The Water Heater will swell with deliciously dirty-fresh garage pop rock stomp vibes.
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FRIDAY

Tiffany Trent, Hallowmere Books

Time: 7:30pm
Place: Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University
Price: FREE
Info: Tiffany Trent, author of the acclaimed Hallowmere books, a dark, edgy, six-volume series of historical fantasies, talks about her work and the craft of fantasy. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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SATURDAY

Architectonic Logic: Silt-cast Stoneware

Time: Through June 27
Place: Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA
Price: FREE
Info: In the artist’s words, ” within the shallow base-relief surface of my work, is a compressed amalgam of the natural world and the human world.” Artist Chris Gryder earned his Bachelor of Architecture at Tulane University, New Orleans, and his MFA in ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Visit the museum on the Hollins University campus.

SATURDAY

KIVA Day Camp

Time: All Day
Place: Roanoke Mountain Campground, Roanoke, VA
Price: FREE
Info: Join the National Wildlife Federation and KIVA for KIVA Day Camp! Tents will be set up at the lovely Roanoke Mountain Campground in the morning and activities are scheduled throughout the day. Pack up and head home at dinner time. KIVA is a free family nature club. No childcare is provided. Stay and make a memory with your child(ren).
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SATURDAY

Catherine Russell

Time: 8pm
Place: Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Avenue, Roanoke, VA
Price: $8-$33
Info: After years on fame’s periphery singing backup for artists as diverse as David Bowie and Roseanne Cash, Catherine Russell is at last earning the praise and attention she deserves. Russell distills the robust, good-time essense of Southern juke joints and lindy-hopping Northern dance halls into a jazz performance that radiates interpretive power yet remains touchingly vulnerable.
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SUNDAY

Powertool Drag Race Clinic

Time: 12pm-3pm
Place: Wilson Hughes Gallery, Roanoke, VA
Price: FREE
Info: In anticipation of the upcoming Powertool Drag Race on July 4th, John Wilson (mad-scientist) will hold a clinic at The Wilson Hughes Gallery Studios on Campbell Avenue for anyone interested in modifying a powertool into a powertool racer. John will have examples on hand and will discuss the ins and outs of modifying powertools into hot rod racing machines. This clinic will include hands on demonstration, history of the sport, and fun!

SUNDAY

Super Soaker Sunday

Time: 2pm
Place: Century Plaza, Downtown Roanoke, VA
Price: FREE
Info: Get ready for Roanoke’s first ever summer water battle. Come ready to soak and get soaked as the whistle blows at 2pm sharp. Rules: all ages are welcome, battle but have fun, all types of water weilding weapons and contraptions encouraged: water balloons, buckets, catapults, and more buckets! BYOW. If you are a greenie who is worried about wasting water (like us) then save up by not showering this week, giving you a stinking advantage! See you there!