The Charleston Dirty Birds take on the High Point Rockers during FestivBALL at the park! Check out the third-base line for free make-and-take art activities and check out student-led video submissions on the scoreboard. Children 13 and under get in free!
FestivBALL Night at the GoMart Ball Park will include a video contest! Open to students Kindergarten through 12th grade.
Has FestivALL and the Dirty Birds made this community a more vibrant place for you to grow up?
Send us 45-60 sec videos showing us how the arts provided by FestivALL and the games with the Dirty Birds have helped made Charleston a better community for you to live!
We want to see your creative sides!
The top 3 videos will be displayed on the big screen at the FestivBALL Dirty Birds game on June 11!
Deadline to submit is June 5, 2023
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FestivALL and Arts Amplified presents: City Center Dead!
Join John Inghram, JP Nowak, Eric Weingrad, Brandon Bowlds and Brad Goodall for a FREE night of Grateful Dead hits at City Center at Slack Plaza. Food trucks and activities on-site.
Enjoy this evening of live music at the City Center at Slack Plaza.
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Bring a chair, bring a friend, and enjoy a screening of Jumanjiin Base Camp’s new space.
Location: Base Camp Printing
Door at 6:30pm
Movie at 7:00pm
When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn’t realize its unimaginable powers until he is magically transported–before his friend Sarah’s startled eyes– into the untamed jungles of Jumanji. He remains there for 26 years until two unsuspecting children free him from the game’s spell. Now a grown man, Alan reunites with Sarah, and they and the children try to outwit the game’s powerful forces.
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Come out and support Local Music and Local Business with a fun, interactive, game of LIVE MUSIC BINGO!
Music by 11:11
Free to play! Prizes Awarded!
A mash up of live music from local musicians and bingo! Instead of letters and numbers being called out, you’ll mark spaces on the provided bingo cards based on songs and random happenings during the musician’s performances. The best way to see how it works is to come out and try it yourself.
Bringing a variety of science, technology, engineering, and math speakers to WV’s capitol city, the Chancellor’s STEM Speaker Series presents Carl Zimmer, science journalist, for his talk “The Age of Viruses and Viral Disinformation: Making Sense of the Pandemic”.
Zimmer writes for the New York Times, National Geographic, and NPR, as well as many popular books.
Talk: 6-7pm
Book signing: 7-7:45pm
Zimmer is a familiar voice on radio programs such as Radiolab and professor adjunct at Yale University. He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom both a species of tapeworm and an asteroid have been named.
The STEM Speaker Series began in 2014 with a goal of communicating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) research to all West Virginians.
Enjoy an evening by the Kanawha River for Live on the Levee, a FREE Friday night concert series in Charleston, WV!
Live on the Levee concerts take place every Friday night from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekends and feature local and regional musical acts. Food and drink vendors on site include beer and wine.
6:30pm Of the Dell7:45pm John Inghram: A Tribute to the Who
Thank You to Our Sponsors and Event Organizers
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This year’s FREE concert welcomes ALL to enjoy the diverse sounds of FestivALL in the heart of the city. Featured acts include 4Chill, Juice Newsom & The Groove and Erin & The Wildfire! Food trucks will be on-site.
Erin & The Wildfirestarted as four college kids in Charlottesville, Virginia making music just for fun, but has grown into a flourishing, decade-long musical relationship among four best friends. E&TW, who now call Virginia’s capital city of Richmond home, have evolved their sound over the past ten years to where it currently stands firmly in the soul and indie-pop genres, drawing influences from a wide range of artists including Emily King, D’Angelo, YEBBA, Vulfpeck, and Donny Hathaway.
The band blends the expressive, powerhouse vocals of frontwoman, Erin Lunsford, with the pop, funk, and indie sensibilities of bandmates Ryan Lipps (guitar), Nick Quillen (drums), and Matt Wood (bass). In addition to the core four, E&TW has recently found a kindred musical soul in keyboardist Stephen Roach, who has played with the band since 2019.
Erin & The Wildfire’s first live show back, after a pandemic-induced hiatus in 2020, was an exciting sold-out event at Richmond, Virginia’s Friday Cheers in 2021. The band also made their debut on NPR’s Mountain Stage in 2021 alongside Amy Helm, Chris Pierce, and Christian Lopez, airing to 200+ stations nationwide. E&TW has provided direct support for national tours including Sammy Rae & The Friends’ 2022 Follow Me Like the Moon Tour, Maggie Rose’s Summer 2022 Tour, and The Dip’s Fall 2019 Tour. They have shared the stage with other dynamic acts including Oh He Dead, Marcus King Band, Natalie Prass, Jill Scott, Butcher Brown, Mighty Joshua, The Village People, and Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds.
Thank you to our generous sponsors
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A monthly house show and pop-up show series welcoming local talent to perform at intimate spaces around Charleston, WV. This event features Charleston, WV band Static Fur, and Red Audio.
Location: 186 Summers St.
Produced by the Sage Soul Productions team (Christopher Vincent, Mallory Richards and Aaron Fisher), this intimate performance experience welcomes artists and the community to experience live music in a listening room setting at historical homes, small businesses, soon to be renovated space and other unique pop up venues in Charleston, WV.
With a capacity of only 30-60, this series showcases paired down sets by some of the area’s most unique and talented musicians, as well as some of the best regional talent around.
“The Wake Up Call,” documentary by Storyline Motion Pictures is about the remarkable and heroic international life of West Virginia native Dave Evans. He had a notable, worldly career until the age of 68.
Pre-show Reception at 6pm in the Culture Center’s Great Hall
The documentary profiles Dave Evans’ 50-year career making and fitting artificial legs, arms, and hands for civilians and combatants in conflict zones and numerous countries around the globe, after losing his own legs below the knees in Vietnam.
The 71-minute film, with interviews and footage from around the world, was crafted by Alison Gilkey and Eric Neudel (see profiles below). Their Storyline Motion Pictures is a small documentary film company based in Natick, Massachusetts, whose goal is to craft “thought-provoking, high quality programs about often overlooked social issues.”
The documentary’s West Virginia premiere is preceded by its world premiere April 17, 2022, at the Boston International Film Festival.
Musical acts, comedians, storytellers, magicians, ALL are welcome!
Sign-ups start the day of, with 12 available slots. Each slot is 10 minutes each, and you can message, call, email, or stop by Folklore Music Exchange to secure a slot.
Date: Thursday, October 17
Time: 6:30-9pm
Location: Folklore Music Exchange, 191 Summers St.
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