Join Social Cycling Norfolk for friendly, casual rides. Meet at Slow & Steady Bikes and Goods 6ish pm every Wednesday.
Ride at 6:30pm for about 1.5 hours in the 9-12mph range.
The goal is ride together and build bike community.
Route TBD weekly.
PLEASE CHARGE YOUR BIKE LIGHTS!
WEAR A HELMET, you share the road with cars. Things happen.
Group rides for the roadie in all of us. Paces start with an A pace from 20+ mph and distance of 30 miles. The B pace is 18 to 20 mph and distance of 30 miles. Leaving from East Coast Bicycles at 6pm each Tuesday in May.
Norfolk Cycle Sisters take off from Norfolk ReCycle Factory on a casual bike ride and end with tacos the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month.
Norfolk Cycle Sisters take off from Norfolk ReCycle Factory on a casual bike ride and end with tacos the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month.
Floral Design 101: Learning the Basics
Sunday, May 4th, 2025
12:00pm – 2:00pm
$45
+18
All Skill Levels are welcome
Class Description:
Come design a spring floral arrangement with Allie Lavigne of One Community Museum! This class will start with a demonstration of sustainable floral design techniques, including a hand tied bouquet and a bowl arrangement. Participants will then use these skills, along with Allie’s hands-on guidance, to create their own arrangement(s). This course will take your floral design skills to the next level!
Supplies:
Clippers (d’Art has a limited # of clippers available for use, if needed)
Apron
one medium-large vase or two smaller vases
2-3 floral bouquets of your choice
1-3 bunches of greenery
box for transport
For the Floral/Botanicals
You may bring flowers from your own garden (or a friend’s)
Purchase from the Instructor at East Beach Farmers Market, Saturdays 9-noon
Bring florals/botanicals from any florist, greenhouse or grocer that you wish to
If you need help selecting vases or flowers/greens, please contact the instructor, Allison Lavigne at onecommunitymuseum@gmail.com
Join us for the Foster Beauty Fashion Show at the Virginia Zoo on May 3, a one-of-a-kind runway experience blending art, fashion, and sustainability. This immersive evening will feature a dynamic runway show, jazz, opera, live painting, dance performances, a cocktail hour and more! Don’t miss this exciting community celebration set against the stunning backdrop of the Zoo.
Discover stunning, one-of-a-kind jewelry created through the Radical Jewelry Makeover project—a collaboration between artists from Liberty University, Old Dominion University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Using donated pieces as raw materials, artists have transformed unwanted jewelry into fresh, wearable art. Shop a wide selection of redesigned pieces at every price point and support a more sustainable, community-centered approach to fashion. Perfect for gifting or treating yourself!
Born just outside of Austin, Texas, Ty grew up on a cattle ranch owned by his family for more than six generations. He clung on to music as a kid and never let go, obsessing over an expansive range of artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Withers, and Otis Redding to Chris Stapleton and George Strait. Devoting every waking minute to writing songs and playing music, he gave up baseball and football and opted for homeschooling in order to wholeheartedly pursue his dream. During 2023, he made waves with his debut single “Tie That Binds,” gaining traction organically and generating over 11 million Spotify streams. On its heels, “Drinkin’ Alone” exploded with over 26 million Spotify streams and counting. Between packing houses in his home state and sharing the stage with Willie Nelson, he has performed countless sold out shows across the states and wrapped up dates on Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers Band’s Hold My Beer Tour before embarking on his headline run
With the anthemic delivery of his current single, “See You Next Summer,” and homegrown follow-up “Dirt Cheap,” DIAMOND-selling superstar Brian Kelley enters the next chapter of a record-breaking, history-making career. In the studio working on his full-length debut album with Big Machine Records, he first made waves with his passion project SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND in 2021 (which American Songwriter called “some of the best modern country put to tape.”) With a sold-out run of shows and back-to-back residencies at Tribe Kelley Surf Post in Grayton Beach, FL – owned by the Ormond Beach native and his wife Brittney – Kelley continues to diversify his thriving enterprise with collaborations including cult-favorite brand Tribe Kelley with Brittney and a partnership with Oyster City Brewing Company. Kelley is managed by Kevin Spellman and Jason Murray of Vector Management. First known as the Florida half of the GRAMMY-nominated Florida Georgia Line, the ACM Breakout Artist of the Decade Award recipients garnered 19 career No. 1s and became the first and only act to achieve two RIAA DIAMOND singles in Country music history (14X PLATINUM No. 1s: “Cruise” and “Meant to Be” with Bebe Rexha). Surpassing 17 billion global streams, selling more than 40 million tracks and 4.8 million albums worldwide, plus playing to over 4 million fans, FGL has been honored by AMA, Billboard, CMA, and CMT Music Awards, as well as having a Florida Georgia Line: Mix It Up Strong exhibit at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
The English Beat is a band with an energetic mix of musical styles and a sound like no other. The band’s unique sound has allowed it to endure for nearly three decades and appeal to fans, young and old, all over the world.
When The English Beat (known simply as The Beat in their native England) rushed on to the music scene in 1979, it was a time of massive social and political unrest and economic and musical upheaval. This set the stage for a period of unbridled musical creativity, and thanks in large part to the Punk movement and it’s DIY approach to making music, artists like The Beat were able to speak out and speak their mind on the news of the day, as in “Stand Down Margaret”, things that mattered to them and the youth culture, as in “Get A Job”, and universal matters of the heart and soul, as in their classic hits “I Confess” and “Save It For Later”.
The original band consisted of singer-songwriter Dave Wakeling on vocals and guitar, Andy Cox on guitar, David Steele on bass, and Everett Morton on drums – later additions Ranking Roger (toasting) and foundational First Wave Ska legend Saxa (saxophone) completed the outfit. The band crossed over fluidly between soul, reggae, pop and punk, and from these disparate pieces they created an infectious dance rhythm.
The Beat first came to prominence as founding members of the British Two Tone Ska movement, with their classic first album “Just Can’t Stop It” fitting squarely in that genre. Along with their contemporaries The Specials, The Selecter, and Madness, the band became an overnight sensation and one of the most popular and influential bands of that movement.
However, band leader Dave Wakeling never felt constrained by the movement. Dave has always viewed ska as a springboard, not a straight jacket. Indeed, the band’s sound continued to evolve over their first three studio albums, through the General Public era (a band formed by Dave with Ranking Roger, the toaster from The Beat), and has continued it’s evolution with the forthcoming English Beat album “Here We Go Love”, a PledgeMusic crowd-funded album set for release in 2016, the band’s first new album since 1982’s “Special Beat Service”.
Consummate showman that he is, Dave Wakeling has continued to keep The Beat alive and strong. Dave continues to tour the world as The English Beat with an amazing all-star ska backing band playing all the hits of The Beat, General Public, and songs from his new album “Here We Go Love”.
You just can’t stop The English Beat!
