Wednesday, April 15
Doors: 6:30 pm // Show: 7:30 pm
Arts and Entertainment
Join Access Virginia Sight & Sound Concert Choir for an inspiring celebration of inclusion, joy, unity, and peace through the power of music and poetry. This special event features a remarkable ensemble predominantly made up of individuals with hearing loss or vision loss, coming together to share their voices, talents, and spirit with the community. Participants of the Sight & Sound Choir were welcomed to participate each week since March 25 as part of a new, exciting experience led by Dr. Julius McCullough, the esteemed Director of the Boys Choir of Hampton Roads.
Arts at the Attucks is made possible by Norfolk Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Newfound Chamber Winds presents an evening of chamber music featuring time-honored classics and works by living composers. The concert will include performances of chamber winds, wind quintets, duos, and more, and highlight music by Newfound Chamber Winds Summer Music Festival Guest Composer, Stacy Garrop.
Arts at the Attucks is made possible by Norfolk Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Join us for Helios: The Sixth Annual Public Arts Festival at Old Dominion University — a celebration of our campus’s remarkable research, creative talent, and synergistic collaboration taking place Friday and Saturday, November 6th and 7th, from 5-9pm. The festival serves as a platform for the intersection of art and science, while inviting attendees to engage with innovative projects and enjoy immersive experiences. At its heart is our belief in fostering community engagement and dialogue through the transformative power of art in public spaces.
For this year’s festival, we’re excited to welcome back Luke Jerram, the artist behind the Museum of the Moon and Mars artworks featured at our 1st and 2nd Public Arts Festivals in 2021 and 2022. Helios, his newest piece, is an inflatable sculpture of the Sun at a scale of 1:200 million, and it will be making its first appearance in North America at our festival. When viewed at night, Helios will be illuminated from within and its surface will appear to be animated by solar storms.
Based out of the United Kingdom, Luke Jerram is an internationally-acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist who specializes in installations and immersive public art. Helios, like Museum of the Moon and Mars before it, will tie the sciences back into our festival not only through the artwork itself, but through the campus and community partners who will help us engage attendees of all ages.
Helios: The Sixth Annual Public Arts Festival will take place on 43rd Street in Norfolk, VA, between the Barry Art Museum and the Chartway Arena. As always, this festival is free and open to the public thanks to our generous sponsors and members.
Prerequisite: Glassblowing 3
In Glassblowing 4: Advanced Color Theory, discover a range of different glass color applications while practicing advanced glassblowing techniques like bowls and dropped feet. Some of the advanced methods will include optic twists, overlays of color, and a variety of assistant-aided body wraps.
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Ages 16 +
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Virtual Book Talk: The "Rape" of Japan, The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence During the Allied Occupation
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Dr. Walsh will discuss the primary sources he used in debunking this longstanding myth regarding sexual violence by American occupation forces in Japan from 1945-1951 and his conclusions about the truth behind this largely accepted fiction.
On Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 7:00 pm EST, the MacArthur Memorial will present a free virtual lecture by Dr. Brian Walsh on his recent publication, The “Rape” of Japan: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence During the Allied Occupation (2024).
Dr. Walsh will discuss the primary sources he used in debunking this longstanding myth regarding sexual violence by American occupation forces in Japan from 1945-1951 and his conclusions about the truth behind this largely accepted fiction. An audience Q&A will follow this presentation.
Brian P. Walsh has lived, worked, and studied in Japan for eighteen years. He received a master’s degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Washington in 2003 and a Ph.D. in modern Japanese history in 2016. His major areas of study are US-Japanese relations in the 1940s and 1950s and problems surrounding the development of a new postwar Japanese national identity. He has published articles in the Journal of Military History, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and the Pacific Historical Review. He supervised his wife Ayumi’s Japanese translation of Richard B. Frank’s biography of Douglas MacArthur. At present, he is at work on a project about the end of the Asia-Pacific War and the myths that have developed in both Japan and the United States about that subject. He teaches Japanese history and international relations at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan.
Stabilizing Democracy: Beate Sirota Gordon and the Constitution of Japan
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Learn about the role Beate Sirota Gordon played in the creation of the Constitution of Japan in a special virtual presentation by her daughter.
The MacArthur Memorial hosts Nicole Gordon, daughter of Beate Sirota Gordon, to discuss her mother’s critical role in forming the constitution that still guides Japan today. The presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Battleship Traditions and Artifacts Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 1PM
This daily program is included in Nauticus’ general admission.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 | 11AM
Did you know Navy ships have a set of flags used to communicate with other vessels? Come experience what it is like to communicate using the International Code of Signals and signal flags on the Battleship Wisconsin.
Program included in general admission!
