LAVA Presents:
Friday, September 12, 2025 at The Annex
Full Moon Fever
Virginia’s Tom Petty Tribute
with special guest
Doors 7pm // Music 8pm
Tickets $15 advance // $20 day of show
All Ages
Arts and Entertainment
Make the perfect miniature summer home for the fairies and gnomes in your garden! Each fairy garden includes an air plant! Recommended for ages 5+ with some chaperone assistance. Due to the use of small decorative items for the fairy gardens, it is recommended that no children under 5 years old participate. All attending adults and children are required to have a registered ticket.
Price for NBG Members: $16/child. Adult members may attend for free with a registered child.
Price for Not-yet Members: $24/child and $18/adult. Tickets for class must be purchased for both children and adults and includes daytime admission to NBG.
Children under 3 years old are not required to have a ticket; however, a ticket must be registered if children under 3 years old are participating in the program.
The NEON Holiday Market returns!
Get ready for the holidays and shop local in the NEON District on Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 12 to 4 pm. Pop by for live music from local acoustic acts and the Swinging Santas, snacks and drinks from food trucks, and handmade goods from more than 40 vendors.
The 10th Annual NEON Festival returns to NFK Thursday, October 16 and Friday, October 17, 2025 for a pumped up ten-year anniversary celebration.
Presented by Arts Alliance and PRA Group, this free festival welcomes everyone to experience the NEON District through art exhibitions, local and regional performances, mural tours and programming unique to Norfolk’s first arts neighborhood.
The 2025 celebration includes:
Presented by Arts Alliance and PRA Group with media sponsorship by Jpixx. Beverages provided by Elation Brewing.
The NEON Festival is produced by Downtown Norfolk Council and The Chrysler Museum of Art.
Meet at The Plot for a gentle yoga flow every 4th Saturday of the month. Just bring your mat, dress comfy, and show up! This donation-based class supports a good cause, with 25% of donations going to Freekind in their work to prevent and eliminate human trafficking in Hampton Roads.
Meet at The Plot for a gentle yoga flow every 4th Saturday of the month. Just bring your mat, dress comfy, and show up! This donation-based class supports a good cause, with 25% of donations going to Freekind in their work to prevent and eliminate human trafficking in Hampton Roads.
Calling all trivia nerds and hungry minds!
Stockpot Norfolk is dishing up weekly trivia nights hosted by Bar Trivia LIVE.
Test your knowledge, enjoy food & drink specials, and mingle with your fellow brainiacs.
Wednesdays just got a whole lot smarter (and tastier)!
Exploding into the American progressive roots scene in 2018 with their #1 Billboard Reggae album Defy Gravity, The Elovaters have quickly become a household name for lovers of Sublime, Jack Johnson, Slightly Stoopid, G. Love, Stick Figure, The Movement, and more. They won Artist Of The Year, and Live Act of The Year in the 2022 New England Music Awards, and a few months later were voted Reggae/Ska Artist of The Year in the Boston Music Awards. Their music has been featured on CBS’ Hawaii Five-O and their song “Boston” was played during the World Series Parade when the Boston Red Sox won in 2018. Several of The Elovaters songs are in heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s “No Shoes Radio,” “Margaritaville,” and “The Spectrum,” and they are currently touring in North America and the Pacific Islands in support of their 2023 full-length album ENDLESS SUMMER.
Fortunate Youth is a collaboration of South Bay reggae stand-outs. Rising from various bands, they’ve created a phenomenal 6-piece masterpiece bringing more fire to the stage than ever before. Combining rootsy vibes and unique bass lines united with multiple harmonies, boisterous guitar solos, and heavy keys separates Fortunate Youth from every other mainstream reggae band. With their high energy approach and positive stage presence they provide an unforgettable show to every music fan. Fortunate Youth’s objective is to ensure a performance that leaves you feeling euphoric and curious of what might happen at the next show.
In 2011 they supported Tribal Seeds on their nationwide Tribal Youth Tour to spread their conscious music to the nation. F.Y. linked up The Green, from Hawaii, for a Midwest/Westcoast run before jumping back in the studio to record. They have hit the masses promoting only their 6-song EP titled “Up-Lifted EP” and just released their full-length album, “IRIE STATE OF MIND” on July 1, 2011. Fortunate Youth will also be touring very heavily through 2011 including a Naitonwide CD Release Summer Tour.
Upon Releasing their full-length album they quickly rose to #2 on the iTunes Reggae Charts and also locked in a #13 position on Billboard Top 100 Reggae Albums. Receiving great praise for early success Fortunate Youth strives to spread their interpretation of Reggae music to Music Lovers worldwide.
Fortunate Youth toured very heavily in 2012 supporting Headliners such as The Expendables and Tribal Seeds. FY also headlined their own Nationwide Summer of Sweet Love Tour proving they can pull their own weight. Making their first international departure, Fortunate Youth played 4 shows in Costa Rica spreading the love of reggae music internationally.
2013 release, “It’s All A Jam”, hit numerous charts including #1 on Billboard Reggae Charts, #10 Billboard Pacific Heatseekers Chart, #23 Billboard National Heatseeker Chart along with #1 on iTunes Reggae Charts and #46 iTunes Overall Charts. FY followed the album release with a 55-Show nationwide Spring Headline Tour seeing great response from the album’s successful release.
Fortunate Youth just finished a Spring 2014 Headline Tour and are gearing up for their Fall with Friends Tour which boasts a solid lineup of support bands including: New Kingston, The Expanders, The Steppas, Ease Up, Thrive, Ashes of Babylon, and more. Keep an eye out for a show in a city near you. All Tour Dates can be seen at www.fortunatemusic.com
The story of GWAR is carved across the history of this hopeless planet, but GWARthemselves are not of this world…Their story begins far past Uranus, in the deepest reaches of space, where the beings known as GWAR were warriors in the Scumdogs of the Universe, an elite fighting force in the army of the Master of All Reality. But GWARproved too reckless and powerful, and after a series of tragic but hilarious blunders, they were banished to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, with orders to conquer an insignificant backwater prehistoric mudball known as the planet Earth. Once here, GWAR, the original Ancient Aliens, shaped the face of the globe, wiping out the dinosaurs, and mating with apes to create the human race. Having accidentally given rise to all human history, the Master of All Reality froze them in Antarctic ice where they could do no more harm. It was there they were discovered by a shady entrepreneur known as Sleazy P Martini, who sat the band down in front of professional wrestling, late-night horror movies, heavy metal music, and a steady diet of crack cocaine until GWAR became the cultural force they are today!
