TEDxRVA 2014: Ideas Worth SPREADING
Look closely and you can find small tunnels carved inches beneath each aisle at Virginia Rep’s November Theatre. There was a time when large blocks of ice were placed under the stage at the mouth of these tunnels, and powerful electric fans blew across the ice. The year was 1911, and the chilled breeze coming […]
Man and Woman of the Year
When you’re jockeying for a title like Man and Woman of the Year, there’s no telling who might come to the table. This year’s candidates for the honor are a motley crew—including a New York artist, a Massey Cancer Center nurse, a VCU oncologist, two restaurateurs, a realtor, a marketing consultant, and a jeweler. This […]
Art 180’s Art Karma
For years, ART 180 has carved out a reputation for giving young people in RVA the chance to express themselves through art. By partnering with other nonprofit organizations, ART 180 has helped youth (ages 8 to 18) discover ways they can positively engage in and influence their surroundings. To help make the organization’s mission possible, […]
Good, Clean, and Fair Food
Slow Food RVA took root in 2009, bringing to Richmond an important national and international food movement. Waving the banner of “good, clean and fair food,” the mission of Slow Food RVA is three-fold—to celebrate, educate, and advocate. The organization celebrates the pleasures of food and breaking bread together through events such as their Graze series […]
RVA Look Book
The 2013 RVA Look Book is a 228-page, locally produced tribute to the entrepreneurs, artists, visionaries and doers that make the Richmond region a place for creative people and organizations to grow and thrive. Designed for both the RVA-initiated and the RVA-curious, the book cracks open the region’s personality, brainpower and lifestyle in vivid photography, […]
Moving Virginia Repertory Theatre Forward
Patience and faith. The patience to realize a vision and the faith that this vision will make a difference in the community. For more than 39 years, these two tenets have guided Bruce Miller and Phil Whiteway, leaders of Virginia Repertory Theatre. In 1975, the college friends pooled $700 and created Theatre IV, the first […]
Inclusion for Innovation
TMI Consulting envisions a world in which our individual differences drive our collective success. Dedicated to “Inclusion for Innovation” as their core approach, the diversity consulting firm gives communities the tools to harness each members’ full potential, teaching them how to celebrate—rather than marginalize—the personal backgrounds that they contribute to the common goal. “The biggest […]
Reestablishing the Rhythm at Central National Bank
Patrick Thompson is clearly waiting for something to happen as the tiny darkened elevator car ascends the abandoned Central National Bank tower. And just before Floor 15, the car clangs against the elevator shaft. “There it is,” the project architect says with calm. It’s a jarring feeling when you’re up that high, but he’s used […]
Help Brad Move
RVA in blaze orange is making 14-year-old Brandon “Brad” Farbstein move forward like he has never moved before. Diagnosed with a rare form of dwarfism at the age of 2, Farbstein has not let metatropic dysplasia define who he is or place limits on his dreams. Farbstein’s skeletal condition progresses over time, true to its […]
Friends: 142-Year-Old Gift to Richmond
Former slave Lucy Goode Brooks established the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans in Jackson Ward in 1871 and the work she began continues to this day. With the help of her sewing circle and local religious groups, Brooks provided a home and hope to black children in Richmond who had been orphaned by slavery and […]