Community Calendar

This December, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown explodes onto the Live Arts stage with a Technicolor tangle of love and self-discovery. Pepa’s world tilts when her lover vanishes, and her search for her beloved spirals into ex-wives, taxi drivers, best friends, and one unforgettable batch of gazpacho. From composer-lyricist David Yazbek and book writer Jeffrey Lane, this rollicking musical is adapted from Pedro Almodóvar’s cult classic and brought to life by your talented community!
Director Xavier Taylor (of Kinky Boots) calls it witty, hopeful, and charming, a story of independence and resilience with a vibrant Latin-infused score. December 5 through January 3 at Live Arts, 123 East Water Street. Tickets at livearts.org, or call 434-977-4177. Sponsored by Woodard Properties.

America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Richmond, VA!

At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a challenging crime while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The criminal is lurking somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect before you know it!

Each admission includes our fantastic dinner, mystery entertainment, wait staff gratuity, prize package for Top Sleuth, and much more!

This December, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown explodes onto the Live Arts stage with a Technicolor tangle of love and self-discovery. Pepa’s world tilts when her lover vanishes, and her search for her beloved spirals into ex-wives, taxi drivers, best friends, and one unforgettable batch of gazpacho. From composer-lyricist David Yazbek and book writer Jeffrey Lane, this rollicking musical is adapted from Pedro Almodóvar’s cult classic and brought to life by your talented community!
Director Xavier Taylor (of Kinky Boots) calls it witty, hopeful, and charming, a story of independence and resilience with a vibrant Latin-infused score. December 5 through January 3 at Live Arts, 123 East Water Street. Tickets at livearts.org, or call 434-977-4177. Sponsored by Woodard Properties.

With over 80 vendors, this year round farmers market puts local farms and makers first. Hot prepared foods, baked goods and delicious fresh meats and produce to take home. SNAP accepted and matched with Virginia Fresh Match.

Our annual "Holiday Laps" is back! Come hit the road course in your own vehicle between 10am-2pm December 13th, 14th & 20th! (Santa Photos FREE available 12/13 from 2-4pm) 10am, sign up in the registration office. It’s $20 for 3 paced laps around our 2 mile road course. Once you sign up and pay you’ll be given a colored card corresponding to the color group you’re in. Listen for the announcement for your group to line up and the pace car driven by NASCAR Driver Richard Storm will lead you onto and around the track. Passengers are allowed, seatbelts are required. Come have fun and benefit the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank!

Author and historian Nelson Harris will be at the Salem Museum to sign copies of his books and discuss his latest literary projects on Saturday, December 13, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Salem Museum.

Harris is a former mayor of Roanoke. He has served as the pastor of Heights Community Church since 1999 and is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Western Community College. Harris is a past president of the Historical Society of Western Virginia and the president-elect of the Salem Historical Society. He is the producer, writer and host for the award-winning Eye on the Past with Nelson Harris on Blue Ridge PBS and a columnist for The Roanoker magazine.

Join the Fort Lewis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), in partnership with Wreaths Across America, to honor local veterans in a special ceremony on Saturday, December 13, at 12:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public and will take place at the Salem Museum.

At noon, the DAR will hold a brief ceremony at the Salem Museum’s Veterans Plaza to recognize and honor the service and sacrifice of all community veterans. Following the ceremony, attendees and community members are invited to assist the DAR in placing wreaths on the graves of veterans in East Hill and East Hill North Cemeteries.

Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to expand the annual wreath-laying tradition at Arlington National Cemetery, begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission - Remember, Honor, Teach - is fulfilled each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington and at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations across all 50 states and beyond. This includes the Salem, Virginia community. The Fort Lewis Chapter of the DAR is a proud partner of this organization.

This December, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown explodes onto the Live Arts stage with a Technicolor tangle of love and self-discovery. Pepa’s world tilts when her lover vanishes, and her search for her beloved spirals into ex-wives, taxi drivers, best friends, and one unforgettable batch of gazpacho. From composer-lyricist David Yazbek and book writer Jeffrey Lane, this rollicking musical is adapted from Pedro Almodóvar’s cult classic and brought to life by your talented community!
Director Xavier Taylor (of Kinky Boots) calls it witty, hopeful, and charming, a story of independence and resilience with a vibrant Latin-infused score. December 5 through January 3 at Live Arts, 123 East Water Street. Tickets at livearts.org, or call 434-977-4177. Sponsored by Woodard Properties.

Our annual "Holiday Laps" is back! Come hit the road course in your own vehicle between 10am-2pm December 13th, 14th & 20th! (Santa Photos FREE available 12/13 from 2-4pm) 10am, sign up in the registration office. It’s $20 for 3 paced laps around our 2 mile road course. Once you sign up and pay you’ll be given a colored card corresponding to the color group you’re in. Listen for the announcement for your group to line up and the pace car driven by NASCAR Driver Richard Storm will lead you onto and around the track. Passengers are allowed, seatbelts are required. Come have fun and benefit the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank!

A Festival of Christmas Lessons and Carols will be presented on December 14th at 4:00pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 205 Elmwood Avenue, Lynchburg, Virginia, 24503. This beloved service combines the story of the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus as told in nine short Bible readings or lessons from Genesis, the prophetic books and the Gospels, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir anthems.

St. John’s Parish Choir will be joined by the 38-voice community group, Cantate Children’s and Youth Choir, for this beautiful Lynchburg Christmas tradition. Peggy Haas Howell will play the organ and conduct the a cappella carols, and Randall Speer will conduct the accompanied carols.

Featured carols will include “De Virgine Maria” by Swiss composer Carl Rütti and Oliver Tarney’s “The Wise Men and the Star”. Other carols are arranged by Gerald Near, Matthew Culloton, Erik Routley, David Willcocks, and Philip Ledger. The exciting organ work, “Christmas Intrada” by David Conte will begin the service.

For more information, visit Stjohnslynchburg.org or cantatechoir.org