Community Calendar

The annual Open Studios Tour Roanoke takes place on last week of April. Meet local artists for the 26th annual Open Studios Tour Roanoke on April 25 & 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. This is a free, family-friendly, self-guided tour allowing the public to learn more about what, how, and where artists create by inviting them into their homes and studios.

The tour will take place across several locations throughout Roanoke City, including Downtown Roanoke.

Mediums represented will include painting, photography, prints, sculpture, fine art, jewelry, woven textiles, ceramics, and mixed media. Artists will share glimpses into their processes, work-spaces, and opportunities to purchase their one-of-a-kind pieces.

The annual Open Studios Tour Roanoke takes place on last week of April. Meet local artists for the 26th annual Open Studios Tour Roanoke on April 25 & 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. This is a free, family-friendly, self-guided tour allowing the public to learn more about what, how, and where artists create by inviting them into their homes and studios.

The tour will take place across several locations throughout Roanoke City, including Downtown Roanoke.

Mediums represented will include painting, photography, prints, sculpture, fine art, jewelry, woven textiles, ceramics, and mixed media. Artists will share glimpses into their processes, work-spaces, and opportunities to purchase their one-of-a-kind pieces.

Brooke Newman will discuss her landmark new book, The Crown’s Silence, a revelatory history of the British monarchy’s centuries-long involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery. Spanning from the Tudor era to the reign of Queen Victoria, Newman traces how successive monarchs authorized, financed, profited from, and defended systems of African bondage across the Atlantic world. Racial slavery, she argues, was built into the machinery of empire, underwriting royal power, wealth extraction, and British overseas expansion. Drawing on extensive archival research, Newman exposes both the Crown’s active role in sustaining slavery and the deliberate silences that followed abolition. The Crown’s Silence challenges familiar narratives of moral progress and imperial benevolence, revealing how monarchical authority shaped racial capitalism—and how these legacies continue to shape public memory and debates over Britain’s imperial past today.

Roanoke Valley Points of Diversity will host Taste of Diversity, a fundraising dinner celebrating cultures and shared experiences through food, on April 28 at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture. The evening brings community members together to enjoy diverse flavors while supporting programs that promote dialogue, inclusion, and belonging across the Roanoke Valley.

Come learn the sport of rugby while getting fit and making great friends. All are welcome. No experience necessary.

Come learn the sport of rugby while getting fit and making great friends. All are welcome. No experience necessary.

California native Scott O’Neal is a singer-songwriter in Central Virginia. Beyond his covers of nearly any genre, his originals touch on love, life, death, hope, and all of the above.

Come learn the sport of rugby while getting fit and making great friends. All are welcome. No experience necessary.

For More Information, Visit richmond.funnybone.com

About the Artist:
One of YouTube’s most popular comics with over 225 million views and half a billion more on Facebook, Steve Hofstetter is also the host of Finding Babe Ruth on FS1. Hofstetter was the host and executive producer of Laughs (FOX) and he has been on CBS’ The Late Late Show, E! True Hollywood Story, Comics Unleashed, and more. He’s sold out shows in hundreds of cities and dozens of countries. Now is your chance to find out what the fuss is about during this no-holds-barred stand-up performance, featuring some of his unfiltered observations about life.

Ticket Policy:
The Funny Bone has a full bar and a dinner menu that is available through your server when you are seated in the showroom!
Seating is done on a first come first seated basis. If you wish to sit with another party, please arrive and enter the showroom together.
Seating ends 30 minutes after the show begins and entry for late arrivals is not guaranteed.
Most of our tables seat 4 people. You may be seated with a separate party of guests at the same table.
All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. Sales tax and service fees are included in the ticket price.
This event is 21+ and all guests will need valid ID to enter.