Community Calendar Week of April 15

Community CalendarCommunity Calendar Week of April 15

 Community Calendar 4/14/2013

Author Appearance

Adriana Trigiani will appear for a book signing at Glen Allen High. She’s a successful Virginian author with her book The Shoemaker’s Wife. The featured title The Shoemaker’s Wife spans many decades and begins in the Northern Alps in 1905 and follows the lives of its characters to New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House and then to Minnesota.

That’s Wednesday, April 24, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Glen Allen High School, 

Taxes and Pizza

It’s Tax season and everyone wants their piece of the Pie. On, April 15 the Richmond Peace Education Center will join tax filers at the main Richmond Post Office on Brook Road. They will have a giant pizza on site to represent the federal budget. As taxpayers filing returns give their papers to the government, they’ll receive slices of the pizza, along with information about military costs and the trade-offs between defense spending and community needs.

That’s Monday, April 15, 2013, beginning at 5pm at the Brook Road Post office

Richmond Astronomical

Every month, the Richmond Astronomical society gets together and points their telescopes at the stars and planets. Their next viewing is May 14^th. However April 21^st is National Astronomy Day. To celebrate the date, you can go to the Science Museum of Virginia. You’ll get to see planetarium shows, water rocket launches, rocks from outer space, safe solar viewing and a roving astronaut.

That’s Sunday, April 21 from 12:00 noon to 4:00 PM.

  Hilliard House Animal Circus

On April 21st is Hilliard House Animal Circus. All The Saints Theatre Troupe has a program for homeless youth to create a theatre production. They created life size puppets using paper mache and planned the entire play. The performance will be held at the Children’s Museum of Richmond on Sunday, April 21. That’s the Hilliard House Animal Circus,

Sunday, April 21, 2013
6:30pm to 8:30pm
FREE 
Children’s Museum of Richmond

Every Child Needs a Hero, but Abused Children Need Superheroes
WHAT: 5K Race/Kids' Run & Family Fun Event
WHEN: April 27, 2013
WHERE: St. Joseph's Villa (located at Parham and Brook Roads)
All children have the right to a safe, loving home, but each year in our community hundreds of children are abused or neglected by their families.  Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers refuse to let these children be without a voice.  Instead, they provide encouragement, stability, and hope as these children navigate the child welfare and court systems.  Chesterfield CASA and Henrico CASA volunteers are superheroes for the hundreds of child victims served by our programs each year…but cannot do it alone.

Come put on your cape and join their league of superheroes.  The Superhero Run will be a family friendly race.  At 9:00 a.m. the event will begin with a kids' fun run for children twelve and under.  The 5K race will start at 9:30a.m. and be open to all ages including those in strollers.  For all serious runners, the 5K race is on a flat, fast course know for great PRs. Awards and prizes will be presented to top finishers in all age groups.  Prizes will be given to those wearing the most heroic costumes.

The races will be followed by a family fun event featuring moon bounces, face painting, games, and many entertainers.   April marks Virginia's Child Abuse Prevention Month