Friends of Franklin Park Arts Center

Music For Dessert Series 2025
2025-01-08 - 2025-04-01 | Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville, VA, 20132, United States
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One ticket – 8 concerts!
Your subscription to the Music for Dessert series includes eight live music concerts that you can enjoy in-person and/or virtually. We’ll have your name on the list, so no need to worry about a ticket — just join us each Wednesday night for a different music concert. Here is the schedule:
January 8 — Nerys Apple, singer-songwriter
January 15 — Alma Ensemble, women classical composers *presented with VCA Funding
January 22 — Hiroya Tsukamoto, fingerstyle guitar and evocative storytelling
February 19 — Roberta Lea, coutry-neo-pop *presented with VCA Funding
February 26 — Sheila Arnold, storytelling with spirituals, gospel, blues
March 26 — TBA
April 2 — Terra Voce, classical chamber with flute & cello
April 9 — Christine Kharazian, violin, music and painting
Single tickets to each concert are $15, so this is a savings of $45 for the series if you buy the subscription.

Jupiter Theater Company: The Social Secretary
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-09
This community theater presentation is a family friendly romantic comedy set in guilded age Newport. February 7-9 and February 14-16.
Fridays & Saturdays 7:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Tickets: $17 Adults, $14 Student, $9 Children (12 and under) + service fees
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A View From My Window -- Call for Entry
2025-02-14
This exhibit focuses the eye on what you see from your window — photographs, paintings, sketches, 3D works, poetry and film are examples of mediums that will be accepted into this challenge exhibit sponsored by the Friends of Franklin Park Arts Center. The exhibit is a nod to the worldwide movement that began during the pandemic lockdown to connect us all by sharing the views we had from our windows to the outside world. Your entry can be a view form any window, but it has to be a REAL VIEW, not imagined. Work using A.I. will not be acepted for this exhibit. Cash prizes will be presented.
For inspiration, we encourage artists to check out
https://viewfrommywindow.world/
Facebook group: View From My Window
Instagram: view.from.my.window
Drop off dates: February 10 and 11 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Entry fee: $20 per artist, submit up to three pieces
ENTRY FORM A View From My Window Challenge 2025

Jupiter Theater Company: The Social Secretary
2025-02-14 - 2025-02-16
This community theater production is a family friendly romantic comedy set in guilded age Newport. February 7-9 and February 14-16.
Fridays & Saturdays 7:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Tickets: $17 Adults, $14 Student, $9 Children (12 and under) + service fees

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Tanglewood Marionettes: The Dragon King
2025-02-19 10:00 - 10:50 (America/New_York)
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(Ages 2 & up) A terrible drought has overtaken the land, and all the world has turned brown and lifeless. The Dragon King is ruler over all things water, and the people are beginning to wonder why he has not brought the life-giving rains in such a very long time.
An underwater fantasy based on Chinese folklore, The Dragon King tells the tale of an intrepid Grandmother who journeys to the bottom of the sea in search of the elusive Dragon King, and the answers to why he has forsaken the land above.
Colorful sea creatures, an exciting adventure, and a Dragon King that will knock your socks off! All this and more can be found in this award-winning production.
Running time: 50 minutes

*POSTPONED* Music For Dessert: Roberta Lea
2025-02-19 19:00 - 20:00
*****THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO MARCH 26 @ 7:00 pm. Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, February 20.******

Music For Dessert concert series presents Country-neo-pop songwriter Roberta Lea for an evening of acoustic music. Known as one of Hampton Road’s best kept secrets, Roberta Lea is gaining national and international momentum. She’s an award-winning songwriter, a member of the Black Opry collective, CMT’s Next Women of Country and a recent inductee to The Recording Academy’s class of 2023.
Described as “country-neo-pop”, Roberta Lea has a song and style for everyone. The Nashville Scene praises Lea’s ability to ‘score hits with her catchy, textured and beautifully sung originals.” Her live performance achieves the difficult task of crossing pop, country and jazz styles seamlessly while keeping the audience captivated with her unique storytelling.
This concert is supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
This concert is for in-person and for livestreamed audiences viewing from home. No refreshments are served. The concert will be 45-60 minutes.

Artrageous
2025-02-22 16:00 - 17:30
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Imagine witnessing the creativity of an artist creating a masterpiece before your eyes in mere moments. Combined with captivating vocals, intricate choreography and exciting music, Artrageous takes you on a visual journey and a high energy ride of inspiration, creativity, and engagement.
This professional touring troupe of artists, musicians, singers and dancers pay tribute to a variety of art forms, icons and musical genres throughout the performance. The result—A uniquely entertaining, Masterpiece show culminating in a gallery of fabulous, finished paintings. You might be lucky enough to win a painting to take home!
Presented with support from the Friends of Franklin Park Arts Center.
Tickets: $25 for Adults (18 +), $10 for Children
