JUNE 2025
 
We're shaking things up this month!
 
 Start your June with a bang at our First Friday collaboration with Bubbles Con, then enjoy a film screening and catch the first installment of our brand new Summer Concert Series. Read on and don't forget to mark your calendars for any favorite events!
 
Reminder: there will be no First Friday in July.
 
Introducing: the Summer Concert Series!
 
 
Summer Concert Series: Saadia Rais, Tommy Birchett, Molasses
Saturday, June 14, 6:00pm
Main Library - Library Park

Join us for free live music from local legends all summer long! Concerts will take place in Library Park (behind the Main Library) on the second Saturday of June, July, and August. We will feature a different sound from Richmond’s DIY world for each performance, ranging from Jazz to Hardcore to Experimental. Experience Richmond’s unique independent spirit outside of your favorite local library!
First Fridays
 
 
 
Join us on 6/6 at 6:00pm for the opening of exhibits from Dash Shaw, John Vasquez Mejias, and Vincent Hayden.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dash Shaw
6/6 - 7/29,  9am - close
Main Library - Dooley Foyer
 
Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His most recent graphic novel, Blurry, 2024, from New York Review Comics, was named a graphic novel of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and others. He’s also the cartoonist of Discipline, New School, Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and others. He’s written and directed two animated features, most recently the 2021 film Cryptozoo which won the Sundance Next Innovator Award and was nominated for a John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
 

John Vasquez Mejias 
6/6 - 7/29, 9am - close
Main Library - Gellman Room

John Vasquez Mejias is a cartoonist and performer recently based in Brooklyn, New York, yet his character is shaped by his years in the Bronx as an arts teacher. He self-published his graphic novel The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History in 2020. It was republished by Union Square & Co. in 2024 and is currently up for a Will Eisner Awards nomination. He has recently finished carving a graphic novel that depicts the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón due out sometime in the future.
 
 
Vincent Hayden
6/6 - 7/29 , 9am - close
Main Library - Second Floor Gallery

Vincent Hayden has been creating art in Richmond, Virginia under the name Anne Chovy for 5 years.
 
 More Arts Programming
Movies @ Main: Grass (2018) by Hong Sang-soo - 6/10 at 6pm
Somehow both playful and morbid, teasing and earnest, Grass is a short (66 min!) taste of a director with an impressive body of work. 
 
 
 
Kanopy Pick of the Month
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Musician Arthur Russell (2008)
Dir. Matt Wolf
Director Matt Wolf's (Teenage) critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992.
 
Nominated for Best Documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival.
 


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