Events - Saturday, October 20
Dan River Fall Clean Up
October 20, 2018
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Danville Science Center
677 Craghead St, Danville, Virginia 24541
Join us to enhance the beauty of the River District and do your part in keeping our area clean and green. Gloves, litter-getters and trash bags will be provided. Cosponsored by Dan River Basin Association, Danville Science Center and Danville Parks and Recreation. Registration by October 15 is appreciated, but not required. Call (434) 799-5150.
Free Yoga at the River District Festival
October 20, 2018
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Come join us for Yoga at the River District Festival this Saturday 10/20 at 9:00 AM behind the Community Market!
"Ability is what gives you the opportunity; belief is what gets you there." Apollo
Vote Your Main Street at the River District Festival!
October 20, 2018
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Bridge St
Danville, VA 24541, United States
Join the River District Association as we get out the vote for Danville to win part of $2 Million in preservation funding at the River District Festival! We will have giveaways, a mobile gaming trailer, face painting, balloon twisting, cotton candy, and popcorn at our tent on Bridge Street near the community market. All items are free as a thank you for helping us Fight 4 Union Street! Visit www.voteyourmainstreet.org/danville and we will see you at the Festival!
Vote Your Main Street at the River District Festival!
October 20, 2018
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Join the River District Association as we get out the vote for Danville to win part of $2 Million in preservation funding at the River District Festival! We will have giveaways, a mobile gaming trailer, face painting, balloon twisting, cotton candy, and popcorn at our tent on Bridge Street near the community market. All items are free as a thank you for helping us Fight 4 Union Street! Visit www.voteyourmainstreet.org/danville and we will see you at the Festival!
Africa Unplugged at River District Festival 2018
October 20, 2018
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
512 Bridge St.
Danville, VA
Dr. Christine Mann Darden Presentation
October 20, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Danville Science Center
677 Craghead St, Danville, Virginia 24541
Join us as we welcome Dr. Christine Mann Darden who will speak about her career at NASA and what led her down the path to becoming one of the featured researchers in the book "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race". Darden devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She had an M.S. in mathematics before starting to work at Langley Research Center in 1967. She later earned a PhD in engineering at George Washington University.
Lecture is free and open to the public; seating is limited to first 100 on a first come, first served basis.
2018 River District Festival Concert - No BS Brass Band with Reel Deep & Dirt Road Scholars
October 20, 2018
5:30 PM - 10:30 PM
629 Craghead St.
Danville, VA 24541
Celebrate the sounds of the River District Festival at this concert featuring regional superstars in the Carrington Pavilion. Open the evening with MC Busta Brown, warm up with Danville's own Dirt Road Scholars, tap your toes to Raleigh's Reel Deep, then bring it home with the energetic funk of Richmond's No BS Brass Band.
Gates open at 5:30 pm. Food and drink available for purchase at venue.