$12 adv / $15 day of

Hoist your freak flag for a one night only honk-tonk-folk odyssey experience as Mead the Dear, Bucko, and Doreen evoke your humanness through equal parts joy, tragedy, comedy and soulful yearning!

$8 adv / $10 day of

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Info TBA!

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A community celebration of roots music, immigrant creativity, and educational equity.
Presented by Capaz+IT in partnership with Gallery5

After a ten-year hiatus, The Great Busk returns to Richmond this summer for a powerful three-day celebration of roots music, visual art, and immigrant creativity. Presented by Capaz+IT in partnership with Gallery5, this dynamic street festival blends performance, community storytelling, and cultural activism—raising vital funds for bilingual education and music access programs across the region.

At the heart of The Great Busk is a community-centered street music competition, where performers from all backgrounds compete for four hours of professional recording time and a spot on the main stage. But this event is more than just a concert—it’s a revival of community spirit and creative expression.

This event will feature immersive art, The Richmond Moon Market and live musical performances across 3 stages surrounding Gallery5. 6PM-10PM Outdoors . Music will continue indoors until 10PM.

Newbodies/Nobodies II:
Bodies, Borders, Sutures

Curated by:
Norberto Gomez Jr.

June 6–28th, 2025
In collaboration with Capaz+IT & The Great Busk at Gallery 5 during National Immigrant Heritage Month.

Curator’s Statement:
Newbodies/Nobodies II: Bodies, Borders, Sutures returns with a renewed focus on the immigrant body—on movement, memory, and change. This exhibition brings together works that understand the body as something in flux: crossing, mixing, and breaking languages, borders, and time.

The artists—Giuliana Funkhouser, Leejin Kim, Andrés Lugo, Ralph Vázquez-Concepción and Shay Salehi—carry layered identities shaped by migration, displacement, and inherited memory. Their work resists a single story of immigration and identity. Instead, it holds space for complexity—for presence and absence, for what’s carried and what’s imagined.

Archives, bilingual code, and altered landscapes point to both fragility and strength. These materials don’t seek to resolve anything. Instead, they ask questions, and they map the fragments and sutures that create, that hold memory, that insist on being seen or heard, even in silence.

As Walter Mignolo writes, “Border thinking … is the necessary condition to think decolonially … we write with our bodies in the border”—a reminder that movement and knowledge are embodied. These works speak from that place of crossing, shaped by difference, refusal, flesh and reinvention. 

Newbodies/Nobodies II continues to ask what becomes of the body in a time of mediation and fracture—but here, it does so through the lens of those who have crossed, who have returned, who remain in-between, and those who look back—bearing stories that are not their own, yet live within them all the same.
- Norberto Gomez Jr.

Capaz IT & Gallery5 present a panel discussion on The Art of Music, plus a soft opening of the visual art series New Bodies / Nobodies. Featuring WRIR 97.3, Musiq Cultura, Oscar Contreras & more!

Gallery5 Community Care Night:
Community Care Night is a monthly event dedicated to connection, support, and education. Taking place the Thursday before First Friday, this series is designed to bring together individuals and organizations to learn, share, and collaborate on key issues affecting our community, creating a space for advocacy work and resource exchange. Each event will have a specific focus in coordination with that month's art exhibition showcasing the overlap between the impact of the arts with advocacy and community resilience, empowering participants to engage deeper with the topic.

$10 adv / $15 day of

$10

Hot Lava Record Release feat. Camo Face & Sweet Touch

$15 adv / $15 day of

Burgeoning folk-rock dreamers Ryan Irby and Emerald City are joined by Richmond's own Fin Feather and Heather Grace Evans for an unforgettable night of music.

Ryan Irby is a progressive folk singer-songwriter originally from Lynchburg; he has released the self-produced album Apogee as well as multiple EPs and now performs with an incredible group of Richmond musicians known as Emerald City. They'll be joined by the baroque piano folk of Heather Grace Evans and the indie pop fusion of Fin Feather for what is almost certain to be the greatest evening of your life.

$8 adv / $10 day of

A night of experimental and dream pop!

$12 adv/ $15 day of

Leslie And The Dots with local support GLOWR and rock band, GXB, from Northern VA

$12 adv / $15 day of

Paint on It returns to Gallery5 with a plethora of new songs and “other surprises”

M Brett Jones and Sister Planet are along for the ride and aren’t to be missed!

$12 adv / $15 day of

Jazz Night is free and open to the public! Art closing happy hour 5-7! jazz doors at 7!

On the fourth Friday of each month we open up our doors to the jazz world.

In April, the Kevin Gaines Trio will be joining us, with WRIR DJ Al Lupo spinning between sets.

Optional VIP Tables are available for purchase - they support the artists and ensure you get a comfy seat for this awesome night of music!

Hear a wide range of genres on one stage with bluegrass, soul, jazz, rock, and americana on this 4 act bill.

Imagine if Billy Strings, Prince, Hozier, and Jason Isbell did a show together. That's what you're getting with these 4 acts, if you cranked up the Richmond attitude for each.

Pitch'N A Fit String Band, Andrew Rohlk, Brookhouse, and the Wayward Leaves have an eclectic show planned, including jammy bluegrass, indie soul, latin rock, and americana. This show will take you on a roller coaster, spanning multiple languages and every emotion under the sun.

$10 adv / $15 day of

Doors at 8pm

Show at 9pm

18+ Only

Welcome to Fabulous Immodest Opulence Burlesque!!

We’re bringing Vegas to Virginia baby in our grandest burlesque show yet. Come escape to a world of glitz, glamour, excess, and debauchery with titillating world class entertainment.
 
Bring on the dancing girls, gays, theys and put the champagne on ice! You'll be dazzled by stripteasing showgirls, mobsters, magicians, and maybe a silly tourist or 2.  Put your bets on butts, grab a drink, and maybe even get married on a whim. Either way you’ll leave a winner! As Elvis said Viva Las Vegas!!
 
Tipping is strongly encouraged to win Lady Luck's favor, and take a chance and buy some raffle tix from our famously over the top raffle!

 Tickets starting at $20
 
Cast to be announced ;)
For more info follow @immodestopulence on ig

Gallery5 is a 501c3 non profits arts organization devoted to engaging communities through the arts Your purchase helps fuel our mission!

For more information please visit www.gallery5arts.org. All sales are final, no refunds.

Accessibility info: the venue is accessible and has accessible single person genderless restrooms.

Parking info: there is street parking only. Get there early to ensure a spot near the venue. There are a couple accessible spots within a block of the venue.

Upnow!, Hippie Love Party, Machi & Soft Catch at Gallery5! Come on out!

$10 adv / $10 day of

Vintage Youth Presents: Open Minds Night
A Thursday Open Mic Series

With Ant the Symbol & Eliturite
Featured performer: Kaay Taurus  

Doors, Happy Hour and Day of Sign Up: 7p.m.
Performances: 8-11p.m.
$5 Donation at The Door

Calling all Performers! Are you a musician, vocalist, poet or spoken word artist looking for a stage to share your talents & new material with a live audience? Join us for Open Minds Night, where you can perform in an inclusive & judgement-free zone that encourages creativity. Connect with like-minded performers, collaborate & grow your artistic community.

How to Sign Up:

• Complete this online form to tell us more about your act & to reserve a spot.

• A limited number of spots will be available so we encourage early registration.

• Sign ups will also be available the night of the event.

• Up to 12 minutes allotted per performer. No full bands.

For any questions, please email: openmindsnight@gmail.com

Saddle up, stardust lovers—this ain’t your average dance. We’re warping into a neon frontier where rhinestone cowboys slow-dance with androids and stargazers sway beneath mirrored moons. Join us for a night of interstellar romance, dusty synths, and cosmic twang at Space Cowboy Prom—where the desert meets the dreamscape.

Featuring a genre-bending lineup of Electronic odysseys, Shoegaze shimmer, and Alternative Country heartbreak, this is your invitation to ride out under the stars, boots scuffed and hearts glowing.

Performances by:

Jaguardini, Exact Same Speed, Sweet Touch, Mackenzie Roark and the Hotpants, & IONNA

Dress Code: Space glam, western surrealism, metallic fringe, cowboy hats from another galaxy—get weird with it. Prom King and Queen will be crowned! Raffle, Prizes, Dance off!

$15 adv / $20 day of

Dropheads, Parsley, Ladada (NFK), and Roughshod are coming together for an rad night of live music at Gallery5! Get ready to experience a diverse range of sounds and vibes from these talented bands.

$7 adv / $10 day of

Come see Right Chipper shred @G5 with Fight Cloud and Soft Catch!

$12 adv / $15 day of

Scum City Slam 2025

Crazy lineup of bands including: Asylum 213, Pickaxe, The Get Off, Hermaeus Mora, Trunk, Bananaslama, Cumshot Wound, Silico

May the 4th be with you….

$12 adv / $15 day of

Good ol local Saturday night gig with Piranha Rama, Young Scum, and George!

$12 adv / $15 day of

Join us for May Community Care Night! This month we will open up the space for an engaging discussion about Richmond’s live music scene. Attendees will have the chance to ask local venue representatives the questions that matter most.

Ever wondered why ticket prices fluctuate, how venues choose which artists to book, or what goes into making your favorite local shows happen? This is your opportunity to hear directly from the people behind Richmond’s independent venues and get insights into the local concert experience.

We’ll be collecting questions ahead of time through a poll on our IG story and at the door to help shape the discussion. Whether you’re a dedicated show-goer, a curious newcomer, or someone passionate about Richmond’s music culture, we invite you to come listen, learn, and engage. Let’s build a stronger, more connected music community together!

🎤: The event will be moderated by local music photographer and WRIR board member @miranda.unofficial

This event is free and open to the public!

In collaboration with Gallery5, three Richmond local metal bands: Void The Sandman, Anastasia, and Half Past Dead are hosting a benefit show for the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance. VSDVA is a non-profit that aims to advocate and educate on behalf of victims of sexual violence. 

$10

Check out the bands:

https://linktr.ee/voidthesandman

www.instagram.com/anastasia_musica 

https://linktr.ee/hpdhalfpastdead 

Come groove to the smooth sounds of Japanese City Pop at Gallery5! Our DJs will be spinning all the hits from the 70s and 80s that will transport you to the bustling streets of Tokyo. Get ready to dance the night away and immerse yourself in the retro vibes of this iconic music genre. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind event celebrating the best of Japanese City Pop!

With DJ Fredy J, DJ Straw, and DJ Plum Eternal

$8 adv / $12 day of