First Friday Block Party - Richmond Pickle Party Edition!

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First Friday Block Party with Richmond Moon Market and Gallery5

Richmond Pickle Party

Food Trucks - Local Vendors - Music - Fashion - Art - Community - Pickle Contest - Dancing and much more!

5:00PM at Gallery5 200 W. Marshall Street

LIVE MUSIC:

DJ Ease the Architect WRIR 97.3 DJs, Dogwood Brothers, Buckville Hootenanny’s Pickle Rock Opera, Fields on Fire (Members of Wilson Springs Hotel) and more TBA

Join The Richmond Moon Market, Gallery5 and the Richmond Arts District Business Alliance for a pickle festival like no other !

Kicking off At the First Friday Block Party November 6. We’ll gather the community, dressed in green, for a pickle parade through historic Jackson Ward. Outside, artists, food trucks and local brands fill out the Richmond Moon Market along the Brook Road corridor. Downtown businesses, theaters, restaurants and hotels will come alive with special events, tastings, thematic menus, history, art and learning in partnership with local artists, culinarians and educators.

This pickle festival is designed to bring people downtown and celebrate all things pickle in wild and wacky ways! Whether you own a restaurant and want to make a pickle-themed dish, have a cool space and want to host a workshop, or want to get dilly with pickle decor and photo ops. We want to know how you want to be involved!"

Gallery5 is partnering with the Richmond Moon Market for First Friday, Richmond’s premier event celebrating the arts! We’re closing the street and lining the block with local artists and vendors for a spectacular outdoor, night market and block party in historic Jackson Ward and featuring , local artists and vendors, food trucks, performers, and more. We love original, unique and unexpected creators. We want to build inclusive community, support local makers, and create space for learning and solidarity. No jerks allowed.

Be sure to get there early to catch all the wicked goodness! **************** RVA First Fridays is always a FREE community event! THANK YOU AND WELCOME TO THE PICKLE PARTY!

RICHMOND MOON MARKET

The Richmond Moon Market is a curated craft and wellness market bringing together central Virginia's weirdest, wildest and most wonderful artists, healers and craft persons in one place for events featuring live music, food, workshops, and more. We feature vendors of plants and flowers, fortune tellers, jewelry, candles, clothing, art, crystals, magical supplies, art, ceramics, vintage gear, housewares, accessories, hand made botanical products, custom skincare blends and much more.

We invite artists, makers, fermenters, and devoted pickle enthusiasts to pay homage to one of humanity’s most enduring, perplexing, and delicious phenomena: the pickle !

We’re celebrating the pickle in all its forms and inviting submissions for both 2-D and 3-D artwork and our Best Pickles in Richmond jarred-pickle competition.

THE ART OF THE PICKLE: EXHIBITION

Born of preservation and transformed by time, the pickle is at once food, process, object, tradition, memory, and cultural artifact. It can be crisp or soft, sour or sweet, humble or magnificent. It lives in jars, on plates, in family recipes, at county fairs, and in the curious space between the everyday and the extraordinary.

For the exhibition, we’re looking for work inspired by the pickle, pickling, fermentation, preservation, recipes, food traditions, history, and all the strange and wonderful places the humble pickle can take us. Are you an artist and pickle lover? Submit your work today!

BEST PICKLES IN RICHMOND COMPETITION

Bring us your finest homemade, shelf-stable pickles in a sealed jar for a good old-fashioned state-fair-style competition. The competition will be juried by the official Richmond Pickle Party Festival Committee, with two main categories:

BEST PICKLED CUCUMBER

Any type of pickled cucumber is welcome. Dill, bread and butter, sour, sweet, spicy, fermented, funky, or anything in between. If it’s a cucumber and you pickled it, it’s in the running.

BEST OF EVERYTHING ELSE

Pickled carrots, onions, beans, peppers, beets, watermelon rinds, eggs, fruit, okra, garlic, or whatever wonderfully strange thing you’ve decided to pickle. If it isn’t a cucumber, it belongs here.

Pickles will be judged on texture, flavor, cut and presentation, color, and overall food safety practices. Have a green thumb? Learn more about submissions and prizes .

Pickle Parade with Athanor Dance Collective

7:00 PM Meet outside of GWAR Bar at corner of Clay St and Brook Rd.

Wear your greenest garb and your finest pickle fashions. TURN A LOOK and join the fae of Athanor Dance Collective for a parade/conga line through Historic Jackson Ward.