Your Virtual Arts Center
The Academy at Home Virtual Series, hosted by the Academy Center of the Arts, features live-streamed performances, follow-along educational tutorials, and living room concerts from area performers, educators, and artists you know and love. Follow along via Facebook Live or watch live on our YouTube channel to experience arts and culture straight from your community, back into your home.
For more information, see the schedule of events below, and don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, or to subscribe to email updates for upcoming information on new Academy at Home programming.
Watch Now → Academy at Home Livestream featuring Oceanic
Watch
See the schedule below for upcoming live-streamed or recorded performances, talk-backs, and more.
Upcoming Performances:
2/26 – Endstation Theatre Company
3/12 – Lynchburg City Strings
3/26- EC Glass Theatre
Past Performances:
2/12/21 – Oceanic
1/29/21 – Dance Music Creations
9/4/20 – Flat Five Jazz, sponsored by Select Bank
9/18/20 – Women of Song, sponsored by Framatome and Moore & Giles
10/2/20 – Cavalier Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sponsored by Foster Fuels and Bank of the James
10/16/20 – The Opera on the James, sponsored by BWX Technologies, Inc., and Baird
10/30/20 – A Very Haunted History, sponsored by Member One Federal Credit Union and Watts Creative Studios
11/7/20 – Live From Lynchburg, sponsored by Baird, Framatome, and Jamerson-Lewis Construction
Learn
See the schedule below for upcoming online classes, taught by Academy Center of the Arts instructors.
Schedule:
1/22 – Family Academy Paint Night: Handprint Penguins
1/26 – Drawing Still Life
1/30 – Audition Prep Course
2/12 – Academy Paint Date Night: Birch Trees
2/19 – Academy Paint Night: Snowy Cardinal
2/20 – Family Academy Paint Night: Mixed Media Snowman
3/2 – Painting: Color & Design
3/6 – Art Journaling Online
3/13 – Portrait Photography
3/26 – Paint Night: Abstract Gold Leaf
The ACOA Network
The ACOA Network is a series of digital programs that educate, question, and further the connection between art and community in Lynchburg, Virginia. With a diverse group of hosts from the Academy Center of the Arts staff, each show uniquely engages with viewers with content that interests them.
Season One of The ACOA Network aired for five weeks, starting October 26, 2020, with Art Talks with Ted, Plates, and Paints, When Art Meets Activism, and Behind the Bar.
Season Two of The ACOA Network will air monthly, starting January 25, 2021, with a continuation of Behind the Bar, as well as a special ‘Love at the Academy’ Segment in February and Art Talks with Ted in March featuring young artists from Lynchburg City Schools.
Click ‘Learn More’ to view a listing of ACOA Network shows and watch online from your phone, computer, or other tech that can access our website.
Gather Together Virtually
Host your own private paint party online and follow along as our expert instructors guide you and up to 15 of your friends and family through your own masterpieces!
Supplies and instructor fees are included in the 90-minute party package.
