Name: Burlesque Festival
Start: 2026-11-05
End: 2026-11-07

Home to the Woman’s Club since 1900, the Italianate-style Bolling Haxall House was built in 1858 for Bolling Walker Haxall, heir to a flour-milling fortune. It is listed as a Virginia Historic Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house often hosts weddings, special events, business meetings, and musical and theater performances.

Bolling Haxall House

Offering gourmet Greek products, prepared foods, baked goods, beer, wine, and more. We pride ourselves on using the finest ingredients from our kitchen to your table.

Stella's Grocery - Downtown

Perly's is a modern Jewish restaurant and delicatessen appetizing since 2014. The eats include a full smoked fish selection, soups and salads, breakfast, eastern european inspired dinners, a deli section with specialties such as pastrami and tongue, a cocktail selection and wine on tap. It's Yiddish for delicious!

Perly's Restaurant & Delicatessen

Established in 1983, Homemades by Suzanne offers more than 29 years of catering excellence. Homemades by Suzanne has been voted "Best Caterer" for 5 years by readers of Richmond Magazine and received 1st place in both categories of the "No Ham Biscuits" creative catering contest. Our food is prepared fresh daily by our professional and experienced staff. Homemades by Suzanne offers full service catering for corporate and social events, along with self service catering, boxed lunches, deli buffet trays, gift baskets, homemade breads, and bakery items.

Homemades by Suzanne

Inspired by Virginia's most prominent geological feature / Dedicated to ingredient-focused comfort food, regional craft brews and creative cocktails.

Fall Line Kitchen & Bar

Combining Richmond’s classic style with today’s pace and palette, Elegba Folklore Society offers meeting and reception space in its turn of the century downtown gallery. Inside a beautifully renovated corner building, Elegba Folklore Society has created a warm and eclectic gallery of fine art, imports and crafts. Enjoy the beauty, wonder and significance of art and artifacts from the African world -- visual arts, material culture, home decor, wearables, jewelry, books and more. Meditate, browse, buy. Perhaps unexpectedly, Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center has the perfect ambience for your event: workshop, committee meeting or press conference. It is an artful location for an intimate dinner meeting, wine-and-cheese reception or for the social affair after the business is done. We can provide complete catering and entertainment services. Our expertise, honed from experiences with a diverse client base, guides us in attending to your minute details — the things that really make a difference.

Elegba Folklore Society

No matter your age or background, the spirit and the openness of the Elegba Folklore Society will enchant you. In a way that perhaps you will expect or in a way that is totally spontaneous, your energy will blend beautifully with ours, closing the gap between performer and audience. Enjoy concerts, dance theatre, performance lectures and workshops. With our African dancers, musicians, storytellers, actors and masquerades, participants find themselves swept up in a universal cultural energy that links them with the global significance of these timeless art forms.

In the Beginning…Virginia, Along the Trail of Enslaved Africans & Other Notable Sites. Journey into Richmond’s history to visit the sites where few monuments exist. These newly marked sites tell the other half of the story; the story that lives between the pages of history books — in red, white and black. An interactive experience along the Trail of Enslaved Africans, attendees have the chance to ponder the impact of enslavement on the enslaved as shared in their own words and from their own view. Embarking by bus after a contextual visit to the Society’s cultural center, participants will walk in our ancestors’ footsteps from their arrival point at river’s edge into Shockoe Bottom, the area of Richmond that housed the holding pens, jails, blocks and burial ground. The interpreters will interweave the narratives of enslaved Africans with the historical record, characterizations of the day and music. Disembarking from the bus or along the walk, participants will have the chance to immerse themselves in past occurrences that impact our perspectives today. In additional tour experiences, learn about the African presence in the Civil War, visit Historic Jackson Ward Richmond’s first professional African American residential and business district. De-board at notable sites. Take in "Our Souls Live Here" to visit sites of African American memory. Learn the stories of the black architects who created lasting testaments of our presence. Meet those who lived and worked inside, getting a glimpse of the times, of biography and social life.

Delight in annual, major cultural festivals in various community locations -- Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration, Down Home Family Reunion, A Celebration of African American Folklikfe and Capital City Kwanzaa Festival.

Jamerican Market & Takeout Restaurant

We’re a community of runners, hikers, bikers and ballplayers. We’re an outdoor playground, designed by Mother Nature, with class III and IV rapids running right through our downtown. A 52-mile bike trail runs along the James. The Richmond Marathon and Ukrop’s 10k are huge celebrations, and the whole region comes out to cheer on our local teams. In fact, we’re so sports-minded that the Washington Redskins have their training camp right in the center of the city. Add to that awesome hotels, beautiful venues, attractions, art, craft beer, more than 900 restaurants and a convenient location, and you’ve got a top choice for your next sports event. Welcome to RVA!

From indoor to outdoor facilities, the Richmond region has the fields, pitches, diamonds, venues and the dedicated staff to ensure your event is a huge success. 



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2026 Burlesque Festival  
Join us for three exhilarating days of glamour, talent, and celebration at the 2026 Burlesque Festival, happening from November 5th-7th in the city of Richmond, VA. Experience dazzling live entertainment by stunning performers from across the country and immerse yourself in the world of burlesque as we dedicate this festival to celebrating the art form, fostering awareness, and supporting the thriving burlesque and performing arts scene in our city.  
VIP Weekender Pass: $100 (Includes poster, raffle ticket for each raffle, reserved front seat Thursday/Friday/Saturday, premium seating at Burlesque Brunch Sunday)  
General Admission Weekender Pass: $65 (Admission to all three nights)  
Individual Night Tickets:  
Thursday at The Workshop by T&D - $20 in advance, $25 at the door  
Friday at Ember Music Hall- $25 in advance, $30 at the door  
Saturday at Bolling Haxall House- $30 in advance, $35 at the door

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