Building A Loving Community
Join us for special programming leading to the world premiere of Loving v. Virginia!
A Loving Community: Feb./March 2025
Featuring music and history relevant to the civil rights movement, this program will include excerpts from the new opera Loving v. Virginia premiering in April 2025.
The target audience is junior high to adults, ages 15 and up.
This program travels anywhere! For more information, pricing, and to schedule a performance, contact education@vaopera.org.
The Constitution and Loving v. Virginia
These legal panels will discuss the origins, challenges, and significance of the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that struck down state laws banning marriage between people of different races. Free & open to the public!
Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 PM
Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
3740 Blenheim Boulevard, Fairfax, VA
Panel participants will include Mary Bauer, Executive Director of ACLU-VA, as well as other constitutional scholars, active attorneys and/or judges, and experts in the area. There will be a brief Q & A session following the discussion. Co-presented by the City of Fairfax and Center for the Arts at George Mason University
Thursday, February 20 at 6:00 PM
Downtown Branch at Slover
235 E Plume Street, Norfolk
Panel participants will include Mary Bauer, Executive Director of ACLU-VA, Assistant Professor of Government at William & Mary, Christine Nemacheck, and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Richmond, Marissa Jackson Sow. There will be a brief Q & A session following the discussion. Sponsored by Arts Alliance, Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the NEA
Wednesday, February 26 at 6:00 PM
Library of Virginia
800 E Broad Street, Richmond
Panel participants will include Mary Bauer, Executive Director of ACLU-VA, Kim Forde-Mazrui, Mortimer M. Caplin Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and Author Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History at Virginia Tech. There will be a brief Q & A session following the discussion. Sponsored by Altria, Virginia Commission for the Arts, the NEA, CultureWorks, and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Artists in Conversation: April 2025
Join us for a panel discussion with the creative minds behind Loving v. Virginia! Free & open to the public!
For more information regarding this program, contact education@vaopera.org.
A Loving Community Creative Team
Dr. Keith Byron Kirk, Author/Librettist
Dr. Jesse Njus, Ph.D and Karen T. Federing, Dramaturgs
Dr. Kristen M. Turner, History Consultant
Helen Aberger, Director
