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RECREATION/ Hours are 8:00am-4:00pm, Monday- Friday; 9:00am-4:00pm, Saturday and Sunday. November 1st thru March 31st, CULTURE 8:00am-4:00pm, Monday-Friday; 9:00am-4:00pm, Sunday. Department of Parks and Recreation Chesapeake City Park Chesapeake 500 Greenbrier Parkway Phone: 382-6411 Chesapeake, VA 23320 Fax: 382-8418 Phone: 382-6411 Fax: 382-8418 Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Website: www.cityofchesapeake.net Friday. Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Norfolk Friday. Phone: 441-2400 Fax: 441-5423 City Park City Park Avenue Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Portsmouth, VA 23701 Friday. Phone: 465-2937 Fax: 382-8418 Portsmouth Website: www.cityofchesapeake.net Phone: 393-8481 Fax: 393-8265 Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Website: www.ci.portsmouthva.us.gov Friday.

Suffolk Phone: 923-2360 4001 Sandpiper Road Website: www.suffolk.va.us/parks VA Phone: 426-7128 Virginia Beach Phone: 471-5884 Fax: 471-2330 2500 Shore Drive Website: www.evreg.vbgov.com Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Phone: 412-2308 Hours are 8:00am-5:30pm, Monday- Fax: 412-2315 Friday. Website: www.dcr.virginia.gov

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Website: www.vbgov.com Little Back River Road Hampton VA Hours are 7:00am-7:00pm, Monday- Phone: 727-8311 Friday. Grandview Nature Preserve Norfolk Botanical Gardens End of Beach Road 6700 Azalea Garden Road Hampton, VA Azalea Garden Rd. bet Norview Ave & Phone: 727-8311 Little Creek Rd Norfolk, VA Huntington Park/Newport News Park Phone: 441-5830 Mercury Blvd & Ft. Eustis Avenue Newport News, VA Administrative Office hours are 8:30am- Phone: 886-7911 5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Regular hours Fax: 928-6921 are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Office hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Sleepy Hole Park Monday thru Friday, Memorial Day thru 4100 Sleepy Hole Road Labor Day. Suffolk, VA 23435 Phone: 538-4100 Mid-County Park Fax: 934-2781 2793 Ironbound Road James City County, VA Hours are 7:00am-7:00pm, Monday- Phone: 229-1232 Friday. Mill Point Park Carousel Park 3500 Granby Street Downtown Hampton, VA Norfolk, VA Phone: 727-8311 Phone: 441-2706 Municipal Park Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Poquoson, VA Sunday. Closed Thanksgiving, Phone: 868-3580 Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Day. Cost-Adults $6.00, Seniors Sandy Bottom Nature Park $5.00, Children 2-11 $4.00, and children Off Big Bethel Road under 2 free. Hampton, VA Phone: 825-4657

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Fax: (757) 566-4013 Offers a changing exhibit by African- American artists across Yorktown Battlefields and an authentic African art exhibit. Route 238 and Colonial Parkway Host several special activities, book Yorktown, VA store and courtyard available for rent for Phone: (757) 898-3400 special occasions.

Babes and Bears Toy Museum Department of Tourism 209 25th Street Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Hampton Phone: 491-4870 Phone: 896-4600 Features a collection of rare beautiful James City County and unusual dolls, dollhouses, toys and Phone: 220-4700 bears in this newly opened museum. Guided tours are both educational and Newport News entertaining, with over 1,000 antique to Phone: 926-3561 contemporary dolls and toys on display. Exhibits rotate regularly. Poquoson Phone: 868-3580 or 890-3500 Children’s Museum of Virginia 221 High Street Museums Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 393-8393 1636 Parish Road Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Virginia Beach, VA 23455 Saturday, 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday, Phone: 431-4000 closed Monday. Offers over 60 interactive exhibits, special activities, Mailing Address events and programs. Children under 14 Chrysler Museum must be accompanied by an adult at least 245 W. Olney Road 18 yrs old. Admission $6.00 for 2yrs and Norfolk, VA 23510 over.

Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Chrysler Museum of Art, The Saturday; 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. A 245 West Olney Road colonial house dating from 1680 has Norfolk, VA 23510 restored gardens, furnishings appropriate Phone: 664-6201 to period. Website: www.chrysler.org Email: [email protected] Art Atrium, The 629 High Street Hours are 10:00am-2:00pm, Tuesday for Portsmouth, VA 23704 tours thru Oct. 26, 10:00am-9:00pm, Phone: 436-5603 Wednesday, 10:00am-5:00pm, Thursday-Saturday, 1:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday, and closed Monday. Admission:

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$7.00-adults, $6.00-AAA, $5.00- Virginia. Exhibits continue with the 20th students, teachers, active military, century, including with today’s Navy. seniors 65 & over. Free 12 and under. The museum is located in , the Wednesday voluntary contribution. National Maritime Center on the Norfolk, Virginia waterfront. Visitors D’ Art Center should follow road signs to Nauticus. 125 College Place The museum is free of charge and Norfolk, VA 23510 handicapped accessible. Public parking Phone: 625-4211 garages are nearby. Fax: 625-0670 Website: www.d-artcenter.org Hermitage Foundation Museum Email: [email protected] 7637 N. Shore Road Norfolk, VA 23505 Offers a complete spectrum of visual arts Phone: 423-2052 ranging from contemporary works to 423-2021 animation drawings of cartoons. Fax: 423-1604 Website: www.hermitage.org Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday, 325 W. Frances Street Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Williamsburg, VA 23187 Saturday. Closed Wednesday. 1:00pm- Phone: 229-1000 5:00pm, Sunday. Admission: $5.00 per Website: www.history.org person. Provides guided tours through the Tudor-style mansion and 13 acres of Offers regular exhibits on accessories beautifully landscaped grounds housing from the 18th century through the an elaborate collection of Oriental and present. Western art; lectures; classes in art to young people and adults; public Hampton Roads Naval Museum awareness and appreciation of the arts. One Waterside Drive, Suite 248 Norfolk, VA 23510-1607 Hunter House Victorian Museum Phone: 444-8971 240 W. Freemason Street 322-2985 Norfolk, VA 23510 Fax: 445-1867 Phone: 623-9814 Website: www.hunterhousemuseum.org Serves Hampton Roads. Introduces you to over two centuries of naval activity in Open to the general public Wednesday and around the great harbor of Hampton through Saturday, April through Roads, Virginia. Your tour begins with December. Offers special tours and the Battle off the Capes in 1781, a naval events through out the season. engagement which made possible America’s victory at Yorktown. An Lancaster Train and Toy Museum impressive collection of ship models and 5661 shoulder Hill Road retrieved underwater artifacts advance Suffolk, VA 23435 the story through the Civil War and the Phone: 484-4224 battle of the ironclads Monitor and

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Hours are 10:00am-6:00pm, Monday- 100 Museum Drive Saturday. Agency has collection of toy (Intersection of J. Clyde Morris & trains and toys late 1800’s till today- Warwick Blvd) featuring 7 operating layouts of different Newport news, VA 23606-3759 gauges. Museum is located in a retail toy Phone: 596-2222 or 1-800-581-7245 and hobby shop, “Mike’s Trainland Inc.” Fax: 591-7320 An outdoor train runs daily in Lancaster Train Park, outside of main building. Open to the community daily from The Lancaster Museum is open to the 10:00am-5:00pm. Closed Thanksgiving public on a donation basis. There is a and Christmas. Administrative hours are voluntary donation at the door of the 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. museum-$1.00 for outside train ride. Admission: $8.00-adults, $6.00-6-17, Free-5yrs and under. Discounts for Lightship Museum active duty military, senior 65&over, London Blvd on the Portsmouth AAA members w/valid cards. Introduces Waterfront visitors to the lore of the sea. Specious Portsmouth, VA 13703 galleries, showplace paintings, figure Phone: 393-8741 heads, ship models, navigational Fax: 393-5244 instruments and ship’s furnishings. Website: Changing exhibits and special lecture www.cityofportsmouth.net/museums series-call for details. The Mariner’s Museum’s 550 acre park features The Hours are weekends after Labor Day Noland Trail and Lake Maury. The form 10:00am-5:00pm. Visitors can Noland Trail is five miles long and board an original vessel and see how the enables the visitor to walk all the way men of the Lightship Service lived around the main body of Lake Maury. during their months at sea. Lake Maury offers fishing, boat and canoe rental (call for reservations), a MacArthur Memorial Museum, The picnic area and nature walks. MacArthur Square Norfolk, VA 23510 Muscarelle Museum Phone: 441-2965 Jamestown Road at the college of Fax: 441-5389 William and Mary Website: www.macarthurmemorial.org Williamsburg, VA Phone: 221-2700 Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- 221-2708 (weekends) Saturday; 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday. Fax: 221-2711 Provides a museum and research center which presents historical exhibits and Free and open to the public. Hours are educational programs concerning the life closed Tuesday and Wednesday and and times of General Douglas major holidays, noon-5:00pm, Saturday MacArthur and all Americans who and Sunday, 10:00am-4:45pm, Thursday served in the armed forces during World and Friday. Wars I and II. Nauticus Mariner’s Museum, The The National Maritime Center

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One Waterside Drive 420 High Street Norfolk, VA 23510 Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 664-1043 or 1-800-664-1080 Phone: 393-8543 Fax: 664-1025 Fax: 393-5228 Website: www.nauticus.org Website: www.citypfportsmouth.net/museums Hours are Monday closed, 10:00am- 5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday; 12:00pm- Serves Hampton Roads and surrounding 5:00pm, Sunday. Summer hours are areas. Provides high quality educational 10:00am-7:00pm 7 days a week and cultural experiences in the arts, (Memorial Day weekend thru Labor humanities and sciences. Day). Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day, pricing and hours Riddick’s Folly, Inc. subject to change. Call to confirm. 510 N. Main Street Offers over 150 hands-on exhibits, P. O. Box 1722 Virtual Adventures, AEGIS Command Suffolk, VA 23434 and the Nauticus Theater, now showing Phone: 934-1390 “The Living Sea”, 1996 Academy Award nominee. Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Wednesday-Friday; 10:00am-4:00pm, Naval Shipyard Museum Saturday and 1:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. 2 High Street Organization is a restoration/adaptive (High Street on Portsmouth Waterfront) reuse project providing a museum of Portsmouth, VA 23703 history and art and sponsoring cultural Phone: 393-8591 events. Fax: 393-5244 Website: Tidewater Arts Outreach www.cityofportsmouth.net/museums 512 Twelve Oaks Court Chesapeake, VA 23322 Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Phone: 410-4010 Sunday. Offers memorabilia from the Fax: 410-8811 Civil War, uniforms, ship models and Website: www.twartsoutreach.org exhibits portraying the lifestyles of 18th Email: [email protected] and 19th century Portsmouth. An organization which brings music and Peninsula Fine Arts Center arts to institutions including adult day 101 Museum Drive programs, convalescent homes, Newport News, VA hospitals, centers for individuals with Phone: 596-8175 disabilities, rehabilitation centers, and family homeless shelters. These Hours are closed Mondays, 10:00am- performances, programs and activities 5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday and 1:00pm- promote human interaction, happiness 5:00pm, Sunday. Offering exhibits, and healing for people who have limited events, programs and tours. access to the arts, due to health, economic or social circumstances. Portsmouth Museums

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Tugboat Museum Admission: $11.00-adults, $8.00-3-12, Norfolk, VA 23520 $3.00-Planetarium Show. Combination Phone: 627-4TUG (4884) Tickets $13.00-adults, $10.00-3-12. Provides a museum with natural and Hours are Noon-5:00pm, Saturday and physical science exhibits-indoor displays Sunday. Step aboard a living piece of of native Virginia living creatures in history while the tugboat Huntington is customary surroundings; glass enclosed docked at Nauticus in downtown aviary; planetarium and observatory; Norfolk. Built in 1933, she has been outdoor native habitat areas. restored to her former glory and is open to the public. and Marine Science Museum Virginia Air and Space Center 717 General Booth Blvd 600 Settlers landing Road Phone: 437-6020 Hampton, VA Fax: 437-6055 Phone: 727-0900 Website: www.vaaquarium.com

Offers hands on exhibits. Includes Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm with extended NASA Langley Research Center and summer evening hours. Admission: Riverside Imax Theater. Hours are $11.95-adults, $7.95-3-11, $10.95- 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Saturday; seniors. Aquarium and Movie 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. Riverside Admission: $16.95-adults, $12.95-3-11, open daily. Discount and combination $15.95-seniors. Offers Owls Creek tickets available. Children 3 & under are Marsh Pavilion; IMAX theater (call for free. listing of show times); sea turtle Imax Films: $7.50-adults, $6.50- aquarium, river otter habitat; outdoor military, NASA, seniors 65& over, aviary; hands-on exhibits; summer and $6.00-children 3-11. fall dolphin watching excursion; summer Imax Double Feature: $9.80- ocean collection trips and winter whale adults, $9.30-military, NASA seniors 65 watching adventures. Boat trips leave & over, $7.80-children 3-11. from Rudee Inlet; reservations required. Exhibit: $8.50-adults, $7.50- Prices for museum and boat trips subject military, NASA, seniors 65 & over, to change. $6.50- children 3-11. Prices subject to change. Please call for Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, The additional information. P.O. Box 370 206 High Street Virginia Living Museum Portsmouth, VA 23705 524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd Phone: 393-8031 Newport News, VA 23601 Fax: 393-5228 Phone: 595-1900 Website: www.vshfm.com Fax: 599-4897 Email: [email protected] Website: www.valivingmuseum.org Offers a wide range of sports Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday- memorabilia honoring legends from Saturday; 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. many sports.

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Watermen’s Museum Wintergreen Resort 309 Water Street Route 664 P. O. Box 531 Wintergreen, VA 22958 Yorktown, VA 23690 Phone: (434) 325-2200 Phone: (757) 887-2641 Website: www.wintergreenresort.com Fax: (757) 888-2089 Email: [email protected] Sports

Hours are closed Mondays, 10:00am- Aero model Flying 4:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday; 1:00pm- Newport News, VA 4:00pm, Sunday. Admission: $4.00- Phone: 591-4848 adults, $1.00-students, children under 5- free. Provides indoor and outdoor Archery exhibits and hands-on displays depicting Jefferson Avenue & Ft. Eustis Blvd the history of the working watermen, the Newport News, VA tools used and methods employed in Phone: 886-7912 harvesting shellfish. Fax: 928-6921

Ski Resorts Office hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Memorial Day thru Labor Day. Bryce Resort Route 263, Exit 273 off I-81 Field Hockey Shenandoah Valley USA Field Hockey Association Phone: (540) 856-2121 2181 Landstown Rd. Virginia Beach, VA 23456 Homestead-1776, The Phone: 218-9623 1766 Homestead Drive Fax: 722-4317 Hot Springs, VA 24445 Website: www.fieldhockey.org Phone: (540) 839-1766 Website: www.thehomestead.com Flying Clubs Langley AFB Massanutten Hampton, VA Route 644 Phone: 764-7486 Harrisonburg, VA Phone: 1-800-207-MASS Naval Base (540) 289-9441 Norfolk, VA Website: www.massanuttenresort.com Phone: 423-3331

White-Tail Ski Resort Horseback Riding Exit 18 Off I-270 Langley AFB Clear Springs, PA Hampton, VA Phone: (717) 328-9400 Phone: 764-7881 Website: www.skiwhitetail.com NAS Oceana Fly fishing thru October. Virginia Beach, VA

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Phone: 433-3266 Skydiving EQUI-KIDS Therapeutic Riding Suffolk Airport Program Suffolk, VA P.O. Box 4095 Phone: 539-3531 Virginia Beach, VA 23454 Phone: 425-8833 Skycoaster Fax: 425-8833 (call first) 108 Atlantic Avenue Website: www.equikids.org Virginia Beach, VA Email: [email protected] Phone: 422-2700

Offers therapeutic horseback riding Theme Parks activities for individuals who have mental, physical , emotional or learning Busch Gardens disabilities. Route 60 Williamsburg, VA Rock Climbing Phone: 253-3500 Virginia Beach Gym 1-800-343-7946 (info line) Phone: 499-8347 Website: www.buschgardens.com

Sailing Closes October 31 for season. Single day Langley AFB tickets $46.95 & over, $39.95-3-6yrs, Hampton, VA Free 2yrs and under. Bounce Tickets Phone: 764-7220 $64.95 -2dayand $74.95 -3day. Naval Base Prices subject to change. Norfolk, VA Phone: 444-2918 Ocean Breeze Fun Park 849 General Booth Blvd Skateboard Virginia Beach, VA Phone: 422-4444 Chesapeake Skate Park Fax: 425-0970 Chesapeake City Park Website: 500 Greenbrier Parkway www.oceanbreezewaterpark.com Chesapeake, VA 23320 Phone: 382-8466 Hours are winter 9:00am-5:00pm, 382-8878 (hotline) Monday-Thursday. Summer hours vary. Fax: 382-8418 Website: www.cityofchesapeake.net Paramount’s King’s Dominion I-95 Exit 98 (Doswell) Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Richmond, VA Friday. Phone: (804) 876-5000 Website: www.kingsdominion.com Deer Park 11523 Park Ranger Avenue Water Country, USA Newport News, VA Route 199 Off I-64 Phone: 591-4848 Williamsburg, VA

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Phone: (757) 229-9300 St. Patrick’s Division #1 1-800-343-7946 (info line) 3857 Charter Oak Road Website: www.buschgardens.com Virginia Beach, VA 23452 Phone: 340-7173 (private phone) Closes September for season. Single day tickets $34.95- 7yrs and over, $27.95-3- Hours vary. Provides an Irish-American 6yrs, Free 2yrs and under. Bounce Catholic fraternal organization. tickets $64.95-2day and $74.95-3day. Prices subject to change. Watercolorists C/o Eleanor Moore Recreation (miscellaneous) 4604 Williamsburg Court Virginia Beach, VA 23462 Academy of Music, The Phone: 497-5174 902 Colonial Avenue Fax: 497-5174 Norfolk, VA 23507 Phone: 627-0967 No regular hours, appointment required. Fax: 627-0535 Provides an organization for Tidewater Website: www.academy-of-music-.org area watercolorists who are interested in Email: [email protected] the art and practice of watercolor painting through shows and exhibits. Provides quality music instruction to Usually have tow exhibits annually. residents of Hampton Roads, regardless of their ability to pay. Offers a Chesapeake Newcomers Club comprehensive music program for P. O. Box 1785 children ages 5 – 11, adult music classes, Chesapeake, VA 23327 violin and piano lessons, creative music Phone: 548-4449 classes for preschoolers and music for tots, ages 6 months – 3 years. Provides a social club for newcomers to the area. African American Cultural Council of Virginia Beach Chesapeake Virginia Dog Fancier 356 Dodge Drive Association Virginia Beach, VA 23452 669 S. George Washington Highway Phone: 557-9724 Chesapeake, VA 23323 Fax: 363-0994 Phone: 421-2656 (private phone) Website: www.africanculturalcouncil.org Furthers the advancement of pure-bred Email: [email protected] dogs; protects the interests of pure-bred dogs; conducts sanctioned dog events Works to create an awareness of under the rules of the American kennel African-American culture through Club; educates the public about pure- paintings, re-enactments, exhibits and bred dogs and responsible dog special events. ownership.

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Portsmouth, VA 23703 Fosters awareness, exploration and Phone: 393-6962 understanding of the significant art of our time. Programs reflect and address Enjoy dinner and first run movies inside current social issues, media, community a 1945 art-décor style theatre. Hours are relations programs and art partnerships. Sunday thru Thursday evenings 7:00pm only. Friday and Saturday, 6:00pm and Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton 9:00pm, afternoon matinee Saturday and Roads Sunday at 2:00pm. Same day ticket 5200 Hampton Blvd sales; cash or commodore gift Norfolk, VA 23508 certificates only. Balcony opens only on Phone: 889-9470 Friday thru Sunday. Admission: $6.00- Fax: 489-0007 14-64yrs, $4.50-8-14yrs and 65 and Website: www.culturalli.org over. No children under 8yrs. Email: [email protected]

Commonwealth Musical Stage Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday- 228 N. Lynnhaven Road, Suite 114 Friday. Agency is a non-profit regional Virginia Beach, VA 23452 cultural information and advocacy Phone: 340-5446 agency serving the 10 cities and 4 Fax: 340-5398 counties of Hampton Roads. Its mission Website: www.vmtheatre.org is to ensure the cultural growth of the region by actively promoting arts, Serves Hampton Roads. Hours are science, and humanities among 10:00am-2:00pm, Monday-Friday. Joins individuals, business, government, the national movement dedicated to education and the military. Cultural preservation of Musical Theater as a alliance keeps a central clearinghouse uniquely American art form. Committed calendar of events, publishes a resource to full-scale productions featuring the directory, and provides technical best available regional talent and guest assistance to organizations. artists, while providing training for aspiring performers. Preserves & revive Dance Group-Michas’ musical theater by producing 4 to 6 for a 704 Pine Tree Drive total of 39 performances. The only year- Virginia beach, VA 23452 round professional musical theater in Phone: 486-6098 (private phone) Virginia. Productions held at VA Beach Pavilion Theater. Hours are 8:30am-5:00pm, Monday- Friday. A special interest organization of Contemporary Art Center of Virginia amateurs who perform national & 2200 Parks Avenue regional dances from Poland. Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Phone: 425-0000 Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Fax: 425-8186 Program Website: www.cacv.org P. O. Box 4095 Email: [email protected] Virginia Beach, VA 23454 Phone: 425-8833 Fax: 425-8833

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Serves Southeastern Offers world class operas. Hours are Virginia/Northwestern North Carolina. 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Call Provides horseback riding lessons to for further information. challenged individuals to promote physical, emotional well-being and offer Hill House recreational experience not otherwise 221 North Street available. Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 393-5111 Generic Theater of Virginia, Inc., The Fax: 393-5111 912 West 21st Street Website: www.portsva.com Norfolk, VA 23517 Phone: 441-2729 A 4-story English basement dwelling Fax:441-2729 (call first) built in the 1820’s Website: www.generictheater.org Email: [email protected] Hispano-Americano de Tidewater, The Club Serves Hampton Roads. Hours are 507 Earl Street 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday –Friday. Norfolk, VA 23503 Committed to innovative productions of contemporary works, new plays and Adela Artaud, Vice President reinterpretations of classics. The Theater 432 Warner Circle explores issues of importance to its Norfolk, VA 23509 diverse community while challenging its Phone: 853-6984 audience with provocative works. The artistic vision is realized through a Hours vary. A special interest session of plays, special group outreach organization providing cultural and projects, a new play program and the recreational activities for Hispanic encouragement of related art forms. It is Americans. Hampton Roads off Broadway theater. I Can’t Help It Club Harbor Tours 3524 Amherst Street Phone: 393-4735 Norfolk, VA 23513 Fax: 397-6609 Phone: 857-1303 Email: [email protected] Provides recreational activities including Carrie B. Harbor Tours explores the bowling, dances and picnics for mentally nation’s oldest harbor on a reproduction and physically handicapped, ages six and of a 19th century riverboat. Tours from above. April-October, from Portside. , The 4405 Wishart Road 160 Virginia Beach Blvd Virginia Beach, VA 23455 Norfolk, VA 23451 Phone: 460-1688 Phone: 623-1223 Website: www.vaopera.org

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Hours are Thursday-Sunday, May- Phone: 622-4542 October. Admission fee applies. Serves Virginia Beach, surrounding area from Hours vary. The consort offers a four- all over the States and Canada. Educated concert subscription series of chamber and makes “come alive” the 18th Century music, music instruction and advocacy colonial life and time of the Lynnhaven for the arts. House (founded 1725). Norfolk Festevents, Ltd. Music in Motion Dance Company & 120 W. Main Street Academy Norfolk, VA 23510 629 N. Lynnhaven Road Phone: 441-2345 Virginia Beach, VA 23452 Fax: 441-5198 Phone: 340-1534 Serves Southeastern Virginia. Hour are Hours are 4:00pm-8:00pm, Monday- 8:30am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Plans Thursday; 9:00am-12:00pm, Saturday. promote and produce free events, Company is a non-profit tax-exempt festivals, concerts, and ship visitations dance company, performing locally and throughout the City of Norfolk. Produces on tour. The Academy is a dance a calendar of events. instruction facility. Norfolk Jaycees Norfolk 420 Bank Street 6700 Azalea Garden Road Norfolk, VA 23510 Norfolk, VA 23518 Phone: 627-2127 Phone: 441-5830 Website: www.norfolkjaycees.com Fax: 441-5828 Provides men and women ages 21 to 40 Website: an opportunity to develop their www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org leadership skills while making friends and serving their community. Serves Hampton Roads. Hours are 8:30am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday Old Coast Guard Station, The (office). Promotes horticultural and 24 Street and Atlantic Avenue environmental awareness through Virginia Beach, VA 23458 education, research, display and Phone: 422-1587 interpretation of plants and ecosystems. Fax: 491-8609 Admission: $6.00-adults, $5.00-seniors, $4.00-6-16. Free 6 and under. Tickets Mailing Address: include narrated train tour running at P. O. Box 24 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. Boat tour every Virginia Beach, VA 23458 quarter hour starting at 10:45am-3:45pm Website: www.oldcoastguardstation.com Price: $3.00. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10:00am- Norfolk Chamber Consort 5:00pm from October 1- Memorial Day P. O. Box 11031 holiday. Closed Mondays. 12:00pm- Norfolk, VA 23517 5:00pm, Sundays. Tours adapted to

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groups. This site is a 1903 Coast Guard Fax: 393-5111 Station which features exhibits of sea Website: www.portsva.com rescues, ship wrecks, World War II U- boats and more and a video. Gift shop Hours are 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday- available. Sunday. Offers 11 open-air restaurants on the waterfront. April-October. Old Town Trolley Tours Portside Sandy Bottom Nature Park Portsmouth, VA 23703 Big Ethel Road at I-64 Phone: 393-5111 Hampton, VA Fax: 393-5111 Phone: 825-4657 Website: www.portsva.com Fax: 825-4658 Website: www.cityofhampton.net Explore over 300 years of history on these 45 minutes narrated trolley tours Hours: Park-Sunrise to Sunset. Nature (from Memorial Day weekend through Park- 9:00am-6:00pm, Monday- Labor Day weekend). Thursday; 9:00am-7:00pm, Friday- Sunday. Park admission is free and open Organic Gardening Club of Hampton to the public. Roads 114 London Bridge Road Scope Cultural and Convention Virginia Beach, VA 23454 Center Phone: 548-2602 (private phone) Scope Plaza Fax: 548-2602 (private phone) P. O. Box 1808 Norfolk, VA 23501 Hours are 7:00am-9:00pm, Monday- Phone: 441-2764 Friday. Provides services to help support Fax: 441-2150 and encourage organic gardening, with Website: www.cityofnorfolk.net information, guest lectures, videotapes and slides, by sharing seeds, plants, and Hours are 8:30am-5:30pm, Monday- vegetables. Friday. Offers spectator or non- participatory recreation and community Pokey Smokey facilities for arts and humanities. Chesapeake, VA Phone: 465-2937 Singles Society Fax: 382-8418 3610 Henrico Street Website: www.cityofchesapeake.net Norfolk, VA 23513 Phone: 853-2989 (hotline) Office hours 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- The single society is a social and Friday. A reproduction 19th century networking organization for single steam locomotive. professionals. Meetings are held 1st Thursday of each month at 7:00pm at Portsmouth Visitor Center Uncle Louie’s Bar and Grill, 132 E. 6 Crawford Parkway, Portside Little Creek Road, Norfolk, VA 23504. Portsmouth, VA 23703 Monthly events include dinners, trips; Phone: 393-5111

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also, a newsletter and calendar of events Special arrangement will be made to are available. Age range 30 to 60yrs. permit handicap person’s access.

Special Olympics Virginia U. S. Naval Base Tours and One Columbus Center Suite 679 Information Office Virginia Beach, VA 23462 9079 Hampton Blvd Phone: 687-8183 Norfolk, VA 23505 Fax: 687-8198 Phone: 444-7955 Email: Fax: 445-0348 [email protected] Hours are 7:45am-4:00pm, Monday- Provides year round sports training and Friday. Provides naval base tours and athletic competition in a variety of information to military and general Olympic-type sports for all children and public in addition to area’s point of adults with mental retardation, giving interest. Bus tours given once a day and them continuing opportunities. seasonal. Call for times. Cost: $7.50- adults, $5.00-children (3-11) & seniors. Tidewater Appalachian Trail Club P. O. Box 8246 Very Special Arts of Virginia (VSA) Norfolk, VA 23503 5109 Violet Bank Drive Phone: 552-0292 (private phone) Virginia Beach, VA 23464 Phone: 467-0225 Provides services to maintain a section Website: www.vsava.org of the Appalachian Trail and provides Email: [email protected] organized hiking, backpacking, and camping activities for members. Serves Virginia Beach. Assures that Meetings announced in the newspaper. individuals with disabilities have equal opportunity to participate in programs U. S. Fish and Wildlife which demonstrate the value of the arts Service in the lives of all individuals and Dismal Swamp Nat’l Wildlife Refuge provides opportunities for the integration 3100 Desert Road of people with disabilities into society. P.O. Box 349 Suffolk, VA 23439 Virginia Beach Soap Box Derby Phone: 986-3705 Association, Inc. Fax; 986-2353 5312-D1 Virginia Beach Blvd Website: Virginia Beach, VA 23462 www.greatdismalswamp.fws.gov Phone: 456-1111 Fax: 456-1111 Hours are 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday- Friday. Organization provides Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday- educational and recreational wildlife Friday. Provides a youth racing program oriented programs for public use. which has run nationally since 1934.the Reservations must be made for programs goals of the Soap Box Derby is to teach at least two (2) weeks in advance. youngsters some of the basic skills of workmanship, the spirit of competition

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Virginia Center for Contemporary Provides recreational training for Art mentally retarded, ages 8 and above. 2200 Parks Avenue Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Virginia Stage Company Phone: 425-0000 Monticello at Tazewell Fax: 425-8186 P. O. Box 3770 Website: www.cacv.org Norfolk, VA 23514 Phone: 627-1234 Hours are museum shop hours are 627-6988 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday-Friday; 10:00am -4:00pm, Saturday; and Hours 10:00am-7:00pm, Tuesday; 12:00pm-4:00pm, Sunday. Closed on 10:00am-8:00pm, Wednesday-Friday; Mondays. Admission: $5.00-adults, 12:00pm-8:00pm, Saturday, and $3.00-students, seniors, and military. 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. Closed Museum shop free. Provides services for Mondays. Provides regional professional presenting changing exhibitions of theater; speakers to clubs, organizations; contemporary art to the Hampton Roads classes about agency and theater community. Offers a full schedule of throughout the year. educational programs and special events as well. Virginia Symphony, Inc. 861 Glenrock Road Virginia Children’s Chorus Norfolk, VA 23502 6900 Newport Avenue Phone: 466-3060 Norfolk, VA 23505 Fax: 466-3046 Phone: 440-9100 Website: www.virginiasymphony.org Fax: 440-9200 Website: Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday- http://groups.hamptonroads.com/vcc Friday, 11:00am-2:00pm, Saturday Email: [email protected] (varies). Provides two youth orchestras- Virginia Symphony Junior Youth Works to enrich the lives of participating Orchestra for junior high school students children, through the study and and Virginia Symphony Youth Orchestra performance of the choral literature. for senior high school students- open to Offers choral instruction for children area youth; two free concerts annually; ages 6 to 18 and various choirs and Peanut Butter and Jam Session family singers. concert for preschool, primary aged children and their families; annual Virginia Special Olympics, Inc. Young People’s concerts for in-school Southeast Office public. 12388 Warwick Blvd, Suite 401 Newport News, VA 23606 Virginia Zoological Society, The Phone: 526-6130 3500 Granby Street 1-800-932-4653 Norfolk, VA 23504

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Phone: 441-2374 Email: [email protected] Fax: 625-1061 Provides noncommercial broadcasting Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- and educational telecommunications Sunday. Closed Thanksgiving Day, technologies and services to the people Christmas Eve & Day and New Years of southeastern Virginia and Day. Serves all areas within a 3-hour northeastern North Carolina. radius. Ensures that the Virginia Zoological Park thrives as a superior Willett Hall zoological institution, reaching its fullest 3701 Willett Drive potential to serve people, animals and Portsmouth, VA 23707 the environment. Cost: $6.00-adults, Phone: 393-5144 $4.00-children (2-11), under 2 free, 393-5460 $5.00- seniors (62 & Up) Cash Only. Fax: 393-7324 Website: www.willetthall.com Visitor’s Information Center 6 Crawford Parkway, Portside A 2,000 seat entertainment facility with Portsmouth, VA 23703 outstanding acoustics. Hours for box Phone: 393-5111 office is 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Fax: 393-5111 Friday and 2 hours before show times. Website: www.portsva.org Young Audiences, Inc. Provides an abundance of informational Virginia Chapter brochures on area attractions. Hours are 420 North Center Drive, Suite 239 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday-Sunday. Norfolk, VA 23502 Phone: 466-7555 Walking Tours/Lantern Tours Fax: 455-9859 Portside Email: [email protected] Portsmouth, VA 23703 Phone: 393-5111 Hours are 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Fax: 393-5111 Friday. Provides performing arts and Website: www.portsva.org education programming for children; family programs. Program sites: schools, A walking tour of Olde Towne libraries, museums, and community Portsmouth provided by a guide in centers. period costume at twilight. Tours from June-august from Portside. REHABILITATION

SERVICES WHRO 5200 Hampton Blvd. Adult Rehabilitation Center Norfolk, VA 23508 5560 Virginia Beach Blvd Phone: 889-9400 Virginia Beach, VA 23462 Fax: 489-0007 Phone: 497-2782 Website: www.whro.org Fax: 499-1247

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