RAAC will screen the newly released, critically-acclaimed mystery thriller, Conclave, based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto and Isabella Rossellini. In the film, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes) organizes a papal conclave to elect the next pope and finds himself investigating secrets and scandals about […]
RAAC’s next free movie will be The Order, a domestic terrorism thriller focused on the true story of how the FBI closed in on a violent anti-government militia in Freeland, Washington. In the 1980s, when the group was gathering adherents and weapons, counterfeiting money and robbing banks, local law enforcers, uneasy dealing with domestic terrorism […]
In her new book, author Paula Whyman describes how she attempted to restore 200 acres of Rappahannock County farmland that was long gone-to-seed. Whyman will tell her story, as recounted in her delightful book, Bad Naturalist, at the Little Washington Theatre. The event is sponsored by Rapp at Home and RAAC.
RAAC will host a Sip and Soul event at Rappahannock Cellars featuring Rappahannock farmer, gardener and artist Joneve Murphy. Joneve describes herself as a creative farmer and elemental artist. She specializes in integrating art into agriculture, creating functional and beautiful garden structures and using natural materials and pigments. Her story includes having established and managed […]
Author and scholar David Chaffetz will give a RAAC Talk about his recent book, Raiders, Rulers and Traders. In his book, Chaffetz explores the lively history of the great horse empires that shaped civilization from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century. Readers learn that horses were not just a form of transportation, but a transformative […]
Ruggles of Red Gap, a cinematic treasure from Hollywood’s past, was a Best Picture Nominee in 1936 and stars movie legends like Charles Laughton, Mary Boland and Zasu Pitts. At the time Leo McCarey’s film was born, the world was reeling from a global depression, and authoritarian threats were multiplying. But the art form America […]
RAAC Community Theatre’s much anticipated production of 12 Angry Jurors, directed by Hugh Hill, will be performed at the Little Washington Theatre on March 28 (7:30 pm), March 30 (3 pm), April 5 (7:30 pm) and April 6 (3 pm). Hill notes that the play brings to life the tense deliberations of a jury that […]
RAAC Community Theatre’s much anticipated production of 12 Angry Jurors, directed by Hugh Hill, will be performed at the Little Washington Theatre on March 28 (7:30 pm), March 30 (3 pm), April 5 (7:30 pm) and April 6 (3 pm). Hill notes that the play brings to life the tense deliberations of a jury that […]
RAAC Community Theatre’s much anticipated production of 12 Angry Jurors, directed by Hugh Hill, will be performed at the Little Washington Theatre on March 28 (7:30 pm), March 30 (3 pm), April 5 (7:30 pm) and April 6 (3 pm). Hill notes that the play brings to life the tense deliberations of a jury that […]
RAAC Community Theatre’s much anticipated production of 12 Angry Jurors, directed by Hugh Hill, will be performed at the Little Washington Theatre on March 28 (7:30 pm), March 30 (3 pm), April 5 (7:30 pm) and April 6 (3 pm). Hill notes that the play brings to life the tense deliberations of a jury that […]
RAAC's next movie is A Complete Unknown--the 2024 biographical musical drama about iconic singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan. Timothée Chalamet (who also produces) stars as Dylan, with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Dylan's girlfriend Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, in supporting roles. Directed by James Mangold, […]
The next RAAC talk will feature Ken Grossinger, who has published Art Works: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together. Some artists stand apart from hot-button issues of the day, but throughout history, others have deployed their creativity to push for reforms they support. Art can expose injustice, offer commentary or mobilize […]