Featured Events in Saint Petersburg in May, 2025 (June Updated)

Welcome to the 2025 VSUAA Leadership Conference! Join the VSU Alumni Association on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at the Gateway Event Center on the campus of Virginia State University, to kick off the 2025 VSU Alumni Weekend with our Alumni Leadership Conference. This year's theme is "Building the Bridge to Greater." Conference Sessions Include: Alumni Author Networking Starting a non-profit for your alumni chapter Marketing strategies for chapter engagement and fundraising Effective Operations/Parlimentary Procedures Alumni Engagement Panel Session Keynote speaker, Lunch, and Entertainment featuring the VSU Concert Choir and the Trojan Explosion Pep Band We are pleased to offer an early bird price of $50 per person t hrough April 15, 2025 . After that date, the registration fee will increase to $60 per person . The fee includes all sessions, a delicious lunch, and a special alumni gift! We look forward to seeing you there! _______________ Chapter Conference Sponsorship Opportunities are also available. Alumni Blue Level Sponsor: $25 Trojan Legacy Level Sponsor: $50 Orange Level Sponsor: $75 For more information, please contact the VSUAA Leadership Conference Co-Chairs. Nicole Cameron - nucameron@gmail.com Yaminah Knight - ykvsuaa.dc@gmail.com Information Source: Virginia State University Alumni Association | eventbrite

Karl Brullov needs no special introduction. He was the only Russian classical artist of the 19th century who gained fame in Europe in his lifetime and worldwide recognition after his death. He certainly had natural gift for painting. Moreover, he was a highly qualified professional of brilliant and fascinating personality. Brullov was best known for his ingenuity, immense erudition, independence of mind and behaviour, noble indifference to material values, official awards and honours, incredible freedom in actions, as well as for his enduring devotion to artistic endeavour. Only Brullov was honoured with a kind of title “Karl the Great” that showed the appreciation and admiration of his colleagues, art connoisseurs, and students during his lifetime. He was a true artistic genius, an innovator and Pushkin of Russian painting.

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Join us as we celebrate our Brothers that have reached the milestone of 50 years of membership in Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Information Source: Petersburg Alumni Chapter | eventbrite

Deuterman Productions Presents: JOYWAVE Support: LITTLE IMAGE Artist Presale: Tuesday, Jan 28th @ 10 AM EST til Thursday, Jan 30th at 10 pm EST Spotify Presale: Thursday, Jan 30th at 10 AM EST till Thursday, Jan 30th at 10 pm EST. On sale: Friday, Jan 31st @ 10 am EST JOYWAVE Joywave are at an exciting point in their career. Not only have the act survived the pressures of their major-label debut and the dreaded sophomore slump, they’ve established themselves as the kind of band that you’re as likely to hear at a hip record store as you are at the grocery store. That said, there’s a difference between ubiquity and evolution and with their fifth full-length Permanent Pleasure. Joywave—vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Daniel Armbruster, guitarist Joseph Morinelli and drummer Paul Brenner—lean into guitar and string sections without sacrificing the signature sound that’s endeared the band to countless fans, whether they know it or not, over the past eleven years.Rochester, New York, isn’t necessarily known for its bustling entertainment industry, but it is rich inculture and creativity. The trio’s hometown is integral not only to the theme of Permanent Pleasure (audio samples from 1984 historical compilation release, The Rochester Sesquicentennial, bookend the album),but also to Joywave’s overall identity. Despite international acclaim and major-label success, the band maintain a DIY work ethic that keeps them grounded in the present moment while always reaching toward the future. We go to our studio and make a record with total creative freedom and we turn it in and the label tells us we did a great job,” Armbruster explains. This arrangement is a rarity in the music industry these days—but like all things Joywave, somehow it works out in a way that makes perfect sense for them. Once again produced by Armbruster at the band’s own Rochester-based studio, The Joycave, Permanent Pleasure is an unfiltered vision of the band’s creativity that sees them stepping outside their sonic comfort zone. “I think this is probably our least keyboard [heavy] record,” Armbruster explains, adding that in some ways Permanent Pleasure was a reaction to the more cohesive and linear construction of 2022’s Cleanse. “On Permanent Pleasure we blew everything apart again: We’re switching out drum components and everything we can between songs and freeing ourselves again from the box of ‘it has to be super cohesive’ because I always want to rage against what we did last time. But five records in, we're a lot better at writing and recording, so it’s bringing back a little bit of the all-over vibe of the first record, but on the other side of the experience. We’ve gone through a wormhole. That feeling of artistic liberation is the unifying sonic characteristic of the album, from the futuristic downtempo groove of “Sleepytime Fantasy” to the hypnotic dancefloor vibe of “Brain Damage Permanent Pleasure also sees the band expanding their own musical conventions, the most obvious being the fact that they enlisted an actual orchestra to play on these songs instead of relying solely on software as they have in the past. “We’ve always done virtual instruments before but we wanted to have it real this time around, so we had the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra play on five of these songs Morinelli, who wrote out the sheet music for them, explains. That amalgamation of electronic and organic instrumentation is evident on songs like “He’s Back,” which is political, personal, petrifying and playful, seemingly all at once. However as much as Joywave are pushing toward the future with this album, there’s also an element of nostalgia present in these songs as the trio look back at what they’ve built since they began playing together as on shimmering pop songs like “Swimming In The Glow.” “That song harkens back to an era of Joywave before we were in the beam and before anyone really cared what we did; it really draws lyrically on that time in my life of feeling like me, Paul and Joey had everything all together,” Armbruster explains. “Sonically, I think that song is a side of the band that I think people who have heard our 2012 EP Koda Vista know is there. It’s a side of the band that I think people who saw us in our very early days at local clubs like Bug Jar know is there, but I think it’s something that deserved to be in the spotlight.” “I want to touch you but I’m scared,” Armbruster sings on the infectious single “Scared,” an ode to codependency that’s as much about connection as it is existential dread—and ultimately that dichotomy between humor and hopelessness lies at the core of Permanent Pleasure. “I think the job of an artist is to explore any side of being a person and self-awareness is a huge part of being a person,” Armbruster summarizes. “I think artists who ignore humor aren’t being true to themselves and it’s a huge part of who we are despite having thoughts on the record that are on the darker side of things. I feel like you have to wink a little bit to make it okay. You have to make a joke about the asteroid as the asteroid is about to hit." 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Deuterman Productions Presents: Face to Face Support: Down By Law & The Attack Face to Face Face to Face is a punk rock band from Victorville, CA, formed in 1991 by frontman Trever Keith, bassist Matt Riddle and drummer Rob Kurth. The band rose to fame with their 1995 album Big Choice, featuring the radio hit "Disconnected" which received heavy rotation on KRQQ radio in Los Angeles and appeared in the movies Tank Girl and National Lampoon's Senior Trip. Face to Face officially split up in September 2004, allowing the band members time to focus on other projects. In April 2008, after a four-year hiatus, Face to Face performed together for the first time at The Glasshouse in Pomona, California. Since then, the band has continued to perform and has released five more studio albums to date. Down By Law When punk rock broke and bands cashed in on fashion trends, Down By Law stayed true to its ideals. While everyone else played The Forbidden Beat and wrote songs about farts, Dave Smalley was penning songs about feeling lonely and out of place, afraid and uncertain. He wrote about finding strength in being apart from the larger culture, and turning the loneliness and alienation of individuals into unity and mutual respect. It's clear that Down By Law is the only real claimant to The Clash's legacy, and that legacy is the admission that we may be isolated and lonely, we may be alienated and fucked up, but revolution can only begin in the mirror. We have to change ourselves before we can change the social structures that oppress us. Like Mick Jones and Joe Strummer before him, Dave Smalley acknowledges that politics stem from personal experience; we have our beliefs because of what we know and how we grew up. All politics are personal, and everything personal is political. And this is why Down By Law is one of the few bands that matter - the personal and political are inseparable in the music. The music is honest, and if you open your heart to it, these songs will reveal truths that no one else has enough guts to say. Down By Law has changed my life since I became a fan, and only for the better. I can't count how many times I've seen them, how long I've waited to get in, how many miles I've driven to get to the show. I've never questioned any of it because once I get there, I remember why I showed up in the first place. When the lights go down and Dave pulls on his guitar and the first ringing chords of "Independence Day" come crashing through the amps, I feel free. I feel like I'm leading the charge of The Last Brigade through all the shit I've had to swallow, and like we really can change the world for the better. And this time, nothing can stop it. The Attack The Attack brings punk back to the basics: short, fast-riffing songs about the social, music, and media-driven politics of today. The simplicity of punk has been lost on a divided underground driven more by fashion and ruled by icons that have become the same rock stars the punk movement rebelled against in the Seventies. Across the country everything punk, from all ages shows to Facebook pages, has become a popularity contest that defies the original intent of the alternative music scene. The Attack is ruled by a DIY ethos and driven by a goal: to re-unite the punks and skins and hardcore kids under the same underground flag. The Attack’s lyrics are true “shot from all sides” anthems. The Attack never panders to one political party or music scene, forming an opinion, agenda and sound of its own. Use the share tools on this event page to let your friends know where you will be. Please Print a PDF ticket for entry into the event, or your phone or email can also work. No Refund Event. Rain or Shine Event. Information Source: Deuterman Productions | eventbrite