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May 24, 2024

Community Connection: SMILE Golf Classic

Samantha Makes It a Little Easier, or SMILE, is presenting their 4th Annual SMILE Golf Classic on Thursday, August 15th. They invite you and 3 of your favorite golfing buddies to join them at Cypress Point Country Club in Virginia Beach. Lunch, dinner, a round of golf with carts, and driving range time are all included.

Proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards the SMILE Kids program which provides medical equipment to children impacted by a life-threatening condition. You can learn more online at smileasier.org.

Community Connection: The Muse Writers Center Kids Summer Camps

The Muse Writers Center is a nonprofit in Norfolk that hopes to share the literary arts with the local Hampton Roads communities and beyond! This summer, they are offering creative writing camps for kids ages 8-13. These camps explore comics, songwriting, poetry, fiction, and even gives kids the chance to share their work with friends and family during the presentation finale! Full scholarships are available to help make the literary arts accessible to everyone. 

Kim Gordon on World Cafe

Kim Gordon has been beloved in rock circles for decades as a member of Sonic Youth, and for her own solo music, but at the beginning of this year she also became a TikTok celebrity for a whole new generation with her song “Bye Bye” from her new album, The Collective. Kim Gordon talks about how collaborating with the right person takes you in exciting artistic directions, about how her visual art melds with her music, and about what it’s like to become TikTok famous at the age of 70, on the next World Cafe.