The Shenandoah National Park Trust will host the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival on March 7th, 8th, and 9th at the Paramount Theater. For Arts This Week, we spoke to the Trust’s Executive Director.
The Virginia Film Festival announced today that the 38th annual VAFF will take place from October 22-26, 2025. The Virginia Film Festival is a program of the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts. “We are excited to return this year from October 22-26 following an extraordinary 2024 VAFF in which films presented during the Festival and in our year-round program received 34 Academy Award nominations across 17 categories – including Best Picture nominees Anora, Emilia Pérez, and I’m Still Here,” said VAFF Executive Director Jody Kielbasa.
Beginning this past December and continuing until June 1, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is hosting Milpa — a stop-motion animation exhibit named after the Anangu people’s traditional practice of sand drawing, an artistic and storytelling medium in Australian Indigenous art.
