April is National Poetry Month and UVA Library is pleased to announce that poet MaKshya Tolbert, the inaugural Art in Library Spaces Artist-in-Residence, will deliver a talk on place-based poetics and creative process on April 18. Tolbert was one of five winners of the 2024 National Poetry Series competition; her first collection, “Shade is a place,” will be released by Penguin Books in October.
Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might have merited it, the word was misleading. Kyra Gaunt, a Black woman who is a foundational figure in the study of hip-hop, worked as a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Virginia from 1996 to 2002. Her book “The Games Black Girls Play,” which focuses on Black music practices, was published in 2006. I cited her in my work and in the interview I gave before accepting the job.
The Dance Program of the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia presents its Spring Dance Concert on April 10, 11, and 12, at 8:00 p.m. in the Ruth Caplin Theatre. We invite you to join us for the presentation of 10 original student, faculty, and guest artist works – both live dance and film – performed by UVA dancers. Choreographers and filmmakers featured in this concert examine themes of connection, impact, repetition, and seeking harmony. The works invite us to consider the complexities of relationship with people, environments, and ourselves, exploring the variety of ways we internalize and respond to our environment, our own actions, and the actions of others.
UVA Department of Drama is thrilled to be welcoming Guests Artists in Residence, Ècritures Théâtrais Contemporaines en Caraïbe (ETC Caraïbe) in Spring 2025. This residency will include a performance of Rosanie Soleil, by Ina Césaire, a French playwright and ethnographer whose writings explore the oral heritage of her home of Martinique.
The Virginia Festival of the Book, an annual celebration of reading Virginia Humanities hosts under the umbrella of the Virginia Center for the Book, kicks off March 20.
William Dozier, a 2018 English and media studies graduate, launched his online reading recommendation presence in August of 2022.
With a declaration by “The Voice” host Carson Daly, University of Virginia third-year student Simone Marijic and her friend Iris Herrera began their duet, which, paradoxically, was also a faceoff.
