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Music Resource Center (MRC)

The Music Resource Center (MRC) fosters the youth of Charlottesville through music. The MRC is a safe, diverse, and creative community where teens learn, grow, and make music together. MRC is affordable to all. As a nonprofit after-school program, the Music Resource Center provides unlimited voice, instrument, and dance lessons, practice space, mentorship, access to instruments and equipment, performance opportunities, summer camps, and recording studio time to 6th – 12th grade students.

https://musicresourcecenter.org

BANFF Film Festival Hikes on a mountain peak

Arts This Week: Banff Film Festival at the Paramount

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.

http://wtju.net/arts-this-week-banff-film-festival-at-the-paramount/

The Paramount Theater with Virginia Film Festival on the Marquee with beautiful lights

2025 Virginia Film Festival Set for October 22-26

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.

https://virginiafilmfestival.org/2025-virginia-film-festival-set-for-october-22-26/

Kirsten Hemrich_Draft_2023_Oil on canvas_16 x 20 inches.jpg Artist name: Kirsten Hemrich Artwork title: “Draft” Year created: 2023 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches

Kirsten Hemrich's 'Signs of Life' at Second Street Gallery

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present 'Signs of Life', a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by New York-based artist Kirsten Hemrich, in the Dové Gallery from February 7 - March 21, 2025. Hemrich’s work is inspired by the poetry and humor of all things. She draws the world around her every day. Abstraction, spirituality, and joy inform her attempts to shape the things we can't quite name.

https://www.secondstreetgallery.org/kirsten-hemrich

Cassie Guy_Clementine_2024_Mixed media on wood panel_16 x 20 inches.jpg Artist name: Cassie Guy Artwork title: Clementine Year created: 2024 Medium: Mixed media on wood panel Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches

Cassie Guy: 'Liminal' at Second Street Gallery

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present 'Liminal', a solo exhibition of new work by Charlottesville, Virginia-based artist Cassie Guy, in the Main Gallery from February 7 - March 21, 2025. 'Liminal' explores transitional spaces and challenges the boundary between reality and imagination through conceptual abstraction and reinterpretation of ordinary subjects. The exhibition signifies the artist's personal journey within these thresholds of reality and encourages visitors to engage with uncertainty and the coexistence of various perspectives.

https://www.secondstreetgallery.org/cassie-guy-liminal

A.D. Carson Drops Groundbreaking Composition with Open Access Publisher

Clemson University was proud of its doctoral student. It was 2017, and the university announced the achievement with fanfare: A.D. Carson had produced an original piece of music as his dissertation and successfully defended it to receive a Ph.D. Carson went on to receive tenure in the University of Virginia’s music department. At UVA, he’s continued to compose original music, do research, and teach students to write music.

https://c-ville.com/a-d-carson-drops-groundbreaking-composition-with-open-access-publisher/

Story Drama

THE BARD on THE HILL: Arts on the Hill with Shakespeare on the Lawn (SotL)

February 3, 2025

Arts on the Hill: Virginia Women's Chorus in Old Cabell Hall

Story Music

Arts on the Hill: A Candlelight Night with the Virginia Women's Chorus

December 3, 2024

Five performers dressed in black act in a classroom in front of an audience.

Comedy Holy Trinity” Delivers a Divinely Hilarious Start to the Semester

The Incident, Amuse Bouche and The Whethermen — a triumvirate of prominent comedy groups on Grounds — joined forces Friday night for their debut performances of the semester.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/01/comedy-holy-trinity-delivers-a-divinely-hilarious-start-to-the-semester?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

A projector screen hangs in a room with blue walls and reads "MILPA" with a stop-motion border.

Milpa Exhibit Brings Aboriginal Australian Artwork to Life

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.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/01/milpa-exhibit-brings-aboriginal-australian-artwork-to-life?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

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