The Music Beat: A Cappella Group Blends Cultural Heritage With Pop Culture
When cultures come together, the result is often extraordinary – and that’s the beauty behind Ektaal, the University of Virginia’s only South Asian fusion a cappella group.
SpongeBob, Cap’n Crunch and the Most Tightly Knit Clubs on Grounds
While UVA boasts over 700 clubs and organizations dedicated to academics, service and hobbies, a few clubs stand out for their quirky charm.
Making Noise in the Library 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
