University of Virginia President Jim Ryan on Tuesday unveiled a portrait of Karenne Wood, whose roles at the University included researching and teaching the history of the Monacan Indian Nation while tirelessly advocating for its members.
Through their plays, musicals, camps and workshops, Live Arts connects people of all ages, all across Charlottesville as they direct, produce, build sets for and perform in some simply incredible shows.
Gunn, an academic who specializes in breaking and hip-hop culture, earned a score of 0, but she is probably more famous now than the gold medalist, Ami Yuasa of Japan.
Ben Larsen: You are listening to WTJU Charlottesville. The Jefferson School African American History Center is opening the newest installation of Pride Overcomes Prejudice, entitled Toward a Lineage of Self, Saturday, September 21st. For Arts This Week, we spoke with Jordy Yager, the Director of Digital Humanities at the center.
Sara Bastianelli: For Arts This Week, we chatted with Jess Thompson and Jade Long from Hotel Fiction. You can see Hotel Fiction at the Southern Cafe Music Hall on Friday, September 13th.
The New City Arts 2024 Fellowship will present their exhibition fallow on Friday, September 6, at 5pm.
In early 2020, University of Virginia associate drama professor Doug Grissom was looking to buy some recording equipment. He had found a set of plays that female playwrights had written nearly 100 years ago, that begged to be adapted as audio dramas. He planned to do it on his own. But then the general manager of UVA’s WTJU radio station, Nathan Moore, reached out asking if he had any podcast ideas. Grissom pitched adapting the plays as audio dramas.
