By the end of any year, UVA Today’s photographers – Sanjay Suchak, Dan Addison and Erin Edgerton – will have snapped thousands of images on and around the University of Virginia’s Grounds. They range from the expected, like portraits of faculty members in the news, to the surprising, like a rainbow arcing across the Lawn. UVA Today asked each photographer to select five photos that moved him or her most this year, and explain why.
The direct gazes of the portrait subjects and vibrant colors of the photographs caught the attention of two museum visitors, University of Virginia students who are photographers themselves. Ava Proehl and Kate MacArthur, who both work on the UVA student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, took a break from their studies to view The Fralin Museum of Art’s “Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography.” The exhibit displays selected works of five photographers from women’s perspectives: Sarah Maple, Tokie Rome-Taylor, Cara Romero, Martine Gutierrez and Wendy Red Star.
In his program called “The Music Paradigm,” maestro Roger Nierenberg aims to help organizations improve their work by exposing their leaders and employees to the dynamic that exists between a conductor and orchestra musicians.
The story told in the documentary, “The Lives Between the Lines,” brings together the persistent voices of student activists, the painstaking research of scholars, the careful planning of designers and the crucial participation of community members – all collaborating to create the University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
Jonathan Majors receives the Virginia Film Festival’s “Breakthrough Star” award after the screening of his new film, “Devotion.” University of Virginia alumnus and actor Jason George, who is also on the festival’s advisory board, presented the award.
From the opening night’s full house at the Paramount Theater for the area premiere of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” to many other sold-out movies and illuminating discussions, the 35th Virginia Film Festival, held Wednesday through Sunday, drew big crowds – free this year from COVID restrictions on social gatherings.
"I need you to know this other story about this place,” Kern Jackson’s godmother, Valena McCants, said to him 30 years ago when he visited Mobile originally to study Mardi Gras culture. This ultimately led to his documentary, "Descendant," that explores the history of The Clotilda.
Live Arts Theater’s 2022/23 Transformations Season leaps into the new year with the Virginia premiere of Jez Butterworth’s hauntingly lyrical THE RIVER, directed by Robert Chapel. THE RIVER will have 16 performances in the Founders Theater, January 20 through February 11, 2023, at Live Arts Theater, 123 E. Water Street, Charlottesville. Tickets are $27 for adults or $24 for students and senior citizens and are available through the Box Office at boxoffice@livearts.org, by phone at 434-977-4177 x123, or online at livearts.org/tix.
