You’re listening to WTJU Charlottesville. For Arts This Week, we chatted with Joshua Trevorrow, the First Nations Arts and Cultural Manager at Country Arts South Australia. He talks about his upcoming screening of Nunga Screen at the Violet Crown on August 7th. Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
For many aspiring actors in rural areas, opportunities to engage in the performing arts are scarce — theater programs in these areas are often underfunded or non-existent. Located just south of Charlottesville in Fluvanna County, Empowered Players is working to change that — by bringing free theater classes to children in the rural area, which culminate in a public production showcasing the students’ skills.
Roa says social dance can cure everything from partisanship and close-mindedness to existential crises. We are “at the risk of being so logical, we are losing our own humanity,” he warns. “We all come from different backgrounds, but we all desire the same thing: to be understood. You and I don’t have to agree, but we can have a dialogue. And that dialogue is the dance.”
Fielding has spent much of the last decade creating a powerful body of work. What is on display only hints at the breadth of his artistic practice. Traversing a range of mediums—including paint, print, photography, poetry, drawing, film, and sculpture—Fielding’s work is rooted in his personal experience of reclaiming culture as a son of the Stolen Generation. He employs language, whether Yankunytjatjara or English, in his truth-telling and reconciliatory call for unity. Through his highly collaborative practice, Fielding creates community around him and affirms that many cultural practices are stronger than ever.
Chroma Projects presents two solo shows during the month of August. In the Micro Gallery, “Delta” features prints and printing plates by Tim Michel that consider the motif of the delta, using it as a metaphor for life as it gathers matter, stories, and experiences along its route, spreading its beneficence as it ultimately concludes in the ocean. The form of the delta replicates the branching of trees, and the pattern of veining in humans, connecting to all of life’s formations.
Fire destroyed the Rotunda, the most iconic feature of the University of Virginia’s Grounds, in October 1895. University officials immediately pushed to rebuild. In 1896, after a false start with McDonald Brothers architects of Louisville, Kentucky, the Board of Visitors hired the prominent New York firm McKim, Mead & White to redesign the historic center of the University. Stanford White, the artistic force of the firm, took the lead in the Rotunda redesign.
You’re listening to WTJU Charlottesville. On Saturday, August 9th at 7:30 pm, Vinegar Hill Theater is showing “The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, An American Agitator” and “Uprooted,” presented by the Indie Short Film Festival. Both documentaries recount stories of black resistance from the 1960s. For Arts This Week, we spoke to Ty Cooper, a co-producer of The Price of Resistance.
My name is Isabel. I am the WXTJ director, which means that I direct the student radio station. I help put on shows. I help put our programming together. I put on other events and stuff like that. And I’m Dana sun, WXTJ director of events and outreach. I help Isabel with putting on shows, running sound, and connecting WXTJ with the UVA student body and the Charlottesville community. WXTJ is UVA’s free form student radio. We do it all, from hosting radio shows to organizing live music events to connecting with UVA music community. WXTJ has always been about diversity and inclusion.
Milkweed Clay Studio provides 24/7 access to a small group of members who are passionate about working with clay. The studio is a light-filled space in the historic Silk Mill building near downtown Charlottesville, VA. Just as important as providing the physical space, MCS also provides a supportive and collaborative community that allows our members to learn and grow alongside one another.
Visible Records is an artist and community run space situated in a large warehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. that houses a variety of working-class businesses, initiatives, and nonprofits such as Infinite Repeats, Food Not Bombs, Charlottesville Tool Library, and Siller Pollinator Co. Composed of artist studios, a gallery, a large common area and a community garden.
