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WTJU’s Cville Puzzle Hunt returns on March 16 with new diabolical puzzles

Cville Puzzle Hunt is back! Organized by WTJU 91.1 FM and Puzzled Bee, it’s a citywide cerebral puzzle for teens and adults of all ages. It works like an escape room, but all of downtown Charlottesville is the "room." This year’s event takes place Saturday, March 16, 2:30 - 6 p.m. It starts and ends at IX Art Park, with puzzles to solve at various downtown locations. Modeled on the Post Hunt in DC (back when the Washington Post used to do fun things), the Cville Puzzle Hunt takes participants on a wild afternoon running around trying to untangle five diabolical, large-scale puzzles inserted into the urban landscape.

https://www.wtju.net/cville-puzzle-hunt-returns-on-sat-march-26-with-new-diabolical-puzzles/

Sahar Asghari (Studio '25) painted a mural for the newly opened Hoos First Student Center in Newcomb Hall.Sahar created a three canvas piece with the quote “Success is not limited by your background, it’s built upon the foundation of your determination” stretched across. The mural was inspired by a lesson on triptychs in one of her Studio classes.
Visual Art

‘Hoos First’ Student Center Celebrates Grand Opening in Newcomb

Amural and its message immediately greet visitors to the newly opened Hoos First Student Center in the University of Virginia’s Newcomb Hall. A quote, “Success is not limited by your background, it’s built upon the foundation of your determination,” stretches across the three-canvas collection that third-year student Sahar Asghari painted for the center. “It’s nice because the center is a study space as well,” the foreign affairs and studio art double major said. “I can go there to study, and I know the other kids around there are looking at this piece with a similar background as me, even though they might have completely different experiences.”

https://news.virginia.edu/content/hoos-first-student-center-celebrates-grand-opening-newcomb

The profile of a black woman with a single braid against a yellow background.
Creative Writing

7 Poetry Collections About the Complexities of Black Womanhood

All of these poetry collections endeavor to answer the question: What does it mean to be both Black and a Woman? All of the answers are different—Black womanhood is multifaceted and finding a safe passage through it is the challenge of a lifetime.

https://electricliterature.com/7-poetry-collections-about-the-complexities-of-black-womanhood/

Chorus Auditions

ARTS OPPORTUNITY • 2024 Chorus Auditions for Charlottesville Opera

2024 Chorus Auditions: Saturday, March 2 at the Charlottesville Band Building at 1119 Fifth Street SW, Charlottesville, VA 22902. ​Charlottesville Opera Adult and Children's Chorus members are crucial parts of every season! This season, our shows are 'The Music Man' and 'L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)'. 'The Elixir of Love' is sung in Italian. Deadline to sign up is Friday, March 1.

https://www.charlottesvilleopera.org/chorus-869800.html

An illustration of Mehr Afshan Farooqi, smiling against a light red background.
Creative Writing

The Poetry of Love

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define “love”.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1809246/column-the-poetry-of-love

A shallow river bank on a sunny day.
Music

UVA Professors Will Turn the Movement of Rivers into Music

Matthew Burtner was raised in Alaska where he was fascinated by glaciers. As a professional musician, he was inspired to compose a symphony around the sounds of those massive mountains of ice that are now melting.

https://www.wvtf.org/news/2024-01-25/uva-professors-will-turn-the-movement-of-rivers-into-music

Cai Luzak looks at playwright Mary Low as she gives him instructions onstage in the Helms Theatre.
Drama

New Works Festival

UVA Drama’s New Works Festival treats audiences to a varied collection of short works, ranging from drama to farce, that explore everything from workplace woes to matters of the heart.

https://www.c-ville.com/new-works-festival

An illustration of 4 different birds sitting around a payphone, surrounded by music notes.
Music

He Made a Phone That Plays Birdsong in 2016. Why is It Just Now Catching Eyes?

Eight years ago, after winning a local art-in-place grant, Schulman retrofitted an old-school payphone to play the chirps, tweets and calls (get it?) of birds local to Takoma Park, Maryland, the Washington suburb he calls home.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/he-made-phone-plays-birdsong-2016-why-it-just-now-catching-eyes

Two students pose in front of a white background with a blue stripe and an orange stripe. One wears a white t-shirt, a long beige skirt and white fingerless gloves; the other wears a tan suit and a beige turtleneck.
Visual Art

This Student Fashion Organization Will Leave You ‘CRAVE-ing’ More

Capturing the attention of fashion fanatics across the globe, New York’s famed Fashion Week serves as a showcase for designers’ newest styles and trends. A little closer to home, a University of Virginia student organization is gearing up for a fashion show of its own.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-fashion-organization-will-leave-you-crave-ing-more?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news