Hoos Listening Presses Play on a New School Year
Founded last semester, the club provides a space for people to come together and share their love of music through events like listening parties, picnics, playlist swaps and more.
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‘Where Faulkner Was Happy’: William Faulkner Abroad, at Home and at UVA
Last spring, UVA acquired 16 letters from Faulkner to his mother written while he traveled through Europe in the fall of 1925.
University Honors Advocate for the Monacan Indian Nation With a Memorial Portrait
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.
Live Arts Continues to Promote Theater Education Among Charlottesville Youth
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.
Q&A: What’s the Deal With That Australian Breakdancer?
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.
Arts This Week – Jefferson School African American History Center
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.
Arts This Week: Hotel Fiction
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.
Arts This Week: MaKshya Tolbert and the 2024 New City Arts Fellowship Exhibition, fallow
The New City Arts 2024 Fellowship will present their exhibition fallow on Friday, September 6, at 5pm.
Picasso, Lydia & Friends, Vol. V at Les Yeux du Monde
Les Yeux du Monde proudly presents the fifth installment of an exhibition series orchestrated to honor the memory and scholarship of acclaimed Picasso scholar, beloved former professor of Modern Art at the University of Virginia, and sublime painter, Lydia Csato Gasman.
Arts on the Hill: John D'earth
Arts on the Hill with John D'earth will be held at Carr's Hill, home of President and Mrs. Ryan, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from 5:30 - 6:30pm. All UVA faculty, staff, and students are eligible to register to attend. The deadline to register is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, September 13.
"Profiled From Atmospheres": Matthew Burtner Album Release
If someone told you there was music that could lull pillowy-winged moths into a fluttery state of happiness, that the Aurora Borealis can sing even better than you and I, or that the roots of the American elm trees in Central Park are a bustling ensemble waiting for their cue, would you believe them? Matthew Burtner would, and he’d have no trouble proving it on PROFILED FROM ATMOSPHERES, the veteran ecoacoustic composer’s sixth release with Ravello Records
‘She Wrote Plays’ and WTJU Is Streaming Them
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.