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  • A singer in a colorful dress performs with a live jazz ensemble onstage, backed by a dramatic ocean-and-cloud projection in blue light.

    ARTS ON THE HILL presents Auksalaq

    September 17, 2026

  • Stylized purple-and-blue jazz poster showing musicians playing trumpet and saxophone, with text “Miles Trane 100 Jazz Marathon 2026” and WTJU 91.1 FM.

    WTJU Jazz Marathon Celebrates Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Today's Live Jazz

    September 21, 2026

  • Daphne Maxwell Reid

    Virginia Film Festival Announces 2026 Virginia Filmmaking Lineup

    September 17, 2026

  • A close up image of a hand adjusting a small chair in a miniature display. The display shows a room with various desks and rolling chairs, and globes placed on the desks. One of the walls is a large bookshelf, filled entirely with colorful books.

    UVA Alumna Artist is Big into Miniature Artworks

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-alumna-artist-big-miniature-artworks

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Five students play instruments in a basement, covered in a hazy glow.
Music

Y2K House Show Was a Vibrant Summer-Night Success

WXTJ, the University’s student-run radio station, collaborated with student publication V Magazine to host four student bands at a 2000’s-themed show to welcome students back to Charlottesville and kick off the year in retro style.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/09/y2k-house-show-was-a-vibrant-summer-night-success?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest#google_vignette

A cartoon of two people, one with long hair and lighter skin and the other with short hair and darker skin, sharing earbuds and listening to music.
Music

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.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/09/hoos-listening-presses-play-on-a-new-school-year?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

A collage includes photos of Faulkner at three different stages of life, a pipe with puffs of smoke, a stamp, his signature, and orange squares.
Creative Writing

‘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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/where-faulkner-was-happy-william-faulkner-abroad-home-and-uva

In the dome room of the Rotunda, Jim Ryan and Teresa Pollack pull a blue covering off of a painting of Karenne Wood. In the portrait, she wears a yellow dress and Monacan regalia, and holds
Visual Art

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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/university-honors-advocate-monacan-indian-nation-memorial-portrait

A performer stands onstage in a black t-shirt and a white skirt, raising a red flag above their head and smiling wide with their eyes closed. Two other performers look on the first one, their backs to the camera.
Drama

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.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/09/live-arts-continues-to-promote-theater-education-among-charlottesville-youth?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest#google_vignette

Australian dancer Raygun dances in a green jumpsuit in front of four judges wearing white on a purple panel that reads "PARIS 2024".
Dance

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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-whats-deal-australian-breakdancer

Arts Exhibition: Toward a Lineage of Self
Visual Art

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.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-jefferson-school-african-american-history-center/

Hotel Fiction
Music

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.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-hotel-fiction/

MaKshya Tolbert
Visual Art

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.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-makshya-tolbert-and-the-2024-new-city-arts-fellowship-exhibition-fallow/

Lydia Gasman, The Angel of History, 2020. Oil, acrylic, charcoal, aluminum on canvas, 48 x 60*
Visual Art

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.

August 29, 2024
Arts on the Hill with John D'earth
Music

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.

August 26, 2024
"Profiled From Atmospheres": Matthew Burtner album release
Music

"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

August 23, 2024

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