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  • A movie poster with the title, "Silents Scored: Live" in large white letters. Behind the title is a collage of various male and female silent films stars.

    Silence is Golden: Celebrating the History of Silent Films

    https://engagement.virginia.edu/learn/thoughts-from-the-lawn/20260204-Marshall

  • Bright orange background with a flower boarder. In the center says "Virginia Theatre Festival" in white letters, the word "Theatre" larger than the rest.

    Virginia Theatre Festival Announces 2026 Season

    https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/virginia-theatre-festival-announces-2026-season/

  • Large black letters in the top left corner say "ABCs" and the rest of the page is filled with the alphabet with colorful backgrounds. The bottom right says "of the UVA Library."

    From Artists’ Books to Zines — the ABCs of the UVA Library

    https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/artists-books-zines-abcs-uva-library?mtm_campaign=em&mtm_kwd=sub

  • A blonde man in a white jacket adjusts a large framed photograph in a hallway, admiring the picture.

    Studying Medicine, Creating Art

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/studying-medicine-creating-art

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Nicki Minaj, wearing a long, crimped blonde ponytail, holds a microphone to her mouth and looks at the camera while bathed in pink-purple light.
Music

Nicki Minaj’s Response To Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Hiss’ Was A Miss

Nicki Minaj’s “Big Foot” — a diss track she dropped this week in her escalating feud with fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion — has fallen flat.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicki-minaj-big-foot-megan-thee-stallions-hiss_n_65bad1b6e4b0102bd2d7a737

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

Singer Dave Matthews plays an acoustic guitar onstage in front of a microphone.
Music

The Music Beat: Dave Matthews Band Nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Charlottesville’s native son is in the running to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/music-beat-dave-matthews-band-nominated-rock-roll-hall-fame

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

Virginia Theatre Festival 50th Anniversary

Virginia Theatre Festival to Celebrate 50th Anniversary Year

The Virginia Theatre Festival Season to Kick Off With 50 Years and Counting: a Musical Revue, Directed by Longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel Followed by All-time Classic Musical Little Shop of Horrors and Frenetic, Farcical Take on Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.

February 16, 2024
David Getsy
Visual Art

UVA Honors Faculty for Research and Scholarship: David Getsy wins in UVA's Excellence in Arts and Humanities Award

UVA administrators honored faculty members, including David Getsy (Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History), for their outstanding research and scholarship at the fifth annual Research Achievement Awards event, held earlier this month.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-honors-faculty-research-and-scholarship

Spencer Tinkham (American, b. 1992), ”Torah Pointer” (2021). Rabbit made from skateboard.
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art Announces the First Major Gift of Judaica in the University of Virginia’s History

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will expand its holdings with a promised gift of more than 150 Torah pointers, or yads, from Clay H. Barr and the Barr Foundation. This marks the first major gift of Judaica in the University of Virginia’s history. Accompanying the bequest is The Clay H. Barr Endowment for Torah Pointers in Memory of Jay D. A. Barr that will enable The Fralin to preserve the collection and support related staff as well as educational programming and touring of the objects. Barr is making the contribution in honor of her late husband who earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia (UVA).

February 16, 2024
Women from above on grass in dance pose Image: Amina Ross
Visual Art

EscapeRoom

The University of Virginia (UVA) is a site of reckoning. The legacies of slavery and white supremacy reverberate throughout its built environment. EscapeRoom confronts frameworks of injustice that contemporary audiences inhabit and inherit in relation to this UNESCO World Heritage Site.

February 16, 2024

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