The stage is set for the next two events in the University of Virginia’s “Arts on the Hill” series this semester. To showcase the art of acting, Jason George and Kathleen Turner will appear in separate events in November and December at Carr’s Hill, the home of UVA President Jim Ryan.
This summer, following several years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Virginia researchers eagerly embarked on their first field season in the city of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.
It’s a life cycle familiar to many. A young couple marries. They grow their family by adding a pooch to the homestead and Fido becomes the center of attention. He may even make an appearance on the family holiday card, bookended by his adoring “mom and dad.” A few years later, husband and wife muster the courage to have an actual child and then comes the question: How to introduce the fur baby to the human baby? An alumna answers this question in her new book.
The Virginia Film Festival will celebrate its 35th Anniversary on November 2-6 with a robust program of more than 100 films and events, a stellar lineup of special guests, and an array of conversations that will once again take VAFF audiences beyond the screen to explore some of the most important issues of our time. HIGHLIGHTS: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Opens, Empire of Light Closes. Highlights Include All The Beauty And The Bloodshed; Good Night Oppy; Living; The Lost King; She Said; and Women Talking
The Virginia Film Festival will present more than 100 films, including dramas, comedies and documentaries, and will feature events with a lineup of guests discussing their careers and latest films. The festival runs from Nov. 2 to 6.
UVA School of Architecture is proud to announce that Elgin Cleckley, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design Thinking, was recently named a 2021–22 Distinguished Public Scholar by the University of Virginia Office of Engagement. Cleckley was one of six UVA faculty to receive the award, which acknowledges excellent service to alumni, parents, and friends of the University.
We are excited to announce that Rabih Alameddine, UVA’s Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic). “This year’s judges have done the seemingly impossible,” said Louis Bayard, PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair. “They have found a ‘first among equals’ in a diverse slate of five extraordinary titles. We look forward to celebrating Rabih Allameddine’s exquisite novel, as well as the enduring work of his fellow finalists.”
ARTS ON THE HILL: One Night Only: Kathleen Turner LIVE! Two-time Golden Globe Winner & Academy and Tony Award Nominee!
SPICMACAY at UVA is excited to welcome TM Krishna to UVA as a part of his US tour on October 15th at McLeod Hall! The event seeks to give the music lovers of the Charlottesville community a cost-free opportunity to enjoy Indian classical music from a world-renowned Carnatic vocalist. TM Krishna will be accompanied by Akkarai Subhalakshmi on the Violin and Praveen Sparsh and Vijay Ganesh on the Mridangam.
ARTS ON THE HILL: An Evening with Jason George on November 4th • 5pm • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery! Won't you join us?
The University Singers filled Carr’s Hill, the home of University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, with song Thursday evening, opening this semester’s “Arts on the Hill” series. Directed by faculty conductor Michael Slon, the University’s flagship choral ensemble’s 90-plus students performed for a crowd of more than 100 UVA faculty and staff members, students and guests.
Specificity is the anchor of poetry as we write it now. Who can forget—or is allowed to forget—William Carlos Williams’s red wheelbarrow? We may believe that love is a major concept and value and thus should be celebrated in poems, but we also know that abstractions are not all that vivid or useful in poetry. Behind every personal experience that we might label “love,” there is a specificity to be seized by language and put in a poem. That is: There is a who (or what), a where, and a when—the basics of context, the beginnings of story. What follows is an exercise in developing specificity of context and storytelling.
