UVA Arts Events
Million Dollar Quartet
Runs NOW-July 7th | 2pm & 7:30pm | Culbreth Theatre | $15 | Tickets>
The date was December 4, 1956. The place was Sam Phillips’ Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Relive the night that an impromptu jam session brought legends Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins together for the first and only time. This sensational musical features a hit parade of tunes including Blue Suede Shoes, Fever, Great Balls of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, Hound Dog, and more. It’ll take a ticket to get a seat…and a whole lotta willpower to stay in it!
Charlottesville Opera Presents the Tragedy of Carmen
Tonight, July 3 & Friday, July 5 | 7:30pm | Grisham Hall, St. Anne's Belfield School | $10-20 | Tickets>
Conducted by Steven Jarvi and directed by Robert Chapel, this exciting new production features opera’s stars of tomorrow in an evening you will never forget.
Peter Brook’s radical reworking of Georges Bizet’s opera, on our all new Second Stage Series in the beautifully intimate setting of Grisham Hall.
Gypsy Carmen is a sizzling seductress, but play with her and you will get burned. Naïve young soldier Don Jose falls for her, leaving his homespun sweetheart Micaela in pursuit of a life of crime and lust with Carmen and her band. But when Carmen callously drops him for Escamillo the strutting bullfighter, jealousy ignites and Don Jose is pushed to the brink. Passions intensify and burst into an emotional bonfire that threatens to destroy them all. Peter Brook’s gripping adaptation brings Bizet’s opera back to its origins of sexual intrigue, power, and complexity. In this distilled 90-minute production, Carmen’s embrace of her dark fate is elevated from an act of submission to an assertion of power.
Zuzu's Hot 5 at Offbeat Roadhouse
Friday, July 5 | 8-9pm | WTJU 91.1 FM
Zuzu’s Hot 5 brings you the best of New Orleans Jazz and Dixieland, but without having to endure the summer humidity of the Crescent City. Oh, and did we mention the concert is right next to a speakeasy? Offbeat Roadhouse takes place each Friday night from 8-9 (doors open at 7:30) from WTJU’s new performance venue.
VAFF at Violet Crown Film Screening: DIAMANTINO
Tuesday, July 16 | 7:30-9:00pm | Violet Crown Charlottesville | $11-13 | Tickets>
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The world’s premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in public disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the Portuguese icon sets out on a delirious odyssey.
Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star (Carloto Cotta), loses his special touch and ends his career in public disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the Portuguese icon sets out on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, abuse at the hands of his evil twin sisters, and a hunt for the source of genius. Both a political satire and a sci-fi fantasy, the chaotic nature of the film reflects the growing disorder in the world today. This deranged and hilarious feature debut from filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt won the Grand Prix Award at the 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week. Note: The film features adult themes and nudity.
Pride and Prejudice
Preview July 11, Runs July 12 - July 21 | 8pm & 2pm | Ruth Caplin Theatre | $15 | Tickets>
Kate Hamill’s wildly inventive adaptation of this beloved classic delivers Jane Austen as you have never seen her before. An ensemble of eight actors pack this timeless tale with madcap hijinks and a farcical flair infused with energy, laughs, whimsy, and of course, romance. It’s a treat for every generation. Tickets starting at only $15!
sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies. by Vanessa German
LAST CHANCE: On view through July 7 at The Fralin Museum of Art
The Fralin will be closed on Thursday the 4th, but galleries reopen on Friday. Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. Homewood is the community that is the driving force behind German’s powerful performance work, and whose cast-off relics form the language of her copiously embellished sculptures. As a citizen artist, German explores the power of art and love as a transformative force in the dynamic cultural ecosystem of communities and neighborhoods. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood.
Image: Vanessa German, American, b. 1976.
sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies., 2017. Mixed-media installation.
Image courtesy of the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Photographed by Tom Little.
The Heritage Theatre Festival Box Office is Now OPEN!!
Box Office hours June 5-June 26: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm and Sunday 1pm-5pm. Tickets for MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, and THE NICETIES are on sale now!
Steel Magnolias
Hairspray, humor, and heartache. Meet the sharp, strong, witty, and big-hearted cast of characters inside Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana. Truvy dispenses shampoos, scathing wisecracks, and free advice, all delivered in equal measure and with her signature flair, to a group of dynamic, hilarious, and resilient women. When tragedy enters the picture, the women offer powerful and universal lessons in sacrifice, love, and the importance of building friendships and memories that can sustain us forever.
The Niceties
When ambitious young African-American student Zoe sits down with her esteemed white professor to discuss a paper she is writing about the American Revolution, discussions of grammar and Google quickly give way to explosive exchanges about race, history, and power. As the passion rises, so do the stakes, as both women become entrenched in their positions, and allow us to see the dangers of the way we talk to each other today, the way we listen, and what happens when we don’t.
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Virginia Film Festival Announces Guest Programmer Team Led by Andrew Rodgers and Iana Dontcheva to Support 2019 VAFF Efforts
Charlottesville, VA – June 18, 2019 – The Virginia Film Festival has announced that it had engaged a team of experienced and accomplished guest programmers to assist VAFF Director Jody Kielbasa, Assistant Programmer Chandler Ferrebee, and the VAFF team for the upcoming 2019 Festival. Heading up the team will be Senior Guest Programmers Andrew Rodgers, former head of RiverRun International Film Festival and the Denver Film Society, and his wife, the veteran film producer, educator, and programmer Iana Dontcheva.
The Virginia Film Festival is a program of the University of Virginia, with support from the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
Rodgers and Dontcheva will head up a team of guest programmers that will include indigenous artist and filmmaker Federico Cuatlacual, Another Slave Narrative filmmaker Michelle Jackson, filmmaker and programmer Joe Fab, international film scholar and curator Samhita Sunya, and new media artist and scholar Mona Kasra.
Q&A: Weeks After Walking The Lawn, Alum Leaps Onto The Professional Stage • Caroline Newman • Original Publication: UVA Today • Published June 2019
Lisa Woolfork Voted Winner of New City Arts Annual Soup • Original Publication: NBC29 • Published June 2019
This Alum Works with Elton John, Sting and Coldplay to Create Art for Charity • Jane Kelly • Original Publication: UVA Today • Published: June 2019
- Join us for Arts Grounds Day on September 7, 2019: Picnic, Arts Festivities & a Moonlight Movie!!
- Planet D’earth: Alumna Pays Musical Tribute to Inspiring Professor
- Heritage Theatre Festival to Present Steel Magnolias
- The Poets Among Us
- The First Year and The Who; Yes, We Mean Pete Townshend And Roger Daltrey
- Henfield Short Story Prize Winner Turns Artistic Eye to Fiction Writing
- Heritage Theatre Festival to Present Jane Austen as You’ve Never Seen Her Before in Kate Hamill’s Raucous Reimagining of Pride and Prejudice
Psyche Inspired Program Applications with NASA
The application for the 2019-2020 Psyche Inspired program is now available!
Psyche Inspired is a program that brings undergraduate students together to share the excitement, innovation, and scientific and engineering content of NASA’s Psyche mission with the public through artistic and creative works.
Full-time, enrolled undergraduate students from the universities and community colleges in the United States and its territories are invited to apply to become part of this year’s cohort of creative interns!
Application Deadline: Friday, August 9, 2019 at 1 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
The application and eligibility criteria may be accessed at https://psyche.asu.edu/get-
Questions about the application may be submitted via https://psyche.asu.edu/
Now Accepting Submissions for #VaBook2020
We are thrilled to announce that submissions are now open for the 2020 Virginia Festival of the Book, which will take place March 18-22, 2020, in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia.
Each year, we invite submissions of original, published books of fiction (all genres), nonfiction, poetry, and children’s and young adult literature. Writers, illustrators, and other publishing professionals with a new book published in 2019 or early 2020 are encouraged to submit their books for consideration.
The Festival encourages submissions by individuals from diverse backgrounds, including race and ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, class, and/or abilities. All genres are accepted.
Submission guidelines and the online form to submit are available at VaBook.org/Submissions. Only online submissions will be accepted. The deadline to submit is October 1, 2019.
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Summer Film Series at The Bridge
TONIGHT, July 3rd & July 18th | 8:00 pm | The Bridge PAI
The Bridge presents the Summer Film Series: a free film series featuring selections across time, genre, style, and discipline that explore a wide variety of themes in film and video art. We have two excellent screenings in July!
On July 3rd, Pure Formalism showcases some historic and contemporary (as well as local!) investigations of the moving image as an artistic media in and of itself. Scrap the narrative and conceptual mumbo jumbo, here we embrace the form to see how film uniquely contributes to the history of art.
On July 18th, Dance on Camera investigates how filmmakers have captured dance’s versatility through the frame. Considering dance’s elaborate history with experimentation itself, we found it fitting to devote a night to the various ways the camera has depicted the contortions and undulations of the human figure. Dance of all kinds, used in films in all sorts of ways.
First Friday Opening Reception for Cidney Blaine Cher
Friday, July 5 | 5:30-7:30pm | Studio IX
Six Pan: Smoked Paper and Wash Studies
Cidney Cher is a contemporary paper and book artist based in Richmond, VA. Her body of work attempts to take hand papermaking beyond the traditional two-dimensional dynamic of the material. Letterpress printing, pulp painting, embroidery, stone lithography, illustration and artist books are prominent mediums throughout her portfolio. She earned a BFA in Artist Books and Printmaking from Longwood University in 2017. A family history in fiber arts led to an early relationship with fabric and stitch work. Papermaking furthers this through the transformation of such fabrics into another object. She draws inspiration from folk art, family and fellow artists.
McGuffey Members' Summer Group Show
Friday, July 5 | 5:30-7:30pm | McGuffey Art Center
Exhibit Dates: July 2nd - August 18th
Our First Friday Opening is always free and open to the public
Featured in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery:
Peter Allen
Un-Becoming Peter Allen
The work explores the nature of identity, how we define ourselves to ourselves, and how our self–perception shapes and even creates that which we perceive “outside” ourselves.
First and Second Floor Hall Galleries:
Our annual summer group show featuring work from our renting and associate artist members.
Different Perspectives: A Concert Featuring Jack Sheehan and Ron Warburg
Monday, July 8 | 8:30-10:30pm | The Front Porch | $10-12 | Tickets>
Saxophonist, composer, recording artist, educator & entrepreneur, Jack Sheehan, is slowly making his mark on the music industry. His passion for the music, as well as his personality on his instrument, come together to create the explosive, creative, fiery, yet most delicate style of playing. This concert will be a sneak peak of Jack’s upcoming debut album entitled “Different Perspectives” featuring his dear friend and old roommate from college, Ron Warburg.
Charlottesville Opera Presents Camelot
July 13 - July 21 | 8pm & 2pm | The Paramount Theater | $12-75 | Tickets>
Borrowing from the Arthurian legends, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot is the duo’s fantastical masterpiece, which triumphed on Broadway in a legendary original production starring Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The Original Broadway Cast Album topped the charts for 60 weeks, with a rich score boasting such gems as “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “I Loved You Once in Silence,” “The Lusty Month of May,” and of course, “Camelot.”
An idealistic young King Arthur hopes to create a kingdom built on honor and dignity, embodied by his Knights of The Round Table. His Ideals, however are tested when his lovely queen, Guenevere, falls in love with the young Knight, Lancelot and the fate of the kingdom hangs in the balance.
Join Charlottesville Opera for an all-new production featuring lavish sets originally designed for The Barter Theatre with costumes from the recent National Tour. Starring Barrington Lee as Arthur, Sharin Apostolou (returning for her sixth consecutive season) as Guenevere and Corey Crider as Lancelot. Conducted by Andy Anderson and directed by John de los Santos.
If I Ruled the World...Tell Us! Freestyle, Rap, & Poetry - PVCC Kids College
July 15-19 (3rd-6th Grade) & July 22-26th (6th-9th Grade) | PVCC | $139
Open your mind and play with words in new ways! You can try freestyle rap, poetry and brainstorming techniques to express what’s unique to you. Use performance poetry and word play to develop your own “Word Art” piece. You will learn about stage presence, projection and how to connect with your audience.
Rent at Live Arts
July 12-29 | Various Times | Live Arts
Live Arts Teen Theater Ensemble presents Jonathan Larson’s Tony award-winning musical – inspired by Puccini’s LA BOHÈME. It’s a rock ‘n’ roll musical; it’s a grunge opera. They are a new bunch of young bohemians and they’re living in America at the end of the millennium. When the power is cut from their apartment building, tenants become squatters, squatters become protesters, artists become rebels, and lovers become heroes.
So how do you measure a year? In daylights? In sunsets? In midnights? In cups of coffee? With RENT at Live Arts, we measure in love.
Comedy at the Bridge!
July 20th & 26th | 8pm | The Bridge PAI
Have you seen our recurring improv comedy series? If not, you should check out Big Blue Door and Bent Theatre!
Big Blue Door was founded by Joel Jones and Jen Hoffman Jones in 2016 to encourage the people of Charlottesville and Central Virginia to tell their stories with wit, passion, humor, and skill. You'll never see the same thing twice! Come check them out on July 20th!
With Bent Theatre, a crew of comedians bring their A-game to every show! Their goal is to keep central Virginia laughing, as they stay true to their motto: "You Say It, We Play It." Bent Theatre guarantee's you will not leave disappointed. Come see them at the Bridge on July 26th!
2019 BDA Prize Outdoor Exhibit Opens
Bushman Dreyfus Architects, PC announces the opening of an outdoor exhibition of the eight winning entries to the 2019 BDA Prize: INVISIBLE C’VILLE. Giant four-by-eight-foot reproductions of the works of art are now displayed on the west wall of the incomplete Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall. The intent is to increase access to the thoughtful and diverse designs produced by community members.
This year’s competition sought graphic proposals and texts that would reveal an overlooked, yet essential quality, experience, or story that characterizes Charlottesville. The winners all received $1000 awards.
Jurors Beth Meyer, Eze Amos, Bernard Hankins, Lauren McQuistion, and Adrienne Oliver selected seven entries from over 40 submitted by artists, architects, and citizens. Their themes and common ground were discussed during a public panel on April 10 at the Jefferson School moderated by Alan Goffinski. Adrienne Oliver wrote: “As a whole, the collection asks us to intentionally look where we have not, and to do so with grace, discomfort, and humility ... demands that we acknowledge there is nothing truly hidden; it is a matter of focus and considered deviation from historically oppressive lenses and perspectives.”
As part of the outdoor exhibit, the jurors released a statement about their process and discoveries, creating a narrative arc linking the winners’ work into a compelling and poetic story.
The entire juror statement can be found on the introductory panel (closest to East Main Street) along with notes on each of the designs. The jury sected Mitchell Roessing, Steve Haske, Stilts Walker, Sean Kois, Bolanle Adeboye, Bill Mauzy, and Mathias Glick and visitors to the indoor exhibition chose Benjamin Romero Salado for the Community Choice Award.
The winners’ exhibit is located on the Landmark Hotel along 2nd St SE. An online gallery of all of the entries can be found at www.bdaprize.bdarchitects.com. Bushman Dreyfus thanks the following organizations which made this project possible: Gropen, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, the Dewberry Foundation, and the Charlottesville Mural Project. Bushman Dreyfus Architects is a leading designer of civic buildings for Charlottesville including the Jefferson School City Center, the City Center for Contemporary Arts, and the new Center at Belvedere.
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Women’s Work at McGuffey Art Center
The Feminist Union of Charlottesville Creatives (FUCC) is pleased to present a group exhibition, Women’s Work, at McGuffey Art Center during the month of June. The show will be on display from Tuesday, June 4 through Sunday, June 30 in the Second Floor Upper Hall Galleries of McGuffey Art Center.
In this second open-themed group show from FUCC, the works of eighteen local women artists showcase a variety of mediums, perspectives, experiences, and modes of work.
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