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Tom Wulf’s “A Tale of Two Cities” debuts the festival this afternoon at Vinegar Hill Theater. Sean McCord spoke with Wulf to find out how he came to make a documentary about the rise and fall of Circuit City.
Over the next few days, Sean McCord will be interviewing directors, actors and other people who have come to Charlottesville for four days movie heaven. More than 130 films are being screened at the festival. Our first interview is with Gary Springer, a press agent responsible for bringing several films to this year’s festival.
At their meeting on October 19, 2010, the Albemarle County Planning Commission held a public hearing on a critical slopes waiver for a new Pantops fire station. Planning commissioner Cal Morris asked during the meeting that the station be expanded to accomodate a meeting space. Read more at Charlottesville Tomorrow.
This Saturday, the Scottsville Pavilion & Community Farmer’s Market will hold the annual tomato festival. The event is presided over by King Plum-Dandy and Queen Sunray (as well as Princess Brandywine) and runs from 8:30 to 12:30. Sherry Taylor of Z95 recently interviewed the monarchs to find out what’s in store.
Read more about it in the Rural Virginian.
Adelind Horan grew up in Charlottesville to parents with a long history in area theater. Her mother Lydia and her father Michael have appeared in various Live Arts productions for many years. Now she’s returned home after graduating from Hampshire College.
The issue of mountaintop removal of coal prompted her to work on a series of oral history interviews with people in West Virginia and Kentucky, and this summer she’s debuting a one-woman show called Cry of the Mountain that tells the stories of the people affected by the practice. Leslie Channel of the group Secretly Ya’ll sat down with Horan earlier this month to find out more about the show.
Horan will give five performances of Cry of the Mountain at four theatres in the area every Thursday in July at 8:00.
Since September 2008, the Piedmont Council of the Arts has been holding a series of Creative Conversations in order to help grow the region’s artistic community. On April 20, 2010, the PCA convened a discussion on its new Arts Access Project.
Featured Arts Access partners opened up the conversation by sharing lessons learned from the project’s pilot year. A group discussion then explored follow-up strategies for expanding the project to further address access to the arts and audience development in our community.
Strategies identified by the group will be implemented by PCA with funding from Altria Group, Inc.
On Saturday March 20, 2010, three authors who have written biographies of Supreme Court Justices convened in Charlottesville City Council chambers for a discussion of their works.
The moderator is Barbara Perry, Director of the Center for Civic Renewal at Sweet Briar College, and an author of The Supremes: An Introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court Justices | Second Edition
The panelists are:
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, John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court
, Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice
, and The Burger Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (ABC-Clio Supreme Court Handbooks)
)The event was part of the 2010 Virginia Festival of the Book, presented by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Charlottesville is home to many artists and arts organizations. But, is our community fully capitalizing on its own reputation? That was the general topic of the latest in a series of Creative Conversations facilitated by the Piedmont Council of the Arts.
Our recording begins with Maggie Guggenheimer, PCA’s executive director. After a brief round of introductions, she describes an effort in Chattanooga called CreateHere.
On October 26, 2009, the Piedmont Council of the Arts held the latest in a series of Creative Conversations. The project is a chance to bring representatives from different arts organizations together in order to share ideas. This time around, the topic centered around the idea of developing partnerships across many different non-profit groups.
After a round of introductions, Greg Kelly of the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative and Pete O’Shea of SiteWorks began discussing how they were able to forge the StoryLine project in collaboration with the Piedmont Council of the Arts, the Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Freedom of Expression. Afterwards, the panel and participants had a conversation about what worked, what didn’t, and what lessons can be learned to inspire similar collaborations in the future.
David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, recently spoke at Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville. He provided this recording.
On May 20, 2009, the United Way Thomas Jefferson Area held its annual Awards of Excellence dinner at the Boar’s Head Inn. The keynote speaker was Alma Powell, the chair of America’s Promise Alliance. Powell is introduced by Mark Giles, the Chair of the United Way. In her speech, she outlines some of the problems facing the United States and suggests that volunteering can help address some of them.
In April 2005, the Charlottesville Municipal Band debuted the Daily Progress March. That meant that the Daily Progress finally had something in common with papers such as the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Nellysford composer Paul T. Richards scored a rousing march for the Media General-owned newspaper which was first performed in front of a crowded house at Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Dickinson Theatre. We were there to bring you this report.
Special thanks to Tom Allebrandi for providing us with the audio of the song