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Learn more about Ash Lawn Opera Festival’s 2009 season, Kate Daughdrill’s “Art is a Branch of Architecture” show at The Box, the Wintergreen Performing Arts Summer Music Festival, the Kundiman Retreat poetry readings at The Bridge PAI, and the holiday weekend First Friday openings.
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Piedmont Council of the Arts (PCA), The Bridge | Progressive Arts Initiative, and Siteworks Studio collaborate on a unique public art project for Charlottesville Parks and Recreation’s Summer Camp entitled StoryLine.
The StoryLine Project will join local artists and designers with young people (grades 4-6) in the Parks and Recreation Summer Camp to explore and interpret the places where they live.
The project centers on a walking expedition of the neighborhoods of downtown Charlottesville, during which participants will learn to use close observation and creative expression as a means of understanding spaces, places, and the stories that enrich them. Throughout the StoryLine walk, four teams of young people and artist mentors will gather information and ideas about their neighborhoods through personal interviews, poetry, sketching, photography, journaling and more. The project will culminate with a collaborative mural on the Community Chalkboard illustrating the participants’ layered visions of their StoryLine walk and the neighborhoods it explored. A micro-exhibition to share and celebrate the project will take place in August at the Bridge | Progressive Arts Initiative.
The StoryLine Project will take place between July 7 – 16, 2009 through four morning sessions led by project leaders Greg Kelly from The Bridge PAI and Pete O’Shea from Siteworks Studio, with support from Parks and Recreation camp counselors and community volunteers.
For more information and the full StoryLine schedule, download the press release.
On Friday, June 26, the United States House of Representatives approved a $15 million increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Through its core programs, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funds dance, design, folk & traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, multidisciplinary, museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting, theater, and visual arts. In addition to direct grants, the NEA provides important leadership that advances the arts sector through national initiatives, research, and publications.
Visit Americans for the Arts online to learn more and find out how you can encourage Senators to support this budget increase.
The Charlottesville Municipal Band presents their Eighty-Seventh Annual Summer Concert series at the Paramount Theater. Join the Municipal Band for the third concert in this year’s series. As always, these concerts are FREE and open to the public.
Concert #3 includes performances of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “An Albemarle Overture,” “American Anthem,” and more. Join the Charlottesville Municipal Band in celebrating decades of presenting free concerts to the community!
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Learn more about Oliver! at the Heritage Theatre Festival, the upcoming Azurat Summer Music Home-Party,the “Water and Health: Photovoice” exhibit currently in Newcomb Gallery, the upcoming Pattern is Movement show at the Tea Bazaar, and Hope Community Center’s Meet Your Neighbor: Art in the Park event.
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According to a National Endowment for the Arts press release, American audiences for the arts are getting older, and their numbers are declining, according to new research. Arts Participation 2008: Highlights from a National Survey features top findings from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. Five times since 1982, the survey has asked U.S. adults about their patterns of arts participation over a one-year period. The 2008 survey reveals dwindling audiences for many art forms, but it also captures new data on Internet use and other forms of arts participation.
Get more information and download the survey’s highlights here.
About the National Endowment for the Arts
The NEA is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts – both new and established – bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Arts Endowment is the largest national funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases. For more information, please visit www.arts.gov
The Nourish(meant) Project is art in action. Artists and activists Graham Evans and Emily Nelson are retrofitting a 14-passenger school bus to run on waste vegetable oil, installing a kitchen inside, and building a garden on top. The adventure will grow as they travel around the Northeast and Midwest growing and cooking food for people.
As they meet, feed, and build relationships, they will begin a series of conversations about how to grow your own food, the importance of local and regional food systems, and general sustainability practices. In addition to this, they will teach those who are interested about biofuels, seed banking, and the many other topics they expect to learn about on the voyage. Nourish(meant) will function as a traveling art and education center geared toward addressing hunger and food insecurity in this country at the personal, community, and regional scales.
The Nourish(meant) Project is happening in the summer of 2009 and, with luck, beyond. Departure is set at early July, while Graham and Emily spend June retrofitting the bus in Charlottesville. They’ll travel from Virginia through the Northeast to the Midwest, following a backroads route, stopping in towns large and small along the way. From Wisconsin, the project will head down through Illinois, Ohio, and West Virginia back to Virginia.
To see more press about Nourish(meant), donate, or find out more about Emily and Graham’s adventures, visit the project online or shoot them an email.
The Ash Lawn Opera Festival Guild will hold its annual Mid Summer Eve celebration on Sunday, June 28, 2009, at The Greencroft Club, located on 250 West. This festive event will provide participants with an exciting preview of the 2009 summer season, which features productions of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot. For the first time, performances will be held at The Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall.
Mid Summer Eve will start at 6 p.m. with a wine reception, followed by a seated dinner and performances by the Festival principal singers, including soprano Elizabeth Caballero. Ms. Caballero will perform this summer in the role of Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro. She has appeared this season with the Seattle Opera and the Nashville Opera. Future engagements include her debut in the Metropolitan Opera as Frasquita in their new production of Carmen.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy a summer evening of wine, delicious food and outstanding musical performances. For more information about Mid Summer Eve, please call the Ash Lawn Opera Festival Office at 434.293.4500.
Please stop by the entrance to The Paramount Theater at 5:00pm on Friday, June 26 and help the Ash Lawn Opera Festival celebrate its move to The Paramount Theater. Cake will be provided for all, and several of this season’s Festival singers will perform. Kick off your summer weekend in a lively fashion!
To celebrate the Ash Lawn Opera Opening Night at The Paramount Theater on Friday, July 3, all ticket holders for that evening’s production of Camelot are invited to a complimentary gala immediately following the performance. Purchase tickets online or visit or call the Paramount Box Office at 434.979.1333. Start the season with a memorable evening of familiar songs and help celebrate Ash Lawn Opera at The Paramount!
This summer, the Hope Community Center presents a collaborative series of community events taking place in parks across Charlottesville. “Meet Your Neighbor,” the innovative idea of three University of Virginia undergraduates, seeks to connect the community by first reaching out to individual neighborhoods.
Each “Meet Your Neighbor” event seeks to foster a festival-type atmosphere with free music, fun, and games as well as opportunities for neighbors in the area to learn about the services provided by local non-profit organizations. In addition, each event will focus on a specific theme and include presentations and performances from community members.
The project will conclude on August 29th with a Neighborhood Block Party and Symposium to celebrate and share the results of the project with the whole community. All are invited to join the Hope Community Center this summer in giving Hope a hand! To learn more about the “Meet Your Neighbor” Project, visit the Hope Community Center online.
The Virginia Commission for the Arts is now accepting nominations for the state’s first Virginia Heritage Awards to be presented in Richmond on October 9th during the Richmond Folk Festival. The Virginia Heritage Awards will recognize six master folk artists and/or preservationists who have made outstanding contributions to artistic traditions rooted in the traditional or ethnic culture of the Commonwealth.
Visit the Virginia Heritage Awards nominations page online for detailed information, nomination forms, and instructions, or call the Commission offices at 804.225.3132 for more information about the nomination process.
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