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Event Series Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

For over three decades, documentary photographer and activist Donna Ferrato has advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights by revealing the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms, women's shelters, courtrooms, batterers' groups, women's detention centers, and while riding along with law enforcement, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." More importantly, Ferrato's work has ignited decades of advocacy work for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights that has helped to attract funding for domestic violence shelters nationwide and educated people on the warning signs of abuse, as well as the obstacles survivors face when trying to leave their abusers.

Free
Event Series Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Battered: Donna Ferrato’s Documentation of Domestic Violence

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

For over three decades, documentary photographer and activist Donna Ferrato has advocated for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights by revealing the effects of domestic violence on abused women and their children. Photographing in emergency rooms, women's shelters, courtrooms, batterers' groups, women's detention centers, and while riding along with law enforcement, Ferrato aims to expose "the dark side of family life." More importantly, Ferrato's work has ignited decades of advocacy work for survivors of domestic abuse and women's rights that has helped to attract funding for domestic violence shelters nationwide and educated people on the warning signs of abuse, as well as the obstacles survivors face when trying to leave their abusers.

Free

Forte Chamber Music: Albert Cano Smit and Will Hagen

Sydnor Performance Hall, Schewel Hall

Forte Chamber Music proudly presents a performance by Albert Cano Smit and Will Hagen. Chosen pieces will include works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Stravinsky.

Spanish/Dutch pianist Albert Cano Smit was a first prize winner at the 2019 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, as well as a first prize winner at the 2017 Walter W. Naumburg Piano competition. He is a recipient of the 2020 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Prize from the Juilliard School.

Violinist Will Hagen was a third prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one of the highest-ranking Americans in the competition's history. He will perform on the 1732 "Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan" Antonio Stradivari, on generous loan from the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation.

Courageous Conversation with Brian Sorge: “How Everyone, Including White People, Can Take Responsibility and be Anti-Racist”

Virtual

To create a more diverse, fair, and anti-racist environment, we need to understand how our lives shape our perceptions and behaviors.

In this conversation, we will:

- Discuss how our own lives impact the way we think about, and value, other people's experiences.
- Review how taking responsibility for the impact we have is a necessary step to being part of the solution.
- Identify next steps actions that we all can do to help build cultures that are anti-racist.

Free

Valentine Potato Printing

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Learn how to make easy potato print stamps. Feeling festive? Create your own potato-printed valentines or postcards for the special someones in your life!

Free

Courageous Conversation with Tammy Hodo: “Implicit Bias and Microaggressions Taking Place on Campus”

Virtual

We have seen in the news students getting harassed at school by friends and sometimes teachers. A student at Yale had a suitemate call the police because she fell asleep in the common area. A professor called the police on another professor when the other person was just eating lunch in the classroom before class started.

These are all examples of microaggressions. It can happen in classrooms due to power differentiation, identity, and lack of interaction. In this conversation, we will talk about these everyday subtle comments people say that hurt members of marginalized communities. It is important to also talk about implicit bias because it is something that everyone has and may not even know is a problem.

Free

Lecture by Madeline Miller

Virtual

A virtual lecture by author Madeline Miller, whose first novel, "The Song of Achilles," was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, "Circe," was an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Before she was a novelist, Miller earned her BA and MA in classics from Brown University, and she taught and tutored Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students for more than 15 years. Her novels have been translated into over 25 languages, and her essays have appeared in the Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Lapham's Quarterly, and on NPR.

Free

Third Thursday Movie Night: Smoke Signals

Daura Museum of Art, Dillard Fine Arts Center

Acclaimed as one of the best films of the year, "Smoke Signals" was also a distinguished winner at the Sundance Film Festival. This is the first feature film made by a Native American crew and creative team. The screenplay was written by Sherman Alexie, who also wrote "The Lone Ranger" and "Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" (1993).

Free

Courageous Conversation with Brenda Lee: “Two Steps Forward and Three Steps Back: Examining the Relationship between Racism and Generational Trauma”

Virtual

From slavery to criminalization, racism has been a part of America's society for generations. Race-related events can have lasting traumatic effects on an individual. Centuries of unresolved trauma still impact the Black Community today. Not only do we struggle to overcome the problems that we've had before — but we also have to find a way to fix the problems that have come from the trauma.

Free

Lecture by Kelley Deetz and Cheyney McKnight: “History as Power: Racial Reconciliation and Restorative Justice through Storytelling”

Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center

Join us on campus with Dr. Kelley Deetz and Cheyney McKnight as they discuss how they use storytelling to change public perceptions of the history and legacy of slavery and race in America. They will focus on food, cooking, and historic kitchens to help improve our understanding of America's past culture.

Free

Black History Month Gospel Show

Sydnor Performance Hall, Schewel Hall

In honor of Black History Month, the BHM planning committee and Office of Inclusive Excellence have partnered together to offer an event featuring different performers from the Lynchburg community.

Free

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