In honor of Black History Month, Zyahna Bryant, a student activist and community organizer studying at UVA, will be hosting a conversation on equal access for students of color and the navigation of predominately white institutions.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Many Native American artists, like Kay Walkingstick, created abstract art that emphasized the materiality of their work. But, their self-identity as Native Americans has overshadowed their contribution to modern art. This talk will examine how mid-century Native American modern artists participated in the modern art scene.
The lecture will be given by Jeanette Nicewinter PhD. She is an assistant professor of art history at Northern Virginia Community College. Dr. Nicewinter earned her PhD in art historical studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Called one of the greatest documentaries of all time, political documentary filmmaker Michael Moore explores the circumstances that lead to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. More broadly, the movie explores the proliferation of guns and the high homicide rate in America.
In conjunction with the exhibit "This Loss We Carry: The Soul Box Project," join us in creating these hand-folded origami boxes. Every Soul Box holds a space for a single life. Each one represents a victim of gunfire in the U.S. The very act of folding can provide solace to a person experiencing trauma from gunfire incidents. Folding a Soul Box is a non-confrontational, nonpartisan way to express outrage or frustration, hope, and love. Soul Boxes honor victims and help heal grieving hearts.
Dr. Anna Baeth, director of research for Athlete Ally, discusses pressing issues facing LGBTQ athletes, as well as ways to foster inclusion and combat discrimination in sport. This event is […]
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