It’s a big couple of weeks for UVA, with lots of exciting events happening! Why not let Camryn Limo take you to an event or two in style? First off, the UVA French Film Festival starts this Wednesday and runs through Sunday the 16th:
Welcome to the website for the University of Virginia’s Film Festival. The Festival will begin on Wednesday, February 12th and continue through Sunday, February 16th. We warmly welcome students, faculty…
If foreign film interests you, here is a trailer of the films that will be shown at the festival:
If music is more to your taste, why not catch the Virginia Glee Club’s Singfest for only $5 this Saturday?
Virginia Glee Club presents SingFest
A collaborative concert hosted by the Virginia Glee Club, featuring many other U.Va. student a cappella groups; this concert showcases the Club’s lighter side. All proceeds will benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. …
Or, if you prefer more classical music, the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra presents their Masterworks Concert on both Saturday and Sunday:
Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Concert
Conducted by Music Director Kate Tamarkin, the concerts include four 20th-century classics. Together they map a journey to worlds both real and imagined. Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautaavara’s Isle of Bliss (replacing previously announced Concertante by Stephen Paulus) transports listeners to an enchanted island in the Baltic Sea where time has stopped. …
On Tuesday the 18th there will also be a show/concert about the African influences on American Music:
The development of the 5-string banjo, among the very first truly American-born instruments, provides a revelatory lens into the development of American popular music and culture, and its immense contributions by African cultural traditions. It is now indisputable that what we now know…
Finally, on Thursday the 20th you can catch a performance of UVA’s production of “Museum”, an absurdist play written by Tina Howe:
Sometimes in the world of modern art, the patrons themselves are worth the price of admission. Tina Howe’s Museum offers an absurdist take on the last day of an exhibition where some 40 outlandishly entertaining characters peruse the work of a trio of artists. Their reactions range from transfixed reverence to hopeless giggle fits and everything in between, …
Don’t miss the exciting events UVA has to offer!
