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The Folklife Program and the Virginia Festival of the Book will host a special evening with some of Seeger’s friends and favorite musicians on Wednesday evening, March 21. at The Haven in downtown Charlottesville.
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A presentation by Jeff Pike, Tuesday February 21st at 6:30 at the VABC Illustrated with examples from recent work, Pike will discuss various methods used in making pictures inspired by texts. The texts will include a piece of short story fiction, a script for a play, and different types of poetry. The goal is not [...]
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VABC cofounder Josef Beery shares a recent visit to one of America’s oldest associations of bibliophiles, gives a brief lesson in typographic history, and rediscovers the beauty of the letter.
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Tues. Feb. 14 – Join us as VFH Fellow Lawrie Balfour makes the case that reparation claims are worthy of attention precisely because they have been dismissed as unthinkable.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s experience as a WWII POW informed his writing decades later. This episode of With Good Reason includes an interview with Charles J. Shields, author of a new biography about the iconic counter-cultural author.
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Learn letterpress with wood, how to make an enclosed box for a book or other treasured item, and how to design with type.
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Kristin Swenson makes sense of the most talked about book of all time.
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The 1st of 5 discussions on “Making Sense of the Civil War” based on three texts: “March” by Geraldine Brooks; “Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam” by James McPherson; and “America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries,” an anthology edited by national project scholar and President of the University of Richmond [...]
Continue Reading »The 2nd of a 5-part discussion series “Making Sense of the Civil War,” based on the following texts: March, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, and America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 250th Anniversaries.
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