A Library of Toys?
With Good Reason
WGR shows its playful side this week with five segments devoted to children and families, including Julie Ozanne who studies toy libraries in Europe and New Zealand.
Listen Now »Humanities at Work
Applying the humanities to contemporary human questions.
Exploring: Culture & Identity
Talking Appalachian
With Good Reason
Most writing teachers will tell you that nonstandard sentences like “My brother and me drives the same truck” are incorrect. But Amy Clark believes it’s important for her Appalachian students to hold onto to their home voices.
Continue Reading »The Griot Apprenticeship
African American Heritage Programs
African American histories throughout the Commonwealth are being lost because the tradition-bearer is often the sole source of local knowledge. When the person who carries this knowledge dies, these larger cultural understandings are lost.
Continue Reading »A Spiritual Guide to PTSD
Fellowships
Tues. June 11 – Roberta Culbertson reads from her new book Dangerous Worlds: A Spiritual Guide to PTSD and discusses surviving violence as a spiritual practice at Charlottesville City Council Chambers
More Information »Exploring Western Tidewater
If you follow the James River down from Richmond, past Hopewell and the great river plantations, eventually, you pass the northern-most tip of Surry County and enter a region known as Western Tidewater.
Continue Reading »The Opera Singer
With Good Reason
With Good Reason discusses opera, voice, and the future of singing with John Aler. Also, Mozart meets the Clash, a laptop orchestra, and more in this musical edition of WGR.
Listen Now »Rainbows On Demand
With Good Reason
Michael Jones McKean is an artist who creates rainbows that can arc up to 400 feet in height. With Good Reason sits down to chat with McKean about his work.
Listen Now »Book Launch: Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair
Mon. May 20 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Barrier Islands Center, Machipongo, VA The Barrier Islands Center pays tribute to Frances Latimer, an Eastern Shore historian and writer. The reception celebrates her life and last work, Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair. On Monday, May 20th, VFH will join with the communities on [...]
More Information »ParadeRest Presents: Buster Keaton’s The General
Sunday May 26th Paramount Theater, Charlottesville 4:00 – 6:30 pm Celebrate Memorial Day and experience the golden age of silent film at the Paramount Theater with a screening of The General — a silent film starring Buster Keaton about a Southern railway engineer who has “only two loves in his life”, his locomotive and the beautiful [...]
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