EventSentence: Flying in Place III
This cross-disciplinary project uses creative writings by students in the PVCC Higher Education in Prison program as a basis for theatrical performance.
EventSentence: Flying in Place III
This cross-disciplinary project uses creative writings by students in the PVCC Higher Education in Prison program as a basis for theatrical performance.
EventAesthetics of Sound: An Evening of Spoken Word and Poetry
With poets Ryan Kent, Devine Oke, and more! Doors at 7pm; show at 8pm.
EventOn the Battlefield: Advance Private Screening
The documentary film explores the life and career of Cora Tucker, a native of Halifax County who tirelessly advocated for her community.
EventDo Whales Judge Us?: Interspecies History and Ethics
Join VCU’s Humanities Research Center for a public lecture with Bathsheba Demuth, Ph.D., writer, environmental historian and assistant professor at Brown University.
NewsAnnouncing Nineteen Grants
Today, Virginia Humanities announced nineteen new grants totaling $204,827 to nonprofit organizations across the Commonwealth including a grant to Roanoke College for an exhibit titled “Fossil Tales—Connecting the Appalachian Mountains to Dragon Folklore.”
EventLocks Opened: Left Behind
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold, looks at the fugitive slaves from the Underground Railroad and shares what they left behind – family, clothes, name, even life.
EventLocks Opened: Sanctuary
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares stories and songs that remind us that we should be a people lighting the way to a refuge of freedom.
NewsThe Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Little is known about William M. Rittase. His work photographing the C&O Railway is now considered among some of the best and most artistic depictions of American industry. But he passed away in 1968 in near obscurity with a published obituary of only a few lines. His work is the subject of a new book published by the C&O Historical Society with the help of a Virginia Humanities grant.
EventBuried Deep: The Lynchburg Pools
Through a Virginia Humanities grant, Randolph College’s Endstation Theatre Company is bringing the play “Buried Deep” to Riverside Park for a week-long run.
EventLocks Opened: Waterways to Freedom
Through story and song, Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares about local waterways that were part of the Underground Railroad.
EventLocks Opened: Children at the Border
The Underground Railroad of the 1800s did not just help free adults. Many a child came with, and without, parents, often through the same perils and sometimes in “plain sight.”
