NewsYara Cordeiro – Folklife Fieldnotes Episode 4
Master of Brazilian capoeira, Yara Cordeiro, is apprenticing Ruthie Lezama of Reston, VA, in the 2021-2022 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Class. Pat Jarret from Folklife recently went to a batizado, where …
EventA Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather
On Thursday, April 21, Virginia Humanities director of education Emma Ito will join the award-winning photojournalist Regina H. Boone for a conversation about Boone’s latest documentary film A Vanished Dream: …
NewsREPLAY: Gun Sense
Student survivors of school shootings have made their voices heard, loud and clear. But the teacher’s perspective of school shootings is less common. Megan Doney is an English professor turned gun control activist who writes about her traumatic experience.
EventOTU: The Healing Quilt
A Multimedia Storytelling Event A Norfolk youth development organization, Teens With a Purpose, dedicated to empowering young people through creativity, reflection, and action will be hosting a storytelling, poetry, and …
EventRace, Let’s Talk About It: Closing the Education Gap
Despite the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, segregation and equal access to education is an ongoing issue in schools across America. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic …
EventStamped from the Beginning
Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds for a talk and Q&A session about the book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, part of VBPL’s grant-funded community read program, …
NewsREPLAY: Parenting On the Spectrum
If you’re tired of thinking about your own health, maybe its time to turn to the kids.
NewsTo Be Seen and Belong:
There’s a fresh mural, finished just last October, on the north wall in Virginia Humanities’ new Dairy Market headquarters. The color palette features warm earth tones–browns, oranges, reds–an almost perfect contrast to the cool blues and creams in the surrounding decor. But for the subgroup of Virginia Humanities staff and board members that made up our Community Engagement Committee, the most important aspect of the mural wasn’t how it would make the space look, but how it would make the space feel.
