NewsBefore We Forget
In this webinar, recorded August 20, 2020, Lyall Harris and Patricia Silva discuss Silva’s 2020 pandemic project Before We Forget, hand-bound journals with writing prompts aimed at remembering this unprecedented …
NewsShort Film About Virginia Slave Dwellings Receives Regional Emmy
Virginia Humanities announced today that the film, Mapping Virginia’s Slave Dwellings, has been awarded a National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter Emmy Award in the category “Historical / Cultural: Program Feature.” …
NewsIn West Mills
In this webinar, recorded August 18, 2020, author De’Shawn Charles Winslow discusses his novel, In West Mills, with Allison Wright, executive editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. A New York Times …
NewsEducation Innovation
Education will never be the same. While no one has the answers, decisions are being made and teachers, professors and families are rapidly adapting.
NewsMore Than $3 Million in Emergency Funds Awarded to Virginia’s Arts and Cultural Organizations
Virginia (statewide)—More than 300 Virginia-based nonprofits struggling to cope with COVID-19 related revenue shortfalls recently received $3,472,176 in federal funds to protect arts and cultural sector jobs, make lessons and …
NewsRace for Profit
In this webinar, recorded August 13, 2020, professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discusses her highly-acclaimed book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership in conversation with …
NewsThe Voice: Remembering Harold Mitchell
All of us at the Virginia Folklife Program are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Harold Mitchell: emcee extraordinaire, master storyteller, and keeper of an encyclopedic knowledge …
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NewsReplay: New Virginians
There are many kinds of movement and migration, forced and otherwise. Arrival is a perpetual state of becoming for the people in transit and the nations where they arrive.
NewsBearing Witness
Poets Lauren Alleyne (Honeyfish), Iréne Mathieu (Grand Marronage) and Amy Woolard (Neck of the Woods) read from their most recent collections, discuss writing, and writing in these times. “Honeyfish is …
NewsSt Brigid Press
In this interview by Kristin Adolfson, on August 4 2020, Emily Hancock of St Brigid Press takes us on a tour of her letterpress print shop, shares her latest work, …
NewsTelling the Whole Story of Woman Suffrage
As Encyclopedia Virginia director Peter Hedlund recently noted here on the EV blog, we are committed to revising existing entries to eliminate racial bias and better reflect new historical understandings of key moments in Virginia history.… Read More»
NewsNo One Cares Alone
Sammy was just a month old when he started experiencing symptoms of heart failure. Hear about the doctor who performed the groundbreaking surgery that saved the boy’s life, and the resource he created to help doctors avoid burnout.
NewsExploring New Crime Anthologies
In this webinar, recorded July 28 2020, authors and editors Angel Luis Colón (¡Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas!: Latinx Fiction for Puerto Rico), Gabino Iglesias (Both Sides: Border Stories), and Nick …
NewsA New Home for the Humanities in Virginia
In early 2021 we’re moving to Dairy Central, Charlottesville’s historic former Monticello Dairy building at Grady and Preston avenues.
