Culture & Identity • Global Virginia • Grants
Lua Project members Dave Berzonsky, Estela Knott, and Matty Metcalfe w. Son Jarocho master musician Zenen Zeferino Mexican Son Meets the Music of Appalachia – Charlottesville
Join us on Sunday, May 13 at the McGuffey Arts Center in Charlottesville for a presentation of New Mexilachian Sones, with Lua Project, a Charlottesville based folk roots ensemble featuring Luray native Estela Knott, performing with son jarocho master Zenen Zeferino. This concert will be a multi-media presentation, highlighting their Virginia Humanities grant supported project, […]
Culture & Identity • Global Virginia • Grants
Lua Project members Dave Berzonsky, Estela Knott, and Matty Metcalfe w. Son Jarocho master musician Zenen Zeferino Mexican Son Meets the Music of Appalachia – Luray
Join us on Saturday, May 12 at the Warehouse Arts Gallery in Luray, VA for a presentation of New Mexilachian Sones, with Lua Project, a Charlottesville based folk roots ensemble featuring Luray native Estela Knott, performing with son jarocho master Zenen Zeferino. This concert will be a multi-media presentation, highlighting their Virginia Humanities grant supported […]
Books & Literature • Culture & Identity • News
Festival of the Book & CFA Institute Announce 2019 Partnership
The Virginia Festival of the Book—a program of Virginia Humanities celebrating its 25th year of bringing writers and readers together to promote and celebrate books, reading, literacy, and literary culture—today announced the second annual partnership with CFA Institute to support select 2019 Festival programming with a focus on diversity and inclusion. As an advocate for […]
Culture & Identity • Fellowships • Virginia Indians
Greg Smithers - Photo by Pierre Courtois, Library of Virginia The Riverkeepers
The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers that Made America
Join Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Greg Smithers, a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a talk on his research for a project entitled “The Riverkeepers: The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers that Made America.” The book is a biography of aquatic places that Cherokee people and their indigenous neighbors believed were filled […]
African American Heritage • Culture & Identity • Grants
Gallery 5 – Conversation Series
A series of facilitated public conversations, presented monthly, exploring a range of social issues that are central to Richmond’s past and present. Richmond & the Suburbs – 1/30 Richmond & Black Freedom – 2/20 Urban Agriculture – 3/13 Richmond & Public Art – 4/17 Richmond & Sustainability – 5/15 Richmond & Transportation – 6/19 This […]
Culture & Identity • Virginia Indians
Karenne Wood speaking at the NASA Langley Research Center. Photo courtesy David C. Bowman. Karenne Wood at VCU
Stone, Bone, and Clay: Virginia Indians' History of 18,000 Years
Dr. Karenne Wood, a member of the Monacan Indian Nation and director of Virginia Humanities’ Virginia Indian Programs examines the deep history of the American Indian presence in Virginia and considers how our understanding of that history has been influenced by museums, historians and popular media and changed by archaeological discoveries. This talk is presented […]
Culture & Identity • Fellowships • History
CC0 Creative Commons Foundations of the Appalachian Trail as Sacred Landscape
Colonial Demons and Holy Mountains
During the 1960s, academic critique of Christianity presented the Puritans and other American colonists as antagonistic to wilderness. Recent scholarship has, in contrast, described the Appalachian Trail corridor as a pilgrimage route. Virginia Humanities Fellow Susan Bratton, a religious and environmental studies professor at Baylor University, argues that multiple religions have portrayed the Appalachian peaks […]
