The Virginia Theatre Festival, formerly the Heritage Theatre Festival, returns to the Arts Grounds this summer with two plays and a staged reading.
The collections, which span a millennium from the ninth to the 19th centuries, comprise more than 500 items, including scrolls, wood blocks, calligraphic materials and rare books.
Nana Boateng’s efforts to get to UVA during the pandemic paid off: She received the prestigious Henfield Prize in fiction last month, with the judge writing, “This text left its fingerprints all over my heart.”
Hear three fourth-year students reading some of their best original work, to mark the 20th graduating class of the Area Program in Poetry Writing.
The Area Program in Poetry Writing graduates its 20th class this year. To mark the occasion, fourth-year student Isabella Salcedo, who is double-majoring in poetry writing and linguistics, reads her poem, “Path of Least Resistance.”
Joanna Clark, who pursued a double major in poetry writing and medieval and Renaissance literature, reads her poem, “all my family does is forget.” Clark joins the 20th graduating class from UVA’s Area Program in Poetry Writing.
Sonia Chandra, a fourth-year student who double-majored in poetry writing and biology, reads her poem, “The Queen of the Hayden Planetarium,” to mark the 20th graduating class of UVA’s Area Program in Poetry Writing.
Professor Christopher Krentz struggled to envision a future for himself after he began losing his hearing at the age of 9, but he came into his own after learning American Sign Language and making deaf friends.