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Hi everyone Jim Ryan here with episode 8 of Arts on the Hill the digital edition
you just heard what may be my favorite new version of Here Comes the Sun it's
been a bit gloomy here in Charlottesville so that was the perfect
antidote the song came from Anthony of the class of 2023 and his brother
Christopher who is hopefully a future Hoo before we move on to our next act I
would like to say thank you a big thank you to everyone who has submitted a
performance engaged with the show work to make it happen we are going to adjust
the format a bit over the summer so look out for those changes but for now
tonight May 24th the year 2020 enjoy the talents of this wonderful UVA community
and please be well.
Thank you President Ryan I think that song worked the Sun
just came out right now kicking off the show is a powerful performance by
students in Black Monologues, The Black Monologues is a theatrical production
that explores the struggles joys and complexities of blackness at UVA and
beyond every year they put on a sold-out show at UVA but sadly due to COVID-19
they could not perform in their regular season but we are so fortunate tonight
in a digital world that they've submitted a beautiful piece for us all
to enjoy right now
Hi my name is Nia Williams
hello my name is Lanija Brown
my name is Tanner Phipps
Hi I'm Jordan Brown
Hi my name is Myka Greene
Hello my name is Grace O. Gyamfi
and this is The Simple Things by Marki Smith
My happy is the thought of maybe being
the first in line at Bodo's Bagels and getting the first ticket my happy is
sitting on the lawn at sunset or on the Rotunda steps at dawn my happy is
those late night Cook Out runs with friends just for a milkshake my happy is
not having an assignment due today and if it is my happy is forgetting about
it for a short while my happy is a collab assignment uploaded
email confirmation my happy is this with no to-do items and all the classes in my
shopping cart added my happy is having almond milk for breakfast as I
contemplate how many almonds had to be milked for me to enjoy it my happy is
getting to Newcomb early enough for the omelet station my happy is free
Welcome Week concert tickets or tickets to see any student production my happy
is waiting in the standby line my happy is Miss Kathy when she swipes my card
in to Newcomb and it clears my happy is the hug she gives me and lets me know
this world's not ready for me because you are everything you little butt
kicker or you rump roaster or love she says my happy is knowing that we don't
deserve her but still being able to have her my happy is going into the stacks
and not taking over 30 minutes to find a book or get lost my happy is free
printing free shirts free cups free anything my happy
is that my soon to be crippling loans aren't due today or tomorrow my happy is
a day extension on that project that I would have had enough time for it if I
hadn't procrastinated my happy is sunset at Carter's Mountain and I'm staring in
the front-facing camera taking a bomb selfie as the Sun bounces
off my melanated skin my happy is when my teacher answers my emails in a timely
manner my happy is packing up to come to UVA and packing up to leave my happy is
when I'm writing reading or living my poetry my happy is a phone call from
home a text message from friends a study group email from peers my happy is
immeasurable untouchable and eternal my happy is living breathing still
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slow down, you crazy child you're so ambitious for a juvenile
but then if you're so smart then why are you still so afraid?
where's the fire, what's the hurry about? you'd better cool it off before you burn it out
you've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day
but you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you get old
you're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through
when will you realize, Vienna waits for you
slow down, you're doing fine you can't be everything you want to be
before your time although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight
too bad but it's the life you lead you're so ahead of yourself you forgot what you need
though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right. you're right
you've got your passion, you've got your pride but don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true when will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
slow down, you crazy child take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile
it's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two when will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
and you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old
you're gonna kick off before you even get half through why don't you realize, Vienna waits for you
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Hi this is John Casteen locked down as you probably are and this is
Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 98 which is about being apart in spring.
From you have I been absent in the spring when proud-pied April dressed in all his trim
hath put a spirit of youth in everything that heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him
yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell of different flowers
in odour and in hue could make me any summer's story tell or from their proud
lap pluck them where they grew nor did i wonder at the lily's white nor praise
the deep vermilion in the rose they were but sweet but figures of delight drawn
after you you pattern of all those yet seemed at winter still and you away as
with your shadow I with these did play
Thank You President Casteen it's really
an honor to have you on the show sharing that wonderful poetry next up a
Mendelssohn Intermezzo which is kind of fun to say and even more fun to hear by
the Charlottesville Symphony
I'm Ben Rous music director of the Charlottesville
Symphony at the University of Virginia today I've come together with our string
principals with our masks and with some distance between us to play an
intermezzo an intermezzo is a special kind of musical form that you can think
of as an interlude or as internal kind of like this period of our lives and
this is composed by the greatest Intermezzo composer Felix Mendelssohn
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for the past three years professor Doug Grissom and I have offered a two
semester screenwriting and film directing class in the drama department
the students call it over cranked this past fall each of them wrote a script
for a short film and had an inspiring onset visit with fellow filmmaker Ethan Hawke
then in the spring each student directed
their own film unfortunately the COVID-19 crisis
struck right in the middle of their filming the luckier directors had shot
at least part of their footage before spring break and were able to edit their
films at home for example Free Restart is a fantastical mystery by Ryan Singer
back take it. Hey! Who's that? no wait please!
Date Non-Function is a comic social commentary by Lizz Bangura
actually I'm an engineer that makes sense - girl I got a really good connect
with my cousin who can get you some cheap kanekalon hair we can draw that
little itty bit you have left back into a nice slick cute ponytail just let me
know it I was also gonna say lunch lady because they not allow to have no hair neither
Label Maker is an offbeat character study by Jackson Kosmacki
Feelings Sting is a savvy take on a sitcom by Tori Kotzen
weirdo oh you're
awake you were watching me sleep weren't you
what no you were totally watching me sleep you creep where are you going huh
wait you just stay a little bit longer
Where's Nate is a quirky comedy by Kia Wassenaar
I'm totally gonna break Kurt's skull for
corrupting my baby bro wait like right now hell yeah let's go yes I'll Drive
Threading is a moving coming-of-age story by Marwah Shuaib
Let Them Eat Cake is an endearing story of friends and lovers by Heidi Waldenmaier
I accuse you Cory Northam of committing
transgressions against me may all wrongs be righted
and Airplane Mode is a wise and funny mother-daughter story by Isabelle Andrews
I can help you study I could be the patient help a hematoma is your hip still
giving you trouble?
Three students in the class were booted
off Grounds by the COVID crisis before they had shot a single frame of their
films forced to completely reimagine how they could create a film without actors
and a crew they came up with some amazing solutions
Caky Winsett in her film Fake News had to enlist her brother and sister as
actors and create some outrageous homemade visuals... Parker Fletching star
student and wannabe Katie Couric has been anchoring the school's morning news
show since she was a sophomore on this day though instead of announcing the
lunch menu and club meetings she announced something far more sinister
Izzy Ullman's screenplay Thankful for Avery with ten characters was
impossible to shoot at home so instead of a film she created an old-time radio
comedy.... Thankful for Avery a radio drama by Izzy Ullman hi I'm so sorry
I'm late I got caught in all this traffic and oh you're right on time you must be
oh my god I'm so sorry I forgot to introduce myself
and for her story, Chai, Sheffy Prasad had her actors perform just the audio of
their dialogue on Zoom then created a series of beautiful metaphoric visuals at
home in her kitchen to carry the emotion of the story... can you not make mine too milky
I'll make it how I make it no please I don't like it too milky... fine...
Around UVA everyone knows the quotation about using adversity to buy a ticket to a place you
couldn't otherwise go what's true in basketball is true in the arts sometimes
a great challenge can yield great success
if you can't go to the movies folks that has to be the next best thing thank you
to Paul Wagner and those amazing student filmmakers that's it that's episode
eight we're gonna have a slightly tweaked summer schedule but keep
submitting your performances and your ideas to UvaArts@Virginia.edu I need
to give a special shout out to the editor of this show
Vinny Varsalona who is amazing Vinny put something up on screen right now
that makes you feel good I don't know maybe like right there.. did you put it up
okay and now of course to end the show cute kids playing music future Hoos
this is the son of a pediatric dermatologist at the UVA
Health System who is playing I'm going to say the kitchen cymbals and I think
what what he's doing is possibly a metaphor for where we are right now you
will hear something cacophonous something creative something kind be well
friends and I truly wish you all peace but especially peace after the cymbal
performance