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Power Poems: The Topic of Energy

Power Poems: The Topic of Energy

Help to “sing the body electric” in this call for submissions seeking a poem about energy. Make it a crisis, make it a storm: just tap something more kinetic than potential. The power can come from anywhere—words, chemistry, wind, water, oil, storms—but its force must move the reader. Supported by Poetry Daily and the Virginia [...]

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This photo taken at the center of the Tughrul  Tower in Iran. The tomb of a Seljuk ruler, Tughrul Beg of the eleventh century. Once capped with a dome, itself a symbol of the cosmos and the infinite, the sky seems a more perfect replacement to its missing roof. Photo by Matthias Blume.

VABC Newsletter May 2012 – Printmakers’ Left and Right

Architects and dreamers have shared the VABC this month. Artists on different missions yet sharing a common geometric figure as the home base for their explorations. The figure of the circle. Rich in meaning, the circle can symbolize completeness, a line with no beginning or end. Cultures have also seen it as a symbol of [...]

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The Circular Ruins – Gallery show

The Circular Ruins – Gallery show

Art on Ivy Gallery (“Beneath the Art Box”) 2125 Ivy Road, M-F 9:30-5:30; Sat 10-4; closed Sunday May 1 – May 31 Thursday, May 17 – 6PM, Live reading of Borges’s “The Circular Ruins” by storyteller Browning Porter, followed by refreshments and discussion. (Bring a circular snack to share.) VABC welcomes “The Circular Ruins” to [...]

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VABC Member Jesse Wells Show at New Dominion Bookshop May 4th-May 28

VABC Member Jesse Wells Show at New Dominion Bookshop May 4th-May 28

Reckonings: A show by VABC Member Jesse Wells, May 4th-May 28 the New Dominion Bookshop Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm New Dominion Bookshop (on the Historic Downtown Mall) 404 East Main Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 Gallery Hours during Bookshop hours. www.newdominionbookshop.com Jesse Wells’ most recent series is an assemblage of tokens pointing to peripheral [...]

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