Category: Partner News
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» Recovering Together documentary features Roanoke’s arts community
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“After one year of out-of-the-box ideas, reflection, and resilience,” writes Penn State broadcast journalism senior Callaway Turner, “the arts community in the Roanoke Valley has survived.” As her senior thesis in the Schreyer Honors College, Turner completed a short documentary film featuring a look at the pandemic shifts and recovery…
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» Fostering the Future with Roanoke Cultural Endowment’s Katherine Fralin
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On the podcast: Join the Roanoke Cultural Endowment Board Secretary Katherine Fralin for a conversation on the arts, the future, and investing in what’s possible. “Roanoke’s culture per capita is off the charts,” says Fralin. As the founding director of the Batten Leadership Institute at Hollins University, Katherine is thoughtful…
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» Roanoke Valley Gives: Give Today
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Give to one of your many favorite arts and cultural organizations today during Roanoke Valley Gives. The annual event of the Community Foundation of Western Virginia offers a community wide push for donations and even awards nearly 40 monetary prizes to organizations based the level, timing, and character of gifts.…
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» Equity Planning for Arts & Culture
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The Roanoke Arts Commission is charged with overseeing arts and cultural planning in the community. With the 2011 Arts & Cultural Plan.about 80% accomplished, the community has changed much since coming together to develop it. While it’s important to develop the next plan, in the next 18 months, we’ll operate…
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» Safer Neighborhoods team seeks artist
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Safer Neighborhoods, a sub-committee of Roanoke City’s Task Force to Reduce Gun Violence, seeks an artist to serve on the committee to help guide its vision for a public art project. The committee’s primary purpose is to address the root causes that contribute to acts of violence and to create…
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» Roanoke Rap Cypher: WE ARE ART
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A collaboration of the Roanoke Public Libraries, the Roanoke Arts Commission, the Grandin Theatre, and the Feeding Southwest Virginia Community Solutions Center has led to the creation of the “We Are Art” rap cypher. Want to do more in our community? Find local anti-racism resources here. The project, led by…
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» 10 things to be happy about from 2020
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It’s been a tough year, but among the challenges, and even because of them, we’re finding a lot to be grateful for. Here are just ten things from 2020 that made us happy. The Star City Strong Recovery Task Force When the pandemic overtook the world, the Federal and state…
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» Join the Change Academy’s winter discussion of CASTE
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Committed residents and partners across our community are joining Roanoke Public Libraries and BOOK CITY Roanoke in a discussion of Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste. Over five Mondays this winter, we’ll explore Caste, the unspoken system that underpins life in the United States. In a section-by-section discussion, we’ll look at the…
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» FY22 Arts & Culture Funding
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Each year the Roanoke Arts Commission oversees funding for arts and cultural organizations collaborating to advance the city’s Arts and Cultural Plan. Register for the online funding workshop: December 4, 9AM . We’ll send you the log information. (Recording available here on Dec. 5). Here are all the links you’ll need for…
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» From the Podcast: Virginia Tech’s Amanda Nelson on community leadership through the arts
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Amanda Nelson leads Virginia Tech’s certificate and MFA programs in Arts Leadership and teaches in the theatre department. Much of her work directly and thoughtfully engages students in the world around them. This lively conversation centers on next-level community engagement through the arts, learning from history, and taking collective steps together. “To me,…