Category: Partner News
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» November Arts & Culture News
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Grab the latest Arts & Culture News right here: https://cvcpl.us/Q7rVHAn
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» The Power of Passion Ignited: Virginia Commission for the Arts’ Janet Starke on the podcast
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The arts capture the human experience, spark leadership, and produce measurable outcomes; and there’s still a lot of power there to be harnessed. The Virginia Commission for the Arts has a draft strategic plan on the streets, and in this episode, we hear from VCA Executive Director Janet Starke on…
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» Keep Learning Together: Southwest Virginia Ballet on the Podcast
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In the most recent episode of the podcast, Southwest Virginia Ballet Artistic Director Pedro Szalay and Executive Director Carol Jessee take us behind the scenes with the development of a Nutcracker for the pandemic, a version filmed for showing on and streaming through Blue Ridge PBS. “If we keep learning together,” says…
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» Reimagining Roanoke Exhibit
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The Roanoke Arts Commission is pleased to announce the opening of our next temporary sculpture exhibition — A New Life: Reimagining Roanoke. The exhibition includes sculpture in Elmwood Park, at two locations on the Roanoke River Greenway, and on the campus of Hollins University. The exhibition includes work by regional…
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» ARTS CREATE HOPE – October is Arts and Humanities Month: Be part of the proclamation Monday, 10/5
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October is National Arts & Humanities Month. Here in Roanoke we like to kick it off by getting a together a bunch of folks together who care about what the arts and humanities do for us. We can’t do that as well right now, so we’ll mark the occasion virtually:…
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» Roanoke Change Academy: Mondays beginning Sept. 14
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SAVE THE DATES! Continue the conversation with Roanoke City Public Libraries and BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke. Following our August 2019 Indecent Histories event with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi at Melrose Library, we read and discussed Stamped from the Beginning. The book puts power and economic interest first in the analysis of racist…
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» On the Podcast: Jeanne Fishwick behind the scenes with City funding for arts & culture
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In The Art of It: Conversations on Creativity and Leadership with the Roanoke Arts Commission, we’re focusing our attention on our partners: the arts organizations we fund, the colleagues who help make projects happen, and our leaders thoughtful on the role of the arts and humanities in our lives. In this…
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» CARES Act Grants Awarded
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In a September 3 special meeting, the Roanoke Arts Commission approved more than $430,000 in funding for arts and cultural organizations and arts programming in local restaurants through two programs advised by the Star City Strong Recovery Task Force. In the recovery funding for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, the…
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» On the podcast: Theatre for reflection, conversation and inspiration with Mill Mountain Theatre
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In The Art of It: Conversations on Creativity and Leadership with the Roanoke Arts Commission, we’re focusing our attention on our partners: the arts organizations we fund, the colleagues who help make projects happen, and our leaders thoughtful on the role of the arts and humanities in our lives. What’s…
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» Recovery Grants for Arts & Culture Organizations
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Under the recommendations of the Star City Strong Recovery Task Force, $400,000 in CARES Act funding is available for the COVID-19 relief and recovery activities of arts and cultural organizations. Grants will reimburse organizations for previous expenditures dating from March 12 to July 31, 2020 in the following categories: COVID-related…