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The Charlottesville Podcasting Network is your source for lectures, radio shows and more from throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Each week we post hours of material for you to listen to. Make sure you stay in touch!

Left of Center: Is Charlottesville Media Doomed?

News media across the country are collapsing. After recent staff cuts, furloughs and the shutdown of local printing for the Daily Progress, will Media General be doing more downsizing? Can we support four TV stations? Two weeklies? Will blogs replace all of them? What about the partnership between the non-profit Charlottesville Tomorrow and [...]

 
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Arts & Economic Development: National Initiatives and Ideas for Charlottesville

Charlottesville is home to many artists and arts organizations. But, is our community fully capitalizing on its own reputation? That was the general topic of the latest in a series of Creative Conversations facilitated by the Piedmont Council of the Arts.

Our recording begins with Maggie Guggenheimer, PCA’s executive director. After a brief round [...]

 
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PCA Community Conversation: Dos & Don’ts for Collaborative Arts Education Projects & Partnerships

On October 26, 2009, the Piedmont Council of the Arts held the latest in a series of Creative Conversations. The project is a chance to bring representatives from different arts organizations together in order to share ideas. This time around, the topic centered around the idea of developing partnerships across many different non-profit [...]

 
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Amy Eastlack brings SuzySaid to Charlottesville

SuzySaid Charlottesville breezed into town earlier this year offering hot tips on fashion, food, parenting, and local fun. Amy Eastlack is the real-life person behind Suzy. Recently she shared her vision for interacting with the local community with CPN.

You can meet Westlack in person at the Cville Pie Fest on October 3. Suzy [...]

 
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Surviving Cancer on the Sunday Morning Wakeup Call

On the 8/9 Wake-Up Call three folks from UVa’s Cancer Center participated in a discussion about surviving cancer with the help of Integrative Medicine.  The ‘eastern medicine’ approach to cancer treatment includes such methods as massage, music therapy and hypnosis to assist patients with their more traditional treatments.  Diane Cole, Manager of Education [...]

 
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CNE launches Board Development Academy

Did you know there are over seven hundred nonprofit organizations in the the greater Charlottesville area? Despite their key position in the economy of our region, until now nonprofits reaching for excellence have had to rely on a grab bag of training programs for their board members. Recently, we spoke with Christine Nardi, [...]

 
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From the archives: Daily Progress gets a theme song!

In April 2005, the Charlottesville Municipal Band debuted the Daily Progress March. That meant that the Daily Progress finally had something in common with papers such as the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Nellysford composer Paul T. Richards scored a rousing march for the Media General-owned newspaper which was first performed in [...]

 
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Noise-pop band Jodienda at the Tea Bazaar Tonight

When we started the Charlottesville Podcasting Network back in 2005, one of the ideas was to do as many interviews as we could to support bands that were coming into town. Sadly, we’ve only been able to do that on a… very limited fashion. However, last week I was contacted by the members [...]

 
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Paddy Keenan at WNRN

Paddy Keenan

Paddy Keenan and John Walsh were Thursday’s guests on Acoustic Sunrise with Anne Williams. Keenan and Walsh were promoting tonight’s show at Rapunzel’s in Lovingston as well as performing songs from their past albums. Videos will soon be available at youtube.com/wnrnradio.

 
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Crowfield at WNRN

Tyler of Crowfield

Tyler Mechem of Crowfield was Anne Williams’ guest this morning on Acoustic Sunrise. He played a few songs from their album “Goodbye, Goodnight, So Long Midwestern”. Tyler is on a tour of radio stations without any proper gigs for the next few weeks. WNRN was lucky enough to be picked [...]

 
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Piedmont Council of the Arts: Increasing Community-Wide Access to the Arts

The Piedmont Council of the Arts (PCA) continued its Creative Conversation Series on April 21, 2009 with a discussion between artists, art professionals and local officials about how expand the reach of the arts across all of Charlottesville’s many populations. The goal of the program is to bring artists, organizations, educators, and business [...]

 
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Heartless Bastards at WNRN

Heartless Bastards

The Heartless Bastards were our guests this afternoon at WNRN. They came in for an interview with Ronda Chollock and did a couple tunes from their new album “The Mountain”. The Heartless Bastards are playing tonight at Gravity Lounge. Look for videos at youtube.com/WNRNradio.

 
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