7.13.10- Filmmaker Kevin Edds, of the Discovery Channel, talks live with Coy Barefoot. They discuss the recent passing of Howard Goodwin and Edds’ up-coming documentary WAHOOWA.
Jun 092010
Author and filmmaker Kevin Edds talks with Coy about his documentary on the history of University of Virginia football, Wahoowa. The film is scheduled for release later this year.
Source: Piedmont Council of the Arts
Is Charlottesville doing enough to market itself as a regional destination for patrons of the arts? What else can be done to ensure that the visual, performing and literary arts not only survive, but thrive? Those are just a couple of the questions explored during the second Creative Conversation organized by the Piedmont Council of the Arts.
Representatives of various groups were invited to Charlottesville’s CitySpace meeting room on the Downtown Mall to discuss the topic “Marketing Charlottesville as a Creative Community.” The event was held on January 13, 2009 in the City Space Meeting Room at the Charlottesville Community Design Center. We’ve condensed the two hour discussion into a 45 minute podcast.
The participants were:
- Mary Beth Aungier The Paramount Theater
- Allie Baer Convention and Visitors Bureau (CACVB)
- Nancy Bass Local Artist
- Olivia Branch UVA Engineering Foundation
- Elizabeth Breeden Art in Place
- Wendy Brown Center for Nonprofit Excellence
- Erik Curren American Shakespeare Center
- Chris Engel Charlottesville Office of Economic Development
- Jane Fisher Charlottesville Community Design Center
- Liz Flynn John Paul Jones Arena
- David Hopper Virginia Film Festival
- Lindsay Howerton Arts and Cultural Council of Staunton
- Kirby Hutto Charlottesville Pavilion: Red Light Management
- Annie Jacobs Albemarle Public Schools
- Rob Jones Migration: A Gallery
- Dabney Kerr Consultant: Sagacious Solutions
- Hollie Lee Charlottesville Office of Economic Development
- Morgan MacKenzie- Perkins Sage Moon Gallery
- Kevin McFadden Virginia Festival of the Book
- Jane Norris Charlottesville Daily Progress
- Kyle Redinger Spicy Bear Media
- Jim Respess Local Artist
- George Sampson UVA Arts Administration Program
- Sherri Smith Lander Creative, Artisans Center of Virginia
- Jessica Thayer Consultant/Artist Services
- Katharine Vlcek The Paramount Theater
- Kathryn Wagner Local Artist
- Lyn Warren Les Yeux du Monde
Sep 032008
Four years ago, the Cavalier Marching Band made its debut at Scott Stadium thanks to a generous donation from Carl Smith. I was producing a lot of stories for WVTF back in those days, and had a lot fun producing this one which aired shortly before the 2004 season began.
I borrowed the format from a profile of the Norfolk State University Spartan Legion that I had done two years earlier for With Good Reason. In the interest of reviving UVA spirits after Saturday’s game, I thought it might be nice to post this here.
What do you think? Has the Marching Band become part of the Scott Stadium experience?
I would like to do a follow-up on this in the future, but of course, there are very few places to sell a story like this. In a perfect world, the Charlottesville Podcasting Network would have some funding source that could be used to support the production of new programming. Perhaps some of this new programming could find its way to the radio.
Mar 262008
And now, the second installment of my series on Virginia’s eugenics movement, produced seven years ago with a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The first part can be heard here, and relates a general history of the eugenics movement, and the role Virginia played in legitimizing forced sterilizations.
This second seven and a half minute installment begins with the voice of the late Mitch Van Yahres reading a list of the offenses that could get you a vasectomy or your tubes tied, courtesy of the state. We then hear the voices of two former “patients” of the Virginia Colony for the Epileptic and the Feeble-minded, just north of Lynchburg in Madison Heights. Both live in Lynchburg, and I’m not sure what’s happened to them. When I spoke with them, the resolution expressing the state’s “profound regret” had not yet passed.
Since posting the first story last week, I was contacted by Paul Lombardo, the U.Va historian and bioethicist whose scholarship helped revive academic attention into this chapter of American and Virginia history. Paul tells me he’s writing a book on Buck v. Bell, which will come out this summer. He reminded me that then-Governor Mark Warner apologized for the eugenics era on May 2, 2002, the same day that a historic marker commemorating Carrie Buck was unveiled outside Region 10′s headquarters on Preston Avenue. Pictured on the left is Jesse Meadows, and Paul Lombardo is on the right.
In 2001, the Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution expressing the state’s “profound regret” over its role in the eugenics movement. More or less passed over in the history books, Virginia played a pivotal role in government sanction of a policy where the mentally ill and indigent were sterilized so they would not pass their genetic material on to other generations. In 1924, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice in Buck v. Bell, in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” As a result of the case, Charlottesville native Carrie Buck was sterilized at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded.
Earlier this year, former Delegate Mitch Van Yahres died. Seven years ago, it was his legislation that helped Virginia kind of apologize. I’m reposting this series I produced in part to honor his legacy, but also because I don’t think it gets mentioned enough. It’s been a while since I’ve heard this, and I’ve come a long way as a producer since then. Still, this series won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for best documentary. I’ll post the other three installments in the days to come.
This project was originally funded by a grant to WVTF Public Radio from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
For decades, students in the public education system have been given labels: “General,” “Advanced,” “Honors” – and split into classes with others who supposedly have roughly the same intelligence level. This practice is called Tracking, and there’s currently a big push among educational professionals to get rid of it, and stop segregating students based on their IQ.
Chad Prather, a history teacher at Charlottesville High School, is part of the movement to abolish tracking, and has created a “detracked” class for the 2007-2008 school year. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network’s Michael Strickland spoke with Prather about his class, and how students will be affected by this new style of teaching. Also interviewed were Rick Wellbeloved-Stone, an environmental science teacher at CHS who would prefer the tracking system stay put, and Carol Ann Tomlinson, a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Virginia who is an international advocate for detracking.
Currently a heated and sensitive topic among school administrations, this piece overviews the tracking system as well as the movement towards detracking, and presents the highly varied opinions teachers have on the issue.
Mike Shea is a California filmmaker who recently visited Charlottesville to screen his documentary – Red State. On this February 22nd edition of Charlottesville–Right Now! with Coy Barefoot, Shea discusses his movie, in which he traveled across the “Red States” that voted for George Bush in the 2004 election, trying to discover what persuaded their citizens to do so. He highlights the viewpoints of several of the people he interviewed while making the film, such as how religion plays a part in their ideologies. Sean McCord is with the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice (CCPJ), an organization which just sponsored a free showing of Red State. “[CCPJ tries to] keep the conversation going on issues of peace and justice.”
You should always be questioning authority. It isn’t that authority is granted to them from the heavens, they are our representatives, and if they’re not representing us in a way that makes us proud, then they need to be replaced.
-Mike Shea
Feb 062007
Juan “JC Superstar” Robles takes on Derek Amos in a rematch at the Augusta Expoland. The “Showdown in the Shenandoah” marks the return of professional boxing to the area. Watch the Daily Progress multimedia presentation.
Feb 062007
Harry Terrell has been at the helm of Charlotesville High School girls basketball team for 14 seasons. Since taking over he has a record of 295 wins and only 52 losses. Watch the Daily Progress multimedia presentation.
 Trumpeter John D’earthPhoto: U.Va |
John D’earth has been a fixture on Charlottesville’s music scene for decades. The trumpeter and his band play a set at Miller’s every Thursday night, and he’s also an instructor at the University of Virginia, playing in the school’s Free Bridge Quintet.
So, when First Night Virginia wanted someone to write to score for a piece commemorating the event’s 25th anniversary, they turned to D’earth. I stopped by his studio to find out more.
Click here to download the file if you’re reading this through an RSS reader or on cvilleblogs.com. This podcast has two interesting bits of trivia associated with it. The opening music is from the Thompson-D’earth Band’s new album, When the Serpent Flies The second bit of trivia comes at the end of the piece. Don’t be startled by the sound of my 14-month-old daughter Josephine, who tagged along with me to John D’earth’s studio. She was really quiet for most of the interview, but let out a splendid squeal at the very end of the musical selection I was recording. John insisted I leave it in, so I obliged! |
. This is a track called Second of Many.
This is a first-hand account of an island in Japan called Gunkanjima. In the spring of 2005, I traveled to this island to photograph and explore its history. Gunkanjima was an old coal mining island that holds the highest population density recording in the world. In the 1970′s the island was shut down, leaving behind a ghost town of a once thriving society.
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