Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Michaela Courtney, staff writer PVCC hosted a One Mic Stand event featuring the local literary talents of all ages around Charlottesville on Thursday Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. The show included stories, real and fiction, essays, poems, and even comedic acts. One of the acts consisted of a woman sharing a childhood memory through a […]
Continue ReadingRay Petree III, staff writer PVCC’s film enthusiasts and casual moviegoers alike have been blessed with the college’s Free Movie Friday event, but we here at the Forum would be remiss to not inform you of another avenue offered at PVCC to satisfy your movie fix. The Film Series is an irregularly scheduled club at […]
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Sarah Vagnoni, staff writer On Dec. 2, PVCC’s Student Pottery Club will be hosting its fourteenth annual pottery sale. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to noon in the Dickinson Commons at PVCC. The event will feature pottery made exclusively by PVCC students. The sale will have all types of pottery from mugs to […]
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Grace Kinsman, staff writer On Friday, Dec. 8, from 6-9 p.m., the V. Earl Dickinson Building will be lit up for the Let There Be Light event. This event is held annually on the longest night of the year, this year will mark the 11th celebration. The special night is spearheaded by two dedicated art […]
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Triston Duenas, staff writer In under two weeks, Rapture opens its club R2 to another round of debauchery. R2 will be hosting several artists from Ebisu Sound, The Untz and the Bassment. Artists include Chee, Moniker, Mr. Jennings, Tre Justice, be.IN and Dutch. Each artist will be playing their own unique set of music […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer On Saturday, Nov. 11, the University of Virginia drama department performed Seven Guitars by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. Seven Guitars was directed by Theresa M. Davis and was performed in the Ruth Caplin Theatre. This particular play is part of a larger sequence of ten plays written by […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer As I made my way to the Maxwell (Black Box) Theatre, I was transported back to the time of Shakespeare. On a clothes rack hung multicolored costumes and fabrics reminiscent of old England. A half-constructed castle was reaching up to the ceiling above the sounds of electric drills, shifting wood and […]
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Skye Scott, assistant editor PVCC’s Writers Unite Club held their annual Fall Horror Story Contest in October. The winners are: First place: Allie Eichelburger with “Silence” Second place: Morgana Allen with “Don’t Read Horror Stories” Third place: Zaynah Akeel with “The Runner” Honorable Mentions: Jessica Amos with Untitled Nathaniel Dunn with “Beneath” Charles Stish with […]
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Joel Gibbons, staff writer Few restaurants in Charlottesville can take you on the culinary adventure that Peter Chang provides for its customers. This gourmet Chinese restaurant, founded by the legendary Chinese Chef Peter Chang, takes familiar Asian cuisine and alters it to provide a new explosion of flavor which not only fills your stomach, but […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer The racing Tabla drums of Debu Nayak rumbled and popped like a thousand bubbles in a sea of color. The Sarangi, a North Indian stringed instrument translating to “a hundred colors,” sang in the bowed hands of its master practitioner Pankaj Mishra. The singer was Dr. Pooja Goswami Pavan, who holds […]
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