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Chicho Lorenzo is a local painter and muralist. He has murals all over Charlottesville: on empty walls next to roads, in schools, restaurants, and on fences. Lorenzo grew up in Madrid, Spain, but has been living in Charlottesville for more than 15 years. Lorenzo is a self-taught artist. His only advice on how to “learn” […]
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On Monday, Oct. 21, “It’s Fall Y’all!” was hosted in the Main Building Event Space. This event celebrated the segue into the cozy season of autumn, with bagels and pumpkin spice cream cheese, coffee with a variety of flavored creamers (whole and nut milks) and an activity of pumpkin painting in which students who passed […]
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The Art and Creative Writing Clubs collaborated and shared a space to celebrate Halloween on Oct. 29. The 2D Design class made table-length Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) inspired mosaics entirely out of candy. The Creative Writing Club held a short story reading of original horror fiction. The event was held in […]
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“I like working with students who struggle with their voice,” said Melody Day, adjunct instructor of music. Currently, PVCC offers private voice lessons (MUS 136 Applied Music: Voice) with Day. She has been teaching at PVCC since 2012, and this is her last full year. The Applied Music class is open to all ages and […]
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The movie adaptation of the novel Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, is about a young girl named Tally Youngblood (Joey King). The story is set in a future where humans have destroyed the earth with an overuse of fossil fuels. But scientists and the government decided that the real problem was human nature, our differences causing […]
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This year the 12th Annual Sabroso Festival, a festival celebrating Latin American culture through music, dance, and food, was bigger than it has ever been. Being hosted in the Historic Downtown Mall at the Ting Pavilion for the first time in 12 years gave the festival space to expand substantially. Right as attendees walked in, […]
Continue ReadingFederal Work-Study is a program offered by PVCC as well as many other schools nationwide, such as UVA and Virginia Tech. It’s an opportunity for students to work part-time on campus or at a non-profit to make extra money in order to pay for everyday life expenses or tuition. Work-Study is a federal need-based program. […]
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