Category — Live Performance

Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 7pm

Called ‘the most imaginative and fascinating musician in all of trad today’ by Earle Hitchner of the Irish Echo, Dublin-born Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh plays traditional and contemporary folk music on fiddle, 5-string viola and hardanger fiddle in small intimate listening venues. His Kitty Lie Over album was described in the Irish Times as “a niftier mood enhancer than any drug therapy”.

He will be joined by the Virginia fiddler/improviser based in NYC, Cleek Schrey, viola da gamba player Loren Ludwig, and the percussive dancer Matt Olwell for a night of fiddle tunes, early music, and contemporary improvisations.

Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 7:30pm | $5

Come see master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock’s silent thriller, The Lodger, based on the infamous Jack the Ripper story. Fast-paced and atmospheric, this film is full of Hitchcock’s signature style and thematic interests, also revealing him to be a true student of both German Expressionism and Soviet montage styles. Local musician Matt Marshall will perform live keyboard accompaniment to the film in the traditional style.

Saturday, March 12, 2011 | Doors at 6pm | $5 | At THE HAVEN

Pieces created by members of our community created off of the theme “undressing” The night will be full of plays, dance, music, and video pieces from our community. Donations encouraged.

Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 6pm | at RANDOM ROW BOOKS

6pm: Potluck Dinner
8pm: Performance
Bring a Dish and Donate some dollars for this very special show.

This latest edition of Bread & Puppet Theater’s cabaret series features the Jolly Battle between Mountaintop Removal Protesters and Mountaintop Machinery, an ancient take on bananas, a President and a Chair and much more, all interspersed with commentary from Karl Marx. The Even Cheaper Accordion and String ensemble will provide soothing sounds for winter weary nerves.

A SHORT HISTORY OF BREAD & PUPPET THEATER

The Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest non-profit, self-
supporting theatrical companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years, from the spectacle of its larger-than-life puppets at Vietnam War protests in New York City to the pageantry of its long-running (over 25 years) annual event, “Our Domestic Resurrection Circus” in Glover, Vermont. The latter event regularly attracted audiences in the tens of thousands up to the late 1990’s. Author and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has praised “the genius of Peter Schumann [artistic director], the prodigious puppet-God,” writing “the Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America’s conscious struggle for our better
selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.”

Photo above by Jack Sumberg.

Saturday, February 12 2011 | 8-10pm

Come celebrate the launch of a new issue of Meridian, a semiannual literary journal produced at the University of Virginia. Come for music and food, stay to read—and even purchase—the newest compendium
of poetry, fiction and non-fiction creative writing. Meet the editors of Meridian: Hannah Holtzman, Lee Johnson and Wanling Su. Free and open to the public.

Friday, March 25, 2011 | 8pm | $5 | Not recommended for children

An alternative rock improv performance. A mix of the familiarity of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”, the best of the New York underground stand-up scene and the sketch comedy stylings of Second City. Music, Comedy, Art, Dance, and Life merge for a night of truly spectacular improv. Classic Bent Theatre games and performers merge with the new in this fantastic comedy experience. This is not your usual Bent Theatre show….this (much like hipsters) is unique.

Friday, January 28, 2011 | 8pm | $5 | Not recommended for children

An alternative rock improv performance. A mix of the familiarity of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”, the best of the New York underground stand-up scene and the sketch comedy stylings of Second City. Music, Comedy, Art, Dance, and Life merge for a night of truly spectacular improv. Classic Bent Theatre games and performers merge with the new in this fantastic comedy experience. This is not your usual Bent Theatre show….this (much like hipsters) is unique.

Puppet-making: Thursday, January 20, 2011 | 6pm | $5
Performance: Saturday, January 22, 2011 | 8pm | $3

Members of All Saints Theater of Richmond VA will be hosting a puppet making workshop Thursday January 20th and then come back to experience the theatatical creations of Lily and new puppeteers of our community.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 | 8pm

The final Bridge concert of experimental music for the year will feature eight young composers from the University
of Virginia. This performance is the culmination of three months of experimentation with compositional techniques culled from the history of 20th century music. The featured compositions explore the fields of indeterminacy, improvisation, graphic notation and audience participation using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments.

Friday, November 12, 2010 | 8:15pm

Join us at The Bridge (after the VABC’s Raucous Auction in Ivy Square) for a 90-minute audio documentary screening featuring works about the Lives of Animals–specifically looking at the struggle of humans to value and understand the lives of animals.

Producer Lulu Miller (now UVA MFA, former Radiolab producer) has an original story about why grasshoppers become locusts. Louisa Jonas has an account of deerhunting in rural Maryland. Jesse Dukes has a story about a young farmer killing a batch of chickens for the first time. Kelley Libby has a verite piece about a calf being born.