Elizabeth Derby

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Romance grows through correspondence at Four County Players

Hollywood tells us that romance unfolds in a montage, in sparkling date nights and lazy Sunday mornings and in the...

From the front lines at the Women’s March

At 4:49am on Saturday morning, I woke up just south of Washington, D.C., my eyes wide open and my stomach flipping....

Gorilla Theater puts a final twist on the holidays

Last year was exhausting, right? No wonder people pushed themselves to have the merriest holiday of their lives in...

Observations on privilege and amnesia at Second Street...

Despite living 2,100 miles apart, Charlottesville artist Matthew P. Shelton and Trinidadian artist Nikolai M. Noel...

Refugees make new connections through art

Rarely do so many Americans feel divided, separated and isolated from one another as they have during this political...

Artist Damien Shen finds motivation in his past

Like many creatives, Damien Shen spent most of his adult life focused on building a career instead of a formal art...

Dating app for creative types makes a C’ville debut

The last time I went on an online date, I found myself at Buffalo Wild Wings with a guy named Tony. It was 2010, and...

Found letters put C’ville at the heart of a German opera

Since its debut in 1911, opera-lovers have considered Der Rosenkavalier a masterpiece of the repertoire. The German...

Poet Amie Whittemore finds growth in Glass Harvest

For some new readers, poetry feels light years away from reality. It reads like a dense abstraction—the literary...

‘Listening Spirit’ binds sustainability to art at Second...

Like many young urbanites, New York- based artist Patrick Costello finds satisfaction in a can. “I started to get...