Program - VABook! 2006

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Pre-Festival / Related Events

March 3 - April 29

Visions of Eden: Trish Orr

In these precisely-rendered, colorful still-life paintings of art books, images from Botticelli, Giorgione, VanGogh, and Modigliani congregate and converge from kaleidoscopic angles, their famous images mischievously transformed by clear glass vases.
Les Yeux Du Monde Gallery
115 First Street NW

March 3 - 25

W, F, Sat at 8 p.m.; Th at 7:30 p.m. and Sun March 12 at 2 p.m.
Tickets $10-$17; pay what you can Wed

Metamorphoses: Adapted from Ovid by Mary Zimmerman

Golden fables with the Midas touch in a magical indoor water world. Silly and soulful, wet and wonderful, these are stories for all time, told like never before.
Live Arts Theater
123 East Water Street

Friday, March 17, 5:30 p.m.

Allyson Mellberg Gallery Talk

Arts Board Resident Allyson Mellberg talks about the communal nature
of printmaking and artist books. The show includes prints and book art
made with UVa students and Team Lump of Raleigh.
UVa OffGrounds Gallery, 300 West Main
Street, 1st Floor, Ridge Street Entrance

March 18-19 & March 25 - April 2, Hours: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library: 41st Annual Book Sale 3/18-19:

Children’s Books, Music Books, Records, Tapes, CDs, Videos, plus Academic and Professional Books. 3/25 – 4/2: Main Sale, all categories. For info: call (434) 977-8467 or email friends@avenue.org. Website: http: www.avenue.org/friends
Gordon Ave. Library
1500 Gordon Avenue

Tuesday, March 21, 7 p.m.

Middle and High School Readings

Creative writing by area high school and middle school authors.
Omni Hotel Ballroom
235 W. Main Street

Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality

A talk with Catherine Edwards Sanders, author of Wicca's Charm and a recent guest on Mars Hill Audio. Co-sponsored by Splintered Light Bookstore and the Center for Christian Study.
Center for Christian Study (near the Corner)
128 Chancellor Street

Tuesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.

Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail: A 2,000 Mile Floral Parade

Experience Leonard Adkins's multi-media presentation complete with classical, new age, and folk music that follows the progression of the flowers from spring to fall, and from Georgia to Maine.
Greene County Public Library
222 Main Street, Stanardsville

Thursday, March 23, 10 a.m. and Noon

A Place in My Heart

Two free workshops on poetry and short stories. Small groups. Apply beforehand to piedmontwriters@earthlink.net.
Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
McIntire Building, 200 Second Street, NE

March 23-August

**Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!**

A special exhibition on the Development of Art Spiegelman. For more information, contact: Mercy Quintos, 243-8969.
Harrison Institute/Small Spec. Coll. Library, 1st Floor Gallery
UVa Central Grounds

March 23-26

Mapping the Dark: A Museum of Ambient Disorders

An exhibit by Rosamond Casey featured in this winter's Virginia Quarterly Review with an introduction by Lawrence Weschler. Rosamond Casey will give a tour on Sunday, March 26 at 3 p.m.
University of Virginia Art Museum
UVa Central Grounds

Friday, March 24, 6 p.m. Saturday, March 25, 2 p.m.

Flexing Your Soul

Co-authors Jalieh Milani and Alessandra Shepard, Ph.D. (Flexing Your Soul) discuss the body as a physical expression of the individual soul, demonstrating how personal emotional history creates the individual body type.
Starr Hill Gallery (3/24) 709 West Main Street
Live Arts (3/25) 123 East Water Street

March 24 - April 27

Book ‘Em: An Exhibit

Art exhibit featuring works made from or about books. The opening is 5-7 p.m. March 24. Featured artists:Terri Long, T.J. Huff, Bo Sterk, MaryJo Sinclair, Marie Mennes and Jennifer Van Winkle. The Gallery is open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Fridays 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and Saturdays 1 - 5 p.m.
Piedmont Virginia Community College Gallery
V. Earl Dickinson Building

Saturday, March 25

Teachings by Rainbow Eagle: Sponsored by Quest Bookstore

10 a.m. to noon Formal Teachings on Ancient Peace Shields;
Noon to 2 p.m. Lunch on your own
2 - 3:15 p.m.; Native American/Maya Prophesies for a Hopeful Future;
3:15-3:30 Break;
3:30-5:30 p.m. Native American Spirituality and Christianity Respectfully Compared.

Register to come all day or to come to selected sections! Pre-register by email to Rachel E. Saury: rachelsaury@yahoo.com.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church
717 Rugby Road

Thursday, March 30, 7-9 p.m.

VABC Bookbinding Workshop: Raised Cords, Leather Binding, Gold Stamping

Class with visual and book artist Dean Dass, Virginia Arts of the Book Center. Prerequisite classes or equivalent experience necessary. For more information: http://www.virginiabookarts.org/classes/index.html
Virgina Arts of the Book Center
977 Second Street, Suite 308
(Frank Ix Complex, past television and police stations, accessed via Elliott Avenue)

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