Audio January

The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative

www.thebridgepai.com

January 4 - 27

This month, The Bridge opens its doors and clears the walls for a month dedicated to the celebration of SOUND. Local and regional artists, musicians, and the greater community will contribute to this month-long exploration. Events will include public workshops, demonstrations, live rehearsals, performances, and installations. Click here for the full schedule of Audio January events.

The Bridge PAI
205 Monticello Road, Charlottesville

(434) 994-5669

Thursday, January 17, 8:00 pm  

Famed for innovative choreography blending African-American-based dance with ballet, jazz, and modern, the Philadelphia Dance Company appears nationally and internationally for about 40 weeks each year. Joan Myers Brown and her 17 dancers will bring "blazing physicality and commitment" (The Village Voice) to this exciting mixed repertory program. Click here to learn more about the performance. 

The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street, Charlottesville

(434) 979-1333

Visit PCA's Online Calendar for complete listings of arts and cultural events. 

Exhibition Opening

January 11, 6:30 pm

Celebrate the creative power of people with disabilities as the VSA Arts of Charlottesville/Albemarle presents the 8th annual VSA Art Show in partnership with Piedmont Council of the Arts. The show, which features work by dozens of area artists, will run January 11 - March 9 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center; Monday-Friday, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm. For more infomation call 970-3264 or 926-3518.

Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center
1400 Melbourne Road, Charlottesville 

Visit PCA's Online Calendar for complete listings of arts and cultural events. 

Road to Roubaix
The Arts Center in Orange

Saturday, January 26
7:00 -9:00 pm

Masterlink Films presents a post-production preview of its feature-length film, Road To Roubaix, at The Arts Center in Orange. Road To Roubaix offers a unique look at the world's most prestigious one-day cycling race, Paris-Roubaix. The epic, 160-mile race through the cobbled roads of northern France is as muddy and bloody as road racing gets. The film's director, David Deal, is a resident of Orange, VA and a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

The Arts Center in Orange
129 E. Main Street
Orange, VA 22960
(540) 672-7311

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www.monticello.org

January and February 2008

11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm

Offered three times daily, these new 75-minute guided house tours will offer an in-depth look at Thomas Jefferson's "essay on architecture." Visitors will have the opportunity to view, hear about, and consider he various structural and decorative elements that have earned Monticello widespread recognition as one of the icons of American architecture. The tour will include rooms on the main floor of the house and the third-floor Dome Room. Click here to learn more about the tours. 

For more information about Monticello, call (434) 984-9822 or visit www.monticello.org.

Visit PCA's Online Calendar for complete listings of arts and cultural events.

Piedmont Council of the Arts (PCA) is the designated arts agency of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, with outreach services to Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson, Orange, Staunton and Waynesboro. PCA has supported the arts in our region for nearly thirty years, encouraging relationships between local artists, arts organizations, and the vibrant communities that support them. 

Email info@charlottesvillearts.org if you have an upcoming event that you'd like highlighted in The Arts In Your Inbox.