calendar designed by Hannah Kade
Movie Friend screening has since been postponed a day and will now take place on Monday, Oct 27, at 7:00pm!
Thursday, Oct 16th, 6:00-9:00pm
THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED:
Thursday, Oct 23rd, 6:00-9:00pm
We’ll be making our own spooky, underwater themed Halloween decorations for our big end of month party! Join us for a fun evening of crafting and scary movies.
DATE MOVED TO MONDAY, OCT 27!
Come to Movie Friend’s second screening — “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”. Watch with friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, for free and for fun!
@movie.friend
Join our October Artist in Residence for two opportunities to connect and hear about her work.
Zap’s Happy AiR – October 14th, 6-7pm, a brief and casual introduction and celebration.
Zap’s Show+Tell – Oct 29th, 6-8pm, a more in depth conversation about her practice!
“What about you? Are you swimming sideways? Keeping one ear to the Earth, one to the sky? Are you re-evaluating what you thought progress meant? Are you questioning the directions of your lines? I am.”
-Undrowned
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This is a ticketed and all-ages event. Tickets are available on a sliding scale basis, allowing attendees to choose the best option for them. Tickets are limited!
Click here for more info!
Charlottesville Community Potluck
This once a month community potluck will be a place for the Charlottesville community to gather, share food, meet neighbors, and create streams of connection and mutual aid so that our town can be stronger, together.
The First Sunday of the month.
Join us for our weekend long winter fruit market featuring local artists, makers, and vendors.
design by Charlie of Sonder Scratches
Charlottesville Community Potluck
This once a month community potluck will be a place for the Charlottesville community to gather, share food, meet neighbors, and create streams of connection and mutual aid so that our town can be stronger, together.
The First Sunday of the month.
Flyer designed by Rover Magazine
Local artists & makers market
11-4pm
fruitmarket@visible-records.com
Spend an autumn evening learning a new technique with the guidance of Allyson Mellberg of Inchworm Fibers Lab!
Contact inchwormlab@gmail.com for workshop details.
11 AM Workshop by Venuca Evanán Vivanco
@venucaevanandeperu
2 PM The Modern Bambabatok Screening
Ethnographic film by @kc_omil @lanewilcken
Prisoner Letter Writing
This month we'll be writing to Oso Blanco, an indigenous activist serving 55 years. Oso is an enrolled citizen by blood of the Cherokee Nation. We'll be joined this month by Dakota artist, Dustina Gill. Dustina will be hosting a workshop at Visible Records earlier in the day to make prayer bags.
No experience is necessary and all supplies will be provided.
Drop in anytime, and bring a friend!
An art event that will be led by Dustina Gill of Nis'to, Inc invites students and community members alike to come together for an afternoon creating small prayer bags.
Attendees are always welcome to contribute to Nis'to, Inc. Dustina Gill's 501(c)3!
In the evening following this event there will be a letter writing session to indigenous activist, Oso Blanco. See the flyer below for more info.
Charlottesville Community Potluck
This once a month community potluck will be a place for the Charlottesville community to gather, share food, meet neighbors, and create streams of connection and mutual aid so that our town can be stronger, together.
The First Sunday of the month.
Plus Size Clothing Swap, co-hosted by Wednesday’s Whimsies and Cville Fatties
Come to Movie Friend’s “Opening Night” screening. Watch a movie with friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, for free and for fun!
Instagram: @movie.friend
Hugo Ljungbäck: Behind Closed Doors
Hugo Ljungbäck is a Swedish filmmaker, archivist, curator, and media scholar. His videos explore queer history, identity, representation, and sexuality through an autobiographical lens, emphasizing the possibilities afforded by found footage filmmaking in response to the ephemerality of queer history. By using appropriated text, photos, sound, and video to make visible the hidden, sometimes unflattering, and often unarchivable traces of queer experience, his work builds a makeshift archive of love letters, home movies, YouTube videos, sex tapes, spam emails, physique magazines, propaganda films, and selfies. This hour-long program presents the first survey of his work spanning the past eight years. Please note that some of the videos feature sexually explicit materials.
Hugo holds a BFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His videos have screened at film festivals, art galleries, and museums internationally and are distributed worldwide by Vtape and Light Cone.
Sunday, September 21st, 1:00 – 3:00pm
Hosted by Indivisible Charlottesville
Drop by for a relaxed, convivial afternoon to WRITE POSTCARDS to our local, state and federal-level elected representatives about protecting workers’ rights! We’ll call on them to prioritize a living wage, repeal Virginia’s so-called “right to work” law, and strengthen enforcement of labor law violations. Postcards, stamps, suggested language, as well as snacks and good company provided!
This is a Labor Month Action! #SolidiaritySeptember #WorkersOverBillionaires
Experimental Rotoscope Animation Workshop
Join us on Saturday, September 20th, from 12-3 for a free animation workshop with artist-in-residence Hugo Ljungbäck! This hands-on workshop will explore analog rotoscope animation using DIY experimental methods, and each participant will create their own short one-second sequence. No previous experience necessary! Materials will be provided!
Limited capacity, please RSVP to natasha@visible-records.com
Charlottesville Community Potluck
This once a month community potluck will be a place for the Charlottesville community to gather, share food, meet neighbors, and create streams of connection and mutual aid so that our town can be stronger, together.
The First Sunday of the month.
A Freeman Residency artist exhibition
Mythos derives from our sense of self, belonging, and the places we inhabit. It is a pattern of beliefs that symbolically shapes culture, offering both structure and possibility. A constructed system formed by politics, perception, and power which often lacks neutrality leaving many to be marked as different: people flattened into symbol, stereotype, or fantasy. Myth can also be a tool of reclamation turning towards feelings, memories, and the imagination to create new worlds and exceed the narratives imposed on us. “Mythos” strives to take our strained, yet precious memories of a place where we once felt ostracized and showcase how unified feelings can transform into new myths. These myths do not erase difference, but form a world built in defiance of repudiation.
Susan Aparicio is a visual artist from southeast LA working in glass, video, and installation. Her work explores memory, cultural preservation, and the influence of media and technology through a personal lens. Drawing from early 2000s pop culture, digital archives, and home footage, her works turn memory and upbringing into sites of reverence and reflection. Aparicio holds dual BA degrees in Studio Art and Cognitive Science from UVA, and earned an MFA in Art from UCLA. She is currently based in Pasadena, CA.
David Askew received their Bachelor of Arts in Painting from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia in 2022. Askew is a Black, Queer, Non-binary oil painter whose work navigates the complex intersections of identity, sexuality, and societal constructs. Through creation of human-bird hybrids, they explore themes of self-identity and the nuanced experiences of queerness, blackness, and racial ambiguity. These beings serve as powerful symbols, confronting the hypersexualization, animalization, and exoticization often associated with Askew’s identity in mainstream narratives. Their goal is to celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of their communities. Askew currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Inchworm Fibers Lab is so excited to host Caroline Cook’s Jeans Camp @newmass August 7th-10th at Inchworm Fibers Lab in @visible_records. We will be supported in part by @ewefibers who will be hosting our kick off pop up event. More details and a link to reserve a spot coming soon. Message us for questions/details! Excited to see you there!
Charlottesville Community Potluck
This once a month community potluck will be a place for the Charlottesville community to gather, share food, meet neighbors, and create streams of connection and mutual aid so that our town can be stronger, together.
The First Sunday of the month.
Come check out local artists performing puppetry for adults across a wide range of styles from shadows to felt to cardboard! This year's Modest Puppetry Festival will feature "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" performed with hilarious musical accompaniment by Staunton's own The Off Center! There will be new short performances by Charlottesville artists Ophelia Wild, AV Legere, Artist's Proof Editions, Adele Josephine with Soyboy and Susan Loquat, and Nettle Shirts Puppet Works. Between shows will be musical interludes by Benjamin Freedman, plus a tiny puppet show in a box for one viewer at a time from DC artist Cecilia Cackley. And you can make puppets yourself at Cecilia's "Tiny Worlds" puppetry workshop at the Scrappy Elephant (scrappyelephant.com/classes) the Saturday before the festival! *note: actual modesty is not guaranteed.
Contact: Miranda/ miranda.elliott.rader@gmail.com
Bring a team of up to six people and a spirit of friendly competition for five-to-six rounds of
trivia to benefit Charlottesville Area Harm Reduction. There will be snacks, soda/juice, and a
small prize for the winner, but the real prize is the friends we made along the way and the
money raised for harm reduction (and bragging rights!).
Charlottesville Area Harm Reduction works toward a safer and more caring community
through the distribution of Narcan, clean syringes, and other harm reduction supplies.
Donate what you want!
We'll be writing to the solitary gardeners this month. All supplies provided, no experience necessary, drop in and bring a friend!
The Charlottesville Jazz Society presents an evening of improvised percussion with Scott Clark and Tim Daisy. Guest artists John D'earth (trumpet) and Jamal Millner (guitar) will join them in the 2nd set.
$15 suggested donation/NOTAFLOF
Charlottesville Community Potluck
This once a month community potluck will be a place for the Charlottesville community to gather, share food, meet neighbors, and create streams of connection and mutual aid so that our town can be stronger, together.
The First Sunday of the month.
