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Saturday, February 1 - May 11: The featured exhibit at the Virginia Discovery Museum through May 11 is Up From the Earth: the Mandan Way of Life. Lewis and Clark stayed with the Mandan Indians in the winter of 1804 - 1805. This exhibit introduces children to their culture and lifestyle. This original exhibit, created to support the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, features a model earth lodge, a bull boat made from a real bison hide, Indian games and costumes. This exhibit is sponsored by Bank of America. The Museum is closed on Mondays. Saturday, February 1: Monticello's Shannon Senior Research Historian Lucia Stanton and African-American Programs Director Dianne Swan Wright will speak about the book they are writing on Monticello's Getting Word Oral History Project. The Visitor's Center (Rte 20 just south of Rte 64), 10 am. Free. Saturday, February 1: Begins the Year of The Blues. A proclamation has been issued calling on the people of the United States to observe the ‘Year of the Blues’ with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and educational programs.. Sunday, February 2: Groundhog Day. Six more weeks of winter. Monday, February 3: At 7 pm, Charlottesville NOW will present artist and author Marta Sanchez at the Central Jefferson Madison Regional Library (http://jmrl.org/main/main.htm) on 201 E. Market Street. You can check out Ms Sanchez's website at http://www.hightrance.com/ to find out more about her work. Come out and hear Ms Sanchez talk about her life as a woman of power and passion. We are working to communicate with our members more effectively Valarie Massie Watersun, President, CNOW Monday, February 3: Cross-over Day at the Virginia General Assembly Thursday, February 6: The City of Charlottesville is having community presentations on the proposed new zoning ordinance. The new ordinance is comprehensive, ambitious and complex. Among other changes (the document is several hundred pages) it creates new high density around UVa, regulation of entrance corridors, new accessory apartments rules, decreases from 4 to 3 the number of unrelated adults in homes in low-density areas, and eliminates "grandfathering". And a lot, lot more. The next presentation is on Thursday, February 6th at 6 p.m. at Buford School in Charlottesville. David Brown Thursday, February 6: On Thursday, February 6 at 6:30 p.m., the Albemarle County School Board will hold a budget hearing in the Albemarle County office building (corner of Preston and McIntire). We hope that you can come and testify in support of a living wage for all school workers -- maintenance, custodial, cafeteria, secretarial, etc. Prior to the budget hearing, we need to get people to contact the school board members to encourage them to make sure that all employees are paid at least $8.65 an hour plus health insurance. Also, we need to get folks to send letters to the editor. Here is the appropriate contact information. Please spread the word! Albemarle County School Board Contacting school board members directly: Steve Koleszar, chair skolesza@albemarle.org 293-7262 (home) Superintendent Kevin Castner Letter to the Editor Joe Szakos Thursday, February 6: The next monthly meeting of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP) is on Thursday evening, February 6, at 7:30 in the library of Westminster Presbyterian Church (that's on the corner of the church nearest the Prism Coffee House). David Benish, Chief of Planning & Community Development for Albemarle County, will talk with us about "Albemarle's Official Population Growth Strategy: Design, Management, or Accommodation?"
The purpose of the meeting is to better understand (a) the premises underlying the way the Albemarle County Planning Department deals with growth, and (b) the degree to which these premises reflect unambiguous legal guidelines from the state and/or policy statements from county supervisors. Call 974-6390 for more information. Friday, February 7: Art In Place invites you to the opening Reception and Award Presentations for "Charlottesville in 2 Dimensions: Views of the City" at McGuffey Art Center from 5 to 7 p.m. Sponsored by the City of Charlottesville. Monday, February 10: Community presentation on the proposed new Charlottesville zoning ordinance. Fry's Spring Beach Club at 7 p.m. There will also be a public hearing in March, for the planning commission, but the date has not been set. Wednesday, February 12: Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. Saturday, February 15: The Albemarle/Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast will be held at JABA at 9:30 a.m. and will feature Kent Willis, Executive Director of the ACLU of Virginia, and Josh Wheeler with the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Expression of Free Speech, who will be speaking about the Bill of Rights and the war on terrorism. The breakfast is open to the public. Saturday, February 15: Playwright Gesell Mason talks about how her interest in enslaved life at Monticello led her to write and direct the acclaimed theatre play, A Declaration of Independence: The Story of Sally Hemmings. Kenwood (half-mile or so east of Monticello entrance on Rte 53), 10 am. Free. Saturday, February 15: On Saturday, February 15, as part of the national commemoration of Black History Month, James Madison's Montpelier is offering special tours of the cabin, yard and cemetery at the Gilmore Farm - the post-Civil War "freedman" home of George Gilmore, a former slave at Montpelier.  Tours will be offered at 11:00 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m. The tours will begin at the Montpelier Visitor Center on Route 20. These tours are offered at no charge, although any funds donated by participants will be earmarked for future restoration of the Gilmore farm. The Gilmore farm site is not currently open to the public. Although the Gilmore Cabin is still a "work in progress", visitors will be able to look through the doors and windows of the house. Historic photographs of both the farm and Gilmore family members will be on display. Montpelier interpretive and archaeological staff will be on hand to help explain the history of the site and answer visitors' questions. Tour participants also will have the opportunity to visit the Gilmore family cemetery and to meet descendants of George Gilmore. George Gilmore, born a slave of James Madison's at Montpelier in about 1810, built the house in 1873, after his emancipation at the end of the Civil War. The one-and-a-half story house, built of chestnut oak logs, is one of the few remaining "freedman" cabins in the Virginia Piedmont. The Gilmore Cabin is profiled in The Heritage and Culture of African Americans in Virginia, a guide to black-history sites recently released by the Virginia Tourism Corporation.  Montpelier is a National Trust historic site administered by The Montpelier
Foundation, an independent non-profit organization. Montpelier is located
on Saturday, February 15: Area leaders and retired military personnel have organized a 'Rally for the Troops' ceremony to be held at 1 p.m. on the steps of the Albemarle County office building. The rally will show support for the soldiers dispatched to the Persian Gulf, as well as the government's pressure to force Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to disarm. In a recent newsletter, Albemarle County Republican Committee Chairman Keith C. Drake, said: "'This is a chance for citizens to express their support for the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the U.S. armed forces who are preparing to go into harm's way, in our place and on our behalf.' 'It is also a rally to support U.N. and U.S. government to remove weapons of mass destruction from Iraq - by force if necessary" (Ron Hasson, The Observer, February 12, 2003). Speakers and musical performers will take part in the ceremony and Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R- Rocky Mount, is scheduled to attend. Call Rev. Don Ward at 953-5160 for more information. Saturday, February 15: CCPJ is organizing an event to coincide with cities around the world protesting war on Iraq. ***DRUMMERS NEEDED: Call Jessica at 296-2153. We want as many drummers as we can to march with us. Here is the information for Charlottesville: SILENT PROCESSION: 2:30 pm Gather in front of the Rotunda. Proceed to the Downtown Mall on Main Street followed by CANDLELIGHT VIGIL from 4:00-5:00 PM in front of the Ice Park. Wear black if possible. Signs and candles provided. Co-sponsored by CCPJ (info: 456-8176 or 961-6278 and the Anti-War Coalition at UVA (info: 296-2154) Wednesday, February 19 - Saturday, February 22: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theatre Project at 8pm at Culbreth Theatre. What happens to an American town when something unexpected, unconscionable and unforgivable rips it apart and thrusts it into the national media spotlight. That is the question that led a New York City theatre troupe to the town of Laramie, Wyoming, to interview residents after a gay college student name Mathew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead off a rural road. The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. This piece of theatrical journalism explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which it is capable. Thursday, February 20: Blackface Minstrelsy: Past and Present.Speaker/Performer Eric Lott. Location Wilson Hall, Room 301, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA at 6:00 pm. Sponsored by the Office of African-American Affairs. In the 19th century, Blackface minstrely took the entertainment industry by storm through degrading and mocking African Americans and Black culture. Professor Lott will talk about the origins of minstrelsy and how it maintains a place in contemporary American popular culture. Attendance Information This event is open to the public. Admission is free. Handicapped accessible. Contact Information Dean Levy, Dean Office of African American Affairs 924-7923. Thursday, February 20 - Sunday February 23: Tandem Players Present William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Directed by Larry Goldstein. Assistant Director John Gibson.  Tandem Community Hall. 7 p.m. on Thursday. 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. 7 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets $6 and $8. For advanced ticket sales, call 296-1303 ext. 238. Friday, February 21: Washington Bureau Chief for CNN Frank Sesno will discuss "Reporting the New News: American Journalism Under Fire" at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at 11 a.m. Friday, February 21: Colloquium featuring Guthrie P. Ramsey, from the University of Pennsylvania at 3:30 p.m., Room 107, Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. Free and open to the public Prof. Ramsey is a specialist in African-American and American music, jazz, cultural studies, popular music, film studies, and historiography. His new book, _Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop_ will be appearing this spring from the University of California Press. His talk Friday will be entitled: "The Pot Liquor Principle: Developing a Black Music Criticism within American Music Studies." This paper critiques the notions of essentialism and anti-essentialism in black music studies through the identification and explanation of three contemporary categories of race theory: the social, the cultural, and the discursive. Prof. Ramsey argues that recent turns in the literature threaten the usefulness of social experience in American music scholarship. Sponsored by the McIntire Department of Music Saturday, February 22: The Charlottesville Democratic Committee invites you to the Third Annual Political Pasta Supper Featuring: Silent and Live Auctions including; A river float for two with Creigh Deeds on the Cow Pasture River; a first-day Langston Hughes stamp; a literary evening with several local authors to benefit the Scholarship Fund; a visit to the Richmond Botanical Garden including lunch; and many more wonderful items ........ and a competition for the Best Pasta Sauce. Competitors include: Meredith Richards, Blake Caravati, Mayor Maurice Cox, Kevin Lynch, David Toscano, Russell Perry, and Waldo Jaquith. From 6-9:30 pm at the Monticello Event & Conference Center , 201 Monticello Avenue (corner of Gleason and Monticello). Tickets are $ 15 and include a great selection of sauces, bread, salad and dessert. Cash bar. Purchase tickets now from your precinct chair, or at the door. Saturday, February 22: At Monticello, Archaeology Afternoon for Children in grades 4 to 7. Monticello Archaeology Lab, 12:45 pm. Free. Reservations required. Call 984-9853. Saturday, February 22: "Rally 'Round the Flag for the Restoration of Property Rights." Jefferson Area Libertarians are sponsoring a rally to support Arby's owner Tom Slonaker in his ongoing dispute with Albemarle County over the flying of the Arby's flag on the same staff as the American flag and other offenses. Speakers will include Jonathan Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, former Del. Peter Way, and James W. Lark, III, Immediate Past Chair of the National Libertarian Party and Secretary of the local organization. To be held at the Arby's on Rte 29 at Forest Lakes, 1:00 to 3:00 pm. A tent will shelter attendees if there is rain. Monday, February 24: "Support the President and Armed Forces" Rally. Speakers include Rep. Virgil Goode, Matthew Rubin (Hoos for Israel), Ali Ahmad (representing Muslims), and Ronnie Mayhew (UVa Student Council). Five pm on the north (University Avenue) steps of the Rotunda. Monday, February 24: "Learning from Paul & Sheila Wellstone" How to Transform the Democratic Party from the Inside and from the Outside Monday, February 24 6:30-9:30pm Drawing on the inspiring example of Paul and Sheila Wellstone, this symposium will explore strategies for transforming the Democratic Party. Well-known leaders of social movements and electoral politics will discuss the kinds of issues that a reformed Democratic party must address, and the language that will reach and persuade the American public. The speakers will assess social movement strategies for pressuring the Democratic party from the outside, as well as the Wellstone style of grassroots organization and campaigning to transform the party from the inside. Stanley Aronowitz, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Cosponsored by the CUNY/Graduate Center?s Independent Politics Group, Continuing Education & Public Programs, and the Center for the Humanities; The Nation; Working Families Party, NY Jobs with Justice and Cornell Union Leadership Training Program. Tuesday, February 25: The Charlottesville-Albemarle League of Women Voters holds its General Meeting/Lunch on Tuesday, February 25th at noon in OMansky Hall in Congregation Beth Israel, 301 E. Jefferson Street. All members of the public are invited; lunch is available for $8 (please call the League office to reserve a lunch: 970-1707). Guest speaker is Dr. Alfred Fernbach, from the University of Virginias Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, who will be discussing Prerequisites for Peace. Dr. Fernbach has taught numerous courses on International Affairs both here and abroad. He was a Fulbright Professor for a year in Norway and a year in India. His extensive travels in Europe and Asia have given him a unique world view evident in his extensive scholarship and research. Please join the League and Dr. Fernbach for this timely discussion. For more information, call the League office (970-1707) or e-mail lwv@avenue.org or call Jenny Mead (295-8898) or Flora Patterson (295-5532). Wednesday, February 25: Gary Hart, Former Senator (D-CO) will speak at 04:15 PM, Caplin Pavilion at the University of Virginia Law School on the topic "Restoration of the Republic." This event is sponsored by the Student Legal Forum and is open to the public. Wednesday, February 25: BLSA Black History Month Movie Presentations 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM, SL258 at the University of Virginia Law School "Mr. & Mrs. Loving" Come watch the movie detailing the lives of the interracial couple who challenged miscegenation laws in Virginia. Professor Mildred Robinson will provide commentary relating to the movie. Thursday, February 27: Edna Jacques, a descendent of the enslaved community, will talk about her family research to better understand the heritage and history of her people. Kenwood (1/2 mile east of Monticello on Rte 53), 4 pm. Free. Thursday, February 27: Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine will be in Charlottesville to meet with working people and address their concerns. The meeting will be at Zehmer Hall (Midmont Lane, off Alderman at the Catholic Church) 5:30 - 6:30 pm, and is open to the public. Please come and meet with Mr. Kaine -- our elected officials need to hear your voice. This event arranged by SUUVA-CWA, the Staff Union at the University of Virginia. Free parking at Zehmer Hall. 434 984-3362.
Friday, February 28: "Catholicism: Confronting Religious Scandal and Policy Advocacy" 11:00 AM at the Miller Center Father J. Bryan Hehir is the president of Catholic Charities USA and also serves as distinguished professor of ethics and international affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Prior to assuming this position, Father Hehir served as professor of the Practice in Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and as faculty associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs from 1993 to 2001. He also served as interim-dean and then dean of the Divinity School from 1998 to 2001. Before joining the Harvard faculty he was the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Friday, February 28: Paul C. Garrett, Clerk of the Charlottesville Circuit Court, will anounce his intention to seek the Democrat Party nomination as its candidate for re-election to the position on February 28, 2003 at 12:00 p.m. on the front steps of the Charlottesville Circuit Court, 315 East High Street. Your presence at the announcement would be appreciated.
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