If you clean the floor with a broom, the bristles need to be straight and firm for maximum effectiveness. Over time with use, the bristles will tend to soften and curl inward, making it harder to use. Eventually the broom needs to be replaced.
Of course, none of this happens in a vacuum.
Description in the link:
“Homelessness in Charlottesville is increasing, with more people than ever now experiencing a lack of secure housing, and the harms and challenges that come with it. The Free Bridge and 0 E. High Street encampments are shining a light on the negative human impact of the area’s affordable housing shortage and testing how our community and local government respond.
“This webinar is intended to help us all gain a better understanding of the current state of homelessness in Charlottesville, what is being done to address it, and what needs to happen to achieve workable solutions for those most impacted.
“We will discuss the city’s plans to close the encampments and open an emergency shelter. We will also be introduced to Central Arizona Shelter Service, a homelessness service organization based in Phoenix that the City of Charlottesville is in discussions with about operating the shelter.
“We will conclude with Q&A to help further our understanding of this complex situation.’
Speakers
Shayla Washington, Executive Director, Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless (BRACH)
Jen Fleisher, Charlottesville City Councilor
Brittnie Stanton, Chief Program Officer, Central Arizona Shelter Service
https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-homelessness-in-charlottesville-whats-the-plan
Please share this sheet of information with anyone who needs it. It is information on resources in Charlottesville for homelessness, hunger, healthcare, and sexual abuse, and other information for people in crisis.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nHUgilnegwyPoP3fpFa3ORLVdhTmFEZLUUKYhW13tGk/edit?tab=t.0
The next Full Committee Meeting of the Charlottesville Democrats will be held on Monday, July 27th, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. We will meet in the Swanson Room in the Downtown Library. The whole community is welcome to attend and participate.
Please note the different time for this meeting!
The exciting next step in the transformation of our toxic old monuments into something beautiful and positive! This coming Friday, 7/10/26, 6:00pm at the Jefferson School.
Senator Lucas’s Data Center Listening Tour is coming to Charlottesville!
➡️ Register using the QR code to join us this Sunday. Or by visiting:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSch32wZktw8ShDA25tyKQCoIeznnuKR52tLmqBrUI_gQx-BdA/viewform
🌟All are welcome, and active participation is encouraged throughout the event.
After loving El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego from the Met: Live in HD, I went looking for other work by the composer, Gabriela Lena Frank, who was unfamiliar to me. Going through her portfolio on Idagio, I'm finding a lot of good stuff! This is an extremely charming work for flute and piano, which I am guessing is inspired by her travels in Peru (she is American). I think that you will like it as well.
I looked up data on the last ten years of crime in Charlottesville. This is available on the FBI's website, on the Crime Data Explorer, which provides access to the Unified Crime Reporting system. Police departments around the country are supposed to report local crime info to the FBI under this system in a unified format. (A lot of them don't, but the Charlottesville PD does.)
You can see the data here for homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault. For all three, it looks to me like either no trend or a slightly declining trend, with a couple of bad years immediately after the pandemic. That blip was a nationwide phenomenon.
There is no dramatic message, but if you see people saying that Charlottesville is spiralling into a nightmare of Mad-Max-style crime, you can show them that it is simply not true.
“Your voice matters!! Ahead of the June 18 budget special session, I would love to hear your thoughts, priorities, and concerns so I can better represent our community in Richmond.”
Sign up for a time at:
Hello reddit and r/movies!
We are Paul & Ellen Wagner, filmmakers of the new documentary GEORGIA O'OKEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT.
Georgia O’Keeffe is widely revered as the “Mother of American Modernism” and the greatest woman artist of the 20th century. In the 1920s, O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. She posed nude for shocking photographs by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz, but denied that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model for American women.
The doc not only celebrates O’Keeffe’s extraordinary achievements, but reveals the richness of her inner life, the depth of her feelings and the complexity of the woman behind some of the most iconic paintings of the 20th century. Featuring interviews with all the notable experts on O'Keeffe's life and art.
Narrated by Hugh Dancy, with Clarie Danes as the voice of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Our bios:
>Paul Wagner is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning independent filmmaker who has produced and directed over fifty films over a fifty-year career. His most recent documentaries are Bodies Upon the Gears, a short film about Mario Savio and the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement sponsored by FIRE - the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light, a feature documentary about the life and art of the iconic artist. Many of Paul's documentaries have been broadcast nationally on PBS. They include The Stone Carvers, winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary and the national Emmy Award for Best Director, about the Italian American artisans who carved the statues and gargoyles of Washington National Cathedral; Miles of Smiles/Years of Struggle, a Telluride Film Festival premiere and winner of four regional Emmy Awards, the story of the Pullman porters who formed America’s first black labor union; Signature: George C. Wolfe, a portrait of the controversial New York theatrical writer and director; Good Work: Masters of the Building Arts, produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, about artisans from many different American regions and craft traditions; Black in Blue, about the African American University of Kentucky football players who broke the color line in the Southeastern Conference in the 1960s; and Out of Ireland, a sweeping history of Irish emigration to America that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Paul’s dramatic feature Windhorse, about young Tibetans struggling for freedom under the Chinese communist regime, won awards for Best American Feature and for Best Director at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and was released theatrically by Shadow Distribution and New Yorker Films. Windhorse was filmed secretly inside China and Nepal and is recognized by American Cinematographer magazine as the world's first digitally-shot feature film.
>Ellen Casey Wagner is the president of American Focus, Inc., a non-profit organization committed to creating films about America and its people. She has produced several films, beginning in 1995 with Out of Ireland: the Story of Irish Emigration to America. Most recently, Ellen produced Georgia O’Keeffe: the Brightness of Light, a feature length documentary on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe. Other productions include Black in Blue, about the football players who broke the color line in Southern sports, and The Tunnel, about the Blue Ridge Railroad Tunnel in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ellen was the executive producer of Windhorse, the first digitally produced feature, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival, played theatrically at 100 theaters in North America, and was distributed by New Yorker Films. Prior to the founding of American Focus, Ellen served as an associate producer at WETA, public television station in Washington, DC.
Ask us anything! We will be back to answer questions on Tuesday June 9 @ 3 PM EST.
Note: I am not part of Indivisible. Just passing on the information.
(1) “Join us this Sat, June 6, 1-3 PM at the UU Congregation (717 Rugby Road) for an ALL HANDS mtg. CHILD CARE PROVIDED! Let's prepare for the Nov election - 3 key rights are on the ballot so we can't give in to cynicism or exhaustion: Reproductive Freedom; Marriage Equality; & Voting Rights!”
(2) Protest Against Health Care Cuts
Friday, June 5, 2026
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
[Link.](https://www.indivisiblecharlottesville.org/events/20260605healthcarecuts)
(3) All Hands Meeting
Saturday, June 6, 2026
1:00 PM 3:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville
717 Rugby RoadCharlottesville.
[Link.](https://www.indivisiblecharlottesville.org/events/20260606all-hands-meeting)
From Katherine Needleman’s Substack article.
Probably many of you are familiar with Katherine Needleman, amazing musician, principal oboist for the Baltimore Symphony and articulate advocate for gender equality in classical music.
From her article:
> Limmie Pulliam died on May 19, 2026. Despite tributes from famous people (see those from Sheryl Crow and Rhiannon Giddens below) and previous coverage by the New York Times, his death perplexingly did not receive notice there.
The January 2023 New York Times piece profiled Pulliam’s remarkable comeback story. He was a tenor who quit opera in his early 20s due to rampant body shaming in the classical music industry (directors literally emailing him to come back after losing 50 pounds) and spent 12 years working as a debt collector, security guard, and eventually running his own security firm. His voice was rekindled almost by accident when he sang the national anthem at an Obama campaign event in Missouri in 2007, where he discovered his instrument had matured into something richer and larger. He spent years rebuilding and posting clips to YouTube before eventually landing staged roles again.
>The article’s news hook was a double milestone: his Carnegie Hall debut singing R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses with the Oberlin Orchestra, and his Metropolitan Opera debut as Radamès in Aida, which made him the first Black singer to perform that role in the Met’s history.
>… I have to wonder why the New York Times did not choose to cover his death.
Cville Dems will have its bimonthly Full Committee Meeting on Monday, June 1, in Forest Hills Park Pavilion from 6:30 PM to 8 PM. We will discuss organizational matters following the referendum decision and how to prepare for the upcoming primaries and the midterms. The whole community is welcome!
This wonderful short film is called "Zea," and was directed by André Leduc and Jean-Jacques Leduc and sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada. In the 1980's, it was commonly shown in movie theatres before the movie! Outstanding use of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughn Williams; the recording here is from the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Mariner.
The local non-profit group Swords Into Plowshares (SIP) is charged with replacing the former Robert E. Lee statue, once standing in Market Street Park and currently reduced to ingots, with a public work that will reflect our community and that everyone can enjoy. SIP has raised millions of dollars and received more than thirty formal proposals, which they have winnowed down to three finalists: Hood Design Studio, MASS Design Group and PUSH Studio. There have been a lot of community events to inform us of this process and receive feedback, and this week is the last week to vote.
Brief videos explaining the proposals can be found on the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center's Facebook page:
You can download the written proposals from:
and you can also vote from the button on that page. If you would like to see the 20-minute visual presentations from the three firms, they are at (scroll down):
I hope that you will have a look if you have not already done so!
