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Seniors Tell Their Stories
Writer and teacher Valley Haggard recently spent her first morning with a group of seniors from Richmond’s Peter Paul Development Center at VisArts. She shared this report: “People are hungry for...
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Art After School Student Work Published
The Redwing’s Nest, Sabot at Stony Point’s new online journal of literature & the arts for preschool through 8th grade, includes poems and stories by four of our very own Art After School...
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Deirdra McAfee Shares a Story
Writing instructor Deirdra McAfee has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), located near Sweet Briar College in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains....
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Safe places and escapes
Art After School writing instructor Valley Haggard shared this reflection on the 2011-12 experience: During each session of Art After School at Albert Hill Middle, the students in the creative writing...
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Following a Creative Path
Profiles in Creativity: Kimberly Nario Name: Kimberly Nario Birthplace: Virginia Beach, VA Occupation: Operations Manager at Gallery5 VisArts Class: The Nuts and Bolts of Playwriting Kimberly Nario...
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Fiction writers Deirdra McAfee and Betty Joyce Nash receive VCCA residency
Congratulations to VisArts’ writers Deirdra McAfee and Betty Joyce Nash on receiving a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to edit their project The Second Amendment Reader, an...
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“Big and little” storytelling workshop
Village Presbyterian Friendship Café seniors and Binford Middle School sixth-graders participated in our four-day intensive storytelling workshop. “Big and little” pairs worked together to learn about...
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