LCVA Events

• The documentary film Kamp Katrina will be shown March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts lower level, as part of the General Education Film Series. The film follows the stressful lives of 10 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina who are allowed to live in the backyard of a New Orleans couple. The film has been called “a story of hope, community, generosity, rebirth and failure.”

• “China: A Travelogue” will be presented Thursday, March 6, at 12:30 p.m. in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts lower level by K. Johnson Bowles, LCVA director. The presentation is part of the Art for Lunch Lecture Series. In the fall of 2006 Bowles represented Longwood in a delegation to China headed by President Cormier that visited Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou. Her travelogue, illustrated with photographs from her trip, will include stops at the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Suzhou’s new museum, designed by I.M. Pei.

• Sculptor Christopher Fennell will speak on his art installation, Monumental Trash, on March 19 at 6 p.m. in Bedford Hall Auditorium, for the Brock Commons Lecture Series. Fennell, of Birmingham, Ala., uses discarded items to create his award-winning sculptures, which have been exhibited in more than a dozen states. “The most interesting thing about Christopher Fennell’s installation is that he hasn’t done it yet – he won’t even pick out his materials until he gets to Farmville and scouts out the possibilities,” said Beth Cheuk of the LCVA. “He will begin construction of the sculpture on or around March 18.”

• The science fiction/fantasy film The Fountain will be shown Wednesday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in Bedford Auditorium for the General Education Film Series. The 2006 film follows three interwoven narratives from the age of the conquistadors, the modern-day period and the far future.
• The eighth annual Area Youth Art Month Exhibition will run in the LCVA lower level through March 22. The exhibition, sponsored by @WORK Personnel and Medical Services, features more than 400 works by young people from schools in nine area counties.
• “Festival of Lights,” the final festival of the Chinese New Year, is in the Main Street Gallery through April 26. The exhibition, done by students from every school in Nottoway County, features lanterns of various sizes and shapes, a dancing dragon, the Chinese zodiac animals, Chinese architecture, and other colorful items.