Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
There has been a lot of discussion of AI art and its effect on the movie industry, but not enough discussion of art that has been produced in such a careless and profit-minded way that it might as well have been written by AI. Nintendo and Illumination’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is one such […]
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The Senior Director of Library and Academic Support at PVCC, Crystal Newell, is involved in numerous projects and initiatives aimed at promoting media literacy and reading. Newell projects affability and the kind of patience sometimes found in people who have spent years as educators. Her office is filled with baby pictures and children’s drawings hanging […]
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On April 3, a small crowd of around 20 people attended PVCC’s screening of the documentary film The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, an American Agitator in the V. Earl Dickinson Building’s spacious Main Stage Theatre. The documentary follows the life of activist Sala Udin and his imprisonment and persecution at the hands of the […]
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This semester, PVCC’s student Book Club read a self-help book called The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins. Last semester, the club read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For reading enthusiasts, there is no better way of getting introduced to a variety of new reads than joining a group of like-minded people. However, reading is not the […]
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At 3 p.m. on March 22, the Nettle Shirts puppet show took place in the PVCC Maxwell Black Box Theatre in the V. Earl Dickinson Building. The performance featured an old folk tale retold as a story of queer acceptance for all audiences. The puppet show is the brainchild of Miranda Elliott-Rader, who is responsible […]
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The PVCC Testing Center, located in room M607 of the Main Building, offers a variety of testing services for PVCC students and people in the larger Charlottesville community. For PVCC students, the Testing Center is a place where students with special needs can receive testing accommodations, take English as a second language or ESL tests, […]
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On Feb. 6, the UVA Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, and the PVCC Visual Arts Department, opened the art exhibition “Community Connections: Creative Pathways to Understanding” in the V. Earl Dickenson Building. The exhibit was made in collaboration with nine other organizations in the Charlottesville area. Creative access and human connection were at the […]
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