♫ Jon Camp Band | amminal | Jordan Perry ♫

We are thrilled to share with you all a series of special events happening next month as part of the Odds & Ends Film Festival. Tickets for the festival are officially on sale at this website.

Odds & Ends showcases films and videos that push formal and conceptual boundaries, allowing for multiple ways of understanding and interpretation. Each year, we celebrate a diverse range of films that work across modes and genres, addressing the materiality of the medium from poetic, personal, or political perspectives. We especially love to showcase innovative works by emerging filmmakers who work outside of commercial structures. We will be showing two programs of shorts films on Friday, February 21st at 8:15pm and Saturday, February 22nd at 7:30pm at Light House Studio's Vinegar Hill Theater (VHT): 220 W Market Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902. 

Monty has settled into a life as a live-in portrait model for the eccentric painter, Dave. It is Kansas City, 1995, and while there is probably somewhere better to be, here is tolerable enough. Dave has brought home Gabe, a new roommate for Monty, without warning. While Monty reengages with the outside world now located inside the safe walls of Dave's studio, Gabe starts to peel away at the things that have kept Monty isolated for so long. In an endurance test for the ages, Monty and Gabe see how long they can spend every minute together play-acting the erotic for Dave before they trauma bond or fall for one another. 

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Content warnings:

Graphic depictions of sex, sexual assault, self-harm, workplace harassment, and violence. Discussions of suicidality, body dysmorphia, sexual abuse and assault, injury, and use of profanity and queer slurs. Minor discussions of xenophobia, child abuse, and homophobia 

The Sound Justice Lab and the Disability Studies Initiative at UVA present a screening of Patrice: The Movie, a “documentary rom-com” about disability and marriage equality. The film tells the story of a couple, Patrice and Garry, who want to get married but risk losing their government benefits if they do. Patrice: The Movie (2024), dir. Ted Passon

Join us for a post-screening conversation with C’ville-based composer, Molly Joyce, who wrote the music for the film; as well as local disability advocate, Jess Walters; and artist-lawyer, Amy Woolard.

Free admission; drinks and snacks provided.

For more info, contact Nomi Dave, ndave@virginia.edu

♫ Jamison Field Murphy | Infinity Infinity | October Love ♫

(new date from the original date that was postponed 2/15)

Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who’s written a love story about bread — which is to say he’s

written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. His

debut book builds on a life-consuming passion for quality bread: what goes into it, physically

and emotionally. Based in Chicago, Jim is known locally for selling out of loaves quickly, but

across the country he’s worked under nearly every bread baker equally obsessed with 100

percent whole grain. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental

poetry, Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf just as there are many

ways to live a life.

bakernobakery is Chris(tina) Martin.

“I view myself more as an artist, the microbakery is a vehicle for exploring all my passions and what inspires me. I thrive being able to garden, raise chickens, and support local food systems through it all. bakernobakery currently employs two seasonal part-timers, and without their help I wouldn’t be able to rock and roll.”

please RSVP HERE