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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Hi everyone Jim Ryan here with episode 8
of Arts on the Hill the digital edition

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you just heard what may be my favorite
new version of Here Comes the Sun it's

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been a bit gloomy here in
Charlottesville so that was the perfect

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antidote the song came from Anthony of
the class of 2023 and his brother

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Christopher who is hopefully a future
Hoo before we move on to our next act I

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would like to say thank you a big thank
you to everyone who has submitted a

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performance engaged with the show work
to make it happen we are going to adjust

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the format a bit over the summer so look
out for those changes but for now

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tonight May 24th the year 2020 enjoy the
talents of this wonderful UVA community

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and please be well.

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Thank you President
Ryan I think that song worked the Sun

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just came out right now kicking off the
show is a powerful performance by

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students in Black Monologues, The Black
Monologues is a theatrical production

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that explores the struggles joys and
complexities of blackness at UVA and

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beyond every year they put on a sold-out
show at UVA but sadly due to COVID-19

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they could not perform in their regular
season but we are so fortunate tonight

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in a digital world that they've
submitted a beautiful piece for us all

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to enjoy right now

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Hi my name is Nia Williams

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hello my name is Lanija Brown

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my name is Tanner Phipps

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Hi I'm Jordan Brown

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Hi my name is Myka Greene

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Hello my name is Grace O. Gyamfi

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and this is The Simple Things by Marki Smith

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My happy is the thought of maybe being

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the first in line at Bodo's Bagels and
getting the first ticket my happy is

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sitting on the lawn at sunset or on the
Rotunda steps at dawn my happy is

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those late night Cook Out runs with
friends just for a milkshake my happy is

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not having an assignment due today and
if it is my happy is forgetting about

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it for a short while
my happy is a collab assignment uploaded

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email confirmation my happy is this with
no to-do items and all the classes in my

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shopping cart added my happy is having
almond milk for breakfast as I

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contemplate how many almonds had to be
milked for me to enjoy it my happy is

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getting to Newcomb early enough for
the omelet station my happy is free

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Welcome Week concert tickets or tickets
to see any student production my happy

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is waiting in the standby line my happy
is Miss Kathy when she swipes my card

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in to Newcomb and it clears my happy is
the hug she gives me and lets me know

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this world's not ready for me because
you are everything you little butt

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kicker or you rump roaster or love she
says my happy is knowing that we don't

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deserve her but still being able to have
her my happy is going into the stacks

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and not taking over 30 minutes to find a
book or get lost my happy is free

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printing free shirts free cups free
anything my happy

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is that my soon to be crippling loans
aren't due today or tomorrow my happy is

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a day extension on that project that I
would have had enough time for it if I

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hadn't procrastinated my happy is sunset
at Carter's Mountain and I'm staring in

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the front-facing camera
taking a bomb selfie as the Sun bounces

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off my melanated skin my happy is when
my teacher answers my emails in a timely

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manner my happy is packing up to come to
UVA and packing up to leave my happy is

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when I'm writing reading or living my
poetry my happy is a phone call from

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home a text message from friends a study
group email from peers my happy is

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immeasurable untouchable and eternal my
happy is living breathing still

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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slow down, you crazy child
you're so ambitious for a juvenile

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but then if you're so smart then
why are you still so afraid?

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where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
you'd better cool it off before you burn it out

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you've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day

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but you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want or you get old

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you're gonna kick off before you even
get halfway through

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when will you realize, Vienna waits for you

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slow down, you're doing fine
you can't be everything you want to be

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before your time although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight

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too bad but it's the life you lead
you're so ahead of yourself you forgot what you need

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though you can see when you're wrong, you know
you can't always see when you're right. you're right

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you've got your passion, you've got your pride
but don't you know that only fools are satisfied?

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dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true
when will you realize, Vienna waits for you?

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slow down, you crazy child
take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile

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it's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two
when will you realize, Vienna waits for you?

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and you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want or you can just get old

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you're gonna kick off before you even get half through
why don't you realize, Vienna waits for you

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When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?

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Hi this is John Casteen locked down as
you probably are and this is

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Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 98 which is
about being apart in spring.

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From you have I been absent in the spring when
proud-pied April dressed in all his trim

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hath put a spirit of youth in everything
that heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him

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yet nor the lays of birds nor
the sweet smell of different flowers

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in odour and in hue could make me any
summer's story tell or from their proud

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lap pluck them where they grew nor did i
wonder at the lily's white nor praise

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the deep vermilion in the rose they were
but sweet but figures of delight drawn

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after you you pattern of all those yet
seemed at winter still and you away as

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with your shadow I with these did play

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Thank You President Casteen it's really

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an honor to have you on the show sharing
that wonderful poetry next up a

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Mendelssohn Intermezzo which is kind of
fun to say and even more fun to hear by

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the Charlottesville Symphony

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I'm Ben Rous
music director of the Charlottesville

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Symphony at the University of Virginia
today I've come together with our string

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principals with our masks and with some
distance between us to play an

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intermezzo an intermezzo is a special
kind of musical form that you can think

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of as an interlude or as internal kind
of like this period of our lives and

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this is composed by the greatest
Intermezzo composer Felix Mendelssohn

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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for the past three years professor Doug
Grissom and I have offered a two

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semester screenwriting and film
directing class in the drama department

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the students call it over cranked this
past fall each of them wrote a script

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for a short film and had an inspiring
onset visit with fellow filmmaker Ethan Hawke

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then in the spring each student directed

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their own film
unfortunately the COVID-19 crisis

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struck right in the middle of their
filming the luckier directors had shot

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at least part of their footage before
spring break and were able to edit their

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films at home for example Free Restart
is a fantastical mystery by Ryan Singer

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back take it. Hey! Who's that? no wait
please!

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Date Non-Function is a comic social
commentary by Lizz Bangura

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actually I'm an engineer that makes
sense - girl I got a really good connect

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with my cousin who can get you some
cheap kanekalon hair we can draw that

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little itty bit you have left back into
a nice slick cute ponytail just let me

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know it I was also gonna say lunch lady
because they not allow to have no hair neither

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Label Maker is an offbeat
character study by Jackson Kosmacki

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Feelings Sting is a savvy take on a
sitcom by Tori Kotzen

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weirdo oh you're

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awake
you were watching me sleep weren't you

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what no you were totally watching me
sleep you creep where are you going huh

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wait you just stay a little bit longer

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Where's Nate is a quirky comedy by Kia Wassenaar

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I'm totally gonna break Kurt's skull for

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corrupting my baby bro wait like right
now hell yeah let's go yes I'll Drive

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Threading is a moving coming-of-age story by Marwah Shuaib

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Let Them Eat Cake is an endearing story
of friends and lovers by Heidi Waldenmaier

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I accuse you
Cory Northam of committing

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transgressions against me
may all wrongs be righted

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and Airplane Mode is a wise and funny mother-daughter
story by Isabelle Andrews

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I can help you study I could be the
patient help a hematoma is your hip still

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giving you trouble?

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Three students in the class were booted

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off Grounds by the COVID crisis before
they had shot a single frame of their

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films forced to completely reimagine how
they could create a film without actors

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and a crew they came up with some
amazing solutions

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Caky Winsett in her film Fake News had
to enlist her brother and sister as

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actors and create some outrageous
homemade visuals... Parker Fletching star

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student and wannabe Katie Couric has
been anchoring the school's morning news

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show since she was a sophomore on this
day though instead of announcing the

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lunch menu and club meetings
she announced something far more sinister

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Izzy Ullman's screenplay Thankful for Avery with ten characters was

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impossible to shoot at home so instead
of a film she created an old-time radio

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comedy.... Thankful for Avery a radio
drama by Izzy Ullman hi I'm so sorry

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I'm late I got caught in all this
traffic and oh you're right on time you must be

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oh my god I'm so sorry I forgot to
introduce myself

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and for her story, Chai, Sheffy Prasad had
her actors perform just the audio of

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their dialogue on Zoom then created a
series of beautiful metaphoric visuals at

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home in her kitchen to carry the emotion
of the story... can you not make mine too milky

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I'll make it how I make it no please I
don't like it too milky... fine...

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Around UVA everyone knows the quotation about using
adversity to buy a ticket to a place you

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couldn't otherwise go what's true in
basketball is true in the arts sometimes

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a great challenge can yield great
success

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if you can't go to the movies folks that
has to be the next best thing thank you

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to Paul Wagner and those amazing student
filmmakers that's it that's episode

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eight we're gonna have a slightly
tweaked summer schedule but keep

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submitting your performances and your
ideas to UvaArts@Virginia.edu I need

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to give a special shout out to the
editor of this show

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Vinny Varsalona who is amazing Vinny
put something up on screen right now

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that makes you feel good I don't know
maybe like right there.. did you put it up

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okay and now of course to end the show
cute kids playing music future Hoos

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this is the son of a
pediatric dermatologist at the UVA

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Health System who is playing I'm going
to say the kitchen cymbals and I think

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what what he's doing is possibly a
metaphor for where we are right now you

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will hear something cacophonous
something creative something kind be well

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friends and I truly wish you all peace
but especially peace after the cymbal

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performance