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CreativeMornings FieldTrips

Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 1:00pm

FieldTrips are meetups to interact, learn and collaborate in an effort to level-up your creative life. FieldTrips are community-organized events built on the spirit of generosity that has powered CreativeMornings events for the past 10 years.

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Data Science for the Public Good Forum

Friday, August 7, 2020 - 1:00pm

Save your online seat! UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute is hosting its annual Data Science for the Public Good Symposium virtually this year, and has lined up an exciting event, including a keynote speaker plus students across three states and Istanbul, Turkey who will present their research findings.

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SBDC: How to Start Your Own Business

Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 3:00pm

Thinking about starting a small business? Have you started…but maybe missed some critical information? This workshop is for you!

Review the steps for a successful start, the registrations and regulations, and the components of sound business planning, including financial projections.

Follow-up appointments are then available with SBDCSCORE, and/or CIC business advisors to focus on your concept development, business profile, and/or business plans, including financial projections.

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Tech On Tap

Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 5:00pm

The Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) Presents Tech on Tap via Zoom

CBIC's Tech on Tap, sponsored by Ting, is a recurring event series held the second Tuesday of each month and is free for CBIC members and future members to attend! These events are usually hosted at favorite watering holes around town; however, with social distancing a must, these are now virtual. 

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Panel Discussion: Memorial to Enslaved Laborers @ UVA

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 4:00pm

Join The American Institute of Architects Virginia for a free panel discussion about the design of a new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (MEL) on the grounds of the University of Virginia.

Hear about the momentum of the project, beginning with student-led initiatives as early as 2010, the ideas competition, final design resolution, and the guiding work of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University (PCSU). Learn about the robust community engagement process, including descendants of the enslaved and how the shared vision informed each element of the Memorial’s design. 

The MEL marks a critical moment to address the complex history of the University – and of the country.  It directly responds to a deep need to address an untold and uncomfortable history – one that is still very much a difficult, though necessary, national conversation on race. The goal of the Memorial is to create a physical place of remembrance and a symbolic acknowledgement of a difficult past and offers a place of learning and a place of healing.

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Charlottesville Entrepreneurs and Espresso (CE2)

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 8:00am

Get inspired. Meet fellow entrepreneurs. Share lessons learned.

c-e2 is a casual gathering of learning for entrepreneurs at all stages of venture creation. Get inspired, meet fellow entrepreneurs, share lessons learned, and become a part of Charlottesville’s vibrant and growing entrepreneurial ecosystem.  

3RD TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH  

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From Starting Line to Exit: Entrepreneur Andy Krouse's Marathon Journey

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 5:00pm

Local startup Cavion was the region’s most recent successful biotech exit. Founder/CEO Andy Krouse joins in conversation about risk, resiliency, and revival as part of the journey to getting a deal.

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2020 City of Charlottesville Minority Business Month

Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 8:00am

A month long celebration of business diversity in Charlottesville, including 9 virtual events!

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Enslaved on Grounds: Slavery & the Experiences of Enslaved Laborers at UVA

Friday, September 4, 2020 - 1:00pm

Over 4,000 enslaved people helped to build, work the Grounds, and serve the students and faculty of the University of Virginia. During the early years of the University, these bondsmen and bondswomen prepared and served food, cleaned living quarters, and shoveled snow. They worked in skilled positions as stonemasons, blacksmiths, and carpenters. Enslaved men and women ultimately created the environment to fulfill Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the Academical Village. For over forty years, the University’s enslaved laborers endured the privations of enslaved life while working to construct one of the nation’s most prestigious public universities. Historians have begun to explore the experiences of enslaved people in the early years at the University of Virginia. The recently completed Memorial to Enslaved Laborers goes a long way in recognizing the contributions of the enslaved people owned by the University and members of the University community. Professor Justene Hill Edwards will discuss the experiences of the enslaved laborers whose work was fundamental to the University of Virginia during the nineteenth century. The complicated lives of the University’s enslaved laborers reflected the evolution of slavery in Virginia during a period of dramatic social and economic change, from the University’s founding in 1819 to the Civil War.

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Dialogue Series: Remembering for Our Future

Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 10:00am

Remembering for Our Future

This four-part dialogue series explores the history of race, racism, and racist ideas at UVA. We are seeking to remember our history with the purpose of understanding how it carries into our present, and upon facing the truth of our history - how we might transform the possibilities for our future.

Dialogue 1 – “Resilience Through Education”

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 | 10 – 11 AM

Histories of Thomas Jefferson depict a person of many faces, many dimensions, and profound contradictions. The same is true for the university he founded. Not only is the history of UVA more complex than is often portrayed, that history is also very much alive within the Charlottesville community today in the form of the divides that persist between the university and members of Charlottesville's African American community. For the first 50 years of its existence, UVA was a landscape of slavery and violence. Over the next 100 years, UVA embraced at turns Jim Crow rule, eugenics, and continued segregation. Knowing this, we are reminded by community members that any positive strides must not be taken for granted and continued consideration of the university's historical legacy is necessary for our future.

Dialogue 2 – “Implications of Space and Access”

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 | 10 – 11 AM

This session explores the physical history of UVA and Charlottesville, examining how access to housing and services have been shaped by embedded racist beliefs and attitudes. The story of Vinegar Hill is used as a case study to highlight how urban renewal was used to undermine a thriving Black commercial district. Issues introduced include: C’ville’s evolution from plantations to housing developments between 1865-1940; “Caucasian only” housing covenants; rise of zoning; denial of water, sewer, and other city services to Black neighborhoods; and UVA’s current role in displacing low-income communities as it expands down west Main Street. 

Dialogue 3 – “A Brief History of Eugenics”

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 | 10 – 11 AM

This session is based on an interview with physician-historian P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care and Associate Director of the Center for Health Disparities. Dr. Reynolds outlines the genesis and history of eugenics in the United States and how key early leaders at UVA embraced and promulgated its ideas. She then discusses some of the long-term impacts on healthcare in Charlottesville for the African American community.  

Dialogue 4 – “Imagining our Future”

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 | 10 – 11 AM

In this closing dialogue, we will open an invitation to our community to examine what we have learned over the prior dialogues. We will consider how what we have learned can be used in transforming the daily life of the University and how we can build a culture of racial accountability for a more just and humane future.

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