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Website: http://www.avpmusic.com/about.php

During the Founders Fair, come hear some of U.Va.'s best acapella groups perform in the Amphitheater! Performers will include:

• THE VIRGINIA BELLES, the University’s oldest all-female acapella group. The Belles have been recognized by the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards and featured in 2011’s Voices Only compilation of top collegiate acapella. They have opened for Ingrid Michaelson at the Music Inspires Health concert in Washington D.C., and have been covered by Fox News.

• THE ACADEMICAL VILLAGE PEOPLE, an all-male a-cappella performance group founded in 1993 by a group of guys who thought, “well, this a-cappella stuff is pretty sweet, but let’s see if can’t have a little more fun with it.” And yep, they sure could. AVP combines top-class singing and bumping vocal percussion with rock-star performance technique and endless enthusiasm.

• THE VIRGINIA GLEE CLUB, founded in 1871 and the University’s oldest musical organization, as well as one of the oldest all-male collegiate vocal ensembles in the United States

• CHooSE, a Christian co-ed ensemble.

• HARMONIOUS HOOS, a new, co-ed acapella group

• HOOS IN TREBLE, whose most recent CD, released in the Spring of 2012, Chinese and Champagne, was nominated for Best Overall Female Collegiate Album, and features CARA nominated songs such as “Settle Down” for best female collegiate soloist.

• NEW DOMINIONS, U.Va.'s premier co-ed acapella group

Videos:

Website: http://batten.virginia.edu/

Sponsored by the Frank Batten School of Public Policy, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business, and the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School of Commerce, the Founders Fair is a summit of groups on and off grounds that contribute to the entrepreneurial spirit of Charlottesville. The Fair includes pitches, demos, and plenty of opportunity to stop and chat with over two dozen student groups and local ventures.

Gatherings like this one are rare. Whether you're a local or a student at UVA, don't miss your chance to meet Charlottesville's coolest companies and brightest minds.

- Learn about the amazing things student groups, University departments, and local ventures are creating right here in Charlottesville.
- Find a job or join an organization. Many of the ventures will be hiring and all the student groups are looking for hard-working new members.
- Listen to music! Acapella groups and local bands will play all afternoon in the Amphitheater.
- Eat great food. Your favorite food trucks will be there.

Confirmed participants include:

Student Groups
- Student Council Entrepreneurship and Innovation Committee
- Entrepreneurship Group
- Student Entrepreneurs for Economic Development
- Enactus
- Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity
- Parfait Mobile Development Club
- Engineering Students Without Borders
- Student Game Developers at UVA
- E Society
- Emerging Medical Technologies Ventures
- Baja SAE
- Futures in Fashion Association

University Departments
- Batten School of Public Policy
- Batten Institute at Darden
- Curry School of Education
- U.Va. Innovation
- U.Va. OpenGrounds

Local Ventures
- WillowTree Apps
- HackCville
- MobilizeArt
- LoveThatFit
- Global Ganda
- William James Foundation
- Telegraph
- Nouri
- Mobell Mo Muscle
- Nuduro
- MadHatterFoods
- Frogmen Logistics
- Bozelle
- Yolo Meals
- mPOSbooks
- CoverPlay Audio
- AdapDif
- Birch Studios
- Tech Girls
- The Bridge PAI

Community Organizations
- CBIC
- Cville Central

Want to be in the fair? Contact outreach@tomtomfest.com.

Join us in Garrett Hall right next to the amphitheater for an afternoon filled with exciting panels, performances, and competitions. Here's the full schedule:

PitchCraft: How to Captivate a Crowd, 4:00 to 5:00
An entrepreneur, poet, comedian, and actress each perform and share their insights on how to captivate a crowd.
Hosted by Marcia Lynne Pentz, a professor in management communication at McIntire, the performers include:
- Bernard Hankins (poet)
- Jim Zarling (comedian)
- Melissa Charles (actress)
- Tommy Nicholas (entrepreneur)

Conceptualized by Cypher


Panel on Student Entrepreneurship, 5:15 to 6:15
What is the state of student entrepreneurship? Moderated by David Touve of the Galant Center, the panelists include:
• Colin Hunter (U.Va. Alum & co-founder of Alton Lane)
• Toan Nguyen (Founder of CIC & Cville Central)
• Ashoka Rajendra (U.Va. Alum & co-founder of LearnShark)
• Lauren Purnell (PhD Candidate at Darden)


Entrepreneurship Group Elevator Pitch Competition, 6:30 to 8:00
Student entrepreneurs have 60 seconds to pitch their ideas for a chance at $200.
Want to pitch at the competition? Apply here!

Alton Lane Showcase in the Foyer, 4:00 to 8:00 (all afternoon)
Alton Lane is a premium tailored apparel retailer founded by two UVA graduates, Colin Hunter and Peyton Jenkins. Come see Alton Lane's products, grab a drink, and talk to Colin Hunter about his unique business and how he and his co-founder got started.

 

Website: http://www.willowtreeapps.com/

Tech meets service in a competition to build great mobile apps for Cville's nonprofits and public spirited ventures. At this launch, you'll hear pitches and have the opportunity to join a team of programmers and community builders.

The contest will take place over the course of the year and have a finale with a live app competition at the Spring Tom Tom Founders Festival.

For Saturday's Launch:

3:00PM - WillowTree Apps gives a presentation on mobile technology it has developed which positively impacts the world.

3:30PM - Multiple local non-profits present real world problems they experience and how mobile technology could help solve those problems.

4:00PM - Brainstorm. Students and community members brainstorm with the non-profits they choose and begin conceptualizing the apps that could be developed.

Details of the Competition

PART 1: THE LAUNCH
Saturday Sept 28, 2013 - Tomtoberfest

The competition launches at Tomtoberfest on Saturday, Sept 28 at U.Va OpenGrounds, with an introduction and a brainstorming session between non-profits and developers. WillowTree Apps is a national leader in the mobile technology field. They will begin with a presentation of mobile apps that they and others have developed that offer inspiration. Following WillowTree's presentation, students and developers will hear from multiple local non-profits and initiatives about "real" problems they face. The final hour will be spent in loose brainstorming groups that spur collaboration between the non-profits and developers. The Event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL.

PART 2: THE CONCEPT
Saturday OCT 25, 2013 - Tomtoberfest

In the month following Tomtoberfest, student teams will develop a two-minute video sharing their idea and why they're excited about this project. Video submissions are due by October 25th to christy.phillips@willowtreeapps.com.

All videos will be reviewed and 3 finalists will be chosen. These winning teams will have 5 hours of consultation with WillowTree Apps developers to help with development of a functioning app for the Spring contest. Each of the three winning teams must meet with the non-profit at least once before video submission and then at least twice during the creation of the project and have it documented via video.

PART 3: REALITY
April 12-13, 2014 - Tom Tom Founders Festival

The spring competition will feature functioning apps that address real world problems, whether locally or globally. Anyone who has a functioning app that positively impacts the world is welcome to enter.

Final submissions are due by April 1st, 2014. The winning teams will present their application at the TomTom Founders Festival over April 10-13.

Those selected will receive comprehensive Festival tickets, and will benefit from press outreach and social media marketing from both WillowTree Apps and TTFF. Collegiate teams will be considered for WillowTree Apps internships (Summer 2014).

Experience Jefferson's vision of the Academical Village with "Lawnies," students who live in the University's original residences, as they lead fast-paced, public seminars in the Rotunda.

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12:30 pm
KAZ KOMOLAFE - Lower West Oval Room, Rotunda
The Newsroom: A look at journalism in the 21st century

1:00 pm
CHARLIE TYSON - Dome Room, Rotunda
Education and Empathy: on learning to feel the pain of others

1:30 pm
CAROLINE DUNN - Lower West Oval Room
Technology's role in mitigating the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Innovation and Ethics

2:00 pm
THERESA HACKETT - Dome Room
Sustainability: Does the triple bottom line really matter?

2:30 pm
CONOR SHEEHEY - Lower West Oval Room
The Netflix Effect

3:00 pm
SAM FORD - Dome Room
Ethics and Outsiders: Perspectives on Wall Street

3:30 pm
BRIDGET BAILEY - Lower West Oval Room
The Mona Lisa: Why She Reigns in Our World of Images

4:00 pm
CHRIS ZAPPLE - Dome Room
Ending World Hunger: Oxfam's GROW campaign and what it means to us

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To live on the Lawn, the central quadrangle of Jefferson's campus and a world UNESCO heritage site, is one of the University's highest honors, given to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to service and learning. Jefferson designed the Lawn, which incorporates classrooms, residences, and the Rotunda, to foster symposia like The Rounds, which he felt were lost on campuses that segmented different aspects of student life.

The set of seminars on Saturday will be the first in a series of Jefferson Rounds in 2013. The Rounds will release its full calendar on September 15.

Website: https://www.facebook.com/Fleaville

FleaVille is the launch of an outdoor flea market featuring handmade, salvaged, collected, upcycled and vintage/antique goods -- furniture, home decor, clothing, accessories, and food trucks!

Website: http://pueblaciudadmural.wordpress.com

Puebla Ciudad Mural is a series of public artworks created by Colectivo Tomate in Puebla, Mexico. So far, the young artists have created 31 murals in the Barrio Xanenetla in cooperation with residents and other artists. They aim to complete 52.

Paola De la Concha Zindel, a representative of Collectivo Tomate, will give a 30-45 minute multimedia presentation about her work with the Puebla Ciudad Mural Project. Q&A and hands-on painting activities will follow.

Website: http://mcguffeyartcenter.com/

Always free and open to the public, Tom Tom's Block Party at the McGuffey Art Center will have all the eclectic fun you've come to expect. Music and dance starting at 5PM.

Performers include:

Chihamba, African drum and dance ensemble
LuchaDora, Appalachian surf rock
Erin and the Wildfire, country powerhouse
DJs Adam Smith & Thomas Dean
Fire In The Belly Dance Co.
HYPE Dance Team
AKAdeMix, recent winner of the Best of Both Worlds Dance and Step Competition - 7th Annual

And this all happens against the backdrop of beer, art, and food trucks:

A beer garden by Wild Wolf Brewing Company and New Belgium Brewing.
A hands on mural workshop by Collectivo Tomate, presented in partnership with Piedmont Council for the Arts.
40 Artist Studios open inside the McGuffey.

Sponsored in Part by:

106.1 The Corner & the McGuffey Artists.

Videos:

Website: http://cvillebic.org/

THE POLITICS OF INNOVATION
7PM - Forum
6PM & 9PM - Beer & Live Music

In preparation for November elections for City Council and County Supervisors, Tom Tom Founders Festival and the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council are launching a Candidate Forum to discuss the Politics of Innovation and Start-Ups in the region.

In a unique format, the twelve candidates will hear from leading voices in Central Virginia's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Presenters will include top entrepreneurs, angel investors, University of Virginia administrators and students, and emerging start-ups. The forum will present a context of how startup hubs are built, and perspectives on zoning and regulation, Town-Gown engagement, and municipal promotion of the community as a start-up hub.

The entrepreneurs presenting will include:

Blake Sirach, Co-founder of WillowTree Apps, one of the largest and most respected mobile development companies in the US. Founded in Charlottesville, WillowTree is an Inc. 500 company, recipient of CBIC's 2013 Spotlight Award, winner of four Webby Awards, and its apps have been downloaded over 1,000,000 times.

Sandy Reisky, founder of five renewable energy companies in Charlottesville, including Greenlight Energy, Inc., a wind energy company acquired by BP in 2006, has developed over $1 billion of wind and solar generation facilities now operating in the United States and Canada.

Kathy Carr, co-founder and managing director at Tall Oaks Capital Partners, has invested in numerous biotech and life sciences businesses. In 2012, Kathy became the director of the i.Lab Incubator at U.Va., operated by the Batten Institute at U.Va.'s Darden School of Business. This summer, Kathy helped lead 25 start-ups (13 Darden-based, 5 U.Va.-based, 7 community-based) through an accelerator curriculum.

Martin Chapman, former UVA faculty member and CEO of Indoor Biotechnologies, which provides biological products and services to allergy markets worldwide. He has been active in promoting growth and expansion of a biotech sector in Charlottesville.

Tracy Danner, Director of the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council, an advocate for Charlottesville business for over a decade, will open the forum with a presentation of the regional context.

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At 6PM & 9PM a beer and live music mixer will occur on the patio, featuring the music of Ashley McMillen



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The event will kick off a Tomtoberfest weekend that includes block parties, concerts, innovation talks, and pitch competitions on U.Va. Grounds and Downtown on Sept 25 - 28.

10 finalists vying for 3 spots and a shot at $250,000.
Come hear the best and brightest from UVa student research and creativity!

The Galant Challenge is an annual event that caps the entrepreneurial sprint at UVA. This is not a business plan competition. It's not a mock "pitch" exercise. It is a REAL pitch event in which student teams convince real investors they deserve capital to launch their businesses!

There’s no "winner." There’s no prize money. But the check-books are out from real angel investors and venture capitalists, and up to $250,000 is on the line to invest real money for seed equity in the startup.

In the Tom Tom Wildcard, the ten semi-finalists will pitch their ideas, and get feedback from a panel of judges. Three finalists will be chosen, two by the judges and one by the crowd, to convene at the end of April in the finals.

Applications open: March 1
Submissions due: midnight Friday March 22.
Submit your plan via email to: galantchallenge@comm.virginia.edu
Semifinalists announced Friday April 5th.
Semifinalists compete Sunday April 14th. Galant Final is April 25, 5PM, at McINTIRE.




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Founded in 2008 through initial funding from Mark E. Galant (McIntire ’80), The Galant Center for Entrepreneurship is dedicated to advancing the study and practice of entrepreneurship in the McIntire School and throughout the University. The Galant Center develops innovative curricula, engages in significant research, and organizes real-world events promoting entrepreneurship within UVA and the community.

Presented by Charlottesville Jazz Society *This event is ticketed.

7:00pm - Azul: ft. John D'Earth, Greg Howard, Brian Caputo
8:00pm - The Engines


The ENGINES is a collaborative quartet founded in the spring of 2005. The group began as trio, featuring several mainstays of the Chicago improvised music scene: Dave Rempis on saxophones, Nate McBride on bass, and Tim Daisy on drums. In the spring of 2006, trombonist Jeb Bishop was added to the group for one concert. The dynamic of this lineup worked so well that Bishop immediately became a regular member of the band. Since then, they've been honing their skills across Chicago at many of the venues associated with creative music including the Empty Bottle, Hideout, Elastic, Hungry Brain, and the Velvet Lounge.

AZUL is the new improvised music trio of three of Charlottesville's most creative instrumentalists - trumpeter John D'earth, drummer Brian Caputo and Chapman Stick player Greg Howard. Their music draws on both Western jazz and blues and Eastern and Middle Eastern rhythms and harmonies, with healthy dose of rock and cosmic sonics. Their music is sometimes groove-oriented, sometimes free-form, and always adventurous, with usurprising interpretations of jazz standards also thrown into the mix.

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Sunday's Tom Talks explore Innovations in
Spirituality & the Law (3PM)
Social Capitalism (4PM)
Creativity (5PM)
Music & Media (5:30PM)


Sponsored by

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Corbin Hargraves is the host of a weekly talk show "Money Matters" on WUVA 92.7 Kiss FM. Hargraves is a director and licensed financial advisor for The Providence Group of Virginia and a licensed mortgage loan officer for Crown Mortgage. He specializes in financial planning and assessment, and helps clients from all walks of life secure financing for residential homes.


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SPIRITUALITY AND THE LAW (3PM)

Exoneration as Innovation - how Innocence is changing our legal system

UVA Law professor Brandon Garrett is interested in criminal procedure and wrongful convictions. His recent research is centered on studies of DNA exonerations and organizational prosecutions, examining the intersection of law and technology.

MLK Jr. and the Beloved Community: Love of Neighbor as Political Innovation

Greg Thompson is the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville and a doctoral Candidate in the Theology, Ethics, and Culture program in the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies. His work focuses generally on the role of theological communities in the service of the common good and he is currently writing a work on Martin Luther King Jr’s public theology of love.

Contemplation as Innovation - how the science of contemplation is changing everything

David Germano is a Professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies, the coordinator of UVa's new Contemplative Sciences Center, as well as director of the Uva Tibet Center and SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of technological initiatives) at the university. He has a long term background in contemplation, digital technology, and community engagement.

Animals & Ethics: why changing our perceptions about what we eat matters.

Sahar Akhtar is an asst. professor in the Corcoran Department of Philosphy at the University of Virginia. An author and essayist, her specialties are in political philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of economics.

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SOCIAL CAPITALISM (4PM)


Entrepreneurship in our Prisons: a new model for re-entry

Greg Fairchild is a professor at the Darden School of Business, ranked as a top five-research professor and a top 10-business professor worldwide (CNN). Mostly recently, Fairchild launched the Prison Entrepreneurship program in Virginia correctional facilities

New Solutions for Long Term Refugee Camps

Christine Mahoney is an assistant professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Batten School. Concerned with issues of global advocacy, Mahoney’s recent research focuses on global advocacy on behalf of the displaced, studying how rights for these individuals can be maintained.

You Decide: Consumer choice and the rapid growth of clean energy

Sandy Reisky is the founder and CEO of Apex Wind Energy. Since entering the renewable sector in 2000, his companies have developed over $1 billion of wind and solar energy facilities now operating around the country. He is interested in the role of technology and consumer choice in driving change in energy markets.



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CREATIVITY & CREATIVE PLACEMAKING

Sponsored by the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau


The Culture of Innovation: the daily habits behind new ideas.

Rick Hamilton is an IBM Master Inventor, and has worked on innovation programs in over 25 countries. IBM routinely leads the United States in patent issuances, and in 2012, Hamilton was a named inventor on 2.0% of IBM's US patents. With over 825 patent applications filed, he in the most prolific inventor in IBM history.

Experiencing Place: Dance as a tool for deeper understanding

An adjunct lecturer in the Dance Program at the University of Virginia, Katie Schetlick also serves as the co-director of the Movement Party and the Fleet Moves Dance Festival in Wellfleet, MA. Her research and performance examine daily phenomena, human interaction, unexpected movement, and the loss of relating to our immediate surroundings.

Creative playscapes of the mind: some tips for making U.Va. more innovative

Lou Bloomfield is a Physics Professor at the University of Virginia who does most of his coloring outside the lines. He teaches a non-traditional, case-study introduction to physics called "How Things Work," which is now a MOOC (massive open online course), and he recently invented a unique material (Viscoelastic Silicone Rubber or "Vistik") that has applications in everything from shoe insoles to packaging.

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MEDIA

Anti-trust suits and innovation. How does Competition impact innovation?

A professor of law and chair of media studies at the University of Virginia, Siva Vaidhyanathan was named by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of academia’s best known scholars of intellectual property.

How to prepare yourself for anything by learning a challenging musical instrument.

Aaron Hill serves on the music faculty at the University of Virginia and plays principal oboe in the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra and Wintergreen Festival Orchestra. Hill played principal oboe on William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, which received the Grammy Award for Best Classical Album. Regularly featured as a guest recitalist and masterclass clinician across the country, he has also been a speaker for the TEDxSkidRow series.


SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE

The final gala of Tom Tom will be a block party featuring plenty of indie rock, pop, and soul.... alongside a bevvy of delicious food: Taste of Home Southern Cooking (Soul Food), Delicious George's Fries, Mouth Wide Open (eclectic americana), Hanu Truck (korean tacos and dim sum) & Pantheon Pops.

It is a a great Sunday hangout courtesy of 91.1 WTJU's Rock Marathon. Featuring:

2:00pm - The Anatomy of Frank
3:00pm - Luchadora
4:00pm - Willie DE
5:00pm - The Design
6:10pm - Sarah White & Josephine
7:20pm - The Fire Tapes
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

*presented by WTJU's Rock Marathon

In partnership with the Virginia Film Festival:

MAKING GOOD is a collection of three minute documentary profiles that pull from the wide variety of people who make up the communities around us.

Filmed in Charlottesville VA by producers JJ Cohoon, Rob Douglas, and Eric Johnson, we learn about everyone from bakers to puppeteers to bookmakers and beyond. The pieces offer a snapshot of these passionate doers and creators as they share about the processes, the ideas and emotions that guide them as they do the work they love, or "Making Good."

In this premier screening, the producers will share a curated look at some of their favorite pieces with an in-person conversation to follow of the profiled individuals. Join in for an exploration of our local community through film and dialogue.

For more information about Virginia Film Festival visit their website.

Videos:

Making Good Trailer from Squid and Beard on Vimeo.

Public Art Bike Tour on Sunday, April 14 from 1-3pm [Hosted by Piedmont Council for the Arts]

Interested in finding out more about the murals and sculptures you see around town? Hop on your bike and join us for a freewheeling tour of Charlottesville's public art!

After meeting at CitySpace to go over the route and sign waivers, we'll ride through various neighborhoods to explore installations by ArtInPlace, the Charlottesville Mural Project, and others. You'll get the inside scoop about the artists behind the works, how they were installed, and how you can get involved. You'll see some public art that you already know and love, but you'll also probably find out about a hidden artwork that's never caught your eye.

Anyone with a bike is welcome to join the ride. It's free to participate, though advance registration is required and children must be accompanied by a guardian. To find out more or to register, please email Victoria Long at info@charlottesvillearts.org no later than April 10th.

concorDance contemporary & The Movement Party Presents:

A Dance Score for the Downtown Mall: re/de/unfamiliarize a Charlottesville icon.

A dance progression on Sunday April 14 culminates in a special Tom Talks with Katie Schetlick, co-director of the Fleet Moves Festival. Her talk, "Experiencing Place: Dance as a tool for deeper understanding" discusses the process of re-imagining places through dance and performance.

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Starting Location: The Water Street Entrance of the Transit Center
Dancers: Veronica Hart, Alanna Mahon, Katie Schetlick
Musicians: Sam Cushman, Drums & The Shadow Delay, Ensemble

The idea for the performance was inspired by the work of Lawrence and Anna Halprin. Lawrence Halprin was an influential American landscape architect, designer, and teacher, and designed the Downtown Mall. His wife, highly accomplished and influential dancer, Anna Halprin, was a long time collaborator. Together they explored the intersection of choreography and the use of public space.

Halprin's work is marked by his attention to human scale and experience and the social impact of design. Anna Halprin, similarly, took an interest in human form and interaction and helped shape the art of post modern dance. Many of her works were based on the use of scores, a set of instructions that tells performers what to do, but provides space for decisions to be made about how. When designing the Downtown Mall, Lawrence Halprin constructed scores to bring Charlottesvile community members together in exploration of the city’s public spaces. Our score was developed as a reflection/homage to the Halprin's and to the Downtown Mall, our central space in Charlottesville.

One of the key ways we are demonstrating this is by using a score. The score will be available for audience members at the Water Street entrance of the Transit Center, on the Tom Tom Founders Festival website, and written on the Freedom of Speech chalk walk at the east end of the Downtown Mall.

A Dance Score for the Downtown Mall

The Dance Begins:

Transit Station, Water Street Landing
Building presence: Phrase #1, #2, #3
Progress/Retrograde: Gesture phrase

TRANSITION- Bodies Separate: Exploration of negative space : Bodies Collect

City Space Plaza
Vary horizons: Phrase #1, #2 with interruptions, pauses, stillness
Harmonize: Phrase #1, #2 with spatial restrictions

TRANSITION- Alter speeds

3rd Street Crossing
Call/Respond: All movements

TRANSITION- Observational walk

Central Place at Fountain
Gradate space and time: Phrase #3 on, around, between structures
Repetition/ Internalization: Gesture phrase

TRANSITION- Escape

Old Metropolitan (12PM performance)
Reflect/Transpose: Phrase #1, #2, #3 multiplied

Fellini’s, the sidewalk, & The Haven (2:30PM performance)
Draw vectors: Phrase #1, #2, #3

TRANSITION- Gather

McGuffey Art Center (2:30PM performance)
Condense/ Find Space

: The Dance Ends

* action or instruction: dance material
* phrase: a sequence of movements linked together to create a kinetic sentence



Co-created by Veronica Hart (pictured) and Katie Schetlick

The roof-top dance party to send the weekend out in style.

The party that takes the weekend to another level-- the return of some classic CVille Hip Hop, eclectic electronica, and an earth shaking sound system-- all on the penthouse cabana of the arts complex.

The dance floor is inside, and the open air balconies overlook the Downtown Mall....

A massive light installation illuminates the building next door...

This is the electronic event of the spring. Featuring:

10:00pm - Beetnix
11:00pm - 2Sly
12:00am - Trill Cosby
1:00am - Will Miles

Presented by te U.Va. McIntire Department of Music

Under the direction of Director of Music Performance and acclaimed clarinetist and ethnomusicologist Joel Rubin, the U.VA. KLEZMER ENSEMBLE focuses on the music of the klezmorim, the Jewish professional instrumentalists of Eastern Europe. Now in its seventh year, the UVA Klezmer Ensemble has rapidly become a vital part of the musical community of Virginia.

Klezmer was brought to North America by immigrants around the turn of the last century. Since the 1970's, a dynamic revival of this tradition has been taking place in America and beyond. Klezmer's recent popularity has brought it far from its roots in medieval minstrelsy and Jewish ritual and into the sphere of mainstream culture.

In partnership with the Virginia Film Festival:

AUTOPILOTS is a feature length documentary film about Paul Perrone, an obsessive underdog robot scientist who travels across country from Charlottesville, Virginia to compete in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge held in the Mojave desert of California. The Grand Challenge is an historic event established by an arm of the Pentagon which offered a $2 million prize to the group that could build a fully automated self-driving vehicle to race the 150 mile desert course.

Paul entered the race with Tommy, a silver, egg-shaped autonomous dune buggy, with its own decision making capability, to see the road ahead through artificial eyes, and with command over the throttle, brake, and steering wheel.

But Paul and Tommy are up against daunting foes. The competition's vehicles have been training in the desert, sponsored by well-financed institutes of higher learning, corporate conglomerates, and even the US government. But in a race with no one behind the wheel, anything can happen.

As we travel with Paul to the Grand Challenge, the real story of rapidly accelerating artificial intelligence, its application to large machinery, the military interest in such technology, and the ramifications of misuse and lack of human control are intertwined. In AUTOPILOTS, ride with Paul, his wife Janie, a team of underdog mechanics, and other characters who shed a little light on this question and reveal the key which unlocks the code to what it takes to overcome obstacles and achieve in this world.

Todd Free (Producer/Director) is a television commercial producer, documentary film director, and founder of Key Media Communications. His work has been featured in independent film festivals and in national televised broadcasts.

To learn more about Virginia Film Festival visit their website.

PRESENTED by 91.9 WNRN

The Southern is a Cville music institution for up-and-comers and established national acts. For the weekend of Tom Tom, the Southern will host some of our best aspiring musicians with an eclectic blend of rock, folk, and americana.

A second night at The Southern featuring:

8:00pm - Judy Chops
8:30pm - Yankee Dixie
9:30pm - Black Girls
10:00pm - Carl Anderson + Band
11:00pm - Dead Professional
11:30pm - Invisible Hand

*This event is ticketed.

What better way to learn about Start-ups in Charlottesville, then by meeting the folks behind them and drinking a delicious craft beer while you're at it?

And, on a side note, if you're a student, or a recent grad, or just plain looking for a tech job, these are probably the folks you want to be connecting with...

In the midst of the concerts, block parties, talks, and creative expos, Tom Tom is proud to host a social hour at Old Metropolitan Hall promotes interaction with the local technology firms putting us on the map. Everyone from rapidly expanding firms like Willowtree Apps (named by INC as one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the nation), to cutting edge surgical innovations like Focused UltraSound Foundation, to established national firms like SNL Financial.

You'll also have an opportunity to see work from up-and-comers.

Finally, enjoy craft beer from our festival sponsors New Belgium Brewing and, official Virginia brewer, Wild Wolf Brewing.

For the afternoon and night of Saturday April 13, the cross-street in front of Fellinis #9 is shut down for a beer garden, dining, and a stage filled with big bands, jazz, zydeco, and rock n’ roll.

Featuring:
Big bands, Jazz, Zydeco and Rock n’ Roll

5:00pm - Garen Dorsey Trio
6:00pm - Robert Jospe Experience
7:00pm - 18 Piece "Big Band"
8:00pm - Gina Sobel
9:00pm - Jolie Fille - Cajun Punk Rock
10:00pm - Buster Brown & The Get Down
11:00pm - Common School Movement

It’s all part of the City Canvas block party!

Tom Tom is proud to Present with HackCville, a first-of-its-kind demo day that will showcase top student entrepreneurs from around the state.

You heard right, 10 schools, 30 demos, one SUPER afternoon at Boylan Heights.

Crowd vote will determine who goes home with the inaugural Super Demo trophy.

Boylan Heights is a big venue, but we're inviting a big crowd! You don’t want to miss this showdown! The tickets are FREE. But you’ve got to get them quick. Find them here!

Charlottesville is home to some of the most cutting edge biotechnology firms in the Country. This panel, presented in partnership with U.Va. Innovation and Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), explores insights from these innovators and entrepreneurs and offers lessons learned in the entrepreneurial and biotech mine fields. Attendees might be able to avoid some of the pitfalls they’ve experienced.

All startups face enormous hurdles ensuring their innovation reaches its intended destination: the consumer. This session is ideal for anyone curious about how one moves a great idea from their mind to the marketplace, whether developed outside of or within the walls of an academic institution such as U.Va.


Speakers:

Jann Balmer – Director of the Continuing Medical Education
Dr. Balmer was appointed as the first full-time Director for Continuing Medical Education of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in December 1990. In her role as Director for CME, the Office of Continuing Medical Education has demonstrated significant growth in meeting the educational needs of physicians and other healthcare professionals. Over the past 20 years, the number of accredited CME activities has grown to a yearly average of 220 activities. Dr. Balmer served as the President, Past President and Board Member of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (formerly Alliance for CME) from 2005 -2012. She served as the editor for the Best Practices in CME Handbook distributed by the Alliance for CME for 7 years.

Aris Persidis – President and co-founder of Biovista.
Dr. Persidis is President and co-founder of Biovista. He has also served as Senior Vice President at Upstate/Serologicals, Managing Director and President of RHeoGene, and Assistant Director-Medical School Technology Transfer Program – and Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the Entrepreneurial Center of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (1993-1997). Dr. Persidis is also a co-founder of Cellzome, in Heidelberg, Germany, and participated in the founding of Anadys, San Diego, CA. Dr. He has published more than 80 papers and book chapters, has lectured at Wharton, the Columbia Business School, George Washington University and the University of Auckland Business School, and is a frequent speaker at major international meetings. He also serves as an expert evaluator for the European Union and has served on the Business Development Committee of BIO. .

David Kalergis – CEO of Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, LLC
David Kalergis is the co-founder of Diffusion Pharmaceuticals LLC and, since 2004, has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Diffusion has grown into a clinical-stage drug development company commercializing a novel proprietary pharmaceutical technology. Clinical trials of Diffusion’s lead compound, trans sodium crocetinate (TSC), began in 2007 to explore its use in indications including peripheral artery disease and radiation sensitization in the treatment of cancerous tumors. TSC is currently being tested at 18 major cancer institutions in a Phase II clinical trial in newly diagnosed primary brain cancer (glioblastoma or GBM) patients.


Moderator:

Lianne Landers – Entrepreneurial Networks, U.Va. Innovation
Since 2005, Lianne W. Landers has worked closely with faculty entrepreneurs, helping them to develop early-stage innovations that have commercial potential. She facilitates relationships with the investment and entrepreneurship community, particularly through such programs as the Biomedical Innovation Fund, the U.Va. Venture Summit and the U.Va. Entrepreneurship Cup. As a key mechanism through which these relationships are developed, Landers directs U.Va.’s Venture Forward mentoring program, building teams of alumni business experts around faculty start-up companies and other emerging ventures.

Saturday's Talks deal with Innovations in

Education (3PM)

Leadership (4PM)

Technology (5PM)

Entrepreneurship (6PM)


Sponsored by U.Va. Innovation



MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Best-selling author, historian and radio personality Coy Barefoot is the Director of The Virginia History Lab , as well as the Executive Producer and Host of Charlottesville—Right Now! on NewsRadio 1070 WINA. Coy is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at UVA, where he teaches the history of the University, Charlottesville, and Virginia.


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INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION (3PM)
sponsored by the Curry School of Education


Innovation and education — Driving change for student, educators, and society

Bob Pianta is the Dean of UVA's Curry School of Education. Pianta's research and development work has created tools used in tens of thousands of classrooms across the country and in every Head Start program. He's now spearheading efforts to develop education schools as forces for innovation and impact in education.

Contemporary Technology in Education: broadband’s role in leveling the playing field.

Pam Moran is in her sixth year as Superintendent in the Albemarle County School System. She has had an extensive educational career in addition to teaching educational leadership and curriculum courses as an adjunct professor for the University of Virginia. Moran is president elect for the Virginia association of school superintendents.

Promoting the College Readiness of Black Male Student-Athletes

Paul C. Harris is an assistant professor in the Counselor Education program at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. His research interests include issues related to equity, access, and educational justice. Specifically, he explores the ways through which school counselors can facilitate educational success in Black males, particularly those participating in sports.


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INNOVATIONS IN LEADERSHIP (4PM)
sponsored by the Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce


A Culture of Leadership: leadership styles and how a culture of leadership strengthens an organization.

Teresa Sullivan is the University of Virginia’s eighth president. She came to U.Va. from the University of Michigan, where she served as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Ms. Sullivan is an expert on labor-force demography and an author or co-author of six books and more than 50 scholarly articles.

Industrial frontiers – Inventing the 100 mpg car

Oliver Kuttner played a fundamental role in the real-estate development of Charlottesville’s downtown area. He is also the inventor of the Edison 2, the $5,000,000 X Prize winner for making a super light car that reaches 100 mpg. Kuttner is an active participant in modern industrial practices and how they impact innovation

Harnessing the Power of Business to Benefit the Whole Community

Toan Nguyen is a graduate of the University of Virginia's Architecture and Darden School and is the co-founder of C'ville Central, a corporation that assembles small, women and minority owned companies so that they can win larger contracts from anchor institutions in the Charlottesville Region. He is also the co-founder of the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC), a micro-financing organization.

New approaches to solving poverty - starting local from the ground up

Ridge Schuyler graduated from the U.Va. School of Law and has served as the chief policy advisor to U.S. Senator Chuck Robb, as a program director for an internationally-renowned conservation group, and recently was the former district director for Congressman Tom Perriello. Ridge has since started the Orange Dot project, which addresses the struggles of families in Charlottesville striving to become self-sufficient, by creating a hub that connects smaller, local businesses with larger more established ones.

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INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY (5PM)


Pioneering Medical discovery: Ultrasound and non-invasive surgery

Neal Kassell, MD.is the founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation. Dr. Kassell, in addition, is Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, where he served as department co-chair until 2006. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and book chapters.

Clear Skies And Innovation - how liberating government data changes everything

Named by Barrack Obama as a “champion of change,” Waldo Jaquith is an open government technologist who has worked with diverse groups ranging from the Rolling Stones to the White House Office of Science and Technology. He is exploring the commercial potential of unlocking government data sets, which in the past have driven innovations like GIS systems and the Weather Channel.

Emerging Technologies in Regenerative Medicine: Why you should love your fat.

Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia and a past recipient of the MIT Technology Review's "TR100 Young Innovator Award". She works collaboratively to develop adult stem cell therapies for treating cardiovascular disease and complications of diabetes.


How to Build an Internet Startup from Scratch: Borrowed & Blue, A Case Study
A graduate of the University of Virginia’s Darden School and an expert on growing online businesses, Adam Healey has successfully launched three separate Internet ventures including Hotelicopter and most recently Borrowed and Blue.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP (6PM)
Sponsored by the Batten Institute at the Darden School Of Business


Future of Robotics - The Good the bad and the ugly

Paul Perrone is a roboticist, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. His creative work has been captured in numerous books, print, televised, and film media. He’s recently been working with rocker Neil Young to automate his 1959 Lincoln Continental “LincVolt,”, helping plan an Autonomous Auto X Prize, and chairs an international automated vehicle standards committee.

*NOTE - The movie about Paul making Tommy, the automated robot car, will screen at Tom Tom. See the listing for AUTOPILOTS.

E*commerce and local food; how local food is Changing and why Charlottesville is at the heart of it

Caesar Layton was the President of Arganica when it merged with Relay foods, becoming one of the more exciting start-ups to expand in Charlottesville. Caesar is interested in alternative methods for expanding the local food movement through CSAs and the return of the farmers market.



SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE

Craft Beer in Virginia – a panel examining how the local scene of craft brewers developed and how it relates nationally. Meet the brewers and the business minds behind expanding the craft beer industry in Virgina.


Panelist & Host:
Jacque Landry – co-owner / brewer South Street Brewery.



Panelists include:
John Bryce - manager of brewing operations at Starr Hill Brewing



Matt Nucci - Co-owner Blue Mountain Brewery



Mary Wolf – owner / founder of Wild Wolf



Hayes Humphreys - Devil’s Backbone


Neil Reeve - Regional Director - New Belgium Brewing




Moderator:


Dan Schutte Evening Anchor, Newsplex

t’s Downtown Gallery Walk on Saturday, April 13 from 1-3pm hosted by Piedmont Council for the Arts]

Whether you've always felt a little intimidated by art, have been curious to look at local art with a guide, or are just looking for an excuse to get a first (or second) look at some the exhibits on display this month, consider this your invitation!

Take a relaxing walk with us and explore a variety of art galleries on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall. We'll gather at CitySpace to receive maps and meet one another before setting off for a guided tour, featuring the opportunity to look at exhibits and take part in Q&As with gallery owners and exhibiting artists along the way. The pace will be leisurely, but we'll visit a variety of local arts landmarks during our trek, including Warm Springs Gallery, Second Street Gallery, and others. The tour will culminate at the McGuffey Art Center, where we'll meet some of the member artists and learn about the current exhibits and structure of the space.

It's free to participate and anyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. To find out more, please email Sarah Lawson at sarah@charlottesvillearts.org.

--- Presented by Relay Foods ----

As part of the downtown-wide City Canvas block party, a picnic day in Lee Park to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Garage and one of our local food innovators, Relay Foods. It will be a day of diverse concerts, collaborative art projects, community and fun, as we shut down the streets around Lee Park for a special concert series.

Featuring:

12:30pm - Jim Waive
1:35pm - Eros and the Eschaton
2:30pm - Borrowed Beams of Light
3:25pm - Diane Cluck
4:20pm - I See London
5:10pm - Carl Anderson
6:05pm - Anousheh Khalili
7:00pm - Sanders Bohlke
7:55pm - Gems
8:50pm - Kelly McFarling
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

Jazz on the Library Steps
*Times + info TBA

Chances are, you’ve sat in the green lawn of Lee Park on a summer evening and listened to the music from Cville’s favorite alternative venue. The Garage is an art space / concert venue / amateur film theater / impromptu studio / potluck dining hall located in well, the Garage, of Christ Episcopal Church.

This fall, a car accidentally drove through one of its walls, damaging some things inside and leaving a large SUV-sized hole to patch up. Now fresh off a kickstarter that raised $10,000 to make repairs and some much needed upgrades to the building structure, the Garage is ready to launch a new performance space, sound system; and lighting and hanging systems.

In 2012, the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC) was Tom Tom's inaugural entrepreneur in residence. They are a unique enterprise that trains budding entrepreneurs and offers micro-loans at the conclusion of their training.

Tom Tom is pleased to reconnect with the CIC at two events over the weekend:
Saturday, April 13, 2013 (12pm-2pm)
Sunday, April14, 2013 (1pm-4pm)

SHOWCASE:

Why do local microenterprises matter? They can build communities, and micro-entrepreneurs can promote job creation/retention, increased local spending, higher rates of civic engagement, and higher standards of living.

On the Saturday and Sunday of the Tom Tom Festival, CIC will host an expo of our businesses as an opportunity for the entrepreneurs to engage with the larger community: share their passions and motivations, samplings of their foods, soaps, music, and more, and connect with members of our community through stories, visuals, and tastings.

Saturday will culminate in a cook-off among our food-related businesses, with the crowd judging the winning dishes. Sunday will kick off with a film screening of “Making Good” and a discussion about community builders featured in the documentary and working with CIC.

Here are some of the businesses we are excited to showcase:

- DRC Catering, represented by Sandra Carter (existing)
- Jamakin’ Me Crazy, represented by Susan Chambers (startup)
- Adial Fashion, represented by Alfred Allen-EL (existing)
- Agee’s Catering and Takeout, represented by Eric Agee (existing)
- Vinegar Hill Canning Cooperative, represented by Denise Arnold (existing)
- The Charlottesville Ballet, represented by Sara Jansen-Clayborne (existing)
- Bite-Sized Empanadas represented by Luis Dorta (startup)
- K&B Skate Park Central, represented by Erin Davis (startup)
- Salome’s Creations, represented by Selena Cozart-O’Shaughnessy (existing)
- The Happy Tomato, represented by Liz James (existing)
- Stevie G’s Gluten-Free Bakery, represented by sisters Sue Gass and Stephanie White (existing)
- Kindred Collective, represented by Lexi Hutchins (existing)
- Community Wash & Fold, represented by Trey Coe (startup)
- Mega Sound Entertainment, represented by Cle Logan (existing)
- A Taste of Home Catering, represented by Yolunda Armstrong (existing)
- Peg’s Salt, represented by Cass Cannon (existing)
- Mexican Pinchos, represented by Cristel Hernandez (startup)

Saturday April 13 is TJ’s B-day (ie Founders Day), and we’ve got an Downtown wide event that takes over the Mall and explores ground-breaking research, new discoveries, innovative technology, education, local food and agriculture, and historic architecture. It’s outdoor concerts, innovation expos, and a locavore bananza.

There’s a reason it’s all taking place on Founders Day: It’s difficult to find a better symbol of revolutionary thought, cross disciplinary innovation, and expansive curiousity than Mr. Jefferson.

Tom Tom is of course a play on the name, without being all stuffy about it. And here’s a snapshot of some of the fun to be had on Saturday:

Tom Yum:: Field to Fork Expo! Expanding a Cville Institution, the Saturday morning market, into an exposition of talks, local food demonstrations, and live music.

Tom Talks: A talk series from local Charlottesville innovators telling their stories about new ideas in Education, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Technology & Media.

Picnic Day in Lee Park at the Garage: Over 20 in all, scattered throughout the market, cross streets, and at the Garage, the little venue with a big draw straight across from Lee Park.

Piedmont Council for the Arts: Gallery Walk A guided tour through our local arts a partnership with Piedmont Council for Arts

---- PRESENTED BY ALBEMARLE COUNTY & RELAY FOODS ----

Tom Yum is a community food festival based in Downtown Charlottesville and celebrating local food innovators at the Charlottesville City Market. In 2011, Forbes named Charlottesville the “locavore capital of the world." On Saturday, April 13th, come meet the farmers, chefs, artisans, and pioneers in sustainable food and see what all the fuss is about.

Play with your food. Learn about your food. And eat your food. It's a day of hands-on workshops, food talks, culinary demos, and tastings. Try your hand at market-scene sketching and games. Revel in the sights and sounds of live bluegrass and classical music in a parking lot transformed into a pop-up park.

Grab your groceries at the market, participate in the arts and music at Tom Yum, and stick around for the Food Talks. This event is totally free and designed for the whole family. Bring an appetite, a sketchbook, and plan to stay a while.

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9:00 – 9:30 Eating Sustainably: Community Supported Fisheries / C'ville Food Co.
9:30 – 10:00 Raising Chickens the Easy Way / Countryside Organics
10:00 – 10:30 Beekeeping for Beginners / Grubby Girl
10:30 – 11:00 Running a Small Business with Family / NoBull Burger
11:00 – 11:30 Made To Order Kombucha: Handcrafted Opportunity / MTO Kombucha
11:30 – 12:00 Attracting Wildflowers and Pollinators / C'ville Foodscapes
12:00 – 12:30 Olive Oil Odyssey: The Truth about Extra Virginity / Rare Lynx Olive Oil
12:30 – 1:00 Babes in the Wood: Raising Forest-Fed Pigs / Babes in the Wood

 
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Hill & Holler and Fifth Season will transform parking spaces on South Street into an urban park with landscaping and farmhouse-style seating.

OUTDOOR GRILLING: Best of What’s Around will be providing your first taste of grill season with grass-fed beef from Scottsville.

LIVE MUSIC: Tom Yum will be filled with lively music throughout the day. BON drummers will perform in a drum circle, followed by a Mama Gato concert, bluegrass, classical, and busking musicians.

URBAN SKETCHING: Architect, Jessie Chapman of Sketchwell Architecture and Design, invites you to grab a pen, paintbrush, or pencil and capture the bustling scene at the Farmers Market as part of the 39th Worldwide Sketch Crawl.

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“BEYOND THE FLAVOR” with 4 Local Chefs: Sarah Cramer and Andrea Hubbell are the photographers and writers bring their blog, Beyond the Flavor, to life by inviting 4 of their favorite Charlottesville chefs to cook live, sharing their recipes and techniques with the community.

Dean Maupin of C+O Restaurant
Angelo Vangelopoulos of the Ivy Inn
Harrison Keevil of Brookville
Mark Gresge of l'Etoile

TASTE EDUCATION: Sample MTO Kombucha’s exceptional flavor combinations, like Lime Basil or Apple Cinnamon. Learn what true extra virgin olive oil looks and tastes like with Rare Lynx Olive Oil.

POP (Power of Produce) CLUB: Play with your food! Kids will love this interactive tasting experience, brought to you by the Local Food Hub. POP Club will engage all the senses to think about veggies in a new way: see, touch, feel, smell, and taste the flavor.

WEED SALAD BAR: Pat McCafferty and his students from Mountaintop Montessori School will host an assembly-line style Weed Salad Bar lined with edible weeds. Pat will also lead an Edible Weed Walk throughout the warehouse district in downtown Charlottesville.

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JEFFERSON’S BACKYARD: What better way to celebrate Founders Day than to take home a keepsake of Thomas Jefferson’s garden? Pick up your heritage seeds from Monticello’s Center for Historic Plants at their Tom Yum tent. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange will bring you a sneak peek of Monticello’s Heritage Harvest Festival. Albemarle County will also conduct flash seminars about native plants on behalf of the Jefferson Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society.

DIY URBAN FOOD GROWING: C’ville Foodscapes, a worker-owned cooperative business, transforms backyards, patios, and kitchens into food-producing gardens in and around Charlottesville. C’ville Foodscapes will lead hands-on workshops.

COUNTRYSIDE ORGANICS: No stranger to food activism after fighting Monsanto on genetic drift, this organic feed mill from Waynesboro supplies everyone from backyard gardeners to large-scale farmers the resources they need to produce the highest quality food. Through organic feed, soil nutrients, and education Countryside Organics ensure that local food has a viable future in our community.

MAPPING FOOD CULTURE; YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW: The Virginia Food Heritage Project is a collaborative, community-based project that envisions a greater understanding and documentation of our food heritage to enhance regional sustainability and resilience. VFHP’s Interactive Food Heritage Portal gathers information through mapping, stories, and photographs to identify at-risk, place-based heritage foods, seeds, agricultural sites, and food production areas in the Central Piedmont region. With VFHP, get your story or memory on the map and reveal the food history of the Piedmont. With Piedmont Environmental Council you can map what local food looks like today and shape the cultural landscape of the future.

A round robin of concerts and performances inside the historic schoolhouse. After the full block party on the McGuffey Lawn, the party comes inside with three performance studios hosting hip-hop, American folk, and rock music until the clock strikes mid-night.

Featuring:

Stage One: Americana & Folk
9:00pm - Terri Allard with Special Guests from the Music Resource Center
10:00pm - Devon Sproule
11:00pm - Erin Lunsford & Smokey Bandits

Stage Two: Hip Hop
T.N.E.
Qui$ Sweat
Nation Hitz feat J Willz
OSkeez/Fly G'z
Shad Gill
Y.K.G.
Clark Bars
YG aka R.E.A.L.
Tino/700 Ent.
Spititout Inc.

Stage Three: Indie Rock
Presented by Holy Smokes
9:00pm - David Daniell
10:00pm - Black Twig Pickers
11:00pm - Great Dads
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

Stage Four: Poetry
INDEPENDENT WOMEN WRITERS GROUP (Michele Miller [founder], Chelsea Blakley, Brielle DuFlon)
UVA’s CONTEMPORARY POETRY and POETICS WORKING GROUP (Lindsey Turner, founder)
UVA’s AREA PROGRAM IN POETRY WRITING (Wo Chan, Victoria Kornick)
MISSED CONNECTIONS (Caroline Rayner)
TUESDAY NIGHT POETRY (Abby Skolits)
THE BRIDGE PAI’s LITERARY COMMITTEE (Browning Porter)
UVA’s B.E.A.T.S. (Mickey Harrison, president, Peter JP, vice-president, Naomi Gaia)
VERBS AND VIBES (Gary Johnson, Sarah Bordeau-Rigterink, Jona Baily, Bernard Hankins)

PRESENTED by 91.9 WNRN

The Southern is a Cville music institution for up-and-comers and established national acts. For the weekend of Tom Tom, the Southern will host some of our best aspiring musicians with an eclectic blend of rock, folk, and americana.

Featuring:

8:00PM - Bobby St. Ours
9:00PM - Luke Wilson and the Dericks
10:30PM - Wrinkle Neck Mules

*This event is ticketed.

Where’s Charlottesville going? Austin VS Aspen VS Arlington?

Are we a retirement community?
A playground for the wealthy?
A start-up hub?
Or the next Northern Virginia?

In the original conversation started almost a decade ago, the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) asked the question about the growth of Charlottesville, and the kinds of jobs and industries that should be promoted here. Are we a retirement community and a services based economy like Aspen, or is Charlottesville a leader in start-ups and entrepreneurial energy like Austin?

TTFF wants to check in on the conversation, with a provocative panel of leading academics, local businessmen, elected officials and planning officials, discussing: what makes a City ripe for start-ups? Are there downsides to growth? Are there downsides to not growing?

MODERATOR:

· Michael Lenox (Dir. Batten Institute at the Darden School) – prominent academic perspective regarding the cultural milieu of green tech and start-up ecosystems.


PANELISTS

· Dennis Rooker (Albemarle County Board of Supervisors) – investor in start-ups, also prominent skeptic toward growth in Albemarle County.


· Dan Rosensweig (City Planning Commission) – director of the Charlottesville chapter of Habitat for Humanity, concerned about workforce jobs and workforce housing.


· Gary Henry (Board Member of CBIC) – one originator of the Aspen Vs Austin conversation, consultant to start-ups.


Conversation hosted by:
CBIC

Tom Tom launches with a block party at the historic schoolhouse. A FREE afternoon of outdoor activities on the McGuffey Lawn: live music, street food, beer garden, public art, & children's activities. We close the street closed down to traffic, and fill the lawn with samba, flamenco, mexican & rock while food trucks line the block...

Late night, the party moves insides the studios for hip hop, indie rock, poetry, and americana stages.

Over 30+ creative acts in all.

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KIDS PROGRAMMING
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12:30 - 2 - Bag lunch and children's activities with artists
12:30 - 1:30 - music from Estela Knott & Dave Berzonsky
12:30 - 2:30 - chalk drawing
1:30 - 2:30 - storytelling
4pm - Charlottesville Ballet "Dance-a-story" - kids ages 3-10

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OUTDOOR BEER GARDEN AND MUSIC FROM THE FRONT STEPS:
Presented by 106.1 The Corner
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5:00pm - Cara Legal
6:00pm - Lua
7:00pm - Toma Que Toma
8:00pm - We Are Star Children


Afterwards, a mini-music festival takes place through all the performance studios:


McGUFFEY AFTERHOURS: SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK (McGuffey Art Center) FEATURING:

Stage One: Americana & Folk
9:00pm - Terri Allard with Special Guests from the Music Resource Center
10:00pm - Devon Sproule
11:00pm - Erin Lunsford & Smokey Bandits

Stage Two: Hip Hop
T.N.E.
Qui$ Sweat
Nation Hitz feat J Willz
OSkeez/Fly G'z
Shad Gill
Y.K.G.
Clark Bars
YG aka R.E.A.L.
Tino/700 Ent.
Spititout Inc.

Stage Three: Indie Rock
Presented by Holy Smokes
9:00pm - David Daniell
10:00pm - Black Twig Pickers
11:00pm - Great Dads
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

Stage Four: Poetry
INDEPENDENT WOMEN WRITERS GROUP (Michele Miller [founder], Chelsea Blakley, Brielle DuFlon)
UVA’s CONTEMPORARY POETRY and POETICS WORKING GROUP (Lindsey Turner, founder)
UVA’s AREA PROGRAM IN POETRY WRITING (Wo Chan, Victoria Kornick)
MISSED CONNECTIONS (Caroline Rayner)
TUESDAY NIGHT POETRY (Abby Skolits)
THE BRIDGE PAI’s LITERARY COMMITTEE (Browning Porter)
UVA’s B.E.A.T.S. (Mickey Harrison, president, Peter JP, vice-president, Naomi Gaia)
VERBS AND VIBES (Gary Johnson, Sarah Bordeau-Rigterink, Jona Baily, Bernard Hankins)

An unsightly retaining wall at our civic arts center. A call for submissions. A $500 Cash Prize.

Unveiling the Tom Tom Foundation's 2013 project. Read all about it here or APPLY!


• The Idea: A retaining wall on the North end of McGuffey is aging concrete and none too pretty. Why not create a “canvas,” which can host a rotating collection of murals?

• 2013: Friday April 12 will be the McGuffey Block Party, consisting of arts workshops during the day and performances all night. The mural starts April 1 and is completed the DAY OF the Block Party.

• A Mural Contest: What better way to publicize this new public canvas than have a Mural contest open to McGuffey Artists, UVA Students, City School Students, and regional artists?

• Mural Jury: Artists and arts professionals including McGuffey artists, Piedmont Council for the Arts, UVA faculty, and the Charlottesville Mural Project.



This is what it looked like:



See what it becomes!

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Website: http://designmarathon.wordpress.com/

A Charlottesville Favorite!

Our community's creatives serve up pro-bono professional design to Charlottesville Non-profits in one action packed marathon day on April 12, 2013. Taking place at CitySpace from 8am - 6pm, the event will feature teams of local designers and students working with a Non-profit to create great design products. Projects range from branding, brochures, advertisements, schematic building or space renovation drawings or conceptual site plans.

The day will conclude with the McGuffey Block Party! There will be an exhibition on Saturday at noon in City Space to show the work.

If you're a designer, consider participating (apply here). Or if you are a non-profit with a design need, please apply! Or, just come see the marathoners on April 12, 2013!

The Design Marathon is an event created by Alloy Workshop & the Charlottesville Community Design Center. From 2008-2010, the Design Marathon generated over $95,000 worth of pro bono professional design services to benefit 32 deserving local non-profit organizations. The 2013 Marathon is a partnership with the Tom Tom Founders Festival, AIA Central Virginia and Piedmont Council for the Arts.

OFFICIAL OPENING PARTY TO TOM TOM FOUNDERS FESTIVAL

Adam Smith & Thomas Dean are bandmates in the Invisible Hand. Adam Smith is a local musician who has his hands in a ton of local projects (he may be playing in some capacity now in every day of Tom Tom).

But chances are, you've heard the rare 80s ice funk, the 90s basement jams, the 00's hip hop and the electro / party / rap that Adam N Thomas like to spin. Now you're ready for the full effect on the Southern stage with light show extravaganza.

The festival is pleased to start its weekend of FREE programming with a special "friends of friends" concert with some wonderful musicians who either hail from Cville or have close connections here. The propulsive Mexo-Americana of the David Wax Museum headlines our FREE opening gala, joined by local favorite The Hill & Wood, and Nashville's engaging Nora Jane Struthers. Doors @ 6PM.

Featuring:

7:00pm - Nora Jane Struthers
8:00pm - The Hill & Wood
9:00pm - David Wax Museum
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event



DAVID WAX MUSEUM is David Wax and Suz Slezak, a Charlottesville native. Their infectious sound is making them one of hottest indie bands around.

"Kicks up a cloud of excitement with its high-energy border-crossing sensibility." The New Yorker
"Joyful Mexo-Americana fusion, with virtuosic musical skill and virtuous harmonies." Time
"The breakout act at the Newport Folk Fest last year." Paste
"These are the kinds of people we’re dealing with here: generous and caring folks. They sound as such on their records as well, albums that blend the difference between a smaller staffed Calexico and the Bowerbirds, cutting into souls (made up and very real) and extracting heartache that sounds like rejoicing and vice versa." Daytrotter

THE HILL & WOOD hail from Charlottesville and have been one of Virginia’s most critically adored new-fangled bands for over two years. Their sound has grown professional without losing its sincerity, and they bear out a promising sign for what’s to come as they begin to record a second album this year.


Nashville's NORA JANE STRUTHERS has stepped forward with a distinctive sound and on-stage style – her personal collection of vintage dresses makes her one of the most visually striking of modern country artists. But the moving, perceptive, and witty songs on Carnival represent a new quantum leap, born of hard work and deep creative reflection.

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Doors: 5:30 for catered reception
Event: 6:30
Starting at 6:00 Willow Branch Blue Grass




WHAT WOULD YOU CREATE FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE WITH $10,000?

Creatives pitch. Judges critique. YOU decide!

Get ready, on Thursday April 11, the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business launches the Tom Tom festival with a crowd-sourced pitch night for creative artists, entrepreneurs of any kind, innovators, amateurs, professionals and enthusiasts. Come hear the next big idea in Charlottesville!

Everyone chips in $10, which buys entry and a vote to cast toward the winning idea. You'll hear 10 quality ideas that need funding and the crowd decides who they want to support.

This all takes place at the ground-breaking i.Lab at U.Va, a unique community-facing incubator that is pioneering how business schools can interact with the community and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in a City.

The pitches represent all Charlottesville and folks doing cool, innovative things here, and need that live kick-start to make things happen!

Ready to apply?

Applications: HERE
Applications open: March 1, 2013.
Applications close: March 22, 2013
Winners announced: April 5




Image of last years winner, Sandra Carter:

Website: http://www.kluge-ruhe.org/

---- Sponsored by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection -----

Tom Tom is exceptionally pleased to be hosting Frank Buffalo Hyde as our Artist in Residence for 2013. Frank Buffalo Hyde is a Native American artist whose work negotiates the contemporary image of ‘the Indian’ as a stereotype, often using images of buffaloes or playing off the common use of buffaloes in pop culture. Frank's work is exhibited internationally in many notable collections.

Frank has a local tie, having participated in a collaborative mural with Reko Rennie at the Bridge PAI. His story is also compelling, as an artist whose father was exposed to agent orange in Vietnam, he developed the identity of a ‘natural born veteran’ because he was born without a part of his arm and leg. Frank's residency in Charlottesville is an opportunity to hear his story, learn more about his artistic process, and take part in workshops and public painting sessions.

Thursday, April 11 - WELCOME to TTFF

5:00pm - FLASH SEMINAR at UVA - Co-sponsored by American Indian Student Union

Friday, April 12

12:00 - McGuffey - Stearns Classroom - Live painting and paper show


Saturday, April 13


9-11am - Join Urban Sketching @ Tom Yum

12:00pm - Lee Park - Public Painting

Sunday, April 14


1:30pm Presentation at the Bridge PAI to TTFF Public Art Bike Tour

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Welcome to a weekend of over 60 musical acts. And, except where noted, it's entirely free.

Tom Tom is local and "friends of friends" festival. TTFF bands represent hip hop, folk, americana, electronic, R&B, rock, bluegrass, funk and everything in between.

Tom Tom is also eccentric. We try to find unique places for our artists, using both established venues in Charlottesville, but also historic school houses, pop-up parks, real parks, library steps, and micro-breweries.

 

///////////////////////////// THURSDAY APRIL 11 /////////////////////////////

$10K PITCH NIGHT ( i.Lab AT U.Va.)
6:00pm - Willow Branch Blue Grass

OPENING GALA (The Haven)
7:00pm - Nora Jane Struthers
8:00pm - The Hill & Wood
9:00pm - David Wax Museum
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

 

///////////////////////////// FRIDAY APRIL 12 /////////////////////////////

McGUFFEY BLOCK PARTY (McGuffey Art Center)
Presented by 106.1 The Corner
Outdoors on the Front Steps
5:00pm - Cara Legal
6:00pm - Lua
7:00pm - Toma Que Toma
8:00pm - We Are Star Children


McGUFFEY AFTERHOURS: SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK (McGuffey Art Center)

Stage One: Americana & Folk
9:00pm - Terri Allard with Special Guests from the Music Resource Center
10:00pm - Devon Sproule
11:00pm - Erin Lunsford & Smokey Bandits

Stage Two: Hip Hop
T.N.E.
Qui$ Sweat
Nation Hitz feat J Willz
OSkeez/Fly G'z
Shad Gill
Y.K.G.
Clark Bars
YG aka R.E.A.L.
Tino/700 Ent.
Spititout Inc.

Stage Three: Indie Rock
Presented by Holy Smokes
9:00pm - David Daniell
10:00pm - Black Twig Pickers
11:00pm - Great Dads
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

Stage Four: Poetry

THE LOCALMOTIVE STAGE (The Southern)
Presented by 91.9 WNRN *This event is ticketed.
8:00PM - Bobby St. Ours
9:00PM - Luke Wilson and the Dericks
10:30PM - Wrinkle Neck Mules

///////////////////////////// SATURDAY APRIL 13 /////////////////////////////

TOM YUM - Local. Food. Innovation. ( Pink Warehouse)
10:00am – 2:00pm - Drum Circle and Acoustic busking music


PICNIC DAY IN LEE PARK (Lee Park & The Garage & Jefferson Madison Library)
presented by 91.1 WTJU
12:30pm - Jim Waive
1:35pm - Eros and the Eschaton
2:30pm - Borrowed Beams of Light
3:25pm - Diane Cluck
4:20pm - I See London
5:10pm - Carl Anderson
6:05pm - Anousheh Khalili
7:00pm - Sanders Bohlke
7:55pm - Gems
8:50pm - Kelly McFarling
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

Jazz on the Library Steps
2PM - U.Va. Jazz Combo w. Pete Spaar
3PM - Charst
4PM - Red Clay


FELLINI’S JAZZFEST (Fellini's #9)
big bands, jazz, zydeco, rock n’ roll
5:00pm - Garen Dorsey Trio
6:00pm - Robert Jospe Experience
7:00pm - 18 Piece "Big Band"
8:00pm - Gina Sobel
9:00pm - Jolie Fille - Cajun Punk Rock
10:00pm - Buster Brown & The Get Down
11:00pm - Common School Movement


THE HAVEN
presented by the U.Va. Department of Music
8:00pm - Klezmer Ensemble
9:00pm - U.Va. Jazz Combo w. Mike Rosensky


THE LOCALMOTIVE STAGE (The Southern)
Presented by 91.9 WNRN *This event is ticketed.
8:00pm - Judy Chops
8:30pm - Yankee Dixie
9:30pm - Black Girls
10:00pm - Carl Anderson + Band
11:00pm - Dead Professional
11:30pm - Invisible Hand


VIVE ARTS DANCE PARTY (Live Arts) - hip hop, electronic
10:00pm - Beetnix
11:00pm - 2Sly
12:00am - Trill Cosby
1:00am - Will Miles

 

///////////////////////////// SUNDAY – APRIL 14 /////////////////////////////

ROCK MARATHON at THE BRIDGE PAI
food trucks + indie rock, pop, and soul music.
*presented by WTJU's Rock Marathon
2:00pm - The Anatomy of Frank
3:00pm - Luchadora
4:00pm - Willie DE
5:00pm - The Design
6:1pm - Sarah White & Josephine
7:20pm - The Fire Tapes
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

THE SOUTHERN [JAZZ Stage]
Presented by Charlottesville Jazz Society *This event is ticketed.
7:00pm - Azul: ft. John D'Earth, Greg Howard, Brian Caputo
8:00pm - The Engines

SPONSORED BY U.VA. INNOVATION



The 24 speakers at the Tom Talks explore Innovative ideas emerging from the University, Charlottesville community, and beyond.

These 10 minute insights into cutting edge research reveal new ways of thinking and seeing the world. The twist is, these are Charlottesville locals and many of these stories are developing here.

The Talks will occur on Saturday and Sunday. For a full listing of each afternoon's talks, please reference the entry on the site.

INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
sponsored by the Curry School of Education



Innovation and education — Driving change for student, educators, and society

Bob Pianta is the Dean of UVA's Curry School of Education. Pianta's research and development work has created tools used in tens of thousands of classrooms across the country and in every Head Start program. He's now spearheading efforts to develop education schools as forces for innovation and impact in education.




Contemporary Technology in Education: broadband’s role in leveling the playing field.

Pam Moran is in her sixth year as Superintendent in the Albemarle County School System. She has had an extensive educational career in addition to teaching educational leadership and curriculum courses as an adjunct professor for the University of Virginia. Moran is president elect for the Virginia association of school superintendents.



Promoting the College Readiness of Black Male Student-Athletes

Paul C. Harris is an assistant professor in the Counselor Education program at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. His research interests include issues related to equity, access, and educational justice. Specifically, he explores the ways through which school counselors can facilitate educational success in Black males, particularly those participating in sports.


LEADERSHIP
sponsored by the Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce



UVa’s Future and its National Impact

Teresa Sullivan served as provost and a vice president for academic affairs at two leading universities, before becoming the current president of the University of Virginia. In addition, she has written and co written six books and several scholarly articles in the field of sociology.



Industrial frontiers – Inventing the 100 mpg car

Oliver Kuttner played a fundamental role in the real-estate development of Charlottesville’s downtown area. He is also the inventor of the Edison 2, the $5,000,000 X Prize winner for making a super light car that reaches 100 mpg. Kuttner is an active participant in modern industrial practices and how they impact innovation



The Role of Connections: community networks and entrepreneurship

Toan Nguyen is the co-founder of the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC), a micro-financing group based out of Charlottesville. The endeavor seeks to re-imagine entrepreneurship and address issues related to funding small businesses.



New approaches to solving poverty - starting local from the ground up.

The former district director for Congressman Tom Perriello, Ridge Schuyler has since started the Orange Dot project, which addresses the local income deficit. By creating a hub that connects smaller, local businesses with larger more established ones, Schuyler hopes bridge gaps between them and enrich business life in Charlottesville.


TECHNOLOGY

Pioneering Medical discovery: Ultrasound and non-invasive surgery

Dr. Neal Kassell is a Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, where he served as department co-chair for nearly 10 years. Dr. Kassell has founded numerous private ventures and has published more than 450 scientific papers.




Clear Skies And Innovation - how liberating government data changes everything

Named by Barrack Obama as a “champion of change,” Waldo Jaquith is an open government technologist who has worked with diverse groups ranging from the Rolling Stones to the White House Office of Science and Technology





A graduate of the University of Virginia’s Darden School and an expert on growing online businesses, Adam Healey has successfully launched three separate Internet ventures including Hotelicopter and most recently Borrowed and Blue.





ENTREPRENEURSHIP

“Future of Robotics - The Good the bad and the ugly”
Paul Perrone

Paul Perrone is a roboticist, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. His creative work has been captured in numerous books, trade publications, print, televised, and film media. Currently he is working with rocker Neil Young to automate his 1959 Lincoln Continental “LincVolt,” and also helping plan an Autonomous Auto X Prize.



E*commerce and local food; how local food is Changing and why Charlottesville is at the heart of it.

Caesar Layton was the President of Arganica when it merged with Relay foods, becoming one of the more exciting start-ups to expand in Charlottesville. Caesar is interested in alternative methods for expanding the local food movement through CSAs and the return of the farmers market.










SPIRITUALITY AND THE LAW

Exoneration as Innovation - how Innocence is changing our legal system

UVA Law professor Brandon Garrett is interested in criminal procedure and wrongful convictions. His recent research is centered on studies of DNA exonerations and organizational prosecutions, examining the intersection of law and technology.




MLK Jr. and the Beloved Community: Love of Neighbor as Political Innovation.

Greg Thompson has been the senior pastor of Trinity Presbyterian since 2006. He is currently working toward his Theological Ph.D. at the University of Virginia exploring the implications of the Civil Rights movement on theology and modern politics.


Contemplation as Innovation - how the science of mindfulness is changing everything.

A professor of Religious studies, David Germano also serves as the co-director of the Tibet center and director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of technological initiatives) at the university. He is concerned with the use of digital technology and the way it facilitates innovation in teaching the humanities.


 
SOCIAL CAPITALISM


New Solutions for Long Term Refugee Camps

Concerned with issues of global advocacy, assistant professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Batten School Christine Mahoney’s recent research focuses on global advocacy on behalf of the displaced, studying how rights for these individuals can be maintained.



Entrepreneurship in our Prisons: a new model for re-entry.

Ranked as a top five-research professor and a top 10-business professor, Darden’s Greg Fairchild has innovated the business world. Mostly recently, Fairchild launched the Prison Entrepreneurship program in Virginia correctional facilities







Sandy Riesky is the CEO of Apex Wind Energy, a leading US-based developer of commercial-scale wind energy facilities which have generated up to 5,000 megawatts of capacity.






Animals & Ethics: why changing our perceptions about what we eat matters.

Sahar Ahktar is a professor in the Corcoran Department of Philosphy at the University of Virginia. An author and essayist, her specialties are in political philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of economics.




CREATIVE PLACE MAKING

Experiencing Place: Dance as a tool for deeper understanding

An adjunct lecturer in the Dance Program at the University of Virginia, Katie Schetlick also serves as the co-director of the Movement Party and the Fleet Moves Dance Festival in Wellfleet, MA. Her research and performance examine daily phenomena, human interaction, unexpected movement, and the loss of relating to our immediate surroundings.



The Daily Habit of Innovation: the cultural side of new ideas.

Rick Hamilton works at IBM as a consultant and inventor in over 25 countries. In 2012, IBM led the world in patents filed, and Hamilton was the named inventor on 2% of them. With over 825 patent applications filed, he is the most prolific inventor in IBM history.



MEDIA

“Anti-trust suits and innovation. How does Competition impact innovation?”

A professor of law and chair of media studies at the University of Virginia, Siva Vaidhyanathan was named by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of academia’s best known scholars of intellectual property.







University faculty member Aaron Hill is an avid Virginian musician playing principal oboe in the Charlottesville and University symphony orchestras, English horn in the Roanoke Symphony orchestra and summers performing with the Wintergreen Festival orchestra.

THURSDAY APRIL 11

i.Lab AT U.Va. [LAUNCH $10K PITCH NIGHT]
6:00pm - Willow

THE HAVEN [OPENING GALA]
7:00pm - Norah Jane Struthers
8:00pm - The Hill & Wood
9:00pm - David Wax Museum
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event

FRIDAY APRIL 12

MCGUFFEY [BLOCK PARTY - samba, flamenco, rock] - Presented by 106.1 The Corner
5:00pm - Cara Legal
6:00pm - Lua
7:00pm - Toma Que Toma
8:00pm - We Are Star Children                       

McGUFFEY [AFTERHOURS - americana, folk]
9:00pm - Terri Allard with Special Guests from the Music Resource Center
10:00pm - Devon Sproule
11:00pm - Erin Lunsford & Smokey Bandits
 
McGUFFEY [AFTERHOURS - hip hop]
Featuring Music from:
T.N.E.  - Qui$ Sweat -  Nation Hitz feat J Willz -  OSkeez/Fly G'z - Shad Gill - Y.K.G. - Clark Bars - YG aka R.E.A.L. - Tino/700 Ent. - Spititout Inc.

McGUFFEY [AFTERHOURS - indie rock] - Presented by Holy Smokes
9:00pm - David Daniell
10:00pm - Black Twig Pickers
11:00pm - Great Dads
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event  

McGUFFEY [AFTERHOURS - poetry]

SATURDAY APRIL 13 

PINK WAREHOUSE [TOM YUM - Local. Food. Innovation.]
11:00am – 2:00pm - Acoustic busking music

LEE PARK @ THE GARAGE  [PICNIC DAY  + Grand reopening of THE GARAGE]
12:30pm - Jim Waive
1:35pm - Eros and the Eschaton
2:30pm - Borrowed Beams of Light
3:25pm - Diane Cluck
4:20pm - I See London
5:10pm - Carl Anderson
6:05pm - Anousheh Khalili
7:00pm - Sanders Bohlke
7:55pm - Gems
8:50pm - Kelly McFarling
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event 

LEE PARK @ THE LIBRARY STEPS [PICNIC DAY + jazz on the LIBRARY Steps]
*Times + info TBA

FELLINI’S [FELLINI’S JAZZFEST STAGE - big bands, jazz, zydeco, rock n’ roll]
5:00pm - Garen Dorsey Trio
6:00pm - Robert Jospe Experience
7:00pm - 18 Piece "Big Band"
8:00pm - Gina Sobel
9:00pm - Jolie Fille - New Orleans Zydeco
10:00pm - Buster Brown & The Get Down
11:00pm - Common School Movement  

THE SOUTHERN [LOCALMOTIVE Stage - rock, folk, americana] - Presented by 91.9 WNRN
*This event is ticketed.
8:00pm - Judy Chops
8:30pm - Carl Anderson + Band
9:30pm - Black Girls
10:00pm - Moby & The Dicks
11:00pm - Dead Professional
11:30pm - Invisible Hand 

LIVE ARTS [VIVE ARTS DANCE PARTY - hip hop, electronic]
10:00pm - Beetnix
11:00pm - Trill Cosby
12:00am - Srsly
1:00am - Will Miles  

SUNDAY – APRIL 14

CHAMPION BREWERY [TRUCK OFF - food trucks + indie rock, pop, soul music]
3:00pm - The Anatomy of Frank
3:40pm - The Design
4:20pm - Luchadora
5:00pm - Willie DE
5:40pm - Josephine
6:40pm - The Fire Tapes
♫ Spotify Playlist of bands from this event  

THE SOUTHERN [JAZZ Stage] - Presented by Charlottesville Jazz Society
*This event is ticketed.
7:00pm - The Engines

THE HAVEN
8:00pm - U.Va. Dept of Music’s Klezmer Ensemble

McGuffey Block Party

5:00 - Cara Legal WEB / FB / VIDEO
6:00 - lkjdfl;akdj
7:00 - blablk

Join the Facebook Event for all the latest updates!

The INAUGURAL & Tomtoberfest, an Elliewood Block Party and Corner Crawl: a FREE day of grilling, live music and beer gardens, that celebrates Innovation at UVA and in the Community.



**** TOMTOBERFEST

The “Tom” is Tom Tom, an innovation festival sparking new ideas in music, art, design, commerce & community that launched April 2012 with a 55 band music festival, and a month of free art & innovation programming. The “Toberfest” is beer, music and good times on one of Cville’s iconic streets, a New-Orleans-esqe dash of patios, mature trees, and historic homes.

**** INNOVATION

Tomtoberfest will be raising awareness about Innovation programming. This includes a grill out at Hack Cville, the new student tech incubator, and a day of events at UVA OpenGrounds, a new project to spur collaboration between Departments (across from the White Spot). This includes a Design Challenge with a City Councilor & the UVA Architecture Chair to re-imagine a gateway to UVA.

**** LIVE MUSIC & BEER GARDENS & GRILLING

An afternoon enjoying great bands from the community and the university. All while playing games and enjoying the day on the patios of Elliewood.

**** PASSPORT / CORNER CRAWL



The day is FREE, but if you want to help support the event, raise money for charity, and participate in a unique Corner Crawl, buy a TOMTOBERFEST PASSPORT In the week before. The Passport is only $5 and comes with a mug. The proceeds will go to The Community Investment Collaborative. It will get you deals at Corner restaurants & retailers.

(If you shop at DUO, Finch, Ragged Mtn Running, Student Book Store, et al, you'll save more buying the passport and getting a deal)

It will also lead you on a delicious craft and seasonal beer tour across the Corner. Receive a stamp at every bar you come to as you traverse this exciting and exhilarating world.

Join the Facebook Event for all the latest updates!
Like us: www.facebook.com/tomtomfest

Friday, September 28. 5PM-8PM

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The follow up to the smashing Block Party that kicked off Tom Tom on Founders Day. Another FREE evening of outdoor activities on the McGuffey Lawn: live music, street food, beer garden, public art, & children's activities.

This celebrates and benefits the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC), a microfinance non-profit and Tom Tom's inaugural Innovator In Residence. It's first graduating glass of entrepreneurs have received extensive mentorship and are now applying for the micro-loans to start their businesses. www.cicville.org

The Evening's events:

- Local Label County Wide Music presents the irish folk of Chamomile & Whiskey and the country rock of Pantherburn.
- The Boys & Girls Club Dance Step Team
- The Music Resource Centers Drum Team
- An arts and crafts fair on the lawn
- Academy-award winning Stan Winston's Festival of the Moving Creature. The UVA workshop presents some initial designs for the spring fest!
- Beer garden with delicious brews from presenting sponsors New Belgium Brewing and official Virginia craft beer Wild Wolf Brewing
- Street food featuring food trucks and home cooking from two CIC graduating entrepreneurs

CHECK OUT APRIL 13'S BLOCK PARTY!

Buy a Tom Tom T-shirt!

Sizes

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Tom Tom Headquarters is pleased to feature the work of abstract painter, Ian Montgomery. The New York based artist explores patterns from the sciences and mathematics, such as the Golden Ratio, wave physics, and logarithms, and how they relate to the natural world. Ian’s current work is also beginning to expand into mediums such as metal.

Website: http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community news platform covering growth, development, and local politics. We connect you to vital information for making informed choices about our community’s future.

Through a partnership with The Daily Progress, the first of its kind in the nation, Charlottesville Tomorrow’s reporting is now a regular feature in the pages of the local newspaper of record.

In Tom Tom 2012, Charlottesville Tomorrow is hosting an event on April 26, titled "Place Making".

Website: http://www.darden.virginia.edu/

The Darden School of Business improves society by developing principled leaders. Their three-pronged mission is student-centered learning, thought leadership and active engagement with the business community.

Website: http://jimrespess.com/

Jim Respess has been a local artist and teacher for over twenty years. He has taught at several area colleges and exhibited broadly over the Eastern US. He is currently engaged in creating large scale outdoor works with a team of colleagues, applying for exhibitions and competitions on a regional and national scale.

Tom Tom Head Quarters is graced with an early piece of Respess' that features a camoflague-laden, neon-backed swimsuit model.

Teri Kent's website, Better World Betty, is a resource for Charlottesville residents striving to reduce their environmental impact. Since founding her site Teri has become an important voice advocating for sustainability in our community. Teri partnered with the folks at the LEAP program to create the "Better Business Challenge" in order to challenge local organizations to think creatively about using sustainability as a resource to improve their businesses and contribute to our community.

Teri is a panelist on our Place Based: Sustainable Design talk.

Wendy Brown is the founder and director of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence.

Panelist for Place Based: Social Entrepreneurs

Toan Nguyen is the co-founder and co-owner of C'ville Coffee and a founding member of the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC). The CIC is a Charlottesville-based microfinancing group aimed at providing training and financing for individuals and organizations aiming to start or expand small businesses. The CIC is one of Tom Tom's entrepreneurs in residence and with our partner organizations we will be following and documenting the CIC's inaugural class of entrepreneurs.

Panelist for Place Based: Social Entrepreneurs

Website: http://www.tomtomfest.com/events/evententry/social-entrepreneurship

Before Dave Norris was elected Mayor in 2008 he was voted onto City Council in May 2006 on a platform that focused on four key issues: creating affordable housing for renters and homebuyers, enhancing educational opportunities for children and adults, fighting poverty and reducing racial disparities in our community, and promoting environmental sustainability in local and regional planning. Dave currently works as
Executive Director of The Charlottesville Institute, a new non-profit organization whose mission is to harness the intellectual resources of the University of Virginia for the betterment of the Charlottesville community. Dave is also teaching a class at the University of Virginia on social enterprise.

We are pleased to have Dave as a panelist for our conversation on social entrepreneurship in Charlottesville.

Website: http://www.tomtomfest.com/events/evententry/place-based-keynote-presentation

Zach Buckner is an inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in Charlottesville VA. Zach founded a local start-up which was conceived, created and funded entirely in Charlottesville. Relay Foods is an online grocery store where you’ll find stuff you need from the best local stores, restaurants, and farms from right in your own neighborhood. We are excited host a panel to explore the influence that Charlottesville as a community has had on the Relay story.

James Nemer’s neon lit “An Icon Transformed” is being featured at the TTFF Headquarters during Tom Tom. A retired naval officer, James took up sculpture later in life and is continuing studies at UVA. James has exhibited his work at a variety of galleries in Northern Virginia and is responsible for a public sculpture located at Echoes of Nature Park adjacent to Baker Butler Elementary School in Albemarle County. After Tom Tom, “Icon” will be installed at Ruffin Hall at the University of Virginia.

Website: http://www.tomtomfest.com/events/evententry/sustainable-design

Joey Conover started a residential home building business, Latitude 38, with her husband, Jeff Erkelens, to fill a market niche for mid-priced modern homes in the City of Charlottesville. Focused on environmentally responsible, healthy homes in walkable neighborhoods, Latitude 38 has found a welcome audience of home buyers looking to live closer to the urban core with other people, work and amenities. Conover grew up in Downtown Charlottesville, leaving to attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut and spend some time working on economic development in Latin America. She returned to town to attend the Darden School of Business and to contribute more to the quality of life of her home town.

Website: http://www.tomtomfest.com/events/evententry/locavore-expo

Tom Tom is proud to present Faith Levine who will be performing at the locavore expo on May 12th.

Faith Levine started dancing through the hills of West Virginia at a young age. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and has choreographed and performed in half a dozen states over the last 10 years. These days she can usually be found teaching dance at Piedmont Virginia Community College, gardening, cooking, eating vegetables, or dancing while eating vegetables.

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Website: http://secretmountains.tumblr.com/

Baltimore-based psych-rock outfit.

"You’ve got that neo-gothic Portishead vibe going on, laced with clear and delicate vocals, but then again, you’re so psychedelic. You’ve been reviewed by the NY Times but still remain totally obscure. You rock really hard but then you shoegaze away. You’re great, that’s all." Facebook.

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Website: http://www.tomtomfest.com/events/evententry/biotechnology-hub

Mark Crowell is the University's first Executive Director of UVa Innovation and Associate Vice President for Research. Mark is building the University's corporate, private and government partnerships and enhance licensing, entrepreneurship and commercialization activities, and is the point person for the University's commercial alliances. The University is a vital component of the innovation ecosystem in Charlottesville and we are happy to have Mark join our biotechnology panel.

Website: http://www.tomtomfest.com/events/evententry/biotechnology-hub

Martin D. Chapman is the president of Indoor Biotechnologies, a biotechnology company specializing in allergies and asthma research. Martin recently purchased the former Coca Cola building in order to create the CityCampus Biotechnology Center that would include a biotech business incubator to help researchers become entrepreneurs. Martin's project will be at the center of our conversation on the state of biotechnology and the growing industries role in Charlottesville's future.

Website: http://iwillwreckyourlife.com/

The Due Diligence is the brainchild of antifolk songwriter Isaac Gillespie. The name comes from a jam session he once had with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart while on a boat in the Hudson River. As the jam progressed, Hart suddenly challenged Gillespie to play every Grateful Dead song to a Bo Diddley beat. Gillespie complied and Hart was so impressed that he called Dead-bandmate Bob Weir to leave a voicemail recording of the session. "Hey, that's Diligence!" Hart remarked off-handedly and Gillespie was re-christened Isaac Diligence, destined to spread the gospel of rootsy songs set over funky rhythms.

The first incarnation of the Due Diligence appeared in summer of 2009, drawing members from established New York groups such as the Shivers, Big Tree and Relatives. Over the next two years, the group slowly worked on their full-length debut LP. The result is "I Will Wreck Your Life"; ten rollicking country/soul hits about breaking up and getting yourself together. Inspired by the Band, Neil Young and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, the Due Diligence captures a powerful charging sound that somehow pushes forward while also settling back into a relaxed groove.

By the beginning of 2011, the band had settled into the regular trio of Isaac Diligence playing guitar and singing, Charles Wiley on the drums and Alex P on the bass. They have played all over New York and the East Coast, sharing bills with acts such as the David Wax Museum, Shilpa Ray and Franz Nicolay.

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Website: http://www.whatisix.com/

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The IX Project is 17 acre, rehabbed industrial space, filled with art installations. We're calling it Field Day, after those magical days of lore. Against the backdrop of gospel, hip hop, jazz, rock and bluegrass, there will also be local food vendors, public art, games, and fun.

It's a Mothers Day Celebration. With a free musical program that includes:

2PM – 7PM: Children’s games and “Field Day” activities, hula-hooping and three-legged-egg-spoon-hopping-sack-racing in the outdoors. Public art being created and crafts vendors. Street food fair.

2:30PM: The Music Resource Center will feature original student hip-hop, rap and dance.

3:30PM: The ELBY BRASS Rock-Marching Band

4:30PM: Pastor Hodari Hamilton of First Baptist Church hosts a Gospel program with the First Baptist Church Gospel Choir.

5:00PM: Element Uplift Praise Band & Darlene Vango, a gospel performer and winner of the 92.7Kiss FM 2012 Talent Competition.

6:00PM: John D'earth Quintet w. guests

7:00PM: American Dumpster - Christian Breeden's New Orlean's Rock mash-up


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Website: http://www.carlandersonmusic.com/

Charlottesville’s own Ryan Adams with a dose of Springsteen, Carl Anderson has soulful talent overflowing his cup. After a songwriting contract and some Nashville experience, Anderson moved back to his native Virginia to hone his craft and record his most recent album, “Wolftown."

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At the closing gala on May 13 at the IX Project, the Music Resource Center will host some student artists performing original hip-hop music, as well as hip-hop dance troupes and step teams. These performances start at noon.



The Music Resource Center (MRC) is an after school, music education center serving 7th- 12th grade students in Charlottesville, VA. The mission of the MRC is to educate and inspire young people and, through music, equip them with important life skills.

At the MRC, students have access to equipment and technology such as electric guitars and amps, microphones and digital music software, and drum kits. The highlight of the MRC is the professional recording studio in which students can record music they’ve written, as well as, learn how to record and produce others. The Music Resource Center offers instruction in many areas in the form of private lessons and group classes and, though MRC and community events, provides students with performance opportunities.

Each year the MRC serves 600-700 students. Of those students, more than 300 are low-income. Students receive high quality mentoring and instruction provided by MRC staff and community volunteers. Low income students pay only $10 per year for a one-year membership.

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Self-professed “dream punk” outfit Eternal Summers formed in the late 2000s around the talents of guitarist/vocalist Nicole Yun and drummer Daniel Cundiff. The Roanoke, VA-based duo, both of whom are members of the Magic Twig Community (a local art and indie pop organization/collective), specializes in taut, hook-filled post-rock/no wave-inspired pop nuggets that alternate between dreamy and cacophonous.

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Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/misterbaby

Unto the Old Dominion was born a savior (well, singer/songwriter) with a nearly embarrassingly naked, honest voice and an electric guitar strung with her own guts. In the words of Hank Jr. she "could make folks feel what she felt inside."

Megan Huddleston has since grown into a thirty-something dynamo with songs that echo the smack-down murder ballads of Appalachia and the intrepid, menacing electricity of the 50’s first rockers.

Her last offering, Lucky You, seemed tuned to a long lost am station, one that came along at the moment where there is no time, when autumn leaves crunch under foot and the bitterness of a broken heart is turned into a rock&roll ring toss at the state fair.

Unaffected, socially graceless, true to her friends and her art, and a threat to coffeehouse sissies on XM satellite radio. Miss Megan "Molly Smoky" Huddleston should be considered over her council, Garth Brooks and the Louvin Brothers, for your next musical pleasure moment.

But when your day is done and you are tucked away snug in your bed, listening to her music low and on repeat, sleep with one eye open. She's a biter.

- Critter Fuqua

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Website: http://www.facebook.com/jennybesetzt

Jenny Besetzt is the rose that grew from the ashes of a doomed young adult romance. Boyhood schoolmates John Wollaber and Brad Morton drape a dense fabric of lush interwoven guitars over the urgent pounding canonfire of drummer Reed Benjamin and rhythmic co-conspirator, bassist Jeff Bechtel. The songs emerge like crumbling castles from the mist of keyboardist Kristen Morgan's shimmering chordal cloud. Formed in early 2011, the Greensboro-based quintet is the audio-diary of guitarist and frontman John Wollaber.

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Website: http://www.autoerotique.net/

The duo, Keith Robertson and Dave Henderson, make up the dance music team of Autoerotique. They reference the multi-cultural bustle of Toronto’s west end with nods to electro, techno, Dutch house, rave-rock, and even ska. These up-and-coming DJs have been referenced by everyone from Diplo to Lykke Li.

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Website: http://joshritter.com/

Josh Ritter is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author whose distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics have earned him accolades for over a decade. His sixth studio album, "So Runs the World Away" has continued the legacy of one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" (Paste Magazine)

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Website: http://www.desertnoisesmusic.com

Desert Noises is Kyle Henderson, Tyler Osmond, Patrick Boyer, and Brennan Allen, four boys from Utah Valley, UT. The four make dynamic, propulsive indie rock rich with jangle and swagger. Fresh-faced and starry-eyed, these energetic young musicians have an extraordinary knack for pop composition that seems well beyond their years. They are romantics, and adventurers too.

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Website: http://thehillandwood.bandcamp.com/

Frontman, Sam Bush, graduated UVA with influences ranging from Wilco, Ryan Adams, to Fleet Foxes. The Hill & Wood's self-titled debut album of introspective folk pop has been well received amidst an ambitious touring schedule across the East Coast and most recently a march through the South toward SXSW. Their expansive line-up scales up from the central quintet to include horns, strings, and vocal harmonies.

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Website: http://www.jroddywalstonandthebusiness.com/

Coming out of Baltimore, MD, the band has a road-warrior mentality backed up with some of the most collection-worthy albums of the past decade. The widely praised Hail Mega Boys (2007) was followed with a rollicking self-titled album in 2010. Punctuated and largely based upon J Roddy Walston’s barrelhouse piano, the band shifts through jump-up shout-a-longs to gritty blues to straight arena-worthy anthems. Very rowdy. Very rock and roll.

“Infectiously manic...they make James Brown look lazy.” — Baltimore City Paper

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Website: http://brittanybosco.bandcamp.com

Bosco is a mixture of plush, warm synths, glimmering guitar, and tribal rhythms, all carried by the wonderful vocal stylings of Brittany Bosco. Brittany has been delving into many different genres of art since her 2-year hiatus from music. Her emotional and artistic exploration led her to a few Atlanta musicians who seemingly had very different musical influences: Ira G. (a dj/hip-hop/r&b producer who produced two tracks on Bosco's Pacer EP), Shane Orange, Jonathan Merenivitch, and Carlton Knight (three members of Atlanta post punk/soul quartet Tendaberry). After playing a few fantastic shows together, Brittany asked the four other gents to join her on a new musical venture. Bosco was formed. Building on her unique genre-bending trademark, Bosco melds together trip-hop, experimental soul, indie pop, and post punk into a delectable treat for any listener.

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Website: http://herewegomagicband.tumblr.com/

Here We Go Magic sit at the crossroads of straightforward Brooklyn indie rock and psychedelic, ambient synthesized sounds. The resulting mix of droning synthesizers and campfire folk is all but unclassifiable, sometimes bordering on the same sonic territories occupied by Animal Collective. Their new album, "A Different Ship," releases May 8.

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Website: http://www.deletedscenesmusic.blogspot.com/

Washington DC based Deleted Scenes have two critically well received albums of indie-rock, including 2011's Pitchfork favorite, "The Young People's Church of the Air." Drawing comparisons to the Danielson Family & Talking Heads, this group has shared the stage with the likes of Wild Nothing, The Antlers, and Cursive.

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Website: http://www.futurebirdsmusic.com/

Hailing from the bohemian college town of Athens, Georgia, Futurebirds play laid-back country-rock with an atmospheric, psychedelic twist. The group began turning heads with the release of a self-titled EP, whose backwoods harmonies and pedal steel riffs helped earn a contract with Autumn Tone Records. With the label’s help, Futurebirds booked time at Chase Park Transduction — one of Athens’ most renowned studios, with a client list that includes R.E.M., Drive-By Truckers, and Jason Isbell — and recorded Hampton’s Lullaby. The debut album was released in August 2010, and the group issued a follow-up EP, Via Flamina, while touring in support of both releases.

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Website: http://hospitality.bandcamp.com

A band on the rise, Hospitality is touring in support of their recently released self-titled album. The indie pop trio from Brooklyn has hit the festival circuit this summer and is garnering significant college radio buzz.

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Website: http://palefaceonline.com/

Originating from New York and now residing in North Carolina, Paleface has released fifteen albums since 1989 and become integral in the indie-folk landscape. Collaborators have included everyone from Beck to the Avett Brothers. Paleface currently tours as high-energy indie-folk three piece band; his shows have been described as joyous, carefree and catchy as hell.

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Website: http://www.deadfame.com

Dead Fame take many of their cues from post-punk bands such as Wire, Gang of Four, Bauhaus, and New Order, with influences from music produced during the New Wave movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. By adding a contemporary pop twist to elements inspired by ambitious and sometimes darker ethos, Dead Fame appeals to listeners looking for both lyrical and challenging melodies, as well as those who relish in electronic club beats.

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Website: http://www.birdlipsmusic.com/

The Charlottesville duo Cliff Usher and Lindsay Pitts travel the country in a van creating a blend of ethereal folk and psychedelic pop with a keyboard and guitar. Their meandering atmospheric songs, simultaneously intimate and expansive, leave listeners both mesmerized and blissful.

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Website: http://smallsur.tumblr.com/

Driven by brooding and vibrant lyrics, Small Sur is lyricist Bob Keal with Andy Abelow on guitar and saxophone and Austin Stahl on drums. With a patient style, they meld delicate instrumentation and their trio of voices an alive Americana music.

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Website: http://blackswansband.tumblr.com/

The Black Swans’ Occasion for Song, their 5th full-length, is a messy long-haul of emotions dealing with the death of founding member and violinist Noel Sayre, and the aftermath of memory, shock, and loss it created. It recalls lessons learned in 9th grade Health class — DABDA (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance). Without a textbook, however, The Black Swans are not so orderly. The guitars and banjo and vocals and drums and bass sound out dark thoughts, sad thoughts, silly thoughts, angry thoughts, and buckets of depression almost all at once. This is an album about loss, death, and trying to get to the acceptance at the end of grief.

The record begins with “Basket of Light” where DeCicca sings “I took a trip where the sun never sits/ but I’ve come back for a few more moments of joy”. It may be the album’s most hopeful personal moment.

The third track, “Portsmouth, Ohio,” chronicles the day Noel Sayre died in a swimming pool accident, with a journalistic eye and no sentimentality, taking the listener from the diving board to the I.C.U. to chicken salad sandwiches on the 4th of July. The swimming pool is featured on the album’s cover.

“Daily Affirmation” and “Fickle and Faded,” the album’s most light-hearted songs, feature the dry humor and playfulness in words and notes the Black Swans are known for whereas “Mask from Memory” may be oddest track the band has ever recorded. It imagines the singer creating a paper mache mask of his deceased friend to see the world through his eyes.

In the coda of the album’s closer, “Bad Day,” DeCicca sings, “Sometimes the occasion for song/ Is filled with reasons that are all wrong/ Don’t sing along” like he can barely get out of bed. But the harmonica, where the violin belongs, sounds as hopeful as it does forlorn.

Occasion for Song was recorded straight to analog in August 2010 in Columbus, Ohio at the famed Mus-i-col Recording Studio (see Numero Group’s Capsoul and Prix label reissues) by Adam Smith (CDR label head, Times New Viking engineer) and mixed at Tangerine Studios by Ben Vehorn (Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter).

The Black Swans’ last record, Don’t Blame the Stars, released in May 2011 on Misra Records, Pitchfork called “gorgeous sounding” and Paste beamed “singular and strong”.

Those compliments are even truer here. Occasion for Song is the sound of a band coming to terms with its grief and the junk it brings. Gorgeous, raw, strange, and sincere.

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A mural you can see from space... and created to send a hello from Charlottesville to Google Earth.

A group of artists and students, working under the direction of artist and professor Megan Marlatt, will be creating a large painting on an asphalt parking lot. Weather dependent; it should be ready for the festival weekend.

The creators of the mural, a group of artists and students known as “The Cardboard Collective”, include; Marie Bergeron, David Cook, Carmen Diaz, Shiry Guirguis, Margaret King, Brendan Morgan, Richard Robinson and Cherith Vaughan.

The painting on asphalt, titled “Hello Pluto, Good-bye Kitty” is based on the Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat” and will be constructed on a large parking lot at the corner of Rt 29 and Westfield Road. Made up of hundreds of tar painted, one-eyed black cats on the asphalt, Pluto the cat in full form will only be visible from the air or Google Earth.

Upon completion of the painting, an opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 12, from 12:00 – 2:00. Warning: Too much rain in April may hinder progress of this project.

Megan Marlatt is an artist who resides in Orange, Virginia. Her public art and site-specific work includes a monumental digital banner The Hatter of Rockville for the City of Rockville, Maryland. She has created fresco murals at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Virginia, St. Michael’s Episcopal in New Jersey, Charlottesville City Hall in Virginia and the Memphis College of Art in Tennessee. Non-traditional modes of realizing public art have included her temporary grass and asphalt paintings at the Hillwood Museum of Long Island University, Louisville Water Tower in Kentucky, DCAC in Washington, DC, and the Atlanta Arts Festival. Some of Marlatt’s past work has involved co-creating with communities and non-profits like City Arts Workshop, leading young and old artists in creating murals for their schools and community centers. These community collaborative murals were created at Casa P.R.A.C. in New Jersey and Washington House and C.P.E.#2 School, (both in New York.) She has brought this practice into her teaching as a professor at the University of Virginia, where her students have created about 15 major murals over the last 10 years for non-profit organizations, schools and municipalities. In addition, Marlatt has taught the technique of fresco painting several summers in Italy for U.Va. and Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.

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The Charlottesville Photography Initiative (CPI)'s mission is to foster an open, friendly and professional environment in Charlottesville and the surrounding areas, providing an educational forum and building a community for amateur and professional photographers. The CPI's vision is to be the nexus for all things photography related in the Charlottesville and surrounding areas.

On Saturday, May 12th, CPI is joining Tom Tom by hosting a Photo Walk guests around Charlottesville:

10am - Meet at The CPI for a bagel and coffee meet and greet
11am - Take the CAT to UVA grounds meet on the north side of the Rotunda, Academic Village, Pavilion Gardens and the book store
1pm - Take the CAT downtown, meet at north side of ice rink, walk downtown mall and tour festival venues
3pm - Return to CPI, drinks and light fare

CPI is open to suggestions; please try to keep them central to downtown. We're excited to have CPI lead the Photo Walk and hope that you'll join us!

Contact information:
Nick Strocchia
nick@nickstrocchia.com

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CALLING ALL LOCAVORES! (AKA. Being innovative never tasted so good.)

Forbes named Charlottesville the “locavore capital of the world,” and a festival about innovations in our community needs to highlight the many unique ways Charlottesville is influencing the way our nation eats.

For the festival weekend, Tom Tom calls all locavores to explore the flavor of Charlottesville through an extravaganza of local food tastings, chef demonstrations and gardening as an extension of Charlottesville's Farmers’ Market. For that Saturday, the Farmers' Market will extend into South Street Brewery and up South 1st Street toward the Downtown Mall. Meet your local farmers and producers during the seed and starts exchange! See demos and taste the fare of Charlottesville's top chefs!


From 9am-12pm:
• Chef demos every 1/2 hour by our best local chefs including Brookville Restaurant, the Ivy Inn & the Whiskey Jar and more. Hosted inside South Street Brewery
• A kids corner with seed ball making, veggie prints, other veggie and gardening crafts on South 1st street as an extension of the farmers market.
• A seed and starter exchange co-hosted with Southern Exposure Seed Exchange along south 1st street
• Craft Fair along south 1st street


From 12 pm-2pm

• Starting at 12 noon, panel discussion with PEC, the Local Food Hub, Albemarle County, JABA followed by a local food mixer to meet the farmers and producers and taste our local fare!
• Tastings with Bare Foot Bucha, Farmstead Ferments, Bellair Farm, Feast, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Rebecca's


Tastings:
Local food vendors offering tastings in south street (12-2pm)

Bare Foot Bucha
Bellair Farm
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Farmstead Ferments
Rebecca's Natural Foods
Feast

Chef Demos:
Brookville Restaurant
Ivy Inn
Whiskey Jar
Blue Light Grill

9:30 am Angelo from Ivy Inn
10:00 am Rapheal from Whiskey Jar
10:30 am Harrison Keevil from Brookville Restaurant
11:00 am Ian from Bluelight Grill
11:30 am Chris Stroupe Charlottesville Cooking School

Gardening Activities:
Local Food Hub
Buford School Garden
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
Piedmont Environmental Council

Presenters: "Improving Access to Local Foods"

Piedmont Environmental Council
Jefferson Area Board for the Aging
Albemarle County
Local Food Hub


Performances of "Lettuce, Turnip and Dance" at 10:30am and 12:00 pm at South Street Brewery
Faith Levine of Graceful Fitness

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Albemarle County

Website: http://thegreatunknownmusic.com/

The Philadelphia group, The Great Unknown, weaves soulful alt-country sounds with a definite rock and roll swagger. Drawing influence from American roots legends such as Leonard Conan and Bill Callahan, the band creates songs rich in melancholic melodies and twangy harmonies. Having recently graced the stage alongside Dr. Dog and Dawes, The Great Unknown’s unique sound holds tremendous promise.

Website: http://dopebody.tumblr.com

It’s about the freedom of influence and idea with mutual respect for internal faults and strengths. Together, Dope Body is a spasm of styles and directions, showering sparks from a half-melted thickness. Yes, they’re a rock band, but that’s acknowledged with apprehension and indifference. To them, they’ve always been a kind of science-lab kitchen thing where the most off the- wall and potentially dumbest shit they can imagine will sometimes make good things come out.

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