Writer’s Eye Competition UVA Art Museum, 155 Rugby Rd. Local students, UVA students and adults are invited to submit original prose and poetry inspired by a range of works in the museum. The deadline for submissions is November 3. For more information or to schedule a tour, call 243-2050.
Acting for Film classes 1144 E. Market St. 977-1371. Offers weekly workshops on acting for film with an Emmy-winning director. Call for days and times. $150 per month.
Action Theater workshop McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. Learn verbal and movement skills while practicing the art of presence and the joy of improvisation. The workshop is offered October 20-22. To register, e-mail bradstoller@adelphia.net. $130-150.
Biscuit Run Studios potluck 981 Old Lynchburg Rd. 977-5411. www.biscuitrun.com. Hosts an open house and potluck supper every Wednesday, 6pm. Free.
Blue Ridge Beads & Glass 1724 Allied St. 293-2876. www.blueridgebeads-glass.com. Stained Glass Seminar is back. Every Saturday, 3-4:30pm. Free.
Charlottesville Camera Club 250 Pantops Mountain Rd. 973-4856. www.avenue.org/ccc. Visitors welcome. Club meets at Westminster Canterbury the second Tuesday of every month, 6:30pm. Free.
Charlottesville Music Teachers Association www.cvillemta.org. Learn about this organization in an introductory forum October 11 at 10am. Come early to socialize. E-mail cmta@cvillemta.org for meeting location.
Charlottesville Writing Center Offers several evening writing workshops for adults. All workshops: 6:30-8:30pm, $185. For more info: call 293-3702 or visit www.cvillewrites.org.
Dance classes with Miki Liszt Dance Company McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW., Studio 20. 295-7973. www.mikilisztdance.org. Offers evening classes in jazz, modern and cardio dance. For more info: e-mail rachaellshaw@yahoo.com or visit www.mikilisztdance.org.
Dance Explosion Held at three locations six days a week: Footnotes Music and Dance Studio (2363 Commonwealth Dr.); Studio 206 (206 W. Main St.); and Angell’s Fitness and Dance (7 Centre Ct., Lake Monticello). Offers classes in ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, modern, conditioning, ballroom, salsa and country. For more info: call 953-8268, e-mail jazz-explosion@hotmail.com or visit www.dance-explosion.org.
DanceFit Movement Center 609 E. Market St., Studio 110. 295-4774. www.njira.com/dancefit. Holds the aerobic “DanceFit” class every Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30pm. $10-13.
Dances of Universal Peace Westminster Presbyterian Church, 190 Rugby Rd. 242-6510. Eat, dance and pray. All are welcome at this event held the second Sunday of every month at 7:30pm.
Friendship Force Photography Show 296-2202. www.avenue.org/ffc. The Friendship Force of Charlottesville wants your submissions for its photography show “Visions of Peace and Friendship.” First, second and third-place ribbons will be awarded in six categories: Friendship Moments, People, Landscapes, Nature Close-Ups, Architecture and Eclectic. Deadline for submissions is October 2. Eentry fee is $5 for up to five entries. Call or visit the website for details. The show will be held October 27.
Glass Palette classes 110 Fifth St. NE. 977-9009. www.theglasspalette.net. Offers classes beginning the first week of every month. Classes run on four weeknights or two Saturdays. $200-250. Preregistration required. Call or visit website for schedule.
International Folk Dancing Senior Center, 1180 Pepsi Pl. 806-6770. Learn dances from the USA, the Balkans, Greece, Germany, Russia, France, Canada and many more countries every Tuesday. Each lesson begins at 6pm and the dance begins at 7pm. Free.
Kluge-Ruhe Collection tours 400 Worrell Dr. 244-0234. Offers 45-minute guided tours every Saturday, 10:30am. Free, no reservations necessary.
La Tertulia: Spanish Conversation Group Central Library, 201 E. Market St. 979-7151. All levels welcome. Brush up on your Spanish the first Thursday of each month, 7pm.
Live Arts Play Readers’ Circle 123 E. Water St. 977-4177, ext. 100. www.livearts.org. Meets the third Sunday of every month, 3-6pm. Offers a look at the politics of love and war through some of the most revolutionary plays in theater history. Free.
Live Arts Actors’ Lab: The Basics 123 E. Water St. 977-4177, ext. 100. www.livearts.org. An eight-week series that meets every Tuesday September 26-November 14, 2:30-4:30pm. $85-95.
Live Arts Playwrights’ Lab 123 E. Water St. 977-4177, ext. 100. www.livearts.org. Meets the first and third Monday of every month to share scripts and offer constructive feedback, 6:30-9:30pm. Free.
Live Arts Teen Acting Studio: The Basics 123 E. Water St. 977-4177, ext. 100. www.livearts.org. Meets every Thursday September 21-November 2, 5-7pm. $65-75.
Live Arts Youth Acting Studio: You and the Greek Stage 123 E. Water St. 977-4177, ext. 100. www.livearts.org. This workshop for students age 10-13 meets every Monday September 25-November 6, 5-7pm. $75-85.
Live Glassblowing Demonstrations Sunspots–Charlottesville, 2039 Barracks Rd, Meadowbrook Shopping Center, corner of Emmet Street and Barracks Road. 977-5531. www.sunspots.com. Watch molten glass being formed into beautiful art objects. Demonstrations offered Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm.
The Live Poets Society Gordon Avenue Library, 1500 Gordon Ave. 296-5544. Share original poetry or listen, the first Wednesday of the month, 7pm. Free.
Main Street Artspace classes Noon Whistle Pottery, 328 Main St. 985-6500. www.noonwhistlepottery.com. Holds over a dozen classes on subjects like knitting, clay, drawing, pastels, fabric, jewelry making and more. Visit website for schedule and price list.
McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. 293-8733. www.mcguffeyartcenter.org. Offers several visual arts classes for teens and adults this fall, including: “Drawing from Experience,” an eight-week class held Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm, beginning September 26; “Jean’s Gutsy Abstract Oil Painting Class,” an eight week class held Wednesdays, 6:30-9pm, beginning September 27; and “Beginning Watercolor,” a six-week class held Tuesdays, 1-3pm, beginning September 26. Visit website for full schedule and price list.
Mixed-Media Art Class McGuffey Art Center, 201 Second St. NW. 293-8733. www.rosamondcasey.com. This eight-week class will teach artists, writers, photographers and curious beginners a new concept for visual thinking in art making. Classes will be held every Tuesday, 9:30am-noon, beginning September 26. $230, materials not included.
Poem Site: Songs in the Landscape 2331 Highland Ave., Fry’s Spring. This month: “The End of Autumn,” featuring poetry by Laurance Wieder painted on a salvaged window by Andrea Korotky and take-it-with-you poem “In the World, and Out of It, and Of It.” Free. For more info: call 295-5057 or e-mail poemsite@gmail.com.
Poets’ Critique Group Meets every Friday 10am-1pm to provide a forum for poetry and constructive feedback. Call 973-3577 for directions to a private residence in Albemarle County. Free.
Premiere season of Play On, a new Virginia theater The Theatre at Ix, 983 Second St. SE. 872-0184. www.playontheatre.org. Play On’s first show, the Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum begins September 29. Season ticket plans start at $38.
Shergold Dance Studio 652 Rio Rd. 975-4611. www.shergoldstudio.com. Offers a variety of evening dance classes, from tango to hip-hop and pole-dancing. Babysitting available for some classes. See website for current schedule. $10 drop in.
Smocking Arts Guild of America meeting 420 Shoppers World Ct. 295-1481. The Monticello Chapter meets the third Thursday of the month at Les Fabriques to discuss service projects, 7pm. $10 per year.
Studio Baboo workshops 321 E. Main St. 244-2905. www.studiobaboo.com. Holds numerous jewelry-making workshops. See website for full schedule.
Sun’s Traces Gallery 5549 Governor Barbour St, Barboursville. 973-3700. Offers a handbuilding clay workshop, September 23 and 24, 9am-4pm. $140, materials and firing included. Also offers a metalsmithing workshop
November 11 and 12, 9am-4pm. $175, stones and silver not included.
Terry Dean’s Dance Studio 1309A Seminole Trail. 977-3327. www.terrydeansdancestudio.com. Terry offers weekly classes in partner styles from cha cha to two-step. Partners are provided for singles. See website for current schedule. $5-10 drop-in.
West African Drum Classes 1104 Forest St. 977-1499. Kevin Munro holds lessons at the Charlottesville Quaker Meeting House every Wednesday, 6-7pm. $70.
Zabor Dance Old Live Arts building, 609 E. Market St. (804) 303-2614. Every Saturday Edwin Roa and Amberlyn Sasser offer beginning Argentine tango lessons 5-5:30pm, followed by an intermediate lesson 5:40-6:10pm. Wear ballroom shoes or dance in your socks. Come early to sign up. $6. For more info, call or e-mail zabordance@yahoo.com.