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ARTS Pick: UVA bicentennial

On a fall day in 1817, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison met in a field to place a cornerstone on land that is now University of Virginia’s Lawn. Two hundred years later to the day, Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. and R&B singer Andra Day will perform, along with more than 900 students and faculty members, to kick off the UVA bicentennial, a celebration that continues through final exercises in May 2019. State-of-the-art technology from Paintscaping Inc. will transform the Rotunda into a storytelling canvas through projection mapping of UVA’s history.

Friday, October 6. Free (tickets needed), 7pm. UVA Lawn. bicentennial.virginia.edu/launch-weekend

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