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Metro 7 7 Paging thru Bluebird sells books on the go.

8 Speak up The Moth’s coming to The Paramount.

8 Relax on the Lawn Say “om” with UVA’s virtual session.

9 New releases Locals producing tunes in 2022.

9 Time to run Deets on the Ten Miler.

Front and Center 13 13 Body butter EZE AMOS

Charity Malia Dinko’s do-good lotion.

15 Trash to treasure A nonprofit reducing furniture waste.

17 Mommy’s helper A book on pandemic parenting: 101.

19 OOTD @cvillefashion’s seasonal snaps.

20 Child’s play The Discovery Museum celebrates 40 years.

Feature 24 The pandemic marked the third time in its nearly 90-year history that The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA was forced to shut down, so it’s no stranger to a pivot. Now that it’s reopened, it’s a changed space. But isn’t that the point? “What we take from art depends on where we are in our own lives and what we need from it,” Director Matthew McLendon says.

21 Love language Opening doors in the cacao industry.

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Books to the PEOPLE FORMER LIBRARIAN FLANNERY Buchanan had always dreamed of opening her own bookstore, but financial limitations forced her to get inventive: She bought a 1966 Banner camper and turned it into Bluebird Bookstop, a bookstore on wheels. The curated collection includes a little something for everyone—by design. “Right now times are hard and stressful and I’ve found that people just want human connection,” Buchanan says. “Books are the perfect way to connect with other humans.” —Caite Hamilton

434: Tell me a little about your background and how it led you to the Bluebird Bookstop. Flannery Buchanan: I trained as a librarian and worked briefly before staying home to raise my four children. My oldest is now 16 and all four are avid readers and bookstore fans. Whenever we travel, we love to find the local bookstores and discuss what we like, what their collection was like. It’s always been a dream for a family bookstore but the financials of owning a bookstore can be tough especially in a high cost-of-living area like Charlottesville/Crozet. So in response, I figured out an asset-light model: no rent, low overhead, take the books to the people! We live in such a beautiful place with so many outdoor meeting places, that it was easy to dream about parking the trailer at vineyards, breweries, markets, anywhere that people are already gathering. Did you renovate the camper yourself? How long did it take and what was the process like? Ha! I’m not very handy, but I’ve certainly learned a lot! I bought the camper gutted, however, I tore

out the flooring and stripped the roof of old sealant. After that, I turned it over to my contractor John Garland and his team. What genres of books do you stock in the camper? I like to think I have a little bit of everything, something for everyone. I carry mostly new and notable because of the space constraints and so that whenever you walk in, there’s something fresh and new that maybe you haven’t seen before. We have a very healthy and diverse Young Adult and middle grade section. It is a family business, and my children love to help me curate those sections. They have great taste and they’re great salespeople. Where can we find you? I am usually parked every weekend at vineyards, breweries, coffee shops, markets. I keep a calendar on my website and I post every week on Instagram where I will be. I also love to do special events like author events, Bookish meetups, and book clubs. 434 7

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The real REAL CELEBRATE THE ART of storytelling with “The Moth”— real stories told by real people from the addictive Peabody Award-winning podcast, live from the Paramount on Friday, March 25. theparamount.net

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PUTTING THE “OM” in omicron (aka making the most of a bad situation), UVA’s Contemplative Sciences Center has been offering virtual meditations on the Lawn since October 2020, and the program continues in 2022. Inspired by the 2013 in-person meditation on the Lawn featuring Deepak Chopra and Arianna Huffington, the weekly Monday morning series is a 15-minute guided meditation from CSC instructors, UVA faculty and staff, and special guests. On the lineup this spring: Director of Counseling and Psychological Services Dr. Nicole Ruzek, CSC’s Assistant Director of Contemplative Engagement, Carrington Kernodle Epperson, and UVA School of Medicine professor Dr. John Schorling. 8 434

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Miles and MILES

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THE OLDEST OF Charlottesville’s footraces, the Ten Miler—scheduled for Saturday, March 26—takes runners along the city’s most scenic urban areas, through Grounds, up Rugby Road, down Preston Avenue, up the Downtown Mall, around Court Square, up Main Street and UVA’s Corner. Lace up! cvilletenmiler.com WA X O N

PANDEMIC pressings

Ben Butterworth, “Purgatory Emporium” (indie) Blake Hunter, “I Can’t Lose You” (indie) David Wax Museum ft. Devon Sproule, Lauren Groans, and Dan Molad, “Love Light” (Americana) Deau Eyes, “When” (indie) Dropping Julia, “Chesapeake,” + “My Room” (pop) Free Union, “Somethin’”+ “The Other Side” (R&B) Good Dog Nigel, “My Whole Life” (indie) Gold Connections, “Confession” (indie) Isaac Friend, “How is LA” + “American Made” (Americana)

Kate Bollinger, “Shadows” + “Yards/Gardens” (indie-pop) Lord Nelson, “Tooth and Nail” off the album Transmission (Americana) Minor Poet, “Dissonance of Love/Silent Violent Creatures” (indie-pop) Sleepwalkers, “Until the Night is Gone” (indie) Suz Slezak, Our Wings May Be Featherless (Americana) The Judy Chops, “Ready My Heart” + “Good Days Are Gone” + “Goodbye Sunday Morning” (Americana, jazz) Trout Baseline, “One Baby World” (indie) This article first appeared in C-VILLE Weekly.

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DIDN’T IT FEEL good to see that first live show after nearly a year without live music? The return of concerts last summer marked one major bright spot in 2021, a year that was otherwise filled with uncertainty. (In some cases, even festivals came back!) But the pseudo-post-pandemic music scene looks much different. Wait times and lines at most venues are long, as proof of vaccination is checked at the door, and most club shows continue to be masked at the request of artists. Kudos to the artists, venues, and production companies that have been working hard to keep the industry afloat while providing a safe and comfortable experience for audiences. While touring has been inconsistent, there’s one robust constant: creativity. There’s been no lack of new music in our region. It’s important to support the artists and venues in our community from the ground up—purchase tickets, purchase merch, and purchase music—and there’s a lot to choose from. Here’s a slice of central Virginia’s upcoming creative output.—Desiré Moses

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dialogue with kids. It was five questions trying to get everyone to start talking about this. How do you start to talk to your kids about something you don’t know anything about? What we found from those who responded was that it did allow them to open up the conversation. And, it was not necessarily this big scary thing. What was the next step? I thought it was going to turn into a children’s book. But as we got responses from people all over the United States and even internationally, it became a whole journey. My background is in writing and communications; I am not an expert on mental health. Frank is a family friend who has watched all of my husband’s family grow up. After looking at the kids’ quotes, he said, “What kids need to hear is that their parents are okay.” So how should people read Comeback Kids? It really is meant to be a pocket guide. Dr. DePietro and I are both parents. He is a father of four. I have a little girl at home. We were coming at it as parents. Parents know their kids best, and this book is to be used at their discretion when it’s helpful.

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The Virginia Discovery Museum celebrates 40 years and COVID resilience By Julia Stumbaugh

s any parent knows, kids share more than just toys when they play—so it’s no surprise that a pandemic spelled disaster for children’s museums. A century after the 1918 Spanish flu caused health boards to shutter kids’ museums across the United States, the 2020 coronavirus again made touch-heavy exhibits impossible. Satellite branches of the Children’s Museum of Richmond in Fredericksburg and at Short Pump have permanently closed. The Virginia Discovery Museum on the Downtown Mall, however, stayed alive, and helped keep children who were forced apart by COVID together, with everything from mail-delivery craft kits to interactive Zoom storytimes. It’s been a rough stretch for little ones and their parents. “That is the age group and demographic that has had very limited interaction with the world in the past year and a half, just because people obviously want to keep their babies as safe as possible… many of these babies have never seen another baby before, because everybody’s been at home,” says Janine Dozier, Executive Director of the Discovery Museum. The museum fully reopened on Labor Day of 2021, but sales are only a third of their usual numbers. Half of the organization’s regular revenue comes from ticket purchases and yearly memberships. To recoup missing sales, the Discovery Museum will celebrate its upcoming 40th birthday with fundraising campaigns, including a drive to refurbish the carousel that has been spinning outside its doors since 2006. Because the museum has been open for reservations-only visits since May 2021, it spent months as the only available place for kids attending school remotely to socialize. In fact, the Baby Buds 20 434

program—where the VDM opened early to welcome parents with kids 2 years old or younger—was the first time many wee ones ever saw children outside their family. Hand sanitizer dispensers, mask-wearing mandates, and regularly-cleaned exhibits made these gatherings possible. “The museum’s policies during COVID have been very, very strict,” says Jacquie Pickering, who has volunteered at the museum for 37 years. “We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from families that they feel safe there…but from what visitors say, the kids seem to be enjoying everything just as much as they did before.” Even children who were born preCOVID have grown up in the world of the pandemic, and Dozier reports that they act differently upon their return to the museum. Unprompted, they clean their hands before interacting with an exhibit. They consciously space themselves out during crowded activities. And, after a year and a half of limited interaction with others, they must re-learn how to share. “Children, much like adults, are learning how to navigate the world after being out of the world for a long time…but they’re figuring it out, and they’re resilient,” says Dozier. Kids whose siblings are undergoing treatment at UVA’s nearby medical center can interact with a friendly kid-sized version of the children’s hospital; young members of locally placed refugee families can make connections at the traintrack table, which is so large that it re-

quires more than one child to get the train to chug all the way around. “If kids share a common interest with another child, they’re inclined to get to know them,” says Dozier. “They’re not concerned with another child’s background, or where they’re from, or what’s their life experience. They just live in the moment and think, ‘Well I like trains, you like trains, let’s get this track to go all the way around.’” Although it sometimes takes gentle encouragement from ← The Virginia some of the museDiscovery Museum, a source of fun for um’s 300-plus volunteers, who range generations of in age from 13 to 83, Charlottesville families, is looking even the shyest chiltoward the future dren leave the muse(and a renovation um with new friends. of its historic Hands-on activicarousel on the ties like the trackDowntown Mall). building station and car-racing ramp are invaluable learning opportunities, says Isaiah Woo, a fourthyear mechanical engineering student at UVA and a Madison House volunteer. He once watched a 9-year-old discover core engineering principles at the Discovery Museum by spanning the gap between two block towers. “He figured out that ‘If I place the next one half off and then I weigh the back one down, then it won’t tip over’, because there’s torque,” says Woo. “I didn’t tell him to do that, I watched him figure it out on his own. I think that’s a lot of what the museum tries to get at, is not telling kids, not lecturing to them, but encouraging them to find creative, innovative solutions on their own.” Over four decades, the VDM has established itself as one of Charlottesville’s longest-running nonprofits. In the six years before the pandemic, attendance soared, and partnerships with community organizations allowed the museum to welcome 25 percent of these visitors free of charge. “We want to focus on what the next 40 years will bring, and what a new, renovated, beautiful carousel will bring,” says Dozier. “We can’t get the past 18 to 20 months back, but we can be optimistic, and we can be united, and we can be very much focused on supporting our community and setting our children up for success and joy and excitement moving forward, because they deserve it.” This article first appeared in C-VILLE Weekly.

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barriers of language to amplify connection and trade” in the cacao industry. Bobbin and United By Chocolate spent their first several years on translation projects, first manually transforming existing conference videos into new languages, then launching two automated translation efforts with Arizona State University and the University of Virginia. But the UVA project relied on dictation technology that wasn’t quite where it needed to be, Bobbin says, and she and her team tabled it. In March 2021, Bobbin turned her attention to hosting her own chocolate industry conference. And in January of this year, the first inaugural United By Chocolate festival debuted virtually in

Can changing the language one industry uses make a difference? By Shea Gibbs

“There are about 4.5 million cacao producers worldwide, and the majority of them don’t speak English,” Bobbin says. “And yet, the majority of chocolate industry groups do all of their events in English. Imagine what we can do, especially now with Zoom and other technology, if we could just translate events into one other language. We can reach so many more people.” Years ago, Bobbin was working for a government contractor in Seattle and learned her firm’s neighbor was Theo Chocolate, the first fair trade chocolatier in the United States. Drawn to the Theo mission, Bobbin toured the facility multiple times and learned cacao producers often struggle to earn a living wage. Bobbin, who “grew up in a very international household” with her father and Peruvian mother, eventually left her government contractor job and completed an MBA. She then got involved with the Northwest Chocolate Festival—never forgetting about those industry-wide wage disparities. She thought making the festival accessible to non-English speakers could give them game-changing new networking and educational opportunities. “It started as something simple, and honestly it was kind of naïve of me,” Bobbin says. “But you would see the cacao producers, who would come to the festival with these baggies of beans to try to connect with the chocolate makers, and they were losing out on this huge opportunity.” In 2018, Bobbin and her husband moved away from the Pacific Northwest. They had ties to central Virginia and chose Charlottesville as their new home. In February 2019, Bobbin founded United By Chocolate, a nonprofit aiming to “lift the

Through her nonprofit United by Chocolate, Esther Bobbin hopes to break down language barriers in the cacao industry.

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sther Bobbin only had to be near the chocolate industry to fall in love. Now, through her nonprofit United By Chocolate, she’s trying to change the business for the better by breaking down language barriers.

three languages: English, Spanish, and French. Bobbin hopes to hold the event annually and add Indonesian translations at some point in the future. In the meantime, United By Chocolate will distribute the money it has already raised through its Language Bridges program, work with other industry event organizers to encourage translations, and raise funds for future projects. “For me, cacao and chocolate can be a vehicle for change,” Bobbin says. “The majority of cacao is grown in the southern hemisphere, and they take on so much risk in the supply chain…and end up getting cut out of pricing. It has always been an issue. It’s just that now, we are seeing it more.”

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THE FRALIN SEES THINGS DIFFERENTLY AFTER LOCKDOWN AND RENOVATION BY MAT T DHILLON

ince The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA was built in 1935, it’s had to close its doors a few times—once during World War II and again in the ’60s when the space was requisitioned for classrooms. In 2020, the growing pandemic shut the museum down for a third time. “There’s certainly nothing in anyone’s living memory that could have prepared us or given us a guidebook on how to deal with a global pandemic, as a museum or any kind of institution,” says Matthew McLendon, the museum’s director and chief curator. When The Fralin reopened its physical galleries on August 28, 2021, it was a changed world, and the museum found itself changed within it. “What we take from art depends on where we are in our own lives and what we need from it,” McLendon says. Art can be a source of change, a source of defiance, a source of beauty, or a source of renewal. For 17 months, the physical space had been closed as the world sat in quarantine, and as the building underwent renovations. During

that time, The Fralin continued in virtual space, working to develop online programming, lectures, and video tours to adapt to the new environment. That transition was eye-opening in its own way, particularly in the matter of improving accessibility. “Immediately, on social media, we got reactions from the disabled community and people with physical disabilities saying, ‘For the first time ever, this museum is accessible to me in a much more meaningful, easier way,’ and ‘Please don’t stop this programming once open again,’” says McLendon. That period also marked a shift in how the museum thought about its responsibilities, he says. After the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the social justice movement around the world, the museum put work into the changes it wanted to make as an institution, including a greater focus on its diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion work, and centering traditionally marginalized voices, not only on its walls, but also in the way the institution operates.

One responsibility is thinking critically about holding objects in public trust, and how to engage the cultures these objects belong to. “One of the things we’ve already talked about is we have these incredible objects of history from what is today Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we have communities in Charlottesville from Afghanistan and Pakistan—so how do we bring them in to talk about this [Gandharan] show or react to this show,” McLendon says. Curators Laura Minton, Adriana Greci Green, and Hannah Cattarin worked with McLendon to offer a strong comeback for the museum as it emerged from its pandemic lockdown. A new round of exhibitions were installed on February 6, giving five of the museum’s seven galleries fresh shows. On the first floor, visitors are greeted with the geometries of the built environment, and invited to consider how the things around us are constructed in “Structures and Open Window: Emilio Sanchez on Paper.” Some of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 27

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students, examines how we remember the past and sometimes construct the past. Under McLendon’s leadership, The Fralin has also strengthened its ties to UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe collection. Kluge-Ruhe curator Henry Skerritt gives credit to McLendon for his commitment to diversity in what The Fralin presents. “It’s been an amazing experience working with an institution that recognizes that contemporary art today is global, and that artists in remote parts of Australia have as much right to be shown in museums as any artist,” Skerritt said.

The Kluge-Ruhe collection begins a national tour on September 4 at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College with “Madayin,” an exhibition that includes some of Australia’s most iconic works of art. “What makes this exhibition really special is that it has been curated by Yolngu Aboriginal people from the community, so rather than seeing this history from the perspective of a white art historian, you’re going to see it from the perspective of the people who made it,” Skerritt says. “For a white art historian, like myself, that’s really exciting, to be able to see how another culture understands their art.” Art has always had a place in connecting cultures and rediscovering history, but recent social isolation and unrest make it more crucial than ever as a key to learning from each other. “Right now, because of the last few years of the pandemic, people are looking for a space of beauty, a space of fun, a place where they can be restored,” says McLendon. “I worked with an artist years ago who, I will never forget, just said so simply, ‘We ask so much of art,’ and it’s true, we ask so much of art, and art gives us so much.”

The Fralin reopened its doors in August 2021.

This article first appeared in C-VILLE Weekly.

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constructs the exhibition asks us to think about are race, social and institutional power, and, more abstractly, the duality of design and nature. Immediately behind that, the visitor is confronted with the nude human body in “Focus On: Laura Augilar.” “These are so powerful to me in how they speak to the new femme throughout history and moving into photography,” says Cattarin. “There’s a way that all of the myriad implications that she embodies, a fat, queer, Chicana, nuero-divergent, individual, was, in these spaces, pushing back against this history of the new femme in the landscape.” Upstairs, in the main gallery, “Alternative Futures” plays on loop, a video-based social critique spanning four works visualizing a more equitable world with the understanding that imagination leads to creation. Adjoining the main gallery, visitors can meander through a variety of themes. “Gandharan Sculpture” reflects on the Gandharan region of what is now northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, which was famed for its artistic achievement; “Beyond Pictorialism” frames the history of photography in its transition from a documentary tool to an artistic medium; “Nostalgia U.S.A.,” curated by the university’s

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Mineral:

A naturally occurring inorganic chemical compound with a given composition, crystal form, and physical properties.

Mystic: A spiritual seeker looking for ways to expand their knowledge while connecting to the divine and exploring their own intuition.

Gift: A token given freely to another with affection and thoughtfulness.

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