Artists and community members will reflect on the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech in an event called "Community Conversations through the Arts," April 13, 2008. The performance and visual-art event at the Lyric Theatre is presented by HERE (Honoring Experiences, Reflections, and Expressions), a group of citizens who have come together to develop and sponsor a program of community response to the violence that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus in Blacksburg, Va. Shannon Turner, program coordinator for HERE and director of "Conversations," describes the afternoon as "a multidisciplinary arts performance event to hold space for our community to come together and have the opportunity to celebrate itself, reflect on what we've come through, and look toward the future in a way that is unique and gives us ownership of our own stories." [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham