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ArtcS diiiefi September 2B, 2DDD RviAf lu St. John’s receives grant for new facility ■■■ SCHAOEN I H > H IT Stageworks play running in Thalian “The Member of the Wedding,” a play by Caison McCullers, will run in Thalian Hall’s Studio Theatre Sept. 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. and at 3 p.m. Oct. 1. Tickets are $8 and may be purchased through the Thalian Box Office at 343-3664. Big Band, Jazz Combo perform season opener The UNCW Big Band and the Jazz Combo will present their first concerts of the year at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 in Kenan Auditorium, General admission costs $5, UNCW staff, faculty, senior citizens and children under 12 are $2.50 and students are admitted fiee with a valid ID. The Jazz Combo will begin the evening with jazz standards by Joe Henderson and an original composition by director Jerald Shynett. The Big Band will have a variety of “neo-swing” tunes popu larized by modem bands like the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. “The Real Inspector Hound” closing The department of art and theatre’s first , play of the season, “The Real Inspector Hound,” will close this weekend in Kenan Hall’s Standing Room Only Theatre (SRO). It will run tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night at 8 p.m. and the final performance will be Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are to stu dents with a valid ID, all others are $5. Res ervations can be made through the univer sity box office: 962-3500. Comedy group hold ing open auditions The Other Side comedy troupe will be holding auditions for anyone interested in learning the art of improv and sketch com edy Oct. 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Arts Center (120 S. 2nd St.). No experience or prepared material is necessary. For more information, check out their website at http:/ /www.othersidecomedy.com or call Richard White at 200-3553. Sarah van Schagen Staff Writer St. John’s Museum of Art is currently working to raise $12.6 million to complete the construction of a new facility that will be named for the late Louise Wells Cameron. The capital campaign has just been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan. However, because it is a challenge grant, the museum must still raise all of the remaining $500,000 in order to satisfy the requirements for the fiinding. The Kresge Foundation of fers grants to projects involving construction and the purchase of major equipment or real estate. “By awarding this chaUenge grant, the Kresge Foundation has expressed its confi dence in this exciting project so pivotal to the cultural growth of North Carolina,” Di rector of St. John’s Museum of Art Ren Brown said. Located in downtown Wilmington, St. John’s Museum of Art is the only museum of art that is dedicated to all aspects of col lecting, preserving and exhibiting the art of ^no!o couri^y'afStJo^ The Louise Wells Cameron building will house the artwork now at St. John’s. North Carolina. The new facility will increase the museum’s area by 28,600square feet. The museum broke ground for the new facility in April of this year, but it has been in the planning stages since the fall of 1997, and is expected to be finished about this time next year. “One of the unique things about this new facility is that it is the only museum dedi cated to art in Southeast North Carolina that is being buik from the ground up,” Richard Sceiford said, coordinator of communica tions and outreach for St. John’s Museum of Art. The size of the new facility will allow for the addition of a lobby/gallery, reception hall/ SEE 5t. John. Page l 4 Liberty music fest to raise political awareness JESSICA BERKOWITZ STAFF WRITER Under the parking deck at Water Street, the Libertarian party held a Libertyfest last Saturday. Local artists such as Dysfunktion, 9th Circle, Velvet, Poor Man’s Rush and Madhatters provided free live entertainment. The bands mostly resembled punk bands, with many of the artists wear ing fatigues and Misfits shirts or the Pietaster’s style of a suit and chain, like in the days of the zoot-suit, and girls in plaid skirts and tall black combat boots. Music ranged from punk to rock and roll to rap. When the microphones were not in use, au dience members would run up and begin a free style rap. One girl ran up to the microphone and said, “I can’t rap for you guys, because I talk too dirty and s***. See!” Mike Truin, a junior at UNC- Wilmington, plays guitar for the band Dysfunktion. “Our music is about rock and roll, the soul and spirit of expressing through music what rock and roll should be. We are no genre except rock and roll. We are not punk, ska, or hardcore, we are rock and roll. We don’t believe in following the popular Wilmington trend just to make money, we believe in rock and roll and live performance,” he said. “I was blown away by Dysfunktion!” freshman Holly Sansone said. “It’s really cool that there can be a conglomeration of many different styles of music brought together by the Libertar ians.” The Libertarian party is the first established third political party in America since the Socialist party. The main view behind being Liber tarian is the idea that everybody is free to do as they please just as long as they do not infringe upon the equal freedom of others. Govern ment, they believe, should be held to the same expectations of the in dividual in these instances and force should never be a tactic to achieve one’s or a country’s goals; that force should only be used as a defense against force. In order to getthe word out, a couple of tables with pamphlets, pe titions and bumper stickers were set in a row with members of the party, or clubs relating to their views, ready to talk to passers by. Graham Daly, a senior at UNCW, sat behind a collapsible table waiting to inform somebody about Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “We, SETA, are an educational group whose main purpose is to edu cate the campus and community of the implications of America’s op pression of animal through diet, ex perimentation and fashion. The en vironmental and health impacts are astronomical and the abuse of ani mals themselves is completely un necessary.”
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