ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Monday, February 28, 1994 3
Original Play by Laurinburg Native
"A Cry for Freedom " scheduled at St. Andrews Feb. 28
An original play by
Laurinburg native Valeria A.
McDuffie will be presented in the
main lounge of the Belk Center on
the St. Andrews College campus at 8
p.m. Monday, Feb. 28.
“A Cry for Freedom,” a brief
chronicle of the history of black
Americans, is being sponsored by
the Black Student Union at St.
Andrews in celebration of BlackHis-
tory Month. The cast is comprised of
members of the B lack Student Union,
including Tonshea Gibson as Harriet
Tubman, Troy McLaughlin as
Frederick Douglass, Cassie Bryant
as Sojourner Truth and Nikki
Crawford as the narrator. Other his
torical characters highlighted in the
play include Martin Luther King Jr.
and Malcolm X.
Playwrite McDuffie now
lives in Washington, D.C. and teaches
radio and television at the Duke
Ellington School. She holds a degree
in theatre from Shaw University in
Raleigh, where the play was written
and first produced.
“A Cry for Freedom" will be
directed by another Laurinburg na
tive, Barbette Hunter. Hunter is the
daughter of Bettye McNair of
Lauimburg and a graduate of Scot
land High School. She holds a de
gree in speecii communication from
N.C. State University and has stud
ied acting in the Master of Fine Arts
program at the University of North
Carolina in Greensboro. She has been
active in community and professional
theaU'e in the Raleigh and Gre^s-
boro areas.
The public is invited to at
tend “A Ciy for Freedom,” with an
admission charge of $4 and $2 for
students and senior citizens.
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Mamie Nziuki, Cassie Bryant, Troy McLaughlin, Norma Enoch, Eric
Malone, and Tanya Tyson, are some of the cast members of "A Cry for
Reedom" Performance is scheduled for Feb. 28 in the Belk Main Lounge.
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International Opportunities For Volunteers
St. Andrews Students As
sisting in Movie Making
BY TONSHEA GIBSON
Tusha Croom, a scriptwriter
from New York, has enlisted the
help of several St. Andrews students
as interns to assist in research of a
new script she is writing. Croom is in
the process of writing for a movie
script for "From This Seed" about
the story of Emmanuel McDuffie,
founder of the Laurinburg Institute.
Lauren McDevitt, a senior En
glish major; Tonshea Gibson, a
sophomore communications major;
and Christine Weatherspoon, a se
nior communications major will par
ticipate in this projea.Their task is to
research certain facts and details
about McDuffie, his life, and the area
that is now Laurinburg. These spe
cifics will add to the historical
conterxt of the movie.
The script will either be used as
a feature film or a television movie.
Danny Glover, Spike Lee, and Alfre
Woodard are among a few of those
contacted to help with this project.
OWING MILLS, MD - The
National Library of Poetry has an
nounced that $12,000 in prizes will
be awarded this year to over 250
poets in the North American Open
Poetry Contest The deadline for the
contest is March 31,1994. The con
test is open to everyone and entry is
FREE.
Any poet, whether previously
published or not, can be a winner.
Every poem entered also has a chance
Mardi Gras Is A.
LossFor Albemarle
BY JOHN HESS
Albemarle Hall accepted a finan
cial loss in the celebration of Mardi
Gras on Saturday in spite of having a
live band. The Groove Diggers. The
party in the courtyard of the hall,
attrarted approximately 150 students.
The residence hall accepted a loss of
$200 for the event. The hall council
had hoped for an attendance of 200
students in order to make a profit
The event was successful in other
ways. One student said, “I thought
the band played a wide variety of
danceable music.” One of the band
members said, ”I like this school,
you all seem to know how to party.
This is not what I expected.” The
band hopes to be invited to come
back at a later date. This event takes
place annually one week following
the actual Mardi Gras in New Or
leans. The students in Albemarle
build floau and give out beads to
to be published in a deluxe,
hardbound anthology.
To enter, send ONE original
poem, any subject and any style, to
The National Library of Poetry,
11419CronridgeDr.,P.O.. Box 704-
YF, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The
poem should be no more that 20
lines, and the poet's name and ad
dress should appear on the top of the
page. Entries must be postmarked by
March31,1994. Anew contest opens
April 1,1994.
Around the globe this summer,
hundreds of enviromental and com
munity service projects will benefit
from the efforts of young volunteers
who decide to combine travel and
service on journeys of international
goodwill. The Council on Interna
tional Educational Exchange (CIEE)
has begun recruitment for its interna
tional workcamp program which
brings together teams of volunteers
from different countries to help local
communities for a period of two to
four weeks. Designed to promote
international cooperation and under
standing, over 600 projects will take
place in 22 countries throughout
Europe, Africa, Asia, and North
America.
Whether renovating a school in
Bratsk, Russia, or excavating a Ro
man monastary in Cataluna, Spain;
planting grass to stop erosion on
Norderney Island in Germany or
maintaining hiking trails in Colo
rado, volunteers will complete much-
needed service projects in communi
ties at home and abroad. -
american volunteers can par
ticipate in workcanq)S in Algeria,
Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic,
Denmark, france, Germany, Ghana,
Hungary, Japan,Lithuania, Morocco,
Netherlands, Poland, Russia,
Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia,
Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom,
and United States. Not only do vol
unteers become acquainted with the
community and culture in which they
are working, but they can gain tre
mendous insight into the cultures
represented by their fellow volun
teers. Generally at least five differ
ent countries are represented on a
workcamp, porvidiflg^’i'tSWi^e
portunity for exchange among a
group of people from across the globe
who have come together for a com
mon cause.
"I now have 17 new friends
from eight different countries," said
Keirsten Kludt, a student at Indiana
University, after participating int a
workcamp in Kaufering, Germany,
last summer. She and her new friends
spent three weeks renovating a youth
center and working with local chil
dren at a community festival. "It was
a wonderful experience and I have
learned that amongst all the different
faces, places, languages, and reli
gions. we are all very much te same."
Workcamp participants mustbe
at least 18 years old, and need no
special skills beyond their open-
mindedness and willingness to help.
The only cost to participants is trans
portation to the workcamp site and a
$165 placement fee. AH room dfsA
board expenses are paid fof ^by-the
workcamp sponsor.
For a free slnierilational
Workcamps brochure, write. ito3
CIEE, International Voluntary Set-*
vice Department, 205 East 42nd
Street, New York, NY 10017-5706;
or call (212) 661-1414, ext 1139.
make the event seem more like the
original. -
Attention Poets!