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Singer Aimee Mann at the
Carolina Theatre Sept. 6
Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann will perform at
the Historic Carolina Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 6
at 8 p.m. __________
The Grammy Award-win
ning and Academy Award
nominated Mann is known
for her unique retro-chic
melodies and insightful
lyrics. Through songs
exploring love, relationships
and human nature, her vivid
story-telling has become the
hallmark of her success.
Since launching her solo
Mann
career in 1993, Mann has
seen seven album releases, as well as notable con
tributions to film soundtracks including Magnolia,
I Am Sam and The Last Kiss.
Mann is perhaps best known as the lead singer
of the 1980s the new wave band 'Til Tuesday,
which scored a monster hit with the song, "Voices
Carry."
Her most recent album, "@#%! Smilers,"
which was released in June 2008, delves into the
eccentricities of the perpetually happy, and marks
a new creative direction for Mann. The album fea
tures more synthesizers, keyboard and strings than
past albums, but Mann's signature "live" record
ing sound is still present.
Tickets are available by calling the Theatre
Box Office at 336-333-2605, or online at
ww w.CarolinaTheatre .com .
Antiques Appraisal Fair
The Lewisville Branch Library will host an
Antiques Appraisal Fair on Saturday. Sept. 6 from
10 a.m.- 2 p.m. 1
. The show is free; attendees can pay a smalhfce
to have an item appraised by respected antique
dealers. Among the dealers confirmed for the fair
are:
? Larry Laster from Laster's Fine Art &
Antiques of Winston Salem, which specializes in
rare and fine art, paintings, prints, sculpture, early
photographs and maps;
Jon Lambert of Mebane Antique Auction
Gallery, which specializes in folk art, pottery,
toys/games, art glass and small antique objects; and
Brent Smith and Barry Smith of Greensboro,
who specializes in military and arms from WWII
and the Civil War.
The Lewisville Branch Library is located at
6490 Shallowford Rd. in Lewisville. For more
information, call 336-703-2940.
Piedmont Quilters show slated
The Piedmont Quilter's Guild will present "A
Rainbow of Quilts" from Sept. 26 - 28 at the
Downtown Marriott, 304 N. Greene St., in
Greensboro. The quilt show - being held in con
junction with Quilting in the Piedmont and organ
ized by Randy's Quilt Shop - will feature classes
and lectures taught by nationally recognized
experts.
Traditional and contemporary works by the
guild's 160-plus members will be featured, as well
as tbe work of many others. Joanne Arntsen, for
mer president of the National Quilting Association,
will judge the show, awarding ribbons in many cat
egories based on a variety of criteria.
In addition to admiring ttyp beautiful quilts on
display, visitors will have the opportunity to buy
raffle tickets to win a quilt handmade by members
of the guild and a new sewing machine. The raffle
quilt is a variation of the Pineapple pattern, using
batik fabrics. For more information, call 336
288-7814, or go to: www.piedmontquilts.org.
Physician/poet to read at UNCG
C. Dale Young, a doctor and a poet, will read
Sept. 18 at The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
The MFA Writing Program is sponsoring the
reading, which begins 8 p.m. in the Faculty Center
on College Avenue. It is free and open to the pub
lic; a reception and book signing will follow.
Dr. Young
Young practices medicine
full-time, serves as Poetry
Editor of the New England
Review, and teaches in the
Warren Wilson College MFA
Program for Writers. He is
the author of "The Day
Underneath the Day," and
"The Second Person." He is
currently completing a third
book manuscript of poems
titled "TORN."
He has won the Grolier
Prize,. the Tennessee
Williams Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee
Writers' Conference and the Stanley P. Young
Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers'
Conference. He has taught at several writers' con
ferences, including the Catskill Poetry Workshops
and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. His
poems have appeared in many anthologies and
magazines, including "The Best American Poetry,"
"Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation,"
"Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New
Century," The New Republic, The Paris Review,
Ploughshares and Poetry.
Young lives in San Francisco with his partner,
the biologist and composer, Jacob Bertrand.
Delfeayo Marsalis to play Greensboro
Trombonist and producer is member of jazz's first family
. CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
An acclaimed New Orleans musician and music
producer with a famous last name will perform in
Greensboro next month.
The Piedmont Health Services and Sickle
Cell Agency's 38th anniversary
concert will feature trombonist
Delfeayo Marsalis, whose father, Ellis, and
brothers, Branford and Wynton, helped put jazz
on the map.
The Sunday, Sept. 14 concert
will be held at 4 p.m. at the UNC
r Greensboro School of Music, off of West Market
Street. The concert will also feature performances by the
UNCG Jazz Ensemble, the N.C. Central University Jazz
Ensemble and the Triad Youth Jazz Society.
In addition to the Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell
Agency's Anniversary, the concert also coincides with National
k Sickle Cell Month. The event will be dedicated to the memory of
jazz legend Miles Davis, who died in 1991 from sickle cell
complications.
Delfeayo Marsalis has produced more than 75 major-label
recordings for artists such as Harry Connick Jr., filmmaker Spike
Lee and siblings Branford and Wynton. His compositions have been fea
I tured on television and off-Broadway, including the ABC miniseries
r "Moon over Miami." As a musician, he has toured with legendary jazz
artists like Art Blakey and Max Roach.
For ticket or sponsorship information, call 336-274-1 507 . For more informa
tion about the Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell Agency, go to,
www.pieefmonthealthservices.org. ?
Nature-friendly films
slated to be screened
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT '
Raising awareness of the issues that adversely affect the environment is
the focus of a new film-screening organization.
Environmental Movies is hoping that its upcoming series of movie
<? ? screenings will educate and
empower local residents,
while encouraging them to
make positive environmental
changes to better their com
munity and the world.
Environmental Movies'
first free screening is this
evening (Aug. 28) at 7 p.m.
at Fries Memorial Moravian
Church, 251 Hawthorne
Road NW. The "The 11th
Hour" will be shown. It is
actor Leonardo DiCaprio's
documentary on the global
environmental crisis, and
features interviews with
people like Stephen
Hawking and Mikhail
Gorbachev.
On Thursday, Sept. 11 at
7 p.m., Environmental
Movies will set up shop at
Temple Emanuel, 201
Oak wood Drive, to screen
"Uncounted." This film has more of a political slant than an environmen
tal one. The explosive documentary claims that election fraud changed the
outcome of the 2004 election and led to even greater fraud in 2006. The
film hints that further problems loom for the 2008 election.
The Thursday, Sept. 25 screening will also be at Temple Emanuel at 7
p.m. The interfaith environmental movie, "Renewal" will be shown. The
film explores America's religious-environmental movement and offers a
profound message of hope.
Refreshments will be served and a discussion follows each film screen
ing.
SECCA gallery's getting new look
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
SECCA's Main Gallery is
undergoing a makeover.
Three double-sided walls will
be added that will be used to dis
play pieces of contemporary art.
"We are building the walls as
part of our continuing effort to
improve the quality of the build
ing, grounds and programing
experience at SECCA," said Mark
Leach, SECCA director. "The
walls will provide a more intimate
space for exhibits and enhance
our visitors' exposure to and
involvement with the art shown in
the lower gallery as they flow
through the space."
Completion of the construc
tion is anticipated prior to the
upcoming fall exhibit opening
Sept. 12. Two new shows will
open to the public, Sept. 12 - pho
tography and video by Dutch
artist Erwin Olaf and contempo
rary quilts by seven leading North
American quiltmakers. The open
ing reception will be held from 6
p.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free
and open to the public.
The quilt exhibition is desig
nated to be shown in the main
gallery space utilizing the new
wall configurations while Olaf
will premier in the Potter Gallery,
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SECCA is one of the city's best known arts hubs.
renovated earlier this spring.
Video installations will also be
shown in select rooms of the his
toric Hanes home.
In conjunction with the remod
eling, SECCA is having a side
walk sale of the entire inventory
of items from its visitor's shop.
The sale will be held on Saturday,
Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Sale items include jewelry, ceram
ics, speciality decor items, books,
stationary, children's games and
much more. All items will be sold
at greatly reduced prices. The sale
will be held in the parking lot in
front of SECGA.
SECCA is located at 750
Marguerite Drive in Winston
Salem. For additional informa
tion, visit www.SECCA.org.
Oh, Father!
Photo by NyghtFakon Photography
Rosie McGuire and Joseph Collins will bring the
Tennessee Williams classic, "The Night of the Iguana"
to Greensboro's Triad Stage from Aug. 31 - Sept. 21.
First performed in 1961, it tells the story of the inner
demons of a defrocked priest working as a tour guide in
Mexico. Opening Night of the play, which features a
cast of 13, is Sept. 4. For tickets, call 336-272-0160 or
visit www.triadstage.orgO
Dr. Van Dyke
Magazine
honors Triad
dance professor
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Jan Van Dyke, a profes
sor and head of the UNCG
Department of Dance, has
received the 2008 Dance
Teacher Award for Higher
Education.
"Dance Teacher" magazine
presented the award this week at
the Javits Center in New York
City. Van Dyke was honored for
her 20 years of teaching at
UNCG, helping students to dis
cover their own artistic identi
ties, in part through her example
See Van Dyke on A12