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Indian festival on Saturday
Food, music and dancing will all be highlights of
an Indian festival slated for Saturday (Oct. 25) on the
campus of Wake Forest University.
The Diwali Festival will take place from 6-9 p.m.
in Brendle Recital Hall in Scales Fine Arts Center
This year's festival will focus on Hindu mythology
associated with Diwali. it will feature a skit in which
performers will act out the story of the god Rama's
return from exile by lighting lamps to mark his pas
sage home. Community members and Wake Forest
students will also perform different Indian/fusion
dances representing all four regions of India - north,
south, east and west.
Some of the performance groups scheduled to per
form include the Wake Forest Apsara, an Indian dance
team; the Wake Forest Dinty Dancers, a hip-hop
dance team; the Wake Forest Tappers; and a Latin
ballroom group.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children under
12 and $4 for Wake Forest ID holders. Tickets are
available at the door for the general public. Wake
Forest ID holders can purchase tickets in advance
from the Office of Multicultural Affairs in Benson
University Center, Room 346, or the Center for
International Studies in Carswell Hall. Room 027. For
more information, email indouswinston@gmail.com
or waghps6@wfu.edu or call (336) 758-8131.
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Y-ARTS show at Winston Lake
YMCA will happen Saturday
The Winston Lake Family YMCA will hold the Y
ARTS Explosion on Oct. 24 at 7:30 pjn.. featuring
performances by the 2007 AAU National Champion
jump rope team, the Jazzy Jumpers, as well as the
Boss Drummers, Y-Ettes and the Y-Steppers. The
event is free and open to the public.
The Y-ARTS Explosion will begin with a perform
ance by the Boss Drummers and Y-Ettes. The Jazzy
Jumpers will follow, along with a second performance
by the Boss Drummers. The Y-Steppers will then take
the stage. The evening will end with a special "light
show" by the Jazzy Jumpers, their first glow-in-the
dark performance.
Get Out the Vote Concert
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A Get Out ihe Vote concert will be held
Saturday, Nov. 1 from 12-1 p.m. at 823 Reynolda
Road (commonly known as Blessings - across from
Hanes Park).
Music acts will include Polecat Creek and
Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate
Drops.
The concert is open to anyone who participated
m Early
Voting.
Admission
requires only
the "I voted"
stickers that
are being
handed out at
Early Voting
sites through
out the coun
ty. The public
is strongly
encouraged to
come early to
get their first
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Rhiannon Giddens of the
Carolina Chocolate Drops.
come, rirst-serve seat, as space is limited.
The concert is sponsored by North Carolina
Triad Women for Obama as part of their efforts to
mobilize people to take advantage of Early Voting,
which ends at 1 p.m. on Nov. 1 . Obama buttons and
stickers will be available at the free concert on Nov.
1.
For more information contact Tara Orris of
Barack Obama 's Campaign for Change at 336-624
9734 or e-mail her torris@ncforchange.com.
Spoken word artist to visit A&T
Actor and Spoken Word Artist Summer Hill
Seven will be performing at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 30 in Stallings Ballroom.
His appearance is part of the university's 2008
2009 Lyceum Series.
The performance, "Shakespeare N. Haarlem," is
about a spoken word artist who is sentenced to death
for lyrical terrorism. It is renowned and has been
performed in New York on and off Broadway stages
as well as on various college campuses throughout
the country.
Ebony Fashion Fair show
coming to Greensboro too
The Greensboro Alumnae Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta will host the annual benefit Ebony
Fashion Show on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. at
N.C. A&T State University in Harrison Abditorium.
This year's show is an elaborate production
fully equipped with special effects, hip-hop and
R&B music as well as all of the entertainment of a
Broadway Show. The cost of tickets is $30 and
includes a one-year subscription to either Ebony
magazine or a six-month subscription to Jet maga
zine.
Tickets may be purchased at the N. C. A&T
State University Ticket Office, African American
Art-Four Seasons Town Center or from any mem
ber of the Greensboro Alumnae Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
The show will be in Winston-Salem on Friday,
Oct. 24 at Winston-Salem State University's
Williams Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Money woes and weather
keep folks away from fair
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CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
This year's Dixie Classic
Fair was not immune from the
nation's current economic
downturn.
Attendance was down for
the 10-day event, which was in
the city from Oct. 3 - 12.
According to th^> city, atten
dance was 310,160, down
noticeably from the 2007 atten
dance tally of 371,219 in 2007,
which was a record year for the
fair, which has visited Winston
Salem for 126 straight years.
There was a silver-lining,
says Fair Director David
Sparks.
"The community support for
the fair was evident as more
people than ever before entered
exhibits," he said. "The 2008
fair received 25,921 entries,
which far exceeds last year's
total of 20,722."
Sparks also praised the
droves of workers and local
volunteers who worked to dis
play and showcase the exhibit
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An animal is groomed amid the hustle of this year's fair.
entries and helped to make this
year's fair run smoothly.
One of the top 50 most
attended fairs in the nation, the
Dixie Classic is the state's sec
ond largest fair. Sparks is confi
dent that the fair's popularity
will rebound.
"The disappointing econo
my and two days of threatening
weather put a damper on atten
dance," he said, "but all of us
look forward to next year's fair,
when hopefully the economy
will be making a rebound."
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"Romance de tus Nombres" is one of more than 100 handmade Cuban books Wake Forest students
will include in the bilingual art exhibit.
Wake team's exhibit to observe
50th anniversary of Cuban Revolution
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More than 40 Wake Forest University students,
faculty and staff members0are working to create
the "Cuban Artists' Books and Prints: 1985-2008,'v
a bilingual art exhibition and educa
tional outreach program.
Reed Foundation as well as additional funding
from other sources to fund the project. Work began
on the project last spring.
A team of students is working with several
Wake Forest professors to create the ambitious
exhibition. Several students are also
HBET1 working with North Carolina teachers
Based on more than 100 hand
made books by Cuban artists, the
exhibit will be unveiled in May 2009
at New York City's Grolier Club to
coincide with the 50th anniversary of
the Cuban Revolution. In August
2009, the exhibit will make its local
debut at Wake -Forest's Charlotte &
Philip Hanes Art Gallery, and then it
will begin traveling to galleries
nationwide.
The Wake Forest team will ?lso
work with the Museum of Modern
Gillespie
ana administrators to integrate the
exhibit into K.-12 instruction through
classroom materials, exhibit tours, per
formances and other activities. Students
recently met with teachers at a confer
ence of the Foreign Language
Association of North Carolina and brain
stormed about ways to incorporate book
making projects, the exhibit and accom
panying educational tools into K-12 cur
riculum. As part of the final exhibit, the
curriculum ideas and outreach materials
generated from the meeting will be
Art, the Cuban Artists Fund Organization and the
Grolier Club (a renowned arts haven) to develop
several collaborative events that will be held in
conjunction with the exhibit.
The exhibition will feature handmade books by
at least 13 different Cuban painters, sculptors,
photographers and printmakers, and books from
the bookmaking cooperative Ediciones Vigi'a. The
exhibit will also include supplemental documen
tary materials, videos, texts and photographs.
The exhibition project, initiated by Linda
Howe, associate professor of Romance languages
at Wake Forest, received a $12,500 grant from the
offered to K-12 teachers across the country.
Michele Gillespie, associate provost and asso
ciate professor of history at Wake Forest, believes
that students are gaining this invaluable experi
ence by not only applying a rigorous academic
understanding to designing and interpreting the art
in this exhibit, but also planning every stage of the
project.
"Students understand how their individual
efforts and areas of disciplinary expertise con
tribute to a project that is so much grander and
more influential than any single student or class
could produce on its own," said Gillespie.
Ramin Bahrani
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Triad artists
win NC Arts
Council
Fellowships
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Billy Lee, an international
ly-recognized sculptor, and
Nikki Blair, a clay artist, both
faculty members in the
Department of Art at The
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro are among five
Triad artists who have been
awarded $10,000 fellowships
from the North Carolina Arts
Council.
In all, 20 artists from North
Carolina received the fellow
ships. which are awarded on a
two-year rotating cycle by dis
cipline. Fellowships are given
in the categories of choreogra
phy, craft, film and video and
visual arts.
Bom in South Africa, Lee
has exhibited his abstract
sculptures around the globe.
Most recently, his work
"Vessels" was chosen to be dis
played in the Olympic Fine
Arts 2008, a cultural event
organized by the International
Olympic Committee and
Chinese Olympic Committee
during the Beijing Olympics.
Blair is an associate profes
sor of art. w
Blair has exhibited in
museums and galleries across
the country. She has been an
artist-in-residence in
Newcastle, Maine, and at the
Galeria Estudio in Barcelona.
Spain.
Also chosen was Winston
Salem filmmaker Ramin
Bahrani. whose first feature
film was 2005 's "Man Push
Cart," which premiered at the
Venice Film Festival and was
an official selection of the
Sundance Film Festival in
2006. His second film, "Chop
Shop," premiered to standing
ovations at the 2007 Director's
Fortnight of The Cannes
International Film Festival. His
most recent feature is
"Goodbye Solo," a realistic
drama told with ironic humor
about a young, friendly and
humble Senegalese taxi driver
in Winston-Salem, Solo, and
his friendship with William, a
determined, elderly Caucasian
man who hires Solo to drive
him in two weeks' time to a
mountain top where he plans to
commit suicide.
Kate Kretz, a multidiscipli
nary visual artist from
Burlington; and David M.
Spear, a Madison-based pho
tographer, also won fellow
ships.
Free film screening, discussion will
focus on the growing national debt
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The RiverRun International Film Festival is bringing back one of
the films that was screened during its most recent festival. A screening
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of the documentary I.O.U.S.A. will be
used to tee up a discussion of the
nation's current economic crisis. The
free event on Tuesday, Oct. 28 will take
place at 7 p.m. in Hanes Auditorium on
the campus of Salem College in the
Fine Arts Center.
I.O.U.S.A. examines the rapidly
growing national debt and its conse
quences for the United States and its
citizens.
The film points out that throughout
history, the American government has
found it nearly impossible to spend
only what has been raised through
taxes. I.O.U.S.A. features candid inter
views with both average American tax
payers and government officials. Filmmaker Patrick Creadon, the man
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Head and Shoulders Above the Rest
Phrtn h? Todd Lack
Alex Hairs ton dances on stilts with John Dillon to the
beat of African drums played by Living Rhythms. Both
N.C. School of the Arts students entertained on Trade
Street during the Arts on Sunday Series. Every Sunday
afternoon in October the series features craft vendors
and entertainment.