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Fundraiser for Cuban
art project will be Friday
The group of 24 Wake Forest University stu
dents who are creating a bilingual art exhibition and
educational program featuring handmade books by
Cuban artists will hold a fundraising event Friday,
Nov. 7.
The event, "Viva La Cultura," is also designed
to increase awareness of The Cuba Project. It will
feature Latino food, dance, music and ar. It will be
held at the Millennium Center Art Gallery from 7 -
10 p.m., in conjunction with the First Friday
Gallery Hop.
At the fundraiser, guests will also be able to
view some of the elaborately-made books that will
be included in the exhibition "Cuban Artists' Books
and Prints, 1985-2008."
The student's work will culminate at the exhibi
tion debut in May 2009 at The Grolier Club of New
York. The opening will also include collaborative
events with the Museum of Modern Art. The exhib
it will travel to Wake Forest in August 2009.
Suggested donation for the event is $5 a person.
"The Nutcracker" returning
This year marks the 26th anniversary of the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
(UNCSA) and the Winston-Salem Symphony pro
duction of "The Nutcracker" at the Stevens
Center. It is Triad's only production of the holiday
classic.
Featuring choreography by Robert Lindgren
and Sonja l^ven, based on the choreography of
Lev Ivanov, "The Nutcracker" ballet will again
bring sugar plum dreams to life through dance,
music and magic for 10 performances at the
Stevens Center in downtown Winston-Salem.
Two performances will star American Ballet
Theatre's Gillian Murphy and Blaine Hoven, of
Corps de Ballet, both alumni of the UNCSA
School of Dance. They will be performing as the
Sugar Plum Fairy and Her Cavalier on Saturday,
Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m.
The full performance schedule for "he
Nutcracker" is: Dec. 6 and 7 at 2 p.m. and 7:30
p.m.; Dec. 11 - 14 at 7:30 p.m.; and Dec. 13 and
Dec. 14 at 2 prim.
Tickets are available at the UNCSA Box Office
at the Stevens Center or on campus at Watson
Hall, by calling 336.721.1945, or online at
www.uncsa.edu.
Pilobolus Dancers perform
in the Triad on Nov. 11
Pilobolus, the internationally-acclaimed col
laborative dance and performance troupe, will
bring their unique style of whimsical movement to
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The performances will be held on Tuesday,
Nov. 11, at 8
p.m. in the
newly-reno
vated Aycock
Auditorium
on the UNCG
campus. The
event is part
of UNCG's
University
Concert &
Lecture
Series.
With a
name inspired
from a fungus
that propels
itself many
feet in the air,
Pilobolus has
been wowing
audiences
I 5 I ar?und the
Suhfnirted image world since
Members of the troupe perform. 197 1 . Using a
collaborative
choreographic process, the troupe uses colorful
costumes and a flowing, gymnastic approach to
dance.
Individual ticket prices range from $23 to $40.
UNCG student prices are $9 and $7. A $2 discount
applies for seniors, children under 12 and non
UNCG students.
For ticket information, contact the UNCG Box
Office at (336) 334-4849. Tickets will also be
available through the University Box Office web
site at boxoffice.uncg.edu. Tickets may also be
purchased the night of the performance at the
Aycock Auditorium box office from 7-8:30 p.m.
Visit Winston-Salem Open House
Visit Winston-Salem will host its annual
Holiday Open House Nov. 7-9 from 8:30 a.m.- 5
p.m. each day.
At the open house, visitors and locals will have
the opportunity to experience the festive season by
meeting a local Craftswoman Bonnie Poindexter,
who will demonstrate the art of making paper
Moravian stars along with her intricate, hand
woven, wooden baskets on Saturday from 10 a.m.
- 12 p.m.
On Sunday from 2-3 p.m. there will be a meet
and greet with Winston-Salem Journal columnist
Kim Underwood, who will sign his book, "His
Dogness Finds a Blue Heart."
To add to the excitement of the weekend, the
visitor center will have delicious spiced tea and
Moravian cookies.
WSSU Photo by Garrett Garms
L. Celeste performs during the tribute to Herbert Gentry.
Widow donates prints to Diggs
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Diggs Gallery will now be the permanent home
of four serigraphs by the late artist Herbert Gentry,
whose work is currently being showcased at the
Wipston-Salem State University-based gallery.
Mary Anne Rose Gentry, the artist's widow,
donated the prints to the gallery Oct. 17 during a
special tribute event in honor of her husband, who
died in 2003.
Rose Gentry's gift has more than doubled
Diggs' collection of Herbert Gentry pieces.
Previous donations were to the George N'Namdi
Collection at WSSU by Mr. Stanley Bard. One
print was donated in honor of Aracelli Cetina, in
tribute to her passion and support of Diggs Gallery.
Last month's tribute, which was sponsored by
the Winston-Salem Urban League of Young
Professionals, featured live music and a dance per
formance by Cyrus Art Production, which is head
ed by UNC-Greensboro Professor Duane Cyrus.
Rose Gentry, who herself is an artist and art
educator, used the occasion to speak^ about her hus
band's childhood during the Harlem Renaissance
and its impact on him as an artist. His mother, a
dancer, introduced Gentry to jazz, theater and
dance at an early age. The spirit of the performing
arts is prevalent throughout his work.
"Herbert Gentry: The Man, The Magic, The
Master" is on display at Diggs through Dec. 6 and
features more than 50 years of Gentry's expressive
and improvisational figurative abstractions and
documents the artist's career in Paris, Copenhagen,
Stockholm, Malmo and New York City.
Diggs Gallery is located on the lower level of
the O' Kelly Library on the campus of Winston
Salem State University.
Yellow, 2000, Serigraph, 15 W x 11 W by Herbert
Gentry is one of the pieces donated to Diggs Gallery.
Heard to
perform
at A&T
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A member of the music
department at Wake Forest
University will perform this
weekend at N. C. A&T State
University.
Richard Heard's holiday
themed show on Sunday,
Nov. 9 is free and open to
public and will be held in
Harrison Auditorium. His
performance is part of the
school's 2008-09 Lyceum
Series.
I n
Heard ' s
show,
titled "A
Spiritual
Journey
and
Songs for
t h e
Season,"
he will Heard
perform
selections from Handel's
Messiah and other captivat
ing spirituals to usher in the
holiday season.
Heard, a tenor, received ?
his bachelor's degree in
music from Southern
Methodist University and a
master's degree in the arts
from the University of
California - Santa Barbara.
He made his operatic debut
at the Aspen Music Festival.
Since then, Heard has
performed in recitals, operas
and oratorio, and with many
orchestras here and abroad,
including ones in Germany
and Costa Rica.
Heard has performed
"Beethoven's Symphony No.
9" with the Dallas Symphony
and Was a regional finalist in
the Metropolitan Opera
Auditions. His talent has
earned him grants from
National Society of Arts and
Letters and National
Federation of Music Clubs.
In 1998, Heard - an asso
ciate professor of music at
Wake Forest - released his
first CD, "Art Songs by
African-American
Composers."
Laughing for
Dollars
HU Photo
Almost $30000 in donations for scholar
ships for Hampton University students
were presented to Tom Joyner during the
Tom Joyner Foundation and Hampton
University Partnership Comedy Jam: "A
Special Tribute to Bernie Mac" held on
Oct. 18. Here , Dr. Cynthia Sellers, execu
tive assistant to the president, presents a
$25 JOS 1 check to Joyner on behalf of the
University Faculty/Staff Annual Fund.
The newly renovated Crowne Plaza Hotel
in downtown Hampton donated $4fl00.
Hampton was the Tom Joyner
Foundation "School of the Month" for
October.
City productions earn more awards
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The honors keep coming for the City's
documentary about Winston-Salem's very
first African- American firefighters.
"Engine Four" has picked up a first place
2008 Savvy Award in the Best One-Time
Program category. The 68-minute film docu
ments the controversial 1951 decision to inte
grate the Dunleith Avenue fire station, years
before well before other landmark events in
the struggle for civil rights. Seven white fire
men volunteered to serve with the eight black
firemen the city hired to staff the station.
Although the city spent almost $4,000 to cre
ate separate quarters at the station for whites
and blacks, the men soon broke through the
wall of segregation and began working, eat
ing and living together.
"Engine Four" combines meticulous
research, rare photographs, original music,
professional narration and interviews with
surviving firefighters to tell the inspiring
story.
It debuted in July 2007 and has since won
numerous honors, including four Telly
Awards (which honor outstanding film and
video productions and non-network televi
The men of Engine Four.
sion programs and commercials) earlier this
year.
The Savvy Awards competition is spon
sored by the City-County Communications
and Marketing Association (3CMA) and is
held in cooperation with the National League
of Cities. The City of Winston-Salem also
won a first-place Savvy for the interactive
Web service, MyCityofWS. Judges said that
MyCityofWS is an "excellent use of 'push'
City of W-S Photo
technology" and that "Winston-Salem is
breaking new ground as the leader the rest of
us should follow."
The "Feed the Bin" series of recycling
advertisements won a 2008 Silver Circle (sec
ond place) Award for public service
announcements, and a recruiting video creat
ed for the Winston-Salem Police Department
won a 2008 Award of Excellence (third place)
for promotional video.