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Arts & Lifestyle Of Interest ... Library to host book talk As part of the On the Same Page community read, the Central Library, 660 W. hifth St. will host "From Idea to Publication" on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 1-3 p.m. It will feature Cameron Kent, whose book "Road to Devotion," was picked for this year's community read, and Kevin Watson of the publishing company Prvss 53. They will discuss how the "Road to Devotion" was conceived, researched, written and edited Kent and reveal details about collaboration between author, publisher and cover artist. Miss Bennett featured in Ebony Miss Bennett 2010-2011 Charnee Pearson-Starling is featured in the September 2011 issue of Ebony as one of the nation's top ten HBCU Campus Queens. She received enough online votes to fall at number seven in the rankings. I, II Charnee Pearson Slarli n g Pearson-Starling orig inally competed against 37 other hope ftllSi For a week . voters made their way to Ebony's web site in order to east countless votes for the queen of their choosing. Each woman was represent ed by a photo and video that told what it was like to be a queen at her HBCU. Refusing to let success go to her head. Pearson-Starling maintains humility by remembering her source of support. "I would not have been able to do this without my Lord and Savior, my parents and my Bennett Belle sisters." she said. A reeent graduate. Chamee received her degree in biology. Dental School is in this Bennett Belle's future, and she anticipates concentrating her studies in orthodontics. Her long-term goal is to establish her own practice that focuses on low-income families. Science Cafe series starts Winston-Salem has joined the "Science Cafe" movement that has swept the nation. SeiWorks. Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University and Sigma Xi (the International honor society for scientif ic and engineering research) have scheduled another series of talks. The Science Cafes are supported in part by the PBS program "NOVA scienceNOW" Science Cafes are informal talks given by a local expert at a local gathering place. At a cafe, participants leam about the latest issues in science, chat with a scientist in plain lan guage. meet new friend* and speak their minds. The talks will take place at Sr. Silman Huena Vista Cirille. IUV S. Stratford Road in Winston-Salem. Participants are encouraged to enjoy dinner on their own from 6-7pm. The Science Cafes begin at 7pm and will he held in the private nx>m. There is no fee to participate in the Science C afe. The next event will he on Tuesday. Oct. 18. when Wake Forest University's Dr. Miles Silman will dis \ cuss "Why Nature is Important for SustainabilUyT" On Thursday. Nov. 17. the topic "The Meal Pattern Timeline: Viewing Bating Within the Context of Daily Life" will be discussed by UNCG Professor Margaret Savoca. Miss Angola wins Miss Universe (NNPA/Global Information Network) - Out of a field of 98 contestants. Leila Lopes of the Republic of Angola emeiged as this year's Miss Universe. The competition was held Sunday. Sept . 1 1 in Sao Paulo. Brazil. Miss Ukraine was first runner-up and I.opts Miss Bra/il limshed third. Previous African winners hailed from Botswana and Namibia. Lopes, a 25-year-old native of central Benguel a province, is currently a studbnt of business management . Her selection by the judges was due in p;?rt to her answer during the interview portion of the contest. askcc wnai sne wouiu change on her body if given a chance, she replied. "Nothing, I'm satisfied with what God has given me," she said. "I consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty. I have acquired many wonderful princi ples from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life." Asked about racism, the tawny beauty queen answered simply: "It's not normal in the 21st Century to think that way." In her previous post as Miss Angola, she said; "I work with poor kids. I work in the fight against HIV. I work to protect the elderly, and I have to do every thing that my country neetfc. I think now as Miss Universe I will be able to do much more." Birthday celebration slated for Hamlin CHRONIC!. I: STAFF RKPORT The N.C. Black Repertory Company will hold a birthday celebration for its late founder this weekend. The commemorative birthday event for Larry Leon Hamlin will start at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Sept. 25 with a candlelight ceremony at a monu ment that was recently erected to honor Hamlin at the corner of Fourth and Cherry streets. The can dlelight ceremony is free and open to the public. After that event, activities will move inside to the Rana Loco, 411 W. Fourth St.. where Hamlin's life and legacy will be celebrated with live entertainment, dancing, food and fellowship until 8 p.m. Entrance to the Rana Loco event is a donation of $20 for N.C. Black Rep Guild Members and $25 for non-Guild members. Proceeds will benefit the Black Rep and its mis sion to offer quality entertainment and programs. Sept. 25 would have been Hamlin's 63rd birthday. The Reidsville native died on June 6. 2007 after a long period of illness. When he founded the N.C. Black Rep in Winston-Salem in the late 1970s; it was the first professional black theater company in North Carolina. In 1989. Hamlin put himself and Winston Salem on the international map when he founded the National Black Theatre Festival. Every two years since, the Festival has brought stars of stage, screen and television to the city for the weeklong event, which features more than two dozen stage productions from theater companies around the world. File Pholo The late, great Larry Leon Hamlin. Hamlin's legacy is being kept alive by a trio of women: his widow, Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin; Gerry Patton, the executive director of the Black Rep; and Mabel Robinson, the artistic director of the Black Rep. For more information about the birthday cele bration, call 336-723-2266. And the Emmy Goes to ... Photo courtesy of UNCSA Mount Airy native Zach Seivers, a 2006 graduate of the UNC School of the Arts School of Filmmaking, holds the Emmy Award he won last week for Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming for his work on the History Channel's "Gettysburg." A number of UNCSA alumni have ties to Emmy -nominat ed and Emmy-winning shows. UNCSA to host 'Nutcracker' kickoff Saturday I NCSA P^Kito b> Rosalie O'Connflr A number of characters from the production, including the Mouse King, will he on hand Saturday. CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT The University of North Carolina School of the Arts is kicking off the hol iday season early. On Saturday, Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to noon, the school will host a spe cial kick-off event for its annual production of the classic "The Nutcracker" at the Stevens Center. 4()5 West Fourth St. While tickets for the production, which will be staged at the Stevens Center from Dec. 10 - 18. won't officially go on sale until Monday. Sept. 26, during the kick-off. fans will be able to purchase tickets; some seats will be available at a special $5-off discounted price. The event will feature a variety of free fun activities for the whole family, including holiday refreshments, chitchen's crafts and a chance to have photos taken with The Nutcracker" characters like the Sugar Plum Fairy, Mouse King. Clara, the Nutcracker Prince and the Snow Queen. UNCSA's heralded production of "The Nutcracker" has received rave reviews from critics and enthusiastic audiences. Directed by Ethan Stiefel, former dean of the UNCSA School of Dance and now artistic director for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the 201 1 production of "The Nutcracker" remains one of the most -anticipated Triad holiday traditions. Douglas Gawriljuk. a fac ulty member of the UNCSA School of Dance, will supervise the 2011 pro duction of 'The Nutcracker." Ticket prices (not including $5 presale event discount) range from $25 for aikilts to $66. There are also special family packs available. For ticket information and other information, go to www.uncsa. edi/stev ens center Blackout? Despite huge minority fan base , video game lack characters of color BY DAM ION PACK WOOD Nl W AM URIC A Ml 1)1 A The pixilated elephant in the room of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry: African Americans and Hispanics play and purchase video games more than any other ethnic group in the U.S.. yet the overwhelming majority of characters in games are young white males. A recent study by University of Southern California Professor Dmitri Williams found an over whelming lack of diversity in video game characters. Williams, a social psychologist by train ing. compared the ethnic diversi ty found in his survey of 150 games across nine platforms and all ratings to categories con tained in the American census. He found that fewer than three percent of video game char acters were recognizably Hispanic and none were playable. Native Americans and biracial characters were non-exis PRNewsFoto/Squarc Enix, Inc A promo image for the Final Fantasy video game. tent. African Americans enjoyed a rate of 10.74 percent, with a big caveat; they were mostly ath letes and gangsters. Columnist Owen Good opined in Kotaku. a popular video game blog. "In an American games industry domi nated. marketed to and consumed mostly by white males, discus sions of race and class can quick ly hit a wall, blocked by insis tence that the subject is inappro priate for a pursuit that should be colorblind in basis." Good says that whites consti tute the majority of consumers in the gaming industry is inaccu rate. According to The Kaiser Family Foundation, African American youth between the See Games on A9 J. California Cooper John Edear Wideman A&T seeks submissions for short fiction contest CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT North Carolina A&T State University's Creative Writing Program is accepting submissions for its first J. California Cooper and John Edgar Wideman Short Fiction Prize. The competition seeks to honor the literary legacy of two of America's greatest writers. Both Cooper and Wideman have authored numerous collections of short fiction and novels among their accomplish ments. According to contest coordinators, both writers have been celebrated for their rich depictions of African American families via their ability to translate the breadth of Black American experience into poignant tales of urban and rural life. Cooper and Wideman have also labored long in the liter ary trenches of American lit erature. and as award winning writers, they each have cham pioned the experiences of Black Americans by dealing with themes of pride, love, family, identity, the effects of racism and a people's will to triumph. Entrants are asked to sub mit works of fiction (no more than 7,000 words per short story and only one story per submission). The competition will be judged by a committee of poets and writers. The winner will receive $250 and have their work published on A&T's web site. Honorable men tions will also be published on the site. Entries must be post marked by Oct. 31 . The win ner will be announced Dec. 1 . The competition is open to writers without regard to geographical region or previ ous publication background. There is a $15 reading fee per entry. A check or money order should be made payable to NCAT/CWP-Fiction Prize. Writers can submit more than one entry. Each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry fee: ? Entries should consist of four, typed, double spaced, stapled (12 point font) copies of an unpublished manuscript (author's name must not appear on manuscript). ? One cover sheet with name, address, telephone, email, word count and title of story. Mail submissions to: Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad. Creative Writing Program Short Fiction Prize, A427 GCB, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E. Market St., Greensboro, NC 27411. For more information, contact Dr. Ahmad at 336 334-7771, ext. 2370, or via email at crahmad? ncat.edu .
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