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Hip Hop professor to lecture and perform Smalls CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Shantl Paradigm Smalls, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Davidson College, will present "Hip Hop vueerness: urn Document, Theory and Praxis" on Monday, Feb. 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium on the campus of Wake Forest University. The lecture/performance and the post event reception are free and open to the pub lic. It is co-sponsored by WFU's Women's and Gender Studies program and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning) Center. Smalls's current book project, "Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Interraciality in New York City, 1975-2005," is a revision and expansion of her dissertation. It traverses , New York City's sonic, visual and material topography to demonstrate how particular hip hop artists and artistic scenes offer "queer articulations" of race, gender and sexuality. She is a founding mem ber of the hip hop duo, B.Q.E., which released two albums: a self-titled EP, and "The Digm and The Dutch?' Smalls was featured in the 2005 film "Pick Up die Mic," which explored the music and lives of gay and lesbian hip hop artists, and in the Emmy award-winning docu mentary "Baring ft All." Smalls received her doc torate in performance studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in May 2011. In the fall, she is expected to begin her tenure track position as an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. An artist's rendering of the new building. Samaritan Ministries plans to do even more with new building Kurosky Strader BY LAYLA GARMS THE CHRONICLE After three decades in its current facility, Samaritan Ministries is finally getting some new digs. The Ministry plans to break ground on a new 20,000-square-foot build ing at the corner of Northwest Boulevard and Ivy Avenue in May, offi cials announced this week. The new building will be adjacent to its current structure, which sits at the corner of Patterson Avenue and Northwest Boulevard. The 12,000 square feet structure is believed to be nearly 80-years old. Samaritan Ministries' soup kitchen, which started in 1981, and its shelter, which was added in 1988, have been bursting at the seams for years, according to Executive Director Sonjia Kurosky. "That increase in space is really going to help us, not only with adding a few additional beds, but also our dining room and our kitchen and our storage space. It's a lot bigger," Kurosky said. "...We iden tified this need quite a few years ago, it was just a mat ter of how we were going to pay for it." The soup kitchen has seen the largest increase in demand. Volunteers serve around 400 people in Jfie 47 seat dining room in a two-and-a-half hour period each day, forcing a change in the atmosphere that is troubling to Kurosky and others. "We had sort of turned into a fast food soup kitchen, which we didn't like," said Kurosky. "We want to have a ministry of hospitality where people feel welcomed and unhur ried, and we haven't been able to maintain that kind of atmosphere." Soup Kitchen Manager Cathie Strader said the soup kitchen's record was 489 meals served in one afternoon, and 454 were doled out during the lunch hour on Monday. The aver age attendance is more than double what it was when Strader came to the soup kitchen 14 years ago, she said. "We used to know prac tically everybody that ate here and now that's not the case. We see new faces everyday, and I think it's got a lot to do with the economy," she related. "We have people who come through who say they used to contribute to Samaritan and now they have to eat here." Even though the serving times have been extend ed by half an hour, Strader says she sometimes has to ask guests to leave the dining room to make room for others. It is a prac tice she would prefer to leave behind. The new din ing room will have 96 seats, which will expand the amount of time each guest can spend at the table from an average of 15-20 minutes to 30-40 minutes. Strader said. The kitchen, which churns out hundreds of meals a day (breakfast and dinner to overnight guests, lunch to the general public), will also be signif icantly larger, with ampje shelving, a preparation area and a storage area all in one place, a far cry ftom the current structure, where each occupies a different area of the building. "The whole building is going to make a lot more sense. It's not going to be a 100 year-old building that we've added to three or four times," Strader said. "It's just going to be much nicer." The new facility will sport 11 new beds, addi tional restrooms, cubbies in the dining room where guests can store their belongings, a sweeping driveway to enable easy food dropoff and delivery, and more parking for staff and volunteers, Strader said. "We're very excited. We're just blessed that we're going to be in this wonderful new building," she remarked. "...We're the only soup kitchen in Winston-Salem or Forsyth County that serves 365 days a year, and we just feel blessed that we're able to do that." Kurosky said she hopes the need for Samaritan's services-will begin to trend in the opposite direction. "We are very, very hopeful that we'll be able to work in cooperation with the mayor's Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness and perhaps in years to come the num ber of emergency shelter beds will get to be reduced," she said. The shelter, which cur rently houses a longterm substance abuse treatment facility and a mental health clinic operated in collabo ration with Wake Forest Baptist Department of Psychiatry, will have the ability to offer services that were never available before, Kurosky said. "We've identified four beds and a section of the shelter that's going to be sort of like the healing room so anybody who's sick is going to be able to stay in through the day, which is really critical," she explained. "...It's not respite care, but it's just people who are too sick to be turned out at 7:30 in the morning." The ministry has man aged to amass S3.6 million of its $3.8 million goal dur ing the quiet phase of its fundraising campaign, which began in 2011. BB&T contributed a lead gift of $250,00 for the proj ect, and other organizations - such as the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and the Winston-Salem Foundation - followed suit, Kurosky said. The Princeton, NJ native said she is grateful for the sup port the ministry has received thus far. "The giving spirit has been really remarkable" she declared. "What a blessing it is for us to live in such a caring community where people really, really do care about people who are in need. I just think it makes this a better place for all of us to live." Kurosky said officials are hopeful they will be able to sell the old building. For more information about Samaritan Ministries, visit wwwjamaritanforsyth .org or call 336-748-1962. League from page A J Hispanic League Photo Some of last year's scholarship recipients. Becklts Roche McLaughlin citizens had to pay inflated out-of-state tuition at suite schools, even community colleges. Hayluri "Luly" Beetles, one of the first two Hispanic League scholarship recipients, experienced that firsthand. The Venezuela native said though she was in the country legally, she didn't quality ror financial assis tance because she wasn't yet a citizen. She was pay ing for college out of her own pocket when she received the scholarship. It allowed her to go from a part-time to a full-time stu dent. "When I heard about the scholar ship, 1 thought it was an amazing opportunity for students who wouldn't qualify for any type of federal financial aid to be able to pay part of the cost for college," said Beckles, who has since volun teered at the League. Beckles, who works as a bilin gual education consultant, has had a long educa tional journey. She first spent years learning to become profi cient in English, and then there were numer ous events in her personal life, including getting mar ried and having three chil dren, one of whom was killed by a drunk driver. She earned her associate's degree from Forsyth Technical Community College in 2003 and her bachelor's degree from Salem College in 2010. During that same year, she returned to the Spanish Nite gala to speak about her experiences and inspire that year's scholarship recipi ents. With the support of local businesses, the League awarded a record 31 $2,000 scholar ships at its 2012 Spanish Nite gala. To date, about 180 scholarships - more than $325,000 worth - have been award ed. The League has many other out reach programs, including Middle School Achievers, which provides motivational speakers and more to ESL students at seven local schools and monthly Hispanic Services Coalition meet ings, which provide local Hispanics with information on relevant topics. "It is an organi zation that truly works for the com munity," said out going League Board President Maria AristizAbal, a native of Columbia. While a Hispanic Services Coalition gather ing educated attendees about the Deferred Action Program, a change in Mari Jo Turner immigration policy made last year that helps undocu mented immigrants brought to the United States as children, the League itself stays clear of political issues such as immigration. Turner - who is the organization's only paid employee - said the Hispanic League doesn't advocate for immigration reform or any other politi cal issue. The public is invited to the Hispanic League Annual Meeting and 20th Anniversary Celebration. It will be held tomorrow (Feb. 1) from 6-7:30 pm. at Allegacy Federal Credit Union, 1691 Westbrook Plaza Drive. For more information, visit www bis - panicleague.org. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual subscription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 Continuing - Courses for Working Professions Spring 2013 Course Offerings: ? Accounting ? Personal Finance ? Six Sigma* ? Entrepreneurship ? Real Estate* ? Conflict Management11 ? 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