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Arts & Lifestyle ifflmunr ?Wake Up to Poetry" Wake Forest University and Winston Salem poetry lovers will gather at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5 at the Community Arts Cafe at 411 W. Fourth St. for the 2nd annual Wake Up to Poetry reading and celebration. The event is free and open to the public. ? The evening will include poetry readings and a poetry open mic, open to all university and community povts. Food and beverages will be available for ^___, sale throughout the event, and free appetizers will also be offered. Any poet reading a poem dur ing the open mic will receive a voucher for free food and a beverage. The celebration is the culmination of a poetry contest held earlier this year for Semilian Wake Forest University students. Over 200 submissions were received and four winning poems were chosen by three judges from outside the WFU community. The judges are Alan Michael Parker. English professor and director of Creative Writing at Davidson College. Metta Sama, assistant professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at Salem College, and Julian Semilian, poet and filmmaking professor at UNC School of the Arts. Wake Up to Poetry is sponsored by a col laboration of Wake Forest University departments and institutions, including pre mier sponsor lPLACe (Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center), the English Honors Program, the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series, the Department of English, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, Wake Forest University Press and Three to Four Ounces student literary magazine. WSSU student exhibit Graduating seniors from the Department of Art and Visual Studies at Winston-Salem State University will hold their Senior Thesis Exhibit from Wednesday. April 9 - Friday, May 2. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 11, from 6-8 p.m. Senior exhibitors will also show their works on Wednesday, April 9 from noon to 2 p.m. in the gallery as part of the WSSU University Scholarship Day. This event will kick off the re-opening of the Diggs Gallery following facility renovations. The exhibition will feature works of 16 students: Bree Baldwin, Shakillia Bobo, Diandrea Brown. Maleek Brown. Aundrea Bruton, Akinyele Cameron-Kamau. Irwin Clawson, Deric Cooper, Kelvin Douglas, Frederick Graham. Christine Holland. Justin Jackson, Aquila Jones, Victor Toodle. Darius Turner and Brian (Buck) Warren. Student works represent a range of mediums including studio art and computer graphics, large-scale portraits, atmospheric architec tural landscapes, figurative and graphic cre ative arts, and digital projections of works of animation and 3D modeling. Honor for author North Carolina author Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara's first short stow collection, "Damn Love." has received national recog nition as an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Debut Fiction. She has also been nominated as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in General Fiction. Beach-Ferrara was raised in l napei Hill and currently lives in Asheville. "Damn Love" includes short love stories set in North Carolina and San Francisco. These stories emerge from the fault lines of American life, uncertain territo ry where identi ? i ? Reach-h erraru ?1.. 1, A .1 . . : iy, ii->r> aim ucsirc cmnmgic. ana wnere rec onciliation can be found in even the most flawed efforts to connect. Stories from this collection have previously been published in American Shori Fiction. The Harvard Review and Crazyhorse. Beach-Ferrara was a NEA Literature fellow in 2010 and received her MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Just as her literary work focuses on LGBT lives, she also works as the executive direc tor for the Campaign for Southern Equality, a non-profit organization that advocates for LGBT rights throughout the South. Beach Ferrara is a minister in the United Church of Christ. She is married to Meghann Burke. The PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award is funded and administered by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation An award ceremony is set for April 6. WSSU Photo by Garrett Garms Student artists learn from law students. Law students tel student artists how to protect their work CHRONKU M \H REPQW On March 21, the Wake Forest University Law School Pro Bono Group and Winston-Salem State University's Diggs Gallery co-hosted an Arts and Entertainment Law Clinic at the gallery U/CCJ T ... 1UI ?? JkJl' ^lUUCIUS. The clinic provided invaluable assistance to stu dents seeking federal and state protection of their intellectual property. Visual artists, graphic designers, performing artists and a poet took advantage of the session. WFU law students Stacy Jones. Chris DiGirolamo, Disha Gandhi, Leslie Evans and Michael VJIV/l/.l/HVll VUYVI W lupiv 3UVII aa wpj" rights, trademarks and patents, proper aspects of a contract for artists and how to handle disputes. The law students were supervised by Steve Virgil, founding director of the Community Law Clinic and associate clinical professor, and Professor Beth Hopkins, who serves as director of out reach at WFU School of Law. "This partnership with Beth Hopkins and Steve Virgil was important to Diggs Gallery because of our com mitment to providing learning experi ences for WSSU students that comple ment the curriculum in ways that are practical, engaging and fun," saia Belinda late, uiggs Gallery director. Students gave the event high marks. "I really enjoyed each presentation. I feel that each student from Wake Forest Law School vividly painted a clear picture that opened my eyes to a lot of aspects of art law." said Frederick Graham Jr., a WSSU student who took part. oree oaiawin, a wmu line arts major said, "The workshop on Art and Entertainment Law was useful and informative. I received information about how to protect myself when given an opportunity to design a work of art for a client and the proper procedures to have a contract put in place to protect myself." Tale K a p r? New ED at Black Rep CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Taylor Thierry has been named the executive director of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. She suc ceeds Geraldine Patton, who retired last year. According to a news release from the Black Rep. Thierry is an accom plished marketing professional who has managed multi-million dollar projects for multi-1 pie Fortune 100 compa- * nies. Part of the reason she was hired is because of her extensive history in the growth and devel opment of people, brands and businesses. Black Rep officals says those sKins win come in nanay as tne agency evolves. "We are enhancing our brand and taking the company to the next level. We are so thrilled to have a person of her caliber joining us," said Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin. chairman of the Black Rep's board. Thierry is leading the theatre into its 35th year of production and is charged with helping the organization grow in awareness, support and recognition internationally. She has an MBA in marketing is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt-certified. As an instructor at Clark Atlanta University, she directed students in the conceptualization of a student-run pub lic relations firm which developed cam paigns for non-profits in the southeast area. ?* She previously served on the NCBRC board. When she was appoint ed by Black Rep Founder Larry Leon Hamlin, she asked him why he chose to make her the youngest member of the board, his reply was, I "because I expect great things from you." "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with an organisation that was a part of my early growth and development," Thierry said. "My goal is to showcase the talent of the NCBRC to the world and in doing so, create an everlasting impact in the communities, global and domestic." The late Larry Leon Hamlin found ed the Black Rep in the late 1970s, cre ating the state's first black professional theater company. In the 1990s, he founded the National Black Theatre Festival, a popular and profitable event held under the auspices of the Black Rep, every other year. Thierry is only the third permanent executive director of the Black Rep. Hamlin led the theater company until his death in 2007; Patton then took the helm. Greenhill opening Bearden exhibit CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Greenhill, a Greensboro art gallery, will present "Select Collection I Prints of Romare Bearden." The exhibition and sale will take place from April 14 - June 22. The pieces are from collector Lou Milano. Bearden, a North Carolina native, helped define 20th century contemporary art. The late artist's work depicted the richness and vibrancy of African American life and was inspired by his personal experi ences, the rural south and a variety of historical, literary and musical influences. "You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it Set- Bearden on A8 Romare Bgarden's Fallen Star Press Photos Tyler James Williams RiverRun honoring several notables CHRONICLE STAFF MTOKl Tyler James Williams, the young actor best known for his title role in the series "Everybody Hates Chris," will receive a Spark Award during the RiverRun International Film Festival, which will be held April 4-13 in Winston-Salem. The honor goes to up-and-coming talents in the film industry. Williams, who won the 2007 NAACP Image Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in the series, returned to primetime television last year in the NBC comedy "Go On." Last summer, he was seen on the big screen in tne lyier Kerry com edy "Peeples." He also starred in the Disney Channel film "Let It Shine," for which he also received an Image Award nomination. Williams began acting at the age of four on "Sesame Street" and later provided his voice for the animated Lynskty series "Little Bill." His other television cred its include "Law & Order: SVU" and numer ous appearances in sketches on "Saturday Night Live." His most recent film, "Dear White People," premiered in January at The Sundance Film Festival. Spark Awards will also go to Sophie Dcsmarais and Tye Sheridan. She is a blos soming young Canadian actress and the star of "Sarah Prefers to Run," which is screen ing in this year's Narrative Competition pro gram at RiverRun. Desmarais recently won Best Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards for her role in this film. | At 17-years-old. Sheridan is the youngest Spark Award winner. He played the youngest son of Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life (2011)." RiverRun fans will recognize Sheridan from his role in the 2013 Festival pick "Mud." All three actors are expected to attend the festival to recieve their awards, which will be presented during a private event. Emerging Master awards will also be presented during the festival. Filmmaker Debra Granik and actress Melanin Lynskey will receive them. Granik is an independent director and writer who is best known for "Winter's Bone," which stars Jennifer Lawrence. The film earned Granik an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. New Zealand native Lynskey first gained widespread international attention when she starred in Peter Jackson's Academy Award nominated "Heavenly Creatures." She is well known to television audiences for her role as Charlie Sheen's crazed stalker on "Two and a Half Men" and has held leading and scene-stealing turns in many films, including Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant." Sam Mendes' "Away We Go (2009)" and Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air." The tribute ceremony for Lynskey will be-held at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. April 12 at UNCSA Gold Theatre and will be moderat ed by Winston-Salem native Angus MacLachlan. who directed Lynskey in the his debut directorial feature "Goodbye to All That." which will premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tickets for each event are $12. RiverRun will screen 145 films, including 82 shorts and 63 features from 33 countries. For a full schedule and ticket information, go to
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