Arts & Lifestyle
Seeking Poet Laureate
Nominations for the state's next poet laure
ate, the ambassador of North Carolina litera
ture, will be accepted online at
www.NCDCR.gov/PoetLaureate through Oct.
14.
The post, created by the General Assembly
in 1935, uses the office as a platform to promote
North Carolina writers
and the power of poetry
and the written word.
The 2014 poet laureate
selection process will be
led by N.C. Department
of Cultural Resources
Secretary Susan Kluttz.
"This is an important
position to our great
state and 1 am committed
to working with mv
Kluttz department to find a poet
laureate to represent
North Carolina's literary community," says
Kluttz. "North Carolina has a passion for poet
ry. I look forward to working with the experts in
my department to assist Governor McCrory in
identifying the next poet laureate."
Secretary Kluttz has expanded the poet lau
reate process to include the N.C. Arts Council,
the Office of Archives and History and the State
Library - the three areas that make up the
Department of Cultural Resources. Local and
university libraries are easily-accessible loca
tions for those without computers to make their
nominations online.
While each N.C. poet laureate leaves his or
her own personal imprint on the program,
duties typically include public activities with
schools, community groups and the press, and
contact with writers and readers by mail, email
and/or through a website.
UNCSA exhibit opens
New Winston Museum. 713 Marshall St.,
has opened the exhibit "This School. This City:
Celebrating 50 Years of University of North
Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem."
A season of exhibitions and programming
will take place at museum in conjunction with
UNCSAs 50th Anniversary celebration. Co
curated by New Winston Museum's Director of
Education and Programming Chris Jordan and
UNCSA Division of Liberal Arts faculty
Michael Wakeford, "This School. This City" is
a multitiered project that will run from through
July 2015.
The exhibit features include an immersive
exhibit space designed by Michael Harbeck: a
narrative historical exhibit that will make use of
archival photography, documentary film and
promotional materials from five decades of the
school's existence; the "This School. This City"
mural created by artist Nick Bragg; a historical
survey of the UNCSA community; and "This
School. This City" film shorts.
Programming throughout the year will
include the "StudentArtists at the Museum"
Series. Throughout the exhibition's run. the
museum will host live art performances featur
ing UNCSA students across the arts disciplines.
Discussions will follow, allowing curatorial
staff and student artists to explain process, rela
tionships between the art and exhibit themes,
and answer audience questions.
Additional exhibit related programming
will include a series of lectures and discussions
featuring community members, scholars, cura
torial staff, and others exploring issues pertinent
to the exhibition themes.
Mil tackles Ferguson
Gwen Ifill. co-anchor of "PBS Newshour"
and managing editor and moderator and manag
ing editor of "Washington Week," will moder
ate "American After Ferguson," a town hall
meeting that will explore the many issues that
have been brought into public discourse in the
wake of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson.
Mo. The program, produced by WGBH Boston
in partnership with the Nine Network/KETC in
St. Louis and WETA in Washington DC. will
air tomorrow (Friday. Sept 26) from 8-9 p.m.
on PBS.
While the facts of
the case are still in dis
pute. for many the story
of Ferguson has become
a symbol of the larger
social divides in
America, exposing a
persistent disconnect
along lines of race, class
and identity. Through
conversations and spe
cial reports. "American ^ ? 1
After Ferguson" will
explore these complex
questions raised by the events in Ferguson.
It was be taped before an audience on
Sunday. Sept. 21 at the Touhill Performing Arts
Center on the campus of the University of
Missouri-St Louis. Intended for audiences in
communities across the country, "American
After Ferguson" will include national leaders
in the areas of law enforcement, race and civil
rights, as well as government officials, faith
leaders and youth.
"The upheaval in Ferguson stirred up an all
too familiar stew of debate over race, justice
and citizenship," Ifill said. "It's a discussion
fueled by community outrage and resentment
on all sides, but it is one that shouldn't end. Our
town hall conversation will shed light rather
than heat on the topic, as we seek out the voices
interested in digging deeper."
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Exhibit to include special programs
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORI
A number of special of events are
slated to coincide with "Kevin Jerome
Everson: Gather Round," which will
open on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at the
Southeastern Center for Contemporary
Art (SECCA).
Everson's work ranges from paint
ings, sculpture and photographs, to a
prolific output of
films. Much of it
occupies a place
between fiction
and documentary,
where footage is
edited, scripted,
and re-staged or
montaged with
archived and
found material as
Everson a dynamic
method of story
telling.
Gather Round consists of films by
Everson that emphasize the African
American working class, as well as
objects Everson has fashioned that make
cameos in these films. Remembered
floods, divided cities, imagined activist
histories, disavowed industries ? these
forms of life and issues are regarded by
Everson with as much care as the people
in his films: rural elders with personal
recollections, boisterous young girls at a
fairgrounds, day laborers, cowboys and
magicians.
Everson is currently a Professor of^
Art at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville. His filmography
includes six feature films and over 100
short form works, which have been
exhibited internationally at festivals, cin
emas, museums, art institutions and art
biennials.
"Everson's films bring a cinematic
consciousness to the Black experience in
America, revealing people's relationship
to their craft, their conditions, their
processes of life and their communities,"
explains Cora Fisher, the exhibition's
curator.
Some of the films on display concen
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A screen shot from Kevin Jerome Everson's "The Island of St. Matthews."
Obamas on Robinson
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Official While House Photo by Lawrence
Jackson
President Barack
Obama and First Lady
Michelle Obama talk
with acclaimed produc
er/writer/director Ken
Burns in the White
House Library earlier
this summer as part of
an interview for an
upcoming PBS docu
mentary about Jackie
Robinson. Burns,
whose pervious work
includes "Baseball,"
"The Civil War" and
"The Central Park
Five," is slated to have
the Robinson film
ready next year.
Sweet Honey in the Rock coming to WFU
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Sweet Honey in the Rock
will perform at Wake Forest
University's Wait Chapel on
Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7:30
p.m.
Tickets are $26 for
adults, $21 for non-Wake
Forest students and senior
citizens and $5 for children.
Admission is free for Wake
Forest students, faculty and
staff. UNCSA, Salem
College, and WSSU students
and faculty are also eligible
for free tickets.
Sweet Honey in the Rock
is rooted in a deeply held
commitment to create music
out of the rich textures of
African American legacy
and traditions.
This Grammy Award
nominated group possesses
a stunning vocal prowess
that captures the complex
sounds of blues, spirituals,
traditional gospel hymns,
rap, reggae. African chants,
hip hop, ancient lullabies,
and jazz improvisation.
Sweet Honey's collective
voice, occasionally accom
panied by hand percussion
instruments, produces a
sound filled with soulful
harmonies and intricate
rhythms. Next year will
mark the group's 40th
anniversary.
The concert is part of the
school's Secrest Artists
Series, which was endowed
in 1987 by Marion Secrest. a
local performing arts patron,
in honor of her deceased
husband, Willis Secrest. The
mission statement of the
series states that the best of
the established artists in per
forming arts and the most
promising of the new artists
will appear without admis
sion charge to the students,
faculty and staff of Wake
Forest University.
For tickets or more
information, go to
http ://se crest. wfu .edu.
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Sweet Honey in the Rock
Big win for first-time lottery player
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
A friend's story about
winning prizes every now
and then with scratch-off
tickets led Jamiela Hardrick
of Greensboro to try her
luck last week with two lot
tery tickets, and she won $5
on one and $100,000 on the
other.
"It was my very first
time. ever, buying one," said
Hardrick.
She said she bought a $S
Crossword 10K ticket and a
$5 Mega Bucks ticket at the
Sheetz on West Wendover
Avenue in Greensboro. She
won her $5 back on the
Crossword 10K ticket and
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the top prize of the Mega
Bucks game.
After taxes were with
V
held, Hardrick, 21, received
a check for $69,201. She
said she plans to use her
prize money to help pay her
way to college where she
plans to study nursing.
As of Thursday, six
more $100,000 top prizes
remain to be claimed in the
Mega Bucks game.
Ticket sales have made it
possible for the lottery to
raise more than $3.4 billion
for the state. North Carolina
Education Lottery net pro
ceeds will be used this year
to help pay salaries of
teachers and teacher assis
tants, for pre-kindergarten
programs for at-risk four
year-olds, school construc
tion and repair, and need
based college scholarships
and financial aid.
Submitted Photo
lottery winner Jamiela Hardrick.
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