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What's Going On
Don't miss
'Big Butt Girls,
Hard-Headed
Women'
NCSU Center Stage presents
“Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed
Women” & “Shoehorn,” Thurs
day, March 30 at 8 p.m. Stewart
Theatre in Raleigh. General Ad
mission $13, Reserved $17. Call
(919) 515-1100'V/TDD for tick
ets.
In Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed
Women, performance artist
Rhodessa Jones weaves powerful,
haunting stories based on her work
with women in prison. With direc
tion and music by Idris Ackamoor,
she utilizes theatre, movement, and
song to anchor the words bom out
of experience.
Shoehorn! is a collaboration
between Ackamoor and tap dancer
Mark Goodman. This performance
tells the story of an entertainment
team — an African American mu
sician/dancer and a white Jewish
dancer— and their stmggle to
survive as a unit, despite the pres
sures of living in a society plagued
by the disease of racism.
Directed by Raleigh native
Herman LeVern Jones. This
evening of performance is part of
NCSU Human Rights Week.
Students reach
new art horizons
“NCCU Artists: New Hori
zons,” a juried show of work by
Central students, will go on dis
play at the NCCU Art Museum
April 9.
The students' works will be
shown through August 27. Mu-
seumhoursare9 a.m.-5 p.m.,Tues
day through Friday, and 2-5 p.m.,
Sunday. For more information call
the Art Museum, 560-6211. Tours
and special showings may be ar
ranged.
Woman as metaphor in African art
An art exhibit in the Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old
Fayetteviiie Street, Durham, wiii feature various African art.
This mask is of Olomo-yeye (one with many children), from
the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria. The exhibit wiil be open
from April 9 to May 28, with a reception on April 9 at 3:00.
Carolina Theatre calender goes on-line on internet
Durham’s historic Carolina
Theatre is now offering its bi
monthly Calendar on the Internet.
Brian Fox, Film Manager, said
that now the Calendar can be up
dated weekly to include films and
other performance events added
since the Calendar's usual print
date of every other month.
Currently the Calendar is
mailed every other month to the
theatre’s mailing list.
With the assistance of the local
arts newspaper. The Independent,
the Calender is included in its first
issue of every other month.
Fox thanked movie patron and
Internet wiz Dav Coleman for
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Career seminar explores
world of communication
North Carolina Central
University's Media-Journalism
program, WNCU-FM, the Cam
pus Echo and the Triangle Asso
ciation of Black Communicators
(TABC) are sponsoring a career
and information seminar for stu
dents, Wednesday March 29, 9
a.m.-12 noon at the Miller Morgan
(Health Sciences) Building audi
torium.
Panelists include Shelvette
Adderly, senior writer. Blue Cross/
Blue Shield; Ron Bilek, news di
rector, WNCN-TV; Jessie Chavis,
visual communications designer,
S AS Institute; Eric Curry, Reporter,
WTVD-TV; Gwen Sillmon Davis,
Team Leader, News & Observer,
and Millicent Fauntleroy, special
pod editor. News & Observer.
Also appearing on the panels
will be Carol Hunter, general man
ager, WAUG-AM/TV; Teresa
Jefferson, publication specialist,
Healthsource; Pam Saulsby, an
chor, WRAL-TV; Willis Smith,
area manager, Durham/Chapel Hill
Cablevision; Alvin Stowe, Re
gional promotions manager, At
lantic Records; and Ernie Suggs,
reporter/columnist, Herald-Sun.
For more information, call
Marva Williams at (919) 560-
6470/6418, or Gladstone
Yearwood at (919) 560-6374.
Comedies for mature audiences
coming to the University theater
NCCU's department of Theatre
will present three one-act com
edies, for mature audiences, April
5-9 at the University Theatre in the
Farrison-Newton Communications
Building.
Performances of the three com
edies, billed jointly as Mixed Nuts:
The Second season, are at 8:15
p.m., April 5-8, and at 3:15 p.m.,
April 9.
Two plays by Romulus Linney,
Songs of Love and Goodbye,
Howard, will be staged along with
Cassandra Medley's Walking
Women.
Tickets may be purchased at the
NCCU Ticket Office in the aimex
to the W.G. Pearson Cafeteria, or
at the door.
Tickets are $10 for general ad
mission, and $5 for senior citizens,
children under 18, and NCCU stu
dents. Children under four will not
be admitted.
For further information, con
tact the department of Theatre at
(919) 560-6242.
Poet Haki Madhubuti to lecture
at NCCU's Student Union in April
providing an Internet address for
the Carolina Theatre for everyone
to check movie time and descrip
tions.
If you want to check out the
calendar on the Internet, look for
the Carolina Theatre at http://
www.cybernetics.net/users/dav/
carolina.html.
The Cultural Affairs Commit
tee of North Carolina Central
University's Student Government
Association presents Haki
Madhubuti, on April 4, 7 p.m., at
the Alphonso Elder Student Union.
Admission is Free.
The speaker is director of the
Institute of Positive Education and
Editor of Third World Press.
Madhubuti, author of 16 books
of poetry, literary criticism and
essays, has been poet-in-residence
at Cornell University, Howard Uni
versity, Central State University
and the Uitiversity of Illinois-Circle
Campus.
He is recipient of awards from
the Illinois Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Recently, his work has been high
lighted onNightwatch (CBS), Na
tional Public Radio's All Things
Considered, The Washington Post,
The New York Times, Essence
magazine. The Chicago Tribune,
The MacNeiULehrer News Hour
and BET.
His books include: Think Black
(1967), Black Pride (1968), Don't
cry. Scream (1969), We Walk the
Way of the New World (1970),
Direction Score: SelectedandNew
Poems (1971), To Gwen With Love,
edited with Frances Ward and
Patricia L. Brown (1971), Dyna
mite Voices: Black Poets of the
1960's (1971), Kwanzaa: A Pro
gressive and Uplifting African-
American Holiday (1972), From
Plan to Planet (1913), Bookof Life
(1973), A Capsule CourseonBlack
Poetry Writing, co-authored with
Gwendolyn Brooks, Keorapetse
Kgositsile and Dudley Randall
(1975).
Former surgeon general to speak at NCCU
North Carolina CentralUniver- Raleigh. Her NCCU appearance is
sity will host an appearance by Dr.
Joycelyn Elders April 4,4 p.m., at
the B.N. Duke Auditorium. This
comes in conjunction with the Ra
leigh appearance of the former U. S.
surgeon general on the same day.
Dr. Elders returned to a faculty
post at the University of Arkansas
School of Medicine after her De
cember resignation as the chief of
the U.S. Public Health Service.
She is a pediatric endocrinologist.
She speaks at the Raleigh Civic
Center April 4, 6:30 p.m., at a
program co-sponsored by NCCU
and Radio Station WQOK-FM of
sponsored by the Lyceum Com
mittee. Admission is free.
Tickets to the Raleigh address
are available free from WQOK-
FM (phone 919 848-9736).
During the 1993 Senate hear
ings on her confirmation!. Dr. El
ders said, “I want to change the
way we think about health by put
ting prevention first. I want to be
the voice and vision of the poor
and powerless. I want to change
concern about social problems that
affect health into commitment. And
I would like to make every child
bom in America a wanted child.”