Children's Theatre
Gomes to Schools
The Children's Theatre Board
is a local arts agency that is also
working hard to expand cultural lit
eracy and in so doing, bring the
diverse cultures found in our com
munity together through art. The
1992-93 season of the Children's
theatre is highlighted by a newly
focused effort on increasing the
involvement and awareness of
diverse cultures and races. This
effort involves all aspects of the
agency including how it sees itself
as an organization, the performers
they present and the audiences they
reach.
In the Public School series, In
Theatre series and Family Series,
the Children's theatre will present:
Joyce Grear, storyteller, the United
State productions of "Straighten Up
& Fly Right" and "Lipstick, Fish
traps & Moanin' Biscuits" (in which
African American folktales are
brought to life); the African Ameri
can Dance Ensemble, who will be
leading introductory workshops on
dance, music and culture of Africa;
and the Carpetbag Theatre, which is
presenting international black folk
tales. Each of these groups offer
entertaining as well as educational
performances that explore African
American culture and traditions.
Through their Public School
same is true as part of the In-Theatre
program, which brings the children
to The Arts Council Theatre as part
of their school day.
Even as they work to make this
diverse programming available to as
wide an audience as possible, the
Children's Board Theatre is facing
financial obstacles going into the
Arts Reach
By REGGIE JOHNSON
Series, the Children's Theatre takes
performers, workshops, and lec
ture/demonstrations into the schools,
thereby reaching all the cultures and
ethnic groups on our community by
presenting to their children as part
of their school curriculum. The
1992-93 season. Having reached
some 25,000 students last year
through the Public School Series,
they are now faced with finding new
sources of funding to make up this
shortfall. This marks the first time in
35 years that the Children's Theatre
will have to establish a fundraising
campaign.
The state of North Carolina has
legislated that the arts be integrated
into the school curriculum through a
document known as the Basic Edu
cation Plan. The Children's Theatre
operates to fill the gap between what
our legislators have approved but
have yet to appropriate funds to
implement the arts curriculum com
ponent of this plan.
There is research which reveals
scholastic benefits to children who
have participated in the arts. The
critical and creative thinking skills
that are fostered and developed in
the arts environment have been
shown to correlate to higher SAT
scores.
For more information about any
of The Arts Council programs men
tioned above, call 722-5293
Brown-Houston Honored in L.A.
Bobby Brown and Whitney
Houston Day
MCA Recording artist Bobby
Brown and Arista Recording artist
Whitney Houston, received a wed
ding present they will never forget,
when Bailey Broadcasting Services
and Blackmon-Bailey Advertising
& Promotions, and Los Angeles'
Honorable Mayor Tom Bradley got
together and came up with a truly
unique wedding gift.
July 18, 1992, the day the cou
ple wed, was proclaimed "Bobby
Brown and Whitney Houston Day"
by the city of Los Angeles. The
proclamation wishes happiness and
prosperity to the music industries
first couple.
They were presented with the
proclamation recently at the MCA
party held to promote Bobby
Brown's new album titled "Bobby."
Lee Bailey, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Diane Blackmon-Balley
East Coast Family is a Pool of Promise
Brand-new-funk junkies are
coasting high. The latest name send
ing out a buzz in the streets, over the
airways, on the charts is Biv 10 ? a
label, not a band ? run by
youngest-in-charge pop mobster
Michael "Biv" Bivins, who is also a
member of platinum performers
Bell Biv DeVoe and New Edition.
New York -based and Motown
distributed, Biv 10 was formed this
July, with a blueprint for success
through eclecticism and adventure.
"We're gonna be putting out good
records and great artists," says
Bivins. "We'll come off because we
won't compromise our instincts."
So far, Bivins' instincts haven't
been wrong. Drop your jaw in awe
of what he's discovered, imaged,
and guided towards gold and plat
inum paradise in Planet Pop: Boyz
II Men, Another Bad Creation, M.C.
Brains. These artists are managed by
Bivins, through Biv Entertainment,
and signed to Motown Records.
"Michael has just been so on,"
says Motown president and CEO
Jheryl Busby. "He has an uncanny
ability to recognize talent and mar
ket them."
Busby views Bivins, 24, as "a
young executive who can hit the
long ball," and calls Motown's
involvement with Biv 10 "an
arrangement centered in belief and
trust ? not a high-risk venture."
The opening salvo of Biv 10
releases is "East Coast Family Vol.
1," a complication of remixes (by
Boyz II Men and Another Bad Cre
ation) and new jams, including "Lis
ten Closely (Bozack)," by Tam
Rock, and "All These Wanna Be' s
(Tease)," by Another Bad Creation.
The centerpiece of the album is
the first single and video "1-4-ALL
4-1," which brings together Biv's
latest young discoveries: Tam Rock,
Whytgize, Cale Brock, Tom Boyy,
1010, Yvette Brown, Hayden Hajdu,
Fruit Punch, Lady V, Mark, Rico
and Finesse and Anthony
Velasquez.
It's from this pool of promise
that Biv 10 will draw its ammuni
tion for aural assault. With a youth
fuf confidence learned from role
models like Andre Harrell, Russell
Simmons, and Busby. Bivens says,
"We're gonna deliver. The public
won't be disappointed with what
we'll be coming with."
So Biv 10 has only just begun.
And as the record spins, Michael
"Biv" Bivins will keep growing by
following his dream of building
careers. "Years from now," Busby
says, "people will be talking about
this entertainment exec who
groomed himself at Motown. I'll
feel proud to b? a part of that"
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