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ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT ... w ' i i ^ African American Arts Festival in Greensboro ine llth annual African American Arts Festival is being ' held through March 16 in ! ' " Greensboro, N.C. The festival is a two-month-long celebration of the outstanding contributions that African-American artists have made to American culture. Live music, theater and dance productions, along with visual arts exhibitions are being offered by the United Arts Council of I the 1997 festival featured artist. Huff's work "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is the cover art for the festival brochure and poster. The Festival Advisory Committee chose "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" particu larly for its concentration on the African-American male. Two profiles look outward, presum ably toward the future and toward a new-found hope for Arts Reach By CHERYL HARRY * * Greensboro in cooperation with ; ^-..^rea universities, colleges and arts organizations. The festival will include an exhibition at Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem I State University and feature Winston-Salem artist James Huff. Huff was selected by the African American Arts Festival Advisory Committee to serve as their culture. The committee felt the work perfectly illustrated the recent movement and concentra tion on the African-American male and his role and responsi bilities in the American experi ence. Following are highlighted events from the festival: ?Jan. 6 ? Gospel Music Festival featuring A&T Gospel Choir, St. Paul Gospel Choir, the Sons of Zion, the Void Brothers and the Wells Singers. 3:00 p.m., St. Paul Baptist Church. Free. Call 272-2128. ?Feb. 1-28 ? Art of Africa at ArtQuest. Interactive exhibits and studio activities with high lighted African themes. Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30-5; Wednesday, open until 7 p.m. (family night) James Huff of Winston-Salem is featured artist for the 1997 African American Arts Festival.. Sunday, 2-5, Greensboro Cultural Center. Call 333-7460. ?Feb. 1-April 12 ? Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salenj State University presents "Redemp tion Songs: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica." . Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 750-3458. ?Feb. 14-16 ? "Tell Pharaoh" Centered in Harlem, the play uses monologues, scenes, movement and song to delineate the struggles and tri umphs of this close-knit commu nity. 8 p.m., Feb. 14, 15; 3 p.m. Feb. 16. Greensboro Cultural Center. Ticket information 373 2974. Feb. 18 ? "Katherine Dun ham & Caribbean Connection" An authentic presentation of the dances and costumes of Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti. 7:30 p.m.. Memorial Ball room, A&T State University. Ticket information 334-7712. ?Feb. 21 ? Karamu ? Sample foods from different regions of Africa, see tAtditional and contemporary African fash ion dance and displays. 7-11 p.m., Greensboro Cul tural Center. Ticket Information 373-2974. ?March 1 ? Acoustic Blues Showcase, starring Keb' Mo'. Rare blues talent Keb' Mo' com bines traditional sounds with contemporary issue-driven lyrics. 8 p.m. Carolina Theater. Ticket Information 333-2600. ?March 1 ? April 12 - Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University presents folk artist Hubert Walters in a one man exhibit. Gallery hours Tues day-Sat. 11-5 p.m. Call 750 2458. ?March 2 - Ujamaa Market ? An'array of vendors with African American crafts, arts goods. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., the Depot. Call 855-1847. ' For further information con- | cerning the African American ' Arts Festival or to obtain a festi val brochure, contact the United Arts Council (910) 333-7440. Award-winning new play to be performed at High Point Theatre f .. Atlanta playwright Pamela Parker's award-winning new play, "A Higher Place in Heaven," will be performed Thursday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. at the High Point Theatre. The national touring production features cast members from the play's original production at Atlanta's Neighborhood Play house. Tickets are $18 (Orches - tra), $16 (Balcony) and may be .- purchased at the High Point Ticket Center during regular hours, noon to 5 p.m., Monday 1 through Friday. Seating is f reserved. Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted. Following rave reviews during its initial run at Atlanta's Neighborhood Play house in 1994, "A Higher Place in Heaven" received critical praise again when it was per formed at 1995's Piccolo Spo leto Festival in Charleston, S.C. The play also won first prize in the 1995 New Play Competition at the Center for Southern Studies in Jack sonville, Ala., and was nomi nated for a 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Film rights for the play are cur rently being pursued by actress Dawn Wells (Mary Ann of "Gilligan's Island" fame). "A Higher Place in Heaven" is the prequel to "Sec ond Samuel," an earlier play be Pamela Parker. (The national tour of "Second Samuel" was performed in a small rural Georgia town, "A Higher Place in Heaven" focuses on two central characters: Mrs. Madi son, matriarch of New Hope Plantation, and Mrs. Simpson, matriarch of the family who worked the fields of New Hope and served the Madison family for generations. As the story unfolds, a closely held secret between the two women unrav els and pits their families against each other. A story about heritage, prejudices, loyalty, understand ing and forgiveness, "A Higher Place in Heaven" is "a sweet, hopeful play in which even a cynic could find some inspira tion" (Post and Courier , Charleston, S.C.). "It explores a gentility of belles and cava liers, servant and served," Parker notes, "[and] a society that knows it must change in order to survive, yet which fights its own evolution." The High Point perfor mance of "A Higher Place in Heaven" is co-sponsored by the Race Relations Network of High Point. ? mmmmmmm?m f 1 i, 1 i I Iuuarameea 10 piease your vaienune. ? for Your i, oMemxt y Special Gifts That Show How O HQl Much You Really Care fun 7i/jnef BaCfe&MA' a 777-0291 f 1310 Hawthorne Rd/ Winston-Salem, NC V Legacy Citizens Committee 'shares the vision' f The Legacy Citizens Com mittee of the City-County Planning Board will hold meet ings at the following times and locales: ?Thursday, Jan. 23, 5:30 p.m. Paddison Memorial Library, 130 E. Mountain Rd., Kernersville ; 'Tuesday Jan. 28, 5:30 p.m. ClemraoneLibrary, 3554 Clemmons Rd., Clemmons ?Wednesday Jan. 29, 5:30 p.m. Rural Hall Library, 7125 Broad St., Rural Hall For more information, call 727-2087. A Crisis Line Training t f Training will be conducted Jan. 27 for volunteers inter ested in working with the Fam ily Services Shelter for bat tered women and their children or the Sexual Assault Response Program. The training will include information on domes tic violence, sexual assault, medical and legal procedures, and crisis intervention counsel ing skills. Family Services staff will present the training. Upon completion of the train ing session, volunteers will be qualified to work the Family ! Services Crisis Lines. For more information, please contact Teresa Jones at 'I 772-8173. 1 1> !?'. - ... - ? ? Financial Aid The West Forsyth High Financial Aid Workshop for parents of juniors and seniors will be held Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in the West Forsyth Media Center. The snow date for the work shop will be Thursday, Jan. 30. A Alzheimer's Lecture Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., a nationally recognized expert in women's health, will present a free lecture on how hormQne replacement therapy affects Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Estrogen is being studied as a possible means of preventing Alzheimer's disease or delaying its symptoms. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. on Jan. 31 in Babcock Auditorium at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Free parking will be available in the employee park ing deck off Hawthorne Road on Eden Terrace. For more information, call Health On Call at 716-2255. . A Comets! SciWorks invites all to come see the cosmic disaster that may have wiped out all the dinosaurs on earth 65 million years ago ? and will strike again. The comet Hale-Bopp is coming toward earth, and you will be able to see it in the spring of 1997. In the show Comets Are Coming, you will meet Alan Hale and Thorn Bopp, discoverers of the comet. Hear their story about how they found it and learn where to look in the sky to see this ghostly apparition. Comets Are Coming begins public showing Feb. 1. Community News Deadline: Mondays at 5 pm BARGAIN MATINEES STARTING BEFORE 6 QO PW irSr M LOVf MB WAR f^T ^1 nl 145 4 20 7 10 550 1 ^ ji? "OTRIR p^rf J== '?.??>.'??.?? f JOTWTM 0 V..- Itw W Mm? 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