Arts & Lifestyle
Of Interest ...
A&T student interns at BET
Geneva Lax, a rising senior at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University, was
selected to participate in an internship at Black
Entertainment Television (BET) this summer, spon
sored by CosmoGirl Magazine and its Project 2024
program.
Lax, a mass communications major, minoring in
Electronic Media Journalism, worked on a project
focused on "Youth in Politics." She was selected from
more than 3,000 applicants through an essay competi
tion and phone interview by a BET producer. Her
internship at BET, which was June 1 - July 25, was
located in New York City.
"1 feel that this internship is the highlight of my
life thus far and I thank God for allowing me an
opportunity such as this. I have learned so much from
actually working in my field on the national TV-ievel
and the staff at BET and CosmoGirl have been
absolutely wonderful," said Lax.
Washington starts effort
to help Sierra Leone
Actor and philanthropist Isaiah Washington is
used the occasion of his 45th birthday (Aug. 3) to kick
off a national campaign entitled "Reach One Million."
Spearheaded through his non-profit organization.
The Gondobay Manga
Washington
Foundation, the campaign has
set a goal of raising $250,000
to help improve the lives of
one million children in SierTa
Leone - one village, one
region, at a time.
Launched online via
ReachOneMillion.org, the
'Reach One Million' campaign
will engage and educate every
day Americans on the plight of
the children of Sierra Leone,
where 47 percent of the coun
try's children under the age of 5 are afflicted with
malaria and 28 percent of the population are unable to
meet basic food requirements.
The campaign calls for Americans to help 'reach
one million' children in Sierra Leone by making a
donation in the amount of $5 to $5000. to aid in pro
viding food, education, protection from malaria, and
clean drinking water.
The 'Reach One Million' campaign comes on the
heels of Washington discovering his genetic link to the
Mende tribe of Sierra Leone. After his initial visit to
Sierra Leone in 2006, where he saw first hand the
extreme poverty and the needs of the children of
Sierra Leone, he made a pledge to do more to help the
country. One year later in 2007 , Washington opened
the Chief Foday Golia Memorial School near the vil
lage of Njala Kendema in the Bagbwe Chiefdom.
Currently, there are 300 students out of a total popu
lation of 2,150 from six villages in the Chiefdom
attending class everyday.
The campaign's official Web sites are
www.ReachOneMillion.org and
www.my space .com/reachonemillion .
Sports/entertainment magazine
aimed for women to launch
(BlackNews.com) - Sports and Entertainment
Magazine (SET Magazine) will hit news stands for the
first time next moth, offering an in-depth look behind
the scenes of famous athletes and celebrities; show
casing their families, vacations, lifestyle and give a
bird's eye view of multi-millionaire celebrity lifestyle.
SET will also offer vivid photographs and one-on
one up close interviews with the nation's top celebri
ties that you won't find in other magazines. SET
Magazine will circulate 50,000 copies in Barnes &
Nobles, Borders and 7-Eleven.
Publisher Danisha Rolle says this magazine is
geared towards women who love sports and watch
sports television shows but do not pick up sports mag
azines.
"1 started this magazine with women in mind, but
the magazine is for all sports enthusiast," says Rolle,
who is wife to Samari Rolle, comerback with the
Baltimore Ravens.
SET Magazine will also launch its new Web site in
conjunction with the release of the magazine. SET
Magazine.com will feature more than what is in the
magazine.
School's Miles Davis program
will host free concerts
The UNCG School of Music's Miles Davis Jazz
Studies Program will again offer free weekly jazz to
the community during the 2008-2009 academic year.
Beginning Sept. 3, the jazz sessions will be held each
Wednesday (when classes are in session), 5-6 p.m.,
in the Collins Lecture Hall (Room 217) of the School
of Music Building located at W. Market and Mclver
streets.
The Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program offers stu
dents a variety of opportunities to perform and study
jazz. Two large jazz ensembles and several small jazz
combos and supportive courses in improvisation,
arranging, composition, history and pedagogy provide
ample room for growth and lead to the Bachelor of
Music in Jazz Studies.
Guest musicans often hold clinics and perform
with students of The Miles Davis Jazz Program. The
world famous bassist Christian McBride, and master
pedagogue/pianist Mark Levine are just two of such
guests.
For more information about the School of Music
or the Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program visit
www.uncg .edu/mus .
Photographer Bey will give lecture
High school students
have been the subjects
of his art
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Photographer Dawoud Bey will
speak at Winston-Salem State
University's Diggs Gallery on
Friday, Aug. 29 at noon.
Bey has spent the last 15 years
making large scale photographs of
high school students of every race
and class. His photographs are
intended to challenge the stereo
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Dawoud Bey
lypes of the 21st century adoles
cent.
The New York native earned his
MFA from Yale University School
of Art and is currently a professor
of photography at Columbia
College in Chicago. He has been
featured in numerous exhibitions
and has received several fellow
ships, including ones from the
National Endowment for the Arts,
the Guggenheim Fellowship and a
Creative Artists Public Service
(CAPS) in New York.
His discussion is being offered
in partnership between Diggs and
the Weatherspoon Art Museum at
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, where Bey will speak
5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28. Both
lectures are free and open to the
public. At Diggs, refreshments will
be served following the discussion.
Weatherspoon Art Museum is
exhibiting Bey's show, "Class
Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud
Bey," through Sept. 7. The exhibit
features 40 of Bey's large scale
high school theme photographs.
Diggs Gallery is located on the
lower level of the O' Kelly Library.
For directions or questions', call
336-750-2458.
Funny Lady
Photo courtesy of UNCG
Actress / comedienne Lily Tomlin will kick off the University
Concert & Lecture Series on Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. at UNCG. The series
will also include a Jan. 30, 2009 performance by The African
Children's Choir and the the Moscow Festival Ballet performing
Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" on April 7. For ticket information,
contact the UNCG Box Office at 336-334-4849.
Deadline
looms for
Fashion Fair
contestants
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The Winston-Salem Urban League is contin
uing its search for local teens between the ages
of 14 and 19 to compete in the 2008 Velma H.
Friende Scholarship Competition. The event will
be held during this year's 51st Annual Ebony
Taylor Dewberry, former
Ms. Ebony Fashion Fair,
in the 2007 WSSV
Homecoming Parade.
Fashion Fair on
Friday, Oct. 24.
The applica
tion deadline for
interested
teenagers is Sept.
5, and those
selected, and their
parents/guardians,
must attend an
informational
meeting hosted by
the Urban League
on Tuesday, Sept.
9 at 6 p.m.
The competi
tion is open to
both females and
males.
Contestants will
compete to win
$1 ,000, $500 and $300 college scholarships. The
winner of the prestigious title of Mr. or Miss
Ebony Fashion Fair will also make several pro
motional appearances.
The Ebony Fashion Fair show will be at 8
p.m. at the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium on
the campus of Winston-Salem State University.
Tickets for the show are $30 and are on sale
now.
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For more information about the Velma H.
Friende Scholarship Competition, call the
Lfrfwn League's Patricia Sadler at 336-725
56J4 ex t: 1001 or e-mail her at
psadler? wsurban.org. Additional information
can also be found at
wwwmyspace .comJwsulefashionfair.
U.S. Air Force Photo
The Raptor has been called the best ever combat aircraft.
Flashy Raptor
will fly at air show
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
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One of the U.S. military's most gravity-defying machines will
fly over Winston-Salem next month.
An Air Force Raptor is scheduled to make a rare public appear
ance at the Winston-Salem Air Show, which will be Sept. 6-7 at
Smith Reynolds Airport.
The flyby of the Raptor will be on Sept. 7.
The aircraft is the U.S. Air Force's supersonic jet fighter which,
according to many experts, is the best combat aircraft ever built. The
F-22 Raptor can fly in remarkably tight circles over jungles, deserts,
mountains, or any terrain where its prey is hiding.
It can circle at more than 1,100 mph using the aircraft's unique
"super cruise" capability, an improvement on old-fashioned after
burner technology. With an impressive assortment of air-to-ground
and air-to-air missiles, the F-22 is a fifth-generation fighter that
many see as unbeatable by any aircraft currently produced by any
nation, and likely to be so for another generation.
In addition to the Raptor flyby, there will be other Air Force,
Marine, and Navy aircraft on the ground available for inspection, as
well as dozens of other historic aircraft and a classic car show.
Gates open each day at 10 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Tickets range
from $6 - 15 and may be ordered online at www.wsairshow.com.
File Photo
A volunteer hands out literature at last year's BOOKMARKS festival.
Local agencies receive
State Arts Council grants
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The North Carolina Black Repertory
Company and Winston-Salem Delta Fine
Arts are among the Forsyth County organiza
tions sharing $379,780 in grants from the
N.C. Arts Council Awards. In all, the Council
is awarding $7,427,425 to more than 250 arts
programs and projects across the state for
fiscal year 2008-2009.
"In elementary schools, senior centers,
museums, concert halls and community cen
ters, more than nine million people partici
pated in projects funded by the Arts Council
last year," said Mary B. Regan, executive
director of the North Carolina Arts Council.
"We are delighted to share such diverse pro
grams with citizens across the state in their
own communities."^ o
To be eligible for organizational funding
directly from the North Carolina Arts
Council, organizations must produce quality
arts programs that provide community bene
fits. Most grants require that matching funds
be raised by the applicant organization. Last
year, each $1 invested by the North Carolina
Arts Council was matched by approximately
$16 in funds raised by the organizations.
N.C. Black Repertory Company received
a $30,000 grant for general operating sup
port; Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts got two
grants, one $5,000 for a quilting exhibit and
another for $20,000 for administrative sup
port.
The other local grantees are: Arts For
Life ($9,500); BOOKMARKS($10,000);
Piedmont Craftsmen ($5,000); Reynolda
House ($10,000); RiverRun international
Film Festival ($7,000); Wake Forest
University Museum of Anthropology
($6,000); Hispanic Arts Initiative ($5,000);
The Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County ($102,280); Eastern Music Festival
($75,000); Piedmont Opera ($30,000); and
Winston-Salem Symphony ($65,000).