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Fall Carnival
The Sims Recreation
Center's Fall Carnival will
be held Oct. 31 from 6 p.m. -
8 p.m. The event is spon
sored by Winston-Salem
Recreation and Parks, St.
Paul Holiness Church, Home
Moravian Church, the Happy
Hill Senior Citizens Club,
Donald "Sarge" Naylor, and
the Bojangles on Waughtown
Street. The event will pro
vide candy and prizes for
children ages 4-14. The cen
ter is at 12ipi Alder Street.
Call Ben Piggott at 336-727
2837 for further information.
Trip to Bayou Classic
A trip is being planned to
New Orleans for the Bayou
Classic from Nov. 27 - 30.
The game will be between
Southern University and
Grambling State. For further
information, call Robbie
Allen at 336-788-9649,
Clevell Roseboro at 336 -
671-1259 or Charlene
Roseboro at 777-8150.
St. Anne's and St. Benedict
Reunion
St. Anne's and St.
Benedict the Moor will have
a Class Reunion for the
Classes of 1946 - 1979 on
Nov. 29 from 7 p.m. to mid
night at the Sundance Plaza
Hotel & Suites, 3050
University flaza.
For more information.
Contact Mary Louise Harris
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quiet_storm082 1 @yahoo.co
m or 336-377-7050 or Linda
Grier at 336-723-4192 or
auntie 1 b@ yahoo .com .
Shopping trips
The Fun Time Club is
sponsoring a Pre-Christmas
shopping trip to Danville,
Va., on Nov. 8 shop to visit
Value City Store, the
Danville Mall and the New
York Church Suit Outlet
Store. On Dec. 6, the group
will travel to Concord Mills
and McAdenville (Christmas
Town USA). For more infor
mation, call 336-767-0105.
Leave a message.
AAU tryouts
Tryouts for Winton
Salem Mavericks 12U AAU
Boys Basketball will be held
Oct. 26, 28 and Nov. 2 and
Nov. 4. Those trying out
should bring birth certifi
cates. For further informa
tion, contact Coach BB
Patrick at 336-416-0907.
Children's Theatre
fundraiser
The Children's Theatre of
Winston-Salem will host its
Annual Scholarship Ticket
Fundraiser at Pig Pickin's,
613 Deacon Blvd., on
Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 6-9
p.m. Celebrity servers will
include Mayor Allen Joines
and WXII Anchor Cameron
Kent.
Ten percent ? of the
evening's proceeds will go to
help support the Children's
Theatre's Scholarship Ticket
Fund, which provides free
and/or discounted tickets to
Children's Theatre produc
tions for Equity Plus schools
and economically disadvan
taged schools, children and
families.
For more information,
call 336-725-4531 or visit
ww w.chi ldrenstheatre ws .org .
DJ Swift does his thing on the turn-tables.
Zonya Love Johnson performs.
Nahamah Jackson entertains with her violin.
Emcees Dr. Delores Smith Wylie and Carter G. Woodson students
Kerry Thomas and D'Jamila Douthit.
Some of the students who ushered at the event.
Talent Overflows
at Benefit
O
Artists of all stripes use gifts to help charter school
Photos Fclecia Long
Principal Ruth Hopkins.
BY DR. FELECIA P. LONG
THE CHRONICLE _ ?
More than 250 music lovers and supporters of
Carter G. Woodson School of Challenge attended
a lively fundraiser for the popular charter school
on Saturday evening.
Emceed by Dr. Delores Smith Wylie and
Carter G. Woodson students Kerry Thomas and
D'Jamila Douthit, the event featured a slate of
talented artists who brought their immense style
and grace to the school's gymnasium.
Drummers from Otesha Creative Arts
Ensemble opened tfce show, which featured the
internationally-acclaimed The Last Poets, a
Harlem-based group of poets and musicians who
rose to fame during the Civil Rights Movement.
Carter G. Woodson Board Member Rosalyn
Seabrooks secured The Last Poets for the show.
She attended Shaw University with Obiodun
Oyewole, one of the original members of the
group.
Oyewole, who performed with The Last Poet
drummer Don Babatunde, expressed displeasure
with the state of hip hop today. He and other
members of the group are considered trailblazers
of the popular musical art form. They rhymed
decades before rap came on the scene.
"Hip-hop is in the toilet," he said. "The vehi
cle is authentic, and it can be saved because we
have kids like these at Woodson who have posi
tive things to say. . . We need to get back to con
sciousness."
Other special guest performers included
Zonya Love Johnson, a Broadway performer
whose powerful voice was heard in the block
buster stage production of "The Color Purple."
The jazz ensemble Total Silence performed, as
did the group Peace of Mind and DJ Swift, who
has performed with Fantasia Barrino.
Some of the many talented Carter G.
Woodson students also got some of the spotlight.
The school's orchestra, under the direction of
Nahamah Jackson, and jazz band, under the
See Talent on B14
Student Mikalah Muhammad, center, with
her mother, left, and Renee Razzak.
Some of Carter G. Woodson's teachers were on hand to support the cause.
Members of the school's talented orchestra.
(f"?1 Little with The Last Poet's Ohiodun Oyewole Ed
McCarter and City Council Member Nelson Malloy.
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