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Arts & Lifestyle Of Interest ... Quilting show is coining to Statesville The Quilting and Needle Art Extravaganza will be held Friday, Jan. 9 and Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Statesville Civic Center, 300 South Center St., in Statesville. The hours are 11 a.m. - 5 p.m". on Friday and 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $3.00. The Quilting and Needle Art Extravaganza fea tures 23 shops under one roof that will interest any quilter, knitter, or fiber craftsperson. The show is organized by The Quilter's Gallery, which is owned by Cindy Page and Patti Cline, sisters that operated their quilt shop in CharloKe for over 25 years. The purpose of the show is to help small needlework shops work together to promote business. The Page sisters chose Statesv ille as their location because of the easy access from 1-77 and 1-40. Knowing that many cus tomers don't like the traffic in Charlotte, or even Mooresville, they chose to bring shops from Charlotte, Winston Salem and Mooresville to the Statesville Civic Center. Several local shops, as well as shops from as far away as Raleigh and Suffolk. Va. will also participate. With easy access and plenty of parking, the QNAE will pull customers from Asheville to Greensboro, and from the Virginia border to Rock Hill. SC. Freddie Hubbard dies LOS ANGELES (AP) - Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jWi*musician whose style influ enced a generation of trumpet players and who collab orated with* such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70. Hubbard died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said his manager, fellow trumpeter David Weiss .of the New Jazz Composers Octet. He had been hospitalized since suffering the heart attack a day before Thanksgiving. A towering figure in jazz circles, Hubbard played on hundreds of recordings in a career dating to 1958. the year he arrived in New York from ? ? his hometown Indianapolis, Hubbard . . , . .. . r .. where he had studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and with the Indianapolis Symphony. Soon he had hooked up with such jaz i legends as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and Coltrane. In his earliest recordings, which included "Open Sesame" ancf "Goin' Up" for Blue Note in 1960. the influence of Davis and others on Hubbard is obvious. Weiss said. But within a couple years he would devel op a style all his own, one that would influence gener ations of musicians, including Wynton Marsalis. Reynolds House to open exhibits Reynolda House Museum of American Art will open a new exhibition, "Chuck Close: The Keith Series," on Friday, Jan. 17 in the Northwest Bedroom Gallery of the historic house. The, exhibition will be pn view through May 31 , 2009. The series depicts Keith Hollingworth. a sculptor who taught with Close at the University of Massachusetts in the late 1960s. Close is known for his large-scale portraits, executed with unusual tech niques and media. Also on view at Reynolda House. "Early American Portraits" continues in the West Bedroom Gallery through March 16, 2009. Reynolda House will open its major spring exhibi tion, "American Impressions: Selections from the National Academy Museum," on Feb. 28, 2009 in the main gallery. BET, TV One plan extensive coverage of inauguration NEW YORK (AP) - BET and TV One. the tele vision networks aimed primarily at a black audience, haven't paid much attention to presidential inaugura tions before. This time will be different. Both are planning extensive coverage for Jan. 20, when Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th president. While it will be'followed as a news event, network executives said the installation of the first black president wilt be as much a celebration as a story. BET marked President George W. Bush's last inau guration with a news brief. This time, BET will cover the swearing-in and parade from four locations, including ground and rooftop sites on Pennsylvania Avenue 1 Anchoring the coverage will be Hill Harper of CBS' "CSI: NY," former CBS "The Early Show" host Rene Syler and Jeff Johnson, who hosts a weekly BET news program. ' ? The networks will take a particular interest in speaking to people who have traveled to Washington to witness the event. On election night, their ratings peaked shortly after the general news networks declared Obama the winner ? when black viewers turned to the stations to soak it in with the people on the air. TV One plans to follow the inauguration for 21 straight hours, from 6 a.m. EST on Jan. 20 to 3 a.m. EST the next day. Radio talk-show host Joe Madison and Art Fennell of CN8, the Comcast Network, will be the hosts. Syler Angelou narrates new Kwanzaa documentary CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Dr Maya Angelou has lent her voice to "The Black Candle." a documentary atymt Kwan/aa The film.by^ writer-prod ucer director M.K. Asante Jr.. takes viewers across the United States. Africa. Europe and the .Caribbean to look Sfrjhe evolu tion of Kwanzaa and why 22 mil lion celebrants embrace the holi dav annually Angelou. a Winston-Salem resident and Wake Forest University p rotes sor, nar rates the documen tary. She recently wrote about her thoughts O l) Kwanzaa in a piece Angelou posted on the Web site ofhej friend. Oprah Winfrey. "Kwanzaa is a celebration of family, community and cultifre. Each year Kwanzaa brings mil lions of families together to cele brate seven days of African American traditions, stories, poetry, music and food." she wrote. -"While Kwanzaa V roots are embedded in Africa's rich soil, its broad branches and col orful leaves 'grew from the African American experience, and later found expression throughout the worldwide African communities. From the depths of our struggles, to the heights of our victories, even when faced with ferocious adversity, indeed it is pur remarkable courage that brought about significant changes in every conceivable sphere of American life." "The Black Candle" explores the seven principles of Kwanzaa _ Publicity Photo Filmmaker and professor M.K. Asante Jr. (unity, self-determination, col lective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith) and how these principles can positively impact everyday life. EJorn in Zimbabwe and raised in Philadelphia. Asante is an award-winning filmmaker and professor of creative writing and film at Morgan State University. Described by the Los Angeles Times as one of "America's best storytellers ;*> Asante wrote and produced the frlm *'500 Years Later .".which won five interna tional awards. He is also author of -the books "Like Water Running Off My Back", "Beautiful And Ugly Too" and "It's Bigger Than Hip Hop". For a list of upcoming screenings or to purchase a www.thehlackcandle.com. DVD ? Pulitzer-winner Brooks coming to Salem CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Australian-born .author Geraldine Brooks will be at Salem College oh Tuesday, Jan. 13. i_'" She is the writer of "March." which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Brooks' latest book. "People of the Book." is already a New York Times bestseller. It has been hailed as an "inge niously conceived, suspervse ful. and evocative" novel that follows a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. A former reporter. Brooks ?was a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. * . covering crises, in Somalia, the Middle East. Africa, the Balkans apd Bosnia. While in Sarajevo reporting on 'the Bosnian war. Brooks first heard about the Sarajevo Pf?f*ro b\ Randi Baird Geraldine Brooks Haggadah, a priceless, exquisitely beautiful, six- Winston-Salem. hundred-year-old book, and one of the earliest Jewish vol umes, ever to be illujninated with images. It becfame the inspiration for "People of the Book." which has been trans lated into 20 languages. "A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks" will take place at, 7 p.m. in the Salem Fine Arts Center on the Salem College campus. General admission tickets are $18. Premier Admission ticjcets are available for $80. They include a private reception with Brooks, which begins at 5:30 p.m.; a paperback copy of "People of the Book;" a book signing; reserved pre mier seating at the event; and limited VIP parking. $50 of the Premier Admission ticket price is tax deductible. The event will benefit Bookmarks, an annual, free book festival held by the 'Junior League of . - .Ml 11 1 1 Photo courtesy of Bill Russ A view of Pilot Mountain Slate Park. New travel guide is available CH RONltt^^fcrSEPORT . 1 ? ? "tfi The 2009 North Carolina Travel Guide is now avail able. The free booklet is designed to assist those visit ing the state or seeking infor mation about the various attractions. The 184-page guide celebrates the state's diversity and includes a range of activities that can be shared by families or enjoyed by individuals of all ages. The guide showcases 740 attractions, lists information" on 3,988 accommodations and thousands of activities throughout North Carolina including those at state and national parks. - - It also includes feature articles on topics such as spas and resorts; the state's booming culinary, wine and micro-brewery scenes; - Native American culture; African-American heritage; golf; home-grown arts and crafts and more. A fold-out road map is also included to assist travelets in their plan ning and oti rhe highway. To highlight the growth of environmentally con scious tourism services in North Carolina, the cover of the 2009 Travel Guide fea tures Greensboro's Proximity Hotel, the nation's .highest rated "green" hotel and restaurant, according to the U.S. Green Building Council. The hotel opened in late 2007 and has 100 Solar panels on its roof. The build ing uses 4 1 percent less ener gy and 33 percent less water than similar conventional structures, without compro mising the comfort of the * guests. The guide, which is pro duced by the N.C. Department of Commerce's Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development, is free and available by calling I -H00-VISITNC It can aiso he at: Dance Theatre of Harlem will give free A&T show CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT . North Carolina A&T Stale University will welcome the famed Dance Theatre of Harlem Dance on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. at Harrison Auditorium. The performance, part of the school's Lyceum Series, is free and open to the public ' Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook. Dance "TTieatre of Harlem has been called one of ballet's most exciting undertakings. Mitchell was inspired to start the troupe after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It began as a school offering children - especially those in Harlem, the community in which Mitchell was born r the opportunity to learn about dance and the allied arts. Now in its fourth decade. Dance Theatre of Harlem has grown into a multicultural dance institution with an extraordinary legacy -of providing opportunities for creative expression and artistic excellence that contin ues to set standards fn the performing arts The Dance Theatre of Harlem is a leading dance institution of unparalleled global acclaim, encompassing a Classically American dance company, a leading arts edu cation center and Dancing Through Barriers, a national and international education and community outreach program. Each compo nent of Dance Theatre of Harlem carries a solid commitment towards enriching the lives of young peopl? and adults around the workl I DTN Photo The Dance Theatre of Harlem is known throughout the world. through the arts Dance Theatre of Harlem fias achieved unprecedented success, bringing innovative and lx>ld new forms of artistic expressiortto audiences in New York City, across the coun try and around the world In February 2(X)4. it * celebrated 35 years in the business and com pleted an extensive tour of the U.S. and United Kingdom ? .??v ' ?. ' ? For more informdfTon.call 336-334-7571 .
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