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Author Lippman to lecture
Bookmarks, an annual local book festival, will
presents New York Times bestselling author Laura
Lippman on Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at 7 p.m. at
RayLen Vineyards & Winery in Mocksville
Lippman is on a national tour for her new stand
alone novel "Life Sentences." The Winston-Salem
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appearance is one of only
two scheduled tour dates in
North Carolina
Lippman grew up in
Baltimore and attended city
schools through ninth grade.
After graduating from Wilde
Lake High School in
Columbia, Md. She attended
Northwestern University's
Medill School of
Journalism. She was a
reporter for twenty years,
including twelve years at
The Baltimore Sun. Her
other newspaper jobs
included the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San
Antonio Light.
Her books include. "By a Spider's Thread," "The
Last Place," "The Sugar House," "Baltimore Blues,"
and "Charm City."
J R. Snider, host of WSJS 600/1200 AM "Triad
Live & Local," will moderate the conversation.
Tickets are available by calling Brown Paper
Tickets at 1-800-838-3006. Or, order online at
www; BrownPaperTickets.com/producer/ 12110.
General admission tickets are $16. Premier admission,
which includes a private reception beginning at 5:30
p.m., a copy of "Life Sentences," a book signing and
an opportunity to meet Lippman and reserved seating
at the event, is $75. $40 of which is tax deductible.
All proceeds benefit the Bookmarks Festival of
Books, www.bookmarksbookfestival.org.
Students win music competition
Thirty-six Wake Forest University students com
peted in the 32nd annual Christopher Giles and
Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical
Performance Feb. 21 at Wake Forest. Winners for the
open and piano competitions were as follows:
Open Competition
? Junior violinist Daniel Ruehr of Drexel Hill, Pa.,
won the first place, $500 Joseph Pleasant and
Marguerite Nutt Sloan Award.
? Freshman clarinetist John Jacob Eichhorn of
Greensboro was awarded the second place, $400
Patricia Sloan Mize Award.
? The third place, $300 prize was awarded to sopho
more alto saxophonist Elizabeth Hartley of Winston
Salem.
? Freshman guitarist John Kositer of Winston-Salem
took the fourth place, $200 awarav
? The $500 Award for Outstanding Performance by a
Non-Music Major went to sophomore clarinetist
Andre Ta Nguyen of Raleigh.
Piano Competition
? Senior Jason Paquette of Contoocook, N .H ., won the
first place, $500 Sinai Prize, which was donated by
alumni and friends of the music department in honor
of Paul Sinai.
? Sophomore Tiancheng Phil You of Flushing. N.Y.,
took the second place, $300 Marc and Kirk Elvy
Prize, donated by Cecilia Wyatt in memory of her
sons.
Freshman Ilchan Fraser Song of Raleigh, received
the $500 Ward Virts Prize , for Pianistic
Expressiveness, an award given in memory of a for
mer competition winner by his parents.
SECCA to host Family Fun Day
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
will have a free Family Fun Day on Saturday. March
7 from noon to 5 p.m. at Old Salem.
Activities will highlight the opening of the public art
sculpture "Rise Up Winston-Salem" by Virginia artist
Charlie Brouwer. The day will include a Family Art
Activity
based on
making lad
ders (from
noon to 4
p.m. at the
Old Salem
Barn);
Spoken Word
Poetry per
formances by
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the after
school pro
gram at the
Gateway
YWCA (at
1:30 p.m. in
the MESDA
Auditorium);
and an
Artist's Talk
by Brouwer
(at 3 p.m. in
the James A.
Gray
Auditorium).
Brouwer's
creation will
be a sculp
SECC'A Pholn
Spoken Word Artist Dasan Ahanu
helps kids at the Gateway YWCA
create poetry. This kids will per
form their work on Saturday.
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community residents He will create the sculpture on
site in Old Salem from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 6-8.
The sculpture will be located in the Tavern Meadow.
Visitors are welcome to drop by and talk with
Brouwer while he designs.
To learn more about the exhibit or installation, please
visit www.secca.org.
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as her play
is staged
Bennett students will
present " Long Time Since
Yesterday" later this month
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Educator and playwright PJ . Gibson
will be in Greensboro later this month to
watch the Bennett (College) Players
stage her play, "Long Time Since
Yesterday."
The production is perfectly suited to
showcase the talent of Bennett Belles. It
is about former classmates, all successful
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uiuck women in
the 30s, who have
come together for
the funeral of a
friend who com
mitted suicide. At
the wake, they
confront truths
about their own
lives.
Gibson is slat
ed to attend the
opening night per
Gibson
formance on Thursday, March 19 at 7
p.m. in the school's The Little Theatre
She will participate in a talk back follow
ing the show. The playwright is also
expected to visit several classes at
Bennett to chat with students.
Gibson is a professor of English at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice in
New York City. She has penned more
than 30 plays and has garnered acclaim
and industry awards for most of them,
including two Audelco Awards and a
playwriting fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Her work deals with the black female
experience. Gibson said she could never
run out of stories to tell.
"If I live to be 150, 1 still won't have
enough time to write about all the black
women inside of me," she has said.
Tennille Foust, a instructor of Theatre
and Speech, will direct the play. A grad
uate of N.C. A&T, Foust is also an
actress who has appeared in numerous
productions, including the Triad Stage's
recent show, "Mad at Miles."
Performances of "Long Time Since
Yesterday" will also be staged on March
20 at 8 p.m. and March 21 at 3 p.m.
Ticket prices are Sit) for adults and $5
for students who do not attend Bennett.
Group rates are available.
Call 336-517-2302 for information.
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Terrence J with co-host Rocsi, left, along with Madonna on an episode of "106 & Park."
MEAC will welcome
celebrity special guests
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The MEAC Basketball
Tournament, whteh will take place
in Winston-Salem March 9-14, will
boast some star power.
Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and
Terrence J, a N.C. A&T alumnus
who hosts BET's top-rated show,
"106 & Park." will take part in the
event by helping to honor the next
Miss MEAC.
Ralph, whose career was
launched more than two decades
ago when she starred in the original
Broadway production of
?"Dreamgirls," will be the keynote
Coronation is an "image leader competition" for
queens from MEAC colleges. The
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Friday, March 13 at the Benton Convention
Center (doors open at 9 a.m.). Terrence J will
crown the next queen. '
With the theme "The Complete Package -
Beautiful Inside & Out," the Miss ME AC
event win aiso nonor iocaj iemaie
role models Sheila Robinson and
Wanda Starke. Robinson is the
publisher of Greensboro-based
Diversity Woman Magazine;
Starke is a WXII 12 News anchor.
Ralph and Bennett College for
Women President Dr. Julianne
Malveaux will be honored on
Thursday, March 12 during a wel
come reception for the queens at
Belk department store in Hanes
Mall. The reception will be from 5
- 7 p.m. It is free and open to the
public.
Tickets for the Coronation are available at
Ticketmaster and the Benton Convention Center
for $25 each. A table that seats eight is $200.
Brunch will be served.
Gospel stars will kick off Carowinds concert season
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Tickets are now on sale for
JoyFest 2009, a gospel concert
event that will feature some of the
genre's most talented and suc
cessful artists.
The concert will take place
May 23 in Charlotte at
Carowinds. It will be the theme
park's first concert of the season;
several concert events are
planned at Carowinds over the
spring and summer months.
Kirk Franklin is slated to
headline JoyFest. He has won
every music award imaginable
and sold millions of records with
his choirs. The Family, God's
Property and INC (One Nation
Franklin .
Crew).
Joining Franklin will be
Marvin Sapp, Tye Tribbett.
Smokie Norful and Christian
Comedian Bone Hampton.
Sapp. a preacher, singer and
evangelist, is known for combin
Nor ful
ing spoken word ministry and
musical entertainment during his
live shows. Tribbett. founder of
the gospel group Tye Tribbett &
Greater Anointing, is known for
staging high-energy praise and
worship shows. Tye Tribbett &
Greater Anointing will release its
third CD just weeks before the
Carowinds show.
Norful is best known for his
2002 album. "1 Need You Now,"
and his 2004 release. "Nothing
Without You." which won a
Grammy for Best Contemporary
Soul Gospel Album in 2004.
Tickets start at $31.99. For
tickets call Ticketmaster at 704
522-6500 or go to
www.ticketmaster.com
Discounted tickets for groups of
15 or more are available by call
ing Carowinds at 1-800-888
4FUN (4386).
For the most up to date infor
mation regarding show times,
visit www. carowinds .com .
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Lecture will focus on famed black painter
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
will host a lecture on Tuesday. March 10 about
a little known African-American artist who
won acclaim in the 19th century for his work.
"Painting in the Lion's Den: The Spiritual
Art of Henry Ossawa Tanner" will be present
ed at 5:30 p.m. by Professor Marcus Bruce,
chair of the religious studies department at
Bates College (located in Lewiston. Maine).
The presentation is the first of three lectures
that will be given in conjunction with the
museum's latest exhibit, "American
Impressions: Selections from the National
Academy Museum." Tanner's painting. "The
Miraculous Haul of Fishes," circa 1913-1914.
can be seen in the "American Impressions"
exhibition, which is on view through June 28.
Bates will discuss the biblical scenes and
religious imagery that Tanner used in his work.
Bom and raised in Pennsylvania. Tanner stud
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Tanner's "The Miraculous Haul of Fishes."