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Singer covers Stones classic
A singer with local roots is winning raves for his
cover of a classic tune.
Ra Jared, who attended Reynolds High School and
Davidson College, recently
released his version of "As Tears
Go By," which was a hit in the
1960s for Marianne Faithfull and
The Rolling Stones. It was the
first song that Stones bandmates
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and
Andrew Oldham ever collaborat
ed on.
Ra Jared is backed by a
group of college musicians.
including Eric Boulanger (vio
lins, engineer and producer), Suzanne Evans (viola),
- Andrew Melichar (bass guitar). Herb Miller (drums) and
Daniel Rosenthal (lead guitar).
Ra Jared's background is as eclectic as his music. He
is a published mystic poet, a former VH1 Save the Music
program manager and a selectee for the Franklin
Fellowship with the U.S. State Department.
His song is available for preview/purchase at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rajared3, iTunes, ama
zon.com, eMusic and Napster.
Next Bookmarks Fest date set
The 2012 Bookmarks Festival of Books will be held
on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 10 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the
Downtown Arts District, centering on Trade and Sixth
Streets. This will be the fourth year that the Festival will
be held in downtown Winston-Salem.
"Last year's Festival of Books drew over My
7,000 people to downtown Winston-Salem, MjZ&
an increase of 15 percent from 2010," said
Ginger Hendricks,
executive director 1"^
of Bookmarks.
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tion, non-fiction, poetry, books
for young readers and more. This year's festival promis
es to be equally engaging."
The Festival brings writers and readers of all ages
together as renowned authors, illustrators, storytellers
and chefs share their work and insights through readings,
presentations, panel discussions, workshops and book
signings. This free festival partners with community
organizations, reading related exhibitors, and food ven
dors. Visit www.bookmarksnc.org for more information.
UNCSA to hold Open House
High school and college students considering careers
in the arts are invited to register for Spring Open House at
the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
(UNCSA) on March 23.
UNCSA offers professional training in dance, design
& production (including visual arts), drama, filmmaking
and music. High school, undergraduate and graduate pro
grams vary by arts school. ?
Open House allows prospective students and their
parents to experience campus for a day, and to learn more
about their particular arts school of interest.
The day begins with check-in from 10:30 to 11 a.m.
From 11 a.m. to I p.m., participants can attend an infor
mation fair with exhibits, tour the campus, and attend
information sessions. The sessions will run concurrently
every half hour.
Online registration is required. Prospective students
can fill out a registration form at
http://uncsaspringopenhou.se2012.eventbrite.com/. For
questions about the registration form, contact the
UNCSA Office of Admissions at openhouse@uncsa.edu,
or 336-770-3290.
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Screening included in Latino
Awareness Week events at Wake
The film "Crossing Arizona" will be screened as part
of Wake Forest University's Latino Awareness Week
events.
The acclaimed documentary examines the tumul
tuous debate surrounding efforts to secure the U.S.' bor
der with Mexico. Daniel DeVivo, the film's director, will
be on hand for a post screening discussion.
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ing/discussion will take place on
Wednesday, March 21 from
7-8:30 p.m. in Wake's Z..Smith
Reynolds Library Auditorium.
The week also includes the
discussion "The Challenge of
r Poverty and Education in Latin
America" from 7-8 p.m. on
Monday, March 19 in DeTamble
Auditorium. It will feature Wake
Forest University Professor of
Political Science Dr Luis
Roniger and WFIJ student David Inczauskis discussing
some of the most important challenges faced in Latin
America.
"The Immigrant Education Experience" will be the
topic on Tuesday. March 20 from 7-8 p.m. in Greene
Hall. Rtxrm 162. Executive members of the North
Carolina grassroots organization El Cambio will discuss
issues undocumented students face in the search for high
er education.
A lecture themed "Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy
of U.S. Policy" will be on Thursday. March 22 from 7-8
p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium. It will feature Paul Dix
and Pam Fitzpatrick documenting the effects of the U.S.
funded Contra War on the Nicaraguan civilian population.
The organization of Latin American Students and the
Latin America and Latino Studies Department of Wake
Forest are presenting Latino Awareness Week. All events
are free and open to the public.
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WFU to hold three-day
celebration of writers
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
"Words Awake!" will bring more than 40 Wake
Forest University alumni, including novelists,
biographers, journalists, screenwriters, poets and
hip-hop artists, together for a three-day - March
23-25 - celebration of the written word.
From sports reporting to science writing to lit
erary fiction, noteworthy writers from around the
country will talk about the written word to school
children, college students and community mem
bers. The University will also induct 15 writers
into the newly created
Writers Hall of Fame.
"We want to champion
and celebrate generations of
Wake Forest writers while
inspiring people to think
about writing as a career,"
says Thomas Phillips, coor
dinator of the project and
director of the Wake Forest
Scholars program. "It is
important for young people
to have heroes and role mod
els beyond athletes and political figures.
Guest writers will include Fiction novelists like
Stephen Amidon ("The New City") and Clint
McCown ("The Member-Guest"), nonfiction writ
ers such as Doug Waller ("Wild Bill Donovan: The
Spymaster Who Created the OSS"), and critics
like Newsweek's Malcolm Jones and The New
York Times' Ben Brantley.
"Words Awake!" writers will visit 10 local
schools on March 23 to lead workshops, readings,
lectures, and seminars on their works. From a
poetry slam at Carver High School to a session on
science writing at Paisley Middle School to a book
club meeting at Cook Elementary School, writers
will engage students in the world of writing.
On Saturday, March 24, 16 panel discussions
and authors' readings will be held on campus
throughout the day. Topics will include "Writing
Sports," "Writing
I 1 for Business "
"Writing
Biography/Memoir,"
"Writing
Washington News,"
"Writing for
Children,"
"Writing/Speaking
of Faith and
Conscience,"
"Writing for
Newspapers,
Magazines and the
Web" and several
others. Later after
noon sessions will
focus on "The Art of
Teaching Writing"
and
Dr. Maya Angelou "Writing/Editing
Careers."
At a banquet Saturday night. Wake Forest will
induct 15 writers, including author and poet Dr.
Maya Angelou and Provost Emeritus Edwin G.
Wilson, into the newly created Wake Forest
University Writers Hall of Fame, and then con
clude\.the day's activities with a panel discussion
on The Future of Writing."
All events, except the banquet, are free and
open to the public, but registration is strongly
encouraged at http://wordsawake.events.wfu.edu.
A full list of each event and details are also avail
able at the site.
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Standout Performance
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Performer Nicole
Mitchell as Tituba in
the Piedmont Opera's
production of " The
Crucible," which is
being staged March 16,
18 and 20 at the
Stevens Center.
Centered around the
Salem witch trials of the
late 17th Century, the
opera is composed by
| North Carolina's own
I Robert Ward, a former
chancellor of VNC
School of the Arts.
Tickets start at $15. Visit
www.piedmontopera.org
or call 336-725-7101 for
ticket information.
Women of the SNCC to speak
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
A panel discussion on
women in the Civil
Rights Movement:
Personal
Experiences from
SNCC," will be
given at 4 p.m. on
Monday, March 19
in the Alumni
House at The
University of North
Carolina at
Greensboro. The
event is open to the
puDiic ai no cnarge.
Speaking will be four
women who contributed to the
book. "Hands on Ihe Freedom
Plow: Personal Accounts of
Women in SNCC." They are
Margaret Herring,
Rutha Harris, Faith
Holsaert and Martha
Noonan. Holsaert and
Noonan were part of the
six-woman group of
editors.
SNCC was the
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee, an organi
zation on the frontlines
of the Civil Rights
Movement, Ihe book tells ot
their activities, including early
Harris
sit-ins, voter registration cam
paigns, Freedom Rides, the
1963 March on Washington,
Mississippi Freedom Summer,
Black Power and antiwar
activism.
The event is presented by the
Duncan Women's History
Lecture Series and is part of
UNCG's Observance of
Women's History Month. This
annual women's history lecture
has been generously supported
by UNCG/Woman's College
alumna Peggy Duncan Jeens, a
1959 history graduate who and
went on to become an award
winning history teacher.
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Heather Smith
Smith
named
Miss
CIAA
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Miss Elizabeth City State
University Heather Smith was
crowned Food Lion's Miss
CIAA 2012 on March 3 at the
Time Warner Cable Arena in
Charlotte. Online voting
helped to determine the win
ner.
The grocer has sponsored
the Central Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (CIAA)
Tournament for 18 years and
is the title sponsor for the
ever-popular Miss CIAA
scholarship contest. Food
Lion also sponsors the 2012
Food Lion CIAA Women's
Basketball Tournament
Games.
Born in Beaufort, N.C.,
Smith is the youngest of three
children. She is a senior
majoring in elementary edu
cation with a concentration in
mathematics. Smith aspires to
become a school teacher and
athletic coach who will not
only educate, but change com
munities and impact lives.
As winner of Food Lion's
Miss CIAA scholarship con
test, she received a $2,500
scholarship. Runners-up also
received scholarship funds.
l m excited and nonored
to be crowned Miss C1AA
2012," Smith said shortly after
learning of her big win. "I
would like to thank the CIAA
and Food Lion for continuing
to support this program and
providing myself and the
other queens with this great
opportunity."
Deborah Scales, Food
Lion IT project manager and
coordinator of this year's Miss
CIAA festivities, said Food
Lion sponsors the scholarship
contest to promote education
in the communities in which it
serves.
"We're happy to give the
young ladies this opportuni
ty," Scales said. "This year,
we also especially promoted
health and wellness, and these
young ladies represented us in
our Health & Wellness
Symposium. We want the next
group of Miss CIAA scholar
ship candidates to follow the
lead of these future leaders in
making sure that we have a
healthy, diverse and educated
world."
A Different Kind of Art
Diggs to debut technology-based exhibit
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Winston-Salem State University's Diggs Gallery will hold a
reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday. March 23 to open its latest
exhibit, "Ready, Aim ... Look!" . - . -
The show, which will be 1|) exhibit
from March 23 - May 5, usfcs art and
technology to express time and motion,
while drawing on the community's cul
tural heritage to provide education and
inspiration.
The reception and admission to the
exhibit are free and open to the public.
Diggs Gallery is located on the lower
level of the O'Kelly Library on the
campus of WSSU.
A collaborative effort by WSSU
Assistant Professor Dr. Nickolay
Hristov, the Center for Design
Innovation (CDI), Old Salem
Museums & Gardens, WSSU, the
University of North Carolina School of
the Arts and Wake Forest Universitv.
"Ready, Aim ... Look!" will show a
new way that artists can create, while
furthering Winston-Salem's position as a leader in the pioneering
of art and design methods.
The design team working on the exhibit will use high-speed
cameras and slow-motion displays to capture the instant a bullet
leaves the shaft of a replica of colonial firearms. Their images
will show the effects of powerful forces as the shooter's arm
recoils, the shoulder lurches and facial muscles cringe. Viewers
will be able to follow the trajectory of a spiraling bullet and reg
ister impacts as targets burst and fragment. Synchronized high
til i i speed audio will reveal sub
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blast that startled listeners
could not imagine exist.
This imagery will aug
ment an existing educational
program at Old Salem in
which gunsmiths shoot repli
ca firearms while narrating
how they were used by the
original Moravian colonists.
These interpreters also
explain methods of crafts
manship that resulted in
remarkably beautiful, mixed
material objects that are sig
nificant both as decorative
art and balanced sculptural
forms.
"This team will offer
probing new ways for 21st
century artists to represent, explore and express our dynamic
world," said CD1 Director Dr. Carol Strohecker, "Their high
speed videographic techniques make accessible aspects of move
ment that are imperceptible to the unaided eye."
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This gun shot will be seen in a unique way at the exhibit.