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Arts & Lifestyle Of Interest Salem alumna wins Emmy Emilia Fuentes Grant, who graduated from Salem College in 2008, was recently honored with an Emmy Award for her work on the video short "Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage." The short won Best Informational/Instructional Program in the Midsouth Region. The video, produced by Asheville-based Soomo Publishing, a web text publisher, is a parody of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" music video. It focuses on the women's suffrage move ment, Alice Paul and the group of White House protestors known as "The Silent Sentinels." Grant created the concept and wrote the lyrics and script for the video. Grant was also nominated for Best Writer: Informational/Instructional Program. The Midsouth Emmy Awards are a divi sion of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and honors members of the television industry in Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee. Visit http://efgrant.com/Bad-Romance Women-s-Suffrage to view the video. Grant Museum to feature former first lady's dress Dolley Madison's scarlet velvet gown has returned to the Greensboro Historical Museum from Washington. D.C., where it has been on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. The dress was the highlight of the exhibi tion, "1812: A Nation Emerges," where former First Lady Dolly Payne Todd Madison was featured in two sections of the exhib it. The dress will be featured in the upcoming Greensboro Historical Museum exhibit, "Draped in Legend: A Velvet Dress, a Carriage Trunk and a First Lady," which will open on March 26 with a special preview reception on March 23. When the exhibit clos es on June 16. the fragile dress will go back into protective care. The Smithsonian exhibit told the story of a young country at war with its former Colonial master and featured a bust of Napoleon owned by Thomas Jefferson and the Treaty of Ghent, i which ended the war, but it was Dolley's dress that took center stage and fueled visitors' imaginations. On Aug. 24. 1814 the British invasion of Washington, D.C. and occupation of the White House was imminent. Dolley famously led the gathering of items critical to the nation, government documents, George Washington's portrait and, perhaps to cover these items, velvet scarlet curtains. Several decades ago, a conservator was examining the dress that had come to Greensboro along with many other wonderful Dolley artifacts, and noted that the dress seemed to be made from drapery weight fab ric. Is Dolley's dress made from the very drapes that were saved as Dolley fled the White House? Theories vary. The Greensboro Historical Museum, a division of the City of Greensboro Public Library Department, is located at 130 Summit Ave. *12 Angry Men' auditions Twin City Stage will hold auditions for " 12 Angry Men" at the Arts Council Theatre, 610 Coliseum Drive, at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 18. No appointment is necessary. In this Emmy Award-winning drama by Reginald Rose and Sherman Sergei, 11 jurors believe a capital murder trial defendant is ? guilty, while one juror stands up courageously ji for what he believes is jus jL tice. Tempers get short, argu fy ments grow !| heated and the ?jurors become 1 i i. angry men. The final verdict - and how it is reached - is expected to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. The show will be directed by Norman Ussery and has roles for 12 men plus one man or woman. The show will be staged from April 5-7 and April 11-14. All performances will be at The Arts Council Theatre. Actors will audition by reading scenes from the script. Actors may pay a $10 refund able deposit and check out a script in advance from the TWC Main Office, also at 610 Coliseum Drive. For more information, call Megan at Twin City Stage at 336-748-0857, ext 201 or megan@twincitystage.org. ULP1CN Morrison's latest selectedfor incoming UNC freshmen CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT "Home," the latest novel by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, will be the 2013 summer reading book for incoming students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A nine-member selection commit tee of students, faculty and staff selected the book from five finalists. Students on the committee said they believe "Home" will inspire first-year students in their academic, personal and social lives. Christopher Putney, associ ate professor of Russian in the department of Germanic and Slavic lan guages and lit eratures and chair of the committee, agrees. "The committee agreed that this book should resonate with our incom ing Carolina first-year students, as many of them will be leaving their own homes and making new homes and supportive communities for them selves," he said. New students who will enroll in the fall are expected and encouraged to read the book this summer and par ticipate in small group discussions on the Monday before fall semester class es start. The summer reading program, now in its 15th year, aims to stimulate critical thinking outside the classroom and give new students intellectual common ground. The university also believes it serves as an academic ice breaker that encourages students to engage with the scholarly community and come to their own conclusions about the material. "Home" is the story of a man who joins the army to escape his too-small world, leaving behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. The other four finalists were "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo; "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz; "Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward; and "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon. The committee considered fic tion and nonfiction. Morrison Picture Perfect This 1924 photograph of legendary actress Gloria Swanson appeared in a Condi Nasi Publications magazine. It is one of several striking images featured in "Star Power: Edward Steichen's Glamour Photography," a Reynolda House Museum of American Art exhibit featuring dresses, hats, shoes and jew elry alongside Steichen's photos. The exhibi tion will be on view from Feb. 23-May 19. To learn more about the exhibit, visit www.reynoldahouse.org or call 336-758-5150. Salem Photo Salem's Ghost Ryders perform. College students ready to step CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT The 6th Annual ScottCares Step Show will be held on Friday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in Salem College's Hanes Auditorium in Elberson Fine Arts Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. An after-party with DJ SK! will follow the show in Bryant Hall. "Stomp Out Bullying" is this year's theme. As in years past, step teams from a number of Triad colleges and universities will perform. The show is I a fundraiser for the ScottCares Foundation, which, among many other things, annually gives scholarships to local col lege-bound students. , Scott Abdul-Salaam [ started the foundation in j 2005 to help spur young J people's interest in art and technology. ScottCares promotes learning and entrepreneurship opportu nities through its summer camps and a variety of other initiatives. Tickets for the show , are $10 for students, $12 in advance for the general | public and $15 the day of the show. Advance tickets , are available by calling i 336-525-1723 or visiting www.scottcaresnc.org. Abdul-Salaam Little to discuss post WWTT racism at Davidson College CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Winston-Salem State University pro fessor Larry Little will speak at Davidson College on Monday. Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Brown Atrium of the Alvarez College Union. His address is free and open to the *_?? TL 11 i_ puonc ine college is located 20 miles north of Charlotte in the town of Davidson. Little's appear ance is part of the college's Black History Month activ ities, which also included a scheduled appearance by Angela Davis on Tuesday. Little will talk about the forma tion of Winston Salem's Black Panther Party chap ter, which he helped \esKc\ Founded in 1969, the Winston-Salem Black Panther chap ter was the first of its kind in the South. Rooted in the city's impoverished African American neighborhoods, it gave a voice to dispossessed and suffering communi ties. Under Little's influence, the chapter implemented an effective community serv ice program that included the nationally noted J. Waddell People's Free Ambulance Service. Criticized for its militancy and leftist rhetoric, the chapter also had to fight police violence and FBI infiltration. The local Black Panther chapter's his torical significance was immortalized last year with the installation of a Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission marker near the 1 Party s tormer ! headquarters. Little, a WSSU ; associate professor of political science, will be joined at the discussion, which has as its topic, > " A f r i c a n > Americans and the ; Struggle Against ' Racism in Post- ? Nazi Germany and Nixon's United States," by black WWII veteran Ross Walker. Walker, 88. fought in Germany t > i> to,IS Tt,? Ill 1 7T.?. I IIV Charlotte native | will discuss fight- i ing racism at home and abroad. The men's appearances will occur in conjunction with the campus exhibit, "The Civil Rights Struggle. African American Gls and Germany." a collection of photo graphs and video created by the German Historical Institute in Washington. D.C., Vassar College, and the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Larry Little speaks at the Black Panther marker unveiling. The exibi lion's invita tion features the Eric Mc Ray's "Into the Night." Art show offers unique way to support new Sickle Cell Center CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT A VIP reception for "The Healing An tor aickie Cell," a juried exhibition at the African American Atelier in Greensboro, will be held Friday, Feb. 22 from 6-8:30 p.m. The Atelier is partner ing with Cone Health to present the event, which will support the Cone Health Sickle Cell Center slated to open next month. The reception will provide opportunities for guests to view exceptional, premiere, high quality works of art and underwrite works they choose as gifts to the Sickle Cell Center with charitable contri butions to Cone Health. Works of art will range from $300 $1,200. All art acquired through underwriting sponsorships at the exhib it/reception will become part of a permanent art col lection for the Cone Health Sickle Cell Center and will be installed in the center and unveiled during the facilities opening. Those who underwrite as soon sors will be permanently identified alongside each work with the artist's name and title of the piece. See Exhibition on Ail Adams
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