/The Daily Tar Heel/Wednesday, April 28, 1993
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Price sponsors local art contest
By Jennifer Brett
Omnibus Editor
In less than a week, lOOrangeCounty
high school students will get the chance
to hang out with Rep. David Price, D-
Orange, for a year.
Well, their artwork might, anyway.
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David Price
12th-annual Con-
gressional High
Schcxil Art Com-
petition. Of the
four area high
schools in lance’s
district. Chapel
Hill High School.
Orange High
School. Carolina
Friends School
and St. Mary’s
School, only St.
Mary’s is not participating.
“We have about 76 entries,” said
Orange County Liaison Wilma Tinney.
“We won’t pick a first or second place
—just 10 winners from Orange County
to go on to the district competition.”
The 10 winners will be selected by a
panel of judges May 3, when Price will
come to Chapel Hill for a reception at
the Orange County Library at 300 W.
Tryon St. in Hillsborough. The student
submitted artwork is now on display in
Campus Calendar
WEDNESDAY
NOON: Black Faculty/Staff Caucus will sponsor
a “Community Forum" with members of the BCC
Advisory Board in 226 Union.
5:30 p jn. Newman Center will present “Sexuality
and Marriage" with Anne Marie Schwankl following
dinner.
6 p.m. Wesley Foundation will meet to ride to a
park in CaiTboro at Wesley.
9 p.m. WXYC 89J FM will feature Audio Art on
Wednesday Night Feature.
the library.
After the county winners are an
nounced, their art will be taken to
Artspace in Raleigh to be judged against
finalists from other N.C. districts,
Tinney said. On May 14, a second panel
of judges will pick the best three works
from the state.
The first-place winner’s artwork will
hang in the U.S. Capitol Building in
Washington, D.C., for a year, the sec
ond-place winner’s work wiU hang in
Price’s Washington office for a year
and the third-place winner’s work will
hang in Price’s Raleigh office for a
year, Tinney said. Winners will not be
compensated further.
“It’s more about the honor of having
their work hang on the walls of the
Capitol or in one of Price’s offices,” she
said.
The competition is similar to pro
grams sponsored by representatives
from all 50 states, said Lisa Schell,
Price’s press secretary.
“It’s something he does along with
his colleagues all across the country to
encourage students to create and ex
hibit their art,” Schell said.
Works hanging in the Hillsborough
Library do not reflect a single theme,
Tinney said.
“They are all original and two-di
mensional,” she said. “But there are all
styles and subjects. There’s no one kind
of art.”
Price will meet with the student art
ists and their art teachers at a May 3
reception at the Orange County Library,
Tinney said. The public also is invited
to the 3 p.m. reception. For more infor
mation, call 967-9251 ext. 2669.
“Last year’s third-place winner was
from Orange County,” Tinney said. “As
for this year, who knows.”
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Somnambulists offer elephant jokes
to help relieve weekend exam stress
By Jennifer Brett
Omnibus Editor
This weekend, just as students enter
exam-time frenzy, a group of Michi
gan State University graduates will
provide an hour of reliefin the form of
quirky humour and off-beat jokes.
“The Elephant Joke,” a one-hour
original production written and di
rected by Rachel Miskowiec, will play
this Thursday through Saturday at the
Old Play maker’s Theater, located on
on Cameron Avenue on the University
campus.
Miskowiec called the multimedia
play unique and lighthearted.
“We figured it would be a good
study break,” she said. “People should
come, relax and have fun for an hour
and then go back to studying.”
The play stars members of the
Chapel Hill-based Somnambulist
Group, a progressive dramatic group
that relocated last fall from Michigan.
“We heard there was a great music
scene here,” she said of their decision
to head South.
Since their arrival in the Chapel
Hill area, the 20-member group has
performed at the University campus,
Carrboro Arts Center, Columbia Street
Bakery and Manßites Dog Theater in
Durham, Miskowiec said.
“The Elephant Joke,” a series of
humorous sketches, combines dia
logue, music and dance to create a
complex visual performance,
Miskowiec said.
“It’s alternative, but not campy,”
she said, comparing it to “Psycho
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Members of the Somnambulist drama group will perform this weekend
Beach Party,” a recent Somnambulist
production. “It’s individualistic.”
The play takes its name from so
called “elephant jokes,” which consti
tute a large portion of the sketches,
Miskowiec said.
Twelve of the group’s members,
along with two musicians, perform in
the production, she added.
“You know, like ‘what do you get
when you cross an elephant with a
rhino?”’ she said. “Like knock-knock
jokes you try to catch your friends
up.”
This summer, the Somnambulists will
continue their off-beat dramatic form
with an anti-Shakespeare festival,
B-GLAD
semester to accept Berini’s resignation.
Berini told The Daily Tar Heel after
being elected co-chairman in March
that he wanted B-GLAD to shift its
focus from activism to more social ori
entation.
Harris said his vision for B-GLAD
did not differ significantly from Berini ’ s.
“When Chris asked me to take over
... we both agreed that we both had a
parallel view of what B-GLAD should
be doing,” he said. “Our ideas really
weren’t that different as what some
people think.”
Season Taylor, who was elected co
chairwoman in March along with Berini,
said she thought Harris was more inter
ested in B-GLAD’s activism than its
social aspects.
‘Trey’s just not a very social per-
Miskowiec said. The group will per
form the festival at the Forest Theater
on campus sometime during August,
she said.
As for the current production,
Miskowiec said that although the Som
nambulists would perform on cam
pus, she hoped area residents would be
in some of the weekend’s audiences.
“We’re so great, we’ll take any
body,” she joked.
Show times for all performances
are at 8 p.m.
Tickets for each of this weekend’s
shows are $5 and may be purchased at
the door or reserved by calling 967-
6247.
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son,” she said.
Ferguson said he thought having
Taylor and Harris as co-chairmen would
provide B-GLAD with a good balance
between social events and activism.
“Trey is interested in maintaining a
high degree of activism,” he said.
Taylor said that activism was impor
tant but that she wanted to see B-GLAD
pursue a greater variety of activities
next year.
“I think that we should focus a little
bit more on social activities,” Taylor
said.
Ferguson said B-GLAD sometimes
had “ventured too far” into activism this
year.
Staley said she believed the focus of
the group would not change, regardless
of who was elected to lead it.