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By MELISSA TENNEN w
Assistant Carolina! Editor tc
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The Gibbes Planetarium, located a<
at the Columbia Museum of Art, is 0:1
featuring "Touch the Stars," a pro- $
gram designed to explain astronomy
backyard style. P
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which can seat about 50 people at T
a time, explains why the moon goes O
through phases and the best way to n
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The Columbia Museum of Art
will feature an exhibition of drawings
by Fernando Botero, a
famous Latin American artist
known for his absurd and satirical
paintings and sculptures of voluptuous,
almost cartoonish people
and places. The exhibit, which will
, be on display from Jan. 14 to Feb.
27 in the Trustees Gallery, will
.consist of 31 drawings.
Botero's sense of humor, his talent
for gentile mockery and his
eye for the absurd combine to
, provide art lovers with a truly singular
style. The overall effect of
Botero s work is tnat or zutn cen"
tury Mannerist; his inflated figures,
including animals and still life,
take on human quality unique to
Botero.
The Columbia Museum of Art is
located in downtown Columbia at
the corner of Senate and Bull
streets. Admission to the Botero
exhibition is free.
CPU is bringing a sneak preview
of "The Stoned Age" to campus
tonight at 9 p.m. in the RH
Theater. The Trimark film features
Michael Kopelow, Renee Griffith
and Bradford Tatum.
A new poetry magazine will
soon appear in Columbia. Each
issue of the Poet's Pen will feature
about 160 poets.
Poet's Pen is looking for amateur
writers to contribute poems.
However, the magazine can't
afford to pay for poems.
Anyone who would like more
information should contact Poet's
Pen, P.O. Box 3430 Station C.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4J6.
Please enclose a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to help cover
the mailing and correspondence
costs.
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> 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
ntil May 29. For these shows,
dmission is $1.50 for students,
lilitary personnel and seniors, and
2.50 for adults.
Only operating on weekends, the
lanetarium also has a Carolina
kies show at 3 p.m. on both days,
he cost for Carolina Skies is 50
ents for students, military personel
and seniors, and $1 for adults.
CPU will present a sneak prt
release "The Stoned Age" at 9 p.
to offer free admission Fridays
through the end of February.
Special zoo features such as the
birdhouse rainstorm, penguin and
sea lion feedings and the milking
demonstration at Riverbanks Farm*
are held daily on schedule regard '
less of the weather.
Riverbanks Zoo is open from 9
a.m. until 5 p.m. daily. The admission
gate closes at 4 p.m.
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Museum of Art)," said JanrV
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marketing at the museum.
Cotterill said the ColumbiJ
Museum of Art used to house art"
and sciences displays before th<
S.C. State Museum was created ;
few years ago.
Built in 1956, the planetariun
has always been non-profit, collect
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starting Jan. 22.
"Touch the Stars" shows at
p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday an
Sunday through May 2S
Admission is $1.50 for student:
military personnel and senior cit
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From Staff Reports
In fall 1991, a black play called
"From the Mississippi Delta"
upcucu at new lores c>ircie in tne
Square Theatre. A celebration of a
young Southern woman's survival
and triumph over seemingly insurmountable
odds, "Delta" garnered
rave reviews and went on to play
for months to sold-out houses.
During winter-spring 1994,
Daedalus Productions will present
this acclaimed play on a national
tour.
On Tuesday, "Delta" will be performed
at the Koger Center as part
of the opening ceremonies for
USC's Black History Month.
Performed by three actresses
who play multiple roles, "From the
0 Mississippi Delta" is the life story of
g its author, Dr. Endesha Ida Mae
Holland, and her transformation
from rebellious poor black child in
!- the segregated South of the 1950s
^ to her present post as full professor
at the State University of New York
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Punctuated by the sounds of
^ gospel and a cappella blues, "Delta"
is the tale of Phelia (the young girl
s' Dr. Holland once was) and her pro1_
tector, teacher and mother, Ain't
Baby. Although the play focuses on
n Phelia's journey, it's also a heartfelt
:s tribute to Ain't Baby. A down-to?
earth midwife to the black women
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of her town, her strong preach
ments and example keep her
daughter driving toward one firmly
held dream: "I'm gonna be somebody."
"From the Mississippi Delta" is
full of scenes of sharp contrast,
ranging from Phelia's memory of
being raped at age 11 by an elderly
white man, to her stint as an exotic
carnival dancer and to the mob-driven
burning of her mother's home.
While a defiant teen-age protester
in the local civil rights struggle, her
movement colleagues urged her to
finish high school and go to college
in the North. This new direction
leads to the play's joyous finale: the
day Phelia receives her doctorate,
surrounded by past and present
friends who have helped her on the
way.
The national tour of "From the
Mississippi Delta" will be directed
by Joy Vandervort. Most recently,
Vandervort mounted a highly
regarded production of "The
Gospel at Colonus" at Old
Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
Among her many credits, she is best
known for her direction of the
national tours of "Dreamgirls" and
"For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide When The
Rainbow Is Enuf."
Of this new project, Vandervort
said, "This show is about getting
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Delta
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out from under, about making it in
an incredibly hostile world. From
the bare outline, you'd think it's an
inspirational after-school special.
It's not. It's not sanitized. It's rooted
in the deepest kind of personal
experience.
"With all that Phelia goes
through, I still find the play gives a 1
great sense of release. It's very free- '
ing. It also fills me with hope.
Delta's success proves it does that
ior otner people, too.
The original off-Broadway production
of "From the Mississippi
Delta" was produced by the
renowned actress and talk-show
host Oprah Winfrey. After the success
of the New York run, the play
had acclaimed engagements at a
number of prestigious regional theaters,
the Old Globe in San Diego,
Boston's Huntington Theatre and
the Virginia Stage Company, among
them.
Now, during winter-spring 1994,
the play will be seen by even wider
audiences as this new national tour
from Daedalus Productions plays 30
separate engagements in more than
15 states spread throughout New
England and the Mid-Atlantic, midSouth,
Deep South and Midwest
regions of the country.
For tickets, call 777-7228. Group
discounts are available for groups
of 10 or more.
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