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Arts festival to put students in spotlight USC arts festival to include music, dance, sculpture BY ERIC SUTTON THE GAMECOCK Students are performing and presenting their work across cam pus Friday and Saturday as part of the pSC Student Arts Festival, which is associated with USC Showcase, the university’s annual open house. Media arts, sculpture, music, creative writing and theater stu dents will participate in the festi val to celebrate Southern life. Thome Compton is the event’s fac ulty coordinator, and additional support has come from the Institute for Southern Studies, the Honors College and academic de partments. Friday’s events will take place at McMaster College beginning with a reception at 5 p.m. in the Senate Street courtyard. Carissa Doying Cuny, a master of fine arts candidate, will exhibit ceramic sculpture in the McMaster Gallery. Other students will ex hibit visual art throughout the building. Student films get the run of the bill at 7 p.m. in room 214. “Through the Storm” is a portrait ,of Lowcountry artists by Urica Pope. Emily Ley-Shiley brings to life the rise of the Moon Pie with her documentary “How Chattanooga Mooned America,” a film that relates the simplicity of Southern life with the sweet snack’ that was originally manufactured for poor coal miners. “Remnants of Mitchelville” is James Henderson’s account of the history of Hilton Head Island. He reports how slaves abandoned there found freedom as their owners fled to es cape advancing Union soldiers. The festival will move to the School of Music Recital Hall at 10 a.m. Saturday for a collection of contemporary dance works choreographed and performed by USC Dance Company members. “Gatherings” by Terrance Henderson, “Emotions of Graduation” by Jake Alderson and “Our Version” by Misty Borst are scheduled for performance. “Gatherings” deals with the uni fication of communities after Sept. 11, and “Our Version” shows the African-American experience via hip-hop. Music takes center stage at 11 a.m. Saturday when the USC graduate choral ensemble will per form Larry Shackley’s “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel.” “I grew up listening to spiritu als as sung by artists ranging from Mahalia Jackson to the Robert Shaw Chorale,” Chicago native Shackley said. “I have always en joyed their rhythmic vitality and innocent spirituality.” Appearing next will be Heather Janney with a multimedia histo ry presentation “Lost American Music: The Jenkins Orphanage Band.” Photographs, audio and film will tell the story of the once world-famous band. “The Jenkins Orphanage of Charleston improved the lives of hundreds of African-American chil dren during its 80-year history, and its brass band helped distinguish it,” Janney said. “The band toured at world’s fairs and presidential in augurations and helped popularize the dance craze known as the ‘Charleston.’ I wanted to share its story and its place in early jazz his tory with others.” Creative writing will find its place in Longstreet Theatre be ginning at 1 p.m. Students Nuke DeLoach, Lee Bauknight, Jill Carroll, Clay Gilbert and David Daniels will read from their poet ry and novels. At 2:30 p.m., Sarah Hammond will present a staged reading of her play, “Kudzu.” “ ‘Kudzu’ is a play about the South today, how it’s changing, how some people get lost in that change, and the conflict that leads to,” Hammond said. “It is set in South Carolina 100 years after General Lee surrendered his troops at Appomattox, when Confederate flags still fly on bumper stickers and baseball caps. It centers on the shaping forces of history on one rural family.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com At the Student Arts Festival, Emily Ley Shlley will present her film about how the famous snack Moon Pie connects with life in the South. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK BRIEFLY ‘Spider-Man’ draws lawsuit over sign NEW YORK (AP) — The own ers of several Times Square buildings have filed a lawsuit against the makers of the up coming “Spider-Man” movie for digitally altering a sign appear ing in the motion picture. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the owners of 2 Times Square allege that Columbia Pictures digitally replaced a Samsung advertise ment on the side of the building with one for USA Today. Samsung is a competitor of Sony, which owns Columbia Pictures. Heidi Henderson, a spokes woman for USA Today, said the paper was not paid for having its name appear in the movie; she said the filmmakers simply picked the newspaper’s logo to place on the building. Smith’s company plans large hotel FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (AP) — A company that Will Smith owns is working on a proposal to take over a stalled project to build a minority-owned hotel in Broward County. The actor-rapper’s brother, Michael Peck, told the County Commission on Tuesday that their firm, Treyball Developments, is in the final stages of a plan to build the long-sought 500-room hotel, possibly without any cash from the county. The project has been stalled since the county cut ties with the hotel’s developer. GAL E N DAR Friday April 12 WUSC’S MOOLAH FOR MUSIC PARTY: Featuring The Sinators with F-13, Bolt, My Blind Luck, Gonzalez and Mandible. The festivities will include a free buffet starting at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7 p.m. New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St. Free. “VISIONS OF DANCE”: A USC Dance Company Gala Concert. 7:30 p.m. Roger Center for the Arts. Tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for senior citizens and USC faculty and staff, and $9 for students, and are available by calling 777-2551. “KANDAHAR": Mohsen Makhmalbaf directs this movie, filmed before the current entanglement with Afghanistan. It follows a Canadian journalist’s encounters with the landmine ravaged land. 7 and 9 p.m. j ZEN TRICKSTERS WITH CRYPHILL ■RAMBLERS Saturday at 10 p.m. New Brookland Tavern. Nickelodeon Theatre, 937 Main St. “ALI”: 8 p.m. Russell House Theater. Free. Saturday April 13 MOTH AND ZEN TRICKSTERS WITH CRYPHILL RAMBLERS Moth at 7 p.m. Zen Tricksters at 10 p.m. New Brookland Tavern. 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