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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.”
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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.
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‘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.
USC STUDENT ARTS FESTIVAL
Musical performances at 11 a.m.
USC School of Music Recital Hall.
Free.
CAPITAL WITH PERFECT SLEEPER:
10 p.m. Uncle Doctor’s, 1734
Mobile Ave. $5.
USC SHOWCASE: University Band
Concert at 1:45 p.m. Horseshoe.
Free.
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