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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Retail politics for the converted, with Mark Walker and Tedin 2020 Budd In the groundto Trump. They all have, even

by Brian Clarey

floor offices of the Guilford County GOP on a recent Saturday morning on West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro’s congressmen make a rare

appearance.

Rep. Mark Walker, in blue jeans and an open-collared dark shirt, likes to stand near the focal point of the room: He engages with constituents in the aisle formed by metal folding chairs, inching ever closer to the dais at the front of the hall.

Rep. Ted Budd, however, works the fringe, hustling to the back corner to shake the hand of a white-haired man in a navyblue windbreaker, interact with a couple in their forties who find themselves drawn out of Budd’s district — the 13th — this go-round.

They’re in the 6th district now, he explains, and they won’t have the chance to vote for Mark Walker. But that too will change when the 2020 Census drops.

“What you have now,” Budd advises, “won’t necessarily be what you get.”

I agree with Budd on very few issues, but I know he’s got a keen sense of electoral politics and an ingrained survivor’s instinct.

His 13th district seat was cut for a Republican before 2016; Budd won a primary against 16 other GOP candidates with 20 percent of the vote. He won the general in 2016 by 10 points. In 2018, he won with just 51.54 percent of the vote.

He’s pinned all his hopes for victory

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Walker, who dropped out of the game rather than fight for the cause in 2020.

So, while any voters who could still be on the fence on impeachment, or interested in cheerleading the Trump campaign’s spirited defense of the charges, might be watching the impeachment hearings in the Senate this morning, the GOP engaged in a little counterprogramming.

It’s called Stop the Madness, a movement to gather these incurious folks and set them to work as door-knockers, email-gatherers, sign-hangers and the like.

The congressmen are here to shore up that base, about 50 of them, mostly of a predictable demographic but there’s one in in the crowd wearing a hijab, and candidate Troy Lawson, former chair of the Guilford County GOP who is running this year for the District 5 seat on Guilford County Commission: A bona fide black Republican. He’s acknowledged after the convocation and pledge, before the congressmen speak.

Walker goes first.

“I guess some of you are paying attention to this impeachment thing,” Walker says. They hiss and groan.

“The president is not worried about this,” he continues. “In fact, data shows that it’s turning independents and moderates off.”

Walker never lets a chance slip to drop the name of his predecessor, revered still in these red rooms. And so, he mentions a conversation he and Howard Coble had on a flight from DC: There are two kinds of people in Washington, the wizened old legislator had said. Workhorses and show-

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CITY LIFE Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2020

by Rachel Spinella

New Year, New You @ Cadillac Service Garage (GSO) 5:30 p.m.

This event presented by Wake Forest Baptist Health will have guest speakers such as Weight Management and Cosmetic Services. It’s a great way to meet these healthcare providers and consult them on a variety of different procedures and services. 1618 will also be catering hors d’oeuvres and music and free giveaways will be provided as well. Find the event on Facebook.

Casey Noel @ South End Brewing Company (GSO) 7 p.m.

This singer-songwriter from North Carolina will be performing a diverse genre of different music such as country, folk, classics and some of her own original music.

Find the event on Facebook.

Your Favorite Cookie & Beer Pairing @ Brown Truck Brewery (HP) 6 p.m.

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Green Queen Bingo @ the Terrace at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex (GSO) 6 p.m.

Head on down to the coliseum to join Fuscia Rage for a game of bingo and series of drag performances. Proceeds will go to Guilford Green Foundation and LGBTQ Center and Alternative Resources of the Triad. There will also be an assortment of snacks and drinks available for purchase.

You can purchase tickets online or at the door. Find the event on Facebook.

Grand Celebration @ Greene’s Flowers and Gifts (HP) 11 a.m.

This family-owned florist is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new store, to show their appreciation. Food and drinks will be provided along with a live DJ, raffle contests and gifts. Find the event on Facebook.

Intro to Aluminum Metal Casting @ Mixxer (W-S) 3 p.m.

Greensboro’s local artist Derrick Monk will be showing you how to shape a piece of Styrofoam into a composition that will transform into a “lost-material mold for casting in aluminum.” When you are finished-you will leave with a completed aluminum piece. Make sure to wear the proper attire — natural fiber shirts, jeans and no open-toed shoes. Registration is also required to make sure that there is enough material-no walk-ins will be accepted. Find the event on Facebook.

Brown Mountain Lighting Bugs and Admiral Radio @ the Carolina Theatre (GSO) 7 p.m.

SATURDAY Feb. 1 Come on down to this alehouse to support the Girl Scouts by purchasing a box of your favorite girl scout cookies with a cold glass of beer. Find the event on Facebook.

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International Friday Nights @ Bongos Night Club (W-S) 10 p.m.

This exotic late-night club will be mixing tropical Miami-style sounds with the best variety of different international hits from DJ Seven. Known to provide a blend of different genres of music from the merengue to salsa to cumbia, this establishment is not your typical Triad nightclub. Find the event on Facebook.

Jurassic World live tour @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex (GSO) 3 p.m.

FRIDAY Jan. 31

Laser Metallica @ Greensboro Science Center (GSO) 7 p.m.

The Omnisphere Theater will be showcasing a laser light show with some of Metallica’s biggest hits such as “One,” “Fuel” and “Sandman.” Tickets will be $5 each, all ages admitted — showtimes are 7 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Find the event on Facebook.

Jurassic fans-the adventure continues this weekend when a terrifying tyrannosaurus rex escapes and brings destruction to the dinosaur theme park, Isla Nublar. Team up with scientists, solve mysteries and save a new dinosaur named Jeanie from a terrible fate. Come and experience other creatures such as triceratops, pteranodons and raptors. Find the event on Facebook.

Kendra and Zack Harding of the Brown Mountain Lighting Bugs will be performing alongside Admiral Radio’s Coty Hoover and Becca Smith this Saturday. As stated on Facebook, “Admiral Radio has created a unique sound people can gather ‘round to …. While the Brown Mountain Lightings bugs combine their unique backgrounds ranging from classic rock to classical guitar, creating a blend of folk(ish) music with deep roots in the past and a contemporary twist here and there.” Tickets in advance are $10 and $12 at the door. Find the Event on Facebook.

SUNDAY Feb. 2

Super Bowl Party @ Flat Iron 4 p.m.

National Theater Live Presents: All My Sons @ Hanesbrands Theater (W-S) 2 p.m.

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Parents, check out this family fun event where you and your child can bond over making art. Those who part-take in this activity will be given a tour of the museum with a specialist on the Reynolda House to view different exhibits and artworks on display to gather inspiration for special art activities. Find the event on Facebook.

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Super Bowl LIV Watch Party @ Rixster Grill (HP) 5:30 p.m.

Watch the 49ers take on the Chiefs live this Sunday at Rixster’s. Delegates from the High Point Rockers will also be joining to watch the big game and will be giving away tickets and some apparel for the impending season. Find the event on Facebook.

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Arthur Miller’s 1947 play will be broadcast live from the Old Vic in London.

Academy Award winner Sally Field and her co-star Bill Pullman are set to star in the drama. Based on a true story, this three-act play tells the story of a man, Joe Keller, who attempts to provide for his sons but ultimately ends up destroying not only his own family but other families as well. Find the event on Facebook.

Former NBA player Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. He was 41 years old.

Others who died in the crash included Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gigi, as well as some of Gigi’s peers and basketball coaches.

Soon after the news of Bryant’s death began to spread, PUBLIC DOMAIN Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter at the age numerous tributes, of 41 years old this past Sunday. homages and articles woman did everything one is “supposed” recounting Bryant’s to do when raped. illustrious NBA career began making She went to the police and recounted their rounds. The Grammys even opened her story. She did a rape kit. their ceremony with a tribute to Bryant by The hospital examination found that the Alicia Keys to kick off the night. Noticewoman had a bruise on her jawline, and ably absent from much of coverage and small amounts of blood were found on look-back on Bryant’s life was the fact that Bryant’s clothes. The woman also suffered he was credibly accused of raping someseveral lacerations inside her vagina, ones one back in 2003, as reported by the Daily that the detective said were “consistent Beast and many other news outlets. with penetrating genital trauma” and “not Bryant was arrested at the time and consistent with consensual sex.” charged, but the charges were dropped When initially arrested for assaulting the after the victim decided not to testify woman, Bryant denied having had sex with against him. In 2005, a civil case was her at all. It wasn’t until detectives told brought against Bryant and settled out of Bryant that the woman had consented to court. medical examination, that Bryant admitted According to several news reports, Bryto having sex with her. He argued that it ant, who was 25 at the time, had checked was consensual. into a hotel in Edwards, Colo., a few days And yet, the victim’s statement referbefore he was scheduled to have surgery enced in The Daily Beast’s piece states nearby. There, he flirted with a 19-year-old that every time the victim said “no,” she hotel worker who later gave him a tour of said that Bryant tightened his hold around the hotel. The woman, according to police her neck. reports referenced in The Daily Beast, In his own public statement, Bryant then accepted Bryant’s invitation to his continued to defend his position. hotel room where they began talking and “Although I truly believe this encounter eventually kissing. Once Bryant began between us was consensual, I recognize to grope her and take off his pants, the now that she did not and does not view woman said she tried to leave. It was at this incident the same way I did,” his statethat point that Bryant forced himself on ment said. her, began choking her, raped her from In the public frenzy that followed, behind and then told her, “[This] is just Bryant was staunchly defended by his between the two, the two of us, nobody is fans while the victim’s name was leaked gonna know about this, you’re not going numerous times. She received death to tell anybody.” threats. He received MVP awards. She In the hours after the assault, the

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Family First: Valentine Workshop @ Reynolda House Museum of American Art (W-S) 2 p.m.

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The biggest day of the year for football is nearly here. Looking to spend the day with friends watching the big game? Then take a trip down to this music bar for special drinks and food. Find the event on Facebook.

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Preston Lane returns to Hawboro

by Brian Clarey In many ways, Hawboro is perfect.

Triad Stage Creative Director Preston Lane created it in 2010 as the setting for Providence Gap, an Appalachian Christmas folktale: a generic North Carolina town that, over time and four more plays, became an easy allegory for all North Carolina towns, each set against their own struggles with success, history, identity.

And like all North Carolina towns, Hawboro is not perfect.

COURTESY Preston Lane created “It’s becoming a place where all my PHOTO Hawboro in 2010. writing is focusing,” Lane says now, in the lobby of Triad Stage a couple weeks beof large video screens to advance the fore the world premiere of 2 Wolves and story — a practice Lane first employed in a Lamb, the latest in the Hawboro cycle. his interpretation of The Glass Menagerie In this one, a mayoral election threatmany years ago, and which has been ens to tear the town apart along ideologiutilized throughout the Hawboro Cycle. cal seams. And like everything in HawThere will be cameos by prominent boro, Lane says, it dredges up essential Greensboro citizens throughout the run, questions.

Lane says, and the en“Do we live in a tire piece is interactive democracy?” Lane — the audience gets 2 Wolves and a Lamb runs asks. “How do to vote at the end, Feb. 2-23 at Triad Stage. we elect people? which means Lane had Why do we elect to write two different Get tickets and find out people? And we endings. more at triadstage.org. wait for a scandal And because conto happen. flict is Hawboro’s chief “It’s Hawboro,” industry, Lane says the he continues, “so there’s a scandal around audience will be left with lots to discuss. every corner.”

“In Hawboro,” he says, “the thing I’m Most of the action in 2 Wolves takes doing is engage in a long-term conversaplace on the town square, grafted tion that’s about changing hearts and upon Triad Stage’s three-quarter thrust minds. performance space. The play makes use

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horses. Walker tells this story this without a trace of irony.

It’s the volunteers, he says, the ones right here in this room, who are the workhorses.

When Budd takes the floor, he rehashes the party’s standard impeachment lines, throwing in a bit about “activist judges” before thanking the footsoldiers.

Budd slips into an anteroom for a short interview. He’s been drawn out of Greensboro, that noteworthy tract that included one-half of NC A&T University. Now the 13th covers 10 counties that surround Greensboro and Winston-Salem from the southwest to the northeast. It’s pretty safe

territory for a gun-shop owner in lockstep with his president and his party, with no primary competition and facing a firsttimer, Scott Huffman, in the general. But still he’s concerned — enough, anyway, to visit his home district during a historic moment for his president and his party, to work the corners of the room and spend a few minutes with an unknown reporter.

“It’s good to be engaged,” he says.

“Always pay attention.”

Now Walker’s gone, and Budd is wrapping up too. Down the hall, in the back room, the footsoldiers are getting their training. No press allowed.

was slut-shamed by Bryant’s lawyers. He lost endorsements but almost immediately got them back. She went away quietly. He became a sports legend.

When I first posted angrily on Facebook about how Bryant doesn’t deserve anyone’s grief, I got a lot of pushback.

People unfriended me. One person even personally reached out to say that I could no longer use them as a professional contact.

Arguments were made in Bryant’s defense.

“His daughter died, too.”

“He’s not even in the ground yet.”

“It’s too soon.”

“Maybe he didn’t do it.”

“Maybe he didn’t do it.”

“Maybe he didn’t do it.”

Let’s take a look at that one.

Now, it’s not lost on me that Bryant is a black man accused of raping a white woman. The fraught and often times insidious history of white women accusing black men of rape is a well-known and disturbing pattern in our country. Often times these historical accusations were false and led to the systematic lynchings of black men time and time again. But I would argue that there’s another important dynamic at play here.

Bryant wielded the power and prestige as one of the most famous, successful basketball players in history. In the years prior, from 2000 to 2002, he helped lead the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships. At 23, he became the youngest player to win three championships.

Besides, Shaquille O’Neal, his teammate, and Michael Jordan, he was arguably the most famous athlete in the sport. Possibly all around.

Now, we all know, or should know, how power and influence can be used to change outcomes. That’s how serial rapists like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby got away with assaulting women for decades.

Sure, Bryant didn’t rape several women, he was credibly accused of raping one. But his power, built-in credibility, status and wealth cannot be denied when contemplating this case.

According to a police report obtained by the Daily Beast, Bryant even copped to this idea of using his wealth and power to make the case “go away.”

“I should have done what Shaq does,” Bryant said, “Shaq gives them money or buys them cars, he has already spent one million dollars.” The report added, “Kobe stated that Shaq does this to keep the girls quiet.” (Also, if this is true, why hasn’t anyone reported on Shaq?! Another story

for another page.)

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, only 23 percent of sexual assaults are even reported to police.

Only 4.6 percent lead to an arrest. Only 0.9 percent get referred to prosecutors.

Only 0.5 percent lead to a felony conviction and less than that are incarcerated.

Given these statistics, it’s not hard to see how difficult it would have been to report Bryant to the police in the first place.

Then to try and take him to court? It’s no wonder the woman eventually decided to settle out of court.

In fact, one commenter on my Facebook post said that she ran a nonprofit that helped survivors of sexual assault at the time of Bryant’s case. She noted that both during and after the spectacle, that many women dropped their charges. A news report by Think Progress noted that sexual assault reporting declined dramatically at the alleged victim’s school, the University of Northern Colorado, in the aftermath of the hearing.

For those who say it’s disrespectful to bring up the case so soon after Bryant’s death: How do you think the survivor feels today?

People have complicated relationships with flawed celebrities. We like to put them on pedestals because they not only are extremely talented, but give us hope and aspiration. Every time a kid throws a balled-up piece of paper into a nearby trash can and yells, “Kobe!” is an example of that.

I’m not black. I will never know what Bryant meant as a figure in the black community. Those who have pushed back on my comments likely had very particular and complicated feelings of their own about the now deceased basketball legend. I understand that.

I don’t admire Bryant. Others do because we are all complex.

But just because people are famous and talented doesn’t mean they get to get away with doing horrible things. Bringing up those horrible things isn’t disrespectful; it’s the truth. It may feel inconvenient to you, but it’s what happened.

I don’t mean to cause harm to the black community by bringing it up. But people should be remembered fully and this rape allegation is a part of Bryant’s history and life.

And that should never be forgotten.

Southwest Ward candidates share compassionate stance, emphasize different priorities

by Jordan Green

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The Southwest ward stretches west from Peters Creek Parkway through Ardmore and other neighborhoods bracketed between Business 40 and Interstate 40, then balloons out towards Clemmons.

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When he learned that Besse was planning to run for state House again, Andree-Bowen said, “With what I’ve been doing, I felt like I know enough to step in and fight for those people.”

The Southwest Ward stretches west from Peters Creek Parkway through Ardmore and other neighborhoods bracketed between Business 40 and Interstate 40, and then balloons out into suburban areas that nearly reach Clemmons. The middle-class ward includes two hospitals (the top two employers in the county), Hanes Mall, and a vibrant retail corridor along Stratford Road.

Both Andree-Bowen and Mundy envision themselves as representatives of not just the ward, but the entire city.

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state House. Mundy added that he didn’t trators and victims of violent crime, and realize Besse didn’t have to give up his he came to see crime as closely linked to seat that year, because the state House poverty. and city council election calendars were While directing the food pantry at not aligned. another church, Andree-Bowen ac“I thought if I had the cepted appointment to opportunity to run for city the Winston-Salem Urban Andree-Bowen and Food Policy Council and council, I would go for it,” Mundy said. “This is not a Mundy have a lot in started volunteering with stepping-stone for higher the Think Orange camcommon with each paign, a local initiative to office for me.”

Andree-Bowen, who is fight hunger. As a member other and with the 41, previously taught 8th of the Think Orange representative grade history at Philo-Hill campaign, Andree-Bowen they’re looking to Magnet Academy and said he drafted a policy pastored a church. He said replace. implemented by Winstondoing the two jobs simultaSalem/Forsyth County neously “led to some hard Schools to move breakfast burnout.” As a teacher, into the classroom in highAndree-Bowen said he learned that poverty schools to ensure that children some of his students are both the perpeare getting fed at the beginning of the

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Scott Andree-Bowen and Kevin Mundy, the two candidates for the Southwest Ward seat on Winston-Salem City Council, met for coffee for the first time on Jan. 22, after chatting on social media for a couple weeks.

“We’re not politicians; we’re not going to slander each other,” Andree-Bowen said. “He’s a good guy; I’m a good guy.”

The two candidates are vying to replace fellow Democrat Dan Besse, who is retiring from city council after 19 years to run for state House. A social justiceminded Democrat, Besse was sometimes the only white member of city council who voted with black colleagues on council — often as not his reasoning was that he wanted to avoid votes split along racial lines.

The two candidates in the March 3 Democratic primary have a lot in common with each other, and with the city council representative they’re seeking to replace. Both Mundy and AndreeBowen are white men who prioritize compassion in their approach to local governance, and Mundy joked that no matter who wins the primary, the winner will be a Methodist. Mundy serves as the director of the Green Street United Methodist Church choir. Andree-Bowen is the director of youth and food-pantry ministries at a local church; he isn’t publicizing the name of the church, which he said prefers to stay out of politics.

The 57-year-old Mundy has extensive experience in nonprofit and corporate management, and currently serves as program and alumni coordinator for Leadership Winston-Salem. Mundy previously served as community relations director for Sara Lee Apparel (now Hanesbrands), where he organized the Crosby National Celebrity Golf Tournament, which raised money for the Crosby Scholars program, which prepares Forsyth County middle and high school students for college. More recently, he led the Sawtooth School for Visual Art as executive director.

Mundy said he first thought about seeking a seat on city council two years ago, when Besse made his first bid for

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The two candidates for the Southwest Ward seat on Winston-Salem City Council are both social-justice oriented, but some of their policy priorities differ.

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Fahiym Hanna (left) faces longtime incumbent Skip Alston in the March 3 primary for District 8.

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about Hanna’s proposal is his opponent, long-time county commissioner, Skip Alston.

“I read it,” Alston said. “And to be honest with you, I don’t understand it. But it’s up to him to explain it to people.”

While Hanna consistently steered the conversation back to his CPS model, Alston repeatedly mentioned his more than two decades of experience as the reason why he is best suited to remain in the seat.

“I’ve gone through 22 budgets,” Alston said in a phone interview. “More than anyone on the entire board. It would be selfish of me to not lend my knowledge and experience at this crucial time.”

Alston first held the seat from 1992 to 2012, and served as chairman five times during his tenure. He was the first African-American member to serve in that position. Alston has also served two years as vice chairman for the board.

In 2012, Alston stepped down from the board, making way for Ray Trapp, who took over the seat from 2012-17, when he left to take a job at NC A&T University. In 2018, Alston reclaimed his old seat in a special election and said he

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life in the county. description, the model doesn’t aim to “There are roads that aren’t fixed,” replace the for-profit economy because he said. “Schools in desperate need of it wouldn’t actually pay its participants. fixing, housing problems left over from It would just give access to basic needs the 2008 housing crisis. Whatever [the based on how many hours the particicounty commission] is doing now isn’t pant has worked. adequate.”

If elected, Hanna said his main priorMany of the anity would be to instiswers to the problems tute the CPS model Hanna mentioned lies Hanna is running on a using a fraction of the in the CPS program, current budget. platform centered he said.

“I don’t imagine When it comes that I’ll get a lot of primarily on a countyto the $1.5 billion pushback,” Hanna wide worker program; need that was resaid. cently identified to fix Still, if he’s elected Alston emphasizes his county-wide schools, and he’s not able to years of experience.

Hanna said he would get the CPS model off focus on prioritizing the ground, Hanna schools in his district, said that he would but that money alone wouldn’t solve all step down. of the problems. He said his model “is “I would find a way to do it in a differmore innovative than that.” ent capacity,” he said. “I would set it up According to Hanna, the CPS as a nonprofit or as a business model, but program is different from other work it would be most ideal to do it through programs because there is no barrier to the county. entry. Everyone is invited to participate He said others on the board have ofregardless of income or job status. A ten responded by telling him it’s a good single mother, a homeless individual and idea but that they don’t see how it would a full-time city employee could all reap practically be instituted. the benefits of the program as long as “That’s why they need to get out of they worked their hours. the seat,” Hanna said.

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by Sayaka Matsuoka Fahiym Hanna can come across as a bit single-minded.

Sitting at a table on a crowded Friday morning inside Spring Garden Bakery, Hanna talked passionately about his run for Guilford County Commission in District 8.

“As a young adult, I was obsessed with the idea of doing the most good,” said Hanna, who wore a dark-blue blazer and rounded glasses. “The idea of, What could you be doing that helps the most and is most in line with what you’re good at?”

Hanna, who is running on a platform primarily centered around a county-wide worker program, is up against incumbent Skip Alston, who makes the case for his re-election based on his years of experience.

Hanna has lived in Greensboro since 2006. He grew up in New York and Atlanta and then moved to the South, attending high school in Kernersville.

He first ran for county commission in a special election in 2018 against incumbent Skip Alston, the same opponent Hanna faces in March. Hanna lost by 40 points.

Despite that, he decided to run again this year.

“I deal with stuff related to basic needs,” Hanna said. “That’s been my focus in organizing. Things like public infrastructure, schools, food, water, shelter — county commission touches all of those points.”

His concentration, he said, is on raising awareness of and implementing what he calls the “correct priority society model,” or CPS for short. It’s about making sure residents’ basic needs like food, water, shelter and access to education and infrastructure are met through a county-wide work program. According to Hanna, under the model, participants would work from 7-14 hours a week in any of the basic-needs sectors, and in exchange they would receive access to all of their basic needs in the amount each needed.

“People want the security of their basic needs,” Hanna explained. “This is the easiest way to do it. It takes a minimum amount of time and it’s secure because it comes from the county. People would want to work for their basic needs.”

Prior to running for office, Hanna worked in youth organizing and other grassroots organizations. He said that in the past 14 years that he’s lived in the city, he’s seen a decline in the quality of

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Addressing what he called “food apartheid” in the city, Andree-Bowen said he wants to find a way to reopen the Liberty Street Market, which is located in the Northeast Ward, and also attract grocery stores to that part of the city.

“What’s good for the Northeast Ward in my opinion should also be good for the Southwest Ward,” he said. “If people there are starting to grow their wealth, the dollars are going to come here to the Southwest Ward because we’re a retail business ward.”

Comments during their interviews with Triad City Beat provided a window into how the two candidates would work with the police.

Mundy said he had recently met with the Police Benevolent Association, and touted his business experience as an asset in figuring out how to pay for additional resources.

“There’s something they’re trying to get, and the city is resisting,” Mundy FILE PHOTOS Kevin Mundy (left) and Scott Andree-Bowen are both first-time said. “If they implemented it, there candidates and are running to replace incumbent Dan Besse. would be some cost savings. That’s an example of how my familiarity with a “If we can find a way to partner said. “We don’t have a performing arts [profit and loss] statement can help.” with these agencies, we can help them center. You’ve got the Tanger Center [in Andree-Bowen said city leaders need build houses, apartment complexes and Greensboro]. There’s DPAC in Durham, to work to improve the relationship tiny houses,” Andree-Bowen said. He Blumenthal [Performing Arts Center] between the police and residents. To added that he has “more of a nonprofit in Charlotte. All we’ve got is the Stevens accomplish that, the candidate said he mindset.”

Center. That’s owned by the University would make the Citizen’s Police Review Unique among candidates for city of North Carolina, and its main function Board “more visible and have more council during this election, Andreeis for student performances. We as a city power.”

Bowen is emphasizing a goal to “make have missed the mark.”

“Our minority community has fear Winston-Salem a leader in the fight on Mundy noted that, if elected, he because of the things that have gone on climate change.” would be the first openly gay member across the country,” “I want to start of city council. While the current city Andree-Bowen said. with all the municipal council is friendly towards LGBTQ+ “Enhancing the board ‘What’s good for the buildings,” he said. rights, Mundy said it hasn’t always been would bring account“We can put solar that way, recalling that in the mid-1990s Northeast Ward in my ability. It protects the panels on top of our the council considered a resolution public, and protects recreation centers.

We to “uphold family values of marriage opinion should also be the police.” don’t have to do it all as a union between one man and one Both candidates good for the Southwest at once. We could do woman.” are concerned about a pilot project with It’s important to have leadership from Ward.’ the loss of affordable one, show the benan array of backgrounds, he said, adding – Scott Andree-Bowen housing, citing plans efits, and then move that human relations is not just about by a private develon to the next one.” race. oper to redevelop the One of Mundy’s “I’m adding to the tapestry,” he said.

Ardmore Terrace signature issues is inBut Mundy’s primary pitch to voters is Apartments and Cloverdale Apartments, vesting in the arts to promote economic that his social-justice values are balanced and increase rents. But they highlighted development. with analytical skills honed in the busidifferent solutions.

He said he wants the city to “benchness world.

Citing the high demand for real estate mark” against Greensboro, its neighbor “I lead with my heart, and follow that in downtown, Mundy said the city has to the east, adding that he suspects that up by looking at the facts,” he said. some leverage to require developers to Winston-Salem allocates a smaller porIt’s a distinction that doesn’t bother set aside affordable units in exchange for tion of its annual budget to the arts. He Andree-Bowen. access to financing at favorable interest also said Winston-Salem should consider “Kevin has done a lot in more of a rates. a policy adopted in Albuquerque, NM to management role,” he said. “He’s more Andree-Bowen said he is a fan of require developers to set aside a percentrooted in nonprofit and for-profit manthe Shalom Project, a nonprofit that is age of funds for public art. agement. I’ve been more working down developing affordable housing on Peters “We as a city have to pay up,” he in the streets with the people.”

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plans on keeping it for now.

“Timing is everything,” he said. “It’s the right time for everything. When Ray stepped down, I thought it my duty and responsibility and with my experience and knowledge about the county, that I should run to deal with the Republicans.

“If I didn’t go, there would be someone with no experience,” Alston continued. “Someone with no experience with the budget and the partisan politics [that] were taking over the board.”

During the interview, Alston spoke about his disagreements with the Republican majority on the board.

“The Republicans are not looking out for the school system,” he argued.

Of the $2 billion needed for the county’s schools, Alston said he would work to get a $1 billion package to start and then phase in another approach for the remaining $1 billion.

“I think we can do that within six or seven years,” Alston said.

He spoke about his experience working on the 2008 school bond which totaled $457 million. Another $115 million bond was passed for a county jail.

“We cut $40 million out of the budget,” Alston said of working the numbers back in 2008. “And we delayed the sale of the bond until we actually needed it.

We didn’t have a tax increase for four years. That was under my leadership as chairman. We gave the school board everything they needed.”

Going forward, Alston said that there would more than likely be a need for a quarter-cent sales tax increase to pay for the bond. But if voters don’t go for it, Alston said that he will find other ways to make up the money.

“It takes experience to do that,” he said.

In addition to school infrastructure Alston also mentioned the need for an increase in teacher pay and more economic development in the county.

“When the federal government cuts services to our citizens and the state government cuts funding to our schools, we have to be able to have the fortitude to say that we are going to look out for the citizens in our county regardless of what the federal government and the state government does,” Alston said.

“And that’s what I want to do…. Even if the state government says no, we can still find a way in our budget to say yes. And for that, we need all hands on deck and the most experienced hands on deck.”

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Here’s a little presidential-election campaign throwback.

When then-candidate Donald Trump visited Greensboro in June 2016 — two days after the Pulse nightclub shooting — he made an overt appeal to voters’ Islamophobia as a wedge to peel off support

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“She’s no friend of women,” Trump said. “And she’s no friend of LGBT Americans. No friend, believe me. And how can you be a friend when you take many, many millions of dollars from these countries — $25 million from one country, they think. And how can you be a friend when these countries are oppressing to LGBT, when they’re oppressing to everybody? How can you be a friend? How can you be a friend to women when you take that kind of money from people who enslave women?”

Based on the $25 million figure, Trump was likely referring to Saudi Arabia, which donated that amount to the Clinton Foundation, run by Hillary Clinton’s husband.

Trump’s misgivings about Saudi Arabia were short-lived, of course. He chose the gulf kingdom as the first foreign country to visit as president, and announced a $350 billion arms sale there. When it became evident that the Saudi Arabian government had murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident journalist employed by the Washington Post in 2018, Trump told NBC News: “I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them.’”

And in contrast to his campaign rhetoric browbeating Clinton during the 2016 campaign for her reluctance to say, “Islamic terrorism,” Trump displayed rare restraint after a Saudi Air Force officer killed three Americans during a shooting at a Florida naval base in December 2019. While the US government has classified the shooting as an “act of terrorism,” Trump was quick to tweet out that he was assured by the Saudi head of state that “this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people.”

I bring this up not to try to persuade Trump’s supporters that they’ve been duped or to score points with card-carrying members of the Resistance, so much as to observe how utterly consistent Trump’s hypocrisy on Saudi Arabia is with previous administrations.

An eye-opening report in New York Times Magazine on Sunday includes a passage describing family members of those killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks visiting Trump in the White House on the anniversary last year, each of them quietly asking the president to release the documents from the FBI’s investigation into the plot.

“It’s done,” Trump reportedly reassured them. But then, the Times reports, contrary to Trump’s assurances, Attorney General William Barr blocked disclosure of documents relevant to the investigation that began more than 18 years ago, writing that doing so risked “significant harm to the national security.”

The family members hoped to access the FBI documents in order to marshal evidence in a civil lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — something opposed by

Trump, and before him, by President Obama.

It’s no secret that 15 out of the 19 hijackers, along with Osama bin Laden, were Saudi nationals. The question of whether Saudi officials knew about the attacks in advance or may have provided some measure of support to the hijackers has hovered over the FBI investigation for the past two decades. There is also the question of whether officials in the upper perches of the US national security establishment may have stymied the investigation to protect an important ally, while simultaneously launching a war against another predominantly Muslim country, Iraq, which had no involvement in 9/11.

In the fall of 2007, I took a road trip with a friend and fellow journalist, Sander Hicks, to Shreveport, La. We went there to speak with the family and friends of a local dentist, Dr. David M. Graham, who died in 2004 under mysterious circumstances, but left behind a document claiming that he met two of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Fayez Bannihamad, prior to 9/11.

The activities of Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, another future hijacker, after their arrival in the United States in early 2000, take up considerable space in the recent Times article. Investigators took interest in Hazmi and Midhar’s interactions in southern California with another Saudi man named Omar al-Bayoumi, who was already on the FBI’s radar.

“Bayoumi is one of the several mysterious figures in 9/11 whose story has yet to be told,” retired Sen. Bob Graham, co-chair of the joint congressional inquiry, told me in 2007.

“What we know about Bayoumi is that he was an accountant by training, had worked for the Saudi Arabian civil aviation authority. In the mid-’90s he was transferred to San Diego, and moved his employment from the civil aviation authority to a firm that had contracts with the civil aviation authority. He was what they referred to as a ghost employee who drew a salary but never showed up for work.

“I think the fingerprints of the Saudi role are much deeper than has been disclosed,” Graham concluded, “and that a large reason for the failure to disclose that is the Bush administration went to extreme lengths to cover up Saudi involvement.”

During our visit to Shreveport, Hicks and I visited the FBI office there. The agent with whom we spoke deflected Hicks’ questions: “Are you saying that he knew all about 9/11 before it happened? I mean, I haven’t read all of his book.” Then Hicks asked if Mohammad Jamal Khan, a Pakistani man who reportedly introduced Dr. Graham to the two future hijackers, was an FBI informant. The agent hastily announced, “We’re done. Call security.”

In a remarkable twist of fate, some of the retired FBI agents who worked the case are now backing the family members’ campaign for disclosure. One of them, Daniel Gonzalez, signed on as a consultant to the families’ legal team after retiring from the agency in 2016.

“During the last 15 years of his FBI career, Gonzalez was a central figure in the bureau’s efforts to understand Saudi connections to 9/11,” the Times reports. “But even on the inside, Gonzalez often felt as if his own government wanted no part of what he was finding.”

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campaign, which kicked off in February that the Democrats’ clearest path to 2017 with the first Trump rally, has yet to victory lies in generational warfare. resolve into a clear picture?

For the first time in history, Boomers, With Iowa on the near horizon, the Gen-Xers and Millennials will share a Democrats — and their issues — have nearly equal portion of the potential not coalesced behind a single candidate electorate: 28 percent, 25 percent and or even a unified platform. The legacy 27 percent, respectively. Another 10 party faithful, always cozy with Wall percent are Generation Z, born beStreet, fear a Bernie Sanders candidacy tween 1997 and 2002, according to Pew like the coronavirus; slightly less so for Research’s numbers.

Elizabeth Warren. And who knows what But this is the potential electorate, sort of slime Joe Biden will be covered numbers that Republicans and legacy with when this impeachment business Democrats alike feel safe in ignoring, finally wraps? because they skew so heavily toward Speaking of which…. It seems a the youth vote, and the youth vote foregone conclusion that doesn’t matter. But tell that Trump will survive the to JFK and Bill Clinton.

In this Senate portion of the In this election, where seaimpeachment process. But election, that soned voters have more or the buzz on Tuesday intiless settled into their camps, youth vote — or that youth vote — or lack of mated that some Republican senators might need lack of it — is it — is the deciding factor. to at least feign interest in The Republicans’ ability the deciding what John Bolton has to to attract young voters has say — even the Fox News never been great, thus the factor. poll has a true 50 percent party hasn’t relied on it for of likely voters leaning 100 years. But to the Demotowards removal from office. crats’ dismay, the young people seem Even if Trump the president survives, to like Bernie, who is not, technically Trump the candidate might be kicking speaking, a Democrat. off the election year in worse shape It probably doesn’t matter — young than he was when the “Access Hollypeople hate politics just as much wood” tape came out in October 2016. as they hate jackets, or so goes the Surely this impeachment, whatever conventional wisdom. But that elusive the outcome, will have some detrimendemographic may be the only variable tal effect on Trump’s campaign? Right? standing between the American people Right? and four more years of Trump, should Hello? the Democratic Party care to harness Okay, fine: At this point, nothing will its power.

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s a Girl Scout in the early ’90s, I sold more than 5,000 boxes of cookies for my troop over a three-year period. I went door-to-door with order forms, took pre-orders from my parents’ co-workers and delivered each box via wagby Nikki Miller-Ka on and cart to my customers.

My efforts netted me a week at an overnight resident camp each year, in addition to US savings bonds and small trinkets with Girl Scout logos and new patches for my sash.

According to Peaks to Carolinas Council Product Program Manager Bonnie Macumber, between 1.8 and 2.1 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies will be sold in our area in 2020. The Peaks to Carolinas Girl Scout Council, which covers 40 counties from the Tennessee line to central North Carolina, has a unique and meticulous operation in place to distribute these seasonal treats to the masses.

“The cookie game has changed,” says Macumber.

“Girls are encouraged to do the old-fashioned, doorto-door sales which we call ‘Walkabout Week,’ booth sales and online sales. All are a part of the direct-sales approach as opposed to the old-fashioned, pre-order sales.”

Scouts in Guilford and Forsyth counties are amongst the 9,000 girls who will peddle, push and persuade cookie fans to buy nine different varieties of cookies this season: Caramel deLites, Lemonades, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Peanut Butter Patties, S’mores, Thin Mints, Thanks-A-Lot (which will be retiring in 2021 to make room for a new cookie variety) and gluten-free Caramel Chocolate Chip.

COURTESY PHOTO Last year, area Girl Scouts’ sales totaled more than $8 million. Despite seasonal availabilty, Thin There are two bakers that supply the US with all its Mints are the second-best selling cookie in the US, right behind Oreos.

Girl Scout Cookies. Our area’s council has a 30-year reLowes Foods, Lowes Home Improvement and Harris business ethics,” says Jaclyn Johnson, vice president of lationship with ABC Bakers which operates out of Iowa.

Teeter all participate. Macumber has a personal relarecruitment and marketing.

Through a network of distribution centers and contionship with the Winston-Salem Thunderbirds hockey “All of the revenue — every penny after paying the tracts with three major trucking companies, cookies are team; cookie booths are set baker — remains in the area where the cookies are sold shipped to the council in orup at each home game Januand directly or indirectly benefits Girl Scouts in our local der for them to be dispersed. ary through March. communities.”

Beginning the first week THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT: According to Business Between 57 and 65 cents per box goes directly to each of December, troops place Insider, Thin Mints are the troop.

There is a bonus incentive program where up their orders with a volunteer Cookie lovers can find cookie locasecond best-selling cookie in to an additional 16 cents per box is awarded to troops cookie manager who then tions online at girlscoutcookies.

America, despite only being who choose to participate. Intangible incentives such as coordinates with Macumorg or download the official Girl available January through overnight-camp opportunities, empowerment workber. Each troops’ orders are April. Oreo is the only brand shops and an all-council day at Wet N’ Wild Emerald based on the previous year’s Scout Cookie Finder app, available that eclipses this seasonal Pointe are offered to all scouts in the area. sales. More than $8 million for free on iOS or Android devices. favorite.

“This annual event and time-honored tradition is so in sales were generated over Cookies are more than a much more than a sale,” Johnson adds. “Participating in a 4-month period last year in For more information, contact the zero-sum game for scouts. the Girl Scout Cookie Program is just the beginning of this council alone.

Peaks to Carolinas Girl Scout Council Lifelong lessons, skills and all the things girls can do.”

Have you seen scouts sellempowerment comes along ing cookies outside of select at info@girlscoutsp2p.org. with the annual program. major retailers? Well, there “With every season of are a handful of retailers that cookies, another generation Girl Scouts of the USA conof girls learns five important skills: goal setting, decitracts with such as Walmart and Joann Fabrics but losion making, money management, people skills and cally, CBL Properties (Hanes Mall and Friendly Center),

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stark-white teddy bear clutching a deep-red heart hit the rink soundlessly, bouncing a couple of times upon impact, collecting a thin layer of ice on its fur. Another one landed nearby, and then another one, and another.

Screams from the crowd filled the auditorium as ice skater Nathan Chen smiled, then waved to the enthusiastic attendees after his final performance on Sunday evening. The two-time world champion and current number one in the world, had just landed a pair of quad toe loops, a quad flip and a quad Salchow during his free skate, a performance that would lead to him winning the gold medal at the US National Ice Skating Championships at the Greensboro Coliseum, the fourth time Chen has won the honor.

“I’m happy to be here and happy that the results went the way that they did,” Chen said during the press conference, after winning the competition.

At 20 years old, Chen is just the ninth man to earn four US championships in a row, the first since Brian Boitano accomplished the feat back in 1988. Chen said the fact isn’t lost on him that he’s now following in the footsteps of some of the greatest male skaters in the country’s history.

“It’s a huge a deal for me to be able to take the next steps to sort of, not necessarily becoming one of these legends but trying to follow in their footsteps,” Chen said. “These guys have done amazing things well beyond what I’ve already accomplished and it’s amazing to be able to have that inspiration in front of you.”

During his performance, Chen skated to tracks from Rocketman, the recently released biopic of Elton John’s life. And although he said that he was more of a Beatles fan who had listened to John when the Spotify algorithm added him in, Chen looked like he was fully enjoying himself on the ice.

Mixing in some hip-hop-esque dance moves that elicited wild screams from the crowd, Chen incorporated a more energetic, modern feel than many other athletes that night who skated to more traditional, classical pieces.

In the end, his performance yielded him a 37-point lead over the secondplace skater, Jason Brown, who skated to music from Schindler’s List, just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day. “I think that for me it took until this

Nathan Chen placed first in this year’s competition, winning by more than 37 points. He is the current number one men’s skater in the world.

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year, until I was 25 years old to even have the feeling that I “Redemption always feels good,” Alexa said during the could take on Schindler’s List, said Brown, who is Jewish. “It press conference. “It was hard last year, being so low, but we took that long because I wanted to do it justice and I know worked hard, and we hope this pushes us forward. We are how significant the story is.” elated to retain our title again. It’s quite an honor and we are Chen, Brown and Vincent Zhou, who came in fourth, were proud of that accomplishment, but it is not always about the selected to skate in the 2020 World Championships this March label and the victory of the gold, sometimes it’s what got you in Montreal. Many of them will also compete in the 2022 Winthere.” ter Olympics in Beijing.

Alisa Liu, a 14-year-old competitor, was crowned the ladies And while Chen coasted easily to the top in this year’s comchampion on Jan. 24 while Madison Chock and Evan Bates won petition, in the pairs competition, husband and wife duo Alexa the championship dance category.

Knierim and Christopher Knierim While this was only the third time skated with a vengeance. that Greensboro has hosted the After their short program on Jan. national event, some spectators have For full results of this year’s US 23, the pair was ranked first, with a been attending the competition for National Ice Skating Champion7-point lead. Coming into the comyears. petition, the Knierims had faced a Sheryl Scarborough, who sat in ships, visit usfigureskating.org. rollercoaster year, which included a the front row with a few friends with change in coaches and cities. They finmatching American-flag jackets, ished seventh at last year’s national said that she’s been coming to the competition and lost a sponsor despite winning the national national championships for 39 years. competition just two years ago in San Jose and once before in “It was always a sport that I enjoyed as a child,” said 2015, in Greensboro, the second time the city had hosted the Scarborough, who traveled from Manassas, Va. to attend the event. event.

After suffering a fall towards the beginning of the freeScarborough said she was hooked after seeing her first skate program on Jan. 25, Chris recovered quickly and the championship live in 1981 when the tournament was hosted couple managed to land a solid triple twist, throw triple loop in her hometown of San Diego. And when the competition and throw triple Lutz. Each throw and twist seemed to defy travels to San Jose next year, she said she’ll be there. gravity, as Knierim cleanly caught and spun his partner while “You see so much more coming to see it live than watching balancing on the thin, single blade. The trust and partnership on TV,” she said. between the two led to their victory in the end.

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surrounds it with bursts of baby blue day,” Kelley says, “and I want to launch and pink, interrupted by a deep gold. them not just into a job, but into a The colors harmonize in clean stripes, career.” while they break apart when they reach Olivia Miller works on the mosaic the shining circle in the middle, shatrepresenting the present, and blends a tering into fragmented triangles. Banks purple and blue paint together on her explains it symbolizes gaining freedom fabric. Miller talks with her friends — in a stagnant environment, much like other students —as they create mulhow the guests give students someone tiple of their own strands, and even a to look up to in their dream jobs who few together. As they string the pieces looks like them. together, the individual strips act as a “A lot of the time,” she says, “you symbol of female solidarity. don’t see women. It’s a male-dominat“Especially in scenery, there’s very ed field.” few women,” Miller says, “and it’s nice Dean of Design and Production to see that there are women that have Michael Kelley succeeded.” hoped that Kami Leslie, opening the a guest of the To learn more about UNCSA’s school as a college and a School of Design and Production, space of conlive entertainnection for ment producvisit uncsa.edu/design-production. these guests er, sits nearby, would help finishing up break that her contribubarrier. Not tion. The 3D only can students listen to successful piece grabs the eye, with all types of difwomen in their respective fields but ferent textures. However, as it’s folded work alongside them as well. Kelley into the larger collaboration, it feels excitedly says he already received much unified, as it sits among a hodgepodge positive feedback from students as of paint, scrunched up fabric, and stray they find women to be role models in strands of thread. their exact fields and make professional “It’s intertwined,” she says. “What we networks outside of the school. do in life, we do not do alone.”

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he frame starts off empty.

Bit by bit, strips of fabric fill a corner, and then on one side; a pattern emerges. A student grabs a piece lined with red trim and pom poms, looping it over and under, as another student holds the end down. Once it stretches from one side to the other, a quick set of staples secures it into the artwork.

The weaving culminates the final event of UNCSA’s School of Design and Production’s Weekend of Women+. As Saturday morning moves on, established women in the arts sit face-to-face with students, creating collaborative pieces in a trio of makerspaces.

Bottles of paint, brushes and sponges sit beside fabric trims, embroidery floss and packs of needles. Whether student, faculty or guest artist, each person who enters one of the three rooms decorates a long strip of beige fabric. When completed, they weave the fabrics together, creating a quilt-like collage representing the past, present and future of women and gender inclusivity in professional art.

“This is a weekend of women, not a weekend for women,” Professor Molly McCarter says. “All genders are welcome and included here.”

McCarter, a professor of stage management for the college, pitched the idea soon after being hired at UNCSA. Though the School of Design and Production student body is 60 percent female, the professional fields remain vastly male-dominated. Due to the difference in the college’s environment and that of the professional art world, Dean Michael Kelley along with the rest of the college’s faculty rallied around the idea to host a weekend of panels, lectures and collaborative creation.

In the first of three rooms, guest artists, faculty and students must work with the prompt of describing the past.

Roma Flowers, one of the guest artists and an award-winning lighting designer, sits at a large table with a group of students. Flowers stitches together a bundle of iridescent material and speaks of women who have passed down their knowledge. She attaches the holographic texture to the frame on a strip where she painted out the name “Jean Rosenthal.”

“She is the mother of lighting design,” Flowers explains, then points to another piece. “I’m adding, with these, other mothers that we have.”

On the opposite side of the space, in a room working with the prompt of the future, lighting major Camryn Banks utilizes the same shimmering textile that Flowers used in her own work. She

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