a celebration of the arts, culture, & ideas FAYET TE VILLE STATE UNIVERSIT Y 2013-2014 Season Fine Arts Series
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LETTER FROM THE CHANCELLOR Dear Friends of the Arts, Welcome to another season of performing and fine arts at Fayetteville State University (FSU). We are pleased to provide for your listening and viewing enjoyment a year of what we believe to be one of the best series of theater, music, dance, and art ever showcased on the FSU campus and in the City of Fayetteville. Last year, the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and Fayetteville Symphony found homes on the stage of J.W. Seabrook Auditorium with several community performances. Both are back by popular demand during the fall and spring semesters. Their return is attributed to the success of the concerts and to the fact that J.W. Seabrook, with its wonderful acoustics and lighting, is the premiere concert hall in the city and one of the best in this region. Dance, however, takes center stage this performance season with six of the world’s most renowned troupes. Among them is the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC). DCDC has won national and international acclaim and is renowned for powerful, artistic performances, a diverse repertoire of works by world class choreographers, and excellence in educational programming. The appearance by DCDC will be a homecoming of sorts for one its members. Dancer Qarrianne Blayr is a Fayetteville native and received her early dance training at the Charlotte Blume School of Dance. In March 2014, the Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana performance troupe will present “The Soul of Flamenco.” The company features an allstar cast of Spanish dancers and musicians. One of the featured performances of this season will be from The African Children’s Choir. This Grammy Award nominated choir has performed all over the world, bringing its message of peace, harmony, and joy to all. We are honored and pleased that they will be bringing their message to our campus for your listening enjoyment. As you can see, we have an outstanding season of performing and fine arts planned for this academic year. It is my hope that you will support the FSU Department of Performing and Fine Arts by attending one or all of these spectacular events. I am certain you will be glad that you did. Sincerely,
James A. Anderson Chancellor
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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR We are proud to bring the only comprehensive fine arts series in Fayetteville to you. Nowhere else in Cumberland County will you find the diversity of performing and fine arts programming in one place. From nationally touring art exhibitions to Grammy Award winning musicians, the Fine Arts Series at FSU presents the very best in music, drama, visual art, and dance. This year is no exception. Season highlights included performances by Take 6, North Carolina Symphony, the Young African’s Choir, Forces of Nature Dance Theater and exhibitions devoted to celebrating the cultural heritage of Africa and Muslim artists from around the globe. The Fine Arts Series at FSU is more than a showcase for exceptional artists; it aspires to build community through the arts. This year, as in season’s past, the community will have the opportunity to learn from our guest artists via master classes, workshops, and gallery talks that are open to the public at no charge. We are also committed to making the arts accessible to all, not only by making our programming affordable, but by bringing some of our events into the community and by extending our season into the summer months.Be sure to join us for events at off-campus venues throughout Fayetteville including the Cape Fear Botanical Gardens.After its successful inaugural season in 2012, the Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company is now the resident theater company for the Botanical Gardens during the summer months. Art changes lives.Like a kaleidoscope that transforms ordinary images into ever changing prisms of light, pattern, and color, the Fine Arts Series aspires to transform just another ordinary day into one that is extraordinary.The Fine Arts Series at Fayetteville State – it’s more than you imagined. Enjoy!
Dr. Earnest Lamb Chair Department of Performing and Fine Arts
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Quick Guide
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Technical Theatre
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Letter from the Chancellor
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Sweet Tea Shakespeare: Glass Full
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Letter from the Chair
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Rosenthal Gallery Series
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Table of Contents
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Band of Broncos
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Series at a Glance
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Friends of the Arts
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Seabrook Series
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About the Department of Performing and Fine Arts
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Harmony Series
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Butler Theatre Series
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AUGUST 2013
NOVEMBER 2013
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Universal African and Drumming Ensemble
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Chamber Night
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Power of Sounds & Rhythms: West African Drums and Music Instruments Exhibition
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Indoor Marching Band Concert
SEPTEMBER 2013 13-14 24-Hour Theater Project Butler Theater
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OCTOBER 2013
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FSU Band Christmas Concert
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African American Print Masters from the Bob Blackburn Studios
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Choir Concert
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Holiday Spectacular! Featuring Take 6
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North Carolina Symphony
JANUARY 2014
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FSU Faculty and Friends Concert
17-18 24-Hour Theater Project
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14-17 The Dining Room Butler Theater
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
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Art for Liberation and Life: The Work of Elizabeth Catlett
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North Carolina Symphony
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APRIL 2014
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Young African’s Choir
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Imago Puppet Theater
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Evening of Wood Winds, Voices and Strings
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FSU Jazz Express and Guests
13-16 The Velveteen Rabbit and The Colored Museum in repertory Butler Theater 16 Jason McKinney: A Tribute to Paul Robeson MARCH 2014 09 15
10 Senior Exhibitions 24-26 Lysistrata Butler Theater 27
FSU Band & Choir Concert
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Forces of Nature Dance Theater
Contemporary Art of the Muslim World Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra
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Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana The Soul of Flamenco
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Evening of Percussion and Trumpet
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The cap stone of our season is the Seabrook Series. Each year Seabrook Auditorium is the home for the very best in music, drama, and dance. The acoustics of the auditorium is perfect for listening to the North Carolina and Fayetteville Symphony Orchestras. However, dance will take center stage this season. With six dance events to choose from, the stage will be filled with the power and grace of the human body in motion. Exhilarating. Exciting. The season will be more than you imagined.
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AUGUST 17, 2013
UNIVERSAL AFRICAN DANCE & DRUMMING ENSEMBLE 7:00 PM Seabrook Auditorium Considered one of the most exciting African dance and drumming ensembles in the United States, the Universal African Dance & Drum Ensemble combines traditional African dance and drumming with the high energy of stilt walkers and breathtaking acrobatics. Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs
OCTOBER 10, 2013
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY 8:00 PM Seabrook Auditorium
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OCTOBER 22, 2013
DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY 8:00 PM Seabrook Auditorium General Admission $10 Founded in 1968 by Dayton, Ohio native, Jeraldyne Blunden, DCDC is the oldest modern dance company in Ohio and one of the largest companies of its kind between Chicago and New York City. Now in it’s 44th year, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company has won national and international acclaim and is renowned for powerful, artistic performances, a diverse repertoire of works by world class choreographers, and excellence in educational programming. Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs.
NOVEMBER 05, 2013 CHAMBER NIGHT 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium
NOVEMBER 19, 2013 JAZZ NIGHT 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium
DECEMBER 07, 2013
FSU BAND & CHOIR CONCERT 5:00 PM Lewis Chapel Missiomary Baptist Church 5422 Raeford Rd
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JANUARY 30, 2014
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY 8:00PM Seabrook Auditorium William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor Dovid Friedlander, violin Bonnie Thron, cello Melanie Wilsden, oboe John Pederson, bassoon Gluck: Overture, Dance of the Blessed Spirits and Dance of the Furies from Orfeo et Euridice Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
FEBRUARY 08, 2014
MARCH 24, 2014 FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA: THE SOUL OF FLAMENCO 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium General Admission $10
FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 7:30PM Seabrook Auditorium World Travels
Travel the world with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. Gershwin’s An American in Paris will inspire the sights and energy of this beautiful French city. Then journey south to the throbbing pulse of the drums of Senegal with the Sabar Concerto. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” will finish out the evening, a piece Leonard Bernstein called truly multinational in its foundations.
MARCH 15, 2014
FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 7:30PM Seabrook Auditorium The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra performs an all-time favorite by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s emotionally powerful and intense Symphony No. 6 Pathétique, is a lamenting work recognizable the world over with excerpts included in many films. Along with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Glinka’s Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 will be featured pieces.
MARCH 24, 2013
EVENING OF PERCUSSION & TRUMPETS 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium
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What is the Soul of Flamenco? It is not the performers themselves, but what they carry inside — the impassioned investment of each dancer, singer, and musician. Flamenco is an expression of feeling, a community built on emotions. Happiness, sadness, joy, sorrow are translated through this eloquent art form, expressing the vital essence that lives within each of us. These universal emotions are shared across time and physical boundaries, and are the foundation of Flamenco. In celebration of its 30th Anniversary, Flamenco Vivo looks forward, and back, to its origins. The company will feature an all-star cast of Spanish dancers and musicians in newly created pieces and reconstruct an early work by Roberto Lorca (company co-founder), Luz y Sombra, which revels in the light, joy, and shadows of life.
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APRIL 01, 2014 EVENING OF WOOD WINDS, VOICES & STRINGS 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium
APRIL 06, 2014
FSU JAZZ EXPRESS AND GUEST 4:00PM Seabrook Auditorium
APRIL 27, 2014
FSU BAND AND CHOIR CONCERT Seabrook Auditorium 4:00 PM Seabrook Auditorium
APRIL 29, 2014
FORCES OF NATURE DANCE THEATER 7:00 PM Seabrook Auditorium General Admission $10 Forces of Nature’s cultural matrix is centered in an African and an American intelligence that is global and environmental. Its aesthetic has been critically acclaimed as visceral, thought provoking and creatively brilliant. Forces of Nature utilizes a unique blend of performing arts, which includes contemporary modern dance, traditional West African dance, ballet, house and hip-hop forms as well as live and recorded music and the martial arts. Sponsored in part by the Division of Student Affairs.
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FORCES OF NATURE
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The tag line for the Department of Performing and Fine Arts is “Building community through the arts.� The Harmony Series is always a community affair because it provides an opportunity for the department to collaborate with other organizations in the community. These events, especially for children and the young at heart, make this series a favorite for families.
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OCTOBER 13, 2013
FSU FACULTY AND FRIENDS 4:00 PM Highland Presbyterian Church 111 Highland Avenue Fayetteville NC The Department of Performing and Fine Arts is proud to introduce its newest faculty member to the community, pianist Dr. Amanda Virelles. Amanda Virelles, whose playing has been described as sensible, profound, and energetic, is known as a versatile musician who has played for audiences throughout the United States, France, Russia, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Cuba. Amanda began her piano studies in Cuba with Serguei Leschenko, continued with Margarita Fyodorova at Moscow State Conservatory Tchaikovsky, and received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Russian Academy of Music Gnessin in Moscow, Russia, under the guidance of Inna Malinina. Virelles also holds a Master Degree and a Doctoral Degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Southern Mississippi. While at USM, Amanda was a student of Dr. Lois Leventhal. For the FSU Faculty and Friends Concert Dr. Amanda Virelles is featured in the hauntingly beautiful Eclogue, Op. 10 for piano and strings by English composer Gerald Finzi.
Dr. Amanda Virelles
OCTOBER 18-19, 2013 DANCING IN THE SPIRIT: A FESTIVAL OF DANCE 7:30PM Seabrook Auditorium General Admission $5
Dancing In the Spirit, is a festival of dance workshops, master classes and concerts featuring local, regional and national instructors. Special guest choreographer Duane Cyrus founder of Cyrus Arts Productions located in Greensboro, NC will present works from his regional company in addition to choreography by Avis Hatcher-Puzzo the director of the Fayetteville State University Dance Ensemble (FSUDE) and Koffee Dance Company. Each day will culminate with a dance concert featuring FSUDE and UNC Central Modern Dance Troupe, both members of the Black College Dance Exchange dance program, along with community dancers in original works. Dancing in the Spirit is the brain child of Avis Hatcher-Puzzo, in partnership with The Ellington-White Community Development Corporation.
Would you like to attend the workshops and master classes? Call Avis Hatcher-Puzzo at 910-672-2136
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Dancing in the Spirit
JANUARY, 2014
AFRICAN DREAMS THE YOUNG AFRICAN’S CHOIR 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium General Admission $10 The Young Africans are a gifted group of singers, musicans, and dancers who were all once a part of the world-renowned African Children’s Choir. Now 17-21 years old and more talented than ever, they are poised to fulfill their promise and make a difference in their communities back home. As they prepare to enter university, they are thrilled to share what God has been doing in their lives and how African Dreams are becoming a reality through this inspirational tour.Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs.
or the kinetic energy of modern dance, the essence of dance is movement. The FSU Dance Ensemble in collaboration with the North Carolina State Ballet Company will present a program of classic ballet and modern classics that will touch your soul and move your spirit. Call North Carolina State Ballet for ticket information. (910) 481-2736
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
IMAGO THEATRE 10:00 AM AND 7:00PM Seabrook Auditorium General Admission $10 Imago Theatre, best known for FROGZ and internationally acclaimed for its special brand of vaudeville, comedy, acrobatics and illusions, is proud to annouce its latest family hit ZooZoo, which combines mime, dance, music and special effects. Featured creatures include Polar Bears, Bug Eyes, Anteaters, Frogs, Rabbits, Hippos and Penguins. Recommended for ages 3 to 103.
MARCH 21-22, 2014
SPRING DANCE EVENT MARCH 21, 2014 11:00AM & 7:30PM MARCH 22, 2014 2:00 PM Seabrook Auditorium Fayetteville State University Dance Ensemble Avis Hatcher, Director North Carolina State Ballet Company Charlotte Blume, Director The human body was made to move. Whether it’s the formal elegance of ballet
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FEBRUARY 16, 2014
Paul Robeson by Phillip Hayes Dean 3:00pm
The Pate Room Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center 300 Maiden Lane
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Paul Robeson was the epitome of the 20th-century Renaissance man. He was an exceptional athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist. His talents made him a revered man of his time, yet his radical political beliefs all but erased him from popular history. Today, more than one hundred years after his birth, Robeson is just beginning to receive the credit he is due. Born in 1898, Paul Robeson grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. His father had escaped slavery and become a Presbyterian minister, while his mother was from a distinguished Philadelphia family. At seventeen, he was given a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he received an unprecedented twelve major letters in four years and was his class valedictorian. After graduating he went on to Columbia University Law School, and, in the early 1920s, took a job with a New York law firm. Racial strife at the firm ended Robeson’s career as a lawyer early, but he
was soon to find an appreciative home for his talents. Returning to his love of public speaking, Robeson began to find work as an actor. In the mid-1920s he played the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s “All God’s Chillun Got Wings” (1924) and “The Emperor Jones” (1925). Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, he was a widely acclaimed actor and singer. With songs such as his trademark “Ol’ Man River,” he became one of the most popular concert singers of his time. His “Othello” was the longest-running Shakespeare play in Broadway history, running for nearly three hundred performances. It is still considered one of the great-American Shakespeare productions. While his fame grew in the United States, he became equally wellloved internationally. He spoke fifteen languages, and performed benefits throughout the world for causes of social justice. More than any other performer of his time, he believed that the famous have a responsibility to fight for justice and peace.
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The plays in this series are always an exciting mix of the classic and the contemporary along with the poignant and the provocative. You can always expect the unexpected from our main stage and second stage productions. Come and discover the magic of live theater.
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MAIN STAGE
SECOND STAGE
NOVEMBER 14-17, 2013
SEPTEMBER 13-14, 2013 JANUARY 17-18, 2014
THE DINING ROOM By A.R. Gurney Directed by Phoebe Hall 7:30 PM Butler Theater
A brilliantly conceived and richly humorous theatrical tour de force (and Off-Broadway success) in which six (or more) performers portray a wide array of diverse characters as they delineate the dying lifestyle of the wealthy. The play is set in the dining room of a typical wellto-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes— some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class. RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES.
APRIL 24-26, 2014
LYSISTRATA By Aristophanes Adapted/Dir. by Phoebe Hall 7:30 PM Butler Theater A horribly wasteful war is underway between Athens and Sparta. The women of both sides, led by Athenian Lysistrata, conspires to compel a peace by withholding sex thereby inflaming foolishly stubbornby very lonely husbands and lovers with lust.Their plan provides much ribald humor as all of Greece tries to live happily ever after. Originally performed in 411 BC, the play is a comic account of one woman’s determination to end the War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from husbands and lovers as a means of forcing men to negotiate for peace — a tactic that adds fuel to the flames in the battle between the sexes.
24-HOUR THEATER PROJECT 7:30 PM Butler Theater Plays written, rehearsed, and produced in one 24 hour period by FSU students, faculty, and staff as well as the larger Fayetteville community. If you’d like to participate as a writer, actor, director, designer, or technician, email jfiebig@uncfsu.edu. RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES.
FEBRUARY 13-16, 2014 THE VELVETEEN RABBIT Based on the story by Margery Williams 7:30 PM Seabrook Auditorium
Toys come alive as soon as the humans leave the room in the beloved children’s classic and forerunner to the Toy Story movies. Follow the velveteen rabbit and his boy on adventures that transform each one
. THE COLORED MUSEUM By George C. Wolfe Directed by FSU theater majors 7:30 PM Butler Theater
Both a satire and an experiment, Wolfe’s landmark work, The Colored Museum, explores, lampoons, disturbs, and celebrates African American history through a series of hilarious, challenging, and moving vignettes. At once inspirational and troubling, Wolfe’s work explores life for African Americans. Actors regularly speak to the audience and the piece speaks to other great works in African American dramatic literature, from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ to ‘For Colored Girls...’ RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
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By David Griffie // Assistant Professor and Technical Director of Theatre
Over the last decade we have seen a major transformation in the world of technical theatre. Superheroes flying over the audience, larger than life mechanical animals, hydraulic water acts, super realistic projections, and lightning fast data transmission have been implemented in an effort to bridge the gap between film and theatre and give the audience an experience that fuses the best of acting and technical theatre into a cohesive production that is breathtaking and awe inspiring. While we’re not quite at the level of superheroes flying over the audience, we have seen the art of technical theatre grow and transform in many positive ways at Fayetteville State. Upon arriving on campus, there were no more than about thirty light fixtures and even fewer dimmers to illuminate them, both being antiquated for today’s standards. It was a gradual process, but over the last seven years the theatre stage has been renovated to include all new wiring and communication stations, ETC Source Four fixtures, DMX automated lighting fixtures, LED’s (Light Emitted Diodes), ETC SENSOR dimming transmission, updated projection capabilities, and a complete overhaul of the sound system. With the addition of these components, our students are given the opportunity to work with industry standard technology that will, over the long run, increase their knowledge and further benefit them as they prepare to enter the workforce. With more emphasis put on technical theatre over the past several years we have seen an increased interest in all areas of design and production. From the minute students step
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on campus they are indoctrinated to the equipment and allowed to experiment and play in a hands on environment. Students are afforded the opportunity to design main stage productions while working under the tutelage of professors who not only teach design, but are current and working professionals in the field. The working relationship that the professors have created with Gilbert Theatre and Cape Fear Regional Theatre allows students to further hone their skills at a community and professional theatre, respectfully. Not only has the theatre area broadened its outreach on a local level, but also on a regional and national level. In 2011, Whitney Manns was awarded Emeritus Achievement in Design at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her set design of The Diviners. This is the first time that a design student at Fayetteville State University has been recognized at a regional level for their accomplishments. For Whitney, she believes that “the experience the audience gets has doubled in quality since the recent renovations. Productions are a lot more complicated, in a good way, then when I started in 2008.� In a time where budgets are tight and production cost is expensive, the theatre area has been able to grow and excel in all aspects. The advancements in technical theatre are a contributing factor to this growth and the advancements in our productions. Hopefully, in the near future, with continued advancements, we will have a superhero flying over the audience.
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hen people find out about Sweet Tea Shakespeare, the first response, almost without fail, is “that’s a great name!” I usually smile and extend thanks and invite them to come see our next show. In my mind, however, my mind is racing. Why do they love that name so much? Don’t they know about the mosquitos? The heat? The (very) loud frogs by the pond near our performance site? The crickets? After several of these questions blossom in my head for a few seconds, I usually chuckle as I remind myself that the reason it’s called Sweet Tea Shakespeare is that Mosquito-infested Shakespeare would sell fewer tickets.
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weet Tea Shakespeare started in 2012 in a hurry, though the idea began several years ago while I was working at another institution. Back then, Sweet Tea Shakespeare was going to be Sweet Corn Shakespeare -- I lived in Iowa, so it fit -- but the core idea behind the project lingered with a move to North Carolina. The idea began with the idea that theatre can be simple and still be beautiful, and that it ought to be for people. The logic is simple: our lives have become defined by whatever screen we’re looking at that minute. “Plugging in” is the new token of superiority. “Technology” is a buzzword. Communication is channeled through some sort of device --rarely another face or another body. Because it has always mirrored the society around it, theatre has also become obsessed with screens, with “plugging in,” and with electronic technology. The way theatre communicates with its audience and actors has also changed as a result: theatre mostly talks to people, actors are often merely talked at by a director, and the experience can often become less connected, less personal, and more didactic in nature. Simply, in some ways connected theatre and connected lives leave us busier, more stressed, angrier, less kind, and ultimately less connected to the people around us.
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JUNE 18,19,20,21, 22, 21 & 22, 2014 at 2PM *Indoor matinee
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST Sweet Tea Shakespeare 7:00PM by the Cypress Pond
JULY 16,17,18,19 & 19, 20 19 & 20, 2014 at 2PM *Indoor matinee
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Sweet Tea Shakespeare 7:00PM by the Cypress Pond
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weet Tea Shakespeare seeks to be different. We seek to be mostly unplugged, but better connected. Sweet Tea Shakespeare, if you’ve not seen it, is not like most plays you’ll go to. Performances are mostly outside. The stage is bare. The costumes are simple. The songs are acoustically-derived. The lighting is nothing more than daylight and some household and yard fixtures. The acting is locally-sourced. You bring your own chair. You can picnic before and during the show with some good barbeque, watermelon, and, of course, sweet tea. Actors will come out to talk to you and sing for you ahead of time. They’ll ask where you’re from. They might even swat a bug or two for you. The hope in all this is that despite, or perhaps because of, its simplicity and its interest in people, Sweet Tea Shakespeare can be a place where you see people who will talk to you, who’ll ask for your name, and who’ll celebrate -- actors alongside audience -- the great wonder that is being in the same place together, enjoying each others company, and having a sweet old time. In this way, the name is great: sweet tea and Sweet Tea Shakespeare are things people around here can have in common.
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hen there’s that Shakespeare part. Why Shakespeare? To me, the answer is much the same. Shakespeare, like sweet tea, is something a lot of people have in common. As part of the curriculum in virtually every junior high and high school in the country, Shakespeare is something that has the potential to connect us. Hearing Romeo & Juliet out loud while passing notes to our high school crush qualifies. Taking a school trip to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream qualifies. Bombing an exam on iambic pentameter qualifies. The connection is there. For North Carolinians, the potential is maybe even greater -- King Charles, for whom Carolina is named,
was the patron of Shakespeare’s theatre company. Walter Raleigh and Shakespeare almost undoubtedly met, perhaps before or after Raleigh saw one of Shakespeare’s plays. Beyond the nominal connections and the distant memories of school, however, Shakespeare’s plays themselves seem to be built around this very idea of connection. They, too, were performed on bare stages, in daylight, with a bit of music before, during, and after. There wasn’t sweet tea, but you could get something to drink. Actors spoke to the audience, so you might feel like you knew them. Plus, they lived in town. See, the way I see it, Shakespeare became Shakespeare by doing a little bit of what Sweet Tea Shakespeare has since taken up doing. Shakespeare was, and can be, simple, beautiful, and for people. Just like sweet tea and just like Sweet Tea Shakespeare.
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fter two successful seasons of Sweet Tea Shakespeare performances at Cape Fear Botanical Garden, in a unique partnership between FSU’s Fine Arts Series, the FSU Foundation, Cape Fear Botanical Garden, Gilbert Theater, and with support from The Arts Council, we’ll be serving up another glass or two soon, including some special events during the year before our third summer season. We hope you’ll connect with us soon so we can enjoy some sweet tea and Shakespeare together. At least we’ll have that in common.
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The Rosenthal Gallery aspires to provide excellence in the arts and an awareness that pivotal and life-changing experiences can occur through experiencing great art. Art changes lives.
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Robert Blackburn
(December 10, 1920 – April 21, 2003) Robert Hamilton Blackburn was born in New Jersey, but moved to Harlem, New York during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. He was introduced to printmaking in 1938 at the Harlem Community Art Center, which operated through the federal Works Progress Administration. His teachers and colleagues included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Augusta Savage. At the Art Students League in 1941 he studied lithography with Will Barnet, who confirmed his conviction that printmaking, though then out of fashion, was a primary art form worth focusing on as a career. Blackburn also frequented the Uptown Community Workshop, a gathering place for black artists and writers such as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Jacob Lawrence. In 1948 Robert Blackburn founded the influential Printmaking Workshop in New York and developed a reputation as a foremost American art lithographer. There he printed for an emerging generation of artists that included Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Many of those artists were coming to printmaking for the first time. In 2001 Mr. Blackburn asked the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, a nonprofit based in Manhattan, to help provide a home for the workshop. The foundation has a fundraising campaign to permanently establish the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in the foundation’s quarters at West 39th Street in Manhattan, and to acquire the workshop’s archives of more than 12,000 prints, as well as Mr. Blackburn’s papers, for the Library of Congress. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW) is a co-operative printmaking workspace that provides professional-quality printmaking facilities to artists and printmakers of every skill level. They are committed to inspiring and fostering a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse artistic community dedicated to the making of fine art prints in an environment that embraces technical and aesthetic exploration, innovation and collaboration.
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The Fayetteville State University Band Program is one of the cultural ambassadors of the university. The program, which is under the direction of Alfred Davis, consists of three major ensembles; The Marching Band, known as the “Marching Bronco Express” or “MBX” for short, the Pep Band, and the Concert Band. The MBX is among one of the oldest student organizations at the institution, with its beginning dating back to the early 1900’s. The Marching Band has performed for thousands of people around the country at various parades, countless home and away football games and events at venues on campus and around the southeastern North Carolina region. The MBX was also selected to represent the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) in the 2009 Honda Battle of the Bands in Atlanta, GA. As part of the Fine Arts Series, the MBX will be in concert at Seabrook Auditorium in the fall. The FSU Pep Band performs at all home basketball games, various events on campus and in the Fayetteville community, and gives a recruitment tour of Charlotte area high schools while they at performing at the CIAA Basketball Tournament in late February. The FSU Concert Band performs at all official university events (Winter and Spring Commencements, Opening Convocation, and Founder’s Day) and gives a Christmas concert in the Fall and two concerts in the Spring. Over the past two years, the Concert Band has enjoyed a close musical relationship with the Army Ground Forces Band out of Fort Bragg here in Fayetteville and performed several joint concerts with them. That tradition continues on January 20, 2014 when the two bands come together for the annual MLK Day concert in Seabrook Auditorium. This concert is also part of the FSU Fine Arts Series.
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FRIENDS OF THE ARTS
The Friends of the Arts (FOTA) at Fayetteville State University is an organization devoted to supporting the educational and cultural initiatives of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts At FSU. The goals of FOTA are to provide scholarships for talented students in the performing and fine arts and to support special projects that enhance the cultural and intellectual life of the community.
Annual Memberships For more information about becoming a member call Dr. Earnest Lamb, Chair of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at 910-672-2143. TO JOIN FOTA Scan now with your smartphone.
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Support The Fine Arts Series If you enjoy the Fine Arts Series and other programming developed by the Department of Performing and Fine Arts, please consider making a contribution to ensure its continued success. Sponsorship opportunities are also available.Make checks payable to: Fayetteville State University with Fine Arts Series in the memo line. Please mail your contribution to: Dr. Earnest Lamb, Chair Department of Performing & Fine Arts Fayetteville State University 1200 Murchison Road Fayetteville, NC 28301
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THE DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND FINE ARTS Building Community through the Arts
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Vision: The Department of Performing and Fine Arts will be the cultural and intellectual center for Fayetteville and its environs. Mission: The primary mission of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts is to produce graduates in the performing and fine arts — music, dance, theater, visual arts — that will be leaders in their respective fields and its advocate. The Department is also committed to building community through the arts by being a resource for performing and fine arts pedagogy, cultivating a climate where creativity flourishes, engaging the community with the arts, and making the arts assessible to all. The Department of Performing and Fine Arts invites you to follow your passion for the arts by pursuing a degree in visual art, music, or theater at Fayetteville State University. The department provides everything you need to succeed — credentialed and caring faculty, small classes, and access to facilities,equipment and current technology. Degrees in the
DEGREES Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts with a concentration in: Ceramics, graphics, painting, printmaking, or sculpture. Bachelor of Science in Art Education (K-12) with a concentration in: Ceramics, graphics, painting, printmaking, or sculpture Bachelor of Science in Music Education (K-12) with a concentration in: Instrumental, Keyboard, or Voice.
arts can be the foundation for many rewarding careers that require innovation, critical thinking and creativity. The Department of Performing and Fine Arts is committed to building community through the arts. From gallery exhibits to performances by The University Choir, each area of the department contributes to the cultural fabric of Fayetteville. The department’s Fine Arts Series brings nationally recognized speakers and performers to campus; and throughout the year the 1,134 seat Seabrook Auditorium is filled with the passion and drama of opera, symphony and live theater. The power of the arts to inform, enrich, and inspire is what makes the Department of Performing and Fine Arts the cultural and intellectual center of the university and beyond.
Bachelor of Arts in General Music with a concentration in: Instrumental, Keyboard, or Voice. Bachelor of Arts in Theatre The music area is accredited by the National Association for Schools of Music. Minor in Dance Minor in Music Minor in Theatre
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