Nigeria Prize for Literature winner, Jude Idada, and author of ‘In the Name of Our Father’ Olukorede S. Yishau, are two of the four Nigerians nominated by the United States Mission in Nigeria for the University of Iowa’s programme tagged ‘Telling Our Stories: Creative Writing and Healthcare’. The other Nigerians are Ololade Ajayi, a poet, […]
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 30
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 30
Mercer County Community College has opened registration for in-person summer Tomato Patch program, its dance, theater, vocal and visual arts programs at Kelsey Theatre.
McCarter Theatre Center’s Resident Producer Debbie Bisno presents “The Manic Monologues.”
This initiative brings to life true stories submitted by resilient people across the world living with mental health challenges, performed by a celebrated cast of actors and enhanced by interactive design and technology.
June 21-26: Studio art foundations, drawing, painting, sculpture
June 28 to July 2: masks, make believe
July 6-9: Magic of Monet
July 12-16: imagination drawing
Who Will Sing for Lena - Invited to represent the United States at the Mondial du Theatre 2021 International Theatre Festival in Monaco.
This month for WCLK s The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I ve reached out to outstanding women for Women s History Month. If you want to tell us about an outstanding woman in your life, please go to The Local Take With Kiplyn Primus Facebook page and share or call our community engagement line at 404-880-6211. We ll be talking with and about women all month, and it would be great to include your favorite woman!
Dr. Janice Liddell is a former educator. I ask her to tell us a bit about that part of her life. She speaks about descending from a family of educators. The decision to be a teacher was almost a given. She realized teaching grade school was not for her and started her career as a college professor at what was then Clark College I ask her about former standout students, and she mentions Fulton County Sherriff Patrick Labatt and Dr. Daniel
LET S REMINISCE: The great ice storm of 1949
By Jerry Lincecum
Special to the Herald Democrat
After reading my column on the Blizzard of 2011, one of my veteran Telling Our Stories writers suggested that I look up one of my previous columns about the Great Ice Storm of 1949. I’m talking about the one that started on Jan. 22 and didn’t end until Feb. 4. I checked the dates on the internet, finding it listed as the worst ice storm in company history of Texas Power and Light. Steel towers crumpled and two inches of ice accumulated on some transmission wires.
I was not quite seven years old, and on our farm near Groesbeck we had several old oak and pecan trees that lost large limbs. There was the fun part, too, in that our pond froze hard enough for skating (using tow sacks). Fortunately, my family was still burning wood in stoves and fireplaces, because butane froze in the tanks of some of our neighbors. So we managed to stay warm and my mother cooked a lot of red beans and corn
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Four First Nations screen creatives start work in Adelaide this week as part of a new mentoring program by the South Australian Film Corporation and Channel 44.
Kiara Milera, Keith Gilbey-Warrior, Rick Hutcheson and Anil Samy are now gaining hands-on experience in television production at Channel 44.
They will also assist in the production of documentary
The Art of Reconciliation: Telling Our Stories, being produced by Channel 44 with an all First Nations crew, and support from the Port Adelaide Enfield and Charles Sturt Councils. The documentary is set to premiere during Reconciliation Week 2021.