FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DCC SETS 21ST ANNUAL

CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS

                DANVILLE, VA, April 1, 2003 -- Danville Community College begins its 21^st year of Celebration of the Arts, starting Monday, April 7 and continuing through Friday, April 11. The entertainment line up focuses on drama, art, dance, music, and literature.  The schedule is as follows:

Monday, April 7, 2003

8:00 a.m. ff (all week)                Exhibition of art works by members of the Danville Art League.

Location: Oliver Hall, Temple Building.

7:00 p.m.                 African Dances, Drumming and Storytelling.  A ninety-minute-long, lively, and educational performance of aspects of African culture by Dancescape, featuring Donna Graham, Mohamed Dacosta, and Nguzu Saba.

Tuesday, April 8, 2003

11:00 a.m.                               “Fireside Virginia,” a showcase of authentic traditions of Virginia which incorporate stories, tongue-twisters, riddles, rhymes, songs, and sayings. Performed by mutlidiciplinarian Eve Watters of Charlottesville, VA..

7:00 p.m.                                 The Red Hot Smoothies, an instrumental concert of jazz, rhythm, and blues in a contemporary, swinging style. Presented by Director Nick Page and four other musicians from Faber, VA.

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

7:00 p.m.                                 "Public Reception" to honor artists whose works are on display in Oliver Hall.

Thursday, April 10, 2003

7:00 p.m.                                 Two by Will a sixty-minute performance in which the playwright visits contemporary audiences accompanied by his muse. Shakespeare and the muse explain his works by illustrating points through the performance of excerpts from several of his plays and poems. By encore! theatre company from Richmond, VA.

WRITER'S WORKSHOP

                Constructive criticism and writing supervision offered to all creative writers of poetry and prose from the community and Danville Community College. The poetry aspects of the workshop is being conducted by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, poet, painter, sculptor from Hardyville, Virginia. The fiction/nonfiction aspects of the workshop will be conducted by Janet Lembke, translator of the classics, poet, nature enthusiast and creative nonfiction writer from Staunton, Va.

Thursday, April 10, 2003

11:00 - 11:50 a.m.                How I Write, an informal discussion about the process of writing poetry and prose by the workshop leaders, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Janet Lembke.               

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.                                Small Group Session: Critiques of participating writers' works by the workshop leaders

Friday, April 11, 2003

9:00 - 10:50 a.m.                     Small Group Sessions: Critiques of participating writers' works by workshop leaders. The location will be announced later.

11:00 - 11:50 a.m.                Readings by guest workshop leaders Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Janet Lembke. The location will be announced later.

All events are offered free of charge and are open to the public. All activities will be held in Oliver Hall, unless otherwise indicated. For more information, contact Russell Scruggs, Coordinator of DCC's Celebration of the Arts, at (434) 797-8513, or by email at rscruggs@dcc.vccs.edu.