Michael Parker has organized Will Read for Food since 1995.
For more than a decade, writers associated with UNCG have traded time and a reading of their works for a good cause – feeding the needy.
The 11th annual Will Read for Food will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Spring Garden and Tate streets. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 for students and $10 for the general public.
All proceeds benefit the Greensboro Food Bank, which provides food to charitable agencies throughout the area, including kitchens, childcare centers and foster homes.
Featured writers this year will include Fred Chappell, Ann Deagon, Stuart Dischell, Lauralaynn Dossett, Terry Kennedy, Craig Nova, Michael Parker, and Lee Zacharias.
Smith-Soto will be director of the new Center for Creative Writing in the Arts.
With names like Fred Chappell and Randall Jarrell lending it luster, the writing scene at UNCG has always been vibrant, but the future is about to get a lot brighter.
The university has established the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, approved by the Board of Trustees in its November meeting. The center will be a nexus of creative writing at the university, from playwrights and screenwriters in the theatre and cinema to novelists and poets in the university’s famed MFA Creative Writing Program.
The North Carolina Theatre for Young People and UNCG Theatre present “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse,” a play about family, friendship and forgiveness, in Taylor Theatre Nov. 12-20.
Lilly, a little mouse full of ambition and youthful enthusiasm, loves school, especially her new teacher, Mr. Slinger. When she receives an exciting new purple plastic purse, she can't wait to show it to her class, but Mr. Slinger has other ideas.
The one-hour play is intended for children 3 and older.
Frank Woods
The “mother” of the Civil Rights Movement passed away leaving behind a legacy of courage, dignity, and inspiration. Many are aware of the defiant action Rosa Parks took on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama public bus to a white man who demanded it. That simple act of passive resistance has grown into an iconographic thread, interwoven in the fabric of American history. She is, without question, an American hero in every sense. Yet few would have imagined that a hero could take the form of an unassuming forty-three year-old department store seamstress.
As a professor in the African American Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I constantly ask my students to tell me who they view as their heroes.
Amory B. Lovins. Photo by Judy Hill.
With Americans reeling from record gas prices this year, renowned energy strategist Amory B. Lovins headlines the Harriet Elliott Lecture Series, “Are We Energized?: Politics, Energy and the Environment.”
Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will speak about America’s oil dependency and the need for new energy strategies at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Science Building Lecture Hall.
Other experts will address air quality, urban sprawl and transportation on Nov. 16. The speeches are free and open to the public.
He has consulted for scores of industries and governments, briefed 16 heads of state, and written or co-written 27 books. The Wall Street Journal named him one of 39 people “most likely to change the course of business.”
