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Tuesday,
January 8, 2007
12:15 PM
Admission:
Free |
The
Barter Players in Edgar Allen Poe Master of Macabre
This widely acclaimed play brings you not only the drama of
Poe's best loved stories and poems, but also a look inside
the life and mind of the "King of Horror". Audiences
will experience the spine-tingling storytelling of Poe as
they get to know the storyteller himself.
Discussion Leader: Lisa Butcher
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Goodloe Center, Phillips-Taylor
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276-376-4520 |
Thursday,
January 17, 2008
12:15-1:00 PM
Admission:
Free |
Banned
Books Discussion Series:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1885.
An American classic on school reading lists, The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn has been challenged both inside and
outside of the United States. Special editions of this title
were published in the 1970’s which either omitted text
to which school officials had objected or replaced words with
less offensive ones.
Discussion Leader: Rita Quillen
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Wampler Library, Robb Hall |
Mike Gilley
276-523-2400 #304
mgilley@me.vccs.edu |
Monday,
January 28, 2008
12:15 PM
Admission:
Free |
The
Barter Players in Edgar Allan Poe: Master
of Macabre
This widely acclaimed play brings you not only the drama of
Poe’s best-loved stories and poems, but also a look
inside the life and mind of the “King of Horror.”
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Goodloe Center, Phillips-Taylor
Hall |
Bonnie Elosser
276-376-1083
belosser@uvawise.edu |
Wednesday,
February 6, 2008
7:30 PM
Admission:
$12.00 adults,
$8.00 seniors,
$6.00 students |
The
Men of the Deeps
A choir of working and retired coal miners from the island
of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada, preserving in song
some of the rich folklore of that island’s coal mining
communities.
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Goodloe Center, Phillips-Taylor
Hall |
Bonnie Elosser
276-376-1083
belosser@uvawise.edu |
Thursday,
February 21, 2008
12:15 PM
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Ewabo Caribbean Trio
Music of the Caribbean will fill MECC’s Goodloe Center as Mountain Empire Community College honors Black History Month. The music group puts emphasis on the steel drum, which is called ‘pan’ in its native Trinidad and Tobago.
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Goodloe Center, Phillips-Taylor
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Peggy Gibson
276-523-7472
pgibson@me.vccs.edu |
Thursday,
February 28, 2008
12:15-1:00 PM
Admission:
Free |
Banned
Books Discussion Series:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969.
The focus of many lawsuits, Slaughterhouse-Five “is
noted for being the first case of school library censorship
to have reached the Supreme Court” according to Nicholas
J. Karolides in Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Political
Grounds (2006).
Discussion Leader: Kyle Scanlan
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Wampler Library, Robb Hall |
Mike Gilley
276-523-2400 #304
mgilley@me.vccs.edu |
Wednesday,
April 2, 2008
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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32nd Annual John Fox, Jr. Literary Festival Featured authors are Gwyn Hyman Rubio of and Kathy Shearer.
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Goodloe Center, Phillips-Taylor Hall |
Nikki Morrison
276-523-7416
nmorrison@me.vccs.edu |
Thursday,
April 3, 2008
12:15 PM
Admission:
FREE |
Rebecca
Kite, Marimbist
Wielding two, four and even six mallets to strike the instrument,
Kite brings to life the rich and beautiful sounds of the marimba,
a modern day descendent of African and Asian xylophones.
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Goodloe Center, Phillips-Taylor
Hall |
Bonnie Elosser
276-376-1083
belosser@uvawise.edu |
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