Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 5, 1991 TAG: 9104050486
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Donna Alvis
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Virginia Tech and Radford University are celebrating cultural diversity with International Week, featuring art, music, foods and fashions from around the world. A number of lectures and other events also will be offered on topics ranging from hunger to humor.
Did you know there are no jokes about the elderly in China?
Darlene Grega, advisor for the Council of International Student Organizations at Virginia Tech, says there are big differences between what's funny and what's not in various countries. International students at Tech will explain in a symposium called "Laugh and the World Laughs With You . . . Or Maybe Not." It starts at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Cranwell International Center.
Events begin Saturday at 11 a.m. with an International Street Fair on College Avenue in Blacksburg. The festivities there continue until 5 p.m.
Activities at Radford University include a performance Monday by the Ondekoza Demon Drummers of Japan, an international fair Thursday, and a special dinner and dance April 13.
For specifics, look for the Culture listings in the Current Events calendar in Sunday's New River Current.
\ VOICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS: In Pulaski County, the emphasis this week is on Appalachian people and their culture. New River Community College and Pulaski County High School's Appalkids are sponsoring Appalachian Awareness Week.
It all starts Saturday at 8 p.m. in Pulaski County High School's Little Theatre with a concert featuring Trapezoid, the group described by The New York Times as "a delightful musical melange."
The group has released six recordings and is on a national tour promoting the latest, "Moon Run," released by Narada Equinox.
Tickets for the concert, which opens with musical group Appalachian Trail, are $8. For ticket information or information about Appalachian Awareness Week, call New River Community College at 674-3607.
\ GUESS WHO? His name's not Bill. His name's not Phil. His name's not Caspar, Melchior or Balthazar.
His name is Rumplestiltskin - that pesky little man who circles the fire on a cooking spoon in the tale made famous by the Brothers Grimm.
Children and youths from local schools will dramatize the classic on the stage at Auburn High School tonight at 7:30. Other performances are scheduled Saturday, 7:30 p.m., at Radford High and Sunday, 3 p.m., at Blacksburg High.
The Council for Community Enrichment is sponsoring the production, and the 15 kids involved have been acting up (literally) for director Lynn Sharp.
Admission is $2 for adults; $1 for children under 13.
\ STRINGS AND WOODWIND: Clarinetist David Shiffrin will join The Audubon Quartet in the spring University Chamber Music concert Saturday at 8 p.m. in Tech's Donaldson Brown Center auditorium.
Shiffrin, a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, is the guest artist for this final concert of the season. His work will be featured in Brahms' Quintet for Clarinet and Strings.
The musicians will play Felix Mendelssohn's Quartet in E minor and Alban Berg's Quartet Op. 3, as well.
Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for adults or $3 for students and senior citizens.
\ BASEBALL GREATS: You can buy, sell or trade those prized baseball cards Saturday at the New River Valley Mall in Christiansburg.
There will be 21 dealers there 10 a.m.-5 p.m., so you're sure to hit a homer.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome and benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the New River Valley.
\ TELLING STORIES: That's what Louise Kessel does best.
Kessel will entertain you with her dancing grannies, frogs, spiders, mice and rising rivers Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Virginia Tech's Performing Arts Building. Her performance is in room 104.
If you enjoy a good tale, you'll love the way Kessel tells it. Her appearance is part of the Women's Week 1991 program at Tech. The event is free and open to the public.
\ RADICAL DUDE: Allen Ginsberg will read from his poetry Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Radford University's Heth Ballroom. The reading is sponsored by the Scholarly Lecture Series Committee.
Ginsberg became famous for his writing. He became infamous for his audaciousness.
A member of "The Beat Generation," the group of writers in the 1950s who rejected traditional, middle-class values, Ginsberg went to trial in 1957 over his first poetry collection, "Howl and Other Poems." U.S. customs officials had confiscated the book because of the controversial language it contained.
In 1974, he received the National Book Award for Poetry for "The Fall of America."
Ginsberg's talk is open to the public and tickets are $2. Admission for Radford students is free.
\ SOUNDS OF SPRING: The Radford University Wind Ensemble and Concert Band will present a spring concert Thursday at 8 p.m. in Preston Auditorium. Mark Camphouse is directing with graduate student Tracey Hornby.
The program features a tribute to Aaron Copland. The evening includes music by the composer from the filmed version of "Our Town" and remarks about Copland's work by music professor George Parish.
Also featured are two pieces by local composers: Robert Wall's "Prelude and Tarantelle" and Edward Woodroof's "Quasar." Wall is the director of the Christiansburg Middle School Band and Woodroof conducts the Floyd County High School Band.
Admission to Thursday's concert is $3 for adults, $1 for children and free for Radford students.
by CNB