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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 18, 1992                   TAG: 9203170269
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`GYPSY' AUDITIONS

Auditions will take place tonight for "Gypsy," which will be presented June 25-28 in the Lenfest Center for the Pertforming Arts at Washington and Lee University.

The show will be a presentation of Footlight Productions.

Auditions will be in W&L's DuPont Hall auditorium at 7 p.m. both evenings.

Additional information is available from director Rob Mish at (703) 463-8464 or 463-4971. Persons interested in backstage work also are encouraged to call.

Women's Center courses

The Women's Center at Hollins College will begin its spring mini-session of non-credit classes and seminars the week of March 30.

Among the classes offered are "Establishing a Vocational Identity"; T'ai Chi (beginning and intermediate levels); and "You Can Heal Your Life."

One-session seminars, held on Saturday mornings or Sunday afternoons, will include: Raising Good Readers; Solitude: A Return to the Self and You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation."

Registration deadline is March 25.

A panel will address questions related to race at the center's special forum, "Black Women/White Women: Who Am I to You?," on April 8 at 7 p.m.

For a complete list of classes, call 362-6269.

Docent Symposium

Paula Owen, executive director of the Hand Workshop in Richmond, will be keynote speaker for a March 23 Docent Symposium at the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts.

Owen's topic will be "Hand Workshop and the Year of the Crafts."

Sponsored by the museum's docent guild, the symposium is open to docents, volunteers, educators and arts professionals.

Other speakers will be Ruth Appelhof, executive director of the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts; William Rutherfoord, an artist and former curator of the museum; and Rich Martin, deputy managing editor of the Roanoke Times & World-News.

Appelhof will speak on "Volunteering and the Challenges Ahead." Rutherfoord will speak on "Art Education," and Martin's topic will be "Interaction Between Art Groups and the Press."

The symposium will be in the museum's lecture hall, starting at 10 a.m. and lasting until 3:30 p.m. The registration fee of $25 includes lunch.

Further information is available from the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts at 342-5760.