Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 17, 1993 TAG: 9302170339
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WHO, WHEN & WHERE
Community DayABINGDON - A new Community Day program will be started Saturday at the William King Regional Arts Center including tours, hands-on art activities and refresments. It will focus on the current exhibit, "Inuit Images: Art from the Canadian Arctic," from 12 to 3 p.m.
Judy Varney Burch, owner of Arctic Inuit Art Gallery in Richmond, will give a talk at 1 p.m. on Inuit art including slides from her visit to the Canadian Arctic. She collaborated with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in creating the exhibition now on display here.
Children's activities will include story-telling, soap-carving (simulating the serpentine stonecarving by Inuit children), Styrofoam block printing, and ink and watercolor painting. Bob Alderink, an American Indian culturalist from Boone, N.C., will teach the making of rope braceltes using Inuit cording techniques.
Community Day programs are free to the public. Further information is available by calling the center at 628-5005.
Showtimers auditions
Showtimers will hold auditions for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," on Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. at its McVitty Road studio in Roanoke.
Roles are available for a middle-aged couple and a younger adult couple.
Those interested but unable to attend the scheduled audition should call director Betty Garretson at 77-4804.