Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 17, 1995 TAG: 9502170021
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: DONNA ALVIS BANKS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Think again.
The fun comes alive at Winterfest 1995!
The Virginia Tech Union is offering a full day of music, drama, dance, games and special events Saturday in Squires Student Center.
From noon to 6 p.m., you can take in activities such as laser tag, computer Tarot card reading, palm reading, antique photos, handwriting analysis, temporary tatoos and fun flicks. It's all happening at various sites in the student center.
You won't want to miss the fourth annual "New Plays Extravaganza" in Old Dominion Ballroom. The play festival runs from noon to 4 p.m. and features four new works: "Java" by Allison Latta, "Magpies" by Noel Williams, "A Line of Lividity" by Chris Lenart and "Aquila" by David Norris.
The game room will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a billiards tournament. If you like bowling, you may bowl one game and get one game free from 3 to 6 p.m.
Art lovers should check out the exhibit, "Cultivating Our Roots," in the Black Cultural Center from noon to 5 p.m.
Children's activities run from noon to 5 p.m. in Colonial Hall. Entertainment for the younger set includes music by The McKenzies and performances by The Clown Company and Puppets by Pizzazz. The Virginia Technical Jugglers will do their bouncing act at 3 and 4 p.m. in Squires Atrium.
The merriment goes on and on. Here's a rundown of other Winterfest highlights:
Noon House Rockin' John and the Hyper Brothers in Commonwealth Ballroom and Juxtaposition, a vocal group, in Squires Atrium.
1 p.m. Multimedia music presentation in Squires Recital Salon and Ujima Dance Company in Haymarket Theatre.
1:15 p.m. Swivelhead performs in Commonwealth Ballroom.
1:30 p.m. Saxophone Quartet in Squires Recital Salon.
2 p.m. Sound Advice, a jazz and pop vocal quintet, in Squires Recital Salon. Also, digital music demonstration in Squires 167 and Juxtaposition in Squires Atrium. The Dance Company of Virginia Tech performs in Haymarket Theatre and Tina Hicks gives country line dancing lessons in Squires 116. Pottery demonstration in the crafts room.
2:30 p.m. Swank performs in Commonwealth Ballroom and Quintessence, a woodwind quintet, plays in Squires Recital Salon.
3 p.m. Hoorah Cloggers in Haymarket Theatre.
3:15 p.m. Multimedia music presentation in Squires Recital Salon.
3:30 p.m. Digital music demonstration in Squires 167.
3:45 p.m. Synchronicity Saxophone Quartet in Squires Recital Salon and Country Line in Commonwealth Ballroom.
4 p.m. Pottery demonstration in the crafts room.
4:15 p.m. Europa String Quartet in Squires Recital Salon.
4:30 p.m. Master illusionist Eddie Armbrister in Haymarket Theatre.
5 p.m. 6 String Swing plays in Commonwealth Ballroom.
7 p.m. "The Swan Princess" shows in Haymarket Theatre.
8 p.m. The Chamber Orchestra of Southwest Virginia in Squires Recital Salon. Also, Theatre Arts-University Theatre production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" in Squires Studio Theatre.
9:30 p.m. and midnight "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" shows in Haymarket Theatre.
Most of the events are free, so you can have a good time without spending lots of money. For more information on this third annual winter festival, call 231-7117.
GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE: Sold!
The Radford Chamber of Commerce will have its annual social and auction Saturday, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., in the Norwood Center. This is your chance to eat, drink and bid on some great items to be sold by auctioneer Ken Farmer.
Here's a sampling of the tempting prizes: roundtrip airline tickets to Orlando, deluxe accommodations at the Homestead, tickets to the Reba McIntyre concert in Roanoke, a strand of cultured pearls, box seats at a Baltimore Orioles game and an original Robert Tuckwiller painting.
And that's just for starters!
Many local businesses and members of the community have donated items and services for this fund-raiser. Proceeds from sales benefit the Radford Chamber of Commerce.
After the auction, you can stay for dancing until 10 p.m.
Tickets, available at the chamber office on Norwood Street, are $25 per person. Call 639-2202 for more information.
FRILLS WITHOUT BILLS: The YMCA Thrift Shop is having a "Frugal Fashion Show" Saturday, starting at 3 p.m., to celebrate the store's opening at its new location in Gable's Shopping Center.
Local models will don sportswear, evening clothes, party garb, costumes, school fashions, even "Seattle grunge" duds for this show. Each outfit will cost $7 or less.
Come early to hear live blues and folk music and enjoy the refreshments.
Gable's Shopping Center is on South Main Street in Blacksburg. You'll find plenty of parking space in front of the new YMCA Thrift Shop.
Questions? Call 552-2633.
DEM BONES: You'll hear the 'bones, as well as the clarinets, trumpets, flutes, drums and more when Mark Camphouse strikes up the band Wednesday.
The Radford University Band will present its winter concert at 8 p.m. in Preston Auditorium. Dayl Burnett, a principal trombonist for the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, is the featured soloist.
Burnett, a Virginia Tech graduate and native of Falls Church, has served in the U.S. Air Force Band. At Wednesday's concert, he will perform the Trombone Concerto by Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Admission is $3 for adults, $1 for children and free for Radford University students and staff.
MAY I SEE SOME I.D.? "I.D." is a bill of two one-act plays opening Sunday and running through Tuesday at Virginia Tech. The production poses questions about how we define ourselves.
Directed by graduate student Debra Rymer, the plays address issues of gender, race, culture and sexual identity. Lee Larsen provides musical arrangement.
The first play, "Drowning," was written by the Latino playwright Maria Irene Fornez. It's a short abstract piece about unrequited love and culture clash in an alternate universe.
The second play, "Binocular Song," is an original work by Rymer that features eight musical compositions. Rymer wrote the lyrics and melody lines for these pieces. The rest of the music was written in collaboration with Larsen, violist Andrea Lawson and guitarist and vocalist Winema Wilson.
"Binocular Song" concerns a young woman who tries to find her identity as a feminist and a bisexual in Kansas.
Curtain time is at 8 each evening in room 204 of the Performing Arts Building on the Virginia Tech campus. Because of limited seating, plan for an early arrival. Admission is free.
by CNB