Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, August 27, 1995 TAG: 9508290071
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The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra will hold auditions for Youth Sounds, a talent showcase for youth, Sept. 16 from 10 a.m.-noon.
Students chosen will perform in the lobby before Monday Night Classics concerts during the 1995-96 season.
Auditionees must be full-time students. All types of talent are eligible.
The auditions will be a maximum of 10 minutes. Students must arrive 30 minutes before audition time.
For more information or to schedule an audition time, call 343-6221.
Storytelling Festival
The National Storytelling Festival will be held Oct. 6-8 in Jonesborough, Tenn.
The event includes tellers from the six national regions, a Family Showcase, a Swappin' Ground for trading tales, Sacred Telling, Ghost Story Concerts, a Midnight Cabaret, Showcase of Tradition, featuring stories of African heritage, and other activities.
For more information or to pre-register, call (800) 525-4514 or write National Storytelling Assn., P.O. Box 309, Jonesborough, Tenn. 37659.
Lively Arts season
Virginia Tech's Lively Arts season schedule has been announced.
The Broadway series includes ``Jesus Christ, Superstar,'' Nov. 7; ``The Will Rogers Follies,'' Jan. 17; ``Five Guys Named Moe,'' Jan. 31; ``Sweet Charity,'' Feb. 15; and ``42nd Street,'' April 23.
The Entertainment series will host The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Sept. 25; The Fantasticks, Oct. 17; ``The Nutcracker,'' Dec. 4; The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, March 4; and the Capitol Steps, April 3.
All performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Burruss Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. For ticket information, call 231-5615 or (800) 843-0332.
Writers conference
The 11th annual Blue Ridge Writers Conference will be held Oct. 6-7 in Roanoke College's Olin Hall.
Featured speakers include Brent Staples, author of ``Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White'' and former Chicago Sun-Times reporter and assistant metropolitan editor for The New York Times, who will present a public lecture and dialogue.
Poet Tom O'Grady, founder and editor of The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, winner of the 1989 Virginia Prize for Poetry and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, will deliver the keynote poetry reading and conduct poetry workshops.
Cody Lowe and Beth Macy, columnists for The Roanoke Times, will lead journalism workshops. Lowe has been a public television newswriter, a radio news reporter, newspaper editor and is currently a religion writer. Macy has written for magazines as well as newspapers in Virginia, Ohio and Georgia, and has won statewide, regional and national journalism awards.
Atlantic Monthly senior editor C. Michael Curtis will discuss magazine writing and critique short stories. Curtis has taught creative writing, composition and other subjects at MIT, Tufts, Boston University, Northeastern and elsewhere. He has published poetry, essays, review and other material in several national magazines.
The registration deadline is Sept. 30. The $50 fee ($25 for full-time students) includes lunch, reception and presentations. Brent Staples' public lecture on Oct. 6 is free and open to the public. Reservations are required.
For registration materials and more information, call 375-2354.
by CNB