The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council
Calendar of Events October 18 – 24, 2010
Spirits of Oxford
Friday, October 22nd from 6-8 pm
The Spirits of Oxford is a walking tour of the historic St. Peter's Cemetery. All proceeds will benefit the Cedar Oaks Heritage Home. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased at City Hall, the Chamber of Commerce, and The Powerhouse and at the gate prior to each performance.
NEW in the Powerhouse Gallery:
Works by Brooke White
The Sounds of Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East and Europe are coming to Oxford
Ricky Burkhead, a music professor at the University of Mississippi, and Bob Damm, a music professor at Mississippi State University, are collaborating on a world drumming concert at Nutt Auditorium on the Ole Miss campus, Tuesday, October 19 at 7:30 PM. The professors will play instruments from all over the world, like the kalimba, congas, steel drum udu (clay drum), gyil (African xylophone), djembes and junk to create a unique sound. There are five duets and four solos a piece, and a little more than an hour's worth of music traditions of the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Bob Damm
Performances are FREE and OPEN to the public, please make plans to attend this exciting occasion!
Ricky Burkhead
The North Mississippi Storytellers Guild
This year there will be two great chances to enjoy one of Oxford’s most popular events, Pumpkin Patch Telling in the pumpkin patch at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in downtown Oxford. On Friday, October 22 at 5:30 p.m. there will be a telling for the very young and young at heart showcasing the Telling Teens from the Boys and Girls Club. Sunday, October the 24th- St. Peter’s Telling and the Telling Teens will engage listeners of all ages with tales and songs to capture the October spirit. The telling is free, but the pumpkins will cost you.
Closing the Halloween season, on Friday evening the 29th at 6:00 p.m., the North Mississippi Storytellers Guild will share ghostly tales and songs under the Bodock tree at the L. Q. C. Lamar Museum. Again the Telling Teens will join the tellers to showcase their tales learned in workshops offered through a grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission by master storyteller Dr. Rebecca Jernigan. The public is invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets and join the tellers and musicians for this first ever telling under the spectral shadow of the ancient Bodock tree.
For any questions concerning this event please contact Rebecca Jernigan at 234-0550.
This Week at the University of Mississippi Museum:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 from: 1-2:30PM
* NEW ORLEANS AUTHOR AND POET, LEE MEITZEN GRUE, will be giving a reading at BOZARTS GALLERY- 403 N Main Street,Water Valley, MS
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPENED TO THE PUBLIC- Cookies and refreshments will be served
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION call Pati D'Amico at 662-473-0972
Also at the University Museum:
Defining the Mainstream: The Southern Folk Art Experience
October 1 – December 11, 2010
This inaugural exhibition in the new Hattie Mae Edmonds Gallery examines the complex role of Southern Folk Art in relation to the artistic mainstream developed by historians, critics, and scholars. Works on view include examples by artists James “Son” Thomas, Purvis Young, Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Rev. Howard Finster, Sulton Rogers, M. B. Mayfield, and Luster Willis.
Luster Willis, Mummy of the Stone Age, 1970. Lead pencil, watercolor, glitter on poster board. Collection of the University of Mississippi Museum. Gift of Bill and Susannah Ferris.
Free Admission to the Museum, Every Day
The University of Mississippi Museum
University Avenue and Fifth Street
Telephone 662.915.7073
http://www.olemiss.edu/museum
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