The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council
Calendar of Events October 25 – 31, 2010
We hope everyone will have a safe & happy Halloween this coming Sunday!
H2: Healthy Halloween on the Square
Sunday. October 31, 2010
Powerhouse Community Arts Center
2:00PM-5:00PM
This fun family event mixes the celebration of Halloween with arts, crafts and the chance to learn that treats can be healthy.
Rebel Body Fitness, Holli's Sweet Tooth, Vegfund and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council host this family friendly activity that encourages family not just to walk on Halloween but enjoy walking and making healthy choices together every night.
This FREE event features art, crafts and activities to engage the mind and body from bobbing for apples grown locally on a co-op farm, encouraging kids to play everyday to stay healthy, and use their creativity with crafts from Brilliant Easel Art School and the University Museum.
Children will have a chance to see if they have the loudest, scariest scream at our scream contest hosted by Children's Dental Center, a magic show by Steve Thomas, and stories from Square Books Jr., and the Oxford Literacy Council. These are just a few of the special activities and booths at H2: Healthy Halloween on the Square.
Vox Press Presents
Kirtan & Curry:
An Evening with Poet Ravi Shankar
Hot Curry & Wine from West Jackson Wine & Spirits
Sitar Music by Jeff Henson
Photo exhibit by Ramona Gillentine
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
7:30PM
Powerhouse Community Arts Center
Ravi Shankar is an American poet. He is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. His first book, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove in May 2004and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He co-wrote Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books, 2006) with Reb Livingston, selections of which were published in Fringe Magazine and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. His chapbook Voluptuous Bristle, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010.
Shankar's poetry has been published in such places as The Massachusetts Review, The Cortland Review, and The New Hampshire Review. He co-edited an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry, along with poets Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, published by Norton in Spring 2008.
SAVE THE DATE:
Ornament Auction, December 2, 2010. Free to Members- if you haven’t renewed your membership, now is the best time so you’ll receive your invitation! Some of the ornaments being auctioned are from the words of: Blair Hobbs, Jere Allen, and Glenn Ray Tutor. Food and wine tastings sponsored by local restaurants.
NEW in the Powerhouse Gallery:
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.
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.
Interested in Ballroom Dancing?
Stop by the Powerhouse on Tuesdays from at 4pm for a lesson from the Ole Miss Ballroom Dancing Club. To join- membership is $15 for students and $25 for non-students.
OMBDC Upcoming Dances
November 13
December 11
These dances are on Saturdays, 7-10 pm, in the Johnson Commons Ballroom on the Ole Miss Campus. OMBDC hold monthly dances- each dance begins with a professionally taught group lesson and open dancing follows. A variety of music is played so that dancers can enjoy dancing to many types. You do not have to be a member to attend- though members do enjoy discounts on admission. Light refreshments are available.
Learn more about the Dance Studio & University Ballroom at:
(662)842-2242 or www.thedancestudiotupelo.com
This week 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
Thank you for reading YAC’s Weekly Calendar of Events
If you have any questions please contact Beth at yacoperations@gmail.com
Call (662)236-6429
Or visit www.oxfordarts.com
