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National honor among latest highs for Parkland
Parkland High School has placed second in the national competition for the ACT College and Career Transition Award. ACT is a national nonprofit organization that produces college-entrance tests as part of its College and
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Museum to host BBQ
Reynolda House Museum of American Art will celebrate the start of summer with “Summertime Social: Backyard Barbecue and Brews with Polecat Creek,” an outdoor, after-hours event June 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. The
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Deejay/comedian to host weekend fundraiser
B Daht, a local radio personality and comedian, will host the Transformed Lives Third Annual 5K Fun Walk on Saturday, June 1. The event begins at 9 a.m. and is a fundraiser for the
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Play gaining fans and accolades
“Mama’s Girls,” the latest production by local playwright Garrett Davis, recently won two awards. The play, which centers around the struggle sisters face in caring for an aging parent, has received the 2012 Urban
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Bakers, volunteers needed for Juneteenth Festival
Plans are underway for the Ninth Annual Triad Juneteenth Africana Festival, which will be held Saturday, June 15 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum Annex from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Triad Cultural
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UNCSA student picked for service opportunities
A graduate student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has been selected for two highly competitive local leadership and community service opportunities. Eliza Walmsley, a second-year student in the
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Best “Crowns” selected
“We just know inside that we’re queens, and these are the crowns we wear.” These are the closing lines of the musical production “Crowns,” which is based on a bestselling book by Michael Cunningham
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WSSU singers a hit in the Bahamas
The Winston-Salem State University Choir recently returned from successful performances in the Bahamas that included participation in the Southeastern African American Conference (SEAAC) Festival, an event that brings together historically Black university choirs in
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Exhibition salutes late art teacher
The Sawtooth School for Visual Art and the Arts Council of Winston-Salem Forsyth County will present “Billy McClain: Decades,” a retrospective of the artwork of the late Billy McClain from May 10 through June
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Old Salem seeks to raise $17.66 million
Old Salem Museums & Gardens has lunched a capital campaign. The public phase of the fundraising campaign, themed “On Common Ground,” was announced last week. The campaign goal is $17.66 million. (Salem was founded
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