The Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe

EDGAR ALLAN POE HAUNTING THE REX

Just in time for Halloween, “The Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe” can be seen at the Rex Theatre in Galax on Saturday, October 25, at 8:00 pm. The performance will include “The Bells”, “The Raven”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, interwoven with biographical information about Poe. Admission is $5.

Poe is played by Paul Hodges, an actor, poet, author, and song writer. Hodges has gained a modicum of fame for his acting and writing. He played Robert Jones, one of the founders of Galax, in the play "Jewel of the Blue Ridge," in the Rex a few years ago. He has appeared in "The Waterless Sea," with Terri Ingalls and in "A Country Courtship," with Peter and Christina Holland, at several venues in North Carolina and Virginia. He has had leading roles in a dozen or more plays at The Andy Griffith Theatre in Mount Airy. In addition to the Poe show, he has several other one-man shows, most notably "A Mighty Current: The Life and Times of Bobby Kennedy."

This theater experience is sponsored, in part, by The Arts & Cultural Council of the Twin Counties, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Arts Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the arts in the Twin Counties. For more information, call (276) 238-1217. Tickets are available at the door.


Ellen Holland, Executive Director
The Arts & Cultural Council of the Twin Counties
PO Box 492
Galax, VA 24333
276/238-1217

Chestnut Creek School of the Arts Sampler Classes

Get yourself A New Flow of Consciousness at the Creek, Chestnut Creek School of the Arts, that is.

Next weekend during Galax's Leaf & String Festival you'll have the opportunity to tap into your creative side, try something new, and learn how relaxing it is to create.

There is room left in these sampler classes and the price is right: Whittling, Knitting, Crocheting, and Guitar.

A therapy session will cost you 3 times the meager fee of $25 for one of these classes. Details are at www.chestnutcreekarts.org. Or call (276) 236-3500 and we'll give you the spill.

Visit the emerging website, anyway. It's looking good.

Chestnut Creek School of the Arts Storytelling Workshop

Chestnut Creek School of the Arts is poised to have a positive economic impact on our community. But it won't happen without your help. Please help us by taking the classes, spreading the word or giving generously. If classes are canceled, it is difficult to enlist the instructor again. Paul Hodges is conducting a two hour storytelling workshop as part of Leaf & String for Chestnut Creek School of the Arts. We must have at least ten students for this workshop to take place and have only one student registered as of today. Also, Paul wants at least one week’s notice to “call” the class- this means next Friday, June 6. Help!

Story telling with Paul Hodges, June 14 1-3pm
Introduction to various types of storytelling, with examples of different styles, subject matter, and themes. Everyone has interesting stories to tell. Gain skill and confidence in telling yours. Paul Hodges, actor, author and teacher, is a member of Imagine That! Storytelling Guild. Several of the stories he tells have been published in magazines and anthologies.
$25.00

Many thanks and have a GREAT weekend (AKA: No work stuff)

Chris Shackelford
Director, Chestnut Creek School of the Arts
P.O. Box 417
Galax, VA. 24333
Office: (276) 236-3500
Fax: (276) 236-2620
Cell: (276) 233-8340
chris@chestnutcreekarts.org
www.chestnutcreekarts.org

Galax Leaf & String Festival - Authors & Art

The book, Between Two Spaces: Reflections on the Spiritual in Art by Dr. Halide Salam, Radford professor, will be showcased at the Authors on Grayson event during the Galax Leaf & String Festival, a Celebration of Music, Art and Literature. Dr. Salam’s paintings will be exhibited at City Gallery.

Not only can you purchase the book published by Pocahontas Press, Inc., but on Friday, June 13 between 5:00 & 8:00 PM you have the opportunity to meet the artist- author and see her work first hand. City Gallery Fine Art is honored to host Dr. Salam’s exhibit. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibit will hang through the end of June.

This Radford University professor has completed a collection of meditations on art and spirituality. She explores painting through the lens of her East Indian heritage to discover the synergy between heritage and expression. In homage to her parents, she also recalls the influence of family in her artistic development, tracing unique elements of her craft back to personal relationships. This book, complete with 18 color photographs of Dr. Salam’s paintings, offers us a glimpse into the world of an accomplished painter on the forefront of intercultural exploration.

Halide Salam received her Masters of Art in Painting from New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, and her Ph.D from Texas Tech University in Fine Arts and teaches painting at Radford University, Radford, Virginia. She has been painting and exhibiting in national and international galleries, and presenting lectures and papers on art and art history, within and outside the United States as well. Her paintings are philosophical investigations to be viewed as spatial stations where creative forces are channeled through inner knowledge and intuition to manifest visual forms of self-recognition. Halide Salam's life pursuit has been to find answers to her perception of an incomprehensible reality, not unlike those Wassily Kandinsky or Ludwig Wittgenstein.


For more information about City Gallery, please call (276) 236-8338. City Gallery is located at 207 S. Main Street in Galax, open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM.

Penelope Moseley
Big Blue Magazine
www.bigbluemag.com
(276)733-9704