Ian Hammock     Staff Writer The beige-colored main room of UNCG’s faculty building was buzzing with anticipation last Thursday as those in the room – a collection of professors, graduate students and undergrads all awaited the beginning of the night’s scheduled poetry reading. The poet who was reading that night was Heather Hartley, an internationally renowned poet and professor. The event, hosted by UNCG’s … Continue reading Heather Hartley Poetry Reading

Ian Hammock    Staff Writer The early April sun shone down warmly on Saturday, April 8, which saw the 35th Annual International Festival. Wandering around the festival – located on College Ave in the stretch of road between the Jackson Library and the Stone building – I saw dozens of booths each offering information on the country that they represented. There were over 50 countries … Continue reading International Festival

Ian Hammock     Staff Writer This past week the Greensboro Screenwriters Organization put on a reading of one of the members of its organization. The Organization – which requires a once-a-year donation of thirty dollars – is dedicated to helping its members improve their work. This group of regular attendants was mostly comprised of people in their late-20s, with some of the older members … Continue reading Screenplay Reading Experience

Ian Hammock    Staff Writer On Friday March 24, UNCG featured its “UNCG’s got talent” event competition, hosted by Kevin Yee in the EUC auditorium.            Yee – a comedian and musician – announced the performers as they came on stage and sang several, quite funny, songs at the beginning of the show, in-between the first and second half of the show and at the end … Continue reading UNCG’s Got Talent

Ian Hammock Staff Writer Tucked away in the back corner of the High Point History Museum is an exhibit dedicated to one of the darker moments of U.S. history. The exhibit, “Deeds of Sale” is a collection of sales deeds of slaves between the settlement of the thirteen colonies and the Civil War. On the walls that line the exhibit is a series of plaques … Continue reading Slave Deeds Exhibit

Ian Hammock   Staff Writer The Visions of Home, a collection of art hailing from the coastal regions of South Carolina, is on display at Wake University in Winston-Salem this month, and will be until late April. The display is nestled in a small corner room in the university’s Anthropology museum, and is a fascinating look into the Gullah Culture, a mostly African American community … Continue reading Gullah Art Exhibit is a must see