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Eaw I/ TOWN The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, 1116 Phillips St. Regular museum hours: Mon. - Fri., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission: $2 adults, 75 cents children. The June Senior Lunch Break will be held on Wed., June 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be served. $5 donation. For reservations or more info, call Karlotta Parham at (706) 724-3576. The Augusta Museum of History, 560 Reynolds St., hosts a special exhibition, “The 1900 s: Threshold to the New Millennium,” in the Mezzanine Gallery through Oct. 31. Permanent exhibits include *Augusta’s Story,” the museum’s award-winning exhibit of 12,000 years of local history ranging from the early Indians to Susan Still’s 1997 space shuttle missions. The museum will also hold History Camp 2000 June 12-16. Ask the Education Dept. for more details. On Sun., June 11, the museum will open for free for the grand opening of the Susan L. Still Children’s Discovery Gallery. Museugn hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. tosp.m., and Sunday 1 - 5 p.m. Reduced admission is offered on Sundays. For more information, call (706) 722-8454. The National Science Center’s Fort Discovery has 270 interactive exhibits throughout Fort Discovery. “The Science of Bicycles” exhibit, special demos and presentations will be featured the month of June. Outspoken Bicycle will be doing demos on Sat., June 10, from 11 am. to 1 p.m. A “Bicycle Ride Across Georgia” presentation will be held on June 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. The Southern Off-Road Biking Asso. will perform stunts and demos on June 17, at noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. The Augusta-Richmond County Police Bike Patrol will show bike patrol tasks and safety on June 19, from 1 to 1:45 p.m. at the Power Station. Chain Reaction will perform stunts and demos June 20 and 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days. The science center has scheduled week long and day camps for summer geared for specific grade levels in various subjects. For further info, call (706) 821-0200 or 1-800-325-5445. Historic Driving Tours will be given every Saturday starting from the Cotton Exchange Welcome Center and Museum. Tours are 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. $lO per adult, $5 per student. Reserva tions are needed by the Friday before the tour. To make reserva tions or ask for more details, please call (706) 724-4067. Artist of the Month at Borders Books & Music is Maurine Meleck who specializes in paintings of animals and in oils and acrylic mediums. RN S o A AN s B 4 Ny e AR e el e S v AR A The Augusta Theatre Company will present its final produc tion of the season, Curse of the Starving Class.” Performances will be held Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. nightly, with a Saturdaymatineeat 3 p.m., through June 10 at the Jack B. Patrick Information Center Auditorium at Augusta Tech, 3116 Deans Bridge Road. Tickets sls for adults, $lO for students and seniors, and Saturday matinee tickets $7.50. Call the box office at (706) 481-9040 or visit the web site at www.augustatheatre.com to book your tickets Borders Books & Music, 257 Robert C. Daniel Jr. Parkway, will host The Young Readers Club on Thurs., June 8, at 6 p.m. to read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. This will be first in a five-week series in using the book as a workbook. The Cookbook Critique Club will meet on Mon., June 12, at 7 p.m. about “500 All Time Great Recipes.” United We Funk All Stars Tour will perform on Fri., June 9, at the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center at 8 p.m. Experi ence 2 2 hours of non-stop finger snapping, hand clapping, on vour-feet funk with members from such bands as the SOS Band, Dazz Band, Barkays and Confunkshun. Borders Books & Music will host the following musical performances: Steven Jackson with folk favorites at 8 p.m. on Fri., June 9; the jazz trio A Step Up at 8 p.m. on Sat., June 10; pianist Josef Patchen on at 7:30 p.m. on Wed., June 14; Leslie Berryin a Borders debut at 8 p.m., Fri., June 16; and Marcia Foreman with folk favorites on at 8 p.m. on Sat., June 17. For more info, call 737- 6962. Augusta Mall will host a free Daylily Show on Sat., June 10. Mall hours will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more info, call 733-1001. The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) will host an Eco Tour on Sat., June 10, in celebration of the 50 anniversary of the Savannah River Site. This tour will visit representative ecosystems on the SRS including sand hill, oak hickory forest, bottomland hardwood forest, reservoirs, and the site of the feder ally endangered Smooth Purple Cone Flower. Preregistration must be made by June 7. For reservations or more information, contact Marie Hamilton at (803) 725-9724 or Gary Wein at (803) 725-8228. Attendees mustbe U.S. citizensand older than 16 years. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1336 Augusta West Pkwy., will hold a drop-in party with “cookie archaeology” on Sat., June 10, from 1 to 6 p.m., with storytelling at 3 p.m. Special guests for the program will be Rob Moon, of the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, and storyteller Jean Embry. Geared towards kids in grades one through six with chances to earn free book coupons. Barnes & Noble Booksellers will host an Open Mic Night on Sat.,June 10,at 7:30 p.m. BelvaJenkinswill host areadingsession of original and/or selected poetry, prose and short fiction works. Material should be suitable for all audiences. : Music on the River will be held on Sunday, June 11, at the Eighth Street Bulkhead. Admission will be $3. 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On Saturday, June 17, Augustans . ik g R R will be treated to an interpr fia%ion:%?i i Wi IZ A y: »(:«“:\’ ;s;:,;;*»:"’ of Marley’s music byKfigfi,one of o ‘:5:5225-»,;"-"' ‘»&@% style reggae —an evening so re %*&*gwfiw&%zg@@‘?‘“ Rootsofreggae . = ..0 Like the seminal blues performers of the 40s and 50, forerunners of iy o e Tl g the R&B and rock reyolution, Marley fashioned a musical style . ; R R i eA ¥ s g=s R T f'ixfii:“}’s"':.; prorte cominon people. Reggae, despiteits unique, rhythmic and melodic underpin nings, was heavily influenced by American music. Ghetto dwellers in the shanty towns of Kingston and Trenchtown in Jamaica had little else but music to give them hope. They listened to the cornbread-and-molasses soul mu sic of black America emanating from Miami radio broadcasts and imitated theslick vocal renderings of black entertainers. Soon, ghetto To conserve a legacy American art from historicallyßlack Colleges and Universities will be on display at Clark University and the High Museum Clark Atlanta University (CAU) Art Galleries and the High Mu seum of Art have teamed up to bring to Atlanta an exhibition of more than 200 paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture rep resenting our nation’sdiverse cre ative geniuses. “To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from His torically Black Colleges and Uni versities” is an inspiring compen dium of American artistic creativ ity from the 19th and 20th centu ries and a promising testimony to the power of collaboration in pre serving our artistic heritage. “To Conserve a Legacy” is a major consortium project where many partnerships haveresulted in the conservation of over 1,400 works of art from the collections of his torically black colleges and uni versities, the education of minor ity students in art conservation, the nationally touring exhibition of over 200 of the conserved works, and, consequently, the exposure tothe American people of many of our nation’s finest artistic trea sures. CAU Art Galleries and the High Museum of Art proudly share in the two-part presenta tion of “To Conserve a Legacy,” on view June 13 through September 24, 2000. “To Conserve a Legacy” is co organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The Studio 'l'A“fl ual Bob Marley Tribute * When: Saturday, June 17, 2000, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. - Where: BL’s Restaurant, 1117 Laney-Walker Blvd., Augusta, GA : Tickets: 10.00 at all Homefolks (Southgate), Pyramid Music ~ and Tapes (Broad St.) Hamilton Bookstore, Ambasa Gifts, BL’s Restaurant. Tickets also available at the door. ' _ Music: KAYA Reggae Band, IMANI Reggae Band Information: 828-7799 or 231-9977 , . v i _ " - A youths like Bob Marley, his cousin Bunny Livingstone and a likeable streetfighter named Peter Tosh were rocking at local blues dances to the music of Fats Domino, Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five. By day they were typical Kingston’ rude boys with little to occupy their time, but by night they pooled their harmonies and ghettospunkintoa singing group called the Wailers and began to navigate the treach (@% VA (& T ' Kawdy (;:,//4;} 1 oV W . BTN MY (R 5 [ 0 e R v iao TR 1, AR SN N e I ,r“\ e (‘ 4 " " 9 4 2 Sharecropper by Elizabeth Catlett. Museum in Harlem in association with the Williamstown Art Con servation Center. The exhibition and its national tour are made possible by AT&T and Ford Motor Company. Both companies have also provided support for the conservation pro grams and the project’s catalogue. “We are delighted to support this far-reaching initiative that connects people totheimportance of African American art and its role in our nation’s culture,” said C.Michael Armstrong, Chairman and CEO of AT&T. “We applaud the unprecedented partnership that is bringing these rich images to the public eye.” added AUGUSTA FOCUS : 7 B e % A A Re S s O N e o e Do e %Zy‘w%? :vo g e e 2 % £ g BT ey AT e gt "E:.,:;_*»}";:,'E:::E.;,%%:«’_'-;f:/:!:: Bva R ; : e g ‘?'v%«{i;g SRR RS SR SRI L i T Rt v SRS RGeSt LIRS SR sRR SR i . 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Marley’s musical legacy continues decades after his death on May 13, 1981. As a songwriter and spiri tual leader, he had few peers. & | i it B } s{¢ i % S' B # ‘\ %» 3.(« ;: ¢ ‘:E'_\ {:. 3 }i’-‘w.,,-,,»“‘w 3 «’{ J % g " { Two Figures in a Mexican Landscape by Hale Woodruff Armstrong. “It is an honor for Ford to be part of this ground-breaking pro ject,” noted William Clay Ford, Jr.,Chairman of Ford Motor Com pany. Mr. Ford continued, “Ford has always been committed tosup porting programs that explore our rich and diverse cultural heritage, and we applaud the many part ners that have made “To Con serve a Legacy’s possible.” Georgia Connections It is apt that Atlanta is one of seven cities on the “T'o Conserve a Legacy” tour. Not only is CAU one of the six historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) taking partin the “Conserve” con JUNE 8, 2000 About KAYA . Arootsreggaeband with members hailing from Jamaica, Chicago antl Augusta. KAYAisthequintes: tial reggae dance band. They fl as only world-class musicians steeped in Third World rhythms are capable. Also making an ap pearance will be IMANI, headlin ers of the Second Annual Bob Marley Tribute in 1999. - sortium (the others are Fisk Uni versity, Hampton University, Howard University, North Caro lina Central University and Tuskegee University), but severdl of the artists in the show have significant ties to the city of At lanta or to Georgia. The mdst notable of these connections jis Hale Woodruff's distinguishpd tenure, beginning in 1931, on‘the faculty of Atlanta Universify, which merged with Clark Com in 1988 to form Clark Atl University. | - Woodruff instituted the AU Annual Art Exhibitions, calledshe Art Annuals, in the 1940 s whiich brought exposure and distinction tomany of the artists represerifed in “To Conserve a Legacy.” To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from His torically Black Colleges and Universities ‘ Clark Atlanta University. - Art Galleries (404) 880~ 6644 and High Museum of Art (404)733-HIGH) June 13-September24. 1B