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HOT CORNER FESTIVAL
The 8th Annual Hot Corner Celebration is
Friday night only this year, with all activities
centered in The Morton Theatre, at the corner
of West Washington and Hull streets downtown.
The centerpiece of the evening is Rose of Athens'
production of North Star Light: Pathways To
Freedom. This play, written by Jon Lipsky and
directed by Lisa Cesnik, features local performers
Carole Kaboya and Bajo Sonubi, with live music
provided by Jason Beckham. North Star Light,
by turns harrowing and humorous, incorporates
stories of flights to freedom and includes slave
songs which often carried secret messages to
guide them and uplift their spirits during their
arduous and dangerous journeys.
Silent Hands, a gospel group from the
Waggoner Grove Baptist Church in Colbert, GA,
will perform before the play. Following the play,
the Howard Stroud Jazz Ensemble and the singer-
songwriter collective Committee of Vigilance will
perform.
Hot Corner was, and, to some extent, still is
a center of African-American business, enter
tainment and social gatherings in Athens. The
Hot Corner Festival commemorates and extends
awareness of this downtown area with its rich
history, vibrant present and future potential.
The Hot Corner Celebration begins at 8
p.m. in the Morton Theatre on Friday, May 4.
Admission is free, but donations are encour
aged and will go to help support the Black Arts
Learning Center. The celebration is presented by
the Hot Corner Association, Wilson's Soul Food
and the Downtown Development Authority. It is
open to all ages. For more information, contact
Homer Wilson at 706-543-2080.
ATHENS HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL
It's hard to believe the Human Rights Festival
folks have been at it for 29 years, but they have,
and they'll be back downtown on College Square
this weekend speaking truth to power and sooth
ing the savage breast with music. These human
rights activists (and who isn't, or shouldn't be
one?) are famous for their self-run DIY festivals,
devoid of corporate sponsors (unless you count
the ads in their newspaper program) and scru
pulous about cleaning up after themselves. As
usual, there is a diverse lineup of speakers and
musicians, including a Saturday morning (10
a.m.-3 p.m.) program for youth. The weekend
is such that you can come downtown and hang
on every word, or you can drift in and out, tun
ing in on the bands and speakers you want and
then easing away to buy groceries and cut the
grass before you come back for more. Enjoy and
learn from the Human Rights Festival: an Athens
institution more valuable than ever in this age of
right-wing rhetoric and cowed communications
combines. See www.athenshumanrightsfest.org.
Here's the schedule:
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10 a.m. Center for Development in Central America •
10:10 a.m. Pam Blanchard & The Sunny-Side Up Band
• 11:10 a.m. George the Story-Teller • 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Arvin Scott & Drumming for Success • 12:20 p.m.
Maggie Hunter & The Montessori Singers • 12:55
p.m. Rites of Passage • 1:30 p.m. Ian Dunne • 1:35
p.m. Girls With Guitars • 2:20 p.m. Heaven Lee Colt
• 2:25 p.m. Lost Art—Battle of the Bands Teen
Category Winner.
3:10 p.m. Festival Welcome • 3:15 p.m. Clarke
Central High School Human Rights Club, Cedar Shoals
High School Battle Against Poverty • 3:30 p.m. Shank
• 4 p.m. Habitat for Humanity. Food Not Bombs •
4:15 p.m. Gabriela Mejias • 4:45 p.m. PACE—Post-
Partum Depression, Department of Peace • 5
p.m. Dancing Flowers for Peace • 5:15 p.m. Art
Rosenbaum • 5:45 p.m. Open Mic • 6 p.m. T-Nebula
• 6:30 p.m. Millard Farmer—Attorney and Orator,
Women in Black • 6:45 p.m. Kite to the Moon • 7:15
p.m. Featured Speaker: Brooke Campbell—Sister
of Sgt. Ryan Campbell, KIA in Iraq • 7:45 p.m.
Time Toy • 8:15 p.m. Alexis Zeigler—Author,
Culture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil and the End
of Empire • 8:30 p.m. Music Hates You • 9 p.m.
Common Ground Athens, Jonathan Robert—School of
the Americas Political Prisoner • 9:15 p.m. Divas
After Dark • 9:45 p.m. GLOBES. UGA Greens • 10
p.m. Strawberry Flats.
Kirnda^ May 6
2 p.m. Incatepec • 2:30 p.m. Featured Speaker:
Matt Rothschild—Editor, The Progressive • 2:45
p.m. Hope for Agoldensummer • 3:15 p.m. Project
Safe, Sexual Assault Center of Northeast Georgia •
3:30 p.m. Tommy Jordan and String Theory • 4 p.m.
Moore’s Ford Committee, Economic Justice Coalition
• 4:30 p.m. Omega Rising—Battle of the Bands,
Adult Category Winner • 5 p.m. Open Mic • 5:15
p.m. Phoenix Pharaoh • 5:45 p.m. Professor Eugene
Wilkes—UGA Law School, UGA Law Students for
Choice • 6 p.m. Breathlanes • 6:30 p.m. Featured
Speaker: Coleman Barks—Poet and Scholar • 7
p.m. Bearfoot Hookers • 7:30 p.m. Jubilee Partners
• Janice Mathis, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition • 7:45
p.m. Squat • 8:30 p.m. Ed Tant—Athens Writer &
Festival Volunteer • 8:45 p.m. Cosmic Charlie.
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