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The Savannah Tribune • February 15,, 2012-11
Dress for Success Aims to
Gather $60,000 in
Clothing Donations
With thousands of
women unable to secure
employment because they
lack the resources to take the
initial, yet vital, step of look
ing presentable for a job
interview, Dressbarn is
teaming up with the non
profit organization.
Dress for Success
wants to gather more than
60,000 articles of clothing,
as part of its S.O.S. -Send
One Suit Weekend® dona
tion drive, March 1-4.
This year’s clothing
drive marks the 10th consec
utive year Dressbarn and
Dress for Success have part
nered to help women in need
receive professional busi
ness attire. All 825
Dressbarn stores across the
country, including Dressbarn
stores in the Savannah area,
will serve as drop-off sites
for new or gently used pro
fessional attire including
suits, dress shirts, blazers,
pants, dresses and shoes that
will be used to
benefit women seeking to
transition into the work
force. This year, Dressbarn
would like to collect more
than 60,000 pieces of profes
sional attire; a pace of
15,000 items each day. All of
the collected professional
items will be given to the
international non-profit
organization, Dress for
Success, which will then dis
tribute the articles nation
wide to women looking to
gain a job or trying to re
enter the workforce. All 825
Dressbarn stores will offer
donors an additional 15%
total purchase savings in
gratitude for their generosi
ty. A complete list of stores
can be found at www.dress-
bam.com.
For more information
on Dressbarn in the
Savannah area, please con
tact one of the following
local stores: Debra Pirkle of
Dressbarn, located at 11
Gateway Blvd. South in
Savannah, at (912) 925-
4447 and 7400 Abercorn
Street in Savannah,
Union Mission to Hold
6th Annual Starfish Gala
Union Mission will
host 6th Annual Starfish
Gala at The Mansion on
Forsyth Park on Saturday,
April 14.
This black-tie optional
gala event will benefit Union
Mission’s Starfish Cafe,
which offers hands-on culi
nary training for local home
less and at-risk individuals.
The Starfish Cafe has helped
change lives by providing
state-of-the-art training for
jobs in the food service
industry. The Starfish Gala
will feature cocktails, signa
ture appetizers created by
Starfish Cafe students, a
gourmet dinner, a silent auc
tion and live music by the
popular dance band, The
Design. Cocktails are at 6
p.m. and dinner is at 7 p.m.
The Mansion on Forsyth
Park is located at 700
Drayton Street, Savannah,
Ga. Cost is $150 per person
and for more info call (912)
236-7423
May Institute Now
Serving Savannah
May Institute, a nation
al nonprofit organization that
provides research-based
services to children and
adults with autism and other
special needs, continues to
expand its autism services in
Georgia. Through the May
Center for Autism Spectrum
Disorders in Savannah, Ga.,
the organization now offers a
comprehensive set of educa
tional and behavioral servic
es to both civilian and mili
tary families and their chil
dren with autism stationed at
Fort Stewart and Hunter
Army Airfield, and the sur
rounding area.
This newest Center
enables May Institute to pro
vide home-based therapy
and other autism-related
services to families in all
branches of the military sta
tioned at installations in 10
states throughout the coun
try.
Autism is a develop
mental disability that occurs
in one in every 110 children.
It is a neurological disorder
that affects the development
of the brain, causing difficul
ty with communication,
learning, and social interac
tion. The number of chil
dren with autism in military
families is even more sober
ing than those in the general
population. With one in 88
military children on the spec
trum, as many as 12,000 mil
itary dependents may have
autism. Their condition is
made more difficult by the
frequent changes of resi
dences, schools, and other
variables that accompany
military life.
For more information
about the May Center for
Autism Spectrum Disorders
in Savannah, Ga., please
contact Jade Lewis, M.Ed.,
BCBA, at 912. 321.9232 or
at jlewis@mayinstitute.org.
Savannah NAACP to
Hold Meeting
The Savannah branch
of the NAACP will meet
Sunday February 26, 2012 at
4 p.m. at St. Philip
Monumental AME Church.
St. Phillip is located at 1112
Jefferson at Park Ave. All
citizens are invited to attend.
Topics of discussion will be
economic development in
the African-American com
munity and the impact of the
EPLOST funds. Special
guests include the Chatham
County school board per
sonnel. Don’t talk about it,
be about it. Mr. A1 Scott is
president.
BRAVO Summer Music
Camp 2012 Fundraiser
The Annual Fundraising
luncheon for the BRAVO
Music Company, Inc. (Black
Youth Reaching to Achieve
in Vocal and Orchestral
Music) Fourteenth Summer
Music Camp will be held at
the Marriott Savannah
Riverfront, 100 General
McIntosh Boulevard,
Saturday, March 24 at 12
Noon. The tickets are $40
each; a table is $400. Call
912-236-6681 or 912-236-
1934 for ticket information
or information about the
camp. Please purchase tick
ets by March 14, 2012.
A souvenir booklet will be
printed: Patrons, $5 to $19
($5 single name; $10 double
names); Supporters, $20 to
$49; Sponsors, $50 and up.
The camp is opened to all
youth, 5-18 years of age.
You may mail in your dona
tion to the following address:
P.O. Box 22386, Savannah,
GA 31403.
Preschool Caterpillar
Youth Workshop at
Studio S.P.A.C.E
Studio S.P.A.C.E.
invites preschoolers ages 4 -
5 to experience the Youth
Workshop, Preschool
Caterpillar. This educational
workshop will take place on
Saturday, February 18th
from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the
Cultural Affairs Department
located at 9 West Henry
Street. Preschool Caterpillar
is inspired by the popular
children’s book “The Very
Hungary Caterpillar” by Eric
Carle. For only $10
areschoolers will create a 3D
caterpillar and butterfly uti
lizing a variety of mediums,
instructor Layla Mayville
will instruct students about
the lifecycle of a caterpillar
to a butterfly.
“The Very Hungry
Caterpillar” follows a cater-
aillar as it eats its way
through a wide assortment of
food before pupating and
emerging as a butterfly. The
book also features education
al themes that correspond
with counting, metamorpho
sis, and art. It has sold over
30 million copies worldwide
and has been described as
one of the greatest childhood
classics of all time.
For more information,
please call 912-651-6783 or
visit
www.savannahga.gov/arts
www.savannahga.gov/arts .
S.P.A.C.E. is Savannah’s
Place for Art, Culture and
Education. Located at 9
West Henry St., S.P.A.C.E.
houses the offices of the City
of Savannah’s Department of
Cultural Affairs as well as a
public gallery, a 100-seat
black box theatre and art and
ceramics.
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from pg. 3
City Theater where Aldridge
got his first taste of life on
stage was itself steeped in
the rich culture of the Black
Atlantic World and its
coastal places and space
Aldridge was held in
high esteem in the Caribbean
from which much of his ear
liest inspirations must have
come. Only three years after
his departure from New
York, Aldridge received his
first official recognition as a
performing artist from the
Black Atlantic World of the
Caribbean. On December 2,
1827 the government of
Haiti honored him as the first
man of color in the theater
offering him a commission
in the Haitian army.
Avery Franklin Brooks
was born April 18, 1949 in
Evansville Indiana but was
raised from the age of eight
in the Jackson Five's home
town of Gary. His immersion
into music came at an early
age, piped through virtuoso
voice, organ and piano per
formances of family mem
bers His father sang with the
gospel group Wings Over
Jordan while his mother, one
of the first women of color to
graduate from Northwestern
University with a master's
degree in music, taught
music and directed church
choirs. From this musical
talented family, Brooks
emerged as a gifted jazz
piano player and a resonant
baritone operatic vocalist. .
After graduation
Brooks hit the stage and
starred in several lead roles
in Shakespeare plays like
Lear, Othello and Tesus and
Oberon in A Midsummer's
Night's Dream.
He also starred in the
Anthony Davis' Opera X:
The Life and Times of
Malcolm X.
In 1993, Avery Brooks com
peted against 100 other
actors to become the first
African-American to play a
lead captain in the long run
ning acclaimed Star Wars
series. In Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine Brooks played
Benjamin Sisko.
Brooks continues to
perform. He has lent his
voice to narrating documen
taries. On the big screen he
is also known for his role as
Dr. Bob Sweeney in the
1998 film "American
History X." Brooks also
appeared in the 2011 docu
mentary "The Captains,"
which stars and was directed
by William Shatner, who
played Captain James T.
Kirk in the original "Star
Trek" series and films.
Most people are famil
iar with his television works.
In 1985, he played the enig
matic assassin for hire Hawk
on the popular ABC
Television detective series
“Spenser: For Hire for four
years.”
Brooks has recently
performed in a one man trib
ute to the life of African
American thespian legend
Ira Aldridge. The work, Ira
Aldridge: The African
Roscius, was commissioned
by the Marc Pachter Fund
and written by Jacqueline
Lawton.
It was produced by the
Smithsonian National
Portrait Gallery, in collabo
ration with the Smithsonian
National Museum for
African American History
and Culture. The tribute is a
part of a ongoing series
called Cultures in Motion.
Fred Wilson to be
Honored at SCAD’s
Art Showcase
Fred Wilson
The Savannah College
of Art and Design (SCAD)
announces the expanded list
of exhibitions and program
ming for the third edition of
deFINE ART, the universi
ty’s annual fine arts show
case, taking place February
21-25, 2012 at SCAD loca
tions in Savannah, Atlanta,
Hong Kong, and Lacoste,
France.
For deFINE ART 2012,
honoree Fred Wilson pres
ents Life’s Link, a new proj
ect that draws inspiration
from collector Dr. Walter O.
Evans and his namesake col
lection at the SCAD Museum
of Art, the structural pedigree
of the SCAD Museum of Art,
and the history of Savannah.
Life’s Link is Wilson’s latest
institutional intervention,
and marks Wilson’s first time
to work with the private col
lection of an individual with
whom he has become inti
mately acquainted during the
exhibition research process.
For his SCAD Museum
of Art exhibition, Wilson
uses artworks from the muse
um’s Walter O. Evans
Collection of African
American Art, Dr. Evan’s
personal collection, and
source materials from several
historical institutions in
Savannah in order to encour
age viewers and venues to
recognize that changes in
context can affect significant
changes in meaning.
Intrigued by the letters
and correspondence between
friends, family and adver
saries of very public per
sonas, Wilson uses personal
documents to reveal surpris
ing and nuanced dimensions
of their personalities. The
artist’s installation focuses
on bricks as physical objects
and a point of departure in
order to highlight the rela
tionships between
Savannah’s history and the
roles of African Americans
within this history as well as
ideas of memory, art and the
museum space itself.
Wilson’s reference to bricks
serves as a visual metaphor
for foundation building,
labor, protection, revolt and
boundaries, while also link
ing these aspects with his
experience in Savannah and
his work with the art and rare
historical documents of the
Evans Collection.
Beekeepers Association
Hosting Workshop
The Coastal Empire
Beekeepers Association will
be holding a day-long work
shop, “The FUNdamentals
of Beekeeping” at Oatland
Island Wildlife Center on
Saturday, February 25th
from 9 until 4 p.m. Learn
about honey bees and the art
of hobbyist beekeeping. On
site registration begins at 8
a.m. For more information
call (912) 395-1509 or visit
www.oatlandisland.org.
The mission of the
Oatland Island Wildlife
Center of Savannah is to
provide our guests with
memorable experiences to
help them make stronger
connections to the natural
world. We achieve this
mission by providing a qual
ity learning experience with
a dedicated and knowledge
able staff.
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may be obtained from the Purchasing Department, 20S
Bull Street, Room 213. Savannah, Georgia 31401 or ihey
may be downloaded from the District’s web site,
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