A! Magazine for the Arts Archive

All the World's a Stage ...

Our regional four-year colleges and community colleges have seen an expansion of their theatre programs in recent years, in part because of the presence of the Barter Theatre, a year-round professional repertory theatre in their midst.

In This Issue

• All the World's a Stage ... "I like to give my students a new challenge with each production," said Bonny Gable, VI associate professor of theatre and coordinator of performing arts.
• All the World's a Stage ... All that rehearsal results in performances that not only keep the audiences coming back, they win competitions and many students go on to very successful professional careers.
• Arts for Youth Spotlight: Bethany Dawson At the age of 17 Bethany Dawson of Abingdon, Va., is an accomplished musician who recently branched out into filmmaking and acting.
• Bristol's Arts Community's Loss The Bristol Arts Community lost one of its most dedicated and visionary supporters in August — Merle Dickert.
• Two New Arts Positions at Emory & Henry Abingdon artist Anna Kaarina Nenonen and ceramist Lindsey E. Kincaid have been named to positions at Emory & Henry College.
• VI Professor's Work Chosen for NYC Photography Exhibition Joe Champagne, professor of photography and digital imaging and fine arts chair at Virginia Intermont College, was selected for Art From The Heart 2012, a juried exhibition of international photography and photo-based artwork.
• Paper Windows 4 Winners Announced The winners of the fourth session of the Paper Windows photo contest have been announced.
• VI Student Wins Scholarship The Virginia Press Women's Foundation awarded Virginia Intermont College rising junior Kayla Robbins the 2012 Agnes Cooke Scholarship for her photography.

A! Extra

• Look for OCTOBER A! Magazine on Wednesday, SEPT. 26 Expect your OCTOBER A! Magazine on Wednesday, SEPT. 26, 2012. And plan now to submit press releases and to advertise in the NOVEMBER 2012 print edition of A! Magazine for the Arts.
• Jackson, Smith to headline Mountain Stage Two groundbreaking female artists from country music's past who still perform today will headline the Oct. 7 taping of Mountain Stage at the Paramount Center for the Arts.
• King Photography Students Capture NASCAR Experience at BMS For the past three years, the King College Photography Department has worked for Bristol Motor Speedway to capture the NASCAR racing events held at the world's fastest half mile.
• Soaring Journeys by Two Authors with Local Ties Even with a just subtle hint of fall in the air, I can't help but think about flying this time of year.
• WHDT's Cats is an Extravagant Broadway-Quality Show Recently, I enjoyed Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre's newest production, Andrew Lloyd Webber's magnificent musical Cats. Sadly, though, I enjoyed it in a theatre that was less than half full and that is a darned shame.
• Review: Death in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret As Molly Walling was growing up in Knoxville and Bristol, there was always a dark cloud hanging over her family.
• Backcountry Makers Valentine Baugh was among the large numbers of Germans who formed one of Southwest Virginia's earliest settler groups.
• Rhythm & Roots Reunion this Weekend A rollicking, emotional, star-packed tribute to the 1927 Bristol Sessions brought the curtain down on last year's Rhythm & Roots Reunion.
• Portrait of Merle Dickert unveiled In the portrait, her eyes are shining. She's holding a microphone to her mouth, in the middle of announcing the last presentation she made at her beloved theater, the Paramount.
• Song of the Mountains Launches Kickstarter Campaign Song of the Mountains is a wonderful concert series that is based at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Va., showcasing and preserving the music of the southern Appalachian region.
• Historic Abingdon Businesses Form Partnership With a combination of more than 100 years of service to the region, two of Abingdon's oldest businesses are partnering to offer residents and tourists an opportunity to step back to a time when every small town had a "general store" that merchandised a li
• Capo's Music Store in Abingdon to Become an Affiliated Venue of The Crooked Road Capo's Music Store in Abingdon, Va., was presented with a banner acknowledging this venue's recent inclusion as a Crooked Road Affiliated Venue.
• ETSU Bluegrass Band to release New Album Students in Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University worked for countless hours in the ETSU Recording Lab to complete what will be another milestone in the program's history.
• Pieces of Me A pack of Pall Malls and a Pabst Blue Ribbon awaited the hands of JP Parsons on a recent warm Bristol afternoon.
• Old Marion School taking on New Mission Today, it's just an old school house once slated for demolition. But soon the building will once again serve another educational purpose as a new music school.
• Professor's Books on the Melungeons Began with King College Honors Project Katie Vande Brake vowed to become a writer in high school.
• September is Free at William King Museum The William King Museum: Center for Art and Cultural Heritage announces that the month of September will be free to all visitors.