- Campaign: Scholarship to honor dean of education
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- Masterworks Concert to be presented March 30
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- Quilt Discovery Day set for March 30 at Mountain Heritage Center
- Award-winning documentary filmmaker to speak at film festival
- Student writers to be featured in April 2 lunchtime program
- WCU to host 38th annual High School Mathematics Contest
- Crisis Communication Day to be held April 4 at WCU
- "Walking Our World" celebration to be held on WCU campus April 5
Opening the free program at 5:30 p.m. will be the Hominy Valley Boys, a traditional music band composed of two sets of brothers who are featured on the “Rank Strangers” soundtrack – Cliff and Matt Wright of Haywood County and Ben and Mike Rathbone of Buncombe County.
The film, a creation of Rod Murphy and Scott B. Morgan, examines the entertaining and poignant connections that make up the typical American community gathering. Shot on location in Asheville, the production tells the story of a tradition of musical gatherings that began more than 50 years ago, and which continues to this day.
A selection of production images from “Rank Strangers” that were taken by visual artist Ken Abbott, a visiting instructor of photography at WCU, will be on display in the museum lobby through Tuesday, Dec. 12.
The program will be held in the auditorium of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center. The museum is joining with Philip Coyle of WCU’s ethnography laboratory and Tom Hatley, Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies, in presenting the series.
The Mountain Heritage Center is located on the ground floor of WCU’s H.F. Robinson Administration Building. For more information, call (828) 227-7129 or visit the Mountain Heritage Center on the Web.