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To a Friend Somewhere in
Chicago is a personal letter to
an old friend. But unlike most
letters, it doesnt have just one
reader or any readers at all,
really. Instead, it has an audi-
ence.
Jazlin Laboy uses spoken-
word poetry to tell her stories.
To a Friend Somewhere in
Chicago is about a friend she
felt disconnected from after
leaving the West Side of Chicago
to go to college halfway across
the country.
But as we both tried to
escape the limits of our four-
corner block, I felt you trailing
/ Sinking into the same pave-
ment that you once told me you
hated / Scared of the unknown,
scared of failing both here and
there I took that chance for the
both of us / And all I can think
of is how I left you there, are
some of the verses from Laboys
poem.
Laboy, a 2017 graduate,
was a member of the Ebony
Readers/Onyx Theatre, a
15-person spoken-word
poetry group thats based
DTH/NATHAN KLIMA within UNCs Black Student
When theyre turning and the light hits them, they just take on a different life, said Joseph Justice, leader of the whirligig restoration effort in Wilson, N.C. Movement.
Founded in the 1970s, EROT
Public investments in the arts attract businesses to N.C. gives poets like Laboy a plat-
form to talk about issues facing
people of color.
By Natalie Short unicycle to life on a farm in eastern the sculptures were falling into get low, and they just sit there and Performance is key when it
Senior Writer North Carolina. disrepair, with no one to maintain watch, he said. comes to EROT, Laboy said.
When theyre turning and the them as Simpson grew older. The arts onlookers sit at 217 Brew You can have the greatest
Wilson seems, at first, to be the light hits them, they just take on a Realizing that Simpsons farm Works, which opened in November. words, but if you cant relay your
center of a typical Southern small different life, Joseph Justice, an art- had become a tourist site in the Its on a block facing the park among message in performance and
town its streets lined with old, ist working to restore the sculptures county without advertising, a plan three buildings also owned by the emotion, it just falls flat.
red, brick buildings, formerly tobac- for the park, said. With the reflec- to restore the pieces and create the brewerys owner, Tom Curran, and Wesley Simmons, a senior
co warehouses until you drive up tors, theyre absolutely gorgeous. Its park was developed in 2010. his wife, Barbara Conklin. They exercise and sports science and
to the unusual spectacle of the Vollis like theyre dancing in the wind. A coalition of public and pri- wanted to invest in the area around member of EROT, said that art
Simpson Whirligig Park. Justice knew Vollis Simpson, the vate organizations including the park to draw in locals and visi- can bridge the communication
The light from the late afternoon artist and World War II veteran the non-profit Wilson Downtown tors. gap between groups that dont
sun bounces off brightly colored who built the whirligigs on his farm Development Corporation, the Since the start of the project, really understand each other.
reflectors detailing the 30-foot about 15 minutes from downtown National Endowment for the Arts about $25 million in private and I feel like art that doesnt
sculptures, as pieces made from Wilson. Today, Simpsons whirligigs and the N.C. Arts Council formed public development has sprung up have that purpose is almost
scrap metal and traffic signs spin in appear in museums around the to pay for the project. Private fami- within a two block radius of the wasting its potential at a certain
the slight breeze blowing across the world. For the past six years, Justice lies, companies and organizations park. Curran said Hi-Dollar, an old point,Simmons said. Like,
field that covers a downtown block. has worked as part of the restoration also donated. tobacco warehouse next to the park, its cool to make songs about
By November 2017, the park plans team. Justice said hes developed an is being renovated into about 90 turning up. Its cool to make
to have 30 restored whirligigs, The whirligigs were named the intimate relationship with the sculp- apartments, four retail shops and a frivolous things, but at the same
interconnected moving sculptures official folk art of the state by the tures over the years an apprecia- restaurant. The project costs about time, theres a bigger purpose
made of odd parts. They resemble General Assembly in June 2013, less tion reflected in the community. $12 million, and the building will be and point and a poignant
anything from World War II-style than a month after Simpsons death. A lot of people will drink beer point that you can use art for. I
fighter planes to a man riding a However, only three years before, down there and wait for the sun to SEE ARTS CUTS, PAGE 4
SEE ARTIVISM, PAGE 4
Q&A with Melissa Claire Egan, soap actress and UNC alum
Melissa Claire Egan,
famous for playing Annie
I love that pace. Theres no downtime. You
on All My Children and have to be on your A-game all the time.
Chelsea on The Young and
the Restless, graduated from
Melissa Claire Egan
UNC with a degree in dra- Soap opera actress
matic art in 2003. Features
acting classes in New York youre also doing your acting
Editor Brinley Lowe asked
with more of a conservatory classes all year long too.
Egan about her career and
kind of feel, and thats why I
time at UNC. DTH: How does that differ
knew I did not want to go to
from your work now as a soap
The Daily Tar Heel: When a conservatory for college. I
opera actress?
did you get you get your start wanted an all-around educa-
in TV? tion. I knew I wanted to be in MCE: I always say its the
classes with other people who closest thing to doing a play
Melissa Claire Egan: I because theres so much to do
started auditioning as a kid at werent actors.
Ive always said the best and we dont have any reruns.
about 10-years-old for fun as
acting class is living your life. Every day, you essentially get
a hobby (in New York City).
one take unless somebody
I always knew I wanted to DTH: How were you drops their line. Youve got
go to college. I was going to involved on campus?
to get your blocking in the
do this later in life. I knew
I wanted to enjoy my child-
MCE: I did three shows a moment. All the cameras are
year, so that took up most of on at once. And then the next
hood and do the school plays
my extracurricular time. I day, you do a new play. Its not
and play lacrosse and be on
would rehearse four hours a like you get four days to do a
the swim team and do those
night. scene. I love that pace. Theres
real life things but I loved
It was a great feeling of no down time. You have to be
acting since I was very young.
being a team and working on your A-game all the time.
But my parents were like,
on the show for months at a
Youre going to college, and I
time, and then presenting it PHOTO COURTESY OF MELISSA EGAN
was like, I know. I had taken
was just so thrilling. And then SEE MELISSA, PAGE 4 Melissa Egan (middle) graduated from UNC as a dramatic art major in 2003.
Quote
QUOTE ATTRIBUTION
2 Wednesday, May 31, 2017 News The Daily Tar Heel
chinese
tion to the College of Arts additional entrepreneurs- The Shuford family runs program will also collaborate
and Sciences Tuesday to more in-residence, 70 student the fifth-generation North with over 30 different majors.
than double the size of UNCs internship opportunities and Carolina company Shurtape It doubles the size of this
undergraduate entrepreneur- a lecture series on innovation Technologies, LLC of Hickory. program, and as you heard
ship program. and entrepreneurship. The The donors Jim Shuford, from Kevin, there are a lot of
music
The donation is the larg- name of the entrepreneurship CEO of Stm Industries, students that are unable to do
est single one-time gift from minor was formally changed Stephen Shuford, CEO of it that are just thirsty for this
a living family or individual to the Shuford Program in Shurtape Technologies and opportunity that is really
to the college. At a presen- Entrepreneurship. Dorothy Shuford Lanier of exciting to us, Folt said.
tation unveiling the dona- The college will pro- Bedford, New York are Jim Shuford said the dona-
tion on Tuesday afternoon, vide additional support for siblings and fifth-generation tion went to the College of Arts
CONCERT
Chancellor Carol L. Folt said three more full-time faculty UNC graduates. Their and Sciences rather than the
there are goals for the money members, entrepreneur-in- grandfather, Abel Alexander Kenan-Flagler Business School
to be anchored to a $35 mil- residence and an administra- Shuford Jr., graduated from because of the potential for a
lion fundraising campaign to tive staff position. Guskiewicz UNC in 1900. broader reach, as these entre-
further innovation and entre- said UNC Entrepreneur-in- The graduates of 1900 preneurial skills can prepare all
preneurship at UNC. Residence Bernard Bell will could not imagine this world, students for their futures, not
Theyre helping us greatly serve as the first Shuford I dont think. And we cant just business majors.
Come hear a Chinese expand the footprint of one of
our fastest growing programs
executive director in the pro-
gram.
imagine the one that 30 years
from now the students that
Preparing these people for
the future it just seemed
and minors in the College of Im a big believer in are benefiting from this pro- like the logical thing to do,
instrumental ensemble play Arts and Sciences, said Kevin donating large amounts gram will be creating, Folt Shuford said.
Guskiewicz, dean of UNCs of private money to the said at Tuesdays presenta-
traditional Chinese music! College of Arts and Sciences, University now, if we could tion. university@dailytarheel.com
Thursday, June 8 How are you involved with arts at UNC? Compiled by staff writer Grace
Carney
Photos taken by Grace Carney
7 p.m. Students participate in and support arts
Hanes Art Auditorium
I love the Kenan Theater Im in the Tarpeggios
performances. I went to four a cappella group... I
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thing, it opens peoples minds otherwise. She said although Kadiri, a 2017 graduate who
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pay attention to the reli-
he art world can seem TO THE EDITOR: able news outlets like the
very exclusive and As the cities of New Post, NY Times and other
impervious.
Those who dont believe they
EDITORIAL Orleans and Charlottesville historical reliable sources
A Confederate narrative
distant themselves from and base our opinions
possess natural artistic talent racist pasts by removing on the facts and not Fox
often discard any prospect of their Confederate memori- News (the media version
creative expression. When doing als, shouldnt UNC recon- of the National Enquirer).
so, they cut out a large chunk of sider removing its own You label us Liberals like
the human experience without
even realizing it. You dont have Being critical of his- worse, Confederate soldiers
worked to maintain one of
in 1860. For the southern
slave owner, keeping peo-
symbol of hate, Silent Sam?
Sam, like any other
that is an insult. I gladly
embrace the label if it
to be extraordinarily talented
to create something of mean-
tory isnt the same as the greatest blemishes on ple in bondage was both symbol, represents dif- refers to the truth that we
American history. The Civil an economic and white ferent things to different Liberals believe in equal-
ing. Were conditioned to think trying to change it. War sparked the prolif- supremacy issue. people. How would you ity, compassion, helping
N
that art is for the prodigal, the 1 feel, if you were a descen-
arratives matter. eration of white terrorism Everyone has their the needy, in regulations
percent elite of artists. But the dant of a holocaust sur-
Fundamentally, against African-American flaws, and those should that stop people, corpora-
truth is just the opposite art is vivor, and saw statue of a tions and the elite from
democracy. studying history is people, which continues on be taught, but supporting
Nazi soldier standing in raping our citizens and
In a world where everyone looking at various sources to this day. slavery isnt a mere flaw. the middle of your school our lands. In addition, we
created art, we would experi- to determine a narrative The insistence on main- Everything from the Bible campus? Could you fault know Comey also ethi-
ence heightened communica- thats as close to truth as taining Confederate sympa- to the writings of Frederick an African-American stu- cally did the wrong thing
tion and understanding. Art possible. In the United thies as a part of the white Douglass and William dent for feeling the same when releasing pumped
is built upon the exchange of States, the battle of which southern identity greatly Lloyd Garrison were avail- rage whenever she/he sees up false statements about
ideas and is interpersonal in narrative should be pri- reduces and can even able to a Southern person Silent Sam looking down Hillary based on emails
nature. Information or opin-
oritized in our collective negate many of the ben- questioning the moral- over the UNC campus? that already had been
ions displayed in an artistic When I was a student at
memories, towns and text efits of living in the South: ity of slavery in 1860. reviewed by the commit-
form have the potential to UNC many years ago, as a
books has always been a music, hospitality and food. Southerners who support- tee and found to be not an
reach people and spark con- non-Caucasian, I always
divisive political battle. Unless you think slavery ed slavery knew better, but issue. And unless you live
versation in unconventional felt like a second-class citi-
Even worse, this political and treason are okay, you chose to be complicit in in a bubble, we know the
ways. The possibilities for sub- zen whenever I passed by
battle has made it so that GOP and Trump ran with
ject matter and intent are end- should fully disavow what their amoral way of life.
Silent Sam. To me, the mes- this false report to hurt
less; art provides a platform to being critical of our nation- the Confederate project The removal of statues sage Silent Sam proclaimed her campaign, which was
discuss every single aspect of al story is considered a sign aimed to accomplish. doesnt erase history. We was loud and clear - that ethically wrong. We know
humanity, from politics to cul- of ignorance or disrespect. Naysayers love to claim highly doubt the Civil is, the University of North Comey now has proof that
tural heritage to teen angst. Of course, we are speak- that history books say the War will be taken out of Carolina at Chapel Hill is, Trump asked him to lay off
If youre one of the self- ing mostly to the American war was about money. New Orleans textbooks first and foremost, an insti- the Flynn investigation,
proclaimed non-artists out Civil War and the legacy of But history is about just because a few monu- tution of the Caucasians, by which is obstruction of jus-
there, here are ways you can the Caucasians, and for the
those who fought in it being critical regurgi- ments have been removed. tice. We are now wondering
integrate art into your life: Caucasians, and everyone if you are going to continue
Pick up a pencil and just especially the pro-slavery, tating tired sayings in a But doing so does stop
anti-United States mem- book without furthering Confederate glorification. else better know his/her to defend your GOP friends
start drawing. Drawing skills place in the pecking order. and Trump while watching
do not come immediately, bers of the Confederate an argument isnt being Until we as a society stop
It has been over 150 Trump and friends lie like
rather it takes hours and hours States of America. critical. And even if the glorifying white suprema-
years since the Civil War crazy trying to evade this
of practice. A viral Ted Talk by Having Confederate war was driven by money, cist traitors, this board has ended. It is long overdue snafu. When will you and
Graham Shaw demonstrates ancestry is nothing to be then we would encour- no choice but to continue for the UNC to bury its rac- your Conservatives buddies
several simple cartoons that proud of it ruined North age people to look at how to write in opposition to ist past. One cannot claim side with the Constitution,
anyone can recreate and dis- Carolina and the South for pervasive and economi- leaving Confederate monu- to embrace diversity while with America, the truth,
cusses how drawing helped many generations. Even cally lucrative slavery was ments intact. glorifying white supremacy doing the ethical thing, and
stroke-sufferers. at the same time. Eliminate demand release of all the
Go play a piano in the base- this remnant of racism evidence to a bi-partisan
ment of Hill Hall. Inside are from the campus. committee and an inde-
dozens of completely private
practice rooms with uprights
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to us. To the ones who can uninformed decisions the
(which has free admission), ast spring, Carol hobby and pursuing art, that while may be known last two weeks is very suspi-
Memorial Hall or Forest brought Heart and music or theatre as a for business and basket- cious? You have some nerve
Theatre for inspiration. Visit Soul to this cam- career. The University ball, the arts are an impor-
carolinaperformingarts.org and pus literally. should be supporting tant part of this campus. SPEAK OUT hitting us for asking for the
right thing to be done.
use your onyen to redeem dis- Pianos filled the campus STEM majors who want But the true way to make WRITING GUIDELINES
counted tickets for upcoming for the Arts Everywhere Please type: Handwritten let-
to take a fifteen-minute the arts thrive on this Kathy D. Morgan
performances. For a change of ters will not be accepted.
initiative as students of all music break, but they campus is through pas- UNC Friday Center
scenery, attend events off cam- Sign and date: No more than
pus at places like Carrboros majors suddenly remem- should be supporting the sionate students. two people should sign
Cats Cradle or the Arts Center. bered the Level 1 songs students who dedicate 15 Go to one Kamikazi or letters.
Take an art class. All UNC from the keyboard lessons hours a week to their artis- Carolina Bluegrass Band Students: Include your year,
students are required to take their moms made them tic craft just as much, if not performance and youll see major and phone number. The Daily Tar Heel
a VP credit. Use this to your take in first grade. more. campus is full of talented Faculty/staff: Include your
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advantage and take a cool class Were glad to see that In the April 21 edition of and underappreciated art- number. Established 1893,
that interests you! In the spring, Chancellor Folt and the DTH, professors in arts ists. Giving students like Edit: The DTH edits for space, 120 years
I took a great class called Rock Special Assistant to the departments questioned them the recognition and clarity, accuracy and vul- of editorial freedom
Lab (MUSC 158) where I was Chancellor for the Arts why the money was going resources they need goes garity. Limit letters to 250
placed into a band of other words. RACHEL JONES
Emil Kang seem to really towards initiatives like beyond pianos.
student musicians and practice SUBMISSION SUMMER EDITOR
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