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Festival Stage presents: Hatchetman by David Wiltse through May 27 at the Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem.

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Festival Stage of Winston-Salem continues its second season with a revival of the Off-Broadway hit musical “Oil City Symphony”, playing through February 19 at the Hanesbrands Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem. Two of the four original cast members and co-creators Mary Murfitt and Mike Craver along with Festival Stage director Steve Umberger talk shop with TAW host David Ford.

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Poet and educator Joseph Mills is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and he holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His published work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism including four volumes of poetry with Press 53: Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet, Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, Somewhere During the Spin Cycle, and Love and Other Collisions. Pulitzer nominated, award-winning author Anthony Abbott call Joe’s latest, Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet, “…one of the most original collections of poetry I have ever encountered—original because it treats the whole world of books, poems, stories, and fairy tales not only as being somehow more real than reality itself, but as our most important lifelines to reality itself.”

You can hear Joe Mills tonight at 6:00pm leading a discussion titled "Writing as Luggage: Packing Light and Packing Tight”, at Barnhill's Books in Winston-Salem. On May 24, at 12:30pm, Joe will be at the Central Library of the Forsyth County Public Library system in Winston-Salem, where he’ll be talking to the 4th Thursday Book Club, and reading from his new book of poetry.

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Eleven years ago, the album Acoustic Soul hit the airwaves and quickly went multi-platinum. Since then, the artist behind the album has become a Grammy award winner, and a four-time NAACP Image Award Honoree. She's performed for presidents, and Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies. She’s also stood with her peers in the top echelon of entertainment as an activist for global health and human dignity, and her music continues to speak powerfully to the interconnectedness of all of us. India.Arie comes to the Triad courtesy of NC A&T State University. The concert is Wednesday night, April 25 at 7:30pm in Harrison Auditorium on the A&T campus in Greensboro. Opening for her will be a group of talented A&T student winners of the Living Your Art workshop competition.

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Canadian Prairie born artist Christine Kirouac has had her media installations, performances and videos exhibited in both galleries and film festivals throughout Canada, Paris, Lisbon, London, Ireland and most recently Cairo. Beginning 6:00pm on Sunday, May 20, at the Delta Arts Center in Winston-Salem, Christine’s beautiful new research-and photo-based project Papermen comes to the Triad.

Papermen is a series of 20 large-format black and white images of the “hawkers” who sell the local Winston-Salem Journal in the city streets. The exhibit raises compelling questions about what constitutes portraiture, community, and the value of the art object itself. For months, Christine has engaged these men one on one, captured them digitally in a series of stunning photographs. She then used a multi-layered printing process that merges the portrait subject and the object they sell: newspapers.

Christine dropped by WFDD to talk about her art with TAW host David Ford.

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On Wednesday, May 23 from 5:30 to 6:30, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art will present a conversation between acclaimed Oak Ridge artist and Guilford College Professor Roy Nydorf and Mount Holyoke Mellon Professor of English, author, poet, Chris Benfey. Their subject will be Four Decades, the first major survey of Roy Nydorf’s work. The remarkable exhibit including Roy’s drawings, prints, paintings and sculpture, will remain on display at Greenhill through June 10.