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Events for July 2016
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Coal Miner's Dinner and Premiere of "After Coal: Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities"
July 05, 2016
— Oak Hill, Fayette
WVHC Event
“After Coal” profiles inspiring individuals who are building a new future in the Appalachian coalfields and South Wales. The cost of the dinner event is $25; $15 for unemployed coal mining family members and students (scholarships are available). 5:30PM July 12 at Historic Oak Hill High School.
This project is funded in part by a West Virginia Humanities Council grant.
http://wvhumanities.org/event/event-2851/
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West Virginia Wesleyan Visiting Writers Series
July 06, 2016 to July 07, 2016
— Buckhannon, Upshur
WVHC Event
Wesleyan’s Visiting Writers Series brings writers Sarah Einstein and Mary Carroll-Hackett to campus for an evening reading for MFA students and the general public. Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Carroll-Hackett is the author of six titles: The Real Politics of Lipstick (Slipstream Press 2010), Animal Soul (Kattywompus Press 2013), If We Could Know Our Bones (A-Minor Press 2014), The Night I Heard Everything (FutureCycle Press 2015), Trailer Park Oracle (Kelsey Books 2016), and most recently, A Little Blood, A Little Rain (FutureCycle Press 2016). She teaches Creative Writing at Longwood University in Virginia.
July 6 and 7 at Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library – Upshur Reading Room
http://wvhumanities.org/event/event-2511/
This project is funded in part by a West Virginia Humanities Council grant.
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Ostenaco, History Alive!
July 07, 2016
— Rupert, Greenbrier
WVHC Event
Ostenaco, History Alive!, 1:00PM July 7 at Rupert Public Library
History Alive! is a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council.
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John Henry Days
July 08, 2016 to July 10, 2016
— Talcott, Summers
John Henry Days is an annual 3-day festival held on the second weekend of July. The festival starts on Friday night with a concert at the stage near the Great Bend Tunnel and ends on Sunday with the Rubber Duck Race at the Talcott Bridge overlooking the Greenbrier River. July 8-10, 2016 http://johnhenryhistoricalpark.com/john-henry-days.html
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New Deal Festival
July 09, 2016
— Arthurdale, Preston
The New Deal Festival is held annually on the second Saturday in July to celebrate the unique history of the nation’s first New Deal Subsistence Homestead Community of Arthurdale. The event is sponsored by Arthurdale Heritage, Inc., the non-profit organization that formed to “restore yesterday for tomorrow” with the mission of preserving the history of Arthurdale for generations to come.
This quaint 1930s-40s style festival features artisan demonstrations, craft market, children’s activities, new exhibits in the New Deal Homestead Museum, tours of the Arthurdale Historic District, a visit from Eleanor Roosevelt, and much more.
July 9, 2016 http://www.newdealfestival.org/
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A Modern Lazarus Story: The Railroad Industry in the 20th Century
July 09, 2016
— Morgantown, Monongalia
WVHC Event
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Hatfields & McCoys: American Blood Feud traveling exhibit
July 11, 2016 to August 06, 2016
— Morgantown, Monongalia
WVHC Event
Developed by the West Virginia Humanities Council and illustrated by West Virginia University graphic design students with financial support from ZMM Architects and Engineers, this traveling exhibit relates the history of the events that have become synonymous with the word feud. July 11 – August 6 at the Morgantown History Museum, Morgantown.
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Creators Program- Adobe Fundamentals: Photoshop
July 16, 2016
— Charleston, Kanawha
Confused by Bezier curves, wondered why your office fliers look like ransom notes or how to deal with all those layers?
Learn tools, shapes, colors, layers, effects and how to work with type in each program. We’ll learn how to produce creative and practical documents — posters, fliers, newsletters — in a hands-on setting. Each participant will be provided with a laptop or you’re welcome to bring your own. Please select appropriate ticket type which will indicate computer needs.
- Photoshop- July 16th
- Illustrator- July 23rd
- InDesign- July 30th
Limited class size for those needing to use one of our computers so register soon.
Cost is $20 per session. WVSU students with ID get in for free!
Workshop presented by Brenda Pinnell, owner of graphic design firm HepCatz Design and a former visual journalist.
www.hepcatzdesign.com
Register: http://www.wvsuedc.org/#!creators-adobe-fundamentals/z2c53
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Blue Highway at Chuck Mathena Center
July 23, 2016
— Princeton, Mercer
The award winning bluegrass band, Blue Highway, will take the stage at the Chuck Mathena Center on Saturday, July 23 at 7pm.
July 23 at the Chuck Mathena Center.
There is no doubt that Blue Highway is one of the finest bluegrass bands around today. The highly esteemed group has earned 25 collective IBMA awards among its members and was voted Favorite Bluegrass Group of All Time by the readers of Bluegrass Today, April 2016.
Blue Highway is praised by peers, fans and media alike. One of the most powerful descriptions of the 22-year strong band is shared by Country Standard Time News Magazine, “Wayne Taylor sings with the emotion of a man who escaped the coals mines and ain’t planning to go back. Tim Stafford continues to craft songs with depth…the instrumentation is perfect. From the get go, Jason Burleson opens with the unique style that defines bluegrass banjo. Shawn Lane exemplifies modern mandolin, yet nods to the Monroe legacy. Three lead singers…rich harmony…songs of forgotten homeless veterans, fallen heroes and heartbroken families. Blue Highway personifies modern acoustic music with respect to the tradition. Highly recommended, highly respected.”
Tickets are on sale now at Chuck Mathena Center, 2 Stafford Commons, Princeton, WV 24739. You can purchase tickets online at www.chuckmathenacenter.org or by calling the Box Office at 304 425-5128. All tickets are $25. A ten percent discount is available to groups of ten or more. Save 25% when you buy a CMC Season Pass for four or more shows! Check out the whole season, Ballet to Bluegrass, at www.chuckmathenacenter.org.
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Creators Program- Adobe Fundamentals: Illustrator
July 23, 2016
— Charleston, Kanawha
Confused by Bezier curves, wondered why your office fliers look like ransom notes or how to deal with all those layers?
Learn tools, shapes, colors, layers, effects and how to work with type in each program. We’ll learn how to produce creative and practical documents — posters, fliers, newsletters — in a hands-on setting. Each participant will be provided with a laptop or you’re welcome to bring your own. Please select appropriate ticket type which will indicate computer needs.
- Photoshop- July 16th
- Illustrator- July 23rd
- InDesign- July 30th
Limited class size for those needing to use one of our computers so register soon.
Cost is $20 per session. WVSU students with ID get in for free!
Workshop presented by Brenda Pinnell, owner of graphic design firm HepCatz Design and a former visual journalist.
www.hepcatzdesign.com
Register: http://www.wvsuedc.org/#!creators-adobe-fundamentals/z2c53
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Archives and History Block Speaker Series: Gary Mays
July 28, 2016
— Charleston, Kanawha
On Thursday, July 28, 2016, Garrett “Gary” Mays will present “African American Life: A Personal Perspective” in the Archives and History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston. The program, which is the third of the 2016 Block Speakers Series, will begin at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Gary Mays, “The One Arm Bandit,” was born in Burnwell, a coal mining town in Kanawha County, on March 26, 1935. At the age of five, he lost his left arm in a shotgun accident. When he was 12, he moved to the northeast section of Washington, DC, where he started playing baseball at Logan Community Center.
Mays attended Armstrong Technical High School where he displayed his athletic skills playing baseball and basketball. It was Mays’ basketball coach Charlie Baltimore who gave him the nickname “The One Arm Bandit” because of his ability to steal the ball.
In 1954, Armstrong and Spingarn high schools played each other for the Inter-High Division II Basketball Tournament title. Spingarn was undefeated, and its star player, Elgin Baylor, had averaged more than 40 points in the school’s two victories over Armstrong during the regular season. Armstrong’s coach instructed his players to use a zone defense with the exception of Gary Mays, who was told to play “man-to-man” defense against Baylor. Armstrong managed to beat Spingarn 50 to 47, with Baylor only scoring 18 points.
The following year, Gary Mays attended the Washington Senators annual tryout camp at Griffith Stadium. Although he was not signed by the Senators, Mays, who threw out a base runner and hit the only home run in a camp-closing scrimmage, was unanimously voted camp MVP.
Mays attended The College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, and went on to become a liquor store owner and cab, bus, and limousine driver. He was building chairman for the DC Chapter of Habitat for Humanity and the owner of his own construction company. Mays currently is vice president of the Armstrong Alumni Association.
Participants may park behind the Culture Center after 5:00 p.m. on July 28 and enter the building at the back loading dock area. There also is limited handicapped parking available in the new bus turnaround.
For additional information, call (304) 558-0230.
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Creators Program- Adobe Fundamentals: InDesign
July 30, 2016
— Charleston, Kanawha
Confused by Bezier curves, wondered why your office fliers look like ransom notes or how to deal with all those layers?
Learn tools, shapes, colors, layers, effects and how to work with type in each program. We’ll learn how to produce creative and practical documents — posters, fliers, newsletters — in a hands-on setting. Each participant will be provided with a laptop or you’re welcome to bring your own. Please select appropriate ticket type which will indicate computer needs.
- Photoshop- July 16th
- Illustrator- July 23rd
- InDesign- July 30th
Limited class size for those needing to use one of our computers so register soon.
Cost is $20 per session. WVSU students with ID get in for free!
Workshop presented by Brenda Pinnell, owner of graphic design firm HepCatz Design and a former visual journalist.
www.hepcatzdesign.com
Register: http://www.wvsuedc.org/#!creators-adobe-fundamentals/z2c53
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