CARRBORO -- Century Center Cinema presents the 1939 classic, "The Wizard of Oz" on March 26 at Carrboro's Century Center at the corner of Weaver and N. Greensboro streets. Opening the evening will be Jeff Hart and friends performing rootsy versions of the classic Oz songs live.
There's no place like home for young Dorothy (Judy Garland), who's been swept away from her farm in Kansas to a wonderland of munchkins, flying monkeys and different-colored horses. She must follow the Yellow Brick Road to the all-knowing Wizard of Oz to find her way home. Along the way, she meets the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), the Tin Man (Jack Haley) and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), who help her fend off the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton).
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., live music is at 7 p.m. and the film is at 7:20 p.m.
The cost is $4 per person, with free popcorn and soda.
For more details go to www.CenturyCenterCinema.com
Century Center Cinema is a monthly film series presenting classic, foreign, silent, documentary and independent films.
ArtsCenter sets auditions
CARRBORO -- On April 18, The ArtsCenter will hold auditions for the 9th Annual 10 By 10 Festival in the Triangle, an international festival of 10-minute plays: Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile; and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (rights pending).
Actors ages 10 to adult should contact Emily Ranii for an audition slot at theatre@artscenterlive.org or (919) 929-2787 ext 221.
Jones reads, on panel next week
CHAPEL HILL -- Author Edward P. Jones, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for "The Known World," will read Wednesday at UNC.
The free public reading will be at 7:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall auditorium, off Cameron Avenue near South Columbia Street. Jones will take questions from the audience after his reading.
Jones also will participate in a free panel discussion, "Talismans: Folklore and African-American Letters," at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Donovan Lounge of Greenlaw Hall, off South Road near the Student Stores. Donovan is on the second floor.
The panel also will feature Randall Kenan and Rebecka Rutledge-Fisher, faculty members in UNC's English and comparative literature department, and Bill Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South.
Jones is the 2010 Morgan Writer-in-Residence at Carolina.
