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EASTER, UAPB DRAMA HIGHLIGHT CALENDAR
BY THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Monday, April 6, 2009 9:55 AM CDT
The Passion Experience and a community Easter service near Lake Saracen will be among several events happening in the Pine Bluff area this week.
Family Church will present a free outdoor production of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus entitled the Passion Experience.
Stephen Harrison, associate pastor, said the presentation is designed to allow those watching to feel as though they are part of the crowd that was present as soldiers beat Jesus before his death. About 100 actors will participate in the production.
The hour-long event will be held Monday through Friday at 8 p.m. on the grounds of Family Church, 2500 Arkansas 104. Admission, parking and refreshments will be free, Harrison said.
Harrison said last year about 6,000 people attended the event and this year he expects about 10,000.
On Easter Sunday, First United Methodist Church will conduct a communitywide Easter Sunrise service at Saracen Landing at 6:30 a.m.
The second annual service will include congregational hymn singing accompanied by a brass quartet, guest soloist, Susan Jones and a message from senior pastor, David Moseley. Everyone is invited to bring a chair and attend.
Regular services at 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. will be conducted at the church at Sixth Avenue and Chestnut Street.
The Pine Bluff Police Department will hold an Easter Egg hunt at the civic center complex on the corner of Eighth Avenue and State Street from noon to 2 p.m. Friday.
There will be refreshments and a visit by the Easter Bunny for children 2 to 12 years old.
Also this week, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will sponsor a spring musical, “Gospel at Colonus” in the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Center.
Previews will be held Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and tickets will be $5.
Performances are scheduled for April 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. and April 18 at 3 p.m. and tickets will cost $10 for general admission and $6 for groups of 20 or more.)
Thursday is still UAPB Student Night and students attend free with ID.
Presented by UAPB’s John McLinn Ross Players, the “Gospel at Colonus,” is a gospel version of Sophocles’ tragedy, “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald and Dudley Fitts. It was conceived and adapted in 1985 by Lee Breuer, the experimental theatre director, and composer Bob Telson, the founders of the Mabou Mines theatre troupe.
Breuer and Telson handed the storytelling duties to a black Pentecostal preacher and the choir of his church, who enacted the story of Oedipus’ torment and redemption as a modern parable.
Also this week:
U.S. Rep. Mike Ross (D-Prescott) will posthumously present the Purple Heart Medal to PFC Ivey G. Barnett, U.S. Army. Barnett’s sister, Betty Bradshaw, will accept the medal on her brother’s behalf. The presentation will be held today at 3 p.m. at Donald W. Reynolds Community Services Center, meeting rooms A & B. The presentation will made at the beginning of the Pine Bluff Town Hall Forum which is open to the public and where Ross will take questions about issues related to the federal government.
The Arkansas Arts Center’s Artmobile, a 40-foot mobile gallery containing original works of art from the Arkansas Art Center’s permanent collection will be at Pine Bluff High School Monday through Friday. The Artmobile also will be at the Southeast Arkansas Community College 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 15-19 and the Delta Rivers Nature Center 9 a.m.-4 p.m. from June 23-26.
The Pine Bluff Rotary Club will meet at noon Tuesday at the Pine Bluff Country Club. The speaker will be Dan Daugherty, communications manager for Entergy Arkansas.
The West Pine Bluff Rotary Club will meet at noon Thursday at the Pine Bluff Country Club. The speaker will be Dr. David Lipschitz, a well-known geriatrician.
The Pine Bluff City Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the council chambers at the civic center.
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