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The 2008 Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Awards at St. Andrews Presbyterian College honored four creative artists with strong ties to the college. Pictured with President Paul Baldasare, left, and Writer-in-Resident Ron Bayes, right, are award winners Tanya Olson, Carlos Reyes, Jody Page and Jean Jones.

St. Andrews Connection Celebrated at Fortner Awards

“The things I am honored for tonight are things I learned at St. Andrews. It was here that I learned how to treat an artist and myself as an artist with respect and dignity. As an undergraduate I never thought of doing anything artistic before going to Brunnenburg, Italy. I still have my whole art notebook from that trip.”

Poet, educator and arts enthusiast Tanya Olson spoke these words in accepting her award at the 23rd Annual Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Awards Nov. 13 at St. Andrews.

“This award recognizes persons who have been outstanding contributors to the writing community creating a very real, positive community dynamic,” said Ron Bayes, Fortner Awards committee chair and St. Andrews writer-in-residence. “Our recipients this year could not be more deserving for their work in bringing artistic greatness to the larger community.”

Joining Olson in receiving this year’s award were poet and critic Jean Arthur Jones; musician and writer Jody Page; and, poet and translator Carlos Reyes. Read more.

 

 

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The Butcher, The Thief and the Buyer of Beef

Laurinburg, N.C. – The St. Andrews Presbyterian College Department of Communication and Theatre Arts will present Mark Taylor Mannette’s The Butcher, The Thief and the Buyer of Beef Nov. 20 – 22 in the Morris Morgan Theatre of the James L. Morgan Liberal Arts Building.

Curtain will go up at 8 p.m. during the play’s run, with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Nov. 22.

The dark comedy is based on the West Port Murders in Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1820s and explores the psyche of the perpetrators of the crimes. Also known as the Burke and Hare murders, there were a series of murders perpetrated in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1827 and 1828. William Burke and William Hare sold the corpses of their victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. Their principal customer was Dr. Robert Knox, who ran the anatomy school with a philosophy that in order to be successful surgeons, there was a need to see how the body worked through dissection. Accomplices for the crimes were Burke’s mistress Helen MacDougal and Hare’s wife Margaret.

For more information on this production or the Theatre Arts program at St. Andrews, please contact Mark Mannette at 910-277-5498 or mannettemt@sapc.edu.

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