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Arts Connection for April 6-7, 2007 A 1/2 hour edition of the program this week - a look at upcoming concerts & plays, including AN EVENING OF SPIRITUALS with the Orlando Philharmonic, and Tony-award winning 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Also, the Florida Book Awards.
ART NEWS - THIS WEEK - An Evening of Spirituals with the Orlando Philharmonic, tenor Curtis Rayam and the Jones High School Chorus is this Saturday at the Bob Carr - performances are at 2pm & 8pm. It is co-sponsored by the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation.
Last month, the winners in the new Florida Book Awards were announced; Bill Dudley talks to the organizers of the event. Press Release with winners..... Winners announced for Florida Book Awards Published March 5, 2007 Sarasota resident Tony D'Souza's debut novel Whiteman about a young American relief worker in a Muslim village in Africa's Ivory Coast beat out satirist Carl Hiaasen's Nature Girl for the top award in general fiction in the first Florida Book Awards. The popular fiction category, won by Lake Worth author James O. Born, seems designed to recognize the state's mystery and thriller writers. Last year, several organizations banded together to create the Florida Book Awards. Designed to be an annual event, the inaugural awards features seven categories. Among the winners are several South Florida authors. The judges were appointed statewide by the co-sponsoring organizations, including the Florida State University Program in American and Florida Studies, the Florida Center for the Book, State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Historical Society, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Florida Library Association, "Just Read, Florida!," Governor's Family Literacy Initiative, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, and Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. Winners will be recognized in Tallahassee on March 23. Details are available by calling Julie Phinney, Strozier Library, 850-644-5211. The Gold Medal Winners will receive additional recognition on March 28, also in Tallahassee. Call Jennifer Womble at the State Library and Archives, 850-245-6604 or visit www.fsu.edu/{tilde}ams/. The winners are: General fiction: Gold Medal Winner: Tony D'Souza, Whiteman; Silver Medal Winner: Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl; Bronze Medal Winner: Elizabeth Dewberry, His Lovely Wife Nonfiction: Gold: Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise; Silver: Daniel S. Murphree, Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783; Bronze: Bill Belleville, Losing It All to Sprawl; Martin A. Dyckman, Floridian of His Century; J. Stanley Marshall, The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University Spanish language: Gold: Daina Chaviano, La Isla De Los Amores Infinitos Poetry: Gold: James Kimbrell, My Psychic; Silver: Jay Hopler, Green Squall; Bronze: Kelle Groom, Luckily; Peter Meinke, The Contracted World Young adult: Gold: Adrian Fogelin, The Real Question; Silver: Joyce Sweeney, Headlock; Bronze: Caridad Ferrer, Adios to My Old Life; Tracy A. Akers, The Fire and the Light Children's: Gold: N.E. Bode, The Somebodies; Silver: Laurie Friedman, In the Business of Mallory; illustrator Barbara Pollak Popular fiction: Gold: James O. Born, Escape Claus; Silver: Ward Larsen, The Perfect Assassin; Bronze: M.D. Abrams, Murder and Wakulla Springs; Randy Wayne White, Dark Light; Brad Meltzer, The Book of Fate |
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