| By Katie Venit
A & E Assistant Editor
The Festival of the Arts to benefit AIDS Care will raise money on April 25 for AIDS Care Service and HOPE (HIV Outreach Programs and Education), two not-for-profit local AIDS care organizations.
AIDS Care Service helps AIDS and HIV patients find housing and plan daily activities. It opened a new facility in March.
HOPE offers pediatric care teams, hospital visitation, legal assistance and information on AIDS and HIV. HOPE has initiated and is currently running a "Foodbank" drive for patients with AIDS and HIV.
The day-long event will include information on the two organizations and local entertainment from this university, the North Carolina School of the Arts and Winston-Salem State University, including an art show with some works by university students such as seniors Geoff Coleman and Kevin O'Brien.
Some of the art work, along with work by local craftsmen and students from the supporting schools, will be sold in a silent auction. The festival also presents the University Gospel Choir and Stepping Group and the NCSA Jazz Band.
Also performing are university drama and musical students and NCSA reviewing Broadway musicals and NCSA clown and fire eaters. Local band Jump Little Children, an up-and-coming band that varies from funk to pop, will perform at the festival.
The festival is working with the sixth annual Dining with Friends, a fund raising dinner event throughout Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Dining with Friends also benefits the AIDS Care Service and HOPE.
The two fund-raisers will join forces, and participators can attend the festival during the day and the dinner in the evening.
The festival is free and open to the public with fund raising events throughout the day. It is located at Corpening Plaza, starting at 10 a.m. and lasting until 7:30 p.m.
Though there have been some private and corporate sponsors such as Bell South Mobility, the Winston-Salem Arts Council, Rose's Deli and Papa John's, the two funds still need donations. Anyone interested in helping, may contact senior Carrie Foster, the Public Relations Director of the Festival at 744-5249 or event manager Marni Cook at 748-8779 for information.
The Millennium Center on Trade and Fifth streets will present a decades party from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. April 23. Partiers, 18 and up, who dress in their favorite decade may get in for $4, others for $5.
All proceeds will go to HOPE and AIDS Care Service.
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