My name is Stephen Hayes and this is a quick introduction into my many faces. The son of Lender and Stephen, I was lucky at first to grow up with two parents to look up to, but due to drugs, in 1990 my mother decided to separate from my father. My father preferred to support his drug habit rather than his family. So we left and I began another stage of my life with my mother and older brother to look up to.My brother is someone I always looked up to. He was the motivation factor in my love of art. By watching my brother overtime making something out of nothing, I became motivated to creating, building, and drawing things. Art became a way of self-expression for me. My mother saw the potential I possessed. When other children were getting bicycles and toys for Christmas, she brought me a workbench and tools.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007
10am-7pm
Hayti Heritage Center
FREE to the PublicPerfect gifts for yourself and others. Hand crafted art to wear, art to hang and art to enjoy. Paintings, jewlery, dolls, crafts and collectibles of all kinds. Vendors from across the state.

Shop early for best selections.

For more information call 919-683-1709

November 30 and December 1, St. Joseph’s Performance Hall at Hayti Heritage Center
Tickets: $15 adults/ $10 student w/id and Senior Citizens
This project is funded by St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, National Performance Network, Southern Arts Federation, North Carolina Arts Council, City of Durham and PennPAT.When Tania Isaac broke free from the cagelike apparatus in Rennie Harris Puremovement’s Facing Mekka to perform the show’s exhilarating solo, the dancer anointed herself a rising star in the city’s modern dance community. Effectively incorporating ethnic and Western dance forms as well as text, video and movement, Isaac shows herself to be a multitalented artist whose work both explores and expands the boundaries of contemporary Dance Theater.

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Reception and Silent Auction, an “Evening of Giving�
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 6:30 PM
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (The Legacy Tower), 411 West Chapel Hill Street, in Durham, N.C.

Entertainment will be provided by Ms. Lois Deloath, a legendary vocalist and songwriter. Juanita Massenburg, Chair and Honorary Chair, William “Bill� Bell, Mayor of Durham.

CD RELEASE PARTY AND CONCERT
With special guest the Triangle Youth Jazz All Stars
Sunday, November 18, 2007
7:00 PM Reception
7:30 PM Concert
Tickets: $10

Biography
John V. Brown, Jr., a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, began studying the bass when he was nine years old and has been performing professionally since his teens. He began performing with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra at thirteen, and was playing Principal Bass with that orchestra while still in high school. At the University of North Carolina at Greensboro he studied with Jack Budrow, and while still an undergraduate he performed with the Roanoke Symphony (VA), the Greensboro Symphony, and the Winston-Salem Symphony and interned with the North Carolina Symphony. In college, John also developed a great love for jazz, and began pursuing careers in both jazz and classical music. During that time, he co-founded a jazz quartet called “In the Blackâ€? with some fellow schoolmates. The group quickly began giving regular performances, most notably at the National Black Musician’s Caucus, at Debbie Allen’s wrap party for the filming of “Stompin’ at the Savoy,â€? with vocalist Melva Houston, and opening for Stanley Jordan.

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