AEMMP Records, Columbia’s student managed, nonprofit record company, is currently looking for studio mastered demos from aspiring artists. Each year, officials at AEMMP Records screen demos, select and sign an artist to a marketing and distribution agreement in order to release and promote their music throughout Chicago. All genres of music are accepted, and in the past, AEMMP Records has signed artists that ranged from hip-hop to urban country. “Language” Poets come to Columbia The exhibition also welcomes the new director of the Center for Book and Paper Arts, William Drendel. Drendel, a well-known artist in the book community, join Columbia faculty this past summer. Stuckley to speak on Paul Robeson at Columbia’s Center for Black Research Name: Your Comments: The Columbia Chronicle is an award-winning college newspaper written and distributed weekly by students at Views expressed here are not necessarily those of the Journalism Department or the college. Visit
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AEMMP Records seeking studio mastered demos
All submissions should be sent along with a photo and biographical information to AEMMP Records, Columbia College Chicago, 600. S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605. You can also drop your submission off at AEMMP Records office, 624 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 700. All submissions must be in no later than Nov. 25, 1999.
“Language” poets Rosemarie and Keith Waldrop will read their works on Thursday, Nov. 11 at 5:30 p.m., at the Ferguson Theater, 600 S. Michigan Ave. The Waldrops are among the most respected poets working in the international literary phenomenon. They are also leading publishers of avant-garde poetry. The reading is free and open to the public. For more information on this event, please call 312-344-8100.
Faculty Exhibition on display at Columbia’s Center for Book and Arts
Inside Story: Considering Beginnings, an exhibition featuring the work of the faculty and staff of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department, will mark the grand opening of the new Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts. The Center is the largest of its kind in the country.
The Center recently relocated to the Ludington Building, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., and this is the first time the Interdisciplinary Arts Department has held a faculty exhibition. The exhibit is set to open Friday, Nov.19 and will continue until Friday, Dec. 17.
Sterling Stuckey, the 1999-2000 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow for the Center for Black Music Research, will present a lecture on “New Research: Paul Robeson, Trinidad, and Jamaica” on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in the Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan Ave. A reception will also be held following this free presentation. For more information on this event, please call 312-344-7573.
Graduate wins fiction award
Harold Holt, a Columbia graduate in Fiction Writing/English, was awarded the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award for a short story entitled, “Harsh Venue.” The award was presented at the ninth annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference at Chicago State University by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing.
Holt has published stories in South Side Stories and Mosaic and also taught courses at Harold Washington College and Kennedy King College as well as English at Julian High School.
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