ART WITH MEANING
TWO IN TWO
Pearl Means speaks about her husbandâs artwork, which is currently on display at Both Library.
The Eastern baseball team will host two non-Division I opponents over the next two days.
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Tarble director announced
Staff Report
Rehema Barber has been announced as the new director of the Tarble Arts Center. Barber is currently the coordinator for Figure One, the off campus exhibition space for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has worked in Hartfort, Conn., as a curatorial associate for the Amistad Center at the Wadworth Atheneum and has participated in professional development programs at the Henry Luce Foundation in Jewish Art in New York City. She has also held positions in Los Angeles for the Getty Museum Leadership Institute and Tokyo, Japan for the Japan Foundation. Barber was one of the finalists in the new director search in the beginning of February. Her position as director of Tarble will start June 15.
âTELL THE TRUTH AND DONâT BE AFRAIDâ
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Unions disagree with city resolution By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 With a resolution supporting some of Gov. Bruce Raunerâs ideas on âempowerment zonesâ having passed the Charleston City Council April 7, some local union re p re s e n t a t i ve s d i s a g re e a n d b e l i e ve i t should have been brought forth for debate. Despite the arguments on both sides, Mayor Larry Rennels said the resolution was only meant to tell the state that the council agreed with and wanted to consider implementing those ideas. â With the whole issue, there are differing opinions, but our resolution didnât enact anything the city can do,â Rennels said. âAnything like that would have to be signed by the governor.â T h e Su p p o r t i n g L o c a l G ov e r n m e n t Empowerment resolution states that the community should decide whether or
not employees should be âforced to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment.â Derek Light, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local 981 chapter, said because of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, workers who are not members of a union pay âfair shareâ to cover the costs of the unionâs services. The act states that labor organizations are responsible for representing the interests of all public employees in the unit they oversee. Light gave the example of building service workers at Eastern like himself who all receive the benefits of having a local union regardless of their membership. âIf you get in trouble and have to go up to Old Main, whether youâre full member or fair share member, you still get the representation of the union body to help settle any claims,â he said.
L i g h t s a i d t h e i d e a o f n o t âf o rc i n gâ others to join unions or pay dues would mean people who do not pay for the unionâs services still have access to them b e c a u s e o f t h e Pu b l i c L a b o r Re l a t i o n s Act. He compared this to a citizen going into a restaurant and ordering food but claiming they have the right to it so they are not going to pay. âEnough people finally said, âWhy do I h a ve t o p a y f o r t h i s i f I g e t t h e f re e stuff?ââ Light said. âThen everybody quits paying, and before long thereâs no union and you have no representation.â Light said although the resolution does not ch ange the law, he does not agree with the way the council voted on the resolution in one meeting without discussion or placing it on file for public inspection.
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Members of the Quad City Ballet perform traditional Mexican folk dances in front of the outdoor stage during Celebration on April 26, 2014.
Celebration festival to return at end of month By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Celebration: A Festival of the Arts will return to Eastern April 24 to 26 on South Seventh Street, between the Doudna Fine Arts Center and Buzzard Hall. Dan Crews, director of patron services at the Doudna Fine Arts Center, said the Doundaâs final performance of the year will be the Saturday evening of the festival. Celebration has been a Charleston tradition since 1977, and features a variety of arts experiences for three days. Total festival hours are Friday at 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. âThe festival will feature many musical performances, dance programs, art exhibits and the annual Prairie Plant sale, which features a variety of grasses and plants that are native to Illinois,â he said. Crews said groups would perform to-
gether for one main music event on the Dvorak Concert stage. The musical group Switchback, which was voted as a part of Doudnaâs âBest Of â series, will make its way back to Charleston for the collaborative performance. â This time Switchback will be paired w i t h t h e g r o u p s T h e Tw a n g t ow n Pa r amours and Robinella,â he said. Crews said each of the groups would perform their own set, and then join together for one large jam session at the end. Cre ws said other per formers include The Turinoâs; the reggae band Gizzea; native American singer song-writer Michael Jacobs; Dicky James and the Blue Flames; s t e e l d r u m m e r Ni g e l T h o m a s ; Te q u i la Mockingbird; The Moondogs; the ExBombers; The Unity Gospel Choir; The Cruddites and Charleston native Brent Byrd.
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There will be food vendors at Celebration : A Festival of Arts as well as various forms of art on April 24 to 26.