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PH OTOGRAPH Y BY MORIAH LEFEBVRE
1 Amari Stokes, 9, Elijah McDonald, 7, Jakeem Bradford, 10, Dolli Bradford, Danielle Bishop, Adriana Snipes, 5, and Ty McDonald, 10, of the Bull City Prospects basketball team. 2 Ginger Young, founder and executive director of Book Harvest, and Trudy Smith, Book Harvest chair member.
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To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Sonic Pie Productions, a Durhambased company specializing in curated concert bookings and concert/festival production, hosted a party alongside Soigné Events at The Rickhouse. Naturally, there was live music by Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba as well as Larry Mangum and Will Perryman. Founded by Tess Mangum Ocaña in February 2013, some of the production company’s Durham projects have included events for Durham Central Park, World Beer Festival, Art of Cool Festival, Festival for the Eno and Durham Magazine’s own Taste the Event. “We love helping festivals, towns and nonprofits build both community and commerce through well-planned live music-based events,” Tess says.
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Book Harvest, a nonprofit that collects new and gently used children’s books and places them in the hands and homes of children who need them, hosted its seventh annual Dream Big Book Drive on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Durham Central Park. More than 300 Book Harvest volunteers staffed the event, sorting and organizing the more than 30,000 books that were donated on the day of the drive. (More than 43,000 books in total were collected.) Master of Ceremonies Tisha Powell of WTVD/ABC-11 and Book Harvest Executive Director Ginger Young kicked off the event, which featured special performances by The Bouncing Bulldogs, Batalá Durham, NCCU Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Tiny House; craft making with The Scrap Exchange; face painting by the Lakewood Elementary PTA; and special appearances by Wool E. Bull, Read-a-Roo, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Ranger Baldy.
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april 2018
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1 Jose Ocaña, Brad Harmon, Tess Mangum Ocaña, Yago Ocaña, 9, Nico Ocaña, 6, and Tyra Harmon. 2 Rissi Palmer and Kamara Thomas.