ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, January 29, 1996 TAG: 9601300115
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
Play auditions
Auditions for ``Look Homeward, Angel'' and other plays to be included in the Roanoke Valley Shakespeare Festival will be held Sunday from 1-5 p.m. in Virginia Western Community College's Whitman Auditorium.
Actors, singers and dancers of all ages and ethnic backgrounds are needed.
Actors should come with a prepared scene that does not exceed two minutes, singers with one song. Auditionees will read from a script and do simple choreography. An accompanist will be provided.
For more information, call 857-7327 pr 384-6946.
Author to speak
Ken Kizer, author and columnist for the Richmond Times Dispatch, will speak at the Healing Circle at Lifestream Center, Roanoke, tonight at 7.
Kizer will also sign his latest book, ``Rebirthing For Life: Using Rebirthing and Astrology for Emotional Healing.''
He will be available for personal readings on Tuesday.
The Lifestream Center is located at 2028 Brandon Ave.
For more information, call 344-3031.
Book festival
The second annual Virginia Festival of the Book will be held March 28-31 in Charlottesville.
The event will include readings, panel discussions, exhibitions and children's programs.
If your organization would like to participate or if you would like more information, call (804) 924-3296.
Speech writer to speak
Junius Griffin, a former New York Times reporter who was a speech writer for Martin Luther King Jr., will speak on King's social and political theology at 7 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Chapel at Emory & Henry College.
The speech is part of Emory's annual celebration of King's life and work. It is open to the public at no charge.
Griffin is a native of Stonega, a small coal-mining community in Wise County. After 12 years in the Marine Corps, he began his journalism career. In July, 1963, he and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Relman Morin with six other Associated Press reporters published a 13-part series on racial prejudice and segregation in the United States called "The Deepening Crisis." The series was nominated for a 1962 Pulitzer.
In 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hired Griffin to write speeches for King, which he did until 1967 when he took a job with Motown Records Industries. He stayed with Motown until 1980, when he enrolled at East Tennessee State University and later earned a bachelor's degree in English and mass communications and a master's in English. He is now working on his doctorate.
In 1988, he became public relations advisor and a board member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. He later taught for five years at Michigan State University.
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