Kansan Summer Weekly
Wednesday, July 29, 1987
Arts and Entertainment
7
Hoffman, middle, clowns with Marvin Hunt, left, during one of the numbers the hand played Sunday night.
The Mackender-Hunt Band performed recently at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. They played for the last Stage 6 video shoot Sunday. From left are: Marvin Hunt, guitar; Gary Mackender, drums; Karl Hoffman, bass; Steve Hall, guest percussionist; and Kellley Hall, lead vocalist.
Lack of sponsors ends area TV show
By CAROLINE REDDICK Arts editor
An area television show that features local talent, Stage 6, has been canceled because of a lack of sponsors, the producer of the show said recently.
The show has been produced by Sunflower Cablevision since May 1986. It will air for the last time in September, said Jim Jewell, Stage 6 producer and community programming director of Sunflower Cablevision.
"Apparently, there's not enough interest from the sponsors that they can justify paying for commercials on the program," Jewell said. "They say they only have so much to spend, and they want to put it in news or sports programs."
Richard Skoonberg, creative director for Sunflower Cablevision's advertising department, said that an
advertiser could sponsor one show for as little as $18.75. Most shows had about six sponsors, he said.
Jewell said that producing one show costs about $1,000.
He said that he was negotiating with KU faculty and staff about cooperative projects between the University and Sunflower Cablevision.
"I'm talking about whatever they can pull together," he said. "We're ready and available. I'm hoping they're interested in using our facilities and ability to shoot multi-camera productions.
"That's one reason I'm not completely depressed about losing this show. There's potential for new life that would not require sponsorship to sustain it."
The live performance of the Mackender-Hunt band Sunday night at Liberty Hall was filmed for the last
production of Stage 6. A 60-minute edition of the performance will be aired four times in September.
Jewell said he decided to film the Mackender Hunt band for the last show because of the diversity of their music.
"I felt they were colorful and adept," he said. "In an evening's performance, they hit a variety of music styles. I felt their material could hold an audience.
Earlier productions include jazz performances, dance performances, community theatre and footage of Lawrence's 1986 Independence Days.
Jewell said the performances on Stage 6 also were diverse.
"I've tried to have a wide diversity of performances for all the shows. We went far and wide so we had a nice cross-section of the community, at least the performance end of it."
The Mackender-Hunt band is a
local group that plays regularly at the Jazzhaus and at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Mo.
The band was formed in early 1984. Gary Mackender, drummer, described the group's music as a blend of styles.
"It's a kind of hybrid of influences." Mackendner said. "We do a lot of R & B, gospel, soul and rock. About 40 percent of our stuff is written by Kelley."
New Cottonwood anthology describes racism, exclusion
Mackendier said that the group had no aspirations to national success.
"We just want to have a good time and not get too serious," he said. "We really don't have our sights set on fame.
"I think we're a good bar ban. A lot of its infectious energy that people pick up on. Whether the audience wants to or not, we're going to have a good time. And usually they 're willing to come along with us."
Special to the Kansan
By JEAN KETTER
Kansans have prided themselves on being a free-state historically, but black authors featured in the new double issue of Cottonwood magazine tell of racism and oppression experienced here, not of freedom.
Cottonwood Press, of the University of Kansas, has recently published an anthology of contemporary black authors to celebrate 125 years of Kansas statehood.
John F. Healy, a graduate teaching assistant in the English department and production manager for the magazine's 38th and 39th issue, said it showed a wide range of attitudes within Midwestern black culture. The anthology includes selections from Kansans and other Midwestern writers.
Many of the selections refer to distortions in Kansas and midwestern history that ignore the racism and exclusion blacks have experienced here, Healy said.
In an essay on Langston Hughes and his years in Lawrence, Richard Barksdale said, According to Arnold Pampersdal, the author of the first volume of what will probably be the most definitive biography to date on Langston Hughes. Afro-American's foremost author experienced nothing but sorrow and woe as a youth in Lawrence, Kan. Most of his 13 years in that highly segregated city were years of social isolation, economic deprivation and what RAMPERS chooses to call 'childhood hurt.'
The first poem in the poetry section, Kansas Land, by Gordon Parks, describes the beauty of nature the poet will miss, but ends with these lines:
Yes, all this I would miss — along with the fear, hatred and violence/ We blacks have suffered upon this beautiful land.
Tamara Brown, fiction editor of this issue, said that the double issue followed the usual format of the magazine and includes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews and interviews. Wedge and Brown said the staff didn't look for any particular theme or focus when selecting the works.
Cottonwood was recognized nationally when a magazine that anthologized American poetry recently asked for the work from last two issues. Wedge said,
Brown said the magazine is gaining more recognition among aspiring writers.
"The Cottonwood is becoming more and more well-known. We get submissions from all over the country now.
"Since we have no money to pay anyone for their work, that's remarkable," Brown said.
The double issue is unusual because it includes both photographs and art prints. Brown said it was too expensive to print both in a normal issue.
The issue costs $10 and is carried by the Oread Bookstore and in Kansas City bookstores.
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