{"id":19227,"date":"2013-03-26T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=19227"},"modified":"2015-03-04T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:51:21","slug":"acc-presents-carnival-ah-arts-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/03\/26\/acc-presents-carnival-ah-arts-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Presents Carnival ah! Arts &amp; Humanities Festival, April 3-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2013\/03\/carnival-ah20131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19228\" title=\"carnival ah2013[1]\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2013\/03\/carnival-ah20131-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Experience the best of arts and humanities at Austin Community College\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> annual Carnival ah!, an outdoor celebration at ACC&#8217;s historic Rio Grande Campus in downtown Austin (1212 Rio Grande St.). This year\u2019s event takes place April 3 and 4. Festivities are free and open to the public and will include live music, dance, drama, and performance art, as well as a student art sale, literary readings, philosophy and humanities discussions, open mic sessions, film screenings, food, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Carnival ah! runs 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day. Many performances and participants will examine the question, \u201cHow did you get here?\u201d \u2013 the 2013 Carnival ah! theme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarnival ah! will give participants a better appreciation of ourselves, our history, and how the arts and humanities express and define personal as well as community identity,\u201d says Lyman Grant, dean of arts and humanities.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of this year\u2019s Carnival ah! include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zell Miller III <\/strong>(April 3, 12:30-1 p.m.): Zell Miller III has won numerous awards for his work as an interdisciplinary theatre artist, poet, and youth counselor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Free Minds Project <\/strong>(April 3, 7-8 p.m.): Readings and performances on what it means to be an American.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red Threads <\/strong>(April 3, 8-9 p.m., &amp; April 4, 5-6 p.m.): A tent show featuring six artists, each generating performances, varying in discipline, on the theme of risk and vulnerability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Les Mis\u00e9rables Straight Up! <\/strong>(April 4, 3:30-4 p.m.): The ACC French Club will sing songs from the popular musical.<\/li>\n<li><strong>International Night <\/strong>(April 4, 6:30-10 p.m.): The outdoor showcase features the music of different drum styles from around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the complete Carnival ah! schedule and more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/carnival\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austincc.edu\/carnival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experience the best of arts and humanities at Austin Community College\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> annual Carnival ah! <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/03\/26\/acc-presents-carnival-ah-arts-festival-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":19260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}