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CITY LIFE The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution City Arts Songs to stop the violence in JDS Thursday, March 28, 1996 v-y r-TT 1 1 J' iferTP AlAs stop NICK ARROYO Staff The key to peace: Children in the Atlanta Mass Youth Choir for Nonviolence rehearse at the Church of God in Christ in Proctor Village. In a year, the choir has grown from just family members to "at least 90 children." TODAY College Night at the High. Coffeehouse theme features exhibit tours, poetry readings and music by Chief Seattle and Gerard McHugh. 7-10 p.m. free with college ID Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St.

N.E. 404-733-4560. Georgia State University Symphonic Winds. Seventy-member ensemble and conductor Thomas Martin Wubbenhorst perform several works by composer-in-residence David Maslanka. 7:30 p.m.

$10. Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, 80 Forsyth St. 404-651-1234. "Pterodactyls." Nicky Silver's comic examination of a wealthy Philadelphia family whose son returns home to tell his parents he has AIDS. Presented by Barking Dog Theatre and directed by Chris Coleman.

8 p.m Thursdays-Saturdays; 7 p.m. Sundays. Through April 14. 14th Street Playhouse, Second Stage, 179 14th St N.E. 404-885-1621.

FRIDAY Blaq Future Month. Numerous activities are planned throughout March in Atlanta's African-American community to celebrate the principles of kujichagulia (self-determination) and ujima (collective work and responsibility). Highlights include a FutureFest concert and party at 10 p.m. Friday (Culture Center, 361 Edgewcod grand opening of Afrikan Institute for Crystal Artistry at 3 p.m. Saturday (365 Edgewood 5th Annual DJ Explosion at 10 p.m.

Saturday, (Royal Peacock, 186 Auburn Ave. N.E.); Imani (Faith) Fest at 1 p.m. Sunday, (Malcolm Park, Lucile at Lawton Street). Varied fees. 404-908-5336 or 404-753-9808.

Urban Bush Women. Contemporary dance com-: pany creates dance works rooted in the folklore and spiritual traditions of African-Americans. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. $15 at Ticketmaster; $13 stu- dents and senior citizens; $8 for CAU students.

Davage Auditorium, Clark Atlanta University, James P. Brawley Drive at Fair Street S. W. 404-. 817-8700.

Doc Watson. Bluegrass and country concert begins at 8:30 p.m. $15 in advance at Ticketmaster. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. N.E.

404-249-6400. SATURDAY "Living Pictures." A presentation of the life of Christ by the sanctuary choir, cast and orchestra of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church. 4 p.m. Free. 2715 Peachtree Road N.E.

404-266-8111, Ext. 130. New York City Opera National Company. Performing Verdi's "La Traviata." 8 pm Georgia Tech Center for the Arts, 349 Ferst Drive N.W. 404-894-9600.

The subdudes. Blues, rock and rhythm and blues. 8:30 p.m. $13 in advance at Ticketmaster. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave.

N.E. 404-249-6400. SUNDAY Alien Temple AME Church Choir. Performing Theodore Dubois' "The Seven Last Words of Christ" 6 p.m. Free.

1625 Simpson Road N.W. 404-794-3316. Medesld, Martin and Wood. With Agents of Good Roots. Jazz begins at 8:30 p.m.

$12 in advance at Ticketmaster. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. N.E. 404-249-6400. Compiled by Helen Holzer Family musical group turns into a way to help children "These are the kids tliat most adults have given up on.

Nobody seems to have time for the young people, but everyone is always complaining about wltat they are doing." Morehouse College, at the 1995 King Fest on Auburn Avenue and at the state Capitol. "Basically what we do is try to draw these young people off the streets," said Terrance Boswell Sr. "These are the kids that most adults have given up on. Nobody seems to have time for the young people, but everyone is always complaining about what they are doing." Boswell said he and his family make several trips to drive the children in their cars to rehearsals and performances because they don't have a van or bus for the choir. "But even with all the gas expense and all the mileage, it is worth it because I know this choir is making a difference for these kids," Terrance Boswell said.

"Some of them are teenaged girls who are young mothers and some are abused kids." The adults also serve as mentors and tutors to the choir members. "They know that if they don't go to school or if their grades drop, they can't sing," Virgie Boswell said. By Mara Rose Williams STAFF WRITER Seven-year-old Kimdelphia Boswell swayed to the beat that was in her head and then belted out, a cappella, the gospel song "I Made a Vow To The Lord." Kimdelphia's voice filled the small chapel during a rehearsal at the Church of God in Christ in Proctor Village. Kimdelphia, who is barely 4 feet tall, sings without shyness. She is one of 11 cousins in the Atlanta Mass Choir for Nonviolence that was founded last year by her grandmother, Virgie Boswell.

"I started this with my grandchildren and my children, but there are at least 90 children in the choir now and they come from all over metro Atlanta," said Boswell, a former nurse for the Georgia Mental Health Institute. The Atlanta Mass Youth Choir For Nonviolence will celebrate its first anniversary with a performance on Saturday at the Gresham Park Center. The group practices in a tiny wood-shingled church on Oliver Street in southwest Atlanta's Proctor Village. Choir members play the drums and Terrance Boswell who is the music director and Virgie BoswelFs son, plays the keyboards. "We sing everything from gospel rap to contemporary and traditional gospel," he said.

"I Made A Vow to the Lord," is a crowd-pleaser TERRANCE BOSWELL SR. Choir's music director with Kimdelphia as the soloist. "I like being in the choir," she said, flashing a broad smile after singing. "I get to meet a lot of other children from different places. We learn from each other." The choir has come a long way in just 12 months, growing from a small family singing group to a vehicle for helping young people.

The children have performed at several churches throughout Atlanta and Columbus and at SING OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE Atlanta Mass Youth Choir For Nonviolence will hold a free performance on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Gresham Park Center at Gresham and Clifton Church roads. TV station serves up new dish: Korean programming ISIAtiaiitalnternational Xp By Tim Fay "STAFF WRITER il lready served by more types 1 1 of media than any other immigrant group in Atlanta, Korean-Americans a month ago got their first TV station. It's the first in metro Atlanta owned by an Asian-American, former jeweler James Sim. WCIChannel 67 has news, church service broadcasts and soap operas pot too different from mainstream stations.

But the programming is in Korean. In the classic spirit of a community-owned radio station with a wide range of programming, the TV station every day also has Chinese and some Spanish-language programming from the Telemundo network. For Latinos, who can already opt to receive Spanish language channel Univision on most metro cable systems, it's a second option. But response has been especially strong among Koreans, who heretofore have had practically no TV programming choices. Not yet carried on any cable systems, the station has a 15- mile range from its Norcross i transmitter strong enough to reach thousands of metro Koreans, Latinos and Chinese.

The station reaches Atlanta, Cham-blee, Doraville, Roswell and western Gwinnett "It's great to have this for the community," said Peter Lee, editor of the Doraville-based Korean Southeast News. "Their news is very fast," he said, comparing it to his and four other weekly or monthly newspapers serving the community. A metro resident for 20 years, Sim started hisTV station in Norcross a month ago. It now broadcasts at 26,000 watts, which is considered a low-powered station. Station editor Rang Kim said the response has been good for morning and late-night Korean TV programming.

"The response is really high," said Kim. "They get to see the news from Korea. That's why they like it" Radio Shack and similar shops in the area noted a recent I ERIC WILLIAMS Staff Off the ground and on the air. From left are WCI general manager John King, station editor Seo Hun Hong, camera man Kang Min Kim and Mundo Hispanico publisher Lino Dominguez. increase in the sale of UHF antennas to Koreans.

(Standard UHF antennas, including "bow tie" versions, can pick up the station within the 15-mile radius.) Cable viewers can receive the station by temporarily unhooking their cable connection, although the station plans to apply for inclusion in metro cable systems. Though still experimenting with its schedule, the station usually carries Korean programming weekdays from 7 to 10 am and nights from 11 p.m. to 1 am News from the Korean Broadcasting System, and local Korean-American community news dominates from 7 to 7:45 a.m. A recent broadcast charted the progress of Korean shipping through the hotspot Taiwanese waters. The next show is "When the Wind Blows," a typical Korean drama.

"It's family stories with three generations. They all live together. It's their lifestyles," i inclusion is crucial. The station may be granted "must carry" status if it can meet certain signal strength tests. But its chances of achieving that status are best in its home county of Gwinnett, Federal Communication Commission engineer Hossein Hashemzadeh said.

For more information, call WCI at 770-447-8888. That doesn't surprise Ashley Know, a program director for the local Radio Korea. "Church is so important in our community," Know said. "There are about 130 churches in our community. You have to use churches to get any attention." Despite the popularity of his station's programming, station owner Sim admits that cable said Kee No, a station secretary and fan of the dramas.

But the programs tend to lack a key ingredient of American soap operas: sex. "They don't have that," No said. Similar dramas follow until 10 am On weekend mornings, the station features interviews, Korean news magazines and church service broadcasts..