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By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 1, 2001
St. Petersburg Junior College
6605 Fifth Ave. N
St. Petersburg
CoMotion Dance Theater will present its Spring Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Fine Arts Auditorium. The performance will feature choreography by local guest artists and college faculty and by Damien Stevens, who toured with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Pearl Lange and is a musician and dancer in South Florida with the percussion ensemble Rivers of Time. Call 341-4686 for information.
University of South Florida
140 Seventh Ave. S
St. Petersburg
553-3458
Steve Seibert, director of Florida's Department of Community Affairs and former Pinellas County commissioner, will speak on Growth Management in Florida's Future, 6 p.m. Monday in the Campus Activities Center. Seibert will talk about balancing protection against urban sprawl with the rights of private property owners. This is part of "Ethical Issues in Florida's Future," a lecture series exploring issues that confront Florida in the 21st century.
Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando will bring her latest film, Roots of My Heart, to USF this week as part of a U.S. tour. The film, shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Davis Hall, Room 130, is about the genocide in 1912 of more than 6,000 members of the Independents of Color, an Afro-Cuban political party. The film also will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the University Lecture Hall on the Tampa campus, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. Call 553-3727 for information.
-- Area universities and colleges offer educational lectures and programs open to the public. The Times lists these events in an occasional column. All events are free unless otherwise indicated. Send information at least two weeks in advance to Catherine Cushing, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.