This spring Winthrop University and its College of Visual and Performing
Arts (CVPA) will embark on the second year of Create
Carolina: A Southern Fried Arts and Film Festival. The
festival is open to all university students and educators in
the Carolina region. From May 19 to June 7, 2008 Winthrop
will produce the second annual Create Carolina Festival, an
arts collaboration between the university, the CVPA and
Charles Randolph-Wright, acclaimed writer, director and
producer of theatre, film and television.Create
Carolina is committed to the
collaboration between students, faculty, emerging artist and
industry professional. This interaction is central to our
mission of not only creating a major arts festival in the
Carolinas buy providing an opportunity for students and
artist to gain the skills needed to succeed in the
professional world.