Students perform a Spanish dance during STARS' production of "Diversity" for the school's ARTSplosion event in conjunction with the Palustris Festival.

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Eighth-grader Anna Neville dances with her classmates. "Diversity" combines dance, music, drama and the visual arts for a performance that showcases the importance of different perspectives within one society.

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Students sing and dance during the performance.

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Kindergartner Lillian Evans laughs during one of the show's skits.

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Students drum and perform an African dance wearing glow-in-the-dark paint.

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A STARS student laughs with the classmate behind her during the show.

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Eighth-grader Takya Jones sings during the closing number. Students performed two sold-out shows March 24 and 25.

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Visitors came to Linda Dalton's pottery studio in West End for tours and the chance to glaze their own raku pot.

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Linda Dalton shows visitors a piece of her horsehair raku pottery at her studio in West End.

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Sharon Beaulieu and her daughters, Renee, Emily and Kate try to select a piece of pottery to glaze.

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Emily Beaulieu squeezes a turquoise glaze onto a platter as her sisters, Kate (left) and Renee (right) wait their turn during the"Glaze and Fire Your Own Raku Pot" event.

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Renee Beaulieu concentrates as she glazes the platter. Beaulieu, along with her mother and sisters, selected the platter to share for the event.

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Dalton instructs Claire Phillips to put another layer of glaze on her piece.

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The Beaulieus selected decided to swirl their glaze around the platter.

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Jack Berggren places tape on his ceramic piece to create a swirling stripe.

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Martha Parsons glazes a piece of pottery with blue glaze.

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Kate Beaulieu mixes glaze as she prepares to paint a ceramic leaf.

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Linda Dalton prepares to close the raku kiln and fire the pieces.

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Pink dogwoods signal the beginning of spring in the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens.

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Visitors walk down the sidewalk from the Ball Visitor's Center for a tour of the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens at Sandhills Community College.

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Josephine Bernhard stoops to examine the leaves of a gardenia bush during a tour of the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Thursday.

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Sandhills Horticultural Gardens docent Skip Ragland leads a group on a tour.

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Ragland explains a pruning technique for crape myrtles.

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The group looks at one of the sculptures on display for the "Sculpture in the Gardens" exhibit on display.

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Ragland reaches up to the branches of a red bud tree as Marilyn Otto looks on.

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The Sandhills Harmony Chorus performs in the fellowship hall at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Southern Pines.

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Courtney Hern, Cameron Blue and Haley Barker perform before an audience at Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

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Greensboro artist William Mangum speaks to a crowd during the Ruth Pauley lecture in Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College Thursday evening.

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Mangum discusses "West Jefferson," the first limited edition watercolor print he ever did in his career.

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