The hotel is in a middle of a Huge Conference we do every two years it is called the National Black Theatre Festival and it draws huge crowds. I am amazed at how many people come out for this I am meaning 1000+ people. This festival has over 100 performances in 7 days that is amazing, the founder had passed away a few months ago, so it is extra special.

What is amazing to me, is how some people think there is racial tension, or that people are treating them badly due to skin color. That is not what I have seen, we have been proactive to make sure everything runs smoothly, and I don't think it has anything to do with color of skin it is the Massive amount of people!! Any crowd that huge has to be controlled no matter skin color. Every night seems like New Years Eve, people are hyped up, going from venue to venue enjoying the music and the alochol. We are using plastic in order for them to go throughout the complex, because of the marble floors and how dangerous if glasses are broken and how it would make it more dangerous to stop and have to clean up the glass all over the floors.

The police presence is again, for crowd control. I worked on Monday night an some people were rude but nothing more so than normal, alot of our clients are rude!! I wish people would stop trying to make this into anything except a celebration of the arts in Winston Salem, and how wonderful it is for the city.