Arts & Culture
This area has been known for decades for its thriving creative music scene. Many people travel from around the region – and sometimes around the world – to attend shows at the Cat's Cradle and other venues in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Less famous, but also doing us proud, are visual artists, dancers, actors, and filmmakers around the Triangle. In fact, Chapel Hill was home to the first Flicker festival, which now takes place in ten cities around the world!
I usually try to discourage wholesale posting of press releases - as I'm about to do - but this just sounds like a great idea and I don't have anything to add to it.
Orange County’s Partnership to End Homelessness would like to invite the public to participate in a “Community Read” of the book The Soloist by Steve Lopez. The event is the first in a series of community education activities that will explore the issues of homelessness.
Via UNC News Service:
For 37 years, the Rogers Road community in Chapel Hill has been at the center of a public debate about the impact of the Orange County Landfill, which borders the neighborhood.
An
exhibit opening June 12 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill will tell a deeper story, uncovering more than two centuries of
the community’s history.
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| | Irving and Frances Nunn with their children in 1927Photo credit: North Carolina Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
The
exhibit, “We’re all Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the
Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill,” will be open until Aug. 31 in
the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library.
In a
free public program at 5:45 p.m. June 25 in the library, residents will
discuss their history. Panelists for the program, “Documenting
Neighborhood History in the Rogers Road Community of Chapel Hill,” will
include the Rev. Robert Campbell, other members of the community and
researcher Emily Eidenier. The program will follow a reception and
exhibit viewing at 5 p.m.
Date:
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 1:00pm
Location:
NC Collection, Wilson LIbrary, UNC Campus
The Arts Wing does not compete with teaching positions for funding. Construction projects are funded through construction bonds NOT the operating budget.
- Federal stimulus package provides $5.5 million in interest-free loans for qualified school construction.
The County Commission needs to vote to accept these funds, which would
I want to increase my knowledge of the history and politics of Orange County over the summer in preparation for my editor job at the DTH. Do you have any recommendations? Books, articles, etc.
I'm getting ready to get "The American College Town" from the library as a start.
Carrboro High School Drama Department presents its spring production,
"Little Shop of Horrors," at Culbreth Middle School auditorium. Thurs.
- Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 3 p.m. Students: $5, Adults $8.
Date:
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 3:30pm
Location:
Culbreth Middle School Auditorium
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