African American Atelier Presents: 25UNDER25
Through August 6 - Greensboro Cultural Center - Greensboro
25under25 highlights a diverse group of eclectic and vibrant young artists from the Triad Community. An extensive range of expression and media will be showcased, integrating the experiences and perspectives of the members of the millennial generation.
333.6885 or info@africanamericanatelier.org
Pathway to Freedom
Through August 20 - 8 PM - Snow Camp Outdoor Drama Site - Snow Camp
An exciting account of the struggles and heroism of the 1840's and 1850's along the "Underground Railroad" from NC to Indiana. Both individuals and some organized religions fought slavery in the legislature and on the farms, while some, led volunteers and free slaves in clandestine efforts to help escaping slaves to freedom. Music in the play is the music of the period and enriches the emotions of the play.
800.726.5115 or snowcampot@aol.com
Alternate Roots Annual Meeting
August 10 - 15 - Lutheridge Conference Center - Arden, NC
In 2010, Alternate ROOTS launches a three-year initiative, The Aesthetics of Diversity. It will explore issues and opportunities to advance a progressive agenda in the South through the lens of the South’s newest citizens, immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries, India, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Aesthetics of Diversity will examine questions of art and culture focusing on place in 2010, people in 2011, and traditions in 2012. The goal is to build bridges across and among diverse communities and inform discussions such that members of various communities have a lens through which to view how they may positively impact change in their community.
404.577.1079
Photography Dialogs: John Rosenthal and Linda Foard Roberts
Wednesday, August 11 - 5:30 PM - Green Hill Center for NC Art - Greensboro
Rosenthal will speak about his latest series of color photographs of New Orleans taken one year and a half after Hurricane Katrina. Roberts will present her large format digital photographs "Simple Truths" portraying her family and home. Both photographers will then discuss the nature of their medium.
333.7460 or liz.busch@greenhillcenter.org
Recycle Labyrinth Swap-a-Thon
Saturday, August 14 - 2-5 PM - SECCA Grounds - Winston-Salem
During the Swap-a-Thon event, volunteers from Piedmont Craftsmen will help guide visitors through creating and experiencing the labryinth.The community is asked to bring useable household items (non-clothing) that they can incorporate into the labyrinth while walking through it. (Please limit the size of the items to be no larger/heavier than a microwave oven. If you can't carry it easily, then it is too big.)Visitors may also select one item to take home that they can use, making the labyrinth an ever-changing installation as items are added and taken away.At the close of the project, the labyrinth will be disassembled and left-over items will be donated to local non-profit organizations, such as Habitat ReStore, Rescue Mission, and Goodwill Industries.
Free. 725.1904 or seccainfo@ncdcr.gov
Again and Never Again: Can We Coexist with Ourselves?
August 19 - September 1st - Guilford College Art Gallery - Greensboro
Environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck will create, with community participation, a monumental installation made entirely from recycled materials, Aug. 19-Sept. 1. (316-2483 to schedule time.) She will discuss her endeavor to live one year without using disposable plastic products at the reception in the Guilford College Art Gallery, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 5-7 p.m. as part of 'green & beyond', the college-wide theme year on sustainability. Exhibition runs through Oct 1.
Lanterns of Hope
Saturday, August 28 - 6:30-9 PM - Summer on Trade - Winston-Salem
During Summer on Trade at the corner of Sixth and Trade Streets, the Forsyth County Public Library will be providing attendees with peace lanterns to decorate with their own art.
Free. E-mail esparze2@forsyth.cc.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Upcoming July Events
Art Can! Feed the Hungry
Saturday, July 3 - Mid-Morning to Early Afternoon - Greensboro
Art Can! is a new Fun Fourth attraction, sponsored by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, to create a temporary public art installation made of canned foods items. Architects Shermin Ata of Shermin Ata Architects with Micah Martin and Emily Hinton of Moser Mayer Phoenix Architects have joined forces to design a U.S. Flag public art installation constructed out of Campbell Soup cans. Fun Fourth attendees will be able to watch the installation as well as construct their own designs made out of donated canned goods.
373-7523 or alayman@uacarts.org
Opening: Frau Fiber and Sewing with the People
Friday, July 2 - 6 - 11 PM - Elsewhere Artist Collaborative - Greensboro
Elsewhere is sewing non-stop this June with particularly exceptional visiting artist Frau Fiber. Our fabric workshop has undergone a renovation to become Revolution Textiles, a new site for community convergence around the patterns that thread our times past and present. We're hosting a full month of textile-related events and fabric related programming. Frau Fiber is working with former mill workers, Boys and Girls Club groups, newcomer women, and people like you who want to learn to sew and/or help create a collaborative quilt utilizing Elsewhere's fabrics collection. A special opening event for the collaborative quilt, featuring a free community dinner and ceremonial final stitch.
549-5555
Opening of Happy Hill: Past and Present
Friday, July 9 - 7 PM - Diggs Gallery at WSSU - Winston-Salem
Happy Hill is Winston-Salem’s oldest African American community. For generations, residents have preserved the oral history of the neighborhood and its families. The exhibition documents this important legacy through the art and testimony of community leaders such as Georgiana Paige McCoy, Maurice Pitts Johnson, Kathleen Bitting Mock, Pastor Edith Jones, Nathaniel Tucker, William “Rock” Bitting, Jerry Hanes, Glen Johnson, Ben Piggott, Leander Sales, Kayyum Allah, James Funches and others. The exhibition includes architectural models of area homes embellished by local participants, paintings, photographs, video documentation of the community and a multi-media installation of a juke joint. The show features works by celebrated artists Chandra Cox, Juan Logan, Larry Sass, Leon Woods and Willie Little.
750-2458
Saturday, July 3 - Mid-Morning to Early Afternoon - Greensboro
Art Can! is a new Fun Fourth attraction, sponsored by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, to create a temporary public art installation made of canned foods items. Architects Shermin Ata of Shermin Ata Architects with Micah Martin and Emily Hinton of Moser Mayer Phoenix Architects have joined forces to design a U.S. Flag public art installation constructed out of Campbell Soup cans. Fun Fourth attendees will be able to watch the installation as well as construct their own designs made out of donated canned goods.
373-7523 or alayman@uacarts.org
Opening: Frau Fiber and Sewing with the People
Friday, July 2 - 6 - 11 PM - Elsewhere Artist Collaborative - Greensboro
Elsewhere is sewing non-stop this June with particularly exceptional visiting artist Frau Fiber. Our fabric workshop has undergone a renovation to become Revolution Textiles, a new site for community convergence around the patterns that thread our times past and present. We're hosting a full month of textile-related events and fabric related programming. Frau Fiber is working with former mill workers, Boys and Girls Club groups, newcomer women, and people like you who want to learn to sew and/or help create a collaborative quilt utilizing Elsewhere's fabrics collection. A special opening event for the collaborative quilt, featuring a free community dinner and ceremonial final stitch.
549-5555
Opening of Happy Hill: Past and Present
Friday, July 9 - 7 PM - Diggs Gallery at WSSU - Winston-Salem
Happy Hill is Winston-Salem’s oldest African American community. For generations, residents have preserved the oral history of the neighborhood and its families. The exhibition documents this important legacy through the art and testimony of community leaders such as Georgiana Paige McCoy, Maurice Pitts Johnson, Kathleen Bitting Mock, Pastor Edith Jones, Nathaniel Tucker, William “Rock” Bitting, Jerry Hanes, Glen Johnson, Ben Piggott, Leander Sales, Kayyum Allah, James Funches and others. The exhibition includes architectural models of area homes embellished by local participants, paintings, photographs, video documentation of the community and a multi-media installation of a juke joint. The show features works by celebrated artists Chandra Cox, Juan Logan, Larry Sass, Leon Woods and Willie Little.
750-2458
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Creative Aging Symposium: Thursday and Friday in Greensboro
The Creative Aging Symposium offers artists and healthcare professionals ways to embrace creativity and advance culture change in aging service environments. Because of the rapidly expanding older population and related lifestyle changes, we must find new ways to improve the quality of life for older adults of all ability levels. This highly interactive two-day Symposium will highlight important research results and raise awareness of resources available at the national, state and local levels during the General Session on Thursday. Workshops on Friday will offer experiential concurrent sessions providing valuable hands-on tools to encourage innovative thought and implementation of new creative programs.Objectives: (1) learn about the untapped potential of older adults and the growing field of creative aging, including research and programming at the national, state and local levels (2) receive hands-on training in creative programs that you can take back to your community (3) learn about the resources and creative opportunities that exist for older adults locally, regionally and nationally, and (4) connect with other artists and aging service providers in your area.
What an impressive organization to have right here in the Piedmont. Attend if you can!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Upcoming March Events
SECCA AND KRANKIES PRESENT
Thursday, March 4 - 7 PM - Krankie's Coffee - Winston-Salem
A documentary about unbridled creativity and accessibility, Christian faith in the context of popular culture and family relationships in the face of individuality. “Danielson, A Family Movie” is directed by JL Aronson; USA; 105 minutes; not rated.
397-2107
DANCE OF TRIUMPH
Thursday, March 11 - 7 PM - East Forsyth High School - Kernersville
East Company Dance will perform "Dance for Life" at 7 p.m. March 11 in the auditorium at East Forsyth High School. "Dance for Life" is a series of four pieces based on the experiences of those facing cancer. Also performing that night will be musical groups East Side Crew, East Forsyth Eaglettes, East Forsyth Madrigals and Caprice; singer Matthew Morris; and a dance group from St. Paul United Methodist Church. A Silver for Dollars jewelry sale will be held in the lobby. A reception will follow the 90-minute show. Proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society and its Relay for Life.
Advance tickets available for $5 from Katherine Foster at KTFoster@wsfcs.k12.nc.us.
Tickets at the door will be $7. Children 12 and younger will be admitted free.
REYNOLDA FILM FESTIVAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SPIKE LEE
Friday, March 26 - Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem
Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee will be speaking at Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University. This event is open to the community. Mr. Lee will be giving a speech detailing how he used his troubles as the fuel for his dreams.
$5.00. Reserve tickets at www.reynoldafilmfestival.com/Spike
**We're a bit short on community events this month. If you know of any events that are not listed here, be sure to post them in the comments.**
Thursday, March 4 - 7 PM - Krankie's Coffee - Winston-Salem
A documentary about unbridled creativity and accessibility, Christian faith in the context of popular culture and family relationships in the face of individuality. “Danielson, A Family Movie” is directed by JL Aronson; USA; 105 minutes; not rated.
397-2107
DANCE OF TRIUMPH
Thursday, March 11 - 7 PM - East Forsyth High School - Kernersville
East Company Dance will perform "Dance for Life" at 7 p.m. March 11 in the auditorium at East Forsyth High School. "Dance for Life" is a series of four pieces based on the experiences of those facing cancer. Also performing that night will be musical groups East Side Crew, East Forsyth Eaglettes, East Forsyth Madrigals and Caprice; singer Matthew Morris; and a dance group from St. Paul United Methodist Church. A Silver for Dollars jewelry sale will be held in the lobby. A reception will follow the 90-minute show. Proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society and its Relay for Life.
Advance tickets available for $5 from Katherine Foster at KTFoster@wsfcs.k12.nc.us.
Tickets at the door will be $7. Children 12 and younger will be admitted free.
REYNOLDA FILM FESTIVAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SPIKE LEE
Friday, March 26 - Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem
Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee will be speaking at Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University. This event is open to the community. Mr. Lee will be giving a speech detailing how he used his troubles as the fuel for his dreams.
$5.00. Reserve tickets at www.reynoldafilmfestival.com/Spike
**We're a bit short on community events this month. If you know of any events that are not listed here, be sure to post them in the comments.**
Friday, February 26, 2010
Rounding Out Black History Month: Weekend Events
Ain'a That Good News!
February 27 - 7:30 PM - Hanes Auditorium at Salem College - Winston-Salem
Piedmont Chamber Singers joins with One Voice to explore the magnificent legacy of music by African Americans. From spirituals to jazz and modern Gospel, black musicians have been at the core of America’s musical culture. The concert includes works by such notable composers as Harry T. Burleigh, William Levy Dawson, and Moses Hogan. From quiet meditation to rousing merriment, this program will include both the familiar and the new in a heartfelt tribute to a great musical tradition.
Cost: . 722-4022.
La Revue Negre: The Josephine Baker Story
February 27 at 7:30 PM and February 28 at 3 PM -Greensboro Historical Museum- Greensboro
Celebrating both Black History and Woman's History Month, Actress Ashanti White's one-woman review shares the story of the life and accomplishments of Josephine Baker. Ms. White has been hailed as the Zora Neale Hurston of her generation. She is an actress, dancer, poet and published author with local connections who currently lives in Atlanta.
Cost: $5.00.
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
Through March 5 - Friends of the UNCG Library - Jackson Library at UNCG - Greensboro
A new traveling exhibition opening on Jan. 25 traces Abraham Lincoln’s gradual transformation from an antislavery moderate into “The Great Emancipator.” In conjunction with the exhibition, the University Libraries are bringing several speakers to campus.
Call 334-5304.
February 27 - 7:30 PM - Hanes Auditorium at Salem College - Winston-Salem
Piedmont Chamber Singers joins with One Voice to explore the magnificent legacy of music by African Americans. From spirituals to jazz and modern Gospel, black musicians have been at the core of America’s musical culture. The concert includes works by such notable composers as Harry T. Burleigh, William Levy Dawson, and Moses Hogan. From quiet meditation to rousing merriment, this program will include both the familiar and the new in a heartfelt tribute to a great musical tradition.
Cost: . 722-4022.
La Revue Negre: The Josephine Baker Story
February 27 at 7:30 PM and February 28 at 3 PM -Greensboro Historical Museum- Greensboro
Celebrating both Black History and Woman's History Month, Actress Ashanti White's one-woman review shares the story of the life and accomplishments of Josephine Baker. Ms. White has been hailed as the Zora Neale Hurston of her generation. She is an actress, dancer, poet and published author with local connections who currently lives in Atlanta.
Cost: $5.00.
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
Through March 5 - Friends of the UNCG Library - Jackson Library at UNCG - Greensboro
A new traveling exhibition opening on Jan. 25 traces Abraham Lincoln’s gradual transformation from an antislavery moderate into “The Great Emancipator.” In conjunction with the exhibition, the University Libraries are bringing several speakers to campus.
Call 334-5304.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Mark Your Calendars!
For those interested in creating community arts projects, mark your calendars for the first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival! Scheduled for April 23-25 in Silver Spring, Maryland (right outside D.C.), this is a rare opportunity to view work by over 90 artists and 50 arts organizations in theater, film, dance, visual arts, and music who all are presenting work related to human rights.
You really must check out the list of participants, as many of the organizations and artists are well known for their socially-minded art. Who is up for caravaning to D.C. for the event?
You really must check out the list of participants, as many of the organizations and artists are well known for their socially-minded art. Who is up for caravaning to D.C. for the event?
Monday, November 30, 2009
Upcoming December Events
Chrome and Stone: Opening Reception
December 4 - 6-8:30 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
This exhibition will feature digitally enhanced photographs of hotrods and muscle cars by Walker Lewis, Jr. and infrared film photographs of England, Cornwall and South Wales by James C. Williams. The exhibition will contrast the vanishing media of infrared film photography with the burgeoning field of digital photography, a media that threatens to replace film. The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble will perform during the reception. The exhibition will remain on display through January 16.
Cost: Free. 777-0076 x238.
Our Journey Your Destination
December 10 - 7 PM - Enrichment Center - Winston-Salem
The Enrichment Center will present "Our Journey Your Destination," an original performance, on December 10, 7pm in Gateway Gallery. A dress rehearsal on December 9, 11am, will be open to the public. The program, a dramatic blend of dance, acrobatics, drama, and street entertainment with whimsical characters, will feature actors and dancers with and without disabilities and music by the Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble. The show highlights the journey of the main character, "The Fallen Sparrow," a metaphor for the struggle between acceptance and denial suffered by a young woman who loses the use of her legs and is suddenly confined to a wheelchair. The performance was choreographed by Laurette Henry, director of the Enrichment Center Performance Company. A reception and sale of holiday gift items created by the Enrichment Center's artists will follow the performance.
Cost: Free. Seating is limited. 777-0076 x238.
Signing Artist/Gallery Contracts
December 11 - Noon- Associated Artists - Winston-Salem
Steve Virgil of the WFU Community Law Clinic will lead a conversation on the artist contract."The Artist and the Gallery - questions to consider before signing a contract."
Cost: Free. 722-0340.
ArtQuest: Community Arts Sundays
Sundays Through December 20 - 3-5 PM - Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art - Greensboro
Sponsored by Lincoln Financial. Explore the many cultures of your community. Each month features arts and crafts activities of cultures from around the world that contribute to our local community.
December 4 - 6-8:30 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
This exhibition will feature digitally enhanced photographs of hotrods and muscle cars by Walker Lewis, Jr. and infrared film photographs of England, Cornwall and South Wales by James C. Williams. The exhibition will contrast the vanishing media of infrared film photography with the burgeoning field of digital photography, a media that threatens to replace film. The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble will perform during the reception. The exhibition will remain on display through January 16.
Cost: Free. 777-0076 x238.
Our Journey Your Destination
December 10 - 7 PM - Enrichment Center - Winston-Salem
The Enrichment Center will present "Our Journey Your Destination," an original performance, on December 10, 7pm in Gateway Gallery. A dress rehearsal on December 9, 11am, will be open to the public. The program, a dramatic blend of dance, acrobatics, drama, and street entertainment with whimsical characters, will feature actors and dancers with and without disabilities and music by the Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble. The show highlights the journey of the main character, "The Fallen Sparrow," a metaphor for the struggle between acceptance and denial suffered by a young woman who loses the use of her legs and is suddenly confined to a wheelchair. The performance was choreographed by Laurette Henry, director of the Enrichment Center Performance Company. A reception and sale of holiday gift items created by the Enrichment Center's artists will follow the performance.
Cost: Free. Seating is limited. 777-0076 x238.
Signing Artist/Gallery Contracts
December 11 - Noon- Associated Artists - Winston-Salem
Steve Virgil of the WFU Community Law Clinic will lead a conversation on the artist contract."The Artist and the Gallery - questions to consider before signing a contract."
Cost: Free. 722-0340.
ArtQuest: Community Arts Sundays
Sundays Through December 20 - 3-5 PM - Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art - Greensboro
Sponsored by Lincoln Financial. Explore the many cultures of your community. Each month features arts and crafts activities of cultures from around the world that contribute to our local community.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Upcoming November Events
Shoe Shrine: Call for Entries
Through November 13 - 5IVE & 4ORTY - Winston-Salem
Shoe Shrine entries on display at 5ive & 4orty. Entries will be auctioned off on Friday, November 13th. Proceeds will benefit the Kelly Jo Petersen Scholarship at UNCSA School of Design and Production.
Society for the Study of AfroAmerican History
November 13 - 5 PM - Delta Fine Arts Center - Winston-Salem
Cost: Free. 336.722.2625
African Night
November 14 - 7:30 PM - UNCG Elliott University Center Auditorium - Greensboro
The African Student Union at UNCG will hold African Night, which will include fashion, dancing, singing, and more from different African cultures.
Cost: $5 before the day of the show and $7 at the door.
Busy-40 Bridges
November 18 - 11:30 AM - Center for Design Innovation - Winston-Salem
A software traffic simulation augments discussion of possibilities for public art, considering the upcoming renovations of bridges along the downtown Winston-Salem stretch of Business Route 40.
More Bridges
November 18 - 12:30 PM - Center for Design Innovation - Winston-Salem
Bridges Connecting Communities, Inc. is Winston-Salem's newest social networking venue, wtih both a virtual marketplace and bricks-and-mortar sites.
15th Annual Will-Read-for-Food
November 19 - 7 PM - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Suggested donation to the Glen Haven Community Center: $5 students, $10 general public. The Weatherspoon Art Museum along with the UNCG MFA Writing Program and UNCG Alumni Relations, hosts the 15th Annual Will Read for Food Fundraiser, which last year raised over $1100 for the Glen Haven Community Development Center. Readings begin at 7 PM in the museum auditorium.
Arts for Life Market Gala
November 21 - 5 PM - 823 Reynolda Road - Winston-Salem
Social and shopping event to benefit Arts for Life WS and the hundreds of hours of art lessons provided to young patients and their siblings.
Enrichment Center Sculpture Garden
Through November 21 - Enrichment Center - Winston-Salem
On the corner of S. Marshall Street and Salem Avenue. The garden includes three cast aluminum sculptures entitled "Things That Fly" created by six of the Center's artists: Trip Collins, Mindy Kistler, Meredith Lamy, Jonathan Lindsay, Paul Quinn, and Valarie Williams.
336.777.0076 x209
Community-Wide Ecumenical Celebration of Thanksgiving
November 22 - Dana Auditorium at Guilford College - Greensboro
Piedmont Interfaith Council in collaboration with the Human Relations Commission of Greensboro, presents 26th Annual Community Ecumenical Celebration of Thanksgiving "Our Community Kaleidoscope" featuring the E. Gwynn Dancers, the First Young American Dancers, Triad Tapestry Children's Chorus, Louis Allen, and representatives from a dozen local faith traditions. Supported in part by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Cost: Free. Contact info@piedmontinterfaithcouncil.org
We Are OneART
Through December 10 - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center - Greensboro
We Are One, Caldcleugh Center's performing arts program extends its scope with its new visual arts program for youth ages 10 and older. Instructed by Floyd Newkirk, nationally known muralist and illustrator, will guide young artists in an exploration of medium, technique, and forms. This semester young artists will create backdrops for We Are One's winter performance.
Through November 13 - 5IVE & 4ORTY - Winston-Salem
Shoe Shrine entries on display at 5ive & 4orty. Entries will be auctioned off on Friday, November 13th. Proceeds will benefit the Kelly Jo Petersen Scholarship at UNCSA School of Design and Production.
Society for the Study of AfroAmerican History
November 13 - 5 PM - Delta Fine Arts Center - Winston-Salem
Cost: Free. 336.722.2625
African Night
November 14 - 7:30 PM - UNCG Elliott University Center Auditorium - Greensboro
The African Student Union at UNCG will hold African Night, which will include fashion, dancing, singing, and more from different African cultures.
Cost: $5 before the day of the show and $7 at the door.
Busy-40 Bridges
November 18 - 11:30 AM - Center for Design Innovation - Winston-Salem
A software traffic simulation augments discussion of possibilities for public art, considering the upcoming renovations of bridges along the downtown Winston-Salem stretch of Business Route 40.
More Bridges
November 18 - 12:30 PM - Center for Design Innovation - Winston-Salem
Bridges Connecting Communities, Inc. is Winston-Salem's newest social networking venue, wtih both a virtual marketplace and bricks-and-mortar sites.
15th Annual Will-Read-for-Food
November 19 - 7 PM - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Suggested donation to the Glen Haven Community Center: $5 students, $10 general public. The Weatherspoon Art Museum along with the UNCG MFA Writing Program and UNCG Alumni Relations, hosts the 15th Annual Will Read for Food Fundraiser, which last year raised over $1100 for the Glen Haven Community Development Center. Readings begin at 7 PM in the museum auditorium.
Arts for Life Market Gala
November 21 - 5 PM - 823 Reynolda Road - Winston-Salem
Social and shopping event to benefit Arts for Life WS and the hundreds of hours of art lessons provided to young patients and their siblings.
Enrichment Center Sculpture Garden
Through November 21 - Enrichment Center - Winston-Salem
On the corner of S. Marshall Street and Salem Avenue. The garden includes three cast aluminum sculptures entitled "Things That Fly" created by six of the Center's artists: Trip Collins, Mindy Kistler, Meredith Lamy, Jonathan Lindsay, Paul Quinn, and Valarie Williams.
336.777.0076 x209
Community-Wide Ecumenical Celebration of Thanksgiving
November 22 - Dana Auditorium at Guilford College - Greensboro
Piedmont Interfaith Council in collaboration with the Human Relations Commission of Greensboro, presents 26th Annual Community Ecumenical Celebration of Thanksgiving "Our Community Kaleidoscope" featuring the E. Gwynn Dancers, the First Young American Dancers, Triad Tapestry Children's Chorus, Louis Allen, and representatives from a dozen local faith traditions. Supported in part by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Cost: Free. Contact info@piedmontinterfaithcouncil.org
We Are OneART
Through December 10 - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center - Greensboro
We Are One, Caldcleugh Center's performing arts program extends its scope with its new visual arts program for youth ages 10 and older. Instructed by Floyd Newkirk, nationally known muralist and illustrator, will guide young artists in an exploration of medium, technique, and forms. This semester young artists will create backdrops for We Are One's winter performance.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Upcoming September Events
Dream Machines: The Impossible Happens Thursday
Open Dream Ensemble World Premiere
September 3 - 6:30 PM - Stevens Center - Winston-Salem
Comprised of professional dancers, actors, and musicians trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Open Dream Ensemble combines these artists talents, performing original, multidisciplinary works for youth with live music, dance, and drama that highlight the importance of learning, teamwork, determination, and the imagination. The Open Dream Ensemble is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Dream Machines: The Impossible Happens tells the amazing story of the advancements in travel at the turn of the 20th century through dance, music and drama. Told through the eyes of the Wright Brothers’ sister Katharine, Dream Machines follows Orville, Wilbur and Katharine as they pursue their dream of flying. The story connects their endeavors with Henry Ford’s dreams of automobiles and Octave Chanute’s fascination with trains. Geared to grades K-5.
Cost: free. 336.721-0712
Peril on the Red Planet
Open Dream Ensemble World Premiere
September 3 - 7:30 PM - Stevens Center - Winston-Salem
Comprised of professional dancers, actors, and musicians trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Open Dream Ensemble combines these artists talents, performing original, multidisciplinary works for youth with live music, dance, and drama that highlight the importance of learning, teamwork, determination, and the imagination. The Open Dream Ensemble is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Peril on the Red Planet, set in the future, tells the story of 13 year-old Diana as she works to end famine on Mars. She reconstructs the machine that made human habitation possible on Mars and unexpectedly unleashes more problems. Her efforts to save life on Mars lead her on an important quest, during which she learns life lessons about community, responsibility, teamwork and sacrifice. Geared to grades 3-8.
Cost: free. 336.721-0712
Co-Curators' Gallery Talk: Xandra Eden and Lee Walton
September 3 - 5:30 PM - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, and Lee Walton, Assistant Professor, UNCG Department of Art, talk about Our Subject is You and new trends in participatory art.
336.334.5770
BookWorks: Sculptures by Leo Morrissey
September 4 - 7 PM - Artists on Liberty Building - Winston-Salem
This solo exhibition is comprised of sculptural work that is created from actual books. An opening reception will be held during Gallery Hop on September 4th from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. with the show on view through September 29th. We will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday September 12th to coincide with BookMARKS Book Festival. For additional information about the artist or to schedule a gallery appointment
Cost: free. 503.888.5930
Culture of Color Saturdays
September 5 - 26 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join the museum each Saturday to celebrate East Indian culture. Culture of Color is a new series by the museum. Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling new foods, learning dance, and doing art.
336.574.2898
We Are One
September 10 - December 10 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center - Greensboro
We Are One, Caldcleugh Center's performing arts program extends its scope with its new visual arts program for youth ages 10 and older. Instructed by Floyd Newkirk, nationally known muralist and illustrator will guide young artists in an exploration of medium, technique, and forms. This semester young artist will create backdrops for We Are One's winter performance.
Cost: $20 per month
336.373.5881
Found Objects, Recycled Materials, and Pastels
September 13 - October 10 - 3 PM - Electric Moustache Gallery - Winston-Salem
Opening reception
336.413.3690
Sculpture Garden Unveiling
September 25 - 6 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
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A Mixed Bag
September 26 - November 21 - 11 AM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
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Write Place, Write Time: Workshop for Young Women
September 26 - 1 PM - Salem Fine Arts Center -Winston-Salem
Young women enrolled in grades 9-12 are invited for a writing experience in which the perils and pleasures of the short-short story will be explored.
Cost: free. 336.721.2739.
Community Creates!
September 26 - 7 PM - Arts Based Elementary School - Winston-Salem
Live auction of work by our local community. This event features a live auciton, raffle, original art, great good, danceing, etc. All proceeds benefit the Arts Based Elementary School's Artist-in-Residency program.
Cost: $30/person, $50/couple.
336.748.4116
Open Dream Ensemble World Premiere
September 3 - 6:30 PM - Stevens Center - Winston-Salem
Comprised of professional dancers, actors, and musicians trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Open Dream Ensemble combines these artists talents, performing original, multidisciplinary works for youth with live music, dance, and drama that highlight the importance of learning, teamwork, determination, and the imagination. The Open Dream Ensemble is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Dream Machines: The Impossible Happens tells the amazing story of the advancements in travel at the turn of the 20th century through dance, music and drama. Told through the eyes of the Wright Brothers’ sister Katharine, Dream Machines follows Orville, Wilbur and Katharine as they pursue their dream of flying. The story connects their endeavors with Henry Ford’s dreams of automobiles and Octave Chanute’s fascination with trains. Geared to grades K-5.
Cost: free. 336.721-0712
Peril on the Red Planet
Open Dream Ensemble World Premiere
September 3 - 7:30 PM - Stevens Center - Winston-Salem
Comprised of professional dancers, actors, and musicians trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Open Dream Ensemble combines these artists talents, performing original, multidisciplinary works for youth with live music, dance, and drama that highlight the importance of learning, teamwork, determination, and the imagination. The Open Dream Ensemble is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Peril on the Red Planet, set in the future, tells the story of 13 year-old Diana as she works to end famine on Mars. She reconstructs the machine that made human habitation possible on Mars and unexpectedly unleashes more problems. Her efforts to save life on Mars lead her on an important quest, during which she learns life lessons about community, responsibility, teamwork and sacrifice. Geared to grades 3-8.
Cost: free. 336.721-0712
Co-Curators' Gallery Talk: Xandra Eden and Lee Walton
September 3 - 5:30 PM - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, and Lee Walton, Assistant Professor, UNCG Department of Art, talk about Our Subject is You and new trends in participatory art.
336.334.5770
BookWorks: Sculptures by Leo Morrissey
September 4 - 7 PM - Artists on Liberty Building - Winston-Salem
This solo exhibition is comprised of sculptural work that is created from actual books. An opening reception will be held during Gallery Hop on September 4th from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. with the show on view through September 29th. We will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday September 12th to coincide with BookMARKS Book Festival. For additional information about the artist or to schedule a gallery appointment
Cost: free. 503.888.5930
Culture of Color Saturdays
September 5 - 26 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join the museum each Saturday to celebrate East Indian culture. Culture of Color is a new series by the museum. Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling new foods, learning dance, and doing art.
336.574.2898
We Are One
September 10 - December 10 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center - Greensboro
We Are One, Caldcleugh Center's performing arts program extends its scope with its new visual arts program for youth ages 10 and older. Instructed by Floyd Newkirk, nationally known muralist and illustrator will guide young artists in an exploration of medium, technique, and forms. This semester young artist will create backdrops for We Are One's winter performance.
Cost: $20 per month
336.373.5881
Found Objects, Recycled Materials, and Pastels
September 13 - October 10 - 3 PM - Electric Moustache Gallery - Winston-Salem
Opening reception
336.413.3690
Sculpture Garden Unveiling
September 25 - 6 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
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A Mixed Bag
September 26 - November 21 - 11 AM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
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Write Place, Write Time: Workshop for Young Women
September 26 - 1 PM - Salem Fine Arts Center -Winston-Salem
Young women enrolled in grades 9-12 are invited for a writing experience in which the perils and pleasures of the short-short story will be explored.
Cost: free. 336.721.2739.
Community Creates!
September 26 - 7 PM - Arts Based Elementary School - Winston-Salem
Live auction of work by our local community. This event features a live auciton, raffle, original art, great good, danceing, etc. All proceeds benefit the Arts Based Elementary School's Artist-in-Residency program.
Cost: $30/person, $50/couple.
336.748.4116
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Upcoming August Events
All-Arts, Sciences & Technology Camp 2009
July 26-31 - UNCG Division of Continual Learning - Greensboro
A weeklong, residential summer camp for ages 7-15. Designed to give in-depth and experiential instruction in the arts and sciences, the camp also includes recreation, multi-cultural entertainment, and a wide variety of activities that suit individual tastes and preferences. Find 866.334.2255
Authoring Action
July 30 - August 2 - 7 pm - Bethabara Moravian Church - Winston-Salem
Authoring Action (formerly the Winston-Salem Youth Arts Institute) presents its Commencement Engagement by the Authoring Action Ensemble. Authoring Action is a live experience, where teens present uncensored, original and true works of poetry, monologues, raps, lyrics and short films from their perspective. We engage our audience, not for applause, or standing ovations, but to change your life and make a difference. The thirty teens participating in this Summer's Institute invite the public to experience their words as a force for change. Admission is $10 and tickets will be available at the door. Reservations are recommended.
336.749.1317
Bearing Witness: The Tree
July 31 - 7 pm - Reynolda House Museum - Winston-Salem
Opens with a reception and ballet performance by the Winston-Salem Festival Ballet, a new funded partner of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Bearing Witness is choreographed by Gary Taylor with music by North Carolina composer Rob Sharer. It celebrates the tree, a symbol of permanence arching over generations of our lives. R.s.v.p. to Claudia Clark.
336.758.5889 or clarkcm@reynoldahouse.org
Culture of Color Saturdays
August 1-August 29 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Saturdays, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, (2:00pm) Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art.
336.574.2898
National Black Theatre Festival
August 4 - 8 - Various Times - National Black Repertory Company - Winston-Salem
The festival is an outreach program of National Black Repertory Company, which unites African American theatre companies across the country and showcases over 100 performers. Performances to be held at the Reynolda House, Reynolds Auditorium, the Stevens Center, Wake Forest University campus, Salem College campus, UNCSA campus, Benton Convention Center, Winston-Salem State University campus, etc. Accompanying activities include the NBTF Film Fest, Youth Celebrity project, National Youth Talent Showcase, TeenTastic program, Readers' Theatre, Artist Networking Showcase, NBTF Poetry Jam, workshops and seminars, International Colloquium, vendors' market and celebrity receptions. Full schedule online.
336.723.2266
SECCA Presents Inside Out with artist Kianga Ford and the music of Turbo Pro Project
August 5 - 6 pm - The Garage - Winston-Salem
As part of its 2009 public art program Inside Out: Artists in the Community II, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is proud to launch Kianga Ford’s 34 x 52 x 40. In the next chapter of Ford’s ongoing The Story of this Place series, the title of this project refers to Forsyth County as the 34th County of North Carolina (in slang, the “Tres-Fo”) and its evolving relationship with the major North / South highway (52) and the major East / West highway (40) of Winston-Salem. In conjunction with the National Black Theatre Festival, and in ongoing partnership with the Delta Arts Center, the special August 5th launch event will celebrate the work’s provocative marriage of theatre, music, and spoken word. Over the past half-year, Ford has explored Winston-Salem to research its history, speak with members of the community, walk its neighborhoods, and imagine lives shaped by the city’s patterns of settlement, desegregation, and industrialization. She will shape this material into a series of audio-guided routes/walks, and on Wednesday night audiences can hear a selection of these narratives set to musical accompaniment. As part of 34 x 52 x 40, Ford has collaborated with the experimental, North Carolina-based band The Turbo Pro Project, described as a fusion of Americana, Bluegrass Banjo, Hip Hop, and R&B.
336.725.1904
A Taste of the Blues
August 6 - 5:30 pm - Millennium Center - Winston Salem
Live Blues Music, Southern Cuisine, NC Wine and Beer Tastings and Tony Award Winning Play Featured at First Annual Event to Benefit Authoring Action Organization and North Carolina Black Repertory Company
Cost: $50/$75
336. 397.5591
Wisteria & HOPE
August 6-7 - Salem Fine Arts Center, Salem College - Winston-Salem
In conjuction with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Black Theatre Festival's feature presentation is drawn from the stunning poetry of Kwame Dawes and the music of Kevin Simmonds, Wisteria & HOPE is a multimedia music/spoken word performance that opens up two disparate worlds—of African American women recalling life in the Jim Crow South, in Wisteria, and in HOPE the struggles and grace of individuals dealing with HIV/AIDS.
336.723.2266
Friends Around the World' Day
August 16 - 1-5 pm - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month as we welcome our friends from all around the world to the Museum for a day of fun and play! We will enjoy a variety of multicultural activities, while making new friends from new places.
336.574.2898
Artist's Talk: Sherri Lynn Wood
August 20 - 5:30 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Sherri Lynn Wood’s “Mantra Trailer” is featured in the exhibition Our Subject Is You at the Weatherspoon. In addition to this, her most recent work, the artist has been involved for many years in making participatory art works. Wood’s recent projects include: Passage Quilts, working with the bereaved to make improvisational quilts from the clothing of the deceased; Prayer Banner: REPENT / MERCY / …, a communal mourning project concerning the war in Iraq; The Piñata Anchor of Hope, a geo-psychic, temporary public art project for the City of Durham during a time of upheaval and rapid development; and 1200 Hats, a collaboration with residents of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Sherri Lynn Wood is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and healer, based in Durham, NC and San Francisco, CA. She combines her knowledge of craft, theology, sculpture, and systems centered theory to invent and facilitate aesthetic vehicles of intervention for healing and social exchange.
336.334.5770
July 26-31 - UNCG Division of Continual Learning - Greensboro
A weeklong, residential summer camp for ages 7-15. Designed to give in-depth and experiential instruction in the arts and sciences, the camp also includes recreation, multi-cultural entertainment, and a wide variety of activities that suit individual tastes and preferences. Find 866.334.2255
Authoring Action
July 30 - August 2 - 7 pm - Bethabara Moravian Church - Winston-Salem
Authoring Action (formerly the Winston-Salem Youth Arts Institute) presents its Commencement Engagement by the Authoring Action Ensemble. Authoring Action is a live experience, where teens present uncensored, original and true works of poetry, monologues, raps, lyrics and short films from their perspective. We engage our audience, not for applause, or standing ovations, but to change your life and make a difference. The thirty teens participating in this Summer's Institute invite the public to experience their words as a force for change. Admission is $10 and tickets will be available at the door. Reservations are recommended.
336.749.1317
Bearing Witness: The Tree
July 31 - 7 pm - Reynolda House Museum - Winston-Salem
Opens with a reception and ballet performance by the Winston-Salem Festival Ballet, a new funded partner of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Bearing Witness is choreographed by Gary Taylor with music by North Carolina composer Rob Sharer. It celebrates the tree, a symbol of permanence arching over generations of our lives. R.s.v.p. to Claudia Clark.
336.758.5889 or clarkcm@reynoldahouse.org
Culture of Color Saturdays
August 1-August 29 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Saturdays, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, (2:00pm) Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art.
336.574.2898
National Black Theatre Festival
August 4 - 8 - Various Times - National Black Repertory Company - Winston-Salem
The festival is an outreach program of National Black Repertory Company, which unites African American theatre companies across the country and showcases over 100 performers. Performances to be held at the Reynolda House, Reynolds Auditorium, the Stevens Center, Wake Forest University campus, Salem College campus, UNCSA campus, Benton Convention Center, Winston-Salem State University campus, etc. Accompanying activities include the NBTF Film Fest, Youth Celebrity project, National Youth Talent Showcase, TeenTastic program, Readers' Theatre, Artist Networking Showcase, NBTF Poetry Jam, workshops and seminars, International Colloquium, vendors' market and celebrity receptions. Full schedule online.
336.723.2266
SECCA Presents Inside Out with artist Kianga Ford and the music of Turbo Pro Project
August 5 - 6 pm - The Garage - Winston-Salem
As part of its 2009 public art program Inside Out: Artists in the Community II, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is proud to launch Kianga Ford’s 34 x 52 x 40. In the next chapter of Ford’s ongoing The Story of this Place series, the title of this project refers to Forsyth County as the 34th County of North Carolina (in slang, the “Tres-Fo”) and its evolving relationship with the major North / South highway (52) and the major East / West highway (40) of Winston-Salem. In conjunction with the National Black Theatre Festival, and in ongoing partnership with the Delta Arts Center, the special August 5th launch event will celebrate the work’s provocative marriage of theatre, music, and spoken word. Over the past half-year, Ford has explored Winston-Salem to research its history, speak with members of the community, walk its neighborhoods, and imagine lives shaped by the city’s patterns of settlement, desegregation, and industrialization. She will shape this material into a series of audio-guided routes/walks, and on Wednesday night audiences can hear a selection of these narratives set to musical accompaniment. As part of 34 x 52 x 40, Ford has collaborated with the experimental, North Carolina-based band The Turbo Pro Project, described as a fusion of Americana, Bluegrass Banjo, Hip Hop, and R&B.
336.725.1904
A Taste of the Blues
August 6 - 5:30 pm - Millennium Center - Winston Salem
Live Blues Music, Southern Cuisine, NC Wine and Beer Tastings and Tony Award Winning Play Featured at First Annual Event to Benefit Authoring Action Organization and North Carolina Black Repertory Company
Cost: $50/$75
336. 397.5591
Wisteria & HOPE
August 6-7 - Salem Fine Arts Center, Salem College - Winston-Salem
In conjuction with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Black Theatre Festival's feature presentation is drawn from the stunning poetry of Kwame Dawes and the music of Kevin Simmonds, Wisteria & HOPE is a multimedia music/spoken word performance that opens up two disparate worlds—of African American women recalling life in the Jim Crow South, in Wisteria, and in HOPE the struggles and grace of individuals dealing with HIV/AIDS.
336.723.2266
Friends Around the World' Day
August 16 - 1-5 pm - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month as we welcome our friends from all around the world to the Museum for a day of fun and play! We will enjoy a variety of multicultural activities, while making new friends from new places.
336.574.2898
Artist's Talk: Sherri Lynn Wood
August 20 - 5:30 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Sherri Lynn Wood’s “Mantra Trailer” is featured in the exhibition Our Subject Is You at the Weatherspoon. In addition to this, her most recent work, the artist has been involved for many years in making participatory art works. Wood’s recent projects include: Passage Quilts, working with the bereaved to make improvisational quilts from the clothing of the deceased; Prayer Banner: REPENT / MERCY / …, a communal mourning project concerning the war in Iraq; The Piñata Anchor of Hope, a geo-psychic, temporary public art project for the City of Durham during a time of upheaval and rapid development; and 1200 Hats, a collaboration with residents of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Sherri Lynn Wood is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and healer, based in Durham, NC and San Francisco, CA. She combines her knowledge of craft, theology, sculpture, and systems centered theory to invent and facilitate aesthetic vehicles of intervention for healing and social exchange.
336.334.5770
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Workshop: Group Stitching Mantra with Sherri Lynn Wood
August 22 - 2 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Join artist Sherri Lynn Wood on an imaginative, communal, meditative journey that merges the Eastern spiritual practices of mudras, mandalas and mantras with the simple act of stitching. These programs are sponsored, in part, by the Hillsdale Fund. Fee: $10 members/ $20 non-members. Register by e-mail: t_dowell@uncg.edu.
336.256.1449
Artist's Talk: Steve Lambert
August 27 - 4 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Steve Lambert talks about bridging the divide between museum visitors and his own practice. Lambert's, I Will Talk With Anyone About Anything, 2006/2009 is currently featured in Our Subject is You.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Upcoming July Events
Culture of Color Saturdays
July 11 - 25 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Saturdays, July 11, 18, 25, 2pm Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art. Activities free with admission/membership.
336.574.2898
African American Heritage Day
July 18 - 11 am - 4 pm - Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum - Burlington
Josephus III, local poet; Ohemanna, Gospel Choir; Kummbia African Dancers; Fred Motley, storyteller; and Boo Hanks from Music Maker Relief Foundation will perform WFMY’s Carol Andrews and Sonya Correll Cook will read their children’s books. Numerous demonstrators and exhibitors plus vendors will take part in this exciting FREE event.
336-449-4846.
'Friends Around the World' Day
July 19 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month as we welcome our friends from all around the world to the Museum for a day of fun and play! We will enjoy a variety of multicultural activities, while making new friends from new places. Children’s author, GAMMA JAM, will be here to share her stories. Free with admission/membership.
336.574.2898
Enrichment via the Arts
July 20 - 30 - Creative Learning Center for Very Young Children - Winston-Salem
Summer art activities at CLC allow the children to experiment with a variety of media and forms. Music activities include listening, singing, playing instruments, and even making instruments! Dance delights CLC children, who have opportunities to invent their own dances to accompany music and to watch students at the School of the Arts practice and perform ballet, jazz, or contemporary dance. Othella Johnson began the Creative Learning Center in 1972 on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
336.773.0017
Color Texture Abstractions
July 24 - 6 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
Gateway Gallery wil open the exhibit "Color Texture Abstractions" with a reception on Friday, July 24, 6-8:30pm. The exhibition features abstract paintings by Pat Spainour and Jack Hernon and pottery by Kenneth McMahan and Jonathan Lindsay. Guitarist and vocalist Drake Duffer will perform during the reception. The exhibition will be on display through September 19.
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“Our Subject is You” Exhibit
Through September 13 – Weatherspoon Art Museum – Greensboro
“Our Subject is You” is the first exhibition organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum to focus on participatory art. The artists in the exhibition rely on the involvement of the public in order for their work to be realized. They form avenues for meaningful engagement within the context of the gallery, inviting museum visitors to contribute to the creation of artwork through social interaction, collaboration, and/or performativity. Artists included in the show are Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil/UK), Harrell Fletcher (USA), Nina Katchadourian (USA), San Keller (Switzerland), Steve Lambert (USA), Darren O’Donnell (Canada), Sherri Lynn Wood (USA) and Erwin Wurm (Austria). In the exhibition, museum visitors will take part in the formation of artwork and through special live participatory events at the June 19th opening.
336.334.5770
July 11 - 25 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Saturdays, July 11, 18, 25, 2pm Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art. Activities free with admission/membership.
336.574.2898
African American Heritage Day
July 18 - 11 am - 4 pm - Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum - Burlington
Josephus III, local poet; Ohemanna, Gospel Choir; Kummbia African Dancers; Fred Motley, storyteller; and Boo Hanks from Music Maker Relief Foundation will perform WFMY’s Carol Andrews and Sonya Correll Cook will read their children’s books. Numerous demonstrators and exhibitors plus vendors will take part in this exciting FREE event.
336-449-4846.
'Friends Around the World' Day
July 19 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month as we welcome our friends from all around the world to the Museum for a day of fun and play! We will enjoy a variety of multicultural activities, while making new friends from new places. Children’s author, GAMMA JAM, will be here to share her stories. Free with admission/membership.
336.574.2898
Enrichment via the Arts
July 20 - 30 - Creative Learning Center for Very Young Children - Winston-Salem
Summer art activities at CLC allow the children to experiment with a variety of media and forms. Music activities include listening, singing, playing instruments, and even making instruments! Dance delights CLC children, who have opportunities to invent their own dances to accompany music and to watch students at the School of the Arts practice and perform ballet, jazz, or contemporary dance. Othella Johnson began the Creative Learning Center in 1972 on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
336.773.0017
Color Texture Abstractions
July 24 - 6 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
Gateway Gallery wil open the exhibit "Color Texture Abstractions" with a reception on Friday, July 24, 6-8:30pm. The exhibition features abstract paintings by Pat Spainour and Jack Hernon and pottery by Kenneth McMahan and Jonathan Lindsay. Guitarist and vocalist Drake Duffer will perform during the reception. The exhibition will be on display through September 19.
336.777.0076 x238
“Our Subject is You” Exhibit
Through September 13 – Weatherspoon Art Museum – Greensboro
“Our Subject is You” is the first exhibition organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum to focus on participatory art. The artists in the exhibition rely on the involvement of the public in order for their work to be realized. They form avenues for meaningful engagement within the context of the gallery, inviting museum visitors to contribute to the creation of artwork through social interaction, collaboration, and/or performativity. Artists included in the show are Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil/UK), Harrell Fletcher (USA), Nina Katchadourian (USA), San Keller (Switzerland), Steve Lambert (USA), Darren O’Donnell (Canada), Sherri Lynn Wood (USA) and Erwin Wurm (Austria). In the exhibition, museum visitors will take part in the formation of artwork and through special live participatory events at the June 19th opening.
336.334.5770
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Upcoming June Events
ReCycle-ReUse-ReNew- Group Art Exhibit
June 7 – 29 – Marshall Art Gallery – Greensboro
This group art exhibit features unique way “ReCycle “discarded materials. Metal, glass, wood, paper, fabric and more are “ReUsed” to create “ReNewed” art. Participating artist include: Dawn Ashby, Jerry Cartwright, Dian Felder, Lawrence Fier, Ray Martin and Betty Trotter. Join us for the opening reception on Sunday, June 7th from 1-4PM. This exhibit will run through Monday, June 29th.
336-545-8268
OUT at the Movies presents Pedro
June 13 at 8 pm - UNC School of the Arts - Winston-Salem
OUT at the Movies, Winston-Salem and the Triad’s GLBT Film Series will screen “Pedro” on June 13th at 8:00 PM. “Pedro”, written by Dustin Lance Black (”Milk”) celebrates the life of Pedro Zamora, who found out he was HIV + at the age of 17, became an AIDS activist/educator and starred in MTV’s “The Real World”. All of the proceeds benefit the Adam Foundation and UNCSA’s School of Filmmaking.
Cost: $5.00
My Voice – My Vision 3 Day Residential Teen Girls Summit
June 17-20 – Girls Incorporated of Guilford County – Greensboro
For rising middle through high school girls. Teen Girls will take part in a project where girls explore “points of view”. Girls have the opportunity to address many of the issues that we face today and get answers that will help us make good choices in our lives. If you love creating, we will be expressing our views using journaling, poetry, posters, photography and video. Project will end with presentations and a luncheon on Saturday June 20th with Mayor Yvonne Johnson as our guest speaker. Commuters are welcome on Saturday.
336.790.4214
Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project
June 19-June 21, 2009
The 48 Hour Film Project is coming to Greensboro! In a wild, sleepless weekend, you and a team will make a movie–write, shoot, edit and score it. From scratch. In 48 hours. On Friday, June 19, you’ll get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. By Sunday, June 21, the movie must be complete. It will show at the Carousel Cinema at a screening in the next week.
“Our Subject is You” Exhibition Opening + 6th Annual Summer Solstice Party
June 19, 2009 – Weatherspoon Art Museum – Greensboro
“Our Subject is You” is the first exhibition organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum to focus on participatory art. The artists in the exhibition rely on the involvement of the public in order for their work to be realized. They form avenues for meaningful engagement within the context of the gallery, inviting museum visitors to contribute to the creation of artwork through social interaction, collaboration, and/or performativity. Artists included in the show are Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil/UK), Harrell Fletcher (USA), Nina Katchadourian (USA), San Keller (Switzerland), Steve Lambert (USA), Darren O’Donnell (Canada), Sherri Lynn Wood (USA) and Erwin Wurm (Austria). In the exhibition, museum visitors will take part in the formation of artwork and through special live participatory events at the June 19th opening.
336.334.5770
Juneteenth Festival
June 20 - 12pm – Winston Lake Park 3535 Winston Lake Road - Winston-Salem
The Triad Juneteenth Festival will be held Saturday, June 20, at Winston Lake Park from noon - 7:00 pm. Juneteenth is the celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. African American Heritage will come alive through live music, dancing, and drama. Festival highlights include: an opening ceremony, performances, youth activities, history, books artifacts, art gallery, food and merchandise vendors. The festival is free and open to the public.
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