December 10, 2007 – 11:58 am
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December 27, 2007 – 12:37 pm
Ever tempted to build a ship model? On Saturday, Feb. 2, members of the Carolina Maritime Model Society will provide the inside scoop on building model ships. They will host two one-hour sessions in the Battleship auditorium followed by demonstrations in the visitor center. The program runs from 1-4 p.m. and is free, but does [...]
December 27, 2007 – 11:18 am
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2007 has been a busy year at Cultural Resources with its theme of “History Happens Here.” Today’s podcast features some of those stories, courtesy of Cultural Resources’ Fay Mitchell. An exciting part of History Happens Here is the blockbuster Mysteries of the Lost Colony exhibit, which runs through [...]
December 14, 2007 – 12:10 pm
WINSTON-SALEM – The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources announced the formal acceptance of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) as an operating entity of the N.C. Museum of Art on Dec. 13, 2007. SECCA is dedicated to creative excellence in the visual arts and interprets the diversity of American contemporary art.
December 14, 2007 – 11:19 am
BEAUFORT – The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources today announced an online questionnaire to provide additional input for a public meeting to be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 17, 2008, at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort to obtain citizen input about expanded cultural facilities at Gallants Channel. The questionnaire can be found at [...]
December 12, 2007 – 5:32 pm
RALEIGH - Sixteen artists - including three poets, three fiction writers, two nonfiction writers, two playwrights, three composers, two screenwriters and a songwriter - are recipients of the North Carolina Arts Council’s 2007-08 North Carolina Fellowship Awards. The Arts Council announced the Awards on December 5. For more information about the Fellowship Award program, click here.
December 11, 2007 – 3:52 pm
N.C. Symphony Celebrates Season
You don’t have to wait until December 25 to get in the holiday spirit. The symphony really celebrates the spirit with a Gospel Christmas Spectacular on Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. Resident Conductor William Henry Curry will lead these concerts at Meymandi Concert Hall in the Progress Energy Center in Raleigh. The symphony ends [...]
December 11, 2007 – 3:05 pm
ASHEVILLE – Since time immemorial, people have celebrated holidays by telling stories, singing songs and making music passed down from generation to generation. Noted balladeer and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams will present “Christmas on the Mountain,” an evening of Southern Appalachian Mountains Christmas stories, traditional ballads and music at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic [...]
December 7, 2007 – 12:31 pm
RALEIGH — History on a stick. Tombstones on posts. History by the spoonful. The most recognizable sights along North Carolina’s roadways are the familiar cast-aluminum highway historical markers that commemorate Tar Heel people and events of statewide significance. In conjunction with the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ 2007 theme, “History Happens Here,” a new, revised [...]
December 7, 2007 – 11:30 am
For more information contact Susan Friday Lamb at (919) 807-7943 or Rachel Dickens at (919) 807-7969.
During the holiday season, save a bit of cash and get in the spirit at these free programs at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Enjoy the unique mix of strings, brass, voice and drums when the Magnolia Klezmer [...]