September 30, 2010 – 11:45 am
RALEIGH – The many forms of records from people, agencies and communities will be celebrated Oct. 4-10 during Archives Week in North Carolina. This year’s theme is “Connecting You to the Past.” All events are free, and take place in the North Carolina State Archives /Library Building, 109 East Jones Street in downtown Raleigh. “As [...]
September 28, 2010 – 12:19 pm
FOUR OAKS- The smells of sweet potato coffee will greet visitors as Bentonville Battlefield welcomes fall with a unique program, “Life on the Homefront: Substitutions and Sacrifice” Saturday Oct. 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. During the free event, civilian re-enactors will demonstrate open hearth cooking, substituting uncommon foods that were used because of wartime shortages. A [...]
September 24, 2010 – 9:58 am
RALEIGH – The variety and beauty of the state’s faces and places are captured in the “Celebrate North Carolina: Faces and Places” photography exhibit, which will travel across North Carolina through Feb. 19, 2011. It will be displayed Sept. 30-Oct. 20 at the Gaston County Public Library. The 30 images capture North Carolinians at work [...]
September 23, 2010 – 3:55 pm
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Sept. 20, 2010) – During the month of October, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will be offering interactive programming related to the NCNC (North Carolina New Contemporary) exhibition that will open on Oct. 8. From Asheville, Thomasville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Raleigh, this exhibition celebrates eight artists who are redefining the visual [...]
September 23, 2010 – 2:28 pm
Triangle Home Movie Day Offers Thrills for All RALEIGH-Do you have home movies in your family? Do you want to know what’s on them, what condition they’re in, and how to take care of them? Or do you just want to see what other people filmed with their 8- and 16-mm cameras? Triangle Home Movie [...]
September 23, 2010 – 1:26 pm
RALEIGH – Serene sea side scenes and rushing mountain waterfalls are among the many images in the “Celebrate North Carolina: Faces and Places” exhibit that comes to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras from Sept. 30-Oct. 20. “Celebrate North Carolina” is an initiative of the Office of First Gentleman Bob Eaves (www.celebrate.nc.gov), and [...]
September 22, 2010 – 1:00 pm
The Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission (GGCHCC) is seeking input on three preliminary alternatives it developed for managing the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor over the next 10 years. The preliminary alternatives outline basic management concepts and implementation ideas. Comments must be received by Oct. 26, 2010, to be considered. “Based on the responses we receive, [...]
September 21, 2010 – 2:28 pm
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – On Friday, Oct. 8, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will open an exhibition that surveys the work of a provocative young group of North Carolina artists titled NCNC – North Carolina New Contemporary. This exhibition showcases eight artists from across the state working in a style that combines traditions of [...]
September 21, 2010 – 10:53 am
RALEIGH – Three hundred years on the ocean floor can be pretty rough on a body. The Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources will dedicate its fall dive to treating some large bodies of iron in the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers, from Sept. 22-Oct. 29, will be on wreck site of [...]
September 16, 2010 – 9:41 am
National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the North Carolina Arts Council is the recipient of the 2010 National Accessibility Leadership Award for its outstanding accessibility work during stops in Winston-Salem and Greensboro over the weekend. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies [...]
September 16, 2010 – 9:38 am
The North Carolina Arts Council will accept applications for the 2011-2012 Artist Fellowship awards for composers of jazz, chamber, electronic, experimental and symphonic music, songwriters, playwrights and screenwriters, spoken-word artists, and writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and literary translation until Monday, Nov. 1. The fellowship award is $10,000. Fellowship guidelines can be found at [...]
September 15, 2010 – 4:26 pm
DURHAM – The local surgeon will examine “recruits” and enlistment papers will be issued to visitors who “sign up” for service in the Confederate Army, in a free program at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham. Activities will recreate the opening days of the Civil War with a living history recruitment encampment on Saturday, [...]
September 15, 2010 – 4:19 pm
On Friday, September 17, Assistant Attorney General Karen Blum discusses the journey of North Carolina’s original “copy” of the Bill of Rights from 1787 to 2008. The lecture includes the history of the document from its proposal by Congress and transmittal to the state by George Washington in 1789, to its theft by a Union [...]
September 15, 2010 – 10:55 am
FREMONT – Though only five and a half years old when the war ended, Charles B. Aycock never forgot the Civil War. The stories and experiences of his middle class family remained with him until his dying day. A special program about the life of the Aycock family during the Civil War years of 1861-1865 [...]
September 15, 2010 – 8:28 am
RALEIGH, N.C.-The North Carolina Museum of Art’s East Building reopens November 7 with an unprecedented lineup of inaugural exhibitions, including four free shows in addition to a ticketed exhibition of Norman Rockwell’s art. The exhibitions feature sculpture by North Carolinian Bob Trotman, children’s book illustrations, contemporary photography by Vietnamese American artist Binh Danh, and John [...]