SPENCER — The N.C. Transportation Museum is expanding a well known event to include more options for families, more things to see and do and more experiences for everyone who attends. June 1, the museum’s traditional “Rail Days” event will become the “Museum in Motion” festival. The “Museum in Motion” festival will provide as many [...]
RALEIGH — Like baseball legend Jackie Robinson, whose story is told in the movie “42,” North Carolina’s Walter F. “Buck” Leonard was an outstanding athlete. Leonard played baseball in the Negro National League during the 1930s and 1940s, when segregation barred African American players from major and minor leagues. The Rocky Mount native helped pave [...]
March 27, 2013 – 12:54 pm
WINSTON-SALEM, NC (March 27, 2013) — After five years of curating extraordinarily memorable exhibitions at one of the Southeast’s finest contemporary art centers, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC, announced today that its Curator of Contemporary Art Steven Matijcio will assume a new curatorial position at the Contemporary Arts Center in [...]
March 27, 2013 – 12:51 pm
RALEIGH – Since the beginning of the Civil War (1861-1865) 150 years have passed, but its widespread impact and defining characteristics remain vivid. These can especially be seen in North Carolina as illustrated by the “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit” (www.nccivilwar150.com). The exhibit will be hosted by Carteret County Public Library in [...]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (March 26, 2013) – The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is announcing its schedule for the Easter holiday. SECCA is a part of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and an affiliate of the North Carolina Museum of Art. SECCA, located at 750 Marguerite Drive off Reynolda Road near Wake Forest [...]
Only a few weeks remain to see the wildly popular exhibit Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind. It will be open through Sunday, April 14, at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. On Sunday, April 7, meet James Tumblin, owner of the Gone with the Wind memorabilia featured in the [...]
February 4, 2013 – 3:20 pm
RALEIGH — The State Capitol is celebrating the February birthdays of George Washington and an Italian sculptor who paid tribute to America’s first president. This merger of art and history will address some cultural practices related to time and place including why the first president was sculpted in a skirt. On Feb. 22 and 23, [...]
August 28, 2012 – 2:57 pm
RALEIGH—The North Carolina Symphony launches the 2012/13 editions of its statewide classical concert series late next month when Resident Conductor William Henry Curry and conductor Tonu Kalam lead the orchestra in an evening of theatrical masterpieces and one of classical music’s most influential and beloved scores, Brahms’ First Symphony. Maestro Curry conducts the series-opening performances [...]
RALEIGH – A nuclear near-catastrophe is the subject of a new N.C. Highway Historical marker . The latest marker in the popular program will be dedicated on Friday, June 29, in at the intersection of Main Street and Faro Road in Eureka, N.C., at 11 a.m. In January 1961, a plane crashed in rural Wayne County at the height [...]
April brings best-selling author Dr. James M. McPherson to the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Widely known as a pre-eminent Civil War scholar, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson will present a lecture on April 29 at the museum, so sign up [...]
About Crossroads @ SECCA #004 Friday, March 30, 2012 Music: 8-9:30 p.m. Venue doors open at 6 p.m. McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) 750 Marguerite Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27106-5826 (336) 725-1904 Tickets: Advance ticket sales: $35/VIP, $20/General Admission, $15/SECCA Supporter, $10/Student. Door ticket sales: $40/VIP, $25/General Admission, $20/SECCA Member, $15/Student. [...]
November 21, 2011 – 2:07 pm
RALEIGH – Determination, commitment and pride are among many characteristics of North Carolinians depicted in the “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit”. The exhibit commemorates the role our state played in the Civil War (1861-1865), a defining period in United States history. It will visit the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras [...]
September 30, 2011 – 10:05 am
RALEIGH – A group of distinguished North Carolinians will receive the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor the state bestows, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the N. C. Museum of History. Honorees this year are Charles E. Hamner, Jr., of Chapel Hill and H. Martin Lancaster, of Raleigh, both for Public [...]
August 19, 2011 – 9:40 am
Raleigh, N.C. (August 18, 2011) — North Carolina poets will mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by sharing works written in response to the national tragedy on the blog, NCArtsEveryday.org. Poems will be posted daily through Sept. 11 by more than 15 of the state’s most notable poets, including N.C. Poet Laureate [...]
August 9, 2011 – 10:37 am
Concerts in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, Sept. 8-10 RALEIGH, N.C.—North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn launches the orchestra’s 2011/12 concert season with a powerhouse concert program headlined by one of the biggest, most beloved compositions in all of classical music, Mozart’s Requiem. Joined on stage by the North Carolina Master Chorale and an ensemble [...]