CARY – The North Carolina Symphony, led by Resident Conductor and Summerfest Artistic Director William Henry Curry, launches the 2013 Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series on Saturday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre. Gates open at 5 p.m. Children 12 and under are free on the lawn. Brahms’ masterful Symphony No. 2 in D [...]
WINSTON-SALEM – The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), located at 750 Marguerite Drive, is presenting the elegant and engaging Fire Pink Trio in concert Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m. The concert will be held in SECCA’s state-of-the-art McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium. Tickets for the concert are $15 for general admission and $10 for students [...]
DURHAM — N.C. Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz announced today that the findings from the annual Creative Vitality Index (CVI) update show an increase of more than 8 percent in creative occupations jobs held by nearly 3 percent of North Carolina’s workforce. “The fact that North Carolina’s creative workforce remained strong despite the [...]
The 5th annual East Carolina Pottery Festival will bring pottery exhibits, clay throwing techniques and firing demonstrations to Tryon Palace on Saturday, June 1. Held from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., this free event has expanded in recent years and is expected to bring more than 40 potters to New Bern’s well-established community of artists [...]
NEW BERN – The North Carolina Symphony will give a free outdoor concert, Sunday, June 2, at 7:30 p.m., on the South Lawn at New Bern’s historic Tryon Palace. Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn will lead the orchestra in “Concerts in Your Community: At the Movies.” In the event of inclement weather, the performance will take [...]
The Museum of the Albemarle will host Dale Pollock, Professor of Cinema Studies and Producing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 1 p.m. in the Gaither Auditorium. Mr. Pollock will present “Filming in North Carolina: An Alternative to Hollywood.” His topic will focus [...]
June’s largest event at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh will be presented with Our State in celebration of the magazine’s 80th anniversary. On Saturday, June 8, meet Our State editor Elizabeth Hudson, hear bluegrass music by Kickin’ Grass, sample scrumptious food, and experience much more. The event ties in with the museum’s 2nd [...]
Celebrate history, heritage and the arts at the Museum of the Cape Fear’s annual 2nd Saturdays Arts Fest on June 8, July 13 and August 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A variety of artists and craftspeople will set up shop on the grounds of the 1897 Poe House to display and sell local [...]
RALEIGH — Resident Conductor William Henry Curry will lead the North Carolina Symphony in some of the best-loved songs from the movies of Walt Disney in the program “Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies,” in three performances Friday, May 10 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, May 11 at 3 p.m. and again at [...]
April 26, 2013 – 10:00 am
RALEIGH — Eight North Carolina organizations received grants totally $297,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts this week for a variety of programs, including funds to train Gates County schools in arts integration, making the system the first school district in the state to have all of its schools in the nationally recognized A+ [...]
RALEIGH — The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh announces that tickets are now $5 per person for the exhibition Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware. Admission is free for children ages 4 and under and for Museum of History Associates members. Purchase tickets in the Museum Shop. Art in Clay will run [...]
April 24, 2013 – 10:45 am
“Storybook Theatre Tales from Around the World Part II” and an associated workshop will be presented by East Carolina University on Saturday, May 4, at 2 p.m. The production is an interactive theatre piece for children that features enchanting and exciting stories. A 45 minute workshop for children follows the production. Participants, with the assistance of [...]
April 17, 2013 – 10:33 am
“The Flame of Love: The Legend of Tristan and Iseult” brings a night of Celtic harp and medieval storytelling to Cullman Performance Hall on Friday, May 3. Performed by Patrick Ball and Shira Kammen, this dramatic story of love, passion, magic and death will be told through a combination of spoken word performances and music. [...]
April 16, 2013 – 11:00 am
MANTEO – The Appalachian Young People’s Theatre (AYPT), a dynamic component of the Department of Theatre & Dance at Appalachian State University will perform two shows in the Indoor Theatre at Roanoke Island Festival Park on Saturday, April 27, at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Founded in 1972, AYPT works in partnership with communities and public [...]
April 10, 2013 – 10:00 am
The award-winning East Carolina University Jazz Ensemble “A” (ECUJE), the select touring group of the East Carolina University School of Music Jazz Studies Program, will perform on Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Indoor Theatre at Roanoke Island Festival Park . Under the tutelage of bassist Carroll V. Dashiell, Jr., who joined the [...]