Arts & Culture
This area has been known for decades for its thriving creative music scene. Many people travel from around the region – and sometimes around the world – to attend shows at the Cat's Cradle and other venues in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Less famous, but also doing us proud, are visual artists, dancers, actors, and filmmakers around the Triangle. In fact, Chapel Hill was home to the first Flicker festival, which now takes place in ten cities around the world!
The Town of Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation Department is proud to sponsor our Annual Festifall Arts
and Crafts Street Fair in downtown Chapel Hill, Sunday, October 4, 2009 from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. Quality
arts and crafts by some of the most talented artists in NC will be shown at this event. Bring your holiday
shopping list and some home décor ideas for purchasing original art. Everything from live music and original
arts and crafts to the ultimate Kids Zone will be displayed at this premier fall spectacular.
The sights, sounds and brisk fall air will be accented by thousands of fair goers. The Annual Festifall
Street Fair is a beautiful fall event with a home-town, community touch, designed with family, friends and newcomers in mind.
We invite arts & craft exhibitors and entertainers to apply by the July 17, 2009 deadline. Limited space is available.
For more information see www.townofchapelhill.org/festifall for detailed fair info and to
download an application.
Date:
Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 9:00am to 2:00pm
Location:
West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
Last night my wife and I attended a remarkable play about the history of Chapel Hill. The play is called, Because We’re Still Here (and Moving). It runs through February 17th at the Kenan Theatre, an extension of the Paul Green Theatre.
The play is a collection of stories about African Americans whose families have been a part of Chapel Hill for over 150 years. The play weaves together many fragments of oral history in a very moving and creative way. I learned a lot about the proud history of the black community in Chapel Hill that I had not heard before. I also heard appalling family stories about slavery and racism in Chapel Hill that are a sad part of our community’s shared history.
I was particularly interested in stories about Lincoln High School (now the Lincoln Center). I have lived here for many years but, I was unaware of the history of achievement and community pride that surrounded Lincoln High School. I hope many people will get a chance to see this excellent play.
Michael B. Owen
According to WCHL:
Orange County is preparing to kick off Human Relations Month.
James Spivey, a civil rights specialist for the office of Human Relations in Orange County, said the theme this year will be “Power to the People: Race and the Environment in Orange County.”
Human Relations Month promotes strong community ties. The kickoff celebration will include a performance by the East Baile Latino Group.
The keynote speaker will be Mr. Omega R. Wilson, president of the West End Revitalization Association.
The kickoff is from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Carrboro Century Center, located at 100 North Greensboro St. Everyone is welcomed to attend the event at no charge.
Date:
Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Century Hall, Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St.
I have been hearing about a lot of inauguration-related activities going on this weekend and through Tuesday. I'd rather not have them clog up the calendar, but I thought it would be helpful to list them all in one place. Here's what I know about so far, please post additional events and let us know how you're observing this landmark event.
The Carrboro Cybrary and Carrboro Recreation and Parks invite the community to celebrate Black History Month with a discussion of The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature led by the editor, UNC-Chapel Hill Distinguished Professor of English, William L. Andrews. Copies of the anthology can be borrowed from the Carrboro Cybrary.
"The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina.
This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews explores the reasons why black North Carolinians made such a disproportionate contribution (in quantity and lasting quality) to African American literature as compared to that of other southern states with larger African American populations. The authors in this anthology parlayed both the advantages and disadvantages of their North Carolina beginnings into sophisticated perspectives on the best and the worst of which humanity, in both the South and the North, was capable. They created an African American literary tradition unrivaled by that of any other state in the South.
Writers included here are Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, David Bryant Fulton, George Moses Horton, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Moses Roper, and David Walker." ~ Book Description from UNC Press
"This important anthology shows that North Carolina produced a remarkable, indeed unmatched record of black authorship throughout the nineteenth century. . . . Even if these eight writers were not North Carolinians, a collection of their writings makes for a compelling display of diverse African American literary expression during the first decades after slavery. The fact that these writers were all North Carolinians makes the volume even more impressive, as it points to the fact that they were all shaped by the cultural forces of this particular state during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval." ~ Lucinda H. MacKethan, North Carolina State University
Date:
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St.
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