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!
All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the
imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a
rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation. But what exactly
is radical imagination? Come join Stevphen Shukaitis for a discussion
of his book Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the
Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009), which explores the
potentials and limits of collective imagination in social movement
organizing.
“Imaginal Machines explores with humor and wit the condition of art
and politics in contemporary capitalism. It reviews the potentials and
limits of liberatory art (from surrealism to Tom Waits) while charting
the always-resurgent creations of the collective imagination. Shukaitis
exhibits a remarkable theoretical breadth, bringing together the work
of Castoriadis, the Situationists, and autonomous Marxism to define a
new task for militant research: constructing imaginal machines that
escape capitalism. Imaginal Machines is truly a book that makes a path
by walking.” – Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women
the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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Date:
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
The Anarcho-Folk-Pop Duo will be at Internationalist Books and Community Center in the evening to perform songs from their album "You Can't Stop Trying".
Give them a listen at http://worldhistory.bandcamp.com/!
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World History began in the winter of 2006, as a collection of songs
written and recorded aboard several boats in Seattle, Washington. The
project has since evolved into a laughing, stomping, yelping
collaboration between Neil Campau and Jamie Menzel. They most often
write songs about historical characters and events that are rarely
talked about in compulsory school textbooks, and their lyrics provide
hints of their anarchist anti-politics. Campau provides the majority of
the vocals, alternately strumming his rusty autoharp and breaking guitar
strings, while Menzel lends her soft vocals and intricate flute
melodies, and from time to time, breaks something in a percussive
fervor. Whether performing a raucous, triumphant historical retelling or
a foot-stomping sing-along, World History continues to captivate
audiences from living room to back porch.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-History/191432716069
http://www.myspace.com/worldworldhistoryhistory
http://www.twitter.com/itsoktobealive
http://www.last.fm/music/World+History
http://www.reverbnation.com/worldhistory
Date:
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 1:00pm
Location:
Internationalist Books and Community Center, 405 W Franklin St Chapel Hill
I just received the following memo from the Town of Chapel Hill email list. It shares some info on a proposal to move the town library permanently to University Mall. You can find it
here on the Town of Chapel Hill website too.
TO: Council
FROM: Mark Kleinschmidt, Mayor
SUBJECT: University Mall Library Proposal
DATE: November 22, 2010
During discussions regarding the temporary relocation of Chapel Hill library to University Mall, Madison-Marquette, the mall's owners, expressed to our staff their interest in exploring the possibility of permanently locating the library at the Mall. The proposal would be for a mall anchored at one end by A Southern Season, and at the other by the Chapel Hill Public Library, which they propose would occupy the current Dillard's Department Store space.
Date:
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 12:00pm to 6:00pm
From chapelhilljaycees.org:
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Holiday Parade is scheduled for Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. until approximately 12:00 noon. Presented by the Chapel Hill Jaycees, the parade this year promises to be a celebration of our community spirit.
We encourage all entries to have a holiday theme and awards will be given for Best of Parade, Most Original, Best Holiday Theme, Most Creative, Best Scout Troop. Our winners put a lot of thought and creativity in their entries and that is what makes this holiday parade so special!
Date:
Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 5:00am
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