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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Abigail DeVille

Hanes Art Center 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

Abigail DeVille’s most recent solo exhibition was Light of Freedom, organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy (2020-21), and traveled to the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021) and the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021-22). Other commissions and solo museum shows include The American Future, Portland Institute for Contemporary... Read More →

Rebekah Todd w/ Azul

Local 506 506 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, United States

For all venue policies & membership info, visit www.local506.com – Under 21 subject to a surcharge, payable at the door. Must have valid ID to enter. 

$10

Be Here Now Improv (March Workshop)

West End Theater 300-G East Main St, Carrboro, NC, United States

Be Here Now is a one-day workshop that will focus on using improv tools to be fully engaged in the moment, create incredible teamwork, and enhance creative thinking, all in the back-drop of an afternoon of fun, games and laughter.

$82.50

Alcohol Ink Basics with Amy Elmore: Using Straws and Compressed Air

Margaret Lane Gallery Annex/F-Stop 2 302 W Corbin Street, Hillsborough

Alcohol inks are fast-drying, highly pigmented, alcohol-based inks that are great to use on any hard, non-porous surface including glass, metal, plastic, ceramic, stone, yupo paper, leather and polymer clay. Once the ink is applied, the alcohol evaporates, leaving the dye behind. This workshop will focus on using a brush, straws and compressed air to... Read More →

$60

Build an Electroacoustic Percussion Instrument!

Shop Studio 300-G East Main St., Carrboro, NC, United States

In this intensive instrument building workshop, veteran musician Jason Mullinax will show students how to construct and play their very own electroacoustic instrument.

$66

Smidley

Local 506 506 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, United States
$12

North Carolina Freedom Park

Richard E. Whitted Human Services Center 300 West Tryon Street, Hillsborough, NC, United States

Program 7pm – 8 pm, followed by Q & A Whitted Building, 300 W Tryon St, Hillsborough, NC Envision an inspiring, 45-foot-tall, illuminated sculpture reaching towards the sky from the center of downtown Raleigh – a “Beacon of Freedom,” the centerpiece of North Carolina Freedom Park – a one-acre park that honors the African American... Read More →

Free

2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Monique Truong Reading

Moeser Auditorium 145 East Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Reading by 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Monique Truong, Tuesday, March 28, 7:30pm, Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall, UNC-CH Campus. Open and Free to the public

Free

Ackland Film Forum: “The Last Forest” (Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil, 2021)

Varsity Theater

Join us for the next screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series Do Something: Responding to Climate Change presented by UNC Film Studies and the Ackland Art Museum. “The Last Forest” (Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil, 2021) Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 7:30 p.m. Free Tickets at the Varsity Theatre Introduction by Dr.... Read More →

Free