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Jan 26 2018

This Week in the Arts: Jan. 19-25


#OCNCARTS IN THE NEWS

January 19-25, 2018


  • Chapel Hill, NC: A Top Destination in the 2018 Travel to College Towns Trend (Business Insider)
  • Sick of Facebook Invites? UNC-Chapel Hill Just Launched an App for Tracking Events on Campus (Indy Week)
  • Day trips in the Triangle: Chapel Hill (ABC 11)
  • Arts Everywhere, Indi Cowie and Dorrance Dance team up in four-day UNC residency (The Daily Tar Heel)
  • Michael Banks brings non-traditional style to Hillsborough (The Daily Tar Heel)
  • If you want to find anything related to the arts at UNC, there’s an app for that(The News & Observer)

YOUR WEEKEND CALENDAR

ART
  • Opening Reception for Alder Keene Tonight, 5:50-7:30pm | Bottle Rev, Chapel Hill
  • Alumnae UNC: Artist Talk with Laura Charlton & Jessica Dupuis Tonight, 5pm | LIGHT: Art + Design, Chapel Hill
  • Opening Reception for Art for a C Note Tonight, 6-9pm | Hillsborough Gallery of Arts

THEATRE & COMEDY

  • Trifecta Improv Tonight, 7pm | PIT Chapel Hill
  • Master Builder Tonight & tomorrow, 8pm | Mystery Brewing Company, Hillsborough

LITERARY ARTS

  • Love and Romance: A Poetry Workshop with Pam Baggett Tomorrow, 1pm | Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough
  • Falling Appels Book Release Sunday, 2pm | Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough
DANCE
  • Youth Step Dance Demo Tomorrow, 2pm | Chapel Hill Public Library

FILM

  • Viewing of documentary Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America, Tonight, 7pm | United Church of Chapel Hill
  • Movies that Matter: Kundun, the Life of the Dalai Lama Tomorrow, 7pm | Oasis at Carr Mill, Carrboro

SPECIAL EVENTS

  • Last Friday Art Walk Tonight, 6pm | Hillsborough

LIVE MUSIC

CHAPEL HILL

  • Modular Night #1 Tonight, 9:30pm | Nightlight Bar & Club
  • Rock with Poor Pie/Henbrain/Hank & Brendan Tonight, 9pm | Local 506
  • Cold Cream/Pie Face Girls/Housefire Tonight, 9:30pm | The Cave
  • Rock with Secretary Pool with the Dead Bedrooms and Cannonball Jars Tomorrow, 8pm | The Cave
  • Kaleidoscopic Tomorrow, 9pm | Nightlight Bar & Club, Chapel Hill
  • Rock/Indie with Sound System Seven/Bellflowr/The Oatmeal Conspiracy Tomorrow, 9pm | Local 506
  • 50’s/60’s/70’s with The Whiskey Honeys Tomorrow, 8:30pm | The Kraken
  • Folk/Indie Rock with Burns with Eden Falling & Pretend I’m a Genuis Sunday, 8pm | The Cave
  • Rock/Pop with Belle Adair and Robertson Sunday, 9pm | Local 506

CARRBORO

  • An Evening with Lloyd Cole Tonight, 8pm | The ArtsCenter
  • Cooper Alan & Dissimilar South with Justin Fouts & Veronica Sarria Tonight, 8pm | Cat’s Cradle
  • Jazz with Yeaux Katz Tonight, 10pm | 2nd Wind
  • Classical guitar with Mak Grgic Tonight, 8pm | Carrboro Center Center
  • Punk with Enter Shikari, Milk Teeth and Single Mothers Tonight, 8pm | Cat’s Cradle
  • Folk with Slow Down for Poetry Tomorrow, 7:30pm | Oasis at Carr Mill
  • Stringband Zoltar’s Fortune Tomorrow, 8pm | Open Eye Cafe
  • Stringband Dwight Hawkins & The Piedmont Highballers Tomorrow, 6:30pm | The Station
  • Mike Blair Tomorrow, 8pm | Open Eye Cafe
  • 1st Annual Carrboro Django Fest Sunday, 4pm | Cat’s Cradle
  • Celtic rock with Gaelic Storm Sunday, 8pm | Cat’s Cradle

HILLSBOROUGH

  • Southern folk with Bear Stevens Tonight, 8pm | Mystery Brewing Public House
  • 90’s with Eric’s Attic Tomorrow, 8pm | Nash St. Tavern
  • Rock/blues with The OC Project Tomorrow, 9pm | Hot Tin Roof
  • Beer & Hymns Sunday, 7pm | Nash St. Tavern

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