Performance
Mandolin Orange and Mipso Music
Hooker Fields
8 p.m. Friday
Free admission
If local Americana is your music style of choice, the Carolina Union Activities Board is reaching out to you. And your friends. And their friends. As a close out to the first week back on the Hill, Carrboro’s Mandolin Orange and Chapel Hill’s Mipso Music are joining forces to wisk all into a hipster weekend.
Mister Diplomat
DSI Comedy Theater, Carrboro
10:30 p.m. Friday
Free admission
The triangle’s incubator of improvisation greatness is kicking off the school year with ““Mister Diplomat”:http://www.dsicomedytheater.com/teams/mister-diplomat/,” featuring true stories told by the performers, local celebs or chosen guests. Similar to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles’ beloved ““Shitty Jobs”:http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2150”, “Mister Diplomat” will turn the weird stories you tell your friends into the hilarious scenes you imagined.
Three Days of Rain
Center for Dramatic Art
Friday to Sunday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Free admission
LAB! Theatre joins New York-based Ground UP Productions to put on Richard Greenberg’s “Three Days of Rain,” which follows the family of an architect who has just died. This is LAB!s first production of the year.
Read staff writer Michelle Lewis’ piece on GroundUP Productions in Friday’s newspaper.
The Serpent’s Egg
Forest Theatre
Aug. 26 to 28, Sept. 2 to 5 7 p.m. and Aug. 28 and Sept. 4 at 2 p.m.
Suggested donations are $8 for children and $12 for adults
This is not your average puppet show. The last two weekends until the semi-official end of summer, come out, bring a picnic and watch some extraordinary puppeteering.
Art
Ackland Art Museum
Gallery and Exhibits (10 a.m. – 8 pm Thursday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday)
Free admission
Though the new exhibition “Carolina Collects” doesn’t open until Sept. 9, the Ackland is always buzzing with programs.
On Tuesday’s from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., the Ackland hosts Yoga in the Galleries. Mats are provided and the session is led by Joanne Marshall. The next Yoga in the Galleries session is Sept. 6.
Read staff writer Kristina Weeks’ story on Carolina Collects here.
Nasher Museum of Art
Gallery and Exhibits (10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday)
Free admission 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. Thursdays, $5 admission all other days.
Running now, the Nasher is showcasing “Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection.” The exhibition highlights more than 100 photographic works that explore the photo portrait and identity around the world as it has changed through the century.
Beginning in mid-September, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure The Signs Of Power, 1973-1991” will showcase the collaborative works of progressive feminist women and the men they often had to fight to be heard.
From the Cradle to the Cave: 18 Years of NC Poster Art
Davis Library Gallery
Thursday, Aug. 25, at 5 p.m.
Free admission
First in the Union, then at the Ackland store, the popular poster art of Chapel Hill’s vibrant music and art scenes can now be seen in Davis Library’s gallery — located in the main hallway on the bottom floor. The exhibit officially opens Thursday with a panel discussion with the artists and music by Chapel Hill group The Kingsbury Manx.
Differentiate, Osterloh and McWreath
Allcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center
Aug. 30 to Sept. 27, 2011 with opening reception Tuesday, Aug. 30 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission
Abstract and performance works by highly regarded American artists Gina Osterloh and Mores McWreath will explore the ideas of self and difference.
Miscellaneous
Jonathan Safran Foer
Memorial Hall
Thursday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.
Free admission
Come here Jonathan Safran Foer, author of “Eating Animals,” share his perspective on food production in today’s America. “Eating Animals” is the 2011 Carolina Summer Reading selection. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
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