Thursday
No Child…
Kenan Theatre
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday
Tickets are $10 to $35
Nilaja Sun joins PlayMakers Repertory Company for the first show of 2012. An installment of the Company’s PRC2 series, her one-woman production — “No Child…” — explores a fictional school in the age of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Friday
The Spectacular of Vernacular: Opening Reception
Ackland Art Museum
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Admission is free
Join the Ackland for the opening reception of their newest exhibition, “The Spectacular of Vernacular.” The second main exhibition of the academic year, “Vernacular” explores the “rustic, folkloric and the humbly homemade…”
Saturday
All-Carolina Invitational Male Choral Festival
Hill Hall
5:30 p.m.
Admission is $5
The music department hosts the male voices of UNC in a festival of song.
Sunday
Music in the Galleries
Ackland Art Museum
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is free
“Something Old, Something New, Something Wooden, Something Tuned: Electro-Acoustic Sounds for a Sunday Afternoon” is the Ackland’s first installment of Music in the Galleries for 2012. Shaun Sandor will turn binary coded scenes of Chapel Hill into music. Enjoy while touring their new exhibit, “The Spectacular of Vernacular.”
Monday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Everywhere
All the time
Celebrate it.
Wednesday
Carolina Global Photography Exhibition: Opening Reception
FedEx Global Education Center
5:00 p.m.
Admission is free
Bring a dish (or an appetite) to the opening of the Carolina Global Photography Exhibit, have your picture taken with the world’s seven wonders (and gnomes), and be entered to win a gift card to the Global Cup Cafe.
PlayMakers Vision Series – The Making of a King
Center for Dramatic Art
6:30 p.m.
Admission is free
Artistic Director Joe Haj hosts a behind-the-scenes look at PlayMaker’s next mainstage productions, Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” and “Henry V,” which will be performed in rotating repertory beginning January 28. He and the cast and creative team will discuss how the show came together a week before the premiere.
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