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Public vision for community art

By Jordan Lawrence | August 18

Everyone walking into the Chapel Hill Public Library passes by part of a communitywide art exhibition. Carrboro artist Mike Roig's steel ring creation ...

Ackland, UNC relations set to tighten with grant

By Phillip Crook | August 18

Correction: Due to a reporting error, this story states that Robert Cantwell co-curated the Ackland exhibit "The '50s and the Anti-'50s." He is teaching ...

Performers prepare 'The Gender Project'

By Bennett Campbell | August 18

Last year UNC was one of eight U.S. universities to receive a grant designed to bring provocative discussion dealing with a topic of social significance ...

CUAB brings smaller acts

By Kevin Turner | April 25

In a year marred by cancellations of impending deals with big-name acts such as M.I.A., The Decemberists and Spoon, the Carolina Union Activities Board ...

Performance space still tight

By Bennett Campbell | April 25

Whether it's Mezmerhythm or Modernextension, Cadence or the Clef Hangers, every student-run performing arts group at UNC shares a common need: rehearsal ...

CPA sees rise in student attendance

By Phillip Crook | April 25

It was a season of surprises. Aretha Franklin canceled her season-opening performance for Carolina Performing Arts, student attendance to CPA events ...

SpringFest bigger in part II

By Alexandria Shealy | April 24

Organizers of SpringFest '08 said that, even now, the festival makes some University administrators a little nervous. Many of those administrators ...

Bringing out the beat

By Ashley Nicole Lewis | April 24

Audience members were able to experience authentic African dance while learning about the ongoing global HIV/AIDS epidemic Wednesday night at Memorial ...

Country star to play benefit

By Nash Roberts | April 24

Sometimes, it's more about who you know than what you know. This holds especially true for Reece Holbrook, who was 2 years old when he was diagnosed ...

'Witness' concludes series

By Kelly Yang | April 23

Through discussions, photo exhibits, performances and other media, UNC's arts community spent the year exploring issues of capital punishment in society. ...

Uganda performance mixes music, dance

By Jess Thom | April 23

Carolina Performing Arts' presentation of "Spirit of Uganda" today will use dance and music to promote awareness about Uganda's ongoing civil war and ...

Second Carson concert tonight

By Alexandria Shealy | April 22

Organizers of benefit concert "An EVE the Carolina Way" said it was impossible to consider another cause to be the focus of their annual concert after ...

Like peas and carrots

By Andrew Dunn | April 22

There are so many things you can do with shrimp. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it. There's shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, ...

Vests, at least, stay the same

By Catarina Saraiva | April 21

When the curtain went up Saturday night in Memorial Hall, the auditorium was bathed in an orange glow and filled with the energetic and tight harmonies ...

Dance company advances 'non-narrative art'

By Phillip Crook | April 21

The work of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company is of the sort that often challenges audiences' intuitions about what is and what isn't "art." For many ...

'Dark Side of Oz' will rise April 20

By Bennett Campbell | April 18

The question has puzzled the uninitiated for years: What really happens when you sync up the film version of "The Wizard of Oz" with Pink Floyd's 1973 ...

Dance show to enrapture with two performances

By Phillip Crook | April 18

When provocative American choreographer Merce Cunningham freed his dancers from the limitations of music, he also set out to release audience members ...

Film festival gives new meaning to worldly entertainment

By Will Augerot | April 18

French and Arabic cultures will intersect on film this weekend in a series of N.C. premieres that organizers say students are unlikely to have a chance ...

Music Festival to offer taste of world dances

By Alyssa Griffith | April 18

This weekend, UNC students won't have to travel out of the country or flip to reruns of "Dancing with the Stars" to experience the sensuality of salsa. The ...

Jews and Muslims unite through festival

By Ashley Nicole Lewis | April 17

Many Jewish and Muslim students at UNC will aim to overlook international conflicts today through a shared appreciation of art and entertainment. And ...