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Office DJ: A Postmodern Jukebox Playlist

By Angelica Edwards | April 16

Postmodern Jukebox is offering a new way to listen to your favorite artists—from Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, to Lady Gaga and Haley Reinhart. ...

Kenan Theatre Company, Company Carolina look ahead to fall 2020 season

By Emma Gerden | April 16

Despite the disruption to their scheduled spring season, theater organizations at UNC, like Kenan Theatre Company and Company Carolina, are looking forward ...

Office DJ: Let's be honest, it's sad girl hours

By Hannah Lang | April 16

"Sometimes you just need to get in your feelings, and then listen to sad, angsty music to make all of those feelings worse and more intense."

The ArtsCenter to offer online arts classes during social distancing period and beyond

By Dominick Ferrara | April 15

"It's a way to strengthen existing connections and to find new connections to other people and to ideas. Right now, when a lot of people are looking for ...

Carolina Tiger Rescue in Pittsboro addresses 'what Tiger King doesn't tell you'

By Mary King | April 14

Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” has generated lively social media discourse over the past weeks, and UNC students were quick to contribute. But not ...

Getting creative during quarantine? Film Fest 919's festival wants to share original art

By Rylee Parsons | April 14

Film Fest 919 is now hosting a Social Distancing Film, Song and Photo Festival. Participants are encouraged to submit short films, re-enact scenes and ...

Here's how Mi Pueblo hopes to maintain community through COVID-19

By Elise Mahon | April 13

Mi Pueblo hosted a virtual Latin Night to keep members connect despite not being together on campus.

UNC dance groups find ways to recognize their work despite canceled performances

By Maddie Singleton | April 9

Following the cancellation of extracurricular activities due to COVID-19, members of these dance groups have continued to try to celebrate their hard ...

Carolina Performing Arts launches CPA at Home program in wake of COVID-19

By Dominick Ferrara | April 9

Using Spotify, live streaming and social media, the CPA at Home program encourages its users to reconnect with the performances they missed.

Office DJ: Zoom University will persevere

By Preston Lennon | April 8

"It's not ideal, but if there's one thing I've learned from the past 3.75 years, it's that it will take far more than a global pandemic to stop Carolina ...

'But I can sew': PlayMakers costumer trades making stage masks for surgical masks

By Kristen Jones | April 8

Rachel Pollock, a costumer with the PlayMakers Repertory Company, has dedicated much of her time to sewing masks for hospitals across the U.S. as their ...

Art to walk, run or roll by: Chapel Hill Art + Transit calls for bus shelter designs

By Elise Mahon | April 8

Chapel Hill Art + Transit is bringing back their Artistic Bus Shelter program, an opportunity for local artists to decorate bus shelters in Chapel Hill ...

'A little literary family': Students finishing fiction and poetry theses write remotely

By Liz Johnson | April 8

“We’re still writing, and we’re still going to keep writing,” Alexis Byrd said. “All of us are writers at heart.”

Carrboro Mayor continues tradition of proclaiming April as Poetry Month

By Rylee Parsons | April 7

Town of Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle is urging everyone to read and share poems during April's Poetry Month.

Here’s how local schools are adjusting arts education for remote learning

By Dominick Ferrara | April 7

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School arts teachers have had to get creative to continue teaching students online.

'Necessity is the mother of invention': UNC arts education adapts to remote learning

By Patty Weeks | April 6

These artists are using their creativity to identify new ways to approach their craft, remotely.

Creative in isolation: A UNC professor teaches from a McDonald's parking lot in W.Va.

By Mary King | April 5

Over spring break, UNC professor Matt Randal O'Wain traveled with his wife from their Durham home to their farm in West Virginia, as they typically do ...

Arts Everywhere brings art studio online to inspire creativity for UNC community

By Kristen Jones | April 5

Arts Everywhere at UNC is encouraging students to create art at home to relieve stress during quarantine.

'A good unifier in times like this:' Loreleis release new album despite COVID-19

By Emma Gerden | April 5

“We’ve been relying a little bit more on social media to get the word out,” said Loreleis public manager Amy Smith. “We usually still use social ...

'Short is now': Arts Everywhere writing contest encourages reflection on COVID-19

By Elise Mahon | April 2

Arts Everywhere is providing a creative outlet to discuss the impact of the pandemic on people's lives through a writing competition. Poems, fiction, ...