WE ARE SAATH put on a fashion show that symbolized the different ways young people from South Asian communities experience mental health.
In media ranging from pencil and oil on canvas to fluorescent light and projected video, the selected works of the students illustrate that, in the words of Audre Lorde, the personal is political.
With a piece of sarcophagus, a pocket watch, and a portrait of an unidentified sex worker called “Peaches,” a student tour guide at the Ackland can create a conversation about telling time through art.
Inspired by the “Celebrate the Women of Tracks" playlist by Kat Harding and by Women's History Month, The Daily Tar Heel is profiling four local women featured on the track list.
With media consumption surging over the course of the pandemic, UNC students reflect on which media got them through the early months, including online communities, social media trends and popular film and television shows.
Sleepless nights aren't unheard of for most college students, but that doesn't mean it should be the norm. For students, the ongoing pandemic, workload and mental health struggles have added to restless nights.
“What can a performing arts organization do if we can’t be on the stage and we can’t invite people to gather and serve communion over art and artists?” Amy Russell, CPA’s director of programming, said. “The obvious answer for us was to go back to those really fruitful and really close relationships, because you can be vulnerable with those people.”
The music industry in Chapel Hill has slowed to a near halt in 2020. Live music tends to involve shuttling people into the kind of crowded, intimate space that is now synonymous with risk. Venues and artists alike have had to adapt to a music scene without shows.
With "Outer Banks" up for a series of People's Choice Awards, North Carolinian students consider the impacts of the show.
The UNC music department introduced "Do the Work Wednesdays," a weekly series that highlights anti-racism work being done in the department and features BIPOC artists. The series emerged after the department spent the summer reflecting on their internal systemic racism and ways to enact meaningful change.
