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27243
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Paperhand Puppet Intervention in downtown Saxapahaw has a new show called The Beautiful Beast, which opens at Chapel Hill’s Forest Theatre this weekend. The show draws on the imaginary beasts of childhood, and casts light on the role of monsters in learning and culture.
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Emil Kang and the Carolina Performing Arts are producing Sacred/Secular: A Sufi Journey. This year-long festival highlights the differences in the Islamic faith and explores the experience of living with a Muslim identity in the modern world. Performances include concerts, staged readings, plays, dance, and other media formats throughout the Triangle Area starting Friday September 29th through April 12th.
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North Carolina playwright, author, and actress Monica Byrne is profiled. Byrne is the first theater artist to earn a residency at Elsewhere Collective in Greensboro. Byrne has also written three plays which have been produced over the past two years. She has published four short stories recently and is currently working on a novel. Byrne has an expanding body of work and her work often deals with the psychology, the erotic, violence, and the darkness in mankind.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 21, May 2011,
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The first ever CHAT Festival was held on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. The title stands for Collaborations: Humanities, Arts, and Technology. The gather features four full days of performances, hands-on workshops, interactive software exhibits, and panel discussions with nationally recognized designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and scholars. This group uses, develops, and markets the technology on display at the festival.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 7, February 2010,
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The successes of North Carolina’s arts community are praised. The state has seen an increase in funding for the arts in the state despite the recession. The arts community has also seen their political influence grow as they have been successful in linking creativity to commerce and education. Proving that creativity is wanted by employers, jobs in the creative industry have grown and account for 41.4 billion in goods and services each year. Not known for lobbying, the arts activists in North Carolina finding great success in promoting and funding the arts programs and serve as a model for other states.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 21, May 2010,
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The pageant is the winner of a 2010 IndyWeek Triangle Arts Award. The pageant’s goal is to protect and purchase ecologically significant areas in the Ellerbe creek Watershed area and in Durham’s urban environment. The pageant has contestants dress as beavers in drag costume and judges vote on the winners based on how much they are bribed.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 29, July 2010,
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At the University of North Carolina, the Process Series helps creators develop new works. Directed by Joseph Megel, the series helps artists performing new works on stage. The series helps mentor and critique the works, offering feedback to the artists. All six works that received help from the series and Megel will be performed in North Carolina.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 26 Issue 44, November 2009,
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28797
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Common Ground Theatre in Durham opened in 2005 to serve itinerant artists and companies who cannot afford to buy a place to stage their works. Common Ground recently closed and other independent theaters may be lost as well. Artists are now trying to understand what causes these venues to lose viability.
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The Women’s Theatre Festival produced North Carolina’s first festival devoted to a full spectrum of female stage artists, from playwrights to technicians. The company made many important achievements in establishing professional links with regional theaters, and in addressing gender equity in the theater.
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An initiative to address discrimination against women in regional theater provoked a discrimination complaint with the city of Raleigh and a request to defund a theater company that receives city funds. As a result, one company has already distanced itself from the initiative, which had the best of intentions in attempting to mitigate a longtime injustice.
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The Black Pioneers Project is a staged-reading script based on interviews of the first black class at the University of North Carolina. The thirteen alumni included in the script describe life as an African-American student, and how they repeatedly faced numerous struggles, psychological pressure, and feelings of isolation.
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The inherently political nature of theater is exposed, with varying success, in The God Game and Zuccoti Park, two productions featured in Raleigh. The God Game debates an uncomfortable and paradoxical reality of present-day American politics. Zuccoti Park is a musical about the historic Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
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Raleigh Little Theatre is presenting a series of three plays called “Women and War”. The plays are about the experiences of women on the home front, women in the field, and one woman placed by technology in both at once. Taken together, these three works are meant to challenge our ideas about where combat takes place and where it ends.
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Baba Chuck Davis, who built a global dance legacy in Durham, passed away at age eighty on Mother's Day. Davis immersed himself in the cultures and art forms of Western Africa, and brought them back to teach and stage in the United States. He is known for performances by his African American Dance Ensemble, and DanceAfrica, an annual festival he created to showcase the dance and music of the African diaspora.
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Modern dance icon Paul Taylor began commissioning new works for the first time in his company’s sixty-two-year history, bringing in the talents of choreographers Larry Keigwin and Doug Elkins. Keigwin’s “Rush Hour” and Elkin’s “The Weight of Smoke” will premiere at the American Dance Festival in Durham.
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