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Florence Dore, singer and songwriter, plans to release her second album called Highways & Rocketships. Since her first album debuted 21 years ago, the Nashville native has taught American literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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18-year-old, Nathan McMurray alongside siblings Evren and Eilee Centeno have formed what is known as Trash Tape Records. The Chapel Hill-based record label aspires to give upcoming artists a "blast from the past" using 1980's creativity and promotion techniques.
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Horse & Buggy Press will have one last exhibit, by Jessina Leonard, at the Bull City Arts Collaborative before moving locations. Dave Wofford founded the letterpress business and art gallery in 1996. Since then, Wofford’s business has expanded to encompass new perspectives on art and design.
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Warren Hicks and Jeff Bell are Chapel Hill artists and producers of the new podcast, Don’t You Lie to Me. The podcast explores personalities from the artist community through unscripted dialogues, and aims to illuminate all levels of the art world.
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Last spring, Durham’s Jacar Press published the anthology entitled, “Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky”. The book covers racial justice and police brutality in America, and contains contributions from a wide range of North Carolina writers.
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This is Not a Novel is the most recent show by The Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern in Durham. Directed by Jaybird O’Berski, the show is derived from a tetralogy of books by David Markson. Audience members walk through the production with a downloaded audio play to accompany live action drama, film, dance and visual art combined in a singular experience.
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The first edition of Artificer, a new column by the INDY's managing arts and culture editor, examines a revealing appearance of Durham in Marvel Comic's Champions. The comic portrays Durham’s social justice issues, inequality, racial diversity and progressive politics.
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Brooks Ann Camper owns a small bridal shop in Hillsborough, where she is known for her custom-made, non-traditional bridal dresses. The dresses are made of natural fibers and can feature a variety of patterns and fabrics. Camper studied theater and costume production, but discovered she preferred the art of customizing an object for a single purpose.
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Black Mama’s Day Bail Out was a national action to free black mothers who were in jail on bonds they could not afford to pay. Mothers released from the Durham County Detention Facility were celebrated at Hillside Park on Mother’s Day. Social activists at the event are calling for reform of North Carolina’s racially biased ransom demands.
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Moogfest, in its second year in Durham, features a protest stage and other progressive themes. The music festival promises a space where artistic expression can be channeled to incite action for social justice. At the same time, Moogfest is eager to be a beacon for the affluent, tech-minded entrepreneurs flooding Durham's rapidly expanding start-up community.
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The Nasher Museum of Art in Durham paid tribute to the artist Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in April at age seventy-two. Hendricks was known for vivid yet stoic life-size oil paintings of black people. He became a retroactive icon and influenced a new generation of African American artists.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art opened a new African gallery featuring decorative and ceremonial artifacts, as well as contemporary artworks. Linda Dougherty, the museum’s chief and contemporary curator, discusses the meaning of the collection and the challenges of merging folk and fine art.
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The Raleigh News and Observer has decided to move from more obligatory stories to reader-focused coverage. However, this has led to the removal of some substantial columns, including art journalism.
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Originally from Florida, Brendan and Jeremy Smyth came to Durham in 2013 under the impression that the city had a thriving experimental film community. When they arrived, they realized they were mistaken, but took advantage of the situation and started their microcinema, calling it Unexposed. Their series has changed the local and national state of contemporary experimental film and now the brothers hope to make their art form accessible to all.
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Carrboro’s Phil Torres has a new book called The End: What Science and Religion Tells Us About the Apocalypse. Torres specializes in existential risk studies, which is a philosophy focused on understanding risks and determining strategies for eliminating. He says the primary danger to the world is the creation of designer pathogens.