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27085
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The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham released a statement against House Bill 2, the discriminatory legislation against transgender people. Four of the most interesting films at this year’s festival take up LGBTQ issues. Though each has a different cultural perspective, each finds the same hetero-normative pressures around the world.
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27143
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Four prominent university-affiliated series are key ambassadors from North Carolina to the world, and how they use their platforms is especially important after the discriminatory House Bill 2. Presenters and artists drive change, whether they boycott the state or alter their shows to speak to it.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 19, May 2016,
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27163
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Mountain Fiesta Yurt GLAMPing offers yurt rentals through Airbnb near the French Broad River. Yurts are a good compromise between camping and comfort for outdoors enthusiasts visiting Hot Springs, North Carolina. Accommodations are also located near craft breweries, white water rafting, and the Appalachian Trail.
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The Carrack Modern Art gallery moved to the Torus Building, a new space in downtown Durham. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Carrack welcomes musicians, filmmakers, poets, and dancers. Their mission is to connect artists, particularly marginalized and emerging ones, with social and financial support.
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Culture Mill is a well-established force in the Triangle’s artistic life, whether presenting dance shows at the Carrack in Durham or Trust the Bus in Saxapahaw. They have hosted and collaborated with a number of international independent artists. This weekend, Culture Mill is featuring an Australian dance company performing in the Trust the Bus series.
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Durham Artists Movement (DAM) is a collective of people of color and LGBTQ people seeking safe space to create and share art. After the Carrack Modern Art closed, DAM has been using the loft as their gallery. This Friday, DAM will have an art show to gauge public support for the gallery and form community relations.
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For the past two decades, Dave Wofford has been hand-setting movable type and cranking paper through a press to create beautifully textured printed artifacts. Wofford started Horse & Buggy Press in Raleigh before moving to Durham, where he has run it out of the Bull City Arts Collaborative, which he cofounded for the last decade.
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Adam O’Fallon Price is the former bassist for The Mayflies USA, a power pop band in Chapel Hill that earned national notices in the late nineties. Now Price debuts as a novelist, drawing on his band experience with some authorial sleight of hand. The Grand Tour is a book about a washed-up fiction writer who gets a second wind from a Vietnam War memoir and a fan he meets on his book tour.
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The Duke immersive Virtual Environment, or DiVE, is a cyber-archaeology project funded by the Brazilian government and made for education and research, in collaboration with archaeologists at the University of São Paulo. The goal is for archaeologists to be able to experience a site without going there, and to have the ability to compare side-by-side different stages in an expedition.
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27277
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The Hopscotch Design Festival brings together designers such as urban planners, computer engineers, or start-up entrepreneurs. This year’s keynote speaker is Dan Heath, a senior fellow at Duke's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship. He’ll be speaking about designing moments and how to reverse-engineer memorable experiences of our lives.
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The Triangle’s local arts scene experienced a year of controversy, transitions, and new beginnings in 2016. The Durham Artists Movement was awarded for creating a safe space for marginalized artists, and local festivals held shows in light of the presidential election and contentious local legislation.
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The Durham Artists Movement is a safe space and a strong voice for marginalized artists. Saba Taj and Catherine Edgerton have helped guide the movement through a transformative six-month stay in the former Carrack Modern Art space.
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Indy Weekly’s first style issue explores the question of how and why to dress from a variety of angles in the Triangle. Elements of style, from maker culture to local eco-fashion, North Carolina cotton, and much more are explored.
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Chris Chappell is a puppeteer with an agenda: distributing the message that marijuana should be legalized. He uses his puppeteer talents to argue for the legalization of marijuana for medical use.
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Full Frame, a documentary film festival, lasts four days and celebrates nonfiction filmmaking and documentarians. Marshall Curry was this year's honoree of the Tribute Program.
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