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27605
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Every two years, the governor selects a poet to become the next NC Poet Laureate whose job is to teach, judge, counsel, and cheerlead, using poetry to connect people. Governor McCrory recently appointed an unqualified individual to the position causing a backlash from the literary community. Following the uproar, Valerie Macon resigned after only one week on the job. The past four Poet Laureates discuss the importance of the position and have offered to help McCrory select the next Poet Laureate.
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27643
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Sacrificial Poets founder Kane Smego is looking for inspiration to continue his work. Smego is an educator, writer, and performer who has taught and performed slam poetry at the local and national level. He also was a poet-correspondent during the Arab spring spending two months in Egypt and Tunisia collecting oral histories and writing poems that were later used to produce a WUNC radio documentary. Smego is looking to take a break from teaching and running his nonprofit to write and gather inspiration from other sources.
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27660
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Raleigh resident Joe Newberry is an award winning songwriter and will perform at this year’s Wide Open Bluegrass festival. Newberry serves as the director of communications for the North Carolina Symphony. Newberry’s songs have won several awards as performed by artists such as the Gibson Brothers and he has performed together with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion several times.
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Durham’s Leah Wilks is a 2014 Indie Art Award winner. Wilks is a co-founder of the Durham Independent Dance Artists and co-directs Culture Mill in Saxapahaw. She also runs classes at five area schools and studios and tours with the North Carolina Dance Festival as a solo performer. Her choreography and her performances have been well received and she is a mainstay in the local dance community.
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The Beat Making Lab is a winner of the 2014 Indie Art Awards. The UNC Chapel Hill group puts on classes, international residencies, runs a community youth center in Chapel Hill, and operates a backpack-sized recording studio. They recently received a one million dollar grant from the State Department to fund their Next Level program which uses popular music and dance to foster diplomatic goodwill and model conflict resolution through collaboration. The group has traveled to Senegal, Panama, Fiji, and Ethiopia teaching hip-hop, making beats, and recording music.
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27737
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Nathaniel Mackey is a poet, novelist, critic, and Durham resident. Mackey has been widely successful and is influential as a black experimental writer whose poetry has a musical, jazz-like quality. The author discusses the influence that Durham’s poetic community has had on him and how he approaches writing poetry.
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The Board of Governors is reviewing the UNC System’s centers and institutes and many could face deep funding cuts or be dismantled altogether. Critics argue that the process is not fair since most focus on issues facing minorities, women, and the economically advantaged. Under the Republican led congress and the influence of Art Pope, the groups look to be under threat from conservatives.
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Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty, is a new documentary film by Penelope Maunsell and Kenny Dalsheimer on North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty. Dougherty is an internationally known contemporary artist, and the film takes a look into Dougherty's creative process from before the idea stage through the final execution of the work. The film also examines the artist’s life and career which he has spent creating sculptures by interweaving thousands of locally culled tree saplings into giant windblown forms and figures.
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Award winning Chapel Hill chef Andrea Reusing discusses the large community of local food growers, suppliers, and cooks in the Triangle area and her new cookbook. Her cookbook focuses upon the kinds of foods grown and raised in the Triangle and the times of year each crop is available. She also discusses specific farms or stories throughout the area to get certain ingredients and popular food-related terms used in the Triangle.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 14, April 2011,
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Raising Renee is a documentary film that will feature at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham. The film profiles nationally known Durham painter Beverly McIver who teaches art at North Carolina Central University. The subject of the film is about McIver’s decision to care for her mentally handicapped sister after her mother’s death. The article discusses major points in the film and McIver’s life after the decision.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 15, April 2011,
p21
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28804
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Kelly McChesney anchored a burgeoning Raleigh art scene with her Flanders Gallery before merging it this month with Raleigh’s Lump. The new gallery expands into a project space with public art and residency programs, and will double the number of events and collaborations with organizations on a range of creative initiatives.
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In recent years, local choreographers have made a lot of work about the challenges of maintaining individuality in an artistic community and in society generally. In Echo, a collaboration between dancer-choreographer Justin Tornow and visual artist Heather Gordon, different levels of identity are explored. Tornow splits the same performance, presented differently, across several spaces within the 21c Museum Hotel in Durham.
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Victor Ekpuk's new mural at the North Carolina Museum of Art was commissioned to augment the museum’s expanded African art gallery. Rendered in white chalk on a black wall, Ekpuk's symbolic composition forms an abstracted figure wrapping long arms around the perimeter. The mural’s meaning reflects the current social-political climate in America, but can be interpreted several ways.
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