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43120
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Martin County native Joey Griffin teaches theater at South CreekMiddle and High Schools. He credits community arts leaders; namely, Loretta Gurkin, Allan Osborne,, E.T. Taylor and Lisa Davis for his career interest.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 12 Issue 2, March 2020,
p30-32
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43121
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Arts of the Pamlico Players replaces a previous comunity theater program that was a joint venture between Arts of the Pamlico and Turnage Theatre. Directory, Jeffery Phipps explains that AOP Players is trying to put forward high qual;ity productions with limited resources.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 12 Issue 2, March 2020,
p34-36
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40620
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Guilford County’s economic and occupational potential is a blend of traditional and contemporary building blocks. Illustrations of this industrial synthesis include manufacturing, represented by the revitalized Revolution Mill; education, represented by High Point University; aerospace, represented by Piedmont Triad International Airport.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 39 Issue 6, June 2019,
p77-78, 80, 82-84, 86, 88-92
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Revolution Mill--Greensboro; Performing arts; High Point University; Elon University. School of Law; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Aerospace industry--North Carolina; Guilford County--Economic Conditions; Guilford County--Industry; Wake Forest Baptist Health; High Point; Piedmont Triad International Airport; Guilford Technical Community College
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28965
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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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36176
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How to boost holistic success for Cumberland County a decade down the road had been planned by groups such as Fayetteville’s Economic Development Alliance. Planned was development and improvement of the Cape Fear Botanical Garden, Airborne and Special Operations Museum, historic downtown center, Arts Council, minor league baseball stadium, Civil War History Center, and Performing Arts Center.
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27131
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Beertown, which opens Friday at Raleigh Little Theatre, show how everyday objects capture the essential history and values of a community. Citizens are empowered to open a time capsule and decide which items from the past are still valued or need replaced. The Beertown’s citizens are also its audience members and can fully participate in the debate.
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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,
p27-28, il, por
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27170
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The Body Politic, written by University of North Carolina School of the Arts graduates Charles Osborne and Leo Hurley, is an opera based on the tale of a girl who is raised and disguised as a boy so her father doesn’t kill her. After the passage of House Bill 2, the opera premiered at the state legislative building to inspire civil discourse through art.
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28807
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Culture Mill is a nonprofit performing arts organization in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, which aims to create spaces for artists where they can express their needs. Its practices are based on lessons learned in Europe, where public art funding is more plentiful and pay rates are more established than they are in the United States.
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UNC’s Performance Studies Program is the winner of a 2010 IndyWeek Triangle Arts Award. Lately, the program has focused on producing performances that address social issues including AIDS, the flaws of the justice system, gender identity, immigration, consumer culture, and terrorism. The faculty and students see performances as a form of intervention and feel they have a duty to educate others and initiate critical thinking.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 29, July 2010,
p16
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30745
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North Carolina has thirteen outdoor theaters, more than any of the other states with outdoor dramas. The art form began in 1937 with the production of The Lost Colony in Manteo, and most of the outdoor dramas are historical dramatizations of North Carolina’s heritage or traditional theater classics. This article provides a list of 2010 summer productions and descriptions of each.
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Derek Goldman, assistant professor of performance studies, teaches his students to find drama in everyday encounters with words. He tries to make them aware that they’re always responding to text, that all texts have a potential to be made into a performance.
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Arts organizations in North Carolina offer numerous events in the summer. Three of these events include the American Dance Festival in Durham, classes at the Penland School of Crafts, and the outdoor production of The Lost Colony in Manteo.
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28888
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The North Carolina Arts Council’s Touring Program makes music, theatre, and dance accessible to all state citizens. The program tours throughout the state and offers diverse performances in communities and schools.
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28882
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Like many community theatres throughout North Carolina, most productions of the Stokes County Arts Council’s theatre group are performed in local high school auditoriums and have limited technical resources. Despite this, the technical crew finds a way to produce special effects that allow for productions to be successful.
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