Artists in Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph counties eligible
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Growing up as the son of working class immigrants in North Carolina, I have seen firsthand the barriers Latino Americans face across our state and our country: unequal access to job and educational opportunities; limited access to affordable healthcare; and fewer chances to move up the econo…
Artists in all disciplines are eligible to apply for grants to support their professional and artistic development through a partnership of the North Carolina Arts Council and Arts Davidson County, Davie County Arts Council, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, High Point …
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The installation of billboards displaying artwork from six local artists began across a 12-county region
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On page 57 of The Mysteries of Haditha, Greensboro writer M. C. Armstrong’s memoir of being embedded with Joint Special Operations Forces in Iraq’s Al Anbar province in 2008, Armstrong asks several Navy SEALs to tell him their biggest complaint about the war.
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A Winston-Salem yoga studio and a holistic health coach-in-training are teaming up to help their community heal through a weeklong virtual retreat at the end of this month.
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It’s not exactly business as usual – these days, what is? The RiverRun International Film Festival is doing its utmost to bring people entertainment during these trying times, including the RiverRun “Virtual Theater” and, more recently, “RiverRun at Marketplace,” in which the Late Night Shor…
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Greensboro indie band, Charm, has released their latest EP, Sugar Mountain, out now via Acrobat Unstable.
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Artist Support Grants will be distributed to eligible applicants by ArtsGreensboro in the following counties: Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph.
GREENSBORO, NC (July 29, 2020) — Sting’s performance with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (GSO), originally scheduled for December 19, 2020, has been postponed out of an abundance of caution surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The new date for this concert is Saturday, November 2…
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“We don’t understand why Berger seems to demand a one-size fits all solution over the flexibility Cooper’s plan offers local districts.”
Film to begin streaming online July 31
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GREENSBORO, NC – The fourth annual National Dance Day GSO celebration, scheduled for September 19, 2020, is going virtual. Due to the ongoing public health crisis surrounding Covid-19, the event that brought over 3,000 people to LeBauer Park in 2019 will invite the public to bust a move from afar.
(July 29, 2020) At a time when America is confronting historic health, social and economic upheaval, a new television and social media advertising campaign by United Way and Truist Financial Corporation, one of the nation’s largest financial services companies, aims to spark hope and optimis…
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*Editor's note: The online article has been updated to reflect one clarification about the SHARE Co-op being a Black-owned business that The United States of Racism hopes to help with funding via collaboration.
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The High Point Arts Council is pleased to announce that Laurelyn Dossett will be playing folk music for the sixth Arts Splash summer concert of 2020! Due to COVID-19, the concert will be live streamed from the Centennial Station Arts Center since the original venue is closed to the public at…
Protest art in downtown Greensboro
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See Mark Burger’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2020, Mark Burger.
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By day, amplified speeches by Angela Davis on abolishing the prison-industrial complex echo through Bailey Park from Fair Witness Fancy Drinks, on the corner of Fourth and Patterson in Winston-Salem. By night, the smell of sage fills the air as the healing rhythms of a drum calls for reflect…
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*Editor's note: In the print version of this article, Robert Talley's "The United States of Racism" partner and photographer, Karen Ashley was misrepresented as just Talley's girlfriend. The online article has been updated to reflect these changes.
Theatre Art Galleries (High Point, NC) will be continuing with private art lessons for adults and children for the month of August. Private lessons will be customized to each individual student’s interests and can consist of drawing, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, collage or any assortment of …
GREENSBORO, NC (July 21, 2020) – Lindsay Street, from Murrow Boulevard to Yanceyville Street, will be closed from 7 am, Saturday, July 25, until 7 am, Monday, July 27, for the installation of a mural on the pavement. Painting is scheduled to begin Saturday afternoon.
The virtual season wraps up an incredible month of live music, film, theatre, dance and visual arts
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GREENSBORO, NC (July 20, 2020) – “The Wolves of Ravensbruck” by Sally Kinka as the winner of Creative Greensboro’s 2021 New Play Project and Mark Gilbert Award. “The Wolves of Ravensbruck” will be produced by Creative Greensboro in 2021 and kick off the 19th annual Greensboro Fringe Festival.
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(Winston-Salem, NC) – The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art is proud to announce the upcoming opening of DRAWN: Concept & Craft, an expansive exhibition featuring more than 200 works by a wide array of artists including LeRoy Neiman, Kara Walker, Fab 5 Freddy, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sz…
HIGH POINT – Due to the elimination of arts funding by the City of High Point, the High Point Arts Council announces that its Teacher Arts Project grants, Community Arts Projects grants, Day in the Park Festival, and 2021 Arts Splash Concerts will be suspended until these funds can be restor…
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Recently, I received the sad news that my friend, film historian and filmmaker Ted Newsom, passed away in California at the age of 67. His credits included the affectionate 1994 Edward D. Wood Jr. documentary Look Back in Angora (a film admired by editor Katie Murawski, no less!), co-writer…
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Many people know Kyle Petty as a talented veteran of the NASCAR circuit and a member of one of the sport’s pioneering families, being the grandson of Lee Petty and the son of Richard Petty. He’s also a singer/songwriter, occasional actor, noted philanthropist, and popular sports commentator.
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WINSTON-SALEM (JULY 10, 2020)—The 2020 Gears & Guitars music festival, the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic and Flow Auto Gran Fondo have been cancelled for 2020. Organizers had hoped to have the rescheduled events, which usually take place in early summer, later this year in October. How…
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Spring Theatre's team is pleased to offer safe arts opportunities for our youth! The theatrical options for the month of July include: "Spring Theatre Jack-of-All-Trades Camp” from July 13-17 and "The Spring Theatre Variety Show" camp from July 20-24. Camps will be held daily from 1-4pm at t…
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Walker Lyon is a High Point highschooler and solo-artist spending his quarantine summer building a portfolio of releases reflecting warm days and teenage living in the age of coronavirus.
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In case you hadn’t heard, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-in theaters are suddenly all the rage again. It’s a way of maintaining social distance but also enjoying movies as they were meant to be seen – on the big screen.
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Out of 855 nonprofit arts organizations recommended for direct funding through the CARES Act, Dance Project Inc., North Carolina Folk Festival, Triad Stage, and ArtsGreensboro will each receive a $50,000 grant to help cover expenses.
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Los Angeles, Los Vegas and… Reidsville? A Piedmont Triad community has received a colorful distinction, finding itself among a global selection of artistic gathering spaces for the 2020 World Bodypainting Festival.
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GREENSBORO, NC - National Dance Day GSO is scheduled for Sept. 19, 2020. Due to the ongoing public health crisis surrounding covid-19, Greensboro Downtown Parks, Inc. (GDPI) is planning to do things differently this year, with more information on what this celebration will look like in the t…
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WINSTON SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA. Spring Theatre’s SPARK is delighted to welcome the work of our 10-Minute Playwriting Competition winner, Debkanya Mitra, to our (virtual) stage. Fifty-Dollar Breakup was written by Debkanya Mitra and directed by Grace Reasoner. A reading of the play will be liv…
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Moor_Pluto continues transcension with Clouds, a collaborative multimedia release with psychedelic tones of nu-jazz, hip-hop enveloped around an array of artistic mediums. Clouds crest a wave of releases by Tyler Tyson, the synesthete artist at Moor_Pluto’s core.
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Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche are two of the great beauties of the screen, but beyond that both are first-rate actresses, and watching them spar onscreen is an undiluted delight.
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*Editor's note: After this week's issue went to press, the writer noticed that there was a typo in the spelling of the drummer's name. It has been corrected in the online version. There was also an ambiguous attribution to a quote that has also been fixed online.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (June 25, 2020) – The Winston-Salem Symphony is proud to announce newly elected Directors for the Class of 2020. Elected Directors serve three-year terms. The Class of 2020 includes four new and 15 renewing Directors. The new Directors are Jonathan Allen, Dawnielle Grace,…
The competition will be judged by the illustrious Curator and Artist, Lindsay Piper Potter-Figueirdo
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GREENSBORO, NC (June 24, 2020) – Portions of Elm Street and February One Place will be closed from 6 pm Friday, June 26 until 7 am, Monday, June 29, for the installation of a mural on the pavement led by artist Rasheeda Shankle and project leaders Kelly Creacy-Durham and Jason Keith. Elm Str…
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