The audience at the fifth Annual Carrboro Film Festival met most of the films with enthusiastic applause, leading the festival committee members to believe this was the best one yet. The event committee gave out 11 awards, and two films received honors given by the audience. Awards ranged from best music video to best animated film.
On Friday night, DSI Comedy hosted a showcase to give a forum for its improv students, where they could show off what they learned to a live audience. Two students from and a teacher of Improv 101 sat down with reporter Dominique Moore to offer some insight into what goes into a class and how the first performance went.
If folk music could make you want to dance, it could be found in the music of Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Sollee.
Thanksgiving Break is coming up, meaning that Wednesday Roundup won’t be back until the last week of November. But there’s plenty of nifty things to get going to in the coming week before you traipse on home for some well-deserved turkey and family time. Canvas has got you covered.
Jojo Hermann and Alfred “Uganda” Roberts came together on Tuesday in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room, where they performed classic rhythm and blues tunes to a lively audience.
A UNC youth arts outreach group, Postcards for Progress, wants youth of all ages to get involved with the arts. Its new Expressions Cafe events help to spread the good news about the arts.
Peter Pendergrass, the focus of Canvas’ In the Studio series, is continuing to develop his work. His newest piece, a performance of the one-act “Sterilize” with his drama group, The Performance Collective, will be unveiled at this weekend’s Durham ArtWalk.
Pauper Players is premiering a tweaked performance of ‘Sweet Charity’ to fit the show into the Union Cabaret tonight. Despite the size of the venue, the musical will go on as big as planned.
Old Crow Medicine Show is bring banjos and fiddles to Memorial Hall tonight. But before rocking out, banjoist and fiddle man Ketch Secor sat down with Diversions staff writer Jonathan Pattishall to talk about Brunswick Stew, Led Zeppelin and barbeque.
Registration is over and that’s something to be happy about. Go see a play (or two) or an exhibit (or two) and celebrate the end of registration stress before the onslaught of finals stress.
The life of famous abolitionist John Brown is now on display at the Ackland. Artist Jacob Lawrence’s screenprints illustrate his powerful life with the experimental musical accompaniment of Chapel Hill composer T.J. Anderson.
Canvas was fortunate enough to get tickets to Saturday’s big gala fundraiser at the Ackland Art Museum. Read Arts Editor Nick Andersen’s impressions of the events here.
Saturday night, twelve playwrights presented fourteen plays to a judging audience. But it didn’t last hours — each play was under three minutes.
The Department for Dramatic Art’s first play of the season, an unusual adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Playing for Time,” leaves much to be desired.
Sunday is daylight savings time, meaning you have extra time to get out there and partake in some art. Or at least, an extra hour. Canvas will show you how.
The folks over at PlayMakers Repertory sent us some of their production photos from “Fences,” on stage through Nov. 14. Take a look, and then head out to the Paul Green and see this powerful production in full.
It’s true — tickets are still available for tonight’s Homecoming concert in Carmichael Auditorium.
Wednesday Roundup is back — and better than ever. You know you missed us.
Legendary modern pranksters the Yes Men are visiting UNC’s campus Thursday as part of a promotional tour for their second full-length movie. Professor Ralph Byrns Economics 101 class fell victim to a prank on Wednesday via Skype.
Red carpet. Paparazzi. Martinis and Models.