Canvas is following UNC Pauper Players’s production of “Avenue Q” from the beginning to the end in its series “The Avenue Ahead” throughout the semester.In the fifth installment of the series, staff writer Sarah Vassello spent a day in rehearsal with the cast and crew. The last installment of the series will be published in the print edition on opening night, April 4.
Nine young women will reflect on their past through modern dance tonight.Inversions Dance Company will present their annual spring performance called “Recollections” in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center auditorium at 7 p.m.
Photographer Minjin Kang didn’t always plan on being an artist. After realizing she had a passion for photography, Kang has created a few different bodies of work, each one with a different meaning and inspiration.
Selecting the 7th millionth book in a University’s library collection isn’t easy — and Claudia Funke, curator of rare books at Wilson Library, would know.
I was immediately surrounded by the aroma of caffeine when I walked into Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro that day — it hit me while I walked through the front door, and it seeped through me as I walked into the secret back room.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the value of a song? That’s what staff members at Whole Foods Market in Chapel Hill want to know as they prepare for their second annual Whole Planet Benefit Concert tonight at Nightlight.
For the rest of the semester, Canvas will profile a student from every artistic academic program at UNC each week — from dramatic art to creative writing to photojournalism. In the first installment of the series, staff writer Robert McNeely profiled dramatic art major Katie Chelena, whose most recent work at UNC includes directing the female cast in Kenan Theatre Company’s “Shakespeare’s R+J.”
Master of Fine Arts student Cody Platt has loved the freedom and exploration of sculpture since he was a child.
Margaret Randall is a novelist, poet, photographer, and social activist born and raised in New York City. Her works have been known to challenge societal norms and express feminist ideas, and even resulted in a deportation order by the United States in 1984, against which she fought and won. Randall was in Chapel Hill this week for a talk and reading Wednesday in Dey Hall and a reading Thursday at Internationalist Books on Franklin Street.
Two Durham artists are setting out to fuse the worlds of architecture and art with their show, DWELL, on display at Pleiades Gallery through March 30. The group split into five pairs, most of which include a 2-D artist and a 3-D artist.
With the announcement of its 2014 lineup, the organizers for ConvergeNC are ready to jam out with the rest of the UNC community.
In the fourth installment of the series, staff writer Madison Flager talked to the people responsible for the costumes in an puppet-centric cast.
_Master of Fine Arts student Isabel Cuenca, who was born in the Philippines, was exposed to two very different environments growing up in the U.S.
From country and blues to rock to Broadway, a genre of American music exists for everyone to sing along with. The Ackland Film Forum, a collaboration between the Ackland Art Museum and several departments at UNC, is exploring these genres through the “America’s Music” film series during February and March at the Varsity Theater.
The Ackland is promoting its first ARTINI—a 1930s-themed evening of style, drinks, and entertainment inspired by the museum’s current exhibition of prints from the period—with Feature Nights at popular local bars.
ktc’s “R&J” Female Cast: Friday at 8 p.m.; Male Cast: Saturday at 8 p.m. ???? Joe Calarco’s “R&J” is an engaging modern riff on the Shakespeare’s classic tale of forbidden love, with talented actors and dynamic direction.
Investigative journalist and historian Nick Turse has augmented his body of work with his historical nonfiction book, “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.” Turse will be at Flyleaf Books on Sunday to discuss “Kill Anything That Moves,” which reveals the extensive violence against Vietnamese civilians, ultimately leaving 2 million dead, 5.3 million injured, and 11 million displaced.
A local author’s short story collection serves as the inspiration behind the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts’s latest exhibit, “It’s All About the Story.” Jill McCorkle, a Hillsborough-based author, is reading pieces from “Going Away Shoes,” the collection that inspired all of the works in the exhibit at the gallery Sunday from 2-4 p.m.
The third installment of Canvas’ series “The Avenue Ahead,” which follows UNC Pauper Players’s production of “Avenue Q” from beginning to end, profiles the show’s music director, Alex Thompson.
