“We don’t get a chance to show off our art all the time, we don’t get a chance this year to get on campus and see everybody for Arts Everywhere Day, so we might as well put it somewhere that’s pretty accessible,” Morgan Pestyk, digital marketing assistant for Arts Everywhere, said. “It’s really nice to have that out there and have a place where you can put your art safely.”
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“2021 has without a doubt been an extraordinarily challenging year for our community and for artists across the board,” Chris Pendergrass said. “The season finale is significant for us in that it gives us a way to reconnect around arts experiences and artists that have had a significant local impact in Chapel Hill in a time when that has been, in many ways, not possible.”
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Arts North Carolina works to ensure all North Carolinians have access to art while promoting equality in arts. The conference will cover topics from racial justice and equity to the impact of the pandemic on the arts community.
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“What I like about it is that it's much, much more than just mummies,” Rocheleau said. “It's really about people: about their religious beliefs, their hopes in trying to achieve the afterlife, being reborn in the afterlife.”
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“With all this time in quarantine, I feel like these draining interactions with people is something I’ve thought about a lot personally,” UNC alumna Faith Jones said. “I’m just trying to make other people happy, and sometimes, it’s at my own detriment. And I think this song really reflects that.”
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The awards show saw several historical moments all while overcoming the technical difficulties a virtual show can bring.
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“The fact that you can’t see the person on the other side of the line means that they come to life even more, because you get to create an image of them. It’s like theater of the mind,” Silverstone said.
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“Our brains are now really wired for narrative as the memorable way for us to take in information, sort it out, and store it with meaning,” storyteller Milbre Burch said. “So why not devote yourself to the most effective way to communicate with people, especially if you're trying to do it for the betterment of a culture." The series will be livestreamed from Feb. 17 to Feb. 21.
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"Judas and The Black Messiah” will be released on Friday. We talked with the creators and cast about the making of the movie.
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This was the first visiting lecture of the semester and the Department of Art and Art History plan to host more throughout the year. Enriched in history, the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series hopes to get master's of fine arts students thinking about how can art be reflected through different mediums.
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"Fix" centers around the reunion of three high school friends who are each facing their own struggles as they navigate adulthood. Viewers can stream the film on Amazon Prime in the spring.
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“What can a performing arts organization do if we can’t be on the stage and we can’t invite people to gather and serve communion over art and artists?” Amy Russell, CPA’s director of programming, said. “The obvious answer for us was to go back to those really fruitful and really close relationships, because you can be vulnerable with those people.”
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The play recounts the story of Henry "Dickie" Marrow, a Black man murdered in an act of racial violence in Oxford, North Carolina in 1970. Tickets to stream the performance are available through Feb. 7.
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COVID-19 has brought an abundance of change to the work, production and preparation of student photographers.
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Triangle Restaurant Week will be different this year because of the pandemic, but guests can still expect delicious food and drink.
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Composer and key player Andrew Magowan said he thinks the Durham-based band, which released its newest album in December, stays together because of its uniqueness.
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“The subject matter that they're dealing with at this time, and for all four of these artists to be young Black artists and to be given a platform for them to speak to the kinds of things they're speaking to, I think is a really powerful thing,” Christopher Massenburg, CPA's program director, said.
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"Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical" hit small screens nationwide Jan. 1 after garnering vast popularity from what started as a TikTok trend. The musical’s star-studded cast spans from popular TikTok creators like JJ Neimann (@jjneimann) to high-profile stars like Tituss Burgess, a Broadway and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" alumnus who plays Remy, the “rat of all our dreams.” Almost cartoonish in nature, the musical’s filter-esque effects play into the silly and lighthearted nature of the whole digital affair.
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The press release stated that "Black Nativity Durham" is a “soulful, gospel, celebration about the birth of Jesus Christ” that was originally written by Langston Hughes and adapted by Wendell Tabb, who also directs and co-produces the show, along with Xavier Cason.
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The band features two members of the UNC community.
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