Chapel Hill and Carrboro offer a variety of arts and culture organizations — concert venues, arts galleries, records stores and more. Schoolkids Records, Local 506, Peel and Cat's Cradle all provide unique services to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community.
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Starting this Friday, visitors attending the Ackland Art Museum can view the new exhibit “Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South.”
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This Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Musical Empowerment will hold a free concert on Franklin Street for community engagement. “We're hoping people come by, enjoy the music for some time, hang out together and then learn a little bit about Musical Empowerment,” Tess McGrinder, UNC senior and co-president of the club, said.
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The seventh annual Arts Everywhere Day will take place on Friday, April 14, with a theme of "YOU are an artist." There will be a wide variety of performances, exhibits, hands-on activities and installations across campus.
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Lanza’s Cafe, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews and 1922 By Carolina Coffee Shop are some of the local coffee shops that have recently hosted live music in their spaces, offering a more intimate experience than a traditional concert.
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Grace White, the paper conservator at Ackland Art Museum, spends her days repairing damages on works of art like drawings, watercolors and prints. She said that one of the most interesting parts of her job is learning about art from different locations and times.
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UNC Cypher is a student rap group that gathers at the Pit every Wednesday at 9:25 p.m. is planning on releasing their own album by the end of this semester.
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National Poetry Month is celebrated in April every year — and the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro will be celebrating this year as well. “The town of Carrboro has been a poetry-loving community since at least going back as far as 2002, when we first established the poet laureate,” Damon Seils, the mayor of Carrboro said.
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"Imagine how tired Indigenous communities must feel. Petition after petition, protest after protest, speech after speech, only to still not be heard. Imagine being stripped of your rightful land, your country and your livelihood. Imagine being proud of your heritage and culture only to be forced to conform to whiteness, shipped off to boarding schools and made to feel as if you are nothing. After being denied almost everything, overturning ICWA would deny Indigenous people the right to even raise their own flesh and blood."
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Dreamville Festival, put on by rapper J. Cole’s record label of the same name, claims to be “one of the most anticipated annual events in the state of North Carolina," according to its website. The event drew a crowd of over 50,000 people to Raleigh's Dorothea Dix Park, where they got to see several popular rap, hip hop and R&B music acts including J. Cole, Drake and surprise guests like Lil Uzi Vert.
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Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture is calling on artists to apply to create public art in celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. The art will be displayed during the month of June at 140 W. Franklin St., as Chapel Hill and Carrboro celebrate Small Town Pride.
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A group of students in the class ART 490: Art as Social Action created the project to bring attention to sexual assault on campus. Beneath a display of underwear near the Old Well, a shiny pink plaque read: “National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673.”
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Throughout Women’s History Month, students and faculty members have had the opportunity to explore female experiences and intersectional identities across three separate University Libraries’ exhibitions.
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The Ackland Art Museum holds the largest Asian art collection in the Southeastern part of the United States, which is set to become even larger soon. On Friday, the Ackland Art Museum will unveil its Lotus Moon and Nandina Staff exhibit, which features about 50 pieces from two Japanese artists prominent in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Sia Yazdanfar, an Iranian freelance photographer, will be exhibiting a new collection of photographs from his most recent journey back to Iran at Thomas Stevens Gallery in Hillsborough. The exhibit, named "Restless Anahita," will run from March 31 through April 23 and is centered around women from remote corners of the country. The photographs specifically feature traditional Iranian clothing and document the women's daily lives. “Putting the people in the context of the places is a lot more interesting in photographic storytelling,” Yazdanfar said. “Wherever I go, I try to seek out the people from that place.”
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