“The whole approach that we take to music is something that we call ‘song first,’” David Joseph, owner and general manager of SORCH, said. “It’s teaching our students how to play music and play as a band before getting into all of the theory of music and learning how to read sheet music.”
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“The CAAWC is just great,” Harris said. “They prove that Black people and Black writers are not a monolith."
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Inspired to cook at home instead of eating out, students are giving the viral dish a try. Some praise the recipe for its delicious simplicity, but others feel it doesn't live up to the hype.
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This Black History Month, students consider the erasure of Black history lessons in schools. “When I think about the way that African American history is cramped and restricted to a few figures and those figures, in turn, are often sanitized, they’re reduced to a few selected stories to represent their lives," UNC professor Glenn Hinson said.
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The annual Carolina Jazz Festival will be held online from Thursday, Feb. 18 to Saturday, Feb. 20, kicking off with livestream concerts by University faculty and students. For high school students, there will be open clinics, coaching sessions and a competition with cash prizes. “I think it says a lot about Dr. Anderson's dedication and thoughts about serving the student communities that he has stuck it through,” UNC Jazz Band Director Rahsaan Barber said. “And I think we've actually created something that is going to be uniquely positive.”
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For some, Valentine's Day is the most romantic day of the year. For others, not so much.
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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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“Lockdown happened and I hit a very low point in my life where all I was doing was going to class and then lying in bed,” Marina Carolina Fela-Castillo, owner of Pintamar, said. “It was awful, so I turned to my artistic side again and I started making things.”
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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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“I’m a hopeless romantic so I love to see other people in love,” she said. "True love is so pure and cute and I know one day I’m gonna eventually celebrate it.”
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“I think this account was the first time that students were seeing, ‘Oh, people are watching,’” UNC senior Molly Cummings said. “I think the students that don't care, simply don't care. I don't think their actions are going to change unless the University does something, so with the account being gone, I don't know that things will change unless the University starts taking action.”
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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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From eating fondue dinners to reflecting on a third grade crush, Valentine’s Day provides the perfect excuse to celebrate and spend time with the people students care about most.
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With Valentine’s Day approaching, educators at UNC who identify as LGBTQ+ uncover their personal journeys and stories of love, talk about their plans for the holiday and share advice for students who wish to imagine love in their own right.
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“This is their best album,” Jurman said. “It is absolutely fantastic. It is one of the best albums that came out last year. It is clearly their best album of their career.”
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“It goes a long way because people don't know sometimes that this stuff happens to this extent, like how extreme it is,” Baker said. “Through TikTok we've gotten so much support and so many donations to our organization and other people to get involved in their area.”
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Carless wrote the scores for comedic films, starring masters of the medium like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
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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 Rope of Life: A Memoir" tells the story of Mirinda Kossoff’s father, Hugh Kossoff, and the challenges he faced as a Jewish man in the gentile South. Kossoff initially felt driven to tell the story in the early 2000s for herself and others who have experienced discrimination or being “othered” in several different ways.
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