Sensory-friendly events promote community, accessibility in Chapel Hill
By Shreya Senthilkumar | April 7Throughout Chapel Hill, sensory-friendly events are being held for kids with sensitivity to sensory stimuli.
Throughout Chapel Hill, sensory-friendly events are being held for kids with sensitivity to sensory stimuli.
Terrance Hayes, the 2024 Frank B. Hanes writer-in-residence at UNC, is a poet and professor of creative writing at New York University whose writing covers topics like race, masculinity and music.
Diane Faison has been performing in a one-woman show about Harriet Tubman since 1988, when she was a middle school teacher in Farmville, Va. Faison embodies Tubman to tell her story in an emotional, personal way.
The Carolina Arts Coalition, founded in the fall semester, is a place for artists from various disciplines and backgrounds to connect and share their work.
The Women's Voices Chorus, founded in 1993, will perform a selection of their works, written by and for women, on Saturday in celebration of their 30-year anniversary.
An anonymous Instagram account hosts multiple scavenger hunts a week for UNC students to find crochet frogs around campus.
Several local authors, including writers of fiction, history and poetry, were published by local presses in 2023.
The Carolina Swing Dance Club hosts biweekly meetings for students to learn and practice the basic steps of swing dancing, particularly East Coast Swing and six-count dances.
Leonard Raybon's Sacred Nine Project performed "The Mending Sampler" on Saturday, based on Professor John Sweet's historical book, "The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America.”
Last Thursday's Harvest Moon Festival celebrated the beginning of fall with tabling events, food and student performances.