Performances
Friday Performance: “God’s Trombones”
Hayti Heritage Center 804 OLD FAYETTEVILLE STREET, Durham, NC, United StatesPerformance: God’s Trombones June 3, 2022 | 8:00 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC Buy tickets through Eventbrite! Experience a performance of God’s Trombones, a multimedia work featuring songs, sermons, and the art of Aaron Douglas. This production by OnQ Performing Arts (Charlotte, NC) uses the text of James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 work God’s Trombones:…
Saturday Performance: “God’s Trombones”
Hayti Heritage Center 804 OLD FAYETTEVILLE STREET, Durham, NC, United StatesPerformance: God’s Trombones June 4, 2022 | 3:00 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC Purchase tickets on Eventbrite now! Experience a performance of God’s Trombones, a multimedia work featuring songs, sermons, and the art of Aaron Douglas. This production by OnQ Performing Arts (Charlotte, NC) uses the text of James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 work God’s…
Musical Performance: Dutch Keyboard and Viol Music
Chapel of the Cross 304 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us at Chapel of the Cross (304 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill) for a special performance of music from the Dutch Golden Age, presented in connection with the Ackland's current exhibition Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum. Joseph Causby (organ, harpsichord),…
2nd Friday ArtWalk
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for this month's 2nd Friday ArtWalk evening hours as we explore two new exhibitions at the Ackland: Good Object / Bad Object and Laurel Nakadate: Ten Performances from 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears. The evening will feature: - the debut of a three-day sound installation by Lee Weisert, Both Man and Beast…
Music in the Galleries: Music of the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis event is now SOLD OUT. To be added to a waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu. Join members of the UNC Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Brent Wissick, for an intimate art-inspired concert of French classical music by Joseph Boulogne, also known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. A tour for concert-goers led by Dana Cowen,…
2nd Friday ArtWalk: “Step This Way” Interactive Performance
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States"Step This Way" is a site-specific performance featuring live music and dance by Mark Gabriel Little and Maura García. The performance takes place on and around the pARC, an interactive playful installation designed and created by The Urban Conga on the Ackland’s Terrace. Throughout the performance, elements of the composition and choreography will shift based…
Lecture-Demonstration with Maura García and Mark Gabriel Little
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin choreographer/dancer Maura García and composer/musician Mark Gabriel Little for an interactive lecture-demonstration that extends the creative experience of their commissioned immersive performance Step This Way, which will be performed on Friday, November 10, 2023 from 7-9 p.m. during the 2nd Friday ArtWalk. On Sunday, November 12, Dancer-musician duo García and Little will return to…
The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Presents: The Durham Fellows (part of the UpClose Chamber Orchestra Series)
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFeaturing The Durham Fellows, UpClose Chamber Music Series is the essence of ensemble playing. With performances in a variety of intimate settings across the Triangle, this dynamic and interactive series brings audiences even closer to the music and its performers. This performance is hosted by the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and will take place…
WAITLIST ONLY: Defining a “We”: Parsing the Potentialities of Poetry and Portraiture
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis program is now FULL. To be added to our WAITLIST, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu! -- Join us for a special ekphrastic poetry and portraiture discourse event curated by Chapel Hill Poet Laureate Cortland Gilliam and inspired by The Outwin: American Portraiture Today. Hear readings of ekphrastic poems written in response to The Outwin, as well…
Music in the Galleries
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesNew music by Allen Anderson for electronics and live performers inspired by several works in Arranged: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Paintings. Performances start at 2 and 3:30 p.m. within the exhibition galleries. Free; open to all ages. No RSVP necessary. -- About Arranged Taking its title from a newly acquired work by Peter…