Ackland Events

Tai Chi in the Galleries
2019-11-25 13:10 - 14:00, 2019-11-18 13:10 - 14:00, 2019-11-11 13:10 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Join us for Tai Chi in the Galleries, inspired by the renowned Asian art collections at the Ackland!
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice known to reduce pain and improve your mental and physical balance and well-being. This class uses gentle Sun-style tai chi routines that are safe, easy to learn, and suitable for all ages and fitness levels.
Tai Chi in the Galleries takes place most Mondays from 1:10-2:00 PM and is taught by Joanne Marshall, a certified yoga and Tai Chi for Health instructor. All movements are done standing. Wear comfortable clothes and supportive flat shoes.
COST
Free for Ackland Members; $5 per session for all others.
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Yoga in the Galleries
2019-11-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Take a break from your day and explore the world of yoga in the beautiful setting of the Ackland!
The hour-long session offered most Mondays from 12:00-1:00 PM is taught by registered yoga teacher Joanne Marshall. Yoga in the Galleries provides an opportunity to practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by the art in the gallery. Beginners are welcome. Yoga mats are provided. Wear comfortable clothing that will allow you to stretch.
COST
Free for Ackland Members; $5 per session for all others.
RSVP for Sept – Dec 2019 Classes:
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Family and Friends Sunday: Intergalactic Soul
2019-11-24 14:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Family and Friends Sunday
Sunday, 24 November 2019 | 2-5 PM
Free and open to the public.
Join us as we explore the Ackland’s newest ART& installation, Intergalactic Soul: Project LHAXX.

Enjoy exploring the art on view with a themed, self-guided technology tour!
Find hands-on art-making activities for all ages
Utilize our interpretive resources in the museum galleries – learn more at the front desk!

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Image courtesy of Marcus Kiser.

Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland's Collection
2019-11-24 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-23 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-17 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-16 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-14 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-10 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-09 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: Explore the Ackland’s Collection

Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection.
Free. No reservation needed.

Guided Tour: She Who Tells a Story
2019-11-22 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-21 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-20 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-15 13:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-13 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Tour: She Who Tells a Story
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the She Who Tells a Story exhibition
Free. No reservation needed.

Image credit: Gohar Dashti (b. 1980). Untitled #5. From the series Today’s Life and War, 2008. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist, Azita Bina and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. Used with artist’s permission.

Art for Lunch: What does Classical art look like?
2019-11-21 12:30 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Thursday, 21 November 2019 | 12:30 PM

Art for Lunch: What does Classical art look like?

Featuring Hérica Valladares (UNC Classics) and Elizabeth Manekin (Ackland Head of University Programs and Academic Projects)

Join us for an interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin and UNC Classics professor Hérica Valladares to hear how her class, “Hellenistic Art and Architecture,” uses objects in the Ackland’s collection. Bring a bag lunch–and questions of your own–for this lively, conversational program.

Free, RSVP below.
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Ackland Film Forum: 3000 Nights
2019-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers
Tuesdays, Oct 29, Nov 5, Nov 12, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre
November 19, 2019: 3000 Nights
Mai Masri, Palestine, 2016
Introductory Remarks by Nadia Yaqub (Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill)
SYNOPSIS
Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, 3000 Nights traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Accused of helping a teenage boy on the run, newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher, Layal finds herself incarcerated in a top security Israeli prison for Palestinian and Israeli women. After Layal discovers that she is pregnant, the prison director pressures her to abort the baby and spy on the Palestinian inmates. Terrified but defiant, Layal gives birth to her child in chains.
Through her struggle to raise her son behind bars, Layal manages to find a sense of hope and meaning to her life. When prison conditions deteriorate and the Palestinian prisoners decide to strike, the prison director warns her against joining the strike and threatens to take her child away. In a moment of truth, Layal is forced to make a choice that will forever change her life.
TICKETS
$7; Free with UNC One Card
Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

SOLD OUT A Day with Jonah Bokaer Choreography
2019-11-16 10:00 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
16 Nov 2019 |10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
A Day with Jonah Bokaer Choreography
Free, RSVP requested for performance of Odalisques.
Experience the Ackland Art Museum’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World through the lens of world-renowned choreographer, dancer, and Carolina Performing Arts/Mellon Foundation Discovery through Iterative Learning (DisTIL) fellow Jonah Bokaer. The day will feature both a durational work in the galleries choreographed by Bokaer and a performance choreographed and danced by the artist. These events are hosted in partnership with Carolina Performing Arts as part of Bokaer’s DisTIL residency:

Jehan Sadat in Three Dimensions
*New Commission*
Durational Performance (Trio), 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Dancers of Jonah Bokaer Choreography perform a new trio inside the exhibition She Who Tells a Story
Costume Design | Special Collaboration: Austin Scarlett
Odalisques
Solo by Jonah Bokaer, 4 p.m.
Choreographed and performed by Jonah Bokaer in the Ackland’s ART& space. Seating is limited; RSVP below.
The 4:00 pm solo is sold out. Please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu to be placed on a wait list.
Bokaer’s choreographic work — often performed in museums and/or in response to visual art — frequently draws on his Middle Eastern and American heritage to explore ideas of orientalism in the art world. Inspired by the photography of She Who Tells a Story, Bokaer has organized a day of live choreography in the galleries that allows visitors to examine similar themes in the Ackland’s exhibition, offering an immersive art-viewing and performance experience.
This program has been made possible by the generous support of Austin Scarlett and Smith Freeman. It has also been funded in part by a grant from Arts Everywhere.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of Choreography merged with Visual Art & Design. American and Middle Eastern, he is among the most widely distributed artists to have emerged since the post-modern era. Jonah Bokaer Choreography has authored 63 original works, produced in 34 nations, 27 of the United States, and 292 cities – including 41 Museum Exhibitions worldwide. Bokaer is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation DisTIL Fellow at Carolina Performing Arts (2018-2020). More info at https://jonahbokaer.net/.
IMAGE: Arabesque (2019), Photography, Digital Software, Graphite, Ink, and Acrylic © Jonah Bokaer

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MEDIUM Workshop with Jonah Bokaer
2019-11-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Carolina Performing Arts Mellon DisTIL (Discovery Through Iterative Learning) Fellow, Tunisian-American dancer and choreographer Jonah Bokaer will be on campus next week and is hosting a free workshop for the UNC community. This is a movement-based workshops broadly focused on identity exploration and introducing mind+body awareness into academic spaces.
Date and Time: Friday, November 15th from 3-5 PM
Location: Ackland Art Museum, ART& Space (101 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)
You are welcome to join for as little or long as you’d like! This workshop is intended to bring each of us an increased awareness of our own mind+body as we progress through academia and continue developing our sense of self.
RSVP: If you are interested in joining, please fill out this RSVP form to confirm your attendance.

More details on the workshop:
Jonah Bokaer and collaborators designed a free series of Workshops for UNC Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members who wish to improve “everyday performance” skills, including physical awareness, public speaking, performance lectures, and “whole self awareness” for Academics, Artists, and Administrators alike. The workshops are free, accessible, and with no prior performance history required.
Built from a project uplifting Middle Eastern and North African identity in the world of the performing arts, M.E.D.I.U.M. will take place over a series of five weeks in the 2019-2020 Academic year, will be hosted by Jonah Bokaer and his collaborator, dancer Hala Shah, at various locations across UNC’s campus.
To learn more about Bokaer’s DisTIL Fellowship: https://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/the-overture/jonah-bokaer-announced-as-mellon-foundation-distil-fellow-for-2018-20/
A secondary component of the free workshops is to enhance diversity in performance and identity exploration at UNC Chapel Hill, within a safe space, open to all racial, ethnic, gender, intellectual, and sexual identities. The workshops were developed over 1 year of dialogue on campus, including several community gatherings at the Center for Middle East Studies, and with experts in Sociology.
The event is designed to be easily accessible, positive — and transformational. Street clothing as-is, and footwear as-is, shall be fine.

Ackland Film Forum: Women Without Men
2019-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers
Tuesdays, Oct 29, Nov 5, Nov 12, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre
November 12, 2019: Women Without Men
Dir. Shirin Neshat, Iran, 2009
Introductory Remarks by Ehsan Sheikholharam (Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill)
SYNOPSIS
Made in collaboration with her partner, filmmaker Shoja Azari, Neshat’s Women Without Men is an adaptation of the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, a book banned in Iran by the censors of the Islamic Republic. Both novel and film recount the journeys of four single women of varying age and social status who wind up meeting in a garden outside of Tehran during the summer of 1953–the eve of the coup d’etat that ousted Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored the Shah to power.

TICKETS
$7; Free with UNC One Card
Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St.

ABOUT THE SERIES
The Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Art Adventures - Nov. Late PM Session
2019-11-09 15:00 - 16:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Designed for 6- to 9-year-olds, Art Adventures sessions provide kids with a guided view of art in the Ackland’s galleries, followed by the opportunity to create take-home treasures in an adjacent art studio using newly-learned art-making techniques. Materials are provided.
Participants will create pieces inspired by an Esther Mahlangu work in Ackland Upstairs.
Free for Members, $5 for non-members. Space is limited.
RSVP
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Art Adventures - Nov. PM Session
2019-11-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Art Adventures - Nov. AM Session
2019-11-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Drawing for Tweens - November AM Session
2019-11-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
This program invites 10- to 13-year-olds to look at selected works in the Ackland’s galleries and identify techniques that the artists used to make them. Gallery teachers demonstrate and teach participants technical skills, which they can then apply to their own artistic creations. A mix of drawing from works on display and creating one’s own original works is offered in each session. Materials are provided.
Free to members | $5 per child for non-members.
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Drawing for Tweens - November PM Session
2019-11-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Drawing in the Galleries
2019-11-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Amanda Hughes leads participants in a creative exploration of a particular object in the Ackland’s collection.
For all sessions, bring paper and dry media (crayon, pencils, etc.). All levels are welcome.
Free and open to the public. No reservation is necessary.
