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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is supported by the… Free | 1 event, –  Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is… Free | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is… Free –  We kick off our Global Cult Cinema series with the sci-fi/martial arts/fantasy film known as Turkish Star Wars. The Man Who Saved the World Çetin İnanç, Turkey, 1982, 1h 31m FILM SYNOPSIS Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) is an otherwise obscure Turkish Science Fantasy Martial Arts film from 1982 directed by… | 2 events, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is supported by the… Free Virtual Event –  Virtual Event Susan Cooksey (Harn Museum of Art) in conversation with Victoria L. Rovine (Art History, UNC-Chapel Hill) Join us for a free virtual conversation about Peace, Power & Prestige, with exhibition curator Dr. Susan Cooksey (Curator Emerita of African Art, Harn Museum of Art) and Dr. Victoria Rovine (Professor of African Art History, Department of Art… Free | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is supported by the… Free –  Our Global Cult Cinema series continues with this Thai cult film blending westerns and romance. Tears of the Black Tiger Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand, 2000, 1h 50m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature FILM SYNOPSIS "In the countryside of Thailand, a gang of outlaws makes the region unsafe. Among them is… | 1 event, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is… Free | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, –  Join Weixin Zhou, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about Hale Aspacio Woodruff's 1940s painting Landscape (Mississippi, Soil Erosion), a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project and part of the Museum's permanent collection. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited. Sign up for free tickets to this in-person program below.… Free | 2 events, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is… Free –  Join us at the next Global Cult Cinema screening to see the kung-fu classic that made Bruce Lee famous. The Big Boss Wei Lo, Hong Kong, 1971, 1h 40m Introduced by Martin Johnson, UNC-Chapel Hill FILM SYNOPSIS Cheng, played by Bruce Lee, is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a… | 1 event, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission. Free | 0 events, |
| 1 event, – Join the Ackland as Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum) focus on one of the Harlem Renaissance's leading artists, Hale Aspacio Woodruff and his piece, Landscape (Mississippi, Soil Erosion), seen on the right. We will be considering the variety of ways that humans depict and interact with their environments by looking closely at Landscape (Mississippi,… | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is supported by the… Free –  A murder-mystery and romance combine in this Indian cult film that caps off our Global Cult Cinema series. Om Shanti Om Farah Khan, 2007, India, 2h 42m Introduction by Priya Shanker, UNC-Wilmington FILM SYNOPSIS In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, is murdered, but is immediately reincarnated into the present day. He attempts to discover… | 1 event, – Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection and our special exhibition Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Advance registration required; space is limited. If you find yourself unable to attend, please email acklandrsvp@unc.edu, so that we may offer the space to others. This program is… Free | 0 events, |