Halfway through Carolina Performing Arts’ third season, the program and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been tapped to join the Major University Presenters consortium (MUP), an industry-leading network of arts presenters at major research universities throughout the country.
The consortium was established to connect the nation’s most distinctive and prominent university performing arts presenters, to enable the sharing of practices and information, and to develop other areas, such as networking and leadership development.
“It is a great honor to be recognized by our peers — it reflects the leadership and vision of our Chancellor James Moeser, whose support of our program and of the arts is immeasurable,” said Emil Kang, executive director for the arts at UNC-Chapel Hill and executive director of Carolina Performing Arts.
The last university to join the consortium was the University of California, Davis, upon the opening of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in 2004.
“All of us in the MUP network have the greatest admiration and respect for what our colleagues at Carolina Performing Arts are up to,” said Kenneth C. Fischer, president of the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, one of the original MUP members. “We’re excited about welcoming Emil Kang and his team to what has become a critically important network for all of us, bringing together audiences and artists on our campuses and in our communities.”
Jerry Yoshitomi, the consortium’s facilitator, said: “It’s remarkable how much Carolina Performing Arts has accomplished in its short history. Chancellor Moeser, Emil Kang, and the staff of Carolina Performing Arts are to be congratulated on the program’s contribution to the University, as well as the performing arts nationally and internationally.”
Tickets are available for Carolina Performing Arts’ next event, a dance performance of “Les écailles de la mémoire” (“The Scales of Memory”) by Brooklyn’s Urban Bush Women and Senegal’s Compagnie Jant-Bi. The performance is at 8 p.m. on Feb. 22 in Memorial Hall.
Tickets for Carolina Performing Arts performances are available online at http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/ , by phone at (919) 843-3333, or at the Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Costs vary depending on show and seat location. UNC-Chapel Hill student tickets are $10 for all performances.
In addition to Michigan, UC-Davis and Carolina, consortium members include: Dartmouth College; Arizona State, Pennsylvania State and Stanford universities; and the universities of Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.
Carolina Performing Arts Web site: http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org
Carolina Performing Arts contact: Kara Larson, (919) 966-3834, kara.larson@unc.edu
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