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Summer classes, solstice celebration featured in June

Following is a sampling of June events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Please use this information for calendar listings and postings and in planning your event-oriented coverage. Events are free to the public unless otherwise noted.


June 3

Videoconference: “Men’s Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Intervention”
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium, School of Social Work
The 14th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health will be broadcast as an interactive webcast and via satellite. Stephanie Crayton, media relations manager for UNC Health Care, will moderate a panel that includes professors from the University of Maryland, the University of Colorado-Denver, the University of California-Los Angeles and Georgetown University. The event is presented by the UNC Minority Health Project at the UNC School of Public Health, the UNC Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and the N.C. A&T State University Institute for Public Health. For more information, visit www.minority.unc.edu.

June 7
Seminar: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
9:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
For location details, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2008_Summer/2-ReligiousTolerance.htm.
Part of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, this seminar will examine religious beliefs in Western culture, starting with ancient Greek and Roman practices and moving through the medieval relationship between Christians and Jews. Registration is $120, with an optional $10 lunch. For more information and to register, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2008_Summer/2-ReligiousTolerance.htm.

June 8
Workshop: The Secret Life of Turtles
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Totten Center, N.C. Botanical Garden
Environmental educator Bob Palmatier will lead a family workshop on the lives of the turtles that can be found in the Triangle area, encouraging conservation and good stewardship of ecosystems. Registration is $20 per family or $10 per individual for Botanical Garden members; $22 per family or $12 per individual for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.

June 13
Ackland Art Museum’s Summer Exhibition Reception
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
This reception will honor the Ackland’s summer exhibitions, “In and Around the Garden” and “Contemporary Drawings from the Ackland Collection,” during the downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s monthly Art After Dark event, featuring music, light food and a cash bar. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php?q=2008-06-13.

June 14
Drawing in the Galleries
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum

Every month, Amanda Hughes, director of external affairs at the Ackland and a working artist, meets with friends of the Museum who have an interest in practicing and strengthening their drawing skills. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/programs/drawing_in_the_galleries/.

June 15
Music in the Galleries
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Brian and Mary Lewis, joined by bassist Nancy Bierman, will perform popular country music from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, featuring acoustic guitars, mandolin and songs sung in close harmony in the Ackland’s galleries. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php?q=2008-06-15.

June 16
Yoga in the Galleries
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Yoga for all skill levels lead by Joanne Marshall. Yoga mats and cushions are provided. Registration is free to Museum members, $5 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://www.ackland.org/programs/yoga/.

June 18
Lunch with One: One Work, One Expert, One Hour
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Bring a bag lunch and enjoy an hour of inspiration and information as different experts discuss singular works of art. From June to August, Lunch with One will feature a summer series for families. Registration is recommended and free to museum members; $5 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://www.ackland.org/programs/lunch_with_1/.

Art and Literature in the Galleries
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
The Ackland’s literature program continues with a three-part series on books related to real and metaphorical gardens, in conjunction with the “In and Around the Garden: Perspectives East and West” exhibit. June 18 will feature “The Lost Garden” by Helen Humphreys. Ackland educator Leslie Balkany will lead the discussions with a UNC faculty member. Registration is free to members; $5 for nonmembers. For more information, visit
http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php?q=2008-06-18.

Class: Starry Summer Nights
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
This class will celebrate the summer solstice by identifying the planets, bright stars and constellations most visible in the summer as well as seasonal celestial events such as meteor showers. Registration is $8 for planetarium members; $12 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/
index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=adult_classes.html
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June 20
Destiny Day
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
Since 2000, the Destiny traveling laboratories have delivered hands-on science learning opportunities to schools across North Carolina. One of the 40-foot buses will be open to the public for a chance to explore the Destiny curriculum. Entrance is free with the purchase of a planetarium ticket; tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for children, students and senior citizens. Entrance is $3 without a planetarium ticket. For more information, visit http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/
index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=destiny.html
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June 21
Seminar: Political Satire from Mark Twain to The Daily Show
9:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
For location details, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/
2008_Summer/3-PoliticalSatire.htm
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Part of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, this seminar will explore the development of American political satire, beginning with Mark Twain and moving through the work of H.L. Mencken, the rise of comedic television and finally to the new realm of “infotainment.” Registration is $120, with an optional $10 lunch. For more information and to register, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/
2008_Summer/3-PoliticalSatire.htm
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Children’s presentation: Storytime Science at the Morehead Planetarium
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
The planetarium will host Storytime Science, reading science-focused children’s books and exploring the science behind the stories through hands-on activities. Fee is $4 for planetarium members; $5 for nonmembers. To register, call (919) 962-1236.

Family Celebration of the Summer Solstice
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Forest Theatre
The N.C. Botanical Garden and the Ackland Art Museum will host a celebration of the summer solstice for families, featuring world music traditions and storytelling by Faye Stanley.

June 22
Family tour of the Ackland
1:15 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Families with children ages 6-12 are invited to uncover the different ways artists see the world through an interactive gallery experience. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php?q=2008-06-22.

June 23 – 27
Summer program: “Where in the World?”
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Rising sixth, seventh and eighth graders will explore painting, sculpture and prints from around the world to learn more about the cultures, materials and ideas that helped create them. Registration is $170 for museum members; $190 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php?q=2008-06-23.

June 28
Seminar: Michelangelo’s Genius: Renaissance Individuality and Creativity
9:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
For location details, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/
2008_Summer/4-Michelangelo.htm
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Part of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, this seminar will feature three art historians discussing Michelangelo’s work as a sculptor, painter and poet, and his relationship with several of the popes who reigned during his lifetime. Registration is $120 with an optional $10 lunch. For more information and to register, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2008_Summer/4-Michelangelo.htm.

N.C. Botanical Garden tour
10 a.m.
N.C. Botanical Garden
To celebrate Pollinator Week, June 22-28, the N.C. Botanical Garden will offer a free tour of the display collections and a chance to learn about native wildflowers and how to attract pollinators. For more information, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/69/.

Ongoing

Feb. 13 – Aug. 17
Exhibit: “Glorifying Patronage: Art in Service of Family, Fame and Fortune”
For hours, visit www.ackland.org/visit.
Ackland Art Museum
In response to the Ackland’s fall 2007 Contrapposto exhibition, which focused on art commissioned for to improve others’ lives, this exhibit will focus on art commissioned to glorify the lives of the patrons themselves. This collection of self-promotion includes paintings, medals and engravings associated with notable Early Modern patrons – royalty, nobility, popes, and cardinals – who hoped to enhance their own reputations through commissioning works of art. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/glorifying_patronage/

Feb. 14 – May 31
Exhibit: “Lines of Humor, Shades of Controversy: A Century of Student Cartooning at UNC”
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library
Student cartoons in UNC publications have entertained and informed this campus community for more than a hundred years. The exhibit features selected works from 1907-206. For more information, call (919) 962-1172 or visit
http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery/current_exhib.html
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March 5 – May 18
Exhibit: “The Pursuit of Learning”
For hours, visit www.ackland.org/visit.
Ackland Art Museum

Covering more than four centuries, the images included in “The Pursuit of Learning” range from the documentary to the symbolic and from the sublime to the ridiculous. Themes include the glorification of learning, the scholar as hermit, saint, or eccentric, the ardent or reluctant student and the joys and sorrows of the classroom. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/the_pursuit_of_learning/.

March 17 – May 31
Exhibit: “Paper Trail: The Poster Art of Casey Burns and Ron Liberti”
9 a.m. – 6 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
Manuscripts department, Wilson Library
The Southern Folklife Collection will exhibit the work of two local poster artists whose work has advertised Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s independent rock music scene since the early 1990s. For more information, visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2008/posters.html or call (919) 962-1345.

April 14 – July 3
Exhibit: “The Beats and Beyond: Counterculture Poetics, 1952-1975”
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room, Wilson Library
Taking advantage of the depth and breadth of the Rare Book Collection’s holdings in post–World War II American poetry, this exhibit will include poets of the New York School, the San Francisco renaissance and North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, providing glimpses into the avant-garde poetry scene through lenses including the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. For more information, visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/fol/calendar_of_events_friends.pdf or call (919) 962-1143.

April 16 – May 21
Class: Beginning Skywatching
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Wednesdays
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
The Morehead Planetarium will host beginning skywatching classes to identify stars and planets visible to the naked eye as well as with a planisphere. Registration is $90 for planetarium members; $110 for nonmembers. To register, call (919) 962-1236. For more information, visit http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/
index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=adult_classes.html
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April 19 – Aug. 17
Exhibit: “Contemporary Drawings from the Ackland Collection”
For hours, visit www.ackland.org/visit.
Ackland Art Museum
The Ackland Collection contains a selection of important works on paper created since the late 1970s, many of which have rarely if ever been shown. This exhibit presents works by Julian Schnabel, Chuck Close, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and Kehinde Wiley, among many others. Portraits, landscapes, studies for larger works in other media and independent works range from intimate to monumental in scale. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/
contemporary_drawings_from_the_ackland_collection/
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May 7 – 28
Class: Principles of Ecology
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Wednesdays
Totten Center, N.C. Botanical Garden
This course will introduce the basic principles of ecology, an integrative branch of science that deals with the relationships of living things to one another and to their environment. There will be both classroom and field experiences that will focus on those topics that can be considered with respect to native plant species in North Carolina. Registration is $110 for Botanical Garden members; $125 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.

May 9 – Aug. 17
Exhibit: “The Art of Love”
For hours, visit www.ackland.org/visit.
Ackland Art Museum
“The Art of Love,” the summer Perspectives exhibition at the Ackland, surveys a collection of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings devoted to this enduring subject. Professor Kathryn Starkey of the department of Germanic languages and literature and the students in her first-year seminar, “Love in the Middle Ages,” will partner with the Ackland to curate this exhibition. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/the_art_of_love/.

May 13 – June 10
Seminar: “Sowing the Seeds for Disunion: A Countdown to the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War”
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Tuesdays
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Civil War expert Fred Kiger will review the history leading up to one of America’s most defining moments. Sponsored by the General Alumni Association. Call Steffi Kinton at (919) 962-0313 to register and for more information. 

May 15 – June 5
Class: Chinese Brush Painting: Four Gentlemen
9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Thursdays
Totten Center, N.C. Botanical Garden
Students will learn the basics of Chinese brush painting and focus on proper brush technique and paint application for floral subjects. Each class will be devoted to one of the “four gentlemen:” the orchid, bamboo, plum blossom, and chrysanthemum. Registration is $90 for Botanical Garden members; $110 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.

May 24 – Aug. 31
Exhibit: “In and Around the Garden: Perspectives East and West”
For hours, visit www.ackland.org/visit/.
Ackland Art Museum
A deep appreciation for the cultivated earth has been central to human culture for millennia. The exhibition explores a sequence of garden-centered themes, from the scientific to the spiritual, in a rich variety of works, the majority of which are drawn from the Ackland Collection. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/in_and_around_the_garden/.

May 31 – June 21
Class: Introduction to Plant Taxonomy
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Totten Center, N.C. Botanical Garden
Meredith College biology professor Christine Davis will teach the basics of using dissecting microscopes to examine plant taxonomy. A simple approach to the use of plant keys will be covered, as well as basic plant family characteristics necessary for plant identification. Registration is $110 for Botanical Garden members; $125 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.

June 7 – 28
Class: Drawing for Kids
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Saturdays
Ackland Art Museum
Children ages 9-12 will focus on drawing plants and animals in nature in this monthlong drawing series. Registration is free to museum members; $5 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php?q=2008-06-07.

June 8 – Aug. 17
Exhibition: “Flowing Like Water: The Art of Liquidity”
For hours, visit www.ackland.org/visit.
Ackland Art Museum
“Flowing like Water: The Art of Liquidity” explores how the liquid materials of painting, drawing, and even sculpture have provided analogies to the flow of water. The exhibit includes works by James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Otto Dix, Minor White, Henri Matisse and Willem DeKooning. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/flowing_like_water/.

June 16 – Aug. 31
Exhibit: “Satan in a Bottle: A History of the Production and Control of Alcoholic Beverages in North Carolina”
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library
As part of a general history of alcohol in North Carolina, the fight for prohibition is one of several topics examined in the exhibition. Other topics include alcohol’s celebratory use, its use in home remedies and patent medicines, and the countless personal tragedies caused by its abuse. The exhibit also recounts law enforcement’s efforts to control production and trafficking of “moonshine” and other home brews. For more information, call (919) 962-1172.

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