Following is a sampling of January 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.
Following is a sampling of January 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.
Jan. 3
GAA Civil War Series: The Battle of Stones River
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Guest speaker Fred W. Kiger will present the tension that lived between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Federal Army of the Cumberland. On the 150th anniversary of this battle, Kiger will relive the two-day struggle that resulted in Union victory but with consequences that created serious concerns for both armies and its commanders. Tuition is $25 for GAA members and $30 for non-members. To attend, please register at https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/UNO/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=131496 or call Maghon Walker at (919) 843-5115 for more information.
Jan. 9-13
PlayMakers PRC2 – ‘And God Created Great Whales’
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday
Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
Rinde Eckert, a Grammy and Obie winner, will present his haunting musical adventure about a composer trying to create an opera based on the novel “Moby Dick.” Desperately fighting a degenerative disease eating away at his mind, the composer, also played by Eckert, relies on a tape recorder hung around his neck and a muse born of his imagination to instruct him on his work. Tickets range from $15-$36. For more information, please call (919) 962-7529.
Jan. 10
Book Club Night
6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
January begins the winter’s Art & Lit series with a novel about an absolute belief in the continuity of love through time. Within her novel “The History of Love,” Nicole Krauss presents another book about the history of love. This premise may provoke readers to consider whether the Ackland’s paintings and sculpture also manifest the continuity of love in one form or another.
The discussion will be led by Jennifer Ho, associate professor of English and comparative literature and adjunct associate professor of American studies. To RSVP for programs in this series, email acklandRSVP@unc.edu or call (919) 843-3687. The class is free, but space is limited. Books will be on sale at the Ackland Museum Store.
Jan. 11
Southern Folklife Collection’s Instrument Series: The Fiddle Concert
7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
The Southern Folklife Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library will present free music and lectures as part of “The Fiddle,” the second in its three-part Instrument Series of lectures and concerts. Performers at the evening concert will be the Nashville Bluegrass Band; three-time national fiddle champion Byron Berline; Bobby Taylor, a fourth-generation fiddler from West Virginia; and Matt Glaser, fiddler and artistic director of the American Roots Program at the Berklee College of Music. The concert is free but requires tickets, now available through the Memorial Hall Box Office, (919) 843-3333 and online at http://memorialhall.unc.edu. For more information, please call (919) 548-1203 or visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/2012/12/fiddlers-in-chapel-hill-jan-11-and-12/
Jan. 12
Southern Folklife Collection’s Instrument Series: The Fiddle Symposium
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Wilson Library
The Southern Folklife Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library will present free music and lectures as part of “The Fiddle,” the second in its three-part Instrument Series of lectures and concerts. The symposium will feature lectures by Paul F. Wells, former director of the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, and Mark Wilson, producer of the North American Traditions Series at Rounder Records. The symposium also includes a performance by three-time national fiddle champion Byron Berline; Bobby Taylor, a fourth-generation fiddler from West Virginia; and Matt Glaser, fiddler and artistic director of the American Roots Program at the Berklee College of Music. For more information, please call (919) 548-1203 or visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/2012/12/fiddlers-in-chapel-hill-jan-11-and-12/.
Drawing for Tweens
10:30 a.m. – noon
Ackland Art Museum
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. Materials are provided. The class is free for members, $5 for others. For registration and reservations, please contact Caroline Culbert at culbert@unc.edu or (919) 962-3342.
Concert Under the Atrium: Mipso
7 p.m.-10 p.m.
Friday Center
The first Friday Center Concert Under the Atrium hosts Chapel Hill bluegrass band Mipso. Formed in 2010 by four UNC students, Mipso has become a Chapel Hill musical sensation. Rooted in the sounds of North Carolina’s mountains and Piedmont, the members of Mipso give these traditional influences a modern twist. With an old-school combination of fiddle, mandolin, bass, guitar and four voices in close harmony, Mipso mixes bluegrass with a healthy dose of 21st-century energy. Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at door, available at the Carolina Union Box Office or by phone at (919) 962-1449. For more information, please visit http://fridaycenter.unc.edu/mipso/index.htm
Jan. 14
Dean’s Speaker Series: Bob McDonald – CEO, P & G
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Koury Auditorium, McColl Building As part of UNC’s two-year initiative to examine how water-related issues impact the world, Kenan-Flagler Business School will present Chief Executive Officer Bob McDonald to deliver a Dean’s Speaker Series lecture focusing on the Procter and Gamble Global Water Project in Africa. To register or for more information, please visit https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/UBS/events/UBS2358638.html
Jan. 19
Radu Lupu, piano
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Memorial Hall
Viewed as one of the most seminal musicians of his generation, classical pianist Radu Lupu will perform works by Franck and Shubert. Tickets for UNC students are $10. For others, tickets range from $29 – $69. For more information, please visit https://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/performances/event.aspx?id=8d2729d0-da4a-46d9-9745-eeeeeaf6ccff or call (919) 843-3333.
Jan. 22
Silent Sam in History and Memory
5 p.m. exhibit viewing
5:30 p.m. program
Wilson Library
Silent Sam is the memorial to UNC students who fought for the Confederacy. It was dedicated a century ago. Dr. Fitz Brundage and Adam Domby, of UNC’s history department, will discuss the original impulse behind the monument, the role of the university community in its erection and its evolution as an icon. Presented by the UNC Library and the Chapel Hill Historical Society. For information, call (919) 929-1793.
Jan. 24
‘A Short Time to Stay Here’: German Internees, WWI and the N.C. Mountains
5:30 p.m.
Wilson Library
During World War I, the Mountain Park Hotel in isolated Hot Springs served as an internment camp for more than 2,000 German nationals, including the officers and crewmen of the most sophisticated cruise ships in the world. The historical note is the setting for “A Short Time to Stay Here,” Terry Roberts’ first novel, lauded as both a war story and a love story. Roberts, a native of western North Carolina, will read selections from his novel and discuss its historical background. For information, call (919) 548-1203.
Jan. 25-26
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company – ‘A Rite’
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Memorial Hall
“A Rite” is a full-length collaborative work commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts that combines choreography from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with the ensemble-based theater work of SITI Company and Anne Bogart. This world premiere is a deconstruction of the original score of “The Rite of Spring,” the Stravinsky ballet that turns 100 in 2013. For more information, please visit https://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/performances/event.aspx?id=739b38cb-1714-4e3c-977e-8a110f30e80f or call (919) 843-3333
Jan. 26-March 3
PlayMakers – ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ and ‘Clybourne Park’
7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays
2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
PlayMakers presents two plays about race and prejudice in America in rotating repertory. The first is Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking American masterpiece, “A Raisin in the Sun,” the 1959 story of a struggling black family with the opportunity to move into an all-white middleclass neighborhood. The second play, 2009’s “Clybourne Park,” explores the comedic irony when the same neighborhood in “Raisin” changes over time into a black community that does not welcome its first gentrifying white family. Tickets are $10 for UNC students and $15-$50 for others. For more information, please visit www.playmakersrep.org or call (919) 962-7529.
Jan. 28
Weatherspoon Lecture: Cokie Roberts
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Koury Auditorium, McColl Building Cokie Roberts, noted journalist, author and political commentator, will give this year’s Weatherspoon Lecture at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. To register, please visit https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/UBS/events/UBS2358640.html.
Ongoing Events
Oct. 6, 2012 – Feb. 3, 2013
Photographic Angles: News Photography in the North Carolina Collection
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mondays – Fridays
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
(Closed on University holidays)
Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection Gallery
The exhibit features 30 published and unpublished photographs taken for the News & Observer of Raleigh, the Daily Tar Heel, the Durham Herald-Sun and other newspapers from 1891 through 2000. The images show how photographers use low camera angles, wide-angle lenses and personal perspectives to create compelling news photographs.
Oct. 8, 2012 – Jan. 27, 2013
Ancient and Living Maya in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Archaeological Discovery, Literary Voice and Political Struggle
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mondays – Fridays
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sundays
(Closed on University holidays)
Wilson Library, Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room
The Stuart Collection and other holdings in the Rare Book Collection tell the story of the European discovery of Maya sites and Maya languages and literary traditions, alongside the dramatic political history of the region and the Maya struggle for autonomy. This exhibit is hosted in conjunction with the “13 Bak’tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012” symposium.
News Services staff: (919) 962-2091