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New Cultural Guidebooks Coming

The N.C. Arts Council will launch three new cultural tourism guidebooks this year.

Take a Stroll Through the Heart of Soul

Musical treasures are waiting to …

Authentic Cultural Experiences

From the Blue Ridge Mountains and the homegrown music rising out of them, to the breathtaking vistas and sacred …

Tales from the Trails: From Unlikely Beginnings…

The film Norma Rae, which stars Sally Field as a mill worker leading a strike for unionized labor, is set in Alabama. However, the first Southern textile mill to be unionized was actually located in North Carolina where a woman named Crystal Lee Sutton spearheaded the movement. In which town was this textile mill located? The Stevens Textile Mill was located in Roanoke Rapids, a factory town that drew workers from many of the surrounding...

Posted by ncarts on 06 19th, 2013 | No Comments

Tales from the Trails: All the World’s a Stage…Including Seaboard, N.C.

This female author spent most of her life in the small town of Seaboard. Many of her works detail the rural life of the people of that area, and she has sometimes been called a North Carolina Eudora Welty. What is this author’s name? Our mystery author is Bernice Kelly Harris, and if it hadn’t been for her quiet lifestyle she might be as well-known today as Welty is. She is featured in Tour 13 of Literary Trails of Eastern North...

Posted by ncarts on 06 18th, 2013 | No Comments

Tales from the Trails: They Went to the White House to See the Queen (and King)

In 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the U.S. Among the performers called to the White House to entertain the royals and the Roosevelts were a group of Appalachian folk dancers from Haywood County. What was this group called? The group was called the Soco Gap Dance Team, directed by Sam Queen. One of the first Appalachian folk dance demonstration teams, the Soco Gap Team had its origins in Waynesville, a small town featured in...

Posted by ncarts on 06 17th, 2013 | No Comments

Tales from the Trails: Bird Shoal Inspires Future Writer

When this future bestselling author visited Bird Shoal, NC, she was just a young, little-known biologist writing her observations of the flora and fauna she saw there. The piece she wrote about Bird Shoal can today be read in a collection called The Edge of the Sea. Who was this biologist? The biologist was, according to Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina, none other than Rachel Carson, a younger Carson who was still refining her...

Posted by ncarts on 06 14th, 2013 | No Comments

The N.C. Arts Council is pleased to share the following opportunities for artists that have recently been submitted to us. Please contact the organization listed if you have any questions. Artist opportunities may be submitted to Burdette.Southerland@ncdcr.gov. Visual Arts Local Color Gallery (co-op), Raleigh Local Color Gallery on Glenwood South is looking for new members that are creative and ready to become an active member...

Posted by ncarts on 06 12th, 2013 | No Comments

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New York Times Nod to Saxapahaw

The arts and cuisine of Saxapahaw, the small former mill town located between Chapel Hill and Burlington were spotlighted by the New York Times in an article entitled, “Saxapahaw, N.C., Middle of Somewhere, Becomes a Draw.” The article features the Haw River Ballroom, a music venue on the site of the historic mill; Saxapahaw Artists, a gallery featuring the works of 50 regional artists; the cuisine of...

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Destination North Carolina

North Carolina is a place to experience authentic arts adventures. Find them during the winter holiday season on our Arts Trails. Even when you’re not venturing outside you can experience North Carolina as a destination in books. According to the new website Small Demons there are 1,632 digitized books mentioning North Carolina. The site is building a knowledge base about the people, places and...

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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture

551 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28202 (704) 547-3700 http://www.ganttcenter.org/ The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte has a 35-year history beginning as Charlotte’s Afro-American Cultural Center. Today, its new location at the Levine Center for the Arts is the permanent home for the John and Vivian Hewitt Collection, which includes 58 works by 20 renowned...