2009 December- NC Arts Everyday

Craft an Artful New Year’s Celebration

Welcome the New Year with artful North Carolina adventures. Give your kids an early start on the holiday with the New Year’s Noon Countdown at the Children’s Museum of Wilmington Dec. 31 from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Kids and families can party with noisemakers, confetti, and a countdown. Museum...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Greensboro Symphony and West End Mambo Heat Up New Year’s Eve

Nicaragua native Cesar Oviedo is musical director and bass player for West End Mambo, which brings its danceable rhythms to Greensboro’s War Memorial Auditorium for a joint show with the Greensboro Symphony on New Year’s Eve. Space will be made for dancing to salsa and Latin songs “from bolero and...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Triad Stage adds Santaland Diaries performances

Triad Stage’s UpTown Cabaret has added three additional evening shows to its sold-old run of The Santaland Diaries: Dec. 21, 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. Adapted from the story by humorist David Sedaris, the show brings to life his hilarious misadventures as the elf “Crumpet” at Macy’s department store....

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 21st, 2009 | No Comments

The Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF) in Hillsborough supports traditional Southern music artists and preserves their unique heritage. It invites you to “Bring This Home to Mama” with holiday gifts and bundles starting at $20. Its 2010 calendar brings 12 Music Maker musicians to life with comics...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Gift Guides on 12 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Consider giving the gift of a museum membership while you’re exploring exhibitions, performances and gift shop sales this winter. The Hickory Museum of Art presents the free stage production, A Winter Wonderland Dec. 20 at 2:30 p.m. The production tells the story of nine friends who welcome the...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Gift Guides, Holiday Events on 12 18th, 2009 | No Comments

With our Artful Holidays site, we’re launching this new blog where visitors can experience North Carolina arts everyday. To celebrate, we’d like to offer one lucky winner a selection of North Carolina guidebooks and art guides—perfect for helping you check off your gift list or to keep as a...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays on 12 14th, 2009 | 3 Comments

For the first time, Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem is offering holiday candlelight tours of the historic property built by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. “There were so many Christmas stories and...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Geraldine’s Picks: Have a HandMade Holiday

Plato Geraldine Plato is the executive director of HandMade in America, a non-profit organization whose mission is to grow handmade economies through craft, cultural heritage and community assets. Before joining HandMade she was the director of an independent hands-on learning school serving students pre-K...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Gift Guides on 12 9th, 2009 | No Comments

“Voyage à Paris” CD release and Art Walk

Chapel Hill classical pianist Greg McCallum has performed internationally, taught in schools across the state and served as a North Carolina Arts Council Touring Artist. He’ll be signing his new CD “Voyage à Paris” at a release party at the North Carolina Crafts Gallery in Carrboro Dec. 11...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Gantt Center: Two-year Membership for the Price of One

Charlotte’s newly-dedicated Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture—formerly the Afro-American Cultural Center—has highlighted the contributions of Africans and African-Americans to American culture for 35 years. Through January 2, 2011, it will feature the John and Vivian Hewitt...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Special Offers on 12 8th, 2009 | No Comments

N.C. Arts Council’s Martin on The State of Things

Wayne Martin, the senior program director for the N.C. Arts Council and a founding member of PineCone, was recently a special guest on WUNC’s State of Things with Frank Stasio. He appeared on the Friday, Dec. 4, show with banjo player Marvin Gaster and guitarist Gerry Overton to discuss stringband...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 12 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Cutting Edge Gift Ideas from Merge Records

Merge Records, the Chapel Hill label started in 1989 by college students Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance, has released more than 360 records to the delight of indie music fans not only in our state but around the world. Their cutting edge North Carolina artists, including The Rosebuds, Superchunk and The...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Gift Guides on 12 7th, 2009 | No Comments

3-Play Pass at Triad Stage

Once a vacant Montgomery Ward building, Triad Stage opened in 2001 and is now a centerpiece of downtown Greensboro’s entertainment scene. It is offering 3-Play MainStage Season Passes for the three remaining shows in its current season: “Around the World in 80 Days,” “Ethel Waters:...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Special Offers on 12 6th, 2009 | No Comments

Sid Luck, a fifth generation Seagrove potter and the Little Windows folk duo, also N.C. Arts Council Touring Artists, are among the artisans and performers at “Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters” at Historic Stagville in Durham. This free event, Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m.– 4...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Get out for the Raleigh ArtWalk

Get to stepping this weekend at the 17th Annual Boylan Heights ArtWalk in Raleigh taking place Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, noon to 5 p.m. More than 100 artists and artisans sell their wares from front porches, studios and their homes. Stroll through a historic neighborhood and shop for one-of-a-kind gifts at the...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Ring in the Holidays with N.C. Touring Artists

North Carolina Arts Council Touring Artists are selected on the basis of their outstanding artistic quality, performing success and work with communities and schools. Here are just a few of the touring artist performances in December. The internationally-acclaimed community handbell choir, the Raleigh...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Dougherty Linda Dougherty is the chief curator and curator of contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She most recently curated “The BIG Picture” (2007) and “Contemporary North Carolina Photography” (2006-2007). Dougherty, who lives in Chapel Hill, also reviews and writes articles on...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Gift Guides on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

“Black Nativity,” which premiered in 1961 is poet Langston Hughes’ soulful play retelling of the Christmas story with gospel music, dance, poetry and narrative. It’s now in its 23rd season at North Carolina A&T State University’s Harrison Auditorium in Greensboro Dec. 3−6. ’Black...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Celebrate Artful Holidays in N.C.

We’re launching the holiday section of this site and hope that it will become the best place to find authentic North Carolina happenings, homegrown traditions and locally produced items perfect for giving this December! We’ll be updating the blog with new content throughout the holiday season, so...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays on 12 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

PineCone Offer – Get the Member Rate

If you’re not yet a member of the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music (PineCone), currently marking its 25th anniversary, you can sample any concert in its “Down Home Series” at the discounted member rate. Upcoming artists include Kris Kristofferson, Tift Merritt, the Tony Rice Unit, Ricky Skaggs...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Special Offers on 12 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

“You got to grow up with this stuff in you, and then you’ll know how to do it when you get grown,” says venerable North Carolina blues guitarist and Music Maker Relief Foundation artist John Dee Holeman. Now 80 years old, Holeman has earned numerous accolades for his work, and on Dec. 5 he’ll be...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Holiday Events on 12 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Family Package and Groups Discounts at N.C. Stage

The North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville presents “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live from WVL Radio Theatre” Nov. 27–Dec. 20. A family package including two adult and two children’s tickets is $56, and group discounts of 15 percent also are available for eight or more. Call (828) 239-0263 for...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Holidays, Special Offers on 12 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Craft an Artful New Year’s Celebration

Greensboro Symphony and West End Mambo Heat Up New Year’s Eve

Triad Stage adds Santaland Diaries performances

Gifts for the Music Makers in Your Life

Museum Merriment

Share your favorite holiday arts memory and win!

Enjoy Reynolda House by Candlelight

Geraldine’s Picks: Have a HandMade Holiday

“Voyage à Paris” CD release and Art Walk

Gantt Center: Two-year Membership for the Price of One

N.C. Arts Council’s Martin on The State of Things

Cutting Edge Gift Ideas from Merge Records

3-Play Pass at Triad Stage

Celebrate in Stagville

Get out for the Raleigh ArtWalk

Ring in the Holidays with N.C. Touring Artists

Linda’s Picks: Give the Gift of Art

Soulful “Black Nativity”

Celebrate Artful Holidays in N.C.

PineCone Offer – Get the Member Rate

Holiday Blues on Parade

Family Package and Groups Discounts at N.C. Stage

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