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This is where you can find the latest arts news and updates from the North Carolina Arts Council.

American Dance Festival Announces Schedule

American Dance Festival: June 10–July 24 Tickets On-Sale May 10! Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance CompanyJune 17–Jun 19 RUBBERBANDance Group June 24–June 26 Pilobolus July 1–July 3 Children’s Saturday Matinee: July 3 Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company July 8–July 10 Children’s...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 03 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Arts Council Names New Center for Rhodes

Milton Rhodes The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County will name its new arts center in downtown Winston-Salem “Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts” in honor of its current president and CEO. Rhodes has served twice as president and CEO of the arts council. “Milton has long been considered...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 07 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Bull City Poetry Team Wins Southern Fried Poetry Slam

Left to Right, Back row: Will McInerney, Elliot "Axiom" Miley, Chris "Dasan Ahanu" Massenburg (Co-Slam Master/Coach), Kane "Novakane" Smego Front row: George "G" Yamazawa, Jr., Janella Sellars (Co-Slam Master) Kudos to the Bull City Poetry Slam Team, sponsored by the...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 06 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Charlotte arts groups plan Arts for Education efforts

Rising to the challenges of the recession that has cut the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools arts programming budget, Charlotte organizations led by the Arts & Science Council (ASC) are stepping up to raise new funds. In this current school year there will be $1 million less to expose students to the arts...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 08 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Charlotte Campaign for Cultural Facilities Levine gift supports Bechtler Museum and other projects. Photo: Gary O'Brien April 23, 2010 (Charlotte, N.C.) — The Campaign for Cultural Facilities, an $83 million private endowment campaign to support new and renovated cultural facilities in Charlotte, has...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 04 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Creativity Means Business

Creative workers, creative enterprises and creative communities are, collectively, big business in North Carolina. We’ve always known this, but today, Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Linda A. Carlisle unveiled the findings of new research which shows that the Creative Industry in North...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News, Creative Economy, Featured Articles on 11 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Durham County Novelist is 2010 Piedmont Laureate

Durham County novelist Zelda Lockhart has been selected as the 2010 Piedmont Laureate. She is the author of two novels, Fifth Born, a 2002 Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and Cold Running Creek, which won a 2008 Honor Fiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In June...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 02 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Wilkesboro Bluegrass Musician Eric Ellis Releases First CD Eric Ellis CD Cover Eric Ellis, a Blue Ridge Hall of Fame inductee, released his first CD Every Night Before Breakfast. Known for his Earl Scruggs-style banjo picking, Ellis, a Wilkesboro native, has recorded with an impressive number of bluegrass...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 06 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Feed Your Spirit at North Carolina Theatre

North Carolina Theatre will present Little Shop of Horrors, Saturday, Sept. 18, through Sunday, Sept. 26, at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Other productions include A Christmas Story in December and their new 2011 season which includes The Producers,...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Film and Discussion on Arts and Accessibility

Arts Access Inc. is sponsoring a film Sunday, Aug. 8, at 4:30 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. The event will feature the film A New Kind of Listening and a community discussion afterwards on promoting inclusive arts opportunities for people of all abilities. Chris Mueller-Medlicott...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 07 30th, 2010 | 2 Comments

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Arts News

American Dance Festival Announces Schedule

Arts Council Names New Center for Rhodes

Bull City Poetry Team Wins Southern Fried Poetry Slam

Charlotte arts groups plan Arts for Education efforts

Charlotte Receives $20 Million Gift

Creativity Means Business

Durham County Novelist is 2010 Piedmont Laureate

Eric Ellis Releases Bluegrass CD

Feed Your Spirit at North Carolina Theatre

Film and Discussion on Arts and Accessibility

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