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Community Calendar: 01/03/08

Posted on January 2, 2008January 3, 2008 by Staff

Kids
Preschool Story Time – At the Carrboro Branch Library. Every Saturday at 10:30am. Miz Moon will start off a new year of Toddler Times with an Anansi story and The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett at the Carrboro Branch Library on Thursday, Jan 3. All preschoolers are invited to this free program. For more info, call 969-3006.

ComedySportz 4 Kidz – Games & improv for the 12 & under crowd. Saturdays, 5pm. $10, students $8, kids under 5 $5. DSI Comedy Theater, 200 N Greensboro St, Ste B-11, Carr Mill Mall, Carrboro, 338-8150, www.dsicomedytheater.com.

Express Yourself! – Art program for ages 3-8 & their caregivers. Weekly art projects for children & adults to explore their own creative paths; registration requested. Saturdays, 10:45-11:15 & 11:30am-noon. $2. Kidzu Children’s Museum, 105 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 933-1455, www.kidzuchildrensmuseum.org.

Volunteers
Meals on Wheels – Seeks volunteers to deliver meals and/or bake simple desserts for recipients in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area. For more info, call 942-2948.

Goathouse Cat Refuge – Seeks volunteers to help with rescued cats & kittens. For more info, call Bonny at 545-2825 or email her at brooze@embarqmail.com.

Health
Living with Advanced/Metastatic Cancer – A bi-weekly support group. Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month, 3:30-5pm. Drop-in, no charge. Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center, Chapel Hill. 401-9333, www.cornucopiahouse.org.

Museums
Planetarium & Digital Theater Shows – Science LIVE Demos. Ongoing. Morehead Planetarium, 250 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill. Info hotline 549-6863, office 962-1236, tickets 843-7997. Thu-Sat 10am-5pm, 6:30-9:15pm. Tickets $5.25; $4.25 seniors, students & children. For more info, visit www.moreheadplanetarium.org.

Wilson Library – A Nursery of Patriotism: The University at War, 1861-1945. Exhibit on war’s historic impact on UNC-Chapel Hill. In the Manuscripts Dept (4th floor) at Wilson Library, UNC Campus, through Feb. www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/universityatwar.html.

Theater
PlayMakers Repertory Company will present playwright Lisa Kron in the one-woman play 2.5 Minute Ride, from Jan. 9-13. Kron weaves the story of a pilgrimage with her father to Auschwitz with a tale about visiting the roller coaster capital of the world in Ohio. Shows will be at 8 p.m. nightly and 2 p.m. on Jan. 13. Tickets are $24 to $32, available at www.playmakersrep.org or (919) 962-PLAY.

Dance
Salsa/Mambo – 3rd Saturdays, lesson 8pm, dance 8:30-11pm. $7, 358-4201, salsa_4u2@yahoo.com. Fred Astaire Dance Studio, 4702 Garrett Rd, Durham (Hillsborough).

Ballroom Dancing — 4th & 5th Thursdays, 7-9:30pm, $2. 933-8982. Seymour Senior Center, 2551 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill, 968-2070.

Studio A Dancers present a dance theater performance of “The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles” , adapted from the book by Julie Andrews Edwards. Performances Saturday Jan. 19 at 2pm and 6pm. East Chapel Hill High Auditorium. Tickets $5.00 available at Dancentre (967-4100/www.dancentre.net) and at the door. The performance will be narrated and is appropriate for young audiences.

Literary Discussion/Open Mic
Open Mic – For poetry, music & short fiction. Tuesdays at 7pm, Market Street Books & Maps, Southern Village, 610 Market St, Chapel Hill. 933-5111, www.marketstreetbooks.com.

Reading – Daytime soap operas’ first golden couple Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes will be starring in Sanford’s Temple Theatre’s production of Love Letters. The pair will take a break to discuss, Like Sands Through The Hourglass, which chronicles their love story on and off the screen and their rise to stardom as Doug and Julie on Days of Our Lives. The event is at McIntypre’s Fine Books at Feallington Village Jan 4 at 2 p.m.

Reading – Budd Titlow, wetland scientist and wildlife biologist, will discuss Seashells: Jewels From The Ocean. In this book he takes a non-technical approach and portrays the life histories and uses through the ages of a wide variety of mollusks that occur along the Atlantic and Gulf Coastlines of the United States. He will also give a brief overview of Low Impact Development. The event is McIntypre’s Fine Books at Feallington Village Jan 5 at 11am.

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