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Art Calendar: February 2008

Carrboro

The ArtsCenter
300-G East Main Street
929-2787
artscenterlive.org

Because We’re Still Here and Moving: Mapping a World of Black History in Our Own Backyard — photography exhibit & interactive installation. In the East End Gallery, acrylic paintings by ArtsCenter painting instructor Juan DiGiulio.

Archer Graphics
206 E. Main St.
929-7522
archergraphics.net

Call for details.

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February shows & openings

1/3 and 1/4

A Happy New Years From Hell
DSI Comedy Theatre
Comedy presented by The Delta Boys at 7:30 and 9:30 Thursday and Friday. $12, students $10

2/1

Michael Rank & Marc E. Smith
The Cave
The guys from Snatches of Pink get up close and personal at 8 p.m. Followed by Bringerer at 10. Both shows free.

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Stories no longer hidden

Marilyn Chaplin and her mother, Lovelia Edwards, at Midway. Photo by Christine Nguyen.

By Kirk Ross

Usually when you’re thinking about exploring a territory, you start with a map. But in this case, the territory — the historical black neighborhoods of Carrboro and Chapel Hill — was mostly uncharted. The exploration ended – or, more accurately, paused – with a map that includes names like Potterfield and Tin Top and places like the old Quaker School, the Hollywood movie theater and Susie and Bynum Weaver’s store.

About 1,000 maps of the cultural heritage of these neighborhoods rolled off the presses in late February to be distributed as part of the ArtsCenter’s latest Hidden Voices program. Entitled “Because We’re Still Here (and Moving),” the project is actually a group of efforts centered on an effort to help young people explore their pasts by gathering their elders’ stories. Local students, artists and photographers and sociology students from the university have participated in documenting the stories and scanning scrapbooks.

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Theater/Comedy: February 2008

The ArtsCenter
929-2787

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
February 1-3, 8 p.m. $10.

The Vagina Monologues
February 8, 8 p.m. $12.

The Love Show with Transactors Improv
February 9, 8 p.m. $14

Are You Ready, My Sister?
February 8, 10 a.m.
Grades K-8

Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart
February 13, 10 a.m.
Grades 2-10

Because We’re Still here (and Moving)
February 15, 10 a.m.
Grades 6-12

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Finding Pauli Murray

By Ethan Clauset and Leslie Smith

“Under the laws of North Carolina, and under the resolutions of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, members of your race are not admitted to the University.”

Those words, from the dean of the graduate school, denied a young Pauli Murray entry to UNC. She had applied to study sociology with Guy Johnson and Howard Odum. It was December 1938. Two days earlier, the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of Lloyd Gaines in his suit against the state of Missouri, which had denied his entry to the University of Missouri School of Law solely on the grounds of his race. It would be another 13 years before black students would enter UNC’s classrooms, and the burden of segregation would linger for many more decades. In 1978, Pauli Murray, then a graduate of Howard University School of Law and an ordained Episcopal priest, was offered an honorary degree by UNC Chancellor Ferebee Taylor. She was eager to accept the offer, until weeks later there appeared in the press a dispute over desegregation between UNC and the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare. UNC was defiant; HEW threatened to cut off federal aid and charged UNC with failing to implement an effective plan to desegregate higher education in North Carolina. Murray felt she could only decline the honor; to accept it would have seemed to endorse the university’s position.

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Literary Calendar: February 2008

McIntyre’s Fine Books
Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro
542-3030
fearrington.com/village/mcintyres

Feb 2, 11am
Joanna Catherine Scott reads from her first novel, Charlie, inspired by the true story of an American GI who is captured by the Viet Cong after fathering a son in Vietnam.

Feb 9, 11am
NC State professor and author Stacey Cochran will lead the panel discussion “How to Publish a Book, How to Get a Literary Agent” with authors J.D. Rhoades and Alexandra Sokoloff.

Feb 6, 11am
Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, reads from her new collection of stories, Confessions of a Falling Woman.

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Music Calendar: February 2008

THE ARTSCENTER

Patty Larkin (2/7) Greg Trooper (2/8) Lori McKenna w/ Mark Erelli (2/20) Boys of the Lough (2/24) Carrie Newcomer (2/29)

CAT’S CRADLE

Urban Sophisticates, Dubconscious (2/1) Delorean, 9 PM Traffic, Brio (2/2) High On Fire, A Life Once Lost, Saviours, Car Bomb (2/6) Jay Clifford, Slow Runner (2/8) Mickey Mills & Steel, Jamrock, Dub Addis, Cayenne The Lion King, G-Toy Band (2/9) Citizen Cope (2/12) Abbey Road Live! (2/15) Carbon Leaf (2/16) Joe Grizzley, Direkt Frequency, Torched, Casta, Doly Toro, Ascella Vega (2/17) Joe Lally w/ Edie Sedgwick, Fin Fang Foom (2/18) The Honored Guests, The Sammies, The Future Kings of Nowhere (2/19) Melissa Ferrick Trio (2/21) Dean & Britta, Keren Ann (2/26) Toubab Krewe (2/28) Junior Brown (2/29)

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The Tipsheet

It may be winter, but that’s no reason to stay inside. Fat Tuesday comes early this year, so celebrate at the Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball at Historic Chatham Mills and you can find a classy evening for a good cause. Proceeds benefit local organizations and Katrina victims.

If that’s not quite your scene, also on Mardi Gras Nightlight hosts their monthly FrequeNC Records Nights, this month showcasing The Ex-Members, Pony Pants and Vytear. Performances at 10.

And if you just plain don’t do the nightlife, take a hike — on Occoneechee mountain, where you can learn to identify trees. That’s bright and early at 11.

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Music Calendar: 01/24/08

Thursday Jan 24

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Arts Calendar: 01/24/08

Carrboro

  • “Are we friends?” Photography by Joanna Welborn & Mark Pettit.  – Jan 3-30. Center Gallery, The ArtsCenter. 300-G E Main St. 929-2737, www.artscenterlive.org.
  • Earth Drawings and Soft Sculpture by Jyoti Duwadi – Jan 3-30. East End Gallery, The ArtsCenter. 300-G E Main St. 929-2737, www.artscenterlive.org.
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Community Calendar: 01/24/08

Special Events

  • Join members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Iraq Veterans Against the War and VVAW National Coordinator Barry Romo as he talks about the upcoming historic event— Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan. Fri, Jan 25, 6pm. Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro St. Free. Visit www.vvaw.org/events for more info.
  • Conservation of Freshwater Habitats of the Southeast — Robert Sutter, regional scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s Southern U.S. Conservation Region, will lead a presentation and discussion about threats to aquatic habitats in the Southeast. Sat, Jan 26, 2-4pm. $10. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Call 962-0522 to pre-register.