{"id":501,"date":"2008-01-31T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/01\/31\/stories-no-longer-hidden\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:29:51","slug":"stories-no-longer-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/01\/stories-no-longer-hidden\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories no longer hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/midwayresized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/midwayresized.jpg\" alt=\"Marilyn Chaplin and her mother, Lovelia Edwards, at Midway. Photo by Christine Nguyen.\" align=\"left\" height=\"137\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Kirk Ross <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Usually when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking about exploring a territory, you start with a map. But in this case, the territory \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the historical black neighborhoods of Carrboro and Chapel Hill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was mostly uncharted. The exploration ended \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or, more accurately, paused \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s store.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest Hidden Voices program. Entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Because We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Still Here (and Moving),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the project is actually a group of efforts centered on an effort to help young people explore their pasts by gathering their elders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 stories. Local students, artists and photographers and sociology students from the university have participated in documenting the stories and scanning scrapbooks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The centerpiece of the project is a live montage of stories, music and movement starring the students, artists and neighborhood residents themselves. The performance debut of the piece, written by Hidden Voices\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 founder Lynden Harris and directed by Kathryn Williams, is Feb. 15 at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. at the ArtsCenter.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the school and morning shows is $6. A donation is suggested for the evening show.<br \/>\nHarris, artistic director for the ArtsCenter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theater programs, said the project started small with the idea of doing something multi-generational, but once the students started collecting stories things grew \u00e2\u20ac\u0153uncontrollably.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d talk to somebody and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou have to talk to my best friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou have to talk to my sister.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The community premiere for the photo exhibit and walking-tour map, including a large interactive display where residents can add to the map, is Friday, Feb. 8 from 6 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Harris said she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see the collections have a permanent place online and she hopes to take the show to other locations. And while the story-collecting has paused, the experiences of the past two years have assured her that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no shortage of stories to discover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/mrnorwood-roomresized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/mrnorwood-roomresized.jpg\" alt=\"James (Bubba) Norwood formed The Sceptors at Lincoln High and went on to play with Ike and Tina Turner for eight years, as well as the Monkees, among a host of other bands. Photo by Elena Rue.\" align=\"left\" height=\"232\" width=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Usually when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking about exploring a territory, you start with a map. But in this case, the territory \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the historical black neighborhoods of Carrboro and Chapel Hill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was mostly uncharted. The exploration ended \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or, more accurately, paused \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with a map that includes names like Potterfield and Tin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}