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Aug. 7, 2003 -- No. 402

AROUND the HILL: What’s coming up at UNC

CHAPEL HILL -- Upcoming arts and cultural events at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will include those listed below. "Around the Hill" will be updated periodically during the 2003-2004 academic year. For more information, visit www.unc.edu and click "Events and Calendars."

Please use the following headings to navigate to a specific event:

ART and EXHIBITS
FILMS
LECTURES and READINGS
MUSIC
STAGE

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ART and EXHIBITS

Through September, University Center for International Studies, Coates Building, 223 E. Franklin St., 962-3094. "Seeing Eye to Eye," photography exhibit by Laena Wilder, on teen-agers in Siler City and matters of cultural heritage. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. (http://www.ucis.unc.edu/home.html)

Totten Center, N.C. Botanical Garden, Old Mason Farm Road off Fordham Blvd., 962-0522 (http://www.ncbg.unc.edu/):

Sept. 2-Nov. 14, "Botanical Quilts: Autumn," presented by the Durham-Orange Quilters’ Guild. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays, 1-6 p.m. Sundays until the end of Daylight Savings Time. Beginning Oct. 26 the garden will close daily at 5 p.m.

Dec. 1-7, Holiday Diminutive Art, exhibit and silent auction, a fund-raiser for the garden. Tiny watercolors, pen-and-ink works and more. Bidding ends and holiday party for members starts at 4 p.m. Dec. 7. Call for details.

Ackland Art Museum, Franklin and S. Columbia streets, 966-5736: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays; 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Free (www.ackland.org).

Through Sept. 28, "Defining Moments: Two Centuries of Photography," 90 photographs dating from the 1840s to the present. Includes exhibit "Collecting Photography: A Community Dialogue," where visitors vote for photos the museum might purchase. Related events:

Through Sept. 21, "Imitation and the Print," organized by undergraduates, illustrates different ways early print makers reproduced works of art in other media.

Through Oct. 26, "An Evening at Versailles: Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and her Music." concert, 12:15 p.m. Oct. 15 by UNC Baroque Ensemble and UNC Opera Workshop.

Through May 16, "Spectans Specula: Reflecting on Princely and Priestly Perfections," pictorial representations of virtues considered necessary for attainment of perfection in princes and priests of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Oct. 19-Jan. 4, "Plum, Pine and Bamboo: Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art," Japanese works from the museum’s Asian collection that focus on themes of nature and Buddhism, including a painting by Japanese master Sesshū Tōyō, just returned to the Ackland after being restored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Companion exhibitions: "Carolina Collects: Japanese Art" and "Sea & Sky: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics." Companion events, free, open to the public, at the Ackland unless otherwise noted:

Oct. 29 – Jan. 11, "Photographs by David Spear," documentary photos focusing on a rural North Carolina family.

Family Fun programs at Ackland, recommended for 5- to 12-year-olds; all free at 2 p.m.:

Feb. 1-March 28, "Sebastião Salgado -- Migrations: Humanity in Transition." Works by Brazilian photographer Salgado, who traveled to 39 countries in seven years to create this documentary exhibition on millions of refugees, migrants and displaced peoples. Opening receptions Feb. 1: Members-only preview 2-3 p.m., call 843-3676 to join; public reception 3-5 p.m.

Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, South Road, 962-1143; (http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/introduction.html):

Sept. 15-Dec. 31, "America and the Southeast in Early Maps from the Collection of Dr. David Davis," beautiful and historically significant maps showing locations of early roads, battles, native tribes, trading routes and more. Lecture Nov. 14 by Alice Hudson, New York Public Library Maps Division. Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.

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FILMS

Sept. 16, 8 Gardner Hall, off Polk Place south of Cameron Avenue, 962-9001. "The Divide," with producer Orlando Bagwell and producer/director John Valadez. Part of the "Matters of Race Series" sponsored by the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (http://ibiblio.org/shsbcc/). and WUNC; 7-9 p.m.

Nov. 2-21 (approximate), UNC-Chapel Hill and 12 other North Carolina campuses, various buildings, 962-2414. 17th annual Latin American Film and Video Festival, presented by the Consortium in Latin American Studies of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University (http://www.unc.edu/depts/ilas/otherresources.html).

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LECTURES and READINGS

Oct. 7, Hill Hall Auditorium, off East Franklin Street near U.S. Post Office, 962-4283. Annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture, Pat Conroy, author, "Prince of Tides," "The Lords of Discipline" and other novels. 7:30 p.m. (http://english.unc.edu/news/index.html)

March 3, place to be announced, 962-4283. Reading by author, essayist and screenwriter Joan Didion, winner, Columbia Journalism Award. Didion will be the English department’s 2004 Morgan Writer-in-Residence, on campus March 1-5 (http://english.unc.edu/news/index.html).

School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Carroll Hall, 962-1204 (http://www.jomc.unc.edu/):

Oct. 9, 843-8307. Joie Chen of CBS News, part of the Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture Series, 6 p.m.

Oct. 16, 962-9467. David Gergen, editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and former adviser to four presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. Part of the Earl Wynn Distinguished Lecture Series, 6 p.m.

Nov. 6, 966-7024. "In the Crossfire," UNC alumnus and former Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose, on his role during the Washington, D.C. area sniper shootings.

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MUSIC

Music department, Hill and Person Recital halls, off East Franklin Street near the Post Office, 962-1039; events free unless otherwise noted; parking for most evening and weekend events behind Hill in Swain Visitors’ Lot off Cameron Avenue (http://www.unc.edu/depts/music/):

Sept. 10-Nov. 19, weekly, 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Afro-Cuban Percussion Master Class, participants ($5), listeners welcome. Sponsored by the UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, 962-9001 (http://ibiblio.org/shsbcc/). Place TBA.

James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, near Morehead Planetarium off East Franklin Street, 966-5110, (http://www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu/):

Sept. 4-Dec. 4, "Thursdays on the Terrace" series, most Thursdays, performances in the John Motley Morehead II Lounge on the first floor or outside on the Educational Foundation Terrace:

"Thursdays on the Terrace" series extension, sponsored by the Johnston Center and the Center for the Study of the American South, blues concerts at 7 p.m. in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union Film Auditorium, off South Road near Raleigh Street, 962-5665. Ticket information to be announced.

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STAGE

PlayMakers Repertory Company, UNC Center for Dramatic Art, Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, Box office 919-962-PLAY (7529), (http://www.playmakersrep.org/):

Sept. 29-Oct. 3, location TBA, 962-9001. Master class in African Dance, participants ($5) and spectators welcome. Sponsored by the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.

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Contacts: Department numbers listed above; L.J. Toler, UNC News Services, 919-962-8589