Things to do in Chapel Hill
We hope you'll take some time to explore Chapel Hill while you're in town! For your convenience, we've included information below on activities and special events.
"Dining" at FRANK
The FRANK Art Co-op gallery will be hosting an exhibit which focuses on and celebrates the dining experience as an art form. The exhibit will focus on tableware, any object that would be in a dining room and featured along with FRANK artists -- all 88 of them. "Our Thursday Salons will be designed to relate to the show, but in ways you might not have expected," said Barbara Rich, Director. Visit the website for more information.
The exhibit committee includes: Susan Filley, Noah Riedel, Peter Filene, Alan Dehmer, and Keith Allen. Frank is at 109 E. Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill.
Carolina Collects at the Ackland Art Museum
Gathered from the private collections of more than 45 alumni of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art brings together nearly 90 hidden treasures by some of the most renowned artists of the modern era.
From Claude Monet to Alexander Calder, from Louise Bourgeois to Yayoi Kusama, Carolina Collects offers an extraordinary overview of art of the past 150 years through paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, many of which have rarely been exhibited.
American artists in Carolina Collects include Marsden Hartley, Thomas Hart Benton, Isamu Noguchi, George Bellows, Louise Nevelson, Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, Alice Neel, Richard Diebenkorn, David Smith, Hans Hofmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Meyer Schapiro, Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Smithson, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Colescott, Martin Puryear, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Sam Durant, and Glenn Ligon, among others.
European artists are also a significant presence in the exhibition, among them Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Gustave Doré, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, André Derain, Henri Rousseau, Emil Nolde, El Lissitsky, Gaston Lachaise, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Giorgio de Chirico, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Olafur Eliasson, and Bridget Riley.
An area, among several, in which Carolina Collects is particularly strong is photography, with photos by Lewis Hine, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Weegee, O. Winston Link, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, Nan Goldin, Tina Barney, John Coplans, William Wegman, Gabriel Orozco, and others featured.
The Ackland Art Museum is located on the UNC Chapel Hill campus at 101 South Columbia Street, just south of Franklin Street.
Sculpture in the Garden and North Carolina Botanical Garden
Every fall the display gardens at the North Carolina Botanical Garden sprout a crop of unique creations by North Carolina artists. A group of one-of-a kind sculptures placed amid the native wildflowers and shrubs delight garden visitors for well more than a month.
The 23rd Annual Sculpture in the Garden is October 1 - November 19. This year's exhibition is an invitational show of outdoor three-dimensional art interpreting the theme "Sculpture in the Garden." Some artists will continue to display their sculpture until January 16, 2012. An Advisory Committee was formed early this year to plan the exhibition and suggested a list of local and regional artists to invite for the annual show. The committee includes artists Thomas Sayer and Mark Hewitt, Ackland Art Museum Director Emily Kass, and the 2011 Honorary Sculpture in the Garden Chairpersons, Lex and Ann Alexander.
The N.C. Botanical Garden, part of UNC, is located off the US 15-501 Bypass at Old Mason Farm Road. Admission to the Botanical Garden, as well as to the sculpture exhibition, is free. For more information, call (919) 962-0522.
Mary Chapin Carpenter Performance
Note: this event takes place before the dates of the conference.
Five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has accomplished a rare feat, repeatedly enjoying success and accolades with records that are unrelentingly smart, revealing and emotionally complex. As her songs become timeless classics, selling more than 13 million albums, she continues to reach a devoted audience as she navigates with humor, compassion and insight the personal, political and spiritual struggles of her life and of Ameria's history, blending personal tales of discovery and experience with more distant and imagined stories of one's purpose and relationship to the universe.
See Mary Chapin Carpenter live on the UNC campus Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 7:30 pm at Carolina Performing Arts, 114 E Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, (919) 843-3333.
Yoga in the Garden
Note: this event takes place after the conference dates.
Enjoy the benefits of a mindful yoga practice—emphasizing relaxation and restoration—in the beautiful Growing Classroom of the new Education Center. Huge windows look out onto the Garden's Nature Trails and let in ample light. Perfect for Gardeners and nongardeners alike. Bring a yoga mat if you have one; a limited number of mats will be available. Register ahead OR just drop-in. Fee: $10 per Sunday ($5 NCBG members).
Yoga in the Garden will take place Sunday, October 23rd, 2011, 3:30-4:45 pm at the North Carolina Botanical Garden Education Center, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, (919) 962-0522.
Live Music at Cat's Cradle
Come see Wild Flag and Eleanor Friedberger on Friday, October 21 at 9:30 pm at Cat's Cradle, 300 E Main Street, Carrboro, NC, (919) 967-9053 (Carrboro is next door to Chapel Hill, you can’t tell when you leave one and enter the other; you’ll need a car or taxi). Tickets $15 in advance, $17 the day of the show.
One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace,
One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace is an award-winning play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and their boundaries are thrown into chaos when a wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together for 28 days, the only thing these strangers fear more than the plague is each other. While the human heart craves comfort, contact and tenderness, definitions of morality are up for grabs, history is challenged and survival takes many forms in this dark, fiercely intense humorous play. As the winner of the 1996 Obie for Best New Play and the 1996 Susan Blackburn Prize, this show is not to be missed.
Curtain goes up on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 8:00 at ArtsCenter, 300 E Main Street, Carrboro, NC, (919) 929-2787. Advanced Ticket Price: $14, Day Of Ticket Price: $16, Student/Senior Advanced Ticket Price: $10, Student/Senior Day-Of Ticket Price: $12.
A Children's Program by the Chapel Hill Philharmonia
Note: this event takes place after the conference dates.
The Chapel Hill Philharmonia will present a concert of children's music on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 3:00 pm at the Kenan Music Building Rehearsal Hall on the UNC campus. The program includes Prelude to Hänsel and Gretel by Humperdinck, Romanian Folk Dances by Bartók, El Salón México by Copland (featuring an illustrated video by Tamarind King), and Radetzky March by Strauss.
Voices from the Grave Tour
The Voices from the Grave Tour at the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery is October 21-22. The event will bring together the writing talents of biographer Valerie Yow, and the acting talents of Chapel Hill’s Deep Dish Theater, who will breathe life back into some of Chapel Hill’s most notable figures including Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Horace Williams, Paul Green, and others. Dark shadows and lantern light create the perfect mood for visitors to hear the words and the stories of those whose final resting place is below their feet. The Voices from the Grave tours start at 7 pm, running every 15 minutes on October 21 and 22 until 10 pm. This tour lasts 45 minutes and is not recommended for children under 12. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 the weekend of the tour. They can be purchased by calling the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill at (919) 942-7818. The Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on the UNC Campus is at the intersection of South Road and Country Club Road.
