A new online resource is available to help connect women and adolescents to life-saving cervical cancer-related services.
The NC Cervical Cancer Resource Directory includes county-specific information on where uninsured or underinsured women can go to find screening or Pap test services. The site also has information on HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination, answers to frequently-asked questions and additional resources.
The directory—available in both English and Spanish—was developed by Cervical Cancer-Free NC, an initiative based at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program is working to eliminate or substantially reduce cervical cancer in North Carolina.
Each year, more than 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, and more than 4,000 die from the disease in the United States. In 2011, almost 400 women in North Carolina received cervical cancer diagnoses, and more than 100 died. Health-care experts say a majority of these deaths could be avoided through regular cervical cancer screenings, commonly known as Pap tests, and timely HPV vaccination.
Noel Brewer, Ph.D., director of Cervical Cancer-Free NC and associate professor of health behavior at UNC's public health school, said he knows how important the directory and other resources could be to women throughout the state. His own mother was recently diagnosed with incurable cervical cancer.
"Screening would have caught her cancer early and saved her life, but she could not afford it," said Brewer, also a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Resources like the new directory will help other women find affordable screening and avoid what my mom is going through now. We can end cervical cancer. We have to."
African-American and Latina women, who are less likely than others to be screened, are twice as likely as white women to die from cervical cancer. Research has shown that one reason for the disparity is that, in North Carolina, African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to be uninsured or underinsured.
Connecting women to cervical cancer resources in North Carolina is an important step in reducing unnecessary deaths, according to the Cervical Cancer-Free NC initiative and its collaborators.
"Latinas are a growing component of the healthcare community and they need culturally appropriate information that is available to them in their own language," said Florence Simán, director of health programs at El Pueblo Inc., a Latino advocacy organization based in Raleigh. "This directory is a great resource for us to use to help connect women who may otherwise not know where to go."
Schatzi H. McCarthy, associate director of Cervical Cancer-Free NC, said the new resource will go a long way to help clarify access to cervical cancer prevention services in North Carolina. "Navigating through our healthcare system can be extremely challenging, especially for those who are uninsured or under-insured. It is not acceptable that women should die for lack of access to services when, in fact, they are available. We want to help match low-income women with needed services. For this reason, we are very proud of the resource directory and believe it will be an invaluable tool for women and adolescents throughout our state."
For more information, visit the directory at www.ccresourcedirectory.org or email info@ccfnc.org.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Distinguished panel to discuss changes to college sports Feb. 28
Three prominent critics of collegiate sports will discuss the topic "Big-Time College Sports: What Needs to Change?" during a panel presentation Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theater.
The panel will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Taylor Branch, UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday and Charles T. Clotfelter, author and professor at Duke University. Author Will Blythe will moderate.
The Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library will display archival materials from the papers of Branch and Friday and from the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The collection is sponsoring the program, along with Friends of the Library and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. For program information, contact Liza Terll at liza_terll@unc.edu or (919) 548-1203.
Branch's article "The Shame of College Sports" appeared last year in The Atlantic magazine. An expanded e-book version, "The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA," is available at Byliner.com. Branch's previous books include "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling with History and the President" and studies of the American Civil Rights movement. Branch, a 1968 alumnus, is a Morehead-Cain Alumni Visiting Distinguished Professor at UNC during the spring 2012 semester.
Friday served as president of the UNC system from 1957 to 1986 and later as president of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. He was a founding co-chair of the Knight Foundation Commission, which was established in 1989 with the purpose of drafting a reform agenda for the administration of intercollegiate sports. He earned a UNC law degree in 1948.
Clotfelter is the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics and law at Duke University. His most recent book is "Big-Time Sports in American Universities" (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Blythe is a former editor of Esquire magazine. His books include "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever" (HarperCollins, 2006), a chronicle of the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry. A 1979 UNC alumnus, he has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated and the New York Times Book Review.
At the event, Bull's Head Bookshop will be selling books by Branch and Clotfelter.
The panel will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Taylor Branch, UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday and Charles T. Clotfelter, author and professor at Duke University. Author Will Blythe will moderate.
The Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library will display archival materials from the papers of Branch and Friday and from the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The collection is sponsoring the program, along with Friends of the Library and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. For program information, contact Liza Terll at liza_terll@unc.edu or (919) 548-1203.
Branch's article "The Shame of College Sports" appeared last year in The Atlantic magazine. An expanded e-book version, "The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA," is available at Byliner.com. Branch's previous books include "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling with History and the President" and studies of the American Civil Rights movement. Branch, a 1968 alumnus, is a Morehead-Cain Alumni Visiting Distinguished Professor at UNC during the spring 2012 semester.
Friday served as president of the UNC system from 1957 to 1986 and later as president of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. He was a founding co-chair of the Knight Foundation Commission, which was established in 1989 with the purpose of drafting a reform agenda for the administration of intercollegiate sports. He earned a UNC law degree in 1948.
Clotfelter is the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics and law at Duke University. His most recent book is "Big-Time Sports in American Universities" (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Blythe is a former editor of Esquire magazine. His books include "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever" (HarperCollins, 2006), a chronicle of the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry. A 1979 UNC alumnus, he has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated and the New York Times Book Review.
At the event, Bull's Head Bookshop will be selling books by Branch and Clotfelter.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Local, global food issues on menu for UNC-Duke symposium
Local and global food issues will be on the menu at "Shared Tables: A Triangle Symposium on Local and Global Food Studies." Food security and the future of farming are daily concerns in many North Carolina communities, and the symposium will capitalize on the local food movements gaining ground on all the Triangle campuses.
The symposium takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at Duke University. Keynote addresses will be presented by award-winning food journalist and farmer Tom Philpott of Mother Jones magazine and by Will Allen, founder and executive director of Growing Power in Milwaukee.
Events are free and open to the public, but space is limited, so participants are asked to register in advance. Registration has closed for the Feb. 28 keynote event and Feb. 29 lunch.
On Feb. 28 at Hyde Hall at UNC, symposium topics include:
* Food, technology and politics internationally and in Europe;
* Food security, sustainable food systems and global change;
* Does it matter where my food comes from? and
* Food or fuel? South America, Africa and the United States.
On Feb. 29 in the Von Cannon Room and Reynolds Industries Theater at the Bryan University Center at Duke, symposium topics include:
* Voices of the Triangle food movement in our universities;
* Farm Bill 2012;
* Farming in North Carolina;
* Food and humanities, culture and faith; and
* Food access in our communities.
Each day of the symposium concludes with a keynote address. At 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in the UNC FedEx Global Education Center, Philpott will discuss factors that affect the world's ability to feed its population sustainably in the years to come. Philpott is the cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis. Philpott has also served as columnist and editor for the online environmental site Grist and has covered food politics for Newsweek, Gastronomica and The Guardian. Food & Wine named Philpott one of 10 innovators who "will continue to shape the culinary consciousness of our country for the next 30 years."
At 7 p.m. Feb. 29 at the Reynolds Industries Theater in the Bryan University Center at Duke
University, Allen will discuss the challenge of providing food security for urban and disadvantaged communities. Growing Power is an organization dedicated to cultivating, producing and delivering healthy foods to underserved, urban populations in Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and beyond. Named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow in 2008, Allen has worked with First Lady Michelle Obama on her "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity. He also has worked abroad to strengthen food security for schoolchildren in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Managing sponsors include UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies; Triangle University Food Studies; and UNC Kenan-Flagler Center for Sustainable Enterprise.
Additional partners and sponsors include UNC Institute for the Environment; Center for International Business Education and Research; UNC Center for European Studies; UNC African Studies Center; UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities; UNC Honors Program; UNC Comparative Literature Program; UNC Global; Duke University Franklin Humanities Institute; Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment at Duke Fuqua School of Business; and Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.
For more information and a full schedule, visit http://sharedtablessymp.wordpress.com. Lunch will be provided for registered participants both days.
The symposium takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at Duke University. Keynote addresses will be presented by award-winning food journalist and farmer Tom Philpott of Mother Jones magazine and by Will Allen, founder and executive director of Growing Power in Milwaukee.
Events are free and open to the public, but space is limited, so participants are asked to register in advance. Registration has closed for the Feb. 28 keynote event and Feb. 29 lunch.
On Feb. 28 at Hyde Hall at UNC, symposium topics include:
* Food, technology and politics internationally and in Europe;
* Food security, sustainable food systems and global change;
* Does it matter where my food comes from? and
* Food or fuel? South America, Africa and the United States.
On Feb. 29 in the Von Cannon Room and Reynolds Industries Theater at the Bryan University Center at Duke, symposium topics include:
* Voices of the Triangle food movement in our universities;
* Farm Bill 2012;
* Farming in North Carolina;
* Food and humanities, culture and faith; and
* Food access in our communities.
Each day of the symposium concludes with a keynote address. At 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in the UNC FedEx Global Education Center, Philpott will discuss factors that affect the world's ability to feed its population sustainably in the years to come. Philpott is the cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis. Philpott has also served as columnist and editor for the online environmental site Grist and has covered food politics for Newsweek, Gastronomica and The Guardian. Food & Wine named Philpott one of 10 innovators who "will continue to shape the culinary consciousness of our country for the next 30 years."
At 7 p.m. Feb. 29 at the Reynolds Industries Theater in the Bryan University Center at Duke
University, Allen will discuss the challenge of providing food security for urban and disadvantaged communities. Growing Power is an organization dedicated to cultivating, producing and delivering healthy foods to underserved, urban populations in Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and beyond. Named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow in 2008, Allen has worked with First Lady Michelle Obama on her "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity. He also has worked abroad to strengthen food security for schoolchildren in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Managing sponsors include UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies; Triangle University Food Studies; and UNC Kenan-Flagler Center for Sustainable Enterprise.
Additional partners and sponsors include UNC Institute for the Environment; Center for International Business Education and Research; UNC Center for European Studies; UNC African Studies Center; UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities; UNC Honors Program; UNC Comparative Literature Program; UNC Global; Duke University Franklin Humanities Institute; Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment at Duke Fuqua School of Business; and Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.
For more information and a full schedule, visit http://sharedtablessymp.wordpress.com. Lunch will be provided for registered participants both days.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Christian McBride, Inside Straight will headline jazz festival
Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian McBride and the Inside Straight band will headline this year's Carolina Jazz Festival Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 23 through 25, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Saxophonist Steve Wilson, a member of Inside Straight, will be the artist in residence for the 35th annual festival. This year's festival, themed "Jazz: In Sound and Image," also features a roving photography exhibit.
Workshops, concerts and late-night jams during the festival will showcase the guest artists, UNC Jazz Band, UNC Jazz Combos and Charanga Carolina. The Essentially Ellington Regional High School Jazz Festival—presented in conjunction with Jazz at Lincoln Center—returns for its seventh year. High school and middle school bands from North Carolina and Virginia will come to UNC's Frank Porter Graham Student Union on Thursday, Feb. 23, for a day of performances and clinics.
For a schedule and more information, visit http://music.unc.edu/jazzfest or call (919) 962-1039. For tickets, contact the Memorial Hall Box Office at 140 E. Cameron Ave., open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, email performingarts@unc.edu, call (919) 843-3333 or visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org.
"Bassist Christian McBride is one of our nation's great cultural and artistic ambassadors," said Jim Ketch, festival director and music professor and director of jazz studies in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. "He is a tireless advocate for jazz, jazz education, and the arts in our schools. His music is rooted in the jazz tradition, yet it's fresh and new. Steve Wilson is highly respected for his saxophone artistry, musicianship and wide-ranging experience in all facets of the music. His passion for jazz education and young people makes him one of the most outstanding artists we have ever invited to the Carolina Jazz Festival."
Major performances include:
• Friday, Feb. 24: Fred and Gail Fearing Jazz for a Friday Afternoon, 4 p.m., Kenan Music Building rehearsal hall, featuring the UNC Jazz Combos. Free.
• Friday, Feb. 24: Christian McBride and Inside Straight, 8 p.m., Memorial Hall. Part of the Carolina Performing Arts season. Tickets (919) 843-3333: $15 to $39; $10 for students. Come early for a free lecture and demonstration on jazz improvisation featuring members of the UNC jazz faculty, 7 p.m., Historic Playmakers Theater.
• Saturday, Feb. 25: UNC Jazz Band, 8 p.m., Kenan Music Building Room 1201, with guest artist Steve Wilson. Free.
A roving art exhibit by Durham photographer Steven Bromberg, "Portraits of Carolina Jazz," will feature photographs of Carolina jazz faculty, students and guest artists. Jazz will be performed at exhibit openings.
• Through Friday, March 2: Frank Porter Graham Student Union gallery. Second Friday Art Walk reception at 6 p.m.
• Through Monday, March 26: Ackland Art Museum study gallery. Preview reception at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, will feature music from UNC jazz faculty and students.
• Additional photos will be on display in the lobbies of festival performance venues, including Kenan Music Building and Memorial Hall.
McBride has performed and recorded with jazz artists McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Diana Krall, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis and Joshua Redman, as well as with hip-hop, soul, pop and classical artists such as Sting and soprano Kathleen Battle. He is former creative chair for jazz at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Wilson has played on more than 100 recordings with artists such as Chick Corea, George Duke, Michael Brecker, Dave Holland, Dianne Reeves, Joe Henderson and Charlie Byrd, and has produced seven recordings under his own name.
Campus festival sponsors are the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, Carolina Performing Arts, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, Carolina Union Activities Board, Center for the Study of the American South, department of music, UNC jazz studies and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonians, a music fraternity.
National sponsors of the jazz festival are Essentially Ellington, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Double Time Records, The Music Resource and Jamey Aebersold Jazz. Community sponsors are WNCU-FM, Jazz Foundation of North Carolina Inc., Art of the Cool Project and West End Wine Bar.
Saxophonist Steve Wilson, a member of Inside Straight, will be the artist in residence for the 35th annual festival. This year's festival, themed "Jazz: In Sound and Image," also features a roving photography exhibit.
Workshops, concerts and late-night jams during the festival will showcase the guest artists, UNC Jazz Band, UNC Jazz Combos and Charanga Carolina. The Essentially Ellington Regional High School Jazz Festival—presented in conjunction with Jazz at Lincoln Center—returns for its seventh year. High school and middle school bands from North Carolina and Virginia will come to UNC's Frank Porter Graham Student Union on Thursday, Feb. 23, for a day of performances and clinics.
For a schedule and more information, visit http://music.unc.edu/jazzfest or call (919) 962-1039. For tickets, contact the Memorial Hall Box Office at 140 E. Cameron Ave., open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, email performingarts@unc.edu, call (919) 843-3333 or visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org.
"Bassist Christian McBride is one of our nation's great cultural and artistic ambassadors," said Jim Ketch, festival director and music professor and director of jazz studies in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. "He is a tireless advocate for jazz, jazz education, and the arts in our schools. His music is rooted in the jazz tradition, yet it's fresh and new. Steve Wilson is highly respected for his saxophone artistry, musicianship and wide-ranging experience in all facets of the music. His passion for jazz education and young people makes him one of the most outstanding artists we have ever invited to the Carolina Jazz Festival."
Major performances include:
• Friday, Feb. 24: Fred and Gail Fearing Jazz for a Friday Afternoon, 4 p.m., Kenan Music Building rehearsal hall, featuring the UNC Jazz Combos. Free.
• Friday, Feb. 24: Christian McBride and Inside Straight, 8 p.m., Memorial Hall. Part of the Carolina Performing Arts season. Tickets (919) 843-3333: $15 to $39; $10 for students. Come early for a free lecture and demonstration on jazz improvisation featuring members of the UNC jazz faculty, 7 p.m., Historic Playmakers Theater.
• Saturday, Feb. 25: UNC Jazz Band, 8 p.m., Kenan Music Building Room 1201, with guest artist Steve Wilson. Free.
A roving art exhibit by Durham photographer Steven Bromberg, "Portraits of Carolina Jazz," will feature photographs of Carolina jazz faculty, students and guest artists. Jazz will be performed at exhibit openings.
• Through Friday, March 2: Frank Porter Graham Student Union gallery. Second Friday Art Walk reception at 6 p.m.
• Through Monday, March 26: Ackland Art Museum study gallery. Preview reception at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, will feature music from UNC jazz faculty and students.
• Additional photos will be on display in the lobbies of festival performance venues, including Kenan Music Building and Memorial Hall.
McBride has performed and recorded with jazz artists McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Diana Krall, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis and Joshua Redman, as well as with hip-hop, soul, pop and classical artists such as Sting and soprano Kathleen Battle. He is former creative chair for jazz at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Wilson has played on more than 100 recordings with artists such as Chick Corea, George Duke, Michael Brecker, Dave Holland, Dianne Reeves, Joe Henderson and Charlie Byrd, and has produced seven recordings under his own name.
Campus festival sponsors are the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, Carolina Performing Arts, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, Carolina Union Activities Board, Center for the Study of the American South, department of music, UNC jazz studies and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonians, a music fraternity.
National sponsors of the jazz festival are Essentially Ellington, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Double Time Records, The Music Resource and Jamey Aebersold Jazz. Community sponsors are WNCU-FM, Jazz Foundation of North Carolina Inc., Art of the Cool Project and West End Wine Bar.
PlayMakers mounts royal Shakespearean epic in rotating repertory
PlayMakers Repertory Company will stage a royal coming-of-age epic, combining William Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2" and "Henry V" as "The Making of a King," to be performed Jan. 28 through March 4.
The professional theater-in-residence in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the "Henry" plays in rotating repertory as well as several special educational events associated with the production.
The plays follow young Prince Hal from his unpromising start in bawdy houses and taverns under the tutelage of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff to his rise as one of England's greatest monarchs, King Henry V. The action takes place in palaces and battlefields, from civil war in Britain to battles in the fields of France.
PlayMakers producing artistic director Joseph Haj will co-direct with Mike Donahue, who helmed this season's PRC2 second-stage hit "A Number" and worked with Haj on PlayMakers' "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." Actor Michael Winters of TV's "Gilmore Girls," last seen at PlayMakers in 2004 as King Lear, will play Falstaff. UNC-TV is co-producing sponsor for the production.
"These plays, with their exploration of war and its costs, remain as current today as when Shakespeare wrote them over 400 years ago," Haj said.
Show times will be 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The special performance options are:
• Feb. 25 and March 3: back-to-back performances, "Henry IV" at 2 p.m. and "Henry V" at 7:30 p.m. with a dinner break between. Boxed dinners from Whole Foods Market will be available for purchase. Pre-ordering dinner with tickets is recommended.
• Feb. 18 ("Henry V"), 2 p.m.: open captioned performances;
• Feb. 19 ("Henry IV"), Feb. 26 and March 1 ("Henry V"): free post-show discussions with the creative team;
• Feb. 21 ("Henry IV") and 28 ("Henry V"): all-access performances for attendees with special needs, with sign language interpretation and audio description; and,
• March 3 and 4: free post-show "Mindplay" discussions sponsored by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society—"Thrice More into the Breach: The Making and Unmaking of Men in Peace and War" with Harold Kudler from the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University.
All performances will be in the Paul Green Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Tickets are still available as part of the theater's 2011-2012 season subscription packages. Individual tickets are $10 to $45. With the purchase of a ticket to either play, a ticket to the other "Henry" may also be purchased at 25 percent off. This offer cannot be combined with other discounts or offers and is not available for Tuesday Community Night performances. A 10 percent discount off single tickets is available for active military personnel. For more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org.
The National Endowment for the Arts recognized PlayMakers with a $100,000 "Access to Artistic Excellence Grant" to support "The Making of a King" and "Breaking History: Power, Politics and the Legacy of War," a series of events that will investigate America's legacy of engagements in military conflict.
• Monday, Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m., Paul Green Theatre: "Peace and War in America." In partnership with UNC's curriculum in peace, war and defense, chair Wayne Lee and Haj will lead a panel conversation inspired by "The Making of a King."
• Thursday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m., The Varsity on Franklin: a screening of Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner "Hell and Back Again," as part of the Ackland Film Forum. From his embedded time with U.S. Marine Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist/filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25- year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. Note: Screening rights are pending. Information will be posted at www.playmakersrep.org if the film is changed.
• To be announced, Fayetteville. PlayMakers will host a conversation in partnership with The Army's Army (a volunteer organization that supports military personnel and their families) and Cape Fear Regional Theatre, presenting scenes from the plays and discussing the impact of America's current military engagements on soldiers and their families.
A $25,000 grant from the NEA and Arts Midwest's "Shakespeare for a New Generation" program funded additional educational outreach, including sending teaching artists into area schools and matinees of the play for middle and high school students.
PlayMakers' main-stage season finale will be the British comedy "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn (April 4 through 22). The PRC2 second-stage closes with the world premiere of "Penelope," written and performed by Ellen McLaughlin, with live music composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (April 25-29).
For more information, visit the website.
The professional theater-in-residence in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the "Henry" plays in rotating repertory as well as several special educational events associated with the production.
The plays follow young Prince Hal from his unpromising start in bawdy houses and taverns under the tutelage of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff to his rise as one of England's greatest monarchs, King Henry V. The action takes place in palaces and battlefields, from civil war in Britain to battles in the fields of France.
PlayMakers producing artistic director Joseph Haj will co-direct with Mike Donahue, who helmed this season's PRC2 second-stage hit "A Number" and worked with Haj on PlayMakers' "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." Actor Michael Winters of TV's "Gilmore Girls," last seen at PlayMakers in 2004 as King Lear, will play Falstaff. UNC-TV is co-producing sponsor for the production.
"These plays, with their exploration of war and its costs, remain as current today as when Shakespeare wrote them over 400 years ago," Haj said.
Show times will be 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The special performance options are:
• Feb. 25 and March 3: back-to-back performances, "Henry IV" at 2 p.m. and "Henry V" at 7:30 p.m. with a dinner break between. Boxed dinners from Whole Foods Market will be available for purchase. Pre-ordering dinner with tickets is recommended.
• Feb. 18 ("Henry V"), 2 p.m.: open captioned performances;
• Feb. 19 ("Henry IV"), Feb. 26 and March 1 ("Henry V"): free post-show discussions with the creative team;
• Feb. 21 ("Henry IV") and 28 ("Henry V"): all-access performances for attendees with special needs, with sign language interpretation and audio description; and,
• March 3 and 4: free post-show "Mindplay" discussions sponsored by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society—"Thrice More into the Breach: The Making and Unmaking of Men in Peace and War" with Harold Kudler from the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University.
All performances will be in the Paul Green Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Tickets are still available as part of the theater's 2011-2012 season subscription packages. Individual tickets are $10 to $45. With the purchase of a ticket to either play, a ticket to the other "Henry" may also be purchased at 25 percent off. This offer cannot be combined with other discounts or offers and is not available for Tuesday Community Night performances. A 10 percent discount off single tickets is available for active military personnel. For more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org.
The National Endowment for the Arts recognized PlayMakers with a $100,000 "Access to Artistic Excellence Grant" to support "The Making of a King" and "Breaking History: Power, Politics and the Legacy of War," a series of events that will investigate America's legacy of engagements in military conflict.
• Monday, Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m., Paul Green Theatre: "Peace and War in America." In partnership with UNC's curriculum in peace, war and defense, chair Wayne Lee and Haj will lead a panel conversation inspired by "The Making of a King."
• Thursday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m., The Varsity on Franklin: a screening of Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner "Hell and Back Again," as part of the Ackland Film Forum. From his embedded time with U.S. Marine Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist/filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25- year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. Note: Screening rights are pending. Information will be posted at www.playmakersrep.org if the film is changed.
• To be announced, Fayetteville. PlayMakers will host a conversation in partnership with The Army's Army (a volunteer organization that supports military personnel and their families) and Cape Fear Regional Theatre, presenting scenes from the plays and discussing the impact of America's current military engagements on soldiers and their families.
A $25,000 grant from the NEA and Arts Midwest's "Shakespeare for a New Generation" program funded additional educational outreach, including sending teaching artists into area schools and matinees of the play for middle and high school students.
PlayMakers' main-stage season finale will be the British comedy "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn (April 4 through 22). The PRC2 second-stage closes with the world premiere of "Penelope," written and performed by Ellen McLaughlin, with live music composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (April 25-29).
For more information, visit the website.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tar Heel Express shuttle to UNC vs. Clemson men's basketball game
Chapel Hill Transit will provide Tar Heel Express shuttle service on Saturday, Feb. 18, for the North Carolina men's basketball game against Clemson, scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 2:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, visit CHT's website or call a customer service representative at (919) 969-4900 (press 1).
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 2:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, visit CHT's website or call a customer service representative at (919) 969-4900 (press 1).
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
ecord-breaking 2,000 UNC students to take a 24-hour stand for N.C. Children’s Hospital
For 13 years, UNC Chapel Hill students have stood for 24 hours to support the patients and families at N.C. Children’s Hospital, but this year’s event promises to be the largest UNC Dance Marathon yet, with more registered dancers than ever before.
Two-thousand students signed up to take a stand for kids who can’t in the 14th annual UNC Dance Marathon on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17 and 18, inside UNC’s Fetzer Gym. The previous record was 1,800 registered dancers for the 2009 marathon.
“I’m so excited that so many UNC students decided to participate in this amazing experience by registering to dance,” said Overall Coordinator Gracie Beard.
The marathon will kick off at 7:30 p.m. at UNC’s Fetzer gym after a few words from former N.C. Children’s Hospital patient and UND-DM kid co-captain, Asheton Ayotte and her parents, Matt and Tiana, of Chapel Hill.
Asheton was born at UNC in January 2002, 15 weeks premature and weighing a mere 1 pound, 5 ounces. Like many micro-preemies, she had myriad medical issues, including a hole in her heart and chronic lung disease. She had the distinction of being one of the first occupants of the then brand-new Newborn Critical Care Center at N.C. Children’s Hospital, where she received excellent care over a total of 107 days. (See Asheton’s complete story at http://bit.ly/meet-asheton.)
Now 10, Asheton shows no outward signs of being born so early. Despite some asthma-related issues and eyeglasses, her recovery is miraculous—a fact her parents attribute to the extraordinary medical attention the family received at N.C. Children’s Hospital. The experience keeps the family involved in giving back to the hospital through, among other things, participation in the UNC Dance Marathon.
“By the time ‘Family Hour,’ came it all went away—the pain, the exhaustion and the frustration,” said Lauren Stange, a senior dancing for her fourth time this year, of patient-family participation at the marathon. “Nothing else mattered but those kids and families whose lives we touched.”
The marathon will feature several Children’s Hospital patients, families and caregivers over the 24-hour course of the event—but that’s not all. Campus and community performance groups will entertain the 2,000 student revelers, and additional activities and on-stage games centered on this year’s “Mission Possible” theme will keep the energy high until the marathon wraps with Family Hour on Saturday evening.
“My committee and I work to ensure that dancers are constantly energized and engaged in the marathon,” said Entertainment Chair Diane Morris. “We work hard to make sure there aren’t too many acts of the same type and that we secure top-quality performers.”
Dancers will be divided into 24 teams, each with a spy-related name to keep with the event’s theme. Each team is headed by a member of the Morale committee and has also been assigned a kid co-captain. Like Asheton Ayotte, these kids have been personally impacted by the hospital or UNC-DM and remind dancers why they are participating in the marathon.
In addition to dancers, hundreds of moralers and volunteers will also participate in the marathon. Moralers work six-hour shifts and keep dancers energized, while volunteers work three-hour shifts and help with the operations and logistics of the event.
However, dancers, moralers and volunteers are not the only ones who work to make the marathon successful. More than 300 students also serve on 13 committees responsible for various aspects of the Marathon and its yearlong fundraising efforts. Committees helped to organize and publicize events including benefit nights at local restaurants, a benefit reception and Trick-or-Treat For Kids Who Can’t. They also canned for donations at UNC football and basketball games throughout the year.
UNC-DM is not just a two-day event but is a year-round effort that started in 1998 and has grown tremendously. During the past 13 years, UNC-DM has raised $2.8 million dollars, and last year it raised $436,709.61.
The public is invited to experience this unique event.
Two-thousand students signed up to take a stand for kids who can’t in the 14th annual UNC Dance Marathon on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17 and 18, inside UNC’s Fetzer Gym. The previous record was 1,800 registered dancers for the 2009 marathon.
“I’m so excited that so many UNC students decided to participate in this amazing experience by registering to dance,” said Overall Coordinator Gracie Beard.
The marathon will kick off at 7:30 p.m. at UNC’s Fetzer gym after a few words from former N.C. Children’s Hospital patient and UND-DM kid co-captain, Asheton Ayotte and her parents, Matt and Tiana, of Chapel Hill.
Asheton was born at UNC in January 2002, 15 weeks premature and weighing a mere 1 pound, 5 ounces. Like many micro-preemies, she had myriad medical issues, including a hole in her heart and chronic lung disease. She had the distinction of being one of the first occupants of the then brand-new Newborn Critical Care Center at N.C. Children’s Hospital, where she received excellent care over a total of 107 days. (See Asheton’s complete story at http://bit.ly/meet-asheton.)
Now 10, Asheton shows no outward signs of being born so early. Despite some asthma-related issues and eyeglasses, her recovery is miraculous—a fact her parents attribute to the extraordinary medical attention the family received at N.C. Children’s Hospital. The experience keeps the family involved in giving back to the hospital through, among other things, participation in the UNC Dance Marathon.
“By the time ‘Family Hour,’ came it all went away—the pain, the exhaustion and the frustration,” said Lauren Stange, a senior dancing for her fourth time this year, of patient-family participation at the marathon. “Nothing else mattered but those kids and families whose lives we touched.”
The marathon will feature several Children’s Hospital patients, families and caregivers over the 24-hour course of the event—but that’s not all. Campus and community performance groups will entertain the 2,000 student revelers, and additional activities and on-stage games centered on this year’s “Mission Possible” theme will keep the energy high until the marathon wraps with Family Hour on Saturday evening.
“My committee and I work to ensure that dancers are constantly energized and engaged in the marathon,” said Entertainment Chair Diane Morris. “We work hard to make sure there aren’t too many acts of the same type and that we secure top-quality performers.”
Dancers will be divided into 24 teams, each with a spy-related name to keep with the event’s theme. Each team is headed by a member of the Morale committee and has also been assigned a kid co-captain. Like Asheton Ayotte, these kids have been personally impacted by the hospital or UNC-DM and remind dancers why they are participating in the marathon.
In addition to dancers, hundreds of moralers and volunteers will also participate in the marathon. Moralers work six-hour shifts and keep dancers energized, while volunteers work three-hour shifts and help with the operations and logistics of the event.
However, dancers, moralers and volunteers are not the only ones who work to make the marathon successful. More than 300 students also serve on 13 committees responsible for various aspects of the Marathon and its yearlong fundraising efforts. Committees helped to organize and publicize events including benefit nights at local restaurants, a benefit reception and Trick-or-Treat For Kids Who Can’t. They also canned for donations at UNC football and basketball games throughout the year.
UNC-DM is not just a two-day event but is a year-round effort that started in 1998 and has grown tremendously. During the past 13 years, UNC-DM has raised $2.8 million dollars, and last year it raised $436,709.61.
The public is invited to experience this unique event.
Life After stroke: living with spasticity
Study underway in Chapel Hill to determine if investigational medication is safe and effective for adults experiencing spasticity after stroke
This year alone, approximately 795,000 people will experience a stroke. Of those, 20 percent will experience spasticity, a debilitating condition that affects an individual’s ability to perform the tasks of daily living—including the ability to dress, eat, write, balance or even walk. The impact of spasticity after stroke is not only difficult on stroke survivors but also has a profound effect on their loved ones who assist with their care. In an effort to improve the quality of life for sufferers of spasticity as a result of stroke, there is a worldwide medical research study underway to examine the safety and effectiveness of the investigational medication, Dysport, for the treatment of spasticity that is being conducted in Chapel Hill.
"The impact of stroke can be felt long after the stroke itself," said Heather Walker, M.D., a Dysport study investigator at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Appropriate lifestyle changes and effective treatment is vital to ensure that a survivor has the ability to lead a healthy and productive life."
Spasticity is the tightening and stiffening of muscles that make movement of the arms or legs difficult and painful. It is the result of damage to the central nervous system—often experienced during stroke—which controls voluntary movement. The frustration of not being able to live like one once did can have a profound effect on a stroke survivor. Managing spasticity can be very difficult for sufferers; treatment often includes multiple physical and occupational therapists, oral medications, intrathecal medications and surgery.
The effects of spasticity after stroke are not limited to those with the condition. Providing care for a family member or friend experiencing spasticity after stroke can be challenging and stressful. Loved ones become caregivers responsible for assisting with the most basic of tasks. This new role, combined with watching a loved one experience daily struggles, can be overwhelming.
Chapel Hill area adults between 18 and 80 years of age who are experiencing spasticity after stroke may qualify for participation. Qualified participants must be six months post stroke and experiencing spasticity in their upper or lower limbs.
For more information on this medical research study, visit SpasticityStudy.com or contact Charron Andrews at (919) 966-9796.
This year alone, approximately 795,000 people will experience a stroke. Of those, 20 percent will experience spasticity, a debilitating condition that affects an individual’s ability to perform the tasks of daily living—including the ability to dress, eat, write, balance or even walk. The impact of spasticity after stroke is not only difficult on stroke survivors but also has a profound effect on their loved ones who assist with their care. In an effort to improve the quality of life for sufferers of spasticity as a result of stroke, there is a worldwide medical research study underway to examine the safety and effectiveness of the investigational medication, Dysport, for the treatment of spasticity that is being conducted in Chapel Hill.
"The impact of stroke can be felt long after the stroke itself," said Heather Walker, M.D., a Dysport study investigator at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Appropriate lifestyle changes and effective treatment is vital to ensure that a survivor has the ability to lead a healthy and productive life."
Spasticity is the tightening and stiffening of muscles that make movement of the arms or legs difficult and painful. It is the result of damage to the central nervous system—often experienced during stroke—which controls voluntary movement. The frustration of not being able to live like one once did can have a profound effect on a stroke survivor. Managing spasticity can be very difficult for sufferers; treatment often includes multiple physical and occupational therapists, oral medications, intrathecal medications and surgery.
The effects of spasticity after stroke are not limited to those with the condition. Providing care for a family member or friend experiencing spasticity after stroke can be challenging and stressful. Loved ones become caregivers responsible for assisting with the most basic of tasks. This new role, combined with watching a loved one experience daily struggles, can be overwhelming.
Chapel Hill area adults between 18 and 80 years of age who are experiencing spasticity after stroke may qualify for participation. Qualified participants must be six months post stroke and experiencing spasticity in their upper or lower limbs.
For more information on this medical research study, visit SpasticityStudy.com or contact Charron Andrews at (919) 966-9796.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Bennett Place holds lecture on African Americans' newly won freedom experiences
Words of the formerly enslaved will be shared in a lecture at Bennett Place State Historic Site on Thursday, Feb. 16, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The presentation, "The First Year of Freedom in North Carolina: Pursuing Freedom with the Hoe and the Sword, the Book and the Lord," by Dr. Reginald Hildebrand of UNC-Chapel Hill, will offer first-hand accounts based on his research.
Among experiences documented are reports of black soldiers entering Wilmington who participated in the Union capture of Fort Fisher in February 1865, the first July 4th celebration by the newly independent former slaves and recollections of a watch night service to mark both the New Year and the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The program, hosted by the Durham Civil War Roundtable and the Bennett Place Support Fund, is free to members and has a $5 fee for visitors. The lecture is part of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.
This and other special events at Bennett Place are funded and sponsored by the Bennett Place Support Fund, Inc., a nonprofit which provides additional funding to this historic site. For information, visit Bennett Place.
Among experiences documented are reports of black soldiers entering Wilmington who participated in the Union capture of Fort Fisher in February 1865, the first July 4th celebration by the newly independent former slaves and recollections of a watch night service to mark both the New Year and the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The program, hosted by the Durham Civil War Roundtable and the Bennett Place Support Fund, is free to members and has a $5 fee for visitors. The lecture is part of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.
This and other special events at Bennett Place are funded and sponsored by the Bennett Place Support Fund, Inc., a nonprofit which provides additional funding to this historic site. For information, visit Bennett Place.
Burwell School hosts Sally Greene
The Hillsborough Literary Association will hold its February meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. at the Burwell School Historic Site, 319 N. Churton St.
Sally Greene, J.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, will give a lecture titled, “Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History.”
Hillsborough's own Thomas Ruffin—who served as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1833 to 1852—is considered by many to have been the most brilliant, most distinguished jurist in the state's history. Among legal historians, Ruffin is much less kindly regarded for having written the coldest and starkest defense of the brutality of slavery ever to appear in an American judicial opinion: State v. Mann (1829).
In tracing the ways in which these two conflicting depictions of the man have come down to us, Sally Greene will explore contemporary questions of the nature and uses of historical memory.
Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served. Reservations are not required, but seating is limited. For more information, contact the Burwell School Historic Site at (919) 732.7451 or director@burwellschool.org.
Sally Greene, J.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, will give a lecture titled, “Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History.”
Hillsborough's own Thomas Ruffin—who served as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1833 to 1852—is considered by many to have been the most brilliant, most distinguished jurist in the state's history. Among legal historians, Ruffin is much less kindly regarded for having written the coldest and starkest defense of the brutality of slavery ever to appear in an American judicial opinion: State v. Mann (1829).
In tracing the ways in which these two conflicting depictions of the man have come down to us, Sally Greene will explore contemporary questions of the nature and uses of historical memory.
Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served. Reservations are not required, but seating is limited. For more information, contact the Burwell School Historic Site at (919) 732.7451 or director@burwellschool.org.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tar Heel Express shuttle to UNC vs. Virginia men's basketball game
Chapel Hill Transit will provide Tar Heel Express shuttle service Saturday, Feb. 11, for the North Carolina men's basketball game against Virginia, scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 11:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, please visit CHT's website at www.chtransit.org or call a customer service representative at 919-969-4900 (press 1).
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 11:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, please visit CHT's website at www.chtransit.org or call a customer service representative at 919-969-4900 (press 1).
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Campus Y announces inaugural resident teams of the Social Innovation Incubator
Budding social entrepreneurs now have space in the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus to build, accelerate and scale up their initiatives. The Social Innovation Incubator opened its doors Monday, Jan. 23, on the third floor of the historic YMCA building, home of the Campus Y. The incubator will provide physical space, seed capital and equipment to its first class of resident teams as well as legal, tax, communications and other expert advice.
The following four teams were selected for residency in the incubator for the spring semester and were announced over the weekend at the TEDxUNC conference. They are:
• KM Water Solutions.The mission of KM Water Solutions is to develop, evaluate and commercialize the Compartment Bag Test, which tests for fecal bacteria in water, foods and on hands using a color-changing agent that can be easily read and scored by eye. This social innovation has the potential to improve the lives and health of the more than 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water.
• SEA. SEA Brand, LLC, is an apparel company that fundraises for the social sector. By associating colors with causes, SEA enables consumers to tastefully identify with and support the cause of their choice. SEA donates at least 25 percent of all profits to charity. This social innovation makes supporting a cause fashionable.
• HOPE Gardens. HOPE Gardens is a community space in Chapel Hill that uses sustainable agriculture to address the persistent challenge of poverty. Through the gardens, local low-income residents can develop important skills and network with other members of the larger community. This social innovation is focused on addressing the issues of access to healthy foods and unemployment in the Chapel Hill community.
• Musical Empowerment. Carolina Music Outreach pairs children from underprivileged backgrounds with UNC students who volunteer to teach free music lessons. The Musical Empowerment initiative seeks to support this program through a musical instrument lending program. This social innovation will bring the varied benefits of a musical education to low-income children who would otherwise find the cost of such an education to be prohibitive.
The Social Innovation Incubator supports the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, UNC's plan to help Carolina become a world leader in launching University-born ideas for the good of society. The incubator is made possible through strategic campus partnerships with the minor in entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Initiatives, the Community Development Law Clinic at UNC School of Law and the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at Kenan-Flagler Business School. To learn more about the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, visit the website.
Since 1860, the Campus Y has been a center for social justice at UNC. At the Campus Y, students have engaged in highly entrepreneurial and increasingly sophisticated approaches to social justice in the areas of public health, human rights, education, youth development, poverty alleviation and environmental advocacy. For more information about the Campus Y and the incubator, visit the website.
The following four teams were selected for residency in the incubator for the spring semester and were announced over the weekend at the TEDxUNC conference. They are:
• KM Water Solutions.The mission of KM Water Solutions is to develop, evaluate and commercialize the Compartment Bag Test, which tests for fecal bacteria in water, foods and on hands using a color-changing agent that can be easily read and scored by eye. This social innovation has the potential to improve the lives and health of the more than 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water.
• SEA. SEA Brand, LLC, is an apparel company that fundraises for the social sector. By associating colors with causes, SEA enables consumers to tastefully identify with and support the cause of their choice. SEA donates at least 25 percent of all profits to charity. This social innovation makes supporting a cause fashionable.
• HOPE Gardens. HOPE Gardens is a community space in Chapel Hill that uses sustainable agriculture to address the persistent challenge of poverty. Through the gardens, local low-income residents can develop important skills and network with other members of the larger community. This social innovation is focused on addressing the issues of access to healthy foods and unemployment in the Chapel Hill community.
• Musical Empowerment. Carolina Music Outreach pairs children from underprivileged backgrounds with UNC students who volunteer to teach free music lessons. The Musical Empowerment initiative seeks to support this program through a musical instrument lending program. This social innovation will bring the varied benefits of a musical education to low-income children who would otherwise find the cost of such an education to be prohibitive.
The Social Innovation Incubator supports the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, UNC's plan to help Carolina become a world leader in launching University-born ideas for the good of society. The incubator is made possible through strategic campus partnerships with the minor in entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Initiatives, the Community Development Law Clinic at UNC School of Law and the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at Kenan-Flagler Business School. To learn more about the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, visit the website.
Since 1860, the Campus Y has been a center for social justice at UNC. At the Campus Y, students have engaged in highly entrepreneurial and increasingly sophisticated approaches to social justice in the areas of public health, human rights, education, youth development, poverty alleviation and environmental advocacy. For more information about the Campus Y and the incubator, visit the website.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Red Clay Ramblers to be honored at PlayMakers Ball
Tony Award-winning, North Carolina music legends The Red Clay Ramblers will receive the PlayMakers Distinguished Achievement Award on Feb. 11 at the 24th annual PlayMakers Ball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The ball, held at the historic Carolina Inn, is the annual fundraising celebration for PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. Proceeds from the event support PlayMakers' artistic and educational programming.
The ball, with the theme "Diamond and Denim Hoedown," will feature an award ceremony followed by dining and dancing to the music of the Bill Bolen Orchestra.
Now in their 40th year, The Red Clay Ramblers are a string band whose repertoire reflects their roots in old-time mountain music as well as country, rock, New Orleans, bluegrass, gospel and the American musical. The band members are Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Rob Ladd and 1970 UNC alumni Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick. Simpson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC.
The group has toured extensively in North America and Europe, as well as Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. The Ramblers have been guests on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," appeared with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" and with Harry Smith on "CBS This Morning." They appeared as the onstage band during PlayMakers' April 2010 production of "Big River." Herrick also created music for two productions helmed by PlayMakers producing artistic director Joe Haj: PlayMakers' 2008 season-opener "Pericles" and "Hamlet" (2010) at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.
The Ramblers' long association with music and theater includes the original New York productions of "Diamond Studs" (1975) and Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind" (1985). In 1988, they scored Shepard's film "Far North," and they performed and appeared in his second feature, "Silent Tongue" (1994). In 1993, Broadway hit "Fool Moon" earned The Ramblers their second Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play. They returned to Broadway twice more (1995, 1998) and received a special Tony Award in 1999. The Ramblers also created the shows "Kudzu: A Southern Musical" and "Lone Star Love: the Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas," as well as ballets "Ramblin' Suite" (Atlanta Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet) and "Carolina Jamboree" (Carolina Ballet).
Old North State," their newest CD, was released in October 2009.
Past PlayMakers award honorees include actors David Hyde Pierce, Eva Marie Saint, Faye Dunaway, Louise Fletcher and Billy Crudup, as well as New York Times critic Frank Rich, costume designer William Ivey Long, director Gene Saks and Broadway composer/lyricist Richard Adler.
Ball guests will enjoy a gourmet menu created by Carolina Inn Executive Chef Jim Reale in rooms decorated by McKay Coble, a resident scenic and costume designer with PlayMakers.
For tickets to the ball, contact Lenore Field at (919) 452-8417 or lfield@email.unc.edu. Organizations interested in contributing to the ball should contact Stacy Payne at (919) 962-4846 or shpayne@email.unc.edu. Tables are available for $5,000; each table seats 10 people. Single tickets are $500.
The ball, held at the historic Carolina Inn, is the annual fundraising celebration for PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. Proceeds from the event support PlayMakers' artistic and educational programming.
The ball, with the theme "Diamond and Denim Hoedown," will feature an award ceremony followed by dining and dancing to the music of the Bill Bolen Orchestra.
Now in their 40th year, The Red Clay Ramblers are a string band whose repertoire reflects their roots in old-time mountain music as well as country, rock, New Orleans, bluegrass, gospel and the American musical. The band members are Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Rob Ladd and 1970 UNC alumni Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick. Simpson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC.
The group has toured extensively in North America and Europe, as well as Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. The Ramblers have been guests on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," appeared with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" and with Harry Smith on "CBS This Morning." They appeared as the onstage band during PlayMakers' April 2010 production of "Big River." Herrick also created music for two productions helmed by PlayMakers producing artistic director Joe Haj: PlayMakers' 2008 season-opener "Pericles" and "Hamlet" (2010) at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.
The Ramblers' long association with music and theater includes the original New York productions of "Diamond Studs" (1975) and Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind" (1985). In 1988, they scored Shepard's film "Far North," and they performed and appeared in his second feature, "Silent Tongue" (1994). In 1993, Broadway hit "Fool Moon" earned The Ramblers their second Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play. They returned to Broadway twice more (1995, 1998) and received a special Tony Award in 1999. The Ramblers also created the shows "Kudzu: A Southern Musical" and "Lone Star Love: the Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas," as well as ballets "Ramblin' Suite" (Atlanta Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet) and "Carolina Jamboree" (Carolina Ballet).
Old North State," their newest CD, was released in October 2009.
Past PlayMakers award honorees include actors David Hyde Pierce, Eva Marie Saint, Faye Dunaway, Louise Fletcher and Billy Crudup, as well as New York Times critic Frank Rich, costume designer William Ivey Long, director Gene Saks and Broadway composer/lyricist Richard Adler.
Ball guests will enjoy a gourmet menu created by Carolina Inn Executive Chef Jim Reale in rooms decorated by McKay Coble, a resident scenic and costume designer with PlayMakers.
For tickets to the ball, contact Lenore Field at (919) 452-8417 or lfield@email.unc.edu. Organizations interested in contributing to the ball should contact Stacy Payne at (919) 962-4846 or shpayne@email.unc.edu. Tables are available for $5,000; each table seats 10 people. Single tickets are $500.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
‘Visual mythologist’ Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier brings exhibition to Stone Center gallery
From Feb. 9 to April 30, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will feature the work of artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier in an exhibition titled “Dry Run: Defining Determination, Testing Reconstruction.”
On display in the center’s Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum, Marshall-Linnemeier’s latest work uses the Penn Center papers and photographs held in the Southern Historical Collection of UNC’s Wilson Library.
As with previous work, “Dry Run” is inspired by her travels to Mound Bayou, Miss., the largest predominantly African American town in the United States. The exhibition explores notions of experimentation, reconstruction and the idea of self-determination through images of the experimental plantations set up by the Union government at Davis Bend (where the founders of Mound Bayou were enslaved) and Port Royal, during the Civil War.
Marshall-Linnemeier was inspired by the unique history of both places and how and by whom self-determination was defined.
She re-imagines the experimental plantation space by manipulating archival photographs that include stereographic images. Her visual narratives explore myth, spirituality and memory through vivid paintings, collages and textile works. She focuses on toural communities—rural agricultural communities that rely on and/or are developing tourism—urban enclaves and indigenous communities observing culturally significant connections that are often overlooked.
An honors graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (Presidential Scholar), Marshall-Linnemeier received a Master of Arts degree in Southern studies in 2005 from the University of Mississippi. She has received numerous awards and her work is held in various collections including the High Museum of Art in Altlanta, Atlanta University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
An opening reception for the exhibition featuring a talk by Marshall-Linnemeier will be held on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Stone Center. The reception is free and open to the public.
“Dry Run: Defining Determination, Testing Reconstruction” will be on display through April 30. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. or by appointment. For information on the exhibition, call (919) 962-9001 or visit the website.
On display in the center’s Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum, Marshall-Linnemeier’s latest work uses the Penn Center papers and photographs held in the Southern Historical Collection of UNC’s Wilson Library.
As with previous work, “Dry Run” is inspired by her travels to Mound Bayou, Miss., the largest predominantly African American town in the United States. The exhibition explores notions of experimentation, reconstruction and the idea of self-determination through images of the experimental plantations set up by the Union government at Davis Bend (where the founders of Mound Bayou were enslaved) and Port Royal, during the Civil War.
Marshall-Linnemeier was inspired by the unique history of both places and how and by whom self-determination was defined.
She re-imagines the experimental plantation space by manipulating archival photographs that include stereographic images. Her visual narratives explore myth, spirituality and memory through vivid paintings, collages and textile works. She focuses on toural communities—rural agricultural communities that rely on and/or are developing tourism—urban enclaves and indigenous communities observing culturally significant connections that are often overlooked.
An honors graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (Presidential Scholar), Marshall-Linnemeier received a Master of Arts degree in Southern studies in 2005 from the University of Mississippi. She has received numerous awards and her work is held in various collections including the High Museum of Art in Altlanta, Atlanta University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
An opening reception for the exhibition featuring a talk by Marshall-Linnemeier will be held on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Stone Center. The reception is free and open to the public.
“Dry Run: Defining Determination, Testing Reconstruction” will be on display through April 30. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. or by appointment. For information on the exhibition, call (919) 962-9001 or visit the website.
Tar Heel Express shuttle to the UNC vs. Duke men's basketball game
Chapel Hill Transit will provide Tar Heel Express shuttle service on Wednesday, Feb. 8, for the North Carolina men's basketball game against Duke, scheduled for 9 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 7:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, please visit CHT's website or call a customer service representative at (919) 969-4900 (press 1).
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 7:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, please visit CHT's website or call a customer service representative at (919) 969-4900 (press 1).
Civil rights lawyer Connie Rice to give 2012 Murphy Lecture Feb. 9
Constance L. "Connie" Rice will deliver the 2012 William P. Murphy Distinguished Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at noon Thursday, Feb. 9.
The lecture will take place in the rotunda at the UNC School of Law. The event is free and open to the public.
Considered one of America's leading civil rights attorneys, Rice is co-founder and member of the board of directors of the national civil rights organization Advancement Project. She is author of the book "Power Concedes Nothing" (Scribner 2012), a memoir about her fight against gang violence in Los Angeles.
She successfully colitigated class action civil rights cases, winning more than $1.6 billion in policy changes and remedies during her nine-year tenure in the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc. Rice is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law.
The Murphy Lecture Series was established by the UNC School of Law Class of 1990 to celebrate former faculty member Professor William P. Murphy's teaching and his work in constitutional law, labor law and civil rights. The series is responsible for bringing noted lawyers, political figures and public advocates to the campus.
The lecture will take place in the rotunda at the UNC School of Law. The event is free and open to the public.
Considered one of America's leading civil rights attorneys, Rice is co-founder and member of the board of directors of the national civil rights organization Advancement Project. She is author of the book "Power Concedes Nothing" (Scribner 2012), a memoir about her fight against gang violence in Los Angeles.
She successfully colitigated class action civil rights cases, winning more than $1.6 billion in policy changes and remedies during her nine-year tenure in the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc. Rice is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law.
The Murphy Lecture Series was established by the UNC School of Law Class of 1990 to celebrate former faculty member Professor William P. Murphy's teaching and his work in constitutional law, labor law and civil rights. The series is responsible for bringing noted lawyers, political figures and public advocates to the campus.
Monday, January 30, 2012
‘Solo Takes On 3’ features one-person performances
“Solo Takes On 3: Story, Identity & Desire,” a festival of one-person performances, will be presented Feb. 3 through 14 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The performances in rotating repertory are sponsored by the communication studies department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Single tickets are $5 for students and seniors, $10 for the public. A solo pass, with admission to all performances, is $10 for students and seniors, $20 for the public. To purchase tickets, call (919) 962-1449.
All performances are in Swain Hall, Studio 6, with the exception of “No One Hurts You More than S/Mother,” which is in Hill Hall, Room 107.
Performances include the following:
• “I Was the Voice of Democracy,” by visiting artist and University of New Mexico professor Brian Herrera, is the humorous autobiographical tale of a young, gay New Mexican man facing the consequences of winning the national Voice of Democracy contest. Performances are 8 p.m. Feb. 3, 7 p.m. Feb. 4 and 2 p.m. Feb. 5.
• “Sketches of a Man” is an adaptation by graduate student Kashif Powell of the iconic work “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. Performances are 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m. Feb. 11, 2 p.m. Feb. 12 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 13.
• “F to M To Octopus,” by honors undergraduate student Sam Peterson, is an unexpected and surprising look at the process of changing gender. Performances are 9 p.m. Feb. 4, 8 p.m. Feb. 10 and 5 p.m. Feb. 12.
• “No One Hurts You More Than S/Mother,” by graduate student Shannon Wong Lerner, is a one-woman opera about our first love, our mother. Performances are 7 p.m. Feb. 11 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 14.
• “Stories are Lies (That We Tell to Get Other People to Like Us and Make Us Feel Better About Ourselves)” is a series of adaptations of 60 short stories in 70 minutes, presented by the Performance Collective, a group of local artists and UNC faculty, students and staff. Performances are 8 p.m. Feb. 9. and 10 p.m. Feb. 11.
Additional support for the festival is provided by Teatro Latino/a, the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, the Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, assistant professor of dramatic art Ashley Lucas and the Honors Undergraduate Research Fund.
The performances in rotating repertory are sponsored by the communication studies department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Single tickets are $5 for students and seniors, $10 for the public. A solo pass, with admission to all performances, is $10 for students and seniors, $20 for the public. To purchase tickets, call (919) 962-1449.
All performances are in Swain Hall, Studio 6, with the exception of “No One Hurts You More than S/Mother,” which is in Hill Hall, Room 107.
Performances include the following:
• “I Was the Voice of Democracy,” by visiting artist and University of New Mexico professor Brian Herrera, is the humorous autobiographical tale of a young, gay New Mexican man facing the consequences of winning the national Voice of Democracy contest. Performances are 8 p.m. Feb. 3, 7 p.m. Feb. 4 and 2 p.m. Feb. 5.
• “Sketches of a Man” is an adaptation by graduate student Kashif Powell of the iconic work “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. Performances are 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m. Feb. 11, 2 p.m. Feb. 12 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 13.
• “F to M To Octopus,” by honors undergraduate student Sam Peterson, is an unexpected and surprising look at the process of changing gender. Performances are 9 p.m. Feb. 4, 8 p.m. Feb. 10 and 5 p.m. Feb. 12.
• “No One Hurts You More Than S/Mother,” by graduate student Shannon Wong Lerner, is a one-woman opera about our first love, our mother. Performances are 7 p.m. Feb. 11 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 14.
• “Stories are Lies (That We Tell to Get Other People to Like Us and Make Us Feel Better About Ourselves)” is a series of adaptations of 60 short stories in 70 minutes, presented by the Performance Collective, a group of local artists and UNC faculty, students and staff. Performances are 8 p.m. Feb. 9. and 10 p.m. Feb. 11.
Additional support for the festival is provided by Teatro Latino/a, the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, the Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, assistant professor of dramatic art Ashley Lucas and the Honors Undergraduate Research Fund.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Former UN ambassador to give Weatherspoon Lecture at Kenan-Flagler Jan. 30
Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will give a free public lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, Jan. 30.
The 5:30 p.m. talk at the Kenan-Flagler Business School's Koury Auditorium is the annual Weatherspoon Lecture and kicks off the spring season of the Dean's Speaker Series. Free parking will be available in the business school parking deck. To RSVP to the lecture or for questions, call (919) 843-7787 or email kfbsrsvp@unc.edu.
Khalilzad served as the 26th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2007 through 2009. He is the highest-ranking Muslim in federal government in U.S. history.
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, President Bush came to rely on Khalilzad's regional expertise in the early stages of planning to overthrow the Taliban. Khalilzad served as special presidential envoy to Afghanistan until 2003, when he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. He oversaw the drafting of Afghanistan's constitution and was involved with the country's first elections. Later, as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, he was instrumental in getting the Sunni Arabs to participate in the political process and move away from al-Qaida.
The Weatherspoon Lecture was created with a generous gift from longtime UNC-Chapel Hill and Kenan-Flagler supporters Van and Kay Weatherspoon. The series provides lectures by outstanding visiting scholars and world leaders from the fields of politics, education, business and government. The purpose of these lectures is to enrich the professional lives of members of the Kenan-Flagler community and provoke interesting discussion and debate.
The 5:30 p.m. talk at the Kenan-Flagler Business School's Koury Auditorium is the annual Weatherspoon Lecture and kicks off the spring season of the Dean's Speaker Series. Free parking will be available in the business school parking deck. To RSVP to the lecture or for questions, call (919) 843-7787 or email kfbsrsvp@unc.edu.
Khalilzad served as the 26th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2007 through 2009. He is the highest-ranking Muslim in federal government in U.S. history.
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, President Bush came to rely on Khalilzad's regional expertise in the early stages of planning to overthrow the Taliban. Khalilzad served as special presidential envoy to Afghanistan until 2003, when he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. He oversaw the drafting of Afghanistan's constitution and was involved with the country's first elections. Later, as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, he was instrumental in getting the Sunni Arabs to participate in the political process and move away from al-Qaida.
The Weatherspoon Lecture was created with a generous gift from longtime UNC-Chapel Hill and Kenan-Flagler supporters Van and Kay Weatherspoon. The series provides lectures by outstanding visiting scholars and world leaders from the fields of politics, education, business and government. The purpose of these lectures is to enrich the professional lives of members of the Kenan-Flagler community and provoke interesting discussion and debate.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Blue Ridge Parkway history now online
The history of the Blue Ridge Parkway, America's most-visited national park system site, is now online.
The new collection, "Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina," was created through a collaborative project based at the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Driving Through Time," available online, presents photographs, maps, news articles, oral histories and essays documenting development and construction of the parkway's North Carolina segment.
The site invites users to explore parkway history chronologically, geographically or by dozens of topics from access roads and automobiles to wildlife and workmen. An interactive maps feature layers historical maps atop current road maps and satellite images. The comparisons provide insight into the parkway's development and its impact on pre-parkway towns, farms, roads and topography.
The 469-mile parkway radically altered the landscape of 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties when it was built between 1934 and 1987, and its construction sparked intense controversy, said Anne Mitchell Whisnant, adjunct associate professor of history at UNC and the project's scholarly adviser.
Whisnant, author of the parkway history "Super-Scenic Motorway" (UNC Press, 2006) and the children's book "When the Parkway Came" (Primary Source Publishers, 2010), was often frustrated as she combed archives and historic documents and tried to translate conflicts about routing and land rights into words.
"I found myself thinking, 'If only I could see and show what and where they're talking about, it would be so much easier to explain the arguments,' " she said. "'Driving Through Time' makes the park's history visible and accessible to historians, planners, local communities, landowners and anyone who wants to know more about this American landmark."
At the heart of the project are thousands of items from three institutions that collaborated to create the site: The Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC; the Blue Ridge Parkway headquarters (a division of the National Park Service, located in Asheville); and the North Carolina State Archives.
Materials in the online collection include:
• Historic photographs showing construction of the parkway and images of communities it passed through;
• Maps depicting private land parcels purchased for the parkway, proposed alternate routes, landscape planning and the completed parkway;
• Letters and documents pertaining to the community of Little Switzerland in McDowell and Mitchell counties, which sued the parkway;
• Oral histories from parkway designers and laborers;
• Images by the late N.C. photographer Hugh Morton, depicting the parkway as it passed Grandfather Mountain, which he owned.
Eleven essays share more insight into the building of the parkway and its impact. Whisnant and her students wrote about issues including competition between the tourism and logging industries, the parkway's impact on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and selection of the parkway route.
Also included are K-12 lesson plans that faculty from the School of Education developed to help students use the site's extensive primary source materials and interpretive essays.
"Driving Through Time" was made possible by a $150,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services under provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, as administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
The new collection, "Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina," was created through a collaborative project based at the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Driving Through Time," available online, presents photographs, maps, news articles, oral histories and essays documenting development and construction of the parkway's North Carolina segment.
The site invites users to explore parkway history chronologically, geographically or by dozens of topics from access roads and automobiles to wildlife and workmen. An interactive maps feature layers historical maps atop current road maps and satellite images. The comparisons provide insight into the parkway's development and its impact on pre-parkway towns, farms, roads and topography.
The 469-mile parkway radically altered the landscape of 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties when it was built between 1934 and 1987, and its construction sparked intense controversy, said Anne Mitchell Whisnant, adjunct associate professor of history at UNC and the project's scholarly adviser.
Whisnant, author of the parkway history "Super-Scenic Motorway" (UNC Press, 2006) and the children's book "When the Parkway Came" (Primary Source Publishers, 2010), was often frustrated as she combed archives and historic documents and tried to translate conflicts about routing and land rights into words.
"I found myself thinking, 'If only I could see and show what and where they're talking about, it would be so much easier to explain the arguments,' " she said. "'Driving Through Time' makes the park's history visible and accessible to historians, planners, local communities, landowners and anyone who wants to know more about this American landmark."
At the heart of the project are thousands of items from three institutions that collaborated to create the site: The Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC; the Blue Ridge Parkway headquarters (a division of the National Park Service, located in Asheville); and the North Carolina State Archives.
Materials in the online collection include:
• Historic photographs showing construction of the parkway and images of communities it passed through;
• Maps depicting private land parcels purchased for the parkway, proposed alternate routes, landscape planning and the completed parkway;
• Letters and documents pertaining to the community of Little Switzerland in McDowell and Mitchell counties, which sued the parkway;
• Oral histories from parkway designers and laborers;
• Images by the late N.C. photographer Hugh Morton, depicting the parkway as it passed Grandfather Mountain, which he owned.
Eleven essays share more insight into the building of the parkway and its impact. Whisnant and her students wrote about issues including competition between the tourism and logging industries, the parkway's impact on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and selection of the parkway route.
Also included are K-12 lesson plans that faculty from the School of Education developed to help students use the site's extensive primary source materials and interpretive essays.
"Driving Through Time" was made possible by a $150,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services under provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, as administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Tar Heel Express shuttle to UNC vs. North Carolina State men's basketball game
Chapel Hill Transit will provide Tar Heel Express shuttle service on Thursday, Jan. 26, for the North Carolina men's basketball game against North Carolina State, scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 5:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, please visit CHT's website or call a customer service representative at (919) 969-4900 (press 1).
Tar Heel Express shuttles will begin at 5:30 p.m. from the park and rides located at Friday Center, Southern Village, University Mall (next to Dillards) and Jones Ferry. Shuttles will also be available from the Carolina Coffee Shop located at 138 E. Franklin St. (no parking provided). The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides and the Dean E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for approximately 45 minutes following the game.
Shuttles drop off and pick up on Bowles Drive in front of the Dean E. Smith Center. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip. Rides from the Carolina Coffee Shop are $2 one-way or $4 round-trip.
For additional information on the Tar Heel Express Shuttle, please visit CHT's website or call a customer service representative at (919) 969-4900 (press 1).
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