FREE DURHAM
a selection of free events, happenings and culture in the Bull City - 15 October MMIX
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FREE THURSDAY - documentary film
A NEW KIND OF LISTENING
The Carolina Theatre’s Fletcher Auditorium, downtown Durham on Thursday, October 15, 7:30pm
The documentary takes viewers inside the creative work of a community theater group as local cast members, some with disabilities, create an original stage piece. The film tells the story of Chris Mueller-Medlicott, a young man with cerebral palsy who was mislabeled profoundly mentally retarded because he could not speak. Chris breaks through into stunning self-expression in this moving and inspiring film.
Following the screening, the audience will meet the filmmaker and members of the Community Inclusive Theater Group who appear in the film. The Q&A and discussion will be an important opportunity for our community to share ideas about inclusion and disability rights. To view a preview of the film, click the picture above.
anewkindoflistening .com
FREE FRIDAY - The Heart of Durham
live music, visual art, and poetry within 1 block in Durham's city center
Through This Lens- Gallery Talk
Healing Arts at Blue Coffee Cafe
Historic Parrish Street Sculptures Unveiled
Community Art and Jazz Jamboree at CCB Plaza/Armory
Healing Arts Spoken Word with Monica Daye 6:30 - 8:30pm
Poet and domestic violence advocate Monica Daye presents a night of spoken word at Durham's Blue Coffee Cafe. The event is part of "Healing Through the Arts", Durham Crisis Response Center's October event series honoring Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Blue Coffee Cafe 202 N Corcoran St, Durham, NC 27701 PHONE(919) 688-2233 WEBSITEwww.bluecoffeecafe.net
Historic Parrish Street Sculptures unveiled
Durham, N.C. – Another set of commemorative pieces honoring Durham’s rich African American history will be unveiled next week and the entire community is invited to participate. The Parrish Street Advocacy Group and the City of Durham will unveil the remaining three of six historical markers commemorating the rich history of Parrish Street on Friday, October 16, 2009, from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event will take place in downtown Durham on East Parrish and Church Streets. The first three markers were placed on West Parrish Street in October 2008. The unveiling will feature stories and history by local leaders and those with strong historical ties to Parrish Street. This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be provided. www.parrishstreet.org
Through This Lens 303 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham, NC 27701 http://www.throughthislens.com
Fading Hutongs by Júlio de Matos
September 18 - November 14, 2009 Artist's Reception & Gallery Talk
CCB Plaza (201 Corcoran Street), Home of Major, the big bronze bull
Enjoy free music and performances and participate in community art projects on Third Fridays in downtown Durham, held in conjunction with the Third Friday Durham Culture Crawl. For information about Third Fridays on the CCB Plaza, call (919) 560-4355. 6- 8 pm.
Rain location: the Durham Armory 212 Foster Street
Friday, October 16 - Jazz & Art Jamboree featuring Ron Baxter Jazz Quartet, and his father, artist Ed Baxter leading a community mural with guest artists from SeeSaw Studio
Third Friday, October 16 - http://www.thirdfridaydurham.com/
FREE SATURDAY - sport
Duke University Men's Basketball
DURHAM, N.C. -- The Duke men's basketball team will hold the Duke Open House for Men's Basketball on Saturday, Oct. 17 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The free event will feature an autograph session beginning at 11:00 a.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium and conclude with an open practice.
In order to keep the autograph line moving there will be a one autograph per person limit and no pictures are permitted with players or coaches. Duke fans will have the opportunity to take pictures with the 1991, 1992 and 2001 National Championship trophies during the autograph session.
Saturday, Oct. 17 Open House Event - Free Event
10:00 am Doors open to Cameron Indoor Stadium
11:00 am Men's Basketball autograph session begins (one item per person, no pictures with players)
12:30 pm Men's Basketball autograph session ends
1:00 pm Men's Basketball open practice begins (fans can sit upstairs to watch)
3:00 pm Men's Basketball open practice ends
FREE SUNDAY - history
NCCU Lecture: A New Look at Antebellum Slave Families and Communities
Sunday October 18, 2009 Historic Stagville
For additional information, contact Jerry Gershenhorn, associate professor of history at (919) 530-7135. The lecture takes place at 5828 Old Oxford Highway, Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m, Durham, N.C.
North Carolina Central University’s Department of History has invited author and alumna, Dr. Stephanie Shaw to speak at the Earlie E. Thorpe Memorial Lecture, Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at Historic Stagville in Durham. The title of Shaw’s talk is Grandmothers, Granny Women, and Old Aunts: Rethinking Antebellum Slave Families and Communities. The lecture is part of NCCU’s Centennial series of speakers, symposiums, and forums. Quintessence, a jazz band led by Quinton Parker, will perform before and after the lecture.
Guest speaker Shaw is associate professor of history at Ohio State University, where she has taught for over 20 years. In 1996, She published What a Woman Ought To Be and To Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), which won the 1996 Association of Black Women Historians’ Letitia Woods Brown prize for the best book in African- American history. Her article, “Using the W.P.A. Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Great Depression” (Journal of Southern History, 2003), won the Southern Historical Association’s Green-Ramsdell Award for Best Article in the Journal of Southern History during 2002 and 2003.
She has held fellowships from the Carter G. Woodson Institute (University of Virginia), Rice University (Mellon Professorship), the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Shaw, a graduate of the Department of History at NCCU, earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Ohio State University.
The Earlie Thorpe Lecture is an annual lecture held in honor of the historian and teacher who taught at NCCU from 1962-1989 and published many books on the antebellum south, including The Old South: A Psychohistory.
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