FREE Durham
a selection of FREE events, happenings and culture in the Bull City
October 20- 25, 2009
Admission is free, however, donations may be accepted at some venues or events
FREE Tuesday – art & housing
The Durham Housing Authority Celebrates The Arts In Its Communities
With Its First "smART stART 4 the ARTZ" Exhibit
Oct. 20, 6- 8pm, Oldham Towers Community Center
519 E. Main St.
The Durham Housing Authority will host its first community-based art show, celebrating the dynamic and diverse culture of Durham. Dedicated to providing public housing and supportive services, DHA promotes safety and family self-sufficiency, leading public housing residents to a better way of life. In Durham and the Triangle region, art has found a place in all of our homes and is playing a major role in rebuilding the Bull City. Reaching out to the larger community through art, the smART stART 4 the ARTS exhibition seeks to provide a new opportunity for some of Durham's lesser known artists, including James McCullough, a DHA employee. The artists showcased (some residing in Durham's public housing communities) range in ages from teenager to adult, and will feature oils, abstracts, fashions and much more. While various pieces will be available for purchase (through the vendor), the event is free, open to the public, and includes a reception featuring light refreshments.
www.durhamhousingauthority.org
FREE Wednesday - environment, poetry, architecture, documentary film, lunch & learn
Community Jack Kerouac Reading – poetry reading
Oct. 21- 12:00 pm ,Durham Central Park, 534 Foster St.
Celebrate "the Great Rememberer" and the continuing power of his words and vision with an informal reading. Bring a favorite passage or a musical instrument.
Reforming Architecture with Kristina Luce- lunch & lecture
Description: Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly noontime series in which distinguished scholars, artists, and journalists speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. All events in the series are open to the public and a light lunch is served; no reservation is necessary. The series is presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Center with other campus partners. Questions? Please e-mail fhi@duke.edu
Muddy Water Watch –environment training
Oct. 21- 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Durham County Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
Train to become a MWW volunteer. Learn to properly identify sedimentation and erosion violations from active construction sites, as well as poorly maintained Best Management Practices (BMP's). Site visit 10/24 (time to be agreed upon) and final training 11/2, 6-8pm. www.muddywaterwatch.org
"End of The Line" a documentary film
Oct. 21 – 7pm Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center, West Campus
Documentary presented by DukeFish, a student organization. The world's first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing. This film was first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this summer. Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act. For directions, parking, movie trailer and more info go to website: http://www.dukefish.org/endoftheline
Open-Mic Nights w/ Brett Chambers & the Usual Suspects – jazz music
Every Wednesday Night: 8:30 - 10:30pm , Papa Mojo's Roadhouse 5410-Y Highway 55 Phone 919-361-2222
FREE THURSDAY – conversations, Energy, Hip Hop, Blues
James E. Shepard Memorial Library Fall Open House
Oct. 22- 10:30- 11:45 pm, NCCU Main Campus
Join us for demonstrations, tours, prizes, refreshments, music and a special appearance by Eddie the Eagle! For more info 530-6220
Jazz Conversations with John Brown and Vincent Gardner
John Brown (Associate Professor of the Practice of Music and Director of the Jazz Program) and Visiting Artist Vincent Gardner (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra) will discuss jazz's history and contemporary developments in jazz. Bring your own lunch; dessert and beverages will be provided. Sponsored by the Duke Jazz Program and the Jazz Archive at Duke. For more info-contact Jeremy A. Smith at jas5@notes.duke.edu.:
Renewable Energy Business Network
Oct. 22, 5:30- 7:30 pm,
West End Wine Bar, 601 West Main Street
A happy hour networking event at Durham's newest wine bar bringing together entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, service providers and community members interested in growing renewable energy and cleantech businesses in the Triangle.
Ireland's Failure to Deliver Educational Opportunity for its Immigrant Children - lecture
Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Dorren McMahon will discuss the educational incorporation of immigrant children in Ireland. Ireland has recently experienced a rapid growth in its rate of immigration, which has left policymakers struggling to provide for the educational, social, and economic needs of this expanding immigrant population. McMahon, will discuss the problems currently faced by this new immigrant population, and describe how they are rooted in official Irish responses to immigrant arrival in the 1990s. Cost: Free (Cash bar available)
Hip Hop is Back in the Bull City – live music and poetry
Oct. 22,9:00 pm- 2am. The Marvell Center, 119 West Main Street
P.o.e.t. presents A Night of Hip Hop featuring Toon, J. Bully, Dasan Ahanu, Rugter Ruckus, B.C.S., Lil Twizze, Menes Rebazzar, Madam J.
Oct. 22- 9pm, Carolina Ale House, 3911 Chapel Hill Blvd.
Blues, rock and R&B 490-2001
FREE FRIDAY – rest up for Saturday
Nature Ranger Cart
Description: Look for the colorful cart at the foot of the Terrace Gardens; it's full of simple and fun activities for children. Play flower bingo or make pressed flower bookmarks, paper butterflies, pond life pictures and bark, insect or leaf rubbings. Or get some nutritious food for the Gardens' ducks. Contact Information: Nashold, Ann 668-1708
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FREE SATURDAY - Thriller!, moon-walking, hiking and many walking & community events
BIG SWEEP
- environment clean-up
Help keep the Eno River a clean, healthy and beautiful place for wildlife and people. Big Sweep is an annual, state-wide clean up of our rivers, streams and shorelines. Participants here will hike the trails and remove litter along the river. Youth under age 18 must have a completed and signed parental permission form. Call 919-383-1686 to register. www.enoriver.org/eno/parks/Monthly.htm
Preservation Durham’s Tour of Architecture and the Urban Landscape
Oct. 24- 10 am downtown Durham- free walking tour , No reservations required.
Meet your guide at Preservation Durham's sign at the Durham Farmers Market in Central Park, on Foster Street just north of Downtown. The tours take approximately 1-2 hours and return to the Farmers Market. Explore Downtown Durham with HPSD's newest walking tour! Learn about how Durham as grown and changed as it has transformed itself from an industrial center to the City of Medicine. Docents describe the history of many of the landmark buildings that make up the Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977. www.preservationdurham.org
Spooky Saturday (Special All-Day Event)- kids, science
Oct. 24, 10am- 3:30pm., Museum of Life + Science, 433 Murray Avenue
Meet our tarantula, and some of her other invertebrate friends up close. Create your own masks and learn the science, history and cultural significance of this fascinating artistry. Have you ever wanted to send a friend a secret message? Come find out how you can use simple kitchen ingredients to create a hidden message or picture. Come up to the Lab for some cool demos with our guest mad scientists; members of the RTP Professionals Branch of Alpha Chi Sigma Professional Chemistry Fraternity! www.ncmls.org
Cultivating a Community: A Movement Performance
Oct. 24- 11:00 am – noon, Durham Farmers Market- Central Park Pavilion
Local Dancer and Choreographer Tony C. Johnson with perform at the Pavilion of the Durham Famer's Market www.durhamcentralpark.org/events
4th Annual Unity in the Community Day – community event
11 am- 3 pm, NCCU On Campus - Leroy Walker Physical Education Complex
The Department of Physical Education and Recreation in conjunction with Durham Parks and Recreation and the City of Durham is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Unity in the Community Day. This event is a celebration of Disability Awareness month. 560-4355.
Fungus Among Us – hike & learn
Come out and discover all the different types of mushrooms at the park. If you have an identification book, please bring it. For more info contact Chris or Jessica 471-1623 and press option 2 or e-mail christopher.shepard@durhamnc.gov
W.D. Hill Recreation Center Fall Festival –community festival
Oct. 24, 6-8pm. W. D. Hill Recreation Center, 1308 Fayetteville St.
Games, tricks, and treats for kids 12 and under. For more info: 560-4292
Thriller! – dance party and celebration
Oct. 24- 6:30 -9:30 pm,
The Pavillion, Durham Central Park, 501 Foster St.
You know how every you hear "Thriller" you get the sudden urge to do the dance? You remember some of the steps from the video...but not all or enough of them to do the choreography justice...Yeah, we noticed. In preparation for Halloween and in tribute of the Greatest Entertainer ever to moonwalk on earth... Thrill the World offers little ole Durham an opportunity to participate in a WORLDWIDE simultaneous dance of "Thriller" for world records and charity. Learn the dance at: www.thrilltheworld.com ALL AGES WELCOME!
6:30-7:45 - Registration (must be registered to participate in the World Record)
8:30 - THRILLER Time!!!
Feel free to get in full-on zombie mode.
Jeff & King
Swagga from the Dead- an Art Show
Oct. 24 7- 10:30 pm Red Mass Gallery, 105 W. Parrish St.
MINOR AMERICAN READING with Gail Scott & Robert Glück-
Oct. 24th, 8pm, at THE SPACE 715 Washington Street
-musical performance by y2kbunker- FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BYOB
FREE Sunday – balloon boy, water, sound and nature trails
Fall Colors Hike
Get out and join a park ranger for a look at the changing colors in the Fews Ford area. Call 919-383-1686 to register. Limit 15.
Trailside Exhibit: Fern Frenzy!
Stop by the Naturalist's table at the Cox Mountain trailhead to identify and learn about the different types and life cycles of ferns found in the park. Call 919-383-1686 for directions. No registration required.
Multiple screenings: Oct. 24 @ 7 PM & 10 PM; Sunday, Oct. 25 @ 2 PM
Griffith Film Theatre, Bryan Center, Duke- West Campus 120 Science Dr.
FREE FOR ALL--BRING YOUR FAMILY!! Freewater Presentations
By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
“Flow: For the Love of Water" –documentary film
Oct. 25, 7 - 8:40 PM, White 107 Lecture Hall, Richard Whitel Lecture Hall, Duke- East Campus, 1308 Campus Drive Cost: Free and open to the public.
Irena Salina's cautionary documentary is determined to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, sustains every creature on Earth. The time has come when we can no longer take this precious resource for granted. "Flow: For Love of Water" is an inspired, yet disturbingly provocative, wake-up call. The future of our planet is drying up rapidly. Focusing on pollution, human rights, politics, and corruption, filmmaker Salina constructs an exceptionally articulate profile of the precarious relationship uniting human beings and water. While each community's challenges are unique, the message is universal - the time to turn the tide is now. -- Part of the Politics of Food Film series. (Irena Salina, 2008, 93 min, USA, in English, Color, DVD) Presenedt by Screen Society.
"Dreams and Other Shores: New Sonic Voyages" – music concert
Duke Music series Encounters: With the Music of our Time
1304 Campus Drive, Duke- East Campus
Now in its 29th season, Encounters: with the music of our time presents live performances of new music you won't hear anywhere else in the Triangle! This concert features "Littoral" by Duke¿s newest faculty composer, John Supko, performed by Due East (Greg Beyer, percussion and Erin Lesser, flute). Also on the program are works by Kurtag and Crumb performed by Petra Berenyi, cimbalom and Randall Love, piano.
Contact Information: Thompson, Elizabeth 660-3333
FREE Halloween – evnnts comin up next week…
3rd Annual Durham Zombie Lurch
Oct. 30- 6:30-9:30 pm, downtown, meet on Foster St across from Piedmont
Zombie Cool- Its that time again... an incredibly fun evening of abandon. Zombies descend upon the Bull city for one night, seeking prey, people to take their pictures...and play music with them...and just generally get a rise out of the general Durham Folk. Zombies are taking over Pop Culture and movies...and now they are invading downtown Durham. FREE...ALL AGES
Meet across from Piedmont Restaurant at sundown..630ish...
Later night- adult Zombies will be pub-lurching in the Five points area and oozing to Pinhook for Shipwrecker’s CD release party!
Ghost {Building} Tour: Brightleaf and West Village
October 31 1 pm & 4 pm
| Join Preservation Durham for 2nd annual -Not your standard "spooky dead people" tour, this ghost buildings tour will highlight the architectural ghosts of by-gone structures that contiue to haunt us. Tour participants will witness the streetscapes of yore reappear before their own eyes: mansions like Four Acres and Fairview, the elegant Southern Conservatory of Music, huge tobacco warehouses and factories, and more! Tourbooks will be available at Parker & Otis, 112 S. Duke Street between 1:00 and 4:00pm and docents will use photographs to illustrate the ghost buildings. The tour is free, but a $5 donation would be greatly appreciated. For more information, call Andrew Edmonds at (919) 608-0158 or email. |
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