TRUST THE BUS: THE FARM Friday, June 17–Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m. $5–$15 suggested donation Saxapahaw General Store, Saxapahaw For an organization that officially launched fifteen months ago, Culture Mill is a well-established force in the Triangle’s artistic life, whether presenting dance shows at the Carrack in Durham or Trust the Bus in its Saxapahaw […]
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Ginger Wagg Tears Down the Curtain Between Audience and Performer in AndAlwaysWhy
AndAlwaysWhy, the “experiential live movement and music installation” that Ginger Wagg and Wild Actions will unveil at the Torus Building June 2–5, has been in development for three years. But in another way, it’s the piece Wagg has always been working toward. You might know Wagg more as a musicianin indie pop duo Veelee or […]
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The Carrack Modern Art is Moving, Redrawing the Downtown Art Scene’s Borders
GINGER WAGG & WILD ACTIONS: ANDALWAYSWHY Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, 8 p.m., $10–$20 The Torus Building, Durham www.gingerwagg.com Durham Independent Dance Artists shows usually take place in nightclubs, art galleries, warehousesanywhere but theaters. Ginger Wagg and Wild Actions’ AndAlwaysWhy is no exception. Its premiere this week will also cut the ribbon on the Torus […]
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Everybody Yurts: A Mountain Escape in Hot Springs
Hot Springs is famous, of course, for its opera house. I’m kidding! It’s famous for its hot springs. Accordingly, booking a soak was the first thing my companion and I did when planning our westward escape. Otherwise, we wanted to leave things open. We’d been feeling too wound up in the world, and a mountain […]
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Announcing Open Auditions in Raleigh for the Inaugural Women’s Theatre Festival
In March, we reported on the Triangle’s new Women’s Theatre Festival, which will debut this August. Conceptualized by Raleigh’s Ashley Popio and developed by a group of local women in theater, it will feature plays written and directed by women, with women composing the majority of the casts. Now, WTF has announced open auditions for […]
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Moogfest Beyond the Concerts: A Music Fan’s Guide to Transhumanism, Technoshamanism, Afrofuturism, and More
Transhumanism isn’t the only esoteric theme in “Future Thought,” the group of programming tracks surrounding the concerts at Moogfest. Without an advanced degree in computer science, it can be hard to get your bearings. To help, we’re connecting artists you know with side paths that will further your understanding of them. MOOGFEST 2016: An Interview […]
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The Stage Highlights of the 2015-16 Season—And What They Say About Their Presenters
Doing a year in review as the calendar turns ignores the fact that the biggestperforming-arts presenters are still in the midst of their seasons, which run from fallthrough spring. So we’re pausing now, near the end of the academic year, to look backat the highlights of the 2015–16 season and take their presenters’ artistic temperature. […]
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Video: Watch Durham’s Monica Byrne Turn Into a Hologram in Vancouver TED Talk
Durham author and playwright Monica Byrne is known for raveling disparate strands of gender, race, and love in speculative social orders, from the acclaimed novel The Girl in the Road to the ambitious play Tarantino’s Yellow Speedo. Last February, she added to that list with For My Wife, Navid, a story commissioned by Chris Anderson […]
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Bill Thelen to Step Down as Director of Pioneering Raleigh Gallery Lump
An upcoming installation by the Team Lump collective, Arise! Bald Man! King of Hair People!, will close Lump’s twentieth-anniversary season. It also marks an even bigger milestone: the end of Bill Thelen‘s long tenure as the director of the Raleigh gallery. In an email to the INDY today, Thelen confirmed that he’ll step down in […]
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Video: Raleigh Murals Project Mashes Up Vibrant People and Public Paintings
The colors of spring preceded the flowers in Raleigh this year, thanks in large part to the people of the Raleigh Murals Project, who work to catalog and highlight historic urban murals and to facilitate the creation of new ones (see Jane Porter’s article for more). They just released a fun new video that draws […]
