Downtown Raleigh Gets New Art Gallery Showcasing Works by Artists with Disabilities Year Round
RALEIGH, NC – Non-profit group Arts Access North Carolina will host a grand opening of its new art gallery in downtown Raleigh that will exhibit and sell works by artists with disabilities on March 1 (coinciding with Downtown Raleigh's First Friday! Click to learn...
Triangle Theatre and Dance 2023: The Best of What We Saw
Since end-of-year wrap-ups inevitably use a lot of figures, let’s start with the most improbable one of all: 338, for the number of theater and dance productions staged in North Carolina’s Triangle region during 2023. For those counting, it was an all-time high in terms of yearly output for the area, a remarkable comeback for the two art forms that had been most threatened during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No, we couldn’t see them all. The curated lists here of superlatives come from the one-hundred shows we did view from the region’s major companies and selected up-and-comers through the year.
The only way a region produces 338 different shows is with a large pool of artists and an even more extensive community of support. Those whose job it is to fret over even good news wondered at year’s-end how sustainable such a level of output could be. We’ll get an answer to that question in the coming year.
Rest in Peace Clara O’Brien
We are saddened to hear of the passing of international mezzo soprano, Clara O'Brien of Greensboro, North Carolina. She was 62 years old. Please read her obituatary written on Slippedisc by Normal LeBrecht here. Our hearts go out to her husband, Lance Hulme and...
Eastern Music Festival Signs New Contract with Acclaimed Music Director Gerard Schwarz
Eastern Music Festival (EMF), a nationally recognized music festival and summer educational program based in the heart of North Carolina, is pleased to announce a new three-year contract with music director Gerard Schwarz, which will secure his role with the festival...
Eastern Music Festival Signs New Contract with Acclaimed Music Director Gerard Schwarz
Eastern Music Festival (EMF), a nationally recognized music festival and summer educational program based in the heart of North Carolina, is pleased to announce a new three-year contract with music director Gerard Schwarz, which will secure his role with the festival...
EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL SIGNS NEW CONTRACT WITH ACCLAIMED MUSIC DIRECTOR GERARD SCHWARZ
Eastern Music Festival (EMF), a nationally recognized music festival and summer educational program based in the heart of North Carolina, is pleased to announce a new three-year contract with music director Gerard Schwarz, which will secure his role with the festival...
Winston-Salem Symphony Announces New Music Director
The Winston-Salem Symphony is thrilled to announce the appointment of Michelle Merrill as the new Music Director for the Symphony.An announcement event was held on Tuesday, June 20, at the Gas Hill Drinking Room. Michelle Merrill will hold the honorable role of...
Winston-Salem Symphony Announces New Music Director
The Winston-Salem Symphony is thrilled to announce the appointment of Michelle Merrill as the new Music Director for the Symphony.An announcement event was held on Tuesday, June 20, at the Gas Hill Drinking Room. Michelle Merrill will hold the honorable role of...
CVNC.org Awarded Kennedy Center Emerging Leader Award
It is a great honor to announce that CVNC.org has been awarded an Emerging Leader Award by the The Kennedy Center for our accessibility work. Andrea Luke, Executive Director has also been accepted into an Arts Learning Community for Universal Access (LEAD) as a CVNC representative by Raleigh Arts, which includes LEAD Conference attendance this summer and cohort meetings with other arts professionals. Luke has also been awarded the Kennedy Center Lehman Scholarship to further help support her LEAD Conference experience. This year’s LEAD conference will take place in late August in Boston, Massachusetts.
CVNC is grateful and excited to accept these opportunities and jump into arts accessibility work with both feet. Luke has noted that as executive director for CVNC, LEAD has been one of most fun and rewarding part of her job thus far. Says Luke, “I’m so lucky to be receiving extra support and validation in these efforts.”
Last year, Raleigh Arts sponsored the attendance of Luke and Maggie Pate, Editor in Chief at the LEAD conference which was held in Raleigh. Luke notes that since that time, she has added arts accessibility work to her job description because of the impact that the Kennedy Center’s Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference had on her. Last year’s conference gave the CVNC team many amazing ideas on how to improve our coverage and CVNC has begun a massive website redesign over the summer that will not only update our infrastructure, but allow us to implement more thoughtful accessibility features throughout.
Gerhardt Zimmermann, N.C. Symphony Orchestra Maestro: An Appreciation
When the news came last week of the death of former North Carolina Symphony music director, Gerhardt Zimmermann, it reminded me that two decades have passed since he finished his 21-season tenure as music director with the orchestra. During that time, children have...
