Latest Past Events

NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART: PEDER & HENDRIK

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh

Peder & Hendrik is the collaborative performance practice of Erik Pedersen (Asheville, NC) and Nathaniel Hendrickson (Louisville, KY). Drawing on their collective experiences as musicians, visual artists, and storytellers, Peder & Hendrik create performances that rely on improvisation, chance, and physical comedy to playfully blur the lines between performer and spectator. Live from NCMA begins as an artist lecture on Peder & Hendrik’s seven-year collaborative relationship before dissolving into an improvised audio-visual collaboration between the artists and audience. Through the use of digital and analog cameras, projectors, amplifiers, voice, and instruments, this event highlights the space between traditional performance and unrehearsed experimentation.

Free

International Black Theatre Festival: Telling Our Stories Through Poetry

Benton Convention Center 301 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem

In Telling Our Stories Through Poetry African American youth storytellers weave together familiar African American cultural experiences through poetry, prose, songs, chants, and movements. The collection tells how slaves were snatched from our Africa and degraded yet held onto Hopes and Dreams while insisting that this is not a Lost Generation. These cultural experiences joined together become one moving and heartfelt story. (Family Programming, Ages 5 and up) 

Free

International Black Theatre Festival: Nephew Tommy’s Life After 50

Benton Convention Center 301 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem

Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles stars in a monodrama of a man debating whether to go to his own birthday party. While he contemplates, he reviews, reminisces and reflects on life after reaching fifty. It’s a poignant, hilarious and insightful perspective based on Tommy’s experiences as a father, husband, and his personal health battles with Covid and cancer. Written and performed by Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles. (Celebrity Performance, General Audience) 

$50