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The Beautiful Project: Arts & Activism Apprentices: (RE)CLAMATION

Durham Arts Council 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC, United States

(RE)CLAMATION explores photography as a catalyst for radical healing, inviting viewers to explore the reclamation of self through art as a way to confront harmful experiences, affirm your worth, and reclaim your power! This exhibition is supported by The Durham Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and is part of The Durham Arts Council Exhibit Program. The Beautiful Project’s (TBP) Arts & Activism Apprentices are a group of trained Black girls and nonbinary youth activists who use photography, visual arts, writing and care to explore cultural activism within their artistry.  As TBP commemorates 20 years of empowering Black girls, gender-expansive youth, and women to assertively claim their own narratives through storytelling, we celebrate the healing power of art.

Mallarme and Paradox Opera: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Durham Arts Council 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC, United States

The Durham-based Mallarmé Music, a 40-year-old chamber music ensemble will work with the 3-year-old Paradox Opera based in Morrisville to present the newly composed opera The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The opera score is by composer Robert Chumbley with the libretto written by Carey Scott Wilkerson.  Several years ago, the estate of the great writer Carson McCullers and the McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians awarded composer Robert Chumbley the operatic rights to her masterpiece novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Mr. Chumbley was attracted to the work because it requires two main characters to be mute, amid the setting of the most sonically large art form, opera. The themes of the novel (the deaf community, the Jim Crow era, the angst of teenage years and LGBTQIA+ community) are still so relevant, if not more so, some 65 years after McCullers wrote it. The librettist is the gifted Carey Scott Wilkerson, a renowned poet and a nationally known McCullers scholar.

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