A Contradance Index
An ongoing effort to index every contradance ever published.
A Tribute to Kay Kyser
The Ol' Professor of Swing, Kay Kyser, a performer that scored 11 No. 1 records and 35 Top 10 hits. He had a top-rated radio show for 11 years on NBC and starred in seven feature films. This is a multimedia presentation looking back at the life and legacy of Kay Kyser, from his childhood in Rocky Mount to his last days in Chapel Hill. It includes a narrative of his life, photographs from movies and appearances, samples of his most notable recordings, excerpts from his interviews and reminiscences from his loved ones.
Abe Kôbô
Japanese novelist and playwright Abe Kôbô is best known to Americans as the author of the novel 'Woman in the Dunes'. The works of Abe Kôbô use Existentialism and the Absurd, explore such central themes as the the relationship between the individual and society, the daily realities of urbanisation, alienation, and social fragmentation. Abe blurs the line between fiction and science, challenging our stereotypes about the order or rationality of science and the empty fantasies of fiction. His novels are widely read outside Japan in translations in English and 20 other languages.
Anima Dance
Anima Dance is a modern dance company based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 2000 by director Rachel Brooker, the company has performed in venues across the state. Rachel Brooker also teaches dance and yoga classes in the Triangle area of NC.
Arthur Miller Society
Arthur Miller is an important force in American drama. Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for Death of a Salesman. He has come to be considered one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the American Theatre, and his plays, a fusion of naturalistic and expressionistic techniques, continue to be widely produced. His major characters are ordinary and suffering individuals seemingly trapped by naturalistic circumstances. And yet, Miller points out, they have dignity if not human greatness. Site includes a chronology, newsletter and current events.
Bull City Dart League
The Bull City Dart League is a steel-tip handicapped dart league in Durham and RTP, North Carolina. Matches are held every Tuesday night at bars and restaurants in the area. The collection contains current news, standings, and stats.
Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle presents Sunday afternoon concerts at Durham's Carolina Theatre. Under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Muti, the orchestra offers concerts that feature intriguing programming and showcase rising national and international talent.
Chapel HIll Music Festival - the sound of the south
The Chapel Hill Music Festival is a 3 evening community based musical event with performances on and off the UNC-CH campus. The festival will showcase both student talent as well as performers with associations and links to the Carolina Community. Musical acts will encompass multiple and diverse genres. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Carolina Community's musical scene, as profits are reinvested into North Carolina's public schools for general arts and music programming.
Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission
The Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission (CHPAC) is a special commission of the Town with non profit 501(c)3 status. Established in 1992 by a resolution of the Town Council, the CHPAC continues to serve as the only public arts organization of the Town. This site includes resources for artists, a calendar, and information on programs.
Chiloe Stories
Chiloe is an archipelago in the tenth region of Chile approximately 1,100 kilometers south of Santiago. This site contains culture rich video clips that detail the traditions, history, mythology, and lifestyes of Chiloe inhabitants.
Cultural Research
Cultural Research is currently an archive for the research of Clyde Smith in dance, education, cultural studies and qualitative methods. Long term goals include the archiving of both scholarly and creative work by additional groups and individuals.
Durham Association for Downtown Arts, Inc. (DADA)
The Durham Association for Downtown Arts, Inc. (DADA) is a non-profit organization committed to the development, presentation and fiscal sponsorship of original art and performance in the Durham community. DADA strives to support local artists working in a diversity of artistic media. Emphasizing community, DADA helps local residents gain access to these artists by providing free or low-cost venue admission. Beyond sponsoring its own projects, DADA is an artistic home and networking base for a variety of self-producing local artists.
Durham/Chapel Hill Scottish Country Dancers
Weekly dance class -- no partner necessary. Join us and learn the footwork and figures of Scottish Country Dancing!
Fela Project
The Fela Project is a multimedia project that explores and commemorates the influence of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Nigerian Afrobeat musician and Human Rights Activist who died of AIDS-related illness in 1997. The Fela Project exhibition, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, an exhibition curated by Trevor Schoonmaker of works by contemporary artists who are inspired by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is scheduled to open on July 10th 2003 at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.
Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded and Printed Sources - by Jane Keefer
An index to more 4300 recordings, 410 books, and 6 magazines. Both titles and performers are indexed and actives links are provided for quick access to other performers and titles. Links are also provided to active publishers. The latest edition now includes all the titles in the two O'Neill collections of Irish music, Cole's 1000 Fiddle tunes, and Randolph's 4 Vol Folk Songs of the Ozarks. Currently the index points to some 60,000 titles, 25,000 performers, and nearly 150,000 listings of which almost 20% are cross references. Child, Laws and Sharp numbers are also given, when available.
Forest Theatre Festival
wideawake - Forest Theatre Festival - outdoor summer theater festival on the UNC-CH campus. Sit under the stars and enjoy by a variety of performances by local troupes including: Paper Hand Puppet Intervention, the Open Door Theatre, First Circle Ensemble Players, and wideAwake theatre.
Free Culture Tour: Multimedia performance about copyright, creativity, and the internet
Free Culture is a multimedia show by artist, entrepreneur and INSEAD MBA student Colin Mutchler that mixes music, images, and spoken word, drawing from his personal experience and the creative commons to demonstrate the tensions and opportunities of sharing and remixing media.
GetWiki
GetWiki is a wiki document collaboration and discussion site for a wide variety of intellectual topics in the Humanities and Sciences, from Metaphysics to Metadata, Philosophy to Technology. The wiki runs on the latest GetWiki collaboration software.
Heirs to a Fighting Tradition: Storytelling for Social Change
The Heirs Project Mission Heirs to A Fighting Tradition: * Records and archives oral histories of NC social justice activists, * Transfers documentary and interviewing skills to young people so they can record stories of community power with their elders and peers, and * Holds interactive community-building events that blend the heirs' stories with participatory group discussions.
Home for Country Western Dance and Dancers
A library for country western dance steps, supporting public school curriculum and social dance in the community.
KeliIndia.org
KELI is a Mumbai based organization dedicated to the preservation, development and propagation of the traditional classical art forms. Includes a performance gallery.
Lampo
Founded in 1997 and incorporated in December 1998, Lampo is a nonprofit presenter of experimental music and intermedia events. The organization, which is based in Chicago, promotes and supports artists working in electronic and electroacoustic music, free improvisation, sound art and other new forms. Lampo brings composers and musicians from across North America, Europe and Asia to present their work to local audiences. Lampo is equally committed to helping Chicago composers and musicians realize special projects with potential impact on their careers. The organization commissions new works and encourages joint performances with visiting artists. Lampo's programs are chosen with careful consideration to make a balanced season of events. These programs, many of which feature rare Midwest appearances, attract a broad and diverse audience and give the public opportunities to directly experience the work of music's leading innovators. In addition to these events, Lampo collaborates with other presenters and arranges workshops and lectures.
Medicine Show
Join our virtual performance as we recreate the ballyhoo, the laughs and tears, and the old-time music that made the traveling medicine show a hit for more than a century.
Official Sam Neill Home Page
The authorized page for the New Zealand actor Sam Neill.
Orange County Arts Commission
The Arts Commission works to develop the arts in Orange County, North Carolina. This site features
a searchable database of over 1200 local
artists and organizations, a list of local arts
calendars, and a substantial
links page.
We also offer several programs
in support of local arts, including
grants, a
newsletter,
and others.
Paul Green
Dramatist, teacher and author Paul Green is one of North Carolina's most revered writers and one of America's most distinguished. He grew up on a cotton farm in rural Harnett County, North Carolina, learning the value of hard physical labor as well as the importance and beauty of literature and music. He read books in the fields as he followed a mule-drawn plow and taught himself to play the violin, and would later compose music for his own dramas. Mr. Green pioneered in the field of outdoor historical drama. The Lost Colony, which has been remianed in production since 1937. Paul Green's first Broadway play, In Abraham's Bosom, won a Pulitzer Prize, and was followed by six more Broadway plays over his lifetime, as well as numerous other short and full-length plays, screenplays, short story collections, and books of non-fiction. Paul Green Foundation provides an extensive photo archive, a short biography by Green's daughter and annotated bibliography and index of Green's papers.
Renaissance Dance Database
The goal of this project is to create easy access to existing online resources for studying dance during the Renaissance in Europe, and also to provide a repository for resources not already hosted elsewhere.
Sakshi Kapoor
Bharat Natyam Dancer, Keeping the Indian Culture Alive, Disciple of Hindustani Music and Classical Dance.
The B. B. King Archive
B.B. King is widely known as King of the Blues, with a career spanning approximately fifty years and as many albums. Born Riley B. King in 1925, he moved from Mississippi to Memphis in 1947 to pursue a music career. Local radio and live success quickly followed. By the mid-1950s, King was performing nationally more than 300 days per year. His music draws from many genres, including swing, jazz and pop, and his guitar style has influenced some of the world's top musicians. In recognition of his achievements, King was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He has also received five honorary doctorates. King still tours internationally more than 250 days per year, including gigs at the four B.B. King's Blues Clubs located throughout the country. This archive is comprised of the recordings and images of Dr. William Ferris, professor of history and Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The majority of the items date from the mid-1970s, when Dr. Ferris first met King at Yale University. The two have maintained a relationship for three decades. More of Dr. Ferris's materials, as well as possible additions from other collections, will be added. The archive was created in April, 2004, and is an ongoing project of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Ferris Collection is part of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC Chapel Hill.
UNC Student Television
The online home of UNC Student Television. Programming for students, produced and run entirely by students.
Videobloggers.org
Free services for the videoblog culture such as blog hosting, directory listing, education, workshops and collaborative projects.
All content is public domain or creative commons licensed.
Services are not available to all.
Women's Voices Chorus
Women’s Voices Chorus is the Triangle's only community-based classical chorus for sopranos and altos. We sing classical sacred and secular music, folk song settings, spirituals, and a little bit of jazz. Half our repertoire is by women composers. Included in the site are director Mary Lycan's presentations on women's repertoire and women composers.
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