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Art listings have moved

Galleries and artists please note that we have moved our art listings to next Thursday’s regular issue of The Carrboro Citizen. If you would like your show or opening listed, please email your information to calendar@carrborocitizen.com by noon Monday, Aug. 3.

PlayMakers awarded NEA grant

PlayMakers Repertory Company has been awarded a national arts grant for its upcoming production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

PlayMakers will receive a $30,000 “Access to Artistic Excellence Grant” in support of the theater’s Nov. 11-Dec. 20 production of Nickleby.

The play by David Edgar, from the novel by Charles Dickens, will be the biggest production in PlayMakers’ history, with 25 actors playing more than 150 characters.

In conjunction with the production, PlayMakers will launch an in-depth outreach program called “The Dickens Initiative: From the Page to the Stage/Literature and the Art of Theatre.” The initiative will focus on literacy through Dickens’ storytelling, partnering with libraries, schools, book clubs and other organizations. An array of community events will be part of the initiative, including a week in residence by playwright David Edgar with a master class and public lecture.

Ackland names chief curator

Peter Nisbet, formerly the Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at the Harvard Art Museum, has been appointed chief curator of the Ackland Art Museum.

Nisbet will lead the Ackland’s curatorial department, responsible for efforts including exhibitions and donor and collector cultivation.
Nisbet holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge University and a doctorate in art history from Yale University. Before joining Harvard in 1983, he held assistantships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Yale University Art Gallery.