Happy New Year. We hope our January College of Arts and Sciences calendar will help you get warmed up for all the good things that will be happening on campus this semester.
Jan. 8-12: PlayMakers Repertory Company presents “The Story of the Gun,” about America’s relationship with guns, created and performed by Mike Daisey. Tickets start at $15. https://college.unc.edu/2013/12/16/daiseyprc/
Jan. 9: The Center for the Study of the American South and Memory Lane Productions present the documentary, “The Editor and the Dragon,” about UNC alumnus Horace Carter’s courageous stance against the Ku Klux Klan, as a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor in Tabor City, N.C. during the 1950s. 10 pm on WUNC-TV. http://events.unc.edu/event/the-editor-the-dragon-unc-tv-premiere/
Jan. 11: All-Carolina Invitational Male Choral Festival Concert, hosted by the UNC Men’s Glee Club. $5 general admission. 5:30 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium. http://music.unc.edu
Jan. 11: UNC Creative Writing Professor and bestselling author Daniel Wallace, will team up with singer-songwriter Django Haskins for “Fables in Story,” an evening of music, storytelling and impromptu conversation. $10 in advance, $12 at the door. 8 pm, Friday Center for Continuing Education. https://college.unc.edu/2013/12/13/wallace/
Jan. 14: Alumna Sarah Walker presents the Hanes Visiting Artist lecture and an exhibit of her contemporary interpretation of Chinese scholars’ rocks, objects of medication. 6 pm, Hanes Art Center. http://art.unc.edu
Jan. 15: The Institute for the Arts and Humanities presents the Winter Welcome and Fellows Celebration Reception recognizing fellows’ new publications and creative works. Publications will be available for sale, authors will be on hand to discuss and sign books… 4 pm, Hyde Hall, University Room. http://iah.unc.edu
Jan. 16 – March 17: Carolina Global Photography Exhibit, featuring photos from all over the world by UNC students, alumni, faculty and staff. FedEx Global Education Center http://global.unc.edu/news/carolina-global-photography-exhibition-2014/
Jan. 17-18: The Process Series presents a stage reading of a scene from “Mission of a Saint,” a new script by Colman Domingo, excavating an “unseen moment” in August Wilson’s classic play “Fences.” 8 pm, Swain Hall, Studio 6. http://processseries.unc.edu
Jan. 20: Hill Harper — author, youth advocate and TV, film and stage actor — presents the annual Martin Luther King Celebration Lecture. 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall. Free tickets are available at the box office. http://diversity.unc.edu/mlk
Jan. 22-Feb. 9: PlayMakers Repertory Company presents “Private Lives,” a comedy classic by Noel Coward, starring Julie Fishell and Jeffrey Blair Cornell. Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art. For tickets (starting at $15), schedule and related events: http://www.playmakersrep.org
Jan. 24: The Duke-UNC Gender, War and Culture Series presents Kara Dixon Vuic of High Point University, discussing “Look, But Don’t Touch: American Women as Military Entertainment.” 4 pm, Hyde Hall, Incubator Room. http://gwc.web.unc.edu/
Jan. 24: Film screening of “When I Saw You,” a film about a journey of a young boy in 1967 in Jordan who joins other refugees pouring across the border from Palestine. 5 p.m. 3408 Student Union. Q&A with Director Annemarie Jacir.
Jan. 24: UNC Voice alumni Melinda Whittington and Vanessa Isiguen present works by Richard Strauss, Mozart, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and more. 8 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium. http://music.unc.edu
Jan. 25: UNC alum Mike Wiley presents “Dar He,” his one-man play about Emmett Till. 2 pm, Chapel Hill Public Library. http://humanities.unc.edu/programs/special-event/4276-2/
Jan. 27: UNC Music Professors Annegret Fauser, Brent Wissick and Jeanne Fischer, and NCSU History Professors Chad Ludington and Mi Gyung Kim, will discuss imagining the past, in the context of Handel’s opera “Theodora.” 5:30 pm, Gerrard Hall. http://events.unc.edu/event/theodora/
Jan. 28: UNC English Professor and author Randall Kenan will discuss his book, “Let the Dead Bury the Dead,” containing short stories set in Tim’s Creek. $20. 6 pm, Friday Center. conradj@email.unc.edu
Jan. 28: Painter Dana Schutz presents the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture and an exhibit. 6 pm, Hanes Art Center. http://events.unc.edu/event/hanes-visiting-artist-lecture-dana-schutz-2/
Jan. 28: UNC Music faculty present “Baroque in English: Music of Purcell and Handel,” part of the William S. Newman Artist Series. $10, $15. 7:30 pm, Person Recital Hall. http://music.unc.edu
Jan. 30: The Program on Health Workforce Seminar Series presents a discussion of “Studying Lives in Changing Times: A Life-Course Journey,” with Glen Elder, Jr., UNC research professor of sociology and psychology, a pre-eminent expert on the study of the impact of age, gender, cohort and time period on individual life transitions and trajectories. 12 noon, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Rosenfeld Conference Room (306). RSVP to lbeavers@unc.edu
Jan. 30: The Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program presents “Average Is Over,” a talk by Tyler Cowen, George Mason University economist and author of many books including “Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World.” 5:30 pm, venue to be determined. http://ppe.unc.edu/event/talk-tyler-cowen/
