Happy Memorial Day Weekend in the Bull City!




May 14 - 24, 2012 
Calabash: Poster Art and Illustration by Jamie B. Wolcott
A 'calabash' is a gourd historically used for carrying water in many parts of the world. The poster art will be accompanied by Calabash at the Carrack, the first of the Calabash events led by Jamie B. Wolcott and Curtis Eller, merging poster art, music, theater, and film into a 4-day weekend the 17th-20th. FREE admission.
T-F 12-6, F reception 7-10
The Carrack Modern Art, 111 W. Parrish St.
laura@thecarrack.org
May 18 - 31, 2012 
Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective
Featuring 15 films representing Hitchcock's career from 1935 to 1976. See website for schedule. Tickets $8.50 and up per screening.
May 18 - 31, 2012
Carolina Theatre, 309 W. Morgan St.
(919) 560-3030

Laurie Wohl: Unweavings, On Wings of Prayer" Exhibit
Works of of textile art by the nationally known textile artist.
May 18 - 31, 2012
5/18 6-9pm, and by appointment.
First Presbyterian Church, 305 E Main St
(919) 682-5511
May 21, 2012 
Durham Beekeepers
For anyone interested in learning more about beekeeping, or sharing techniques, this club meets the third Monday of each month.
6:30-9pm
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 420 Anderson St.

Durham Bulls vs. Charlotte Knights Purchase Tickets
Tickets: Field Box $9, Terrace Reserved $8, Diamondview $7, Lawn $5 (per game).
May 21, 2012
7pm.
Durham Bulls Athletic Park, 409 Blackwell St.
(919) 956-2855

Jazz Jam
FREE to patrons.
May 21, 2012
7-10pm.
The Blue Note Grill, 4125 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. Ste 1
(919) 401-1979

Triangle Folk Jam
Open group, playing folk, blues, bluegrass, traditional, oldtime, country, country rock. Mostly, but not limited to, acoustic stringed instruments. FREE admission (with $2 membership).
May 21, 2012
7:30pm.
The Pinhook, 117 W. Main St.
(919) 667-1100
May 21 - 22, 2012 
Durham Senior Amateur Golf Championship
Senior Division ages 55+. Super Senior Division ages 65+ (not eligible for overall championship). Prizes will be awarded in both divisions, based on total number of entries for each division. Prize for first hole-in-one on hole 17 is a new Ford car. FREE Pig Pickin' for entrants on Monday night. Entry fee $150 (limit 144 players).
May 21 - 22, 2012
Croasdaile Country Club
(919) 383-4434
May 22 - 27, 2012 
"Wicked" Musical
Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, WICKED is "Broadway’s biggest blockbuster." Tickets $33 and up.
May 22 - 27, 2012
7pm T, 7:30pm W-Th, 8pm F, 2pm & 8pm Sa, 1pm & 6:30pm Su
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St.
(919) 680-2787
May 24 - 25, 2012 
Durham Bulls vs. Norfolk Tides Purchase Tickets
Tickets: Field Box $9, Terrace Reserved $8, Diamondview $7, Lawn $5.
May 24 - 25, 2012
7pm.
Durham Bulls Athletic Park, 409 Blackwell St.
(919) 956-2855
May 24 - 26, 2012 
"In on It" Play Purchase Tickets
Two men struggle to create a play. Two lovers fight to save a relationship. And a man with nothing left to lose makes plans for the end. Three mysteriously intertwining stories about love, loss, and the heartache of being human. A play about accidents, control, and keeping your options open. Tickets $17 F-Su; $12 W-Th (discount for senior (62+), military, and students with i.d.).
May 24 - 26, 2012
8:15pm W-Sa, 3:15pm Su.
Manbites Dog Theater, 703 Foster St.
(919) 682-3343
May 25, 2012 
Beyu Caffe Poetry Slam
Admission $5 with $10 minimum purchase.
May 25, 2012
10pm.
Beyu Caffe, 335 W Main St.
(919) 683-1058

Boom or Bust Burlesque
Admission $10.
Doors 9pm show 10pm.
Casbah, 1007 W Main St

Coffee Cupping
A chance to taste interesting varieties of coffee. Immediately following each cupping participants can join a free, guided tour of the roastery and headquarters. FREE and open to the public.
May 25, 2012
10am.
Counter Culture Coffee, 4911 South Alston Ave.
(919) 361-5282

Duke Farmers Market
May 25, 2012
11am-2pm.
Between the Bryan Research and Nanaline H. Duke buildings off Research Drive

Garage: Blood Red River / The Riff
Admission $6 (with $3 membership)..
May 25, 2012
9pm.
Motorco Music Hall, 723 Rigsbee Ave.
(919) 901-0875

Gardens of the Doris Duke Center
Join Jason Holmes, curator of the Doris Duke Center Gardens, to see what's planned for the container and garden display areas around the Doris Duke Center. Jason will introduce you to innovative planting combinations in planters and garden beds. Registration required (parking fees apply). Cost $5; free for Gardens members.
10am-noon.
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 420 Anderson St
(919) 668-1707

Harmonica Bob & Near Blind James
Featuring primitive one-chord Delta blues, old soul music, ancient oddball pre-rock n roll songs, Admission $8.
May 25, 2012
9:30pm.
Papa Mojos Roadhouse, 5410-Y Highway 55
(919) 361-2222

MikeMickXer - Brightleaf Square Concert
FREE admission.
May 25, 2012
7-9pm.
Brightleaf Square, Gregson St. at Main St.
(919) 682-9229

Nature Ranger Cart: Free drop-in activities
A traveling science cart in the Gardens with creative adventures for all. Check website the Monday before to see an announcement of the activity. Please ask for location at the front desk. No registration and no participation limits. Adult chaperone required.
11am-1pm.
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 420 Anderson St.
(919) 668-1707

Patrick Blackburn
Singer-songwriter. Followed by Whiskey of the Damned (rock/celtic/folk). FREE admission.
May 25, 2012
8:30pm.
Broad Street Café, 1116 Broad St.
(919) 416-9707
May 25 - 26, 2012 
Happy Birthday Carrack!
Art, music, food and fun, plus the kick off of the Carrack's 10/10/10 flashmob fundraising event. FREE admission.
F 7-10pm, Sa 2-10pm.
The Carrack Modern Art, 111 W Parrish St.

Ongoing Events
July 6 - 7, 2020 
Civitan - Durham Bi-Monthly Meeting
Meeting on the second and fourth Thursday of each month.
July 6 - 7, 2020
12:30pm
Willowhaven Country Club, 253 Country Club Dr.
(919) 471-1444
September 1 - 28, 2099 
Exchange Club of Durham Monthly Meetings
Meeting the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
September 1 - 28, 2099
6pm
Durham Hilton, Hillsborough Rd.
(919) 688-1794
November 19, 2011 - September 15, 2012 
PARTNERS AGAINST CRIME-DISTRICT 1 MEETING
Monthly meeting of PAC1 residents to address crime and community concerns. Guest speakers often include city administrator, non-profit agencies, community builders, and others. Co-Facilitators: James Chavis (957-4918) and Vivian McCoy (596-1081).
Holton Career and Resource Center, 401 N. Driver Street
December 10, 2011 - July 8, 2012 
"Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection" Art Exhibit
Works by by Outsider artists, including Minnie Black, the Rev. Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver and Purvis Young. Admission $5, $4 seniors, $3 non-Duke students, FREE for kids under 16 and Duke students and faculty.
December 10, 2011 - July 8, 2012
10am-5pm T,W,F,Sa; 10am-9pm Th, 12-5pm Su
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2001 Campus Dr.
(919) 684-5135
January 3, 2012 - June 30, 2012 
"Selected Textile Works from Regional Artists" Exhibit
This exhibition showcases selected works that demonstrate the breadth and exceptional talent of North Carolina's art quilters. FREE admission.
January 3, 2012 - June 30, 2012
8:30am-5pm M-F.
National Humanities Center, 7 TW Alexander Dr.
(919) 549-0661
January 3, 2012 - May 31, 2012 
Lap Swim
Cost $5, $4 City resident.
January 3, 2012 - May 31, 2012
M-Th 6am-8pm, F 6am-7:30pm, Sa 9:30am-5pm, Su 1-5pm
Edison Johnson Recreation Center, 500 W. Murray Ave.
(919) 560-4270
January 23, 2012 - July 23, 2012 
"Full Color Depression" Art Exhibit
An exhibition of rarely seen color images from the Library of Congress’s Farm Security Administration photography collection. FREE admission.
January 23, 2012 - July 23, 2012
M-Th 9am-7pm, F-Sa 9am-5pm.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.
(919) 660-3663
February 16, 2012 - June 17, 2012 
"Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art" Art Exhibit
Featuring 34 masterworks by Alexander Calder with the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices are bound to Calder's legacy as modern sculptor. The exhibition, organized The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, is accompanied by a fully-illlustrated catalogue. Tickets $10, $5 youth & students, FREE for children 6 and under (discounts good once a day).
February 16, 2012 - June 17, 2012
10am-5pm T,W,F,Sa; 10am-9pm Th, 12-5pm Su
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2001 Campus Dr.
(919) 684-5135
March 21, 2012 - August 31, 2012 
"Fragments From Another Life" Photography Exhibit
Rhonda Klevansky, a South African photographer, writer and documentary filmmaker, illustrates the plight of political asylum seekers. Klevansky’s portraits, taken between 2000 and 2002, feature refugees holding personal items from their home countries, such as vases, books of poetry and music boxes to traditional clothing. The photographs include handwritten annotations detailing the subject’s personal connection to the items. FREE and open to the public.
March 21, 2012 - August 31, 2012
8am-5pm M-F.
Rubenstein Hall in the Sanford Institute at Duke, Science Dr.
(919) 613-7394
April 3, 2012 - May 31, 2012 
"Jazzilicious" Art Exhibit
Expressive jazz inspired paintings by Eric McRay. FREE admission.
April 3, 2012 - May 31, 2012
10am-7pm M-F, 10am-3pm Sa
Lyda Moore Merrick Gallery at the Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St
(919) 683-1709
April 13, 2012 - May 27, 2012 
Durham Art Guild Members' Show
Works by Kelly Cross, Warren Hicks, Linwood Hart-and 3D artist Renee Leverty. FREE admission.
April 13, 2012 - May 27, 2012
9am-9pm M-Sa.
Durham Arts Council Bldg., 120 Morris St.
(919) 560-2713
April 14, 2012 - June 3, 2012 
"The Color & Light of Mountains" Art Exhibit
Works on paper by Annette deFerrari. FREE admission.
April 14, 2012 - June 3, 2012
M-Sa 10am-7pm, Su 12-6pm
Golden Belt Bldg 3 ROOM 100, 807 E. Main St.
919 560-2713
April 14, 2012 - June 30, 2012 
U-pick Strawberries
Pick your own strawberries at Durhams only u-pic strawberry farm. Visit the website for more info.
April 14, 2012 - June 30, 2012
8am-7pm M-Sa.
Waller Family Farm, 5005 Kerley Rd.
(919) 225-4305
April 15, 2012 - May 31, 2012 
"BIG PEOPLE" Photography Exhibit
Hernan Navarrete has used his cameras to explore the impact of size with informal and journalistic portraits. These images are roughly life-size. FREE admission.
April 15, 2012 - May 31, 2012
T-F 10:30am-5:30pm, Sa 10:30am-4pm.
Through This Lens, 303 E Chapel Hill St.
(919) 687-0250
April 19, 2012 - May 31, 2012 
"Soul Souvenirs: Durham's Musical Memories from the 1960s and 1970s" Art Exhibit
The official gallery exhibit for the Bull City Soul Revival, a locally-based humanities project seeking to recover Durham's rich heritage of soul, funk and R&B music. Yet "Soul Souvenirs" is not only about music. The exhibit will also touch on radio and television, record stores and night clubs, local high schools and churches, and even the civil rights and black power movements of the era. In short, this exhibit tells the story of Durham's African American community in the 1960s and 1970s. FREE admission.
April 19, 2012 - May 31, 2012
10am-7pm M-F, 10am-3pm Sa
Lyda Moore Merrick Gallery at the Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St
(919) 683-1709
April 20, 2012 - July 15, 2012 
2012 Art Exhibit
Three solo shows: Sixteen Slices of Love by Peter Filene will be on view in the Allenton Gallery. The Salvage Series by Marty Edmunds and Transluclandia by Darryl Halbrooks will be showing in the Semans Gallery. The exhibits are part of the Durham Arts Council's year round exhibit program. The public is invited to a free Artists' Reception as part of Third Friday on April 20th, from 5-7pm.
9am-5pm.
Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris St.
(919) 560-2787

Quilts Exhibition by Christine Hager-Braun
Looking Closely: Art Quilts by Christine Hager-Braun, will be shown in the Durham Arts Council’s Ella Fountain Pratt Legacy Gallery. Christine Hager-Braun is a two-time Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant Recipient (2007-2008 and 2011-2012). Her abstract art quilts and fabric compositions often explore emotions, their effect on individuals and their influence on relationships. In addition, she finds artistic inspiration in nature.
9am-5pm.
Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris St.
(919) 560-2787
April 21, 2012 - June 24, 2012 
"Adventures in Painting: Watercolors to Acrylics" Art Exhibit
Paintings by Durham artist Marie Crock. FREE admission.
April 21, 2012 - June 24, 2012
1-5pm Sa & Su.
Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography at West Point on the Eno City Park, 5101 N. Roxboro Rd.
(919) 471-1623
April 21, 2012 - July 8, 2012 
"Wolves and Wild Lands in the 21st Century" Exhibit
Learn about these fascinating creatures and their struggle to survive, the cultural and economic pressures which continue to shape their existence and the challenges that wolves and people face coexisting in the same place. This visually captivating exhibit features 6 canid specimens - five wolves and a coyote. Free with Museum admission.
April 21, 2012 - July 8, 2012
Museum of Life and Science, 433 Murray Ave.
(919) 220-5429
April 26, 2012 - July 27, 2012 
New Horizons Student Art Exhibition
New Horizons is an annual juried showing of art by NCCU's students, selected from works created in all the art studio classes offered by the NCCU Department of Art during the academic year. The show includes sculptures, paintings, drawings, photography, ceramics, computer graphics, prints and crafts. FREE admission.
April 26, 2012 - July 27, 2012
9am-4:30pm T-F.
NCCU Art Museum, 1801 Fayetteville St.
(919) 530-6211
April 30, 2012 - June 28, 2012 
Individual IRS Help Appointment Only
If you are an individual that has received a notice from the IRS reflecting a deficiency, audit, or are engaging in litigation with the IRS FREE tax assistance may be available to you. Call for income requirements and to schedule an appointment.
By appointment on select days 1-3pm.
Turner Law School at NCCU, 1801 Fayetteville St.
(919) 530-6601
May 5, 2012 - August 12, 2012 
"Transition Of Photography" Photography Exhibit
A retrospective of work by artist Douglas Prince, who has devoted himself to exploring photography from complex, multi-negative-silver-gelatin prints, to photo sculptures, to digital prints and presentations. His earlier work is technically complex, and idea rich. His current work has built on a decades of study and practice, and incorporates the most current technologies. FREE admission.
May 5, 2012 - August 12, 2012
T-F 10:30am-5:30pm, Sa 10:30am-4pm.
Through This Lens, 303 E. Chapel Hill St.
(919) 687-0250
May 15, 2012 - June 30, 2012 
"Maji Moto: Dispatches from a Drought" Photography Exhibit
Photographs and lyrical essays Courtney Fitzpatrick, who spent 17 months in the remote Amboseli basin of Kenya during 2009 and 2010. As Amboseli descended into, suffered from, and eventually emerged from the worst drought in living memory, her evocative writing and photographs became a personal record of a fragile ecosystem. The limited edition book produced from these records will be part of the exhibit. FREE admission.
May 15, 2012 - June 30, 2012
F 11am-2pm and by appointment, 6-9pm 3rd Fridays
Bull City Arts Collaborative, 401-B Foster St.
(919) 599-0684
May 18, 2012 - June 9, 2012 
"Re-Used With Care" Art Exhibit
Featuring colorful mixed media collage and assemblage by Durham artist EJ Greaves. FREE admission.
May 18, 2012 - June 9, 2012
M-W 11am-5pm; Th-F 11am-9pm; Sa 11am-5pm; Su 12-5pm.
The Scrap Exchange, 923 Franklin St
(919) 688-6960
May 18, 2012 - July 14, 2012 
Pottery by Cynthia Bringle and Sarah McCarthy
FREE admission.
T-Sa. 1-6pm, Opening Reception F 5/18, 6-9 pm.
Claymakers Gallery, 705 Foster St
(919) 530-8355
May 19, 2012 - July 7, 2012 
"That Was Then" Art Exhibit
That Was Then reunites George Jenne, a Rhode Island School of Design faculty member and current UNC-Chapel Hill Teaching Fellow, with his early mentor Paul Hrusovsky, the well-known Triangle artist and arts advocate. The gallery will be transformed as Hrusovsky’s brilliant canvases play against Jenne’s provocative installations. FREE admission.
M-F 10am-6pm, Sa 10am-4pm.
Craven Allen Gallery, 1106-1/2 Broad St.
(919) 286-4837

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