FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: DANCE Class ‘24 Edition (May 2024)
2024-05-24 - 2024-06-09 | Rogue Dancer Productions, On-Line, International, NC, 00000, United States
FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: DANCE Class ‘24 Edition (May 2024)
May 24 – June 9, 2024
https://www.roguedancer.org/filmfest-by-rogue-dancer
With the guidance of their mentors and teachers, students are finding their big voices on tiny screens, practicing comp class on big screens and teachers are using the student body to illustrate the embodied camera. Using editing as an extension of the choreographic process. Vice versa, mix ‘em up, chance, experimental and sometimes orderly depending on the work. Introducing the future of DANCE Film.
FilmFest by Rogue Dancer is a DANCE film festival that offers a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for DANCE Films. Each month Dance films are elegantly sorted into unexpected themes. We are committed to serving the DANCE community and to ensuring that wonderful DANCE movie projects from across the globe can be seen and appreciated by as wide an audience as possible.
o DANCE FILM (verb /dæns/ noun /fɪlm/) synonymous with Dance on Film, Dance on Screen, Screen Dance, ScreenDance, Video Dance, Dance Cinema… etc. you get the picture.
Featured DANCE Filmmakers: Olivia Jean Buckley, Julie Anne Carrier, Linnan Liu, Rileigh Morrow Goldsmith, Lily Andrews, Ramona Haywood, Darius Anthony, Lauren Linder, Ivy Nicole Jonet & Lee Edwards, Lily Selthofner & Robin Prichard

Art Exhibition: The Weight On My Shoulders
2024-06-01 09:00 - 2024-06-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | Southeast Regional Library, 908 7th Avenue, Garner, 27529
Addressing the Silent Battles: Drinking Gourd Gallery Presents Exhibition Spotlighting Men’s
Mental Health in Civilian and Veteran Communities to highlight the pervasive, but often overlooked issue of men’s mental health.
Drinking Gourd Gallery proudly announces its upcoming exhibition, “The Weight on My Shoulders.”
This group exhibition seeks to shed light on the unique challenges faced by men coping with mental
health issues, particularly within the context of civilian and veteran life. The exhibition will run from June
1 through June 30, 2024, at the Southeast Regional Library in Garner, North Carolina, commemorating
Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month.
Men across all walks of life frequently grapple with mental health concerns, yet societal stigmas often
prevent open dialogue and hinder access to support. Against this backdrop, “The Weight on My
Shoulders” aims to spark conversation, promote understanding, and provide a platform for healing.
Featuring more than 30 objects, including paintings, drawings, photography and video, the exhibition
delves into various aspects of men’s mental health experiences. Through poignant narratives and
evocative imagery, visitors will gain insight into the complexities of these challenges and the pathways to
resilience and recovery.

A House (After Ibsen’s Ghosts)
2024-06-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St, Raleigh, 27604
In Burning Coal’s production of A House (After Ibsen’s Ghosts), adapted by Lucius Robinson and Jerome Davis from the play by Henrik Ibsen, the ‘father of modern drama’ and a notorious ‘ladies’ man’ we meet the Alvings and the Engstrands, two families at polar opposite ends of the economic spectrum (and all played by actor Lucius Robinson). In this one-person show, Burning Coal regular and current Baltimore resident Lucius Robinson stars under the direction of Burning Coal Artistic Director Jerome Davis. In the play, we watch as a disease, not to be talked about in polite company, comes to infest not just its immediate victim, but the entire community in which he lives. Incest, syphilis, an overbearing mother, a dead but not forgotten father, a maid who may be more than she seems, its all part of Ibsen’s world, a world of secrets, shadows, lies and ghosts.

Radio
2024-06-08 16:30 - 19:00 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St, Raleigh, 27604
Radio tells the story of Charlie Fairbanks, who was born in the dead center of the United States at the dead center of the 20th century. Americans are going to the moon, and Charlie’s sure he’ll be the first one there. But as he shines his spotlight on the moon, so too does it illuminate the darker side to this nations story

Pure Life Theatre and Burning Coal Theatre Present:
2024-06-08 18:30 - 21:00 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St, Raleigh, 27604
Home by Samm Art Williams
Directed by Jade Arnold
Featuring Ajani Kambon, Moriah Williams, and Tydiam Coleman
Every year, Burning Coal Theatre uses its theatre space in Raleigh, NC, to foster young and emerging innovative theatre talent in a series of new works and plays in the summer months.
Optimistic and strong, Cephus Miles is content to work the land on the small North Carolina farm he inherited from his family. Everything is as it should be until his childhood sweetheart rejects him and goes to college. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Cephus refuses to serve and is imprisoned as a draft evader. By the time he is released, Cephus has lost his land to the tax collector, so he heads north to build a new life. With a good job and a slinky new girlfriend, he finds the big city exciting and rewarding. But soon, the dream begins to fade—he loses his job and becomes involved in drugs and prostitution. Pulling himself together, Cephus returns to the land and his old sweetheart. They left to seek happiness elsewhere, and they have returned to one another older, wiser, and aware of the true meaning of HOME. Reception on opening night, June 8, to honor the late Samm Art Williams. Dr. Linda Kerr Norflett will discuss her friendship with Samm Art Williams and how they became friends when she invited him to be a guest artist at North Carolina Central University. Wendell Tabb will be introducing Dr. Norflett. The reception is free.

CABARET
2024-06-08 19:30 - 21:30 | The Justice Theater Project, 8208 Brownleigh Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27617-7411, United States
THE JUSTICE THEATER PROJECT FINISHES ITS 2023-24 SEASON “EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, EVERYONE Issues Of Our Time” WITH THE LONG-AWAITED FINALE, CABARET,” Directed by Nancy Rich and Music Directed by Katherine Anderson June 7-23, 2024.
“Life is a cabaret, ol’ chum, so come to the Cabaret.” In a nightclub set in 1929-1930 Berlin, during the twilight of the Jazz Age, as the Nazis rose to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub that revolves around American Writer Clifford Bfradshaw’s relations with English cabaret performer Sally Bolles. Drawing to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. Employing the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, this musical classic explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Sally Bowles and Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. The musical numbers performed by the Emcee revel in the decadence that serves s a metaphor for the political decline of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi Party, which in a few years, would be closing down establishments like the Kit Kat Klub and burning “Un-German books in the streets of Berlin.
Addressing the issues in the characters’ lives in the late 1920s parallels what we deal with today – racial profiling, inclusiveness, politics, survival, sorrow, and fear because of others in our own lives. CABARET plays with culturally and politically reactionary forces and often follows episodes of significant social change, especially in a progressive direction. Spawning numerous reimagined Broadway revivals, CABARET is among the American theatre’s most enduring musicals. Audience – PG-13.
Content warning:
Cabaret contains depictions of the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s through costumes, scenery, hand gestures and choreography, racial caricatures, and language. It explores mature themes, including anti-Semitism, racism, sexual content, abortion, alcohol, and physical violence. There are depictions of smoking, but no real or fabricated smoke. Please note that this show features a live band, sudden sound effects, and brief sequences of flashing lights.

Home, by Samm Art Williams
2024-06-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St, Raleigh, 27604
Optimistic and strong, Cephus Miles is content to work the land on the small North Carolina farm he inherited from his family. Everything is as it should be until his childhood sweetheart rejects him and goes to college. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Cephus refuses to serve and is imprisoned as a draft evader. By the time he is released , Cephus has lost his land to the tax collector, so he heads north to build a new life. With a good job and a slinky new girlfriend, he finds the big city exciting and rewarding. But soon the dream begins to fade–he loses his job and becomes involved in drugs and prostitution. Pulling himself together, Cephus returns to the land and his old sweetheart. They left to seek happiness elsewhere, and they have returned to one another older, wiser, and aware of the true meaning of HOME.
