United Arts Wake County

"My Perfect Nature" Duo Show, Jiahn Kang & Polina Vee
2024-05-09 12:30 - 2024-06-02 12:00 (America/New_York) | Peel Gallery, 708 W Rosemary St, Carrboro, Carrboro, 27510
Celebrate the convergence of artistic expression at our exclusive duo art exhibition, ‘My Perfect Nature,’ featuring the captivating works of Jiahn Kang and Polina Vee.
Jiahn Kang’s pieces draw from the vivid palette and intricate textures of the natural world, imbued with themes of gratitude and the joy of embracing each moment in our journey.
In contrast, Polina Vee’s exploration delves into the metamorphosis of our visages and forms, prompting contemplation on life’s transient essence and inevitable changes.
Embark on a sensory journey through our exhibition’s rich tapestry of cultural narratives and tactile experiences.
Join us for the grand opening reception at Peel Gallery on May 10th, from 6pm to 9pm,
and immerse yourself in the interplay of artistic visions.

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 | 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.

All the Colors of the World
2024-06-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Hayes Barton United Methodist Church, 2209 Fairview Rd, Raleigh, NC, United States
As the Cyndi Lauper song proclaims, “True colors are beautiful, like a rainbow.” In this program the 40-voice chamber choir uses the concept of color in musical pieces like “My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose”, “Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” or ”Bein’ Green” as a prism for viewing our natural world and the humanity that comprises it. Through a rainbow of choral colors we celebrate our differences and our similarities.

WTF Town Hall
2024-06-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
A series of weekly Town Hall forums curated by The National Women’s Theatre Festival about, for, and with theatremakers. Town Hall events take place every Monday night in April & May from 7:30-9pm ET on Zoom. Register for free through Eventbrite.

Radio
2024-06-05 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-06-08 16:30 - 19:00, 2024-06-13 19:30 - 22:00 | 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

Ex-Boyfriends
2024-06-06 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-06-07 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-06-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St, Raleigh, 27604
Step into Maya’s world of love, laughter and heartbreak as she takes you on a wild ride through the complex landscape of her past relationships in Ex=Boyfriends. This thought-provoking and hilarious show delves into the depths of Maya’s psyche, where her ex-boyfriends double as manifestations of her inner struggles. From grappling with religion to challenging toxic masculinity, each former flame represents a unique facet of Maya’s emotional journey. Get ready to laugh, cry, and reflect on love, life, and the tangled threads that connect us all.

Cabaret - Meet the Director, Nancy Rich
2024-06-07 18:30 - 19:15 | The Justice Theater Project, 8208 Brownleigh Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27617-7411, United States
The Justice Theater Project Premieres the acclaimed musical Cabaret on Friday, June 7, 2024. We’ll pop the champagne for our traditional Opening Night, Meet the Director, Nancy Rich, with the discussion starting at 6:40 p.m. Snacks provided. No tickets are required for the discussion—tickets are required for the 7:30 p.m. show.

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.

Pure Life Theatre and Burning Coal Theatre Present:
2024-06-08 18:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-16 14:00 - 17:00 | 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, 2024-06-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-15 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-16 14:00 - 16:00 | 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.

A House (After Ibsen’s Ghosts)
2024-06-09 16:30 - 18:30 | 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 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 of secrets, shadows, lies and ghosts.

A House (after Ibsen’s Ghosts)
2024-06-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-06-15 14:00 - 17:00 | 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 of secrets, shadows, lies and ghosts.

Town of Knightdale African American Festival
2024-06-15 16:00 - 21:00 | Knightdale Station Park, 810 N First Ave, Knightdale, NC, 27545, United States
The Town of Knightdale, in partnership with Choice FM and the Knightdale – Wake Forest Education Foundation, invites you to join us for the African American Festival in Knightdale. It is a family-centered festival celebrating African American culture with live music, arts and crafts, vendors, community resources, and ethnic foods. It will provide an opportunity to showcase and celebrate the unique traditions, customs, and beliefs of the African American community.

Ex-Boyfriends
2024-06-15 16:30 - 19:00 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St, Raleigh, 27604
Step into Maya’s world of love, laughter, and heartbreak as she takes you on a wild ride through the complex landscape of her past relationships in Ex-Boyfriends. This thought-provoking and hilarious show delves into the depths of Maya’s psyche, where her ex-boyfriends double as manifestations of her inner struggles. From grappling with religion to challenging toxic masculinity, each former flame represents a unique fact of Maya’s emotional journey. Get ready to laugh, cry, and reflect on love, life and the tangled threads that connect us all.

Cabaret Talkback – The Justice Theater Project
2024-06-16 15:45 - 16:30 | The Justice Theater Project, 8208 Brownleigh Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27617-7411, United States
Sunday, June 16th – Talkback with the Cast and Crew of CABARET immediately after the 3:30 p.m. show. No tickets are required to attend this talkback. No charge.
The Justice Theater Project
8208 Brownleigh Drive
Raleigh, NC 27617
