BOLÉRO
2025-02-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-09 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-15 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-15 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-23 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | AJ Fletcher Opera Theater, 2 E SOUTH ST, RALEIGH, NC, 27601-2337, United States
The Spring Season opens with a playful and unique interpretation of Maurice Ravel’s “Boléro”, choreographed by the imaginative Lynne Taylor-Corbett. A “perfect” couple prepares for a “perfect” day at the beach.
“The elements conspire against them to ruin their day,” Taylor-Corbett explains. “It’s just a pure, unadulterated fantasy.”
Included in this program is a new ballet from Amy Hall Garner.

Soul Resonance: Restore and Cello
2025-02-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Yoga Inspired Raleigh, 7713 Lead Mine Rd Suite 3, Raleigh, 27615
Join Lauren Demberg and Jean Gay (jgCello) for a 90-minute restorative yoga class accompanied by live cello, designed to create a deeply healing, relaxing, and rejuvenating experience through the powerful energy of sound. This class will hold passive poses on the floor for longer than other styles of yoga. With the use of props, you will settle into a pose making yourself comfortable with the goal to fully relax your body. The main focus of Restorative Yoga is to enable deep physical, mental, and emotional relaxation. Feeling the support of props around you, focusing on your breathing, and giving your body the rest that it deserves benefits your overall health. Immerse yourself in the soothing sounds and warm vibrations of Jean’s cello in a beautiful, candlelit room. This soft practice will help you recharge and relieve stress. Reserve your participation via GloFox on Yoga Inspired’s website for $35 per person.

Fiber Arts: A Bag To Die For (Women Only)
2025-02-10 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-17 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-24 13:00 - 16:00 | The Joel Fund, 822 S White Street, Wake Forest, 27587
Learn how to naturally dye fabrics to transform a simple bag into accessory art. Make a personalized tote bag using a pocket face made from naturally dyed fabrics. Your unique textile collage pocket will bear artwork made from stitch meditations from your own hand as you learn from the instructor, Grace McFetters Caldwell, how to use specialized stitches to create a composition then apply to the tote bag as a pocket. No one in the world will have a matching tote bag like yours, and you’ll be learning skills like dyeing with natural materials like plants and bugs and hand stitching techniques that can be used every day to embellish, mend, and create.
Students will participate in the Spring Student Showcase in May 2025 to showcase their work.
Specific dates: 1/13, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/3 (make up date 3/10)
SKIP 1/20 (MLK Day) and 2/17 (Presidents Day)
A make up date will be used if a class is canceled due to the instructor’s illness, inclement weather, or an emergency. If you are running late to class, or will miss a class, please contact the instructor directly or the Operation ART Program Manager at isabella@thejoelfund.org or 919 200 0886.
This class is for women only.
We offer scholarships for those who cannot afford the registration fee. To receive the scholarship promo code, email the Operation ART Program Manager at isabella@thejoelfund.org with your name and military connection.

FAIRVIEW
2025-02-14 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-15 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-02-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-21 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-02-21 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-22 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-23 15:30 - 17:00 | The Justice Theater Project, 8208 Brownleigh Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27617-7411, United States
Nothing is what it seems in this comic, challenging, and searing 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama. The committee called the play “a hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices.” In Fairview, the Frasier family prepares for Grandma’s birthday, but not everything goes according to plan, and things quickly go in unexpected directions for both the characters and the audience. What begins as a seemingly pleasant, playful examination of a blatantly stereotyped African-American family morphs into a scalpel-sharp commentary on racism, prejudice, and white privilege. The play’s eventual destruction of the fourth wall delivers themes brazenly to its audience in an unforgettable theatre event. The show’s concept came from conversations with director Sarah Benson, Sibblies Drury says. “We were both interested in thinking about surveillance and why it affects people of color in a deeper way,” she says. “And this idea of being watched by someone as a person of color — there is automatically some sort of sense of suspicion, especially if the watcher is a white person. And so we started from a place of trying to create what in the theater felt like a normal black family, and then introducing the idea of someone watching that family — and that watching [changes] their behavior and the course of their lives.”
Sunday, February 16th, after the show: “Talkback with the Cast and Crew,” – stay for insights from our cast about their characters, what it is like to play these roles, and how they adapt to the character.
Saturday, February 22nd, 6:15 pm: “Who Do You Think You Are?: Racial Identities and Doing the Work to Understand Your Own Starting Point” presented by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Effua Sosoo is a licensed therapist who specializes in race-related stress and how it impacts the bodies and mood responses of Black individuals. In this pre-show discussion, she will provide context for some of the issues and topics that the audience will encounter in the play, inviting attendees to think about black and white racial identities, white liberalism, and ways that our own perceptions and experiences of the world shape our interactions with both our own and other cultures.

Digging Deeper: Stories in Local Archaeology Surviving Extinction: Land Claims & Tuscarora Treaties
2025-02-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Mordecai Historic Park, 1101 Wake Forest rd., Raleigh, NC, 27604, United States
Come join us as Donnie “Rahnàwakęw” McDowell leads the presentation, “Surviving Extinction: Land Claims & Tuscarora Treaties”, which analyzes the unique relationships the ancestors of the Tuscarora Nation established with the colonial government of the State of North Carolina.
By placing a lens on the original agreements made between the Tuscarora and the new coming colonists, we better comprehend the diplomatic strategies and cultural philosophies of each culture. Discussions include ancient Tuscarora archaeological sites across the State, conflict with Europeans during the colonial era, the establishment of Wake County and the City of Raleigh, and the NC Assembly’s longstanding policy of Tuscarora disenfranchisement.

Impact Series: Valentine's Concert with Tactile Tour of Instruments
2025-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Church of the Nativity, 8849 Ray Rd, Raleigh, NC, United States
Tactile Tour at 1:45 pm/ Concert at 3pm.
Church of the Nativity 8849 Ray Rd. Raleigh
With close seating and accessibility for wheelchairs and audio descriptions provided by Arts Access. Sensory kits are available.
NCCMI Chamber Music Ensembles and Faculty Artists perform classical and popular music for the Valentine’s holiday. With a preconcert Tactile Tour of Instruments! The concert will also be recorded and streamed with captions on the NCCMI YouTube Channel on March 2 at 5:00pm.
Attendance is free and open to the general public. Attendees are requested to register at https://forms.gle/T75DZqQhjPMEb4P5A

Romance in the Air
2025-02-16 16:00 - 17:30 | The Rialto, 1620 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, 27608
Celebrate your Valentine’s Day with a 16-voice chamber choir, piano, bass, and drums. This season we feature the pop mega hits of the legendary piano men Billy Joel and Elton John. Come enjoy classics like Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”, “The Longest Time”, as well as Elton John’s “Your Song” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?”. Raleigh’s iconic Rialto Theatre serves as a new venue for this concert.

Shadow Casting: Live Words with Live Sounds
2025-02-19 19:00 - 21:00
Come experience a graceful night of spoken word and integrated live soundscape. We’re elevating ritual and taking you along with us.
Jean Gay, Johnny Lee Chapman III, Sam Stifelman, and Sam Pepple will weave together a blend of poetic voices and instruments (cello, guitar, flute, various percussion, sound bowls) to take you places, all in an intimate, candlelit space at the Raleigh Denim curatory. Doors open at 7; the experience begins promptly at 7:20.

United Strings of Color at International Children's Day
2025-02-21 08:00 - 17:00 | City of Raleigh Museum, 220 Fayetteville St., Raleigh, 27601
Artists Studio Project, in collaboration with The Friends of the City of Raleigh Museum and United Strings of Color, is excited to announce the 3rd Annual International Children’s Day event. This event forms part of the 10th Annual El Quixote Festival.
There is an exciting line up in our program that includes lots of Local Children’s Authors. United Strings of Color will perform about 2:00 pm.
This year’s presentations include the participation of:
– Local Children’s Authors – Bilingual Book Fair
– Bilingual Storytime with Wake County Public Libraries
– Paperhand Puppet Intervention
– Luke Vandergriff – Pepito & The Trash Cans
– Master Puppeteer Jeghetto – Tarish Jeghetto Pipkins
– Ballet Folklorico Orgullo y Alma Latina – Fabian Vargas
– United Strings of Color – Ijapa and Mr. Igbin
– Craft Table, Balloons and much more!

Engaged to Death: An Interactive Murder Mystery
2025-02-21 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Zin Yoga Studio & Wine Lounge, 104 Rand Mill Rd, Garner, 27529
Seed Art Share is excited to step into historic downtown Garner for an evening of laughs, mystery, and a celebration of community! We are proud to present Doug Simpson’s interactive 1920’s whodunnit adapted specifically for the Garner community. A hilarious cast of local musicians, improvisers, and actors will lead us through the “Breezy Speakeasy” – aka Zin Yoga and Wine. As the wine and laughs flow, mayhem ensues at this engagement party requiring guests to solve a murder by voting on one of multiple endings!

ASM Music Series presents Jean Park, pianist
2025-02-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Ashe School of Music, 201 W Center St, Holly Springs, NC, 27540, United States
Ashe School of Music is excited to present our inaugural event for the ASM Music and Arts Series. We will invite various musicians, visual artists, and other members of the arts community to share their talents with us throughout the year. This music and arts series is presented in cooperation with the Holly Springs Arts Council.
Our first concert is this Sunday evening, February 23rd, anticipated to be one hour in length. Jean Park, pianist, will conduct a masterclass at 6:00pm followed by a “mini” recital at 6:30pm.
We hope you will join us for this event, free of charge and open to the public. The concert will be held at our main studio downtown, 201 W Center St in Holly Springs. It is kid friendly!

Black Culture at the MIC
2025-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 | CAM Raleigh, 409 W Martin St, Raleigh, 27603
Griot and Grey Owl & CAM Raleigh Presents a Fundraising Concert Wednesday Feb 26th
Special Performance : Comedy, Poetry & Music starts at 6:30pm
Tickets $15
Cam Raleigh, 409 Martin St. Raleigh, NC

Laugh Out Loud: Black & Proud - Black Magic
2025-02-27 20:00 - 21:30 | TR Studio, 3027 Barrow Drive, Raleigh, 27616
“Laugh Out Loud: Black And Proud” transcends the traditional bounds of comedy, offering a unique celebration of African-American humor, storytelling, and artistic expression. This innovative production showcases a fusion of uproarious sketches, dynamic stand-up performances, and musical interludes.
We’re bringing the magic of Black folklore and fairy tales to life, with a modern twist, and we want YOU to be part of it. From exploring workplace BS and microaggressions to celebrating unity and reproductive rights, the writers are hard at work crafting sketches that will make you laugh, think, and feel.
LOL: BAP is not just a show; it’s a celebration of Black culture through laughter.
Performances 2/20-2/23 will be at Mettlesome Theatre in Durham (800 Taylor St Suite 9-156, Durham, NC 27701)
Performances 2/27-3/2 will be at TR Studio in Raleigh (3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC 27616)
Recommended only for Mature Audiences
