INC NEWS - Events: War Toys Exchange, Doc Studies Project Presentations, Book signing of Durham Tales

[Laura Drey]

Events

Blue = visual arts, brown = movies & plays, red= music, purple = dance and
black = others (including political events)

Today, Friday, December 5   12:30 - 2PM

Book signing of Durham Tales by Jim Wise

There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within
these pages. Journalist and local historian Jim Wise relates how Bull Durham
smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map; how a plastic cow
and an oversized flag cut the city council down to size; how it felt to
travel back in time at the Duke Homestead; and how sportsman Al Mann and Mom
Ruby Planck left indelible marks on their hometown.

Durham's stories are its own, but in them readers may find people, places
and truths that resonate with hometowns everywhere.

Duke's Gothic Bookstore in Duke¹s Bryan Center (behind Duke Chapel).

Copies of the new book are available at several bookstores including the
Regulator, Stagville, and Gothic.

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Today, Friday, December 5,   7 p.m.

Certificate in Documentary Studies Final Projects Presentations and
Reception

Liisa Bozinovic
Making Connections [Video] about professionals who care for assisted-living
residents in the advanced stages of a debilitating disease like Alzheimer¹s
and about understanding an Alzheimer¹s patient as a mother, an uncle, a
sister, or a brother.

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Rhonda Klevansky 
Welcome to My Paradise [Video] is the story of the partnership between a
South African AIDS orphanand a migrant from Mozambique.

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Carol Laurey
Leaving Home [Video] follows the stories of four older couples as they make
the decision to move to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC).

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Brett Walters
Sight/Site of Men of Maize, 2001­2007 [Photography] collection of images
provides a small glimpse into the lives of subsistence farmers and poor city
dwellers.

³A story is what makes the other a person who is more real, more fully
understood, more human to us. This is precisely why documentaries are so
compelling and so essential. For without knowing the stories happening all
around us, how can we hope to begin to understand our changing world and the
people we share it with?
 
The projects provide diverse examples of the documentary impulse. [Other
types of medium are also possible for final projects.] They were born out of
the unique passions and deeply individual interests of the people who made
them.²  

Center for Documentary Studies
Pettigrew St. Durham
DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html

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December 11, 6:00 ­ 8:00 pm

Durham Peace Toys for War Toys Exchange
Cosponsored by North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Education Fund,
Calvary Ministries of the Westend Community, Inc., Project Safe
Neighborhoods 

Contact at Durham Police: Jennifer Snyder (919) 560-4335 x243

Collecting new, unwrapped, NONVIOLENT toys by December 10.

1.   Toy donations can be dropped off in the collection barrel in the lobby
of Durham Police Headquarters at 505 W. Chapel Hill St., Durham, NC 27701

2.   Monetary contribution: 100% will be spent on the Toy Exchange. Please
put Toy Exchange in the memo line of your check.

Parents are invited to bring their preschool and elementary school children
to the exchange their old "war toys" for brand-new "peace toys."

o  War toys are any type of violent toy, from killer robots and toy guns to
violent video games.

o  Peace toys are those that encourage challenging and creative, nonviolent
activities. 

Toys not distributed at the event will be given to needy children by Durham
police officers and staff.

Held at Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park,
1313 Halley St., Durham

RSVP by December 5: (919) 403-7665  gneely at ncgv.org.

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Saturday, December 13, at 8:00 pm
Sunday December 14, at 4:00 pm

Christmas Concerts by the Chloral Society of Durham

³Performing Christopher Rouse's KAROLJU, an exciting 1990 choral/orchestral
suite of "Christmas carols" couched in an overall form similar to that of
Carl Orff's wild -n-wacky Carmina Burana, with "texts" written in Latin,
Swedish, French, Spanish, Russian, Czech, German, and Italian . . . . except
that much of each "text" is linguistic nonsense!   ("Translations" will be
provided!)  Rouse says that he intended "to match the sound of the language
to the style of the carol to which it was applied."  This piece, actually,
is a little crazy!  But the music is unforgettable.

And, of course, the 2nd half of the concert will be full of our usual
assortment of beautiful Christmas carols (real ones in the 2nd half!).

Come and find out for yourself.²

Duke Chapel
Duke University, Durham
 
Tickets are $20.  


Laura

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