[Durham INC] Events: green jobs; lectures; exhibits; plays; doc film; farmer's market hours; & more

Sun Feb 20 00:35:39 EST 2011

There are a number of reasons why I offer suggestions about what activities
are available in Durham.* I like to promote and desire that people take
advantage of opportunities that are in our backyard. I want people to take
breaks, especially workaholics. I strongly believe that taking time off from
work helps to prevent burn out and makes people even more productive. I
think that going to events with family and friends can serve as alternatives
to gift buying. 

Events and Activities

Visual arts = blue, movies & plays = brown, music = red, and others
(including political events) = black

Sunday February 20, 6 pm

A Conversation With Lee Breuer, the world renowned experimental theatre
playwright and director

ManBites Dog Theater hosts a conversation about his recent and current
radical interpretations of the work of Henrik Ibsen and Tennessee Williams
and the history of his internationally renowned experimental theater troupe
Mabou Mines.

http://theupstager.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/a-conversation-with-lee-breuer/

ManBites Dog Theater,
703 Foster Street in Durham.
This event is free and open to the public.

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Feb. 21-25 (Mon-Fri) between the hours of 11am-12:30pm and 2-5pm

HELPING HAITI

Little Green Pig and ManBites Dog are teaming up again to help our friends
in Haiti recover from last year¹s hurricane.
This year we¹ve been given a list of specific items that can best improve
the lives of children at the St. Joseph¹s Family of orphanages in
Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. If you¹re able to donate any of the list below,
please drop them off at ManBites Dog.
--hair ribbons, barrettes, scrunchies, hairbands, and other hair
thing-a-mabobs. 
--also children's athletic shoes, crocs, and socks
--school supplies especially primary school lined writing pads
--children's underwear
PLEASE NO BULK CLOTHES, TOWELS, SHEETS, ETC.
(This is not a large airlift like last year¹s incredible effort).
Of you can¹t get items to Manbites Dog but still want to help, please call
me at #452-9204 and we¹ll set up another site/time.

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February 23  26 8pm
March 2 - 5 8pm

STROKE/BOOK

Little Green Pig brings you its latest world premiere by David Turkel, one
of America¹s most exciting underground playwrights.... Inspired by Yukio
Mishima¹s modern adaptations of classic Noh dramas, David Turkel¹s
STROKE/ BOOK tell two stories about the intertwined worlds of the living and
the dead. ³a night of linked one-acts filled with power and mystery.²

In STROKE, a scheming Victorian family forces a young girl to confront her
burgeoning womanhood through a hasty courtship. Over the course of a single
evening, she reunites with her dead twin brother and discovers a terrifying
truth about the place she inhabits.

BOOK, set in contemporary America, begins with a teenager soliciting a
prostitute with money he earned from babysitting her mentally challenged
son. This proposition launches a pattern of shame and betrayal that pursues
the boy for decades  through war and recovery, fame and anonymity, marriage
and divorce, and, possibly, future generations.
    House sizes are very small so reserve now! Tickets/info:
http://littlegreenpig.com/tix.htm 452-9204

Golden Belt (Building B) www.goldenbeltarts.com/index.shtml  967-7700
807 East Main Street
Durham, NC 27701
Directions www.goldenbeltarts.com/about_locationDirection.shtml

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Thursday, February 24, 7 p.m.

American Idealist: the Story of Sargent Shriver / A Film by Bruce Orenstein

Peace Corps, VISTA, Community Action, Head Start, Legal Services for the
Poor, Youth Corps, Job Corps, and more. Sargent Shriver invented a string of
social initiatives that shaped an era and dared millions of young Americans
to live out their ideals. American Idealist brings Shriver's story to life
in a powerful 90-minute depiction of practical activism, and it offers a
hopeful vision of what this nation could be and could do, based on the
experience of what it once did when pushed by the civil rights movement and
guided by the War on Poverty.

The evening will include an Introduction by Bruce Orenstein, Artist in
Residence at the Center for Documentary Studies, who is the writer,
director, and producer of the film.

The screening is free and open to the general public.

Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus, Duke University

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March 2, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Durham Economic Resource Center (DERC) Career Fair and Trade Show

This year, DERC is partnering with the Black, Brown, Green Alliance (BBGA)
and is focusing on green and sustainable technology careers and businesses.
There is a $50 registration fee for prospective employers and trade show
participants. If you have any questions contact Rose Greene, Career
Development Facilitator at 682-5912 or 641-3481.

Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park

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Thursday, March 3  5:30  8

Empty Bowls¹ 11; with Urban Ministries of Durham

Serve up soups from some of Durham's top restaurants and beautifully
handcrafted bowls from local artisans with live music, local celebrity soup
judges, tasty desserts and more.
www.umdurham.org/news-and-events/events/empty-bowls-a-soul-warming-evening-t
o-benefit-the-community-cafe.html

Durham Armory
Foster St. Durham

Tickets are $30 for soup and bowl and $15 for soup only. Children 6 and
under admitted free.

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March 4, 5, 11 & 12 at 8:00 pm
March 12 at 2:00 pm

³Alice, a mad musical adventure!² presented by Durham Family Theatre

The musical is based on Lewis Carroll¹s Alice books.

Trinity United Methodist Church
215 N. Church Street, downtown Durham

TICKETS: $12 (more if you can/less if you can¹t) at the door or in advance
from 
<http://durhamfamilytheatre.wordpress.com>

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* Connie Imboden, March 4th, is a very small show - only 4 images - but she
has agreed to give a talk, including a "slide" show. Connie has three or
four books, some of which will be available here.
* through March 12 ChemoToxic photographs by Dr. Willie Osterman. Osterman
documents his wife's changes through successful cancer treatment.
www.throughthislens.com/osterman.html
          Photographic Abstractions, by Vicki H. Wilson, hangs in the small
gallery, so so the schedule partly overlaps    ChemoToxic.
* Color Fidelity in the Digital Workflow is Sunday afternoon only.
* Ami Vitale will be the next big show, opening on April 17th.

Through This Lens, Inc.
303 E. Chapel Hill Street Durham, NC 27701
www.throughthislens.com

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through March 18

Tree of Knowledge: Handmade books by Michael Greer

A collection of leather bound books by Durham-based binder Michael Greer.
The show explores both the history and processes of fine bookbinding. More
info on Michael at http://leatherboundbindery.com/default.aspx

H O R S E   &   B U G G Y   P R E S S  9494847
401-B1 Foster St Durham, North Carolina  27701
http://www.horseandbuggypress.com

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Saturdays through April 2 10 am to noon.

Durham Farmers¹ Market

The Durham Farmers¹ Market is a producer-only market featuring the produce
and wares of more than 50 vendors, all of whom are located within 70 miles
of the market. The market offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, meats,
eggs, cheeses, cut flowers, baked goods, jellies, potted plants, honey,
handmade chocolates, local wines, hand-made soaps, pottery, jewelry and
artwork of all sorts.

For more information check out the produce and events calendars at
<http://www.durhamfarmersmarket.com> or call 919-667-3099.   

Pavilion at Durham Central Park 
501 Foster Street in downtown Durham

Laura
403-2248 (new phone number unfortunately not in current phone book)

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