INC NEWS - Events

Mon Jul 24 17:05:49 EDT 2006

There are a lot of things going on in Durham including a lecture on
segregation, documentary movies, photography exhibits and a number of music
series.  Please spread the word.

Laura Drey

Thursday, July 27 
“Say No to Jim Crow:  Resistance to Segregation Laws in North Carolina,
1900-1954”
A Talk by Paul Ortíz
Durham County Main Library Auditorium,
300 N. Roxboro St., downtown Durham
7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Paul Ortíz, an expert on the Jim Crow era in the South, will give a talk,
“Say No to Jim Crow:  Resistance to Segregation Laws in North Carolina,
1900-1954,” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 27, in the auditorium of the Main
Library, 300 N. Roxboro Street, in downtown Durham. An associate professor
in the Department of Community Studies at the University of California at
Santa Cruz, Ortíz has spent the month of July in Durham doing research at
Duke’s Special Collections Library for his contribution to a sequel to the
award-winning book Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life
in the Segregated South. The book was edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond
Gavins, and Robert Korstad and published by the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University and The New Press in 2001.

The July 27 program is sponsored by the Durham County Library’s North
Carolina Collection and the Duke University Libraries.

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Wednesday, July 26, 7 p.m.
FLAG WARS
Linda Goode Bryant, filmmaker, to present Flag Wars

Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
1317 W. Pettigrew Street (across from Duke University’s East Campus Off
Swift Ave.) 
919-660-3663
http://cds.aas.duke.edu

FLAG WARS
Flag Wars is a poignant ninety-minute account of economic competition
between two historically oppressed groups, seen through the politics and
pain of gentrification. The setting could be any city with a once-stable
working- and middle-class black community, now aging and economically
depressed, in danger of losing control of their neighborhoods as wealthier
home buyers gentrify block by block. In this case, the neighborhood is in
Columbus, Ohio, and the home buyers are largely white and gay.

The resulting conflicts are a case study of differences in perception. Where
realtors and buyers see run-down homes, black residents see evidence of
institutional racism that steered resources away from this community. What
newer residents see as a beneficial effort to renovate and restore value,
veteran residents see as an assault on their heritage and a threat to their
ability to hold on to their homes.

The events in Flag Wars unfold against a backdrop of racism, homophobia, and
tensions between privilege and poverty. Mix in government zoning boards, the
court system, lending institutions, and civic leaders, and you’ve got a film
that literally hits people “where they live.” Flag Wars explores the
complexity of gentrification and the contradictions between intention and
result, belief and action. It goes beyond merely assigning blame or labeling
people as good guys or bad guys to examine the relationship between housing,
heritage, and public policy.

For more information about Flag Wars:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/flagwars/

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Saturday, July 29, 10:30 a.m.
SHARED PATHWAYS: Collaboration and Community in Southwest Central Durham
A Presentation of Local Video Documentaries
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
1317 W. Pettigrew St (across from Duke University’s East Campus Off Swift
Ave.)  

The Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project and the Center for
Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University invite you to the premiere of
new video documentaries made this July in Durham during an intensive video
institute.  Students returned to Southwest Central Durham to learn more
about the nonprofit organizations that make their home there.  CDS students
developed twenty-eight rich and complex stories of a diverse and exciting
community. The final documentaries are a testament to the power of
documentary work and the compelling nature of community stories–and to the
willingness of all the participants to take risks, to come together, and to
listen. 

Though the nonprofit organizations themselves may be an element of the
participants’ video projects, the focus of the documentaries will once again
be the people of Southwest Central Durham. Organizations such as Triangle
Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA), the Durham Literacy
Center, and Lakewood Baptist Church have partnered with CDS to identify
people and stories that demonstrate the necessity of their missions. Other
stories will explore such topics as business ownership, alternative health
care, raising children in changing neighborhoods, and housing for seniors.

The video documentaries will be presented at 10:30 a.m., followed by a light
luncheon at noon, provided by TROSA.

Shared Pathways is a collaborative project of the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University, the Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life
Project, and the Duke University Office of Community Affairs.

TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE:
Please contact Bria Dolnick at 919-660-3619.

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
919-660-3663
http://cds.aas.duke.edu <http://cds.aas.duke.edu/>

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Photography exhibits:

Through August 13, with a closing reception August 13 from 3 - 5 pm
Through This Lens  919.687.0250
303 E. Chapel Hill St
(Downtown Durham between the Marriott and the Post Office)

Dancing With the Camera: Photographs by Steve Clarke

Steve Clarke's images capture the grace, strength, and creativity of the
dancers
he photographs.  He recalls a little about the session that produced the
Image. 

Says Clarke, "The experience of being photographed in an interactive,
collaborative
way can lead to self-discovery on the part of the subject.  When the subject
is 
a dancer, this self-discovery involves the uses of the dancer's physical
body 
as well as his/her creative mind and emotions.  "Dancing With the Camera"
illustrates the result of interactive dance photography: discovering
oneself, inventing
movement and shapes, and journeying through emotions and fantasyÃ≠Âˇ."

Opening August 18  
The Adventures of Charlie and the Incredible Truth Machine
Photographs by Charlie Cawley exploring the absurdity of the mundane.

Through mid August
West Village

Déjà vu ∑. 
Color and B&W photography by Kathy Lee

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through August 27, 2006
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University  919-660-3663
1317 W. Pettigrew (across from Duke University’s East Campus Off Swift Ave.)
http://cds.aas.duke.edu <http://cds.aas.duke.edu/>
docstudies at duke.edu

unremarkable

When photographer Ruth Adams was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2002,
she decided to document her declining health. Determined to record her
journey through what she imagined would be the deterioration of her physical
and “visual health”the “cancer pallor” from chemotherapy, the hair and
weight lossshe made an image of herself every day for a year, beginning
with her first treatment. Yet rather than depicting a devastating decline,
her images instead reveal a surprising rebirth.

unremarkable is a journey through cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, and
recuperation, showing that this journey can be one of physical and spiritual
recovery instead of a spiral into illness and despair.

Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday 9-7, Friday 9-5, Saturday 11-4, Sunday 1-5

FOR DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html

 <http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html> SEE THE CDS MULTIMEDIA GALLERY:
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/multimedia.html

 <http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/multimedia.html>

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Warehouse Series of Blues Music
West Village Courtyard in downtown Durham
6-8pm
Rain or Shine

July 28 - Skeeter Brandon (R&B)

August 4 - Mosadi (Spoken word, Hip Hop) & Tad Walters (Blues)

August 11 - The Tim Smith Band (World Fusion/Rock Band)

August 18 - Abe Reid (Electric Blues)

August 25 - Cool John (Electric Blues)

Music Maker Relief Foundation strives to help the true pioneers and
forgotten heroes of Southern music gain
recognition and meet their day to day needs. We support the health and well
being of these legendary
musicians.  Our organization provides the ways and means to expand their
professional careers and share
their unique musical gifts with the world. Music Maker does this for the
betterment of their lives and for
the preservation of our culture.  The programs it offers are: musician
sustenance, musical development,
musical advancement,  cultural access and New Orleans musician’s fund.

Music Maker Relief Foundation
http://www.musicmaker.org

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Summer Concert Series   560-4355
Durham City Parks  
<http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/events/EventDisplay>

Saturday, July 22 
Crucial Fiya  – Reggae and  Sahara – diverse musical styles
Oval Park 
2100 W. Club Blvd 
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

August 5      
Veeda - Old Skool  
Twin Lakes 
400 Chandler Road
6pm – 8:30 

August 12 
Celine Berman and Sharon Raenorth – Jazz
Forest Hills Park 
1639 University Drive
6pm – 8:30

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Summer concert series
Brightleaf Square courtyard
www.historicbrightleaf.com (see events)
Friday afternoons from 12-2PM; 7 – 9 pm
Free

FRIDAY AFTERNOON MUSIC
This summer we are also featuring music each Friday afternoon from 12-2PM in
the Courtyard. Eat on the patio at any Brightleaf restaurant or place an
order to go and enjoy lunch while listening to jazz, acoustic, and other
performances. All performances are free each and every Friday afternoon at
Brightleaf Square. 

Friday July 28th: Little Windows
(Appalachian/Irish)
LITTLE WINDOWS creates a mix of Appalachian and Irish music, and
traditionally based originals, with a special focus placed on unaccompanied
ballads. Mark Weems and Julee Glaub tour together nationally and
internationally with a focus on the art of the pure voice with tight
harmonies in traditional songs. Instrumentation includes guitar, fiddle,
banjo, flute, piano and bodhrán. Together they bring a beautiful blend of
both traditions with a unique harmonic sound that is rare and often beckons
the response from audience members, "I've never heard anything like it!"
Though they have both made several recordings with other bands as well as
solo projects, Julee and Mark have just released their first recording
together, Just Beyond Me. It carries a strong Appalachian theme with some
Old Time gospel songs as well as two songs composed by Mark Weems himself.
7PM-9PM

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