Stories that Connect Us: A Community Conversation on Telling the Full Story
2025-02-27 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-06 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-13 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-20 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-27 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-04-03 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-04-10 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Passmore Center, 103 Meadowlands Dr, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States
Discover the stories that shape our community in a special four-part conversation series! Hosted by the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and the Telling the Full Story committee, each session dives into the history of local sites from our interactive map, with engaging video presentations and oral histories that bring these places to life. Join us for lively discussions and reflections on the impact of these spaces in Hillsborough.
Mark your calendar for Thursday evenings in February 2025, 5:30–7:00 PM at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough, NC. Come to learn, connect, and be inspired—see you there!
February 6th- Entrepreneurship in the 20th Century
February 13th- The Land Remembers
February 20th- Community Institutions
February 27th- Navigating Freedom
What is Telling the Full Story: The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough’s Telling the Full Story program seeks to uncover and share the diverse, often untold histories of Hillsborough. Through community conversations, interactive maps, and oral histories, this program invites everyone to explore the people, events, and places that have shaped our community, fostering a richer understanding of our shared heritage.
Funding for this program series is generously provided by North Carolina Humanities.

Black History Month Wax Musuem
2025-02-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Chocowinity Middle School, 3831 US-17, Chocowinity, NC, United States
This history club at Chocowinity Middle School in Chocowinity, NC, will host a Black History Month Was Museum. Students from the club were able to choose African American characters of their choice and pose as frozen statues throughout the school. When someone comes up and presses a pretend button, they will be they will start talking about the chosen character. The Black Oral Histories Project will have a display table along with the Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Musuem.

NC Humanities Board Meeting
2025-02-28 09:00 - 13:30

Museum Mornings
2025-02-28 11:00 - 2025-03-21 13:00 | John P Top Greene Community Center, 401 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States
Start your Fridays with coffee, culture, and community! Throughout February, the John P. “Top” Greene Community Center invites you to enjoy a complimentary cup of Dunkin’ coffee while engaging in enriching cultural discussions and exploring the fascinating onsite exhibit, “Centuries in the Making”. Celebrate Black History Month as we highlight the inspiring legacy of East Raleigh & Historic South Park, uncovering the stories, achievements, and contributions that continue to shape our community today. This event offers a welcoming space for reflection, learning, and connection.

Legacies of Lynching: An Inaugural Gathering
2025-03-01 08:00 - 17:00
Legacies of Lynching: An Inaugural Gathering
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 8 am to 5 pm
Friday Conference Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
This day-long convening, hosted by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) and Southern Futures (SF) in conjunction with the North Carolina Community Remembrance Coalitions (NCCRC), brings together eleven county coalitions (Alamance, Buncombe, Chatham, Craven, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange, New Hanover, Rowan, Wake, and Warren) dedicated to documenting and commemorating the histories of racial violence in our state. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of the Equal Justice Initiative, Legacies of Lynching creates a space for meaningful dialogue among community leaders, scholars, students, and national experts. Throughout the convening, we honor the memories of those lost to lynching, foster collaboration, and build a statewide network committed to truth and reconciliation. By coming together, we spark crucial conversations and inspire action towards forming new coalitions across the state.
This program is supported in part by North Carolina Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, www.nchumanities.org. Additional support at UNC-CH comes from the Center for the Study of the American South, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and Office of the Provost; at Duke University: Kenan Institute for Ethics, Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
Please join us for an enriching day of learning, connection, and community.
Registration is free and open to the public. If you’re interested, please bring your laptop or tablet to the workshop sessions.

Bartók: From Opposing Ethnic Cleansing to Inventing Ethnomusicology
2025-03-04 17:30 - 19:00 | Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Room 1102), 423 West King Street, Boone, 28608, United States
The classical composer Béla Bartók is perhaps most famous in the music world for having incorporated elements of folk music into his work, a practice that earned him the title of “father of ethnomusicology.” However, attitudes of ethnic elitism in Occupied Europe made it difficult for his projects to flourish there. Bartók became an outspoken critic of antisemitic laws in Hungary and fled to the US during World War II. This event presents two talks and a listening workshop that will help participants understand and appreciate the legacy of Bartók and other classical musicians who resisted antisemitism and fascism in the 1930s and 40s. Guest speakers include Dr. Amy Hudnall (Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies), Dr. Jacob Kopcienski (Musicology), and Dr. Darci Gardner (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures). This event is free and open to the public. It is the kickoff event of a three-part series titled, “Bridging the Divide between Classical Music and Folk Traditions: Béla Bartók’s Legacy,” organized by High Country Humanities with the support of a grant from North Carolina Humanities. Attendees may use the College Street parking deck next to Belk Library free of charge from 5:00 pm until the end of the event.

Latin America Through Film (8-Week Class)
2025-03-04 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-11 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-01 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-08 18:30 - 20:00 | VisArt Video, 3104 Eastway Dr., Charlotte, NC, 28205, United States
Cine Casual is thrilled to announce our first-ever community class! Join us for an 8-week exploration of Latin American history through the lens of cinema. Together, we’ll dive into iconic films that illuminate the region’s rich cultural, political, and social heritage.
📅 Dates: Tuesdays from February 25 – April 15 (6:30 – 8 pm)*
📍 Location: VisArt Video (3104 Eastway Dr, Charlotte, NC 28205)
🎟️ Cost: Pay What You Can
*Class dates: February 25, March 4, March 11, March 18, March 25, April 1, April 8, April 15
Whether you’re a film enthusiast or simply curious about Latin America’s stories, this class is designed to inspire and engage.
Spots are limited, so be sure to secure yours!
Questions? Email cinecasual@gmail.com
This program is supported in part by North Carolina Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

State and Local History Resources at the American Folklife Center
2025-03-05 15:00
Join staff members of the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress for a free virtual tour of its resources, activities, and research opportunities as well as guidance on how to access, explore and utilize its vast archival collection, much of it now available online.
The American Folklife Center offers an abundance of valuable resources for state and local historians. With more than 8 million items and 3,500 collections in its archive, the AFC is the world’s foremost repository for documentary materials on local, state, and regional cultural traditions, both historic and contemporary. Its collections document traditional culture in the United States and throughout the world.
Originally founded at the Library in 1928, since 1976 the AFC has been charged by Congress to “preserve and present” folklife and traditional culture in all its diversity. Over the years the Center’s staff have coordinated and conducted large scale fieldwork projects, produced rich public programs, supported training for researchers and fieldworkers, provided robust reference services, and built a significant multiformat archive that holds cultural documentation of lived human experience from around the world.
This webinar includes an overview of AFC holdings; introduces relevant Research Guides and approaches to research; features a short walk-through demonstrating how to use and navigate AFC online resources; and touches on related issues such as copyrights, citing/crediting Library materials; making research appointments (online and in person); and AFC awards, internships, and research opportunities.

Jane Austen's Musical Life | Gillian Dooley
2025-03-06 19:00 - 20:30
In her surviving letters, Jane Austen mentions music occasionally among news of friends, neighbors and family. We know that she played the piano and sang, apparently practicing regularly when she could. The memories of relations who were still young when she died – especially her niece Caroline – give us an idea of the place of music in her daily life. There is also rich evidence in the surviving music books from the collection of Austen and her family circle, much of which is copied in her own handwriting.
Austen sometimes implies her dislike of public concerts and her appreciation of people who are honest about their lack of musical taste. At other times she expresses genuine enjoyment of a superior performance. Some of these attitudes are also displayed in the novels, but there are subtleties and ambiguities in the way she uses music and musicianship in her writing to illuminate her characters and sometimes to advance her plots. In this talk, I will discuss various aspects of music in Austen’s life and work and give some idea of the music that she played and sang.
Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Associate Professor in English at Flinders University, South Australia. She has published and presented internationally on various topics, including Jane Austen, often with an emphasis on music. She was co-convenor of the ‘Immortal Austen’ conference in Adelaide, July 2017, and as a singer she has been curating and presenting programs of music from Austen’s personal collection since 2007. In 2021 she completed a detailed index of each of the 500-600 items in the Austen music collections digitized by University of Southampton, and her book She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music was published by Manchester University Press in 2024.

Family Fun Day
2025-03-08 11:00 - 14:00 | City of Raleigh Museum, 220 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States
Join us for “Buildings Day”! Collage your dream home, create a city, and follow a map through our exhibit to learn about cool Raleigh buildings! Join us for a day filled with excitement and make lasting memories! Ages 1-10 welcome! Saturday , March 8, 11-2 p.m., City of Raleigh Museum.

Stories that Connect Us: Behind the Project a Panel Discussion on Telling the Full Story
2025-03-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Durham County Library, 300 N. Roxboro Rd., Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Save the date for an inspiring evening on March 18, 2025, at 6:00 PM at the Durham County Main Library! Join The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and members of the Telling the Full Story committee for an engaging panel discussion about their journey in capturing Hillsborough’s vital history. Panelists will share stories of successes and challenges, offering unique insights into how the project came to life. You’ll also view a selection of project videos and leave with ideas to start similar work in your own community. Perfect for history lovers, community builders, and anyone passionate about preserving local stories!
What is Telling the Full Story: The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough’s Telling the Full Story program seeks to uncover and share the diverse, often untold histories of Hillsborough. Through community conversations, interactive maps, and oral histories, this program invites everyone to explore the people, events, and places that have shaped our community, fostering a richer understanding of our shared heritage.
Funding for this program generously provided by NC Humanities.

Lunch-and-Learn with Michaela Goade: The Art of Storytelling
2025-03-19 11:30 - 12:30 | Davidson College, Semans Lecture Hall, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, North Carolina, 28035
Join us for a talk by Michaela Goade (Tlingit and Haida), the award-winning illustrator of We Are Water Protectors and I Sang You Down from the Stars, on her creative process and guidance for artists, authors, and activists. Lunch provided, but RSVP required: rostremlau@davidson.edu

Women and Musical Education in the Regency Era | Kathryn Libin
2025-03-20 19:00 - 20:30
Jane Austen and other women who enjoyed music, and who aspired to even a modest level of musical accomplishment, needed some training. What kind of musical education could women in the Regency era expect to receive? What does it indicate that Marianne Dashwood plays concertos, why is Mary Bennet interested in thoroughbass, and how would Jane Fairfax have encountered the compositions of J.B. Cramer? Contemporary manuals on female education offer a glimpse into what was then considered appropriate for musical study, and help us understand what it took for Austen, her characters, and the women of her time to achieve their musical goals.
Kathryn L. Libin, Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Music at Vassar College, earned BM and MA degrees in piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory and New York University, and a PhD in musicology at NYU. She has lectured and published on Mozart’s music and manuscripts, on music in Jane Austen’s life and works, and on musical sources in the Lobkowicz Library near Prague. Her articles on Jane Austen and music may be read in Persuasions (19, 22, 28, and 46), in the collection Elegance, Propriety, Harmony: Jane Austen and the Arts (2013), and in the Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts (2024). At Vassar she teaches a course on Jane Austen and Music in the Domestic Sphere.

Lexington Book Festival
2025-03-22 10:00 - 17:00 | Arts Davidson County, 202 North Main Street, Lexington, NC, 27292, United States
The Lexington Book Festival is for readers of ALL ages and for writers who love creating stories for and about children, tweens, teens, and young adults. Plan to spend the day with us on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at Arts Davidson County.

Pickin’ Apart Bartók: How to Hear Folk Sounds in Classical Music
2025-04-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Jones House Cultural Center, 604 West King Street, Boone, 28607, United States
What qualifies as folk music in North Carolina and around the world? What elements of rural sound inspired the classical composer Béla Bartók, and in which rural communities did they originate? In this workshop, led by Mark Freed and Trevor McKenzie, participants will hear examples of and learn to recognize the folk sounds in classical music. This event is free and open to the public. It is the second event in a series titled, “Bridging the Divide between Classical Music and Folk Traditions: Béla Bartók’s Legacy,” organized by High Country Humanities with the support of a grant from North Carolina Humanities.

The 2025 Charlotte Ideas Festival
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-08 | Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 E Ninth St, Charlote, NC, 28202, United States
The Charlotte Ideas Festival is a multi- day festival within the Charlotte SHOUT! festival that celebrates Food-Art-Music- Ideas. The Charlotte Ideas Festival features a range of thinkers, innovators and audience members, all sharing wisdom and exploring topics—from the hard and necessary work of citizenship to finding joy to the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

Firefest
2025-04-04 13:00 - 2025-04-05 23:00 | starworks, 100 Russell Dr, Star, NC, 27356, United States
Firefest is a two-day celebration of incredible glass, ceramic, and metal art at Starworks! April 4 & 5, 2025 the public is invited to attend fiery demonstrations, hands on workshops, and artist talks with internationally recognized artists. Starworks will also host live music, food trucks, and a special exhibition during the event. Full schedule and workshop registration is available at StarworksNC.org.

Preserving Our Voices Info Sessions and Mock Interviews
2025-04-10 14:30 - 16:00
In a Preserving Our Voices session, students gather to listen to a historian share firsthand knowledge about significant historical events, deepening their understanding of the past. As they engage, they also develop interviewing skills—learning how to ask thoughtful questions, follow up effectively, and capture compelling narratives. A videographer documents the session, recording both the historian’s insights and the students’ interactions, preserving these stories for future generations while teaching the art of visual storytelling.

Reckoning with Racial Covenants in Durham Community Listening Session
2025-04-10 18:00 - 19:30 | People’s Solidarity Hub, 1809 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, 27707, United States
Help Hacking into History develop a community-driven exhibit about restrictive racial covenants in Durham, supported by a North Carolina Humanities grant. As this is a collaborative project, your ideas matter.
Join us for food and conversation. See visual displays about racial covenants in Durham, their lasting impact, the progress of our work, and the data we have found so far. The community response and input we collect from participants will inform our exhibit.
