Join us at the Block Gallery on Thursday, December 5, 5-7pm for the opening reception of the 11th Annual National Arts Program exhibition, featuring artwork by more than 100 City of Raleigh and Wake County employees and their families. 

Winners will be announced at 5:30pm. 2013 Piedmont Laureate John Claude Bemis will perform.

This exhibition is presented by the Office of Raleigh Arts and the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County in conjunction with the National Arts Program Foundation of Malvern, PA. 

Block Gallery
222 W. Hargett St., Raleigh
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Image: Rebekah Evans, Skull and Roses, First Place Teen, 2012

The Philharmonic Association is celebrating North Carolina’s 350th anniversary with a festival featuring the Triangle Youth Philharmonic and Triangle Youth Orchestra and Symphony at Meymandi Concert Hall, along with other events. 

Works to be performed include a Philharmonic Association-commissioned piece about the Tuscarora Indians, Robert Wards’ City of Oaks, and The North State, commissioned for North Carolina's 300th anniversary.

November 22-26 
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ALL SOULS
NC Opera with New Music Raleigh
in partnership with CAM Raleigh
Monday, November 25 at 7:30pm

Local composer John Supko's All Souls for soprano, chamber orchestra and electronic sampler is a setting of nine excerpts from the novel All Souls Day by Dutch author Cees Nooteboom. Falling somewhere between melodrama, radio play and opera, live and recorded voices bring to life the intense relationship between a widowed documentary filmmaker and a beautiful, mysterious woman in Berlin in the late 1990s.

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Image: Soprano Ashleigh Semkiw

First Night Raleigh is offering kite-making workshops. Join in the fun and have your kite displayed on Bicentennial Plaza for First Night Raleigh!

Saturday November 23 or December 14
10am-1pm (drop in any time)
AHPeele Studio
400 Capital Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27601
(919) 819-2848

Free and open to all ages and skill levels.

To register, email Jamie Butler

Only 10 more days to see our 2013 Art-On-The-Move buses on the road. See three of them up close at the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Art Cars Meetup.

Saturday, November 30 | 8:30am-1pm
Museum Park
Free

Image: Art-On-The-Move artwork by Anna Podris (detail)

Remember the Before I Die… public art project? More than 400 Before I Die… walls have been built around the world, and now a beautiful book celebrates their inspiring stories. Our Raleigh wall is included. 

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Rewarding Young Readers
Even though I’m no longer in the classroom, I still consider myself a teacher. In fact, one of the great joys of getting to do what I do is that I split my time between writing books and visiting schools and libraries to work with young people. I’m very fortunate that I’ve found a rewarding way to continue teaching even as I write new books. It was a tremendous honor this weekend to receive the Excellence in Teaching Award from UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Education. 

Excerpt above from the Piedmont Laureate blog.
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Image: John Claude Bemis

Winter-Spring (January-April, 2014) class listings are now available. Registration begins December 3.    

Register online  |  Leisure Ledger

Pullen Arts Center
105 Pullen Rd, Raleigh
919-996-6126

Image: Pullen Arts Center

GALLERY
A Family of Artists
In memory of Julia Mackintosh
November 2 – 29 

This exhibit features artworks by Julia Mackintosh of the Sertoma Park Artists Association and five generations of her family.

FALL REGISTRATION
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Sertoma Arts Center
1400 West Millbrook Road, Raleigh
919-420-2329 

Image: Sertoma Arts Center

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