Monday morning arts news: November 30
EVENTS
Monday, November 30
• Crafts Center: spring class registration opens for NC State students.
Tuesday, December 1
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• University Theatre: How to Theatre series. Audio 101. Join Kevin Wright to learn how audio works in the context of theatre. 1pm.
Wednesday, December 2
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• University Theatre: How to Theatre series. Crafting a theatre resume and portfolio. Join Mike White and Jayme Mellema to learn how to craft a theatre resume and portfolio. 4pm.
Thursday, December 3
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
Friday, December 4
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• Virtual commencement ceremony to honor the NC State University graduates of spring, summer and fall 2020. 6pm.
Monday, December 7
• Crafts Center: spring class registration opens for everyone else.
Tuesday, December 8
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• University Theatre: Strictly Speaking series. Isabella Byrd, award-winning Brooklyn-based lighting designer focused on new play development and igniting classics. 6pm.
Wednesday, December 9
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
Thursday, December 10
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• NC State LIVE: Year-end soirée and concert with Shana Tucker. 5:30pm.
• University Theatre: Strictly Speaking series. Megumi Katayama, New York-based freelance sound designer, sound artist and composer. 6pm.
• Music: End of semester ensemble concert. 7pm.
• HANUKKAH begins at sunset.
Friday, December 11
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• UT Revisited: Pippin. A Zoom reunion of the cast and crew of University Theatre’s February 2000 production of Pippin. 8pm.
Monday, December 14
• Gregg Museum: Windhover livestream event. Empowering Artists: From the classroom to the gallery. The Gregg hosts a livestream event on YouTube and Instagram with published artists from NC State’s Windhover magazine. They will talk about their art with editor Xenna Smith. 6pm.
Tuesday, December 15
• Gregg Museum: Galleries open 10am-5pm. Free timed ticket required.
• University Theatre: Strictly Speaking series. Eric Woodall, Broadway casting director, resident Broadway director of Mamma Mia!, and producing artistic director of North Carolina Theatre. 6pm.
UPCOMING HOME SPORTS EVENTS
Time and venue added below if available online when this update was published. See the latest schedules at gopack.com.
November 30: Men’s basketball. William & Mary. (CANCELED AS OF SUNDAY NIGHT)
December 5: Football. Georgia Tech.
December 6: Women’s basketball. Coastal Carolina. Reynolds Coliseum. 2pm.
December 9: Women’s basketball. Elon. Reynolds Coliseum. 7:15pm.
December 12: Men’s basketball. Florida Atlantic. 7pm.
December 17: Women’s basketball. Wake Forest. Reynolds Coliseum.
December 19: Men’s basketball. Campbell.
December 20: Women’s basketball. Duke. Reynolds Coliseum.
December 22: Men’s basketball. North Carolina.
CHECK. IT. OUT.
• The 2021 GRAMMY nominations have been announced, and the list includes ten artists who have performed on the NC State LIVE series!
• With a bit of a break in the action, be sure to watch free student performances from fall 2020 that you haven’t seen yet:
– Dance Program Fall Concert
– Brickyard Broadcast from the Department of Music
– Argo: A Virtual Journey of Jason and the Argonauts by University Theatre
– NC State jazz students have six tracks available on Soundcloud.
• Learn about the four exhibitions now open at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. The Gregg is currently open from 10am to 5pm, Tuesday through Friday (free timed reservation required). The Gregg will be closed December 24 through January 4.
• Thinking about holiday shopping? Explore both the Wood Projects Series and the Virtual Crafts Fair at the Crafts Center.
IN THE NEWS
• Tesserae: The Archive as Evidence. Art historian Jane Booth reviews the 2019 Borderlands exhibition at the Gregg Museum.
• Technician: Rissi Palmer Drive-In Concert. We didn’t discover this photo gallery until after the last email update went out. Some great photos from NC State LIVE’s drive-in concert on Centennial Campus.
• DASA News: LIVE Entertainment in a Virtual Semester. Patrick Smith recaps NC State LIVE’s unprecedented fall semester.
• DASA News: Resilience on Display. Patrick Smith discusses expanded outreach due to virtual programming at the Crafts Center and Gregg Museum.
That’s it for this week, folks. Be safe, wear your face covering, wash your hands, support our students, and embrace our fall 2020 arts experiences at NC State!
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