Aug 28 - Nov 20
School of Filmmaking Symposium
School of Filmmaking: Symposium

The School of Filmmaking's "Symposium" series opens a door into the world behind the screen, offering audiences a chance to engage with filmmakers, artists and creative thinkers from myriad disciplines who are shaping contemporary storytelling. Through screenings, conversations and engaging dialogue, each event becomes a unique space to come together and explore how art is made, why it matters and what it reveals about the world we live in.

1
Sep
Northern Luminescence
Northern Luminescence: A Journey through Nordic Song with Alisa Jordheim

Step into a luminous soundscape as soprano Alisa Jordheim (Gilda in "Rigoletto," Soeur Constance in "Dialogues des Carmélites," Violetta in "La Traviata") brings the dramatic beauty of the Nordic landscape to life through music. Featuring works by Edvard Grieg, Eyvind Alnæs, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Hugo Alfvén, Jean Sibelius, Lars-Erik Larsson, Albert Schnelzer and Carl Nielsen, the program draws on a rich tradition of song shaped by mountains, fjords, forests and shifting light. Performed in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish, these works reflect a deep connection to nature, from quiet introspection to moments of striking intensity. With clarity, warmth and expressive depth, Jordheim invites audiences into a world where the natural and musical realms are inseparable. Alisa Jordheim performs at UNCSA as part of a year-long operatic celebration of the 25th anniversary of the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute.

6
Sep
Shadows to Sunlight
From Shadows to Sunlight: Prokofiev's Journey from Darkness to Radiance

Experience a powerful arc of contrast and transformation as Sergei Prokofiev's music moves concertgoers from shadow into light. Faculty members Ida Bieler, violin; Dmitri Vorobiev, piano; and Tadeu Coelho, flute, trace a compelling emotional journey through two of the famed composer's most expressive chamber works. The program features the Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 80, and the Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 94. Opening in the shadowed, unsettled world of the Violin Sonata, tension and fragility intertwine in music Prokofiev described as "wind over the graves." The Flute Sonata offers a striking contrast: bright, transparent and serene. Together, the works reveal a composer navigating war, fear and upheaval while still reaching toward beauty and light. The result is a deeply human portrait of resilience expressed through sound.

12
Sep
Brett Deubner
Violist, Brett Deubner in Recital

Discover the dazzling power of the viola in a program that reveals the instrument's full range: restless, lyrical, bold and radiant. New faculty artist Brett Deubner leads an evening that moves from high-contrast modernism to intimate chamber dialogue, including a special commissioned work. The viola shifts constantly -- exposed and unaccompanied, in close conversation with its musical counterparts and expanded by unexpected color and texture. The result is a portrait of an instrument that embraces many identities. Joined by faculty members Ida Bieler, violin; Allison Gagnon, piano; and Ksenija Komljenović, chimes, Deubner highlights both the viola's tradition and its evolving voice on the contemporary stage.

18
Sep
Priscilla Navarro
Piano Fridays: Priscilla Navarro

The Piano Department at the UNCSA School of Music opens its fourth season of Piano Fridays with Peruvian-born artist Priscilla Navarro. Navarro's career has included performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and her playing has been featured on BBC Radio and Medici TV. Her UNCSA program features works by Bach, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Albéniz and Gershwin.

19
Sep
Symphony
UNCSA Symphony Orchestra

Kick off the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra season with a program of powerful storytelling and musical depth.

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EmcArts receives $1.5 million from Kresge Foundation for Community Innovation Labs

EmcArts announced recently that its Community Innovation Labs program was selected to receive a grant of $1.5 million from the Kresge Foundation. The grant will support the completion of EmcArts’ two pilot Community Innovation Labs, launched in 2015 in Winston-Salem, NC and Providence, RI, and the launch of two additional Labs in communities across the United States, in order to build local capacity to take on complex social challenges by integrating the arts into a rigorous process framework. With this grant from Kresge, along with local funders and conveners, EmcArts commits to a two-year investment in the Winston-Salem community totaling $1 million.

The Winston-Salem Lab was convened by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, and The Winston-Salem Foundation. Core questions of the Lab, which addresses a strategic goal of the UNC School of the Arts in community development, include: How can we create a more equitable and abundant Winston-Salem? How can we move systems of race, class and power to do so? How can we, as a community, build enough trust to enable transformative change to happen?

The Winston-Salem Lab has brought together a diverse group of stakeholders including city agencies, community organizers, business leaders, artists, cultural organizations, faith-based organizations, and nonprofit service providers, to begin to address inequities in employment, income, and wealth in the city.  For more information about the origins and design of EmcArts Labs visit here and for more information on the existing pilot sites click here.

"We are proud to fund the Community Innovation Labs in multiple American cities," said Regina Smith, Interim Managing Director of Arts & Culture at the Kresge Foundation. "We are invested in interdisciplinary, cross-sector programs that help communities address intractable problems, disrupt systemic barriers, and tangibly improve their economic and cultural outcomes. The Community Innovation Labs, with their focus on artistic integration, systems change, local relevance and courageous innovation, are aligned with these goals. We're thrilled to support EmcArts and our local Lab partners in this important work and urge the larger philanthropic community to join us in funding this critical initiative."

Corey Madden, Executive Director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, said: “We are thrilled that EmcArts received this generous grant from the Kresge Foundation to support the completion of our Community Innovation Lab in Winston-Salem.” 

“Our collaboration with The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the Winston-Salem Foundation, as well as a diverse selection of key stakeholders in our community, is turning out to be even more exciting than anticipated.” Madden noted. Together, we are creating innovative strategies that will effect positive change in our city.”

About EmcArts

EmcArts logoEmcArts is a nationally recognized service organization for innovation and adaptive change. EmcArts works alongside people, organizations, and communities as they take on their most complex challenges. Through their rigorously designed and facilitated workshops, coaching, and intensive labs, EmcArts creates the space and conditions to test innovative strategies and build cultures that embrace change. Their practice is deeply influenced by the artistic process, which has a unique power to unlock entrenched assumptions and open up new ways of seeing.

About the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts

The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts is a creative catalyst at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts that encourages and supports the exploration and development of new knowledge to transform the way artists, organizations, and communities approach their creative challenges.

About the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

The robust arts community in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County enriches the lives of area residents every day and accounts in large part for the recognition the city and county continue to receive as a great place to live, learn, work and play. The Arts Council raises funds and advocates for the arts, sponsors events in conjunction with other arts organizations, promotes and funds arts education, creates cultural and learning opportunities, develops social capital and aids economic development. For more information visit intothearts.org.

About the Winston-Salem Foundation

The Winston-Salem Foundation is a community foundation that supports charitable programs in the greater Forsyth County area. Founded in 1919 with a $1,000 gift, it now administers approximately 1,300 funds and had total custodial assets of $384.3 million at the end of 2014. In 2014, the Foundation granted $24.8 million to charitable causes, over $2 million of which was through the Community Grants program. Learn more at www.wsfoundation.org.

Please visit this link to read the press release from EmcArts regarding this announcement.

February 17, 2016