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Film Screening: The Balcony Movie (Poland, 2021)

Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Can anyone be a movie hero? Can the world be locked in one film frame? Acclaimed Polish documentarian Paweł Łoziński directs his camera at the sidewalk below his balcony. On this gray strip of pavement, sandwiched between dull green grass … Read more

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Film Screening: Face the Music

FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Get ready to “face the music” with the UNC Russian Flagship Program. Enjoy a documentary about a new Kazakh pop culture phenomenon: Q-Pop (Qazaq-Pop). Петь свои песни (Eng. Face the Music; Katerina Suvorova, dir.) explores the impact of Q-Pop on … Read more

Film Screening: ‘Pushed Up the Mountain’

FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join the Carolina Asia Center and the UNC Department of Communication for a screening of the feature-length documentary Pushed Up the Mountain, directed by UNC’s own Prof. Julia Haslett. Pushed Up the Mountain is a poetic and personal film about … Read more

Korean Movie Night: Alienoid

FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Come join the Carolina Asia Center for Korean Movie Night, where they will show Alienoid (2022)! Alienoid is a movie that transcends time. Learn more about it here. Join us starting at 6:00 p.m. for Korean food. The movie will … Read more

The Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies 20th year anniversary: Comedy and Hip-Hop Show

Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium 209 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Students, faculty, and members of the community are all invited to join us for an evening of entertainment featuring Tehran Ghasri, a Black-Persian stand-up comedian, followed by a performance by Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum and accompanied by Palestinian-American musician Ronnie Malley and NC local DJ … Read more

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Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director

Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Mitsuko Uchida, one of the greatest Mozart interpreters of our time, shares a long-term collaboration with the MCO, focused on Mozart’s piano concertos. Mitsuko Uchida leads the orchestra from the keyboard. The partnership brings Mitsuko Uchida and the MCO to … Read more

$10 – $72

Ackland Film Forum: ‘The Last Forest’ (Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil, 2021)

Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join Ackland for the next screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series Do Something: Responding to Climate Change presented by UNC Film Studies and the Ackland Art Museum. Introduction by Dr. Gustavo Furtado (Duke University) Synopsis In this … Read more

Lotus Moon and Nandina Staff: The Art of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Nakahara Nantenbō

Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Lotus Moon and Nandina Staff presents and contrasts the work of two major Japanese artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, taking its title from translations of their names. Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) was a Buddhist nun who became very … Read more

Cultural Diplomacy: “Beethoven in Beijing” Screening, Q&A

FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join us on Friday, April 21 for a special screening of the award-winning documentary, Beethoven in Beijing: Cultural Diplomacy and the Philadelphia Orchestra's China Legacy, followed by remarks and Q&A session with Producer and Co-Director Jennifer Lin.