Don't miss the 24th annual Wake Forest HerbFest, which features a wide variety of vendors specializing in gardening, home, cooking and a healthy lifestyle. Food trucks and a large selection of organic herbs round out the event. Organizers will share the benefits of ginger, the Herb of the Year as designated by the International Herb…
Michael Richards’s visionary sculptures and drawings, created between 1990 and 2001, engage Blackness, flight, diaspora, spirituality, police brutality, and monuments in his largest retrospective to date. Michael Richards: Are You Down? takes its name from one of the last artworks the artist created. In his sculptures and installations, Richards gestures toward both repression and reprieve from…
Academy Award–winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter has defined generations through her work in film and TV. Her art adds dimensionality, flair, and culture to the characters she envisions, giving power to the incredible actors who wear her designs. Her vibrancy and attention to detail in costuming is integral to translating stories of race, politics,…
This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of forty years forms the arc of an epic story of the gift of courage summoned by friendship. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music…
Prospero the exiled magician and her teenage daughter Miranda live on a desert island, with nothing but airy spirits (and Caliban the monster) for company. But one night, a magical storm brings them a ship full of characters from Prospero’s past – the King of Naples, his handsome son Ferdinand, their scheming courtiers, and Prospero’s…
Take part in the sixth installment of Hops vs. Grapes, our annual beer vs. wine pairing dinner. This will be a fun five Course “Beer vs Wine” dinner, each course paired with one beer and one wine, expertly chosen by our own Certified Cicerone Carter Perry (beer) and Owner Justin Gallus (wine). The theme will…
This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of forty years forms the arc of an epic story of the gift of courage summoned by friendship. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music…
