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Black Wall Street: Homecoming

Black Wall Street: Homecoming is an annual networking conference for early-stage entrepreneurs, focused on the intersection of content, connections and culture. Celebrate and learn from diverse, multicultural entrepreneurs, their investors and the community that supports them. This year they will have programming for founders and builders -- people who are growing teams, companies, communities and movements. And since teaming up with Art of Cool Fest worked so well last year, they're doing it again. So...

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Art of Cool Festival

AOCFEST will feature a range of R&B, Neo Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz, alternative and spoken word performances and speakers at 6 venues. Three-time GRAMMY® award-winning singer-songwriter, New York Times best-selling poet, and critically acclaimed actor Jill Scott will headline the AOCFEST stage on Friday, September 27th. Dreamville Records singer-songwriter Ari Lennox who hails from Washington D.C. will also perform at AOCFEST Friday evening. That same evening, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels will hit the Motorco Music Hall stage...

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Pride: Durham, NC

Pride: Durham, NC serves as the annual celebration of community, family, pride, and activism in Durham and across the state. Pride: Durham, NC brings love and activism back to the forefront of Pride as a way to drive stronger connections and further growth and success in a tumultuous political climate. All people with love in their hearts and progress fueling them are welcome at Pride: Durham, NC.Parade 11 a.m., performances 1 p.m. Performances by: DJ...

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Bull City Race Fest and Food Truck Rodeo

This festival has something for the fastest runners and families alike. Start and Finish at Diamond View Park at the American Tobacco Campus and Choose from the Half Marathon, Five Miler or 1 Mile distances. Enjoy a fall morning of running through downtown Durham, Duke University and surrounding Historic Neighborhoods. After you cross the finish line, enjoy delicious eats from a variety of delicious food trucks! The Bull City Race Fest is the culmination of...

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The Durham 150 Closing Ceremony Presented by Duke University and Duke Health

The Durham 150 Closing Ceremony will be a culminating event of Durham 150, the official yearlong commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the City of Durham’s incorporation, and will explore the history of Durham through narration, video, live performance and music. Tickets are now on sale. Purchase Durham 150 Closing Ceremony tickets here. The production will open with remarks from Mayor Steve Schewel, along with a welcome from Occaneechi Tribal Chairman, Tony Hayes. The Ocaneechi...

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The Nutcracker

From the moment the curtain rises, the magic of this Holiday classic is mesmerizing. Take a journey to a land of whimsical characters featuring magical illusions, magnificent sets, and beautiful costumes. Listen as a live symphony orchestra plays Tchaikovsky’s famed score. The Nutcracker is the perfect story ballet for the young and the young at heart. You'll want to visit once, twice, or more during this Holiday season!

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Durham Art Guild's 65th Annual Juried Exhibition

This is the Guild's longest-running, largest, and most impressive annual exhibition featuring the work of 50 regional artists working in a... Details

Art Exhibit — "Gather Everything Somewhere"

Featuring new mixed-media works by DAG member Tonya Solley Thornton. Tonya Solley Thornton’s intricate compositions are conversations... Details

Solo Exhibit – Frank Myers – Strolling Through Durham

The public is invited to join photographer Frank Myers for his solo exhibit Strolling Through Durham featuring his collection of... Details

Grand Opening! Introducing 5 Points Gallery

The public is invited to help celebrate the grand opening of an exciting new contemporary art gallery in the heart of downtown Durham.... Details

Art Exhibit — "Mary did you know?"

Works by Zaire McPhearson. The Mary did you know? series is inspired by the images of the Renaissance and also the Bible. It explores the... Details

Harry Connick, Jr. - A Celebration of Cole Porter

Harry Connick, Jr. —A Celebration of Cole Porter begins on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre this December. Prior to Broadway, Harry... Details

Love Durham Run

The Durham Civitan Club is partnering with Bull City Running Company to present the inaugural Love Durham Run 5K! The race starts and... Details

Art Exhibit — "Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South"

Southbound comprises fifty-six photographers’ visions of the South over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Accordingly, it... Details

Art Exhibit – "Godchild"

Divinity and art in the Western world have worked together to create a set of toxic ideals, one in which Whiteness is the sole standard of... Details

Conference on Toxic Relationships

Intimate partner violence is on the rise and it effects everyone including teenagers, men, women, the elderly, and college students, no one... Details

CenterFest Arts Festival

The Durham Arts Council is bringing the 45th Annual CenterFest Arts Festival to downtown Durham. Visual artists from near and far will... Details

Art Exhibit - "Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now"

This is the first exhibition to chart the development of contemporary Indigenous art in the United States and Canada. For generations,... Details