Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Beauty and the Beast

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 2 East South Street, Raleigh, United States

Hope. Triumph. Peace. Freedom. Joy. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 embodies them all like no other piece of music. Every performance of this towering work with its “Ode to Joy” choral finale is a celebration—a new Robert Weiss ballet set to this work is truly the artistic event of the year.

Got to be NC (“Agfest”)

State Fairgrounds 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

The Fourth annual Got to be NC Festival will be held May 18-20, 2012. Come enjoy a mix of food, music, carnival rides and games, antique farm equipment and grandstand entertainment.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Beauty and the Beast

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 2 East South Street, Raleigh, United States

  May 17-20, 2012 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium   Hope. Triumph. Peace. Freedom. Joy. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 embodies them all like no other piece of music. Every performance of this towering work with its “Ode to Joy” choral finale is a celebration—a new Robert Weiss ballet set to this work is truly the artistic event of […]

Artsplosure

Moore Square 200 South Blount Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

  The Raleigh Arts Festival will bring the best visual and performing art and artists to Downtown May 19 – 20 around Moore Square and City Plaza.   Artsplosure offers art from the works of 170 independent visual artists from across the United States; the tunes of 15 Main Stage and North Carolina Stage performers; […]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Beauty and the Beast

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 2 East South Street, Raleigh, United States

  May 17-20, 2012 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium   Hope. Triumph. Peace. Freedom. Joy. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 embodies them all like no other piece of music. Every performance of this towering work with its “Ode to Joy” choral finale is a celebration—a new Robert Weiss ballet set to this work is truly the artistic event of […]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Beauty and the Beast

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 2 East South Street, Raleigh, United States

  May 17-20, 2012 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium   Hope. Triumph. Peace. Freedom. Joy. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 embodies them all like no other piece of music. Every performance of this towering work with its “Ode to Joy” choral finale is a celebration—a new Robert Weiss ballet set to this work is truly the artistic event of […]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Beauty and the Beast

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 2 East South Street, Raleigh, United States

  May 17-20, 2012 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium   Hope. Triumph. Peace. Freedom. Joy. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 embodies them all like no other piece of music. Every performance of this towering work with its “Ode to Joy” choral finale is a celebration—a new Robert Weiss ballet set to this work is truly the artistic event of […]

Natalie Merchant with the NC Symphony

Meymandi Concert Hall 2 E South Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

  2011/12 NC Symphony Pops Series   Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 7:30pm Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh   James Bagwell, conductor   Perhaps best known for her work with the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant joins the North Carolina Symphony for a single performance. Over the past 30 years, her distinctive voice, gift […]

From Russia with Love – James Bond at the Colony

Colony Movie Theater 5438 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

  In From Russia with Love, the second Bond movie, James Bond is on the search for a Russian decoding machine known as Lektor. Bond needs to find the decoder before the SPECTRE organization does. The search leads Bond to Istanbul (where, naturally, he becomes romantically entangled with a beautiful woman, Tatiana Romanova), whilst dodging […]

June First Friday Wine Tasting

Join us for a night out at The Wine Feed in Downtown Raleigh this First Friday, June 1, 2012 as we offer eight pours of wine for only $3 per person or $5 per pair.

Free

First Friday DT Raleigh Art Scene

Moore Square 200 South Blount Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

First Friday is a free self-guided tour of downtown’s cutting edge cultural hot spots. Local art galleries, art studios, alternative art venues, and museums stay open late the first Friday of every month to welcome thousands of art-seeking enthusiasts downtown. The event runs from 6 pm-9 pm, but some venue hours may vary.   Attendees […]

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)

Colony Movie Theater 5438 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, and Uhura are all here, plus an early performance from Kirstie Alley, and Ricardo Montalban as Khan.

Richard Ford at Quail Ridge Books

Quail Ridge Books & Music 4381-105 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States

Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day, visits with Canada. His latest work successfully expands our understanding of and sympathy for humankind.

Free

John Barry at Quail Ridge Books

Quail Ridge Books & Music 4381-105 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States

Historian and author John Barry (Rising Tide; The Great Influenza) returns with his new Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul. He takes a revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.

Free

Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Collection at NCMA

NC Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

  Julian T. Baker Jr. (1939–2011), a longtime friend and supporter of the North Carolina Museum of Art and a North Carolina native born in Raleigh, started collecting photography in the mid-1990s, and a casual interest soon turned into a passion that resulted in a personal collection of over 700 photographs. Focusing primarily on black-and-white […]