This year's Third Friday takes on a special little meaning for Golden Belt, as the arts campus celebrates its one year anniversary.
One of the highlights: the world premiere of an eponymous dance work, a site-specific work by North Carolina-born Mark Dendy for the American Dance Festival. Dendy's Golden Belt was designed for Building 2's top floor, which will soon become The Cotton Room event space. A 6pm reception will be followed by the half-hour show, which will repeat at 7:05pm and 7:40pm and again Saturday starting at 2pm.
Also happening: local multimedia and video production firm MindWorks celebrates its big move in to Golden Belt's Building 5. Now occupying over 6,000 sq. ft. in the campus, MindWorks -- which has tripled its staff and is on pace to more than double revenue this year -- provides podcast, web, social marketing, video and event services to customers that include Quintiles, United Therapeutics, and Cotton Incorporated.
Despite being a small business, MindWorks reps note that they donate 10% of gross revenue in cash and in-kind services to charities, leading TBJ to rank them with Glaxo, Progress Energy and Cisco among the top corporate philanthropists in the region.
In that spirit, a painting by Lisa Creed will be raffled at their 6-9pm open house (which is free and open to the public), with all proceeds going to Urban Ministries of Durham.
Golden Belt is also home to Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern's performance of Goodnight EVERYTHING in "undeveloped space" within Building 2, and the ongoing King Kenney exhibition BIG LOVE, a look at whether "society's fairy tale depiction of romantic love" is all it's cracked up to be.
Among other Third Friday highlights elsewhere in Durham:
- The Scrap Exchange is featuring art made out of recycled, reused or otherwise-reclaimed materials; there's an open hanging this week for 'friends and family' of the Foster St. non-profit, and expect over 50 pieces of art to be hanging by Friday night's opening.
- Beloved Durham marching band the Scene of the Crime Rovers will start playing (with Explore Rhythm) at the CCB Plaza around 7pm before marching down to the Scrap Exchange.
- Dave Wofford's Horse and Buggy Press' reception/open house on Foster St. will feature "Hands & Faces," a set of collages and paintings by Terry Moore.
- The Kung Fu Tattoo Parlor on W. Chapel Hill St. will feature the paintings of Tarah Singh and Owen Beckmann -- plus food and drink, including beers by the Carolina Brewing Company.
- Outdoor on the hill at Durham Central Park, Tom Whiteside will present "Nicotine Cinema," a "program of short films about smoking" that includes a century-year-old film.
For a full list of what's happening, visit the Third Friday web site.
Good write-up, Kevin.
It's particularly impressive that the correct and effective use of the word "eponymous" has appeared in a blog here.
While dance has never been my interest of choice, language is - and I'm pleased to know that we can find an erudite savant of same here at home.
:-)
Posted by: Doug Roach | July 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM