Vive/Viva the Arts
The DTCC Foundation and the Vive/Viva the Arts Committee have continued their tradition of
bringing inspiring cultural programs to the college and community by sponsoring the following: |
 Brushes with Life
April 29, 2013
This documentary film explores the work of eight artists with mental illness. Eight artists struggle
with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,
and other brain disorders talk candidly
about how doing their art helps them
heal. All the artists are brought together
by the Brushes With Life art gallery at
UNC, which shows only work by
mentally ill artists. The screeining was
sponsored by the
Durham Technical Community College Foundation
and the Occupational Assistant Therapy progream. |
  NC Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti
February 12, 2013
Award-winning poet, professor, and advocate for literacy
Joseph Bathanti visited Durham Tech as part of the Vive/Viva the
Arts and Poetry Hour series. Mr. Bathanti read and
discussed his works with those in attendance from
1 – 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Educational
Resources Center. The reading was sponsored by the
Durham Technical Community College Foundation
and was open to the DTCC campus community as
well as to the general public.
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 NC storyteller Mitch Capel performs as poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
April 2, 2012
Paul Laurence Dunbar is widely acknowledged as the first important African-American poet in American literature. He enjoyed his greatest popularity in the early twentieth century following the publication of dialectic verse in collections such as Majors and Minors and Lyrics of Lowly Life. |
 Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Touring Performance
of The Man of La Mancha
March 1 , 2012
Faculty, staff, students, and the public enjoyed the Burning Coal Theatre stage adaptation of The tale of an errant knight who believed the ills of the world could be corrected. |
  Presentation and book signing by Dave Tompkins
Author of How to Wreck
a Nice Beach:
The Vocoder from WWII
to Hip-Hop
September 15, 2011
Tompkins will give a multimedia presentation on the history of the vocoder and its use
in music and signing copies of his book.
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 Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Touring Performance
of To Kill a Mockingbird
March 24 , 2011
Faculty, staff, students, and the public enjoyed the Burning Coal Theatre stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Filmmaker Randolph Benson
November 9 , 2010
Randolph Benson presented clips
from his films and discussed his filmmaking process.
Benson is a graduate of Wake Forest University
and the NC School of the Arts. He has garnered
numerous awards and has participated in various
international film festivals. Benson's work has been
featured on the Bravo Network, the Independent Film Channel,
UNC-TV, and MTV2 as well as on broadcast channels in France,
Poland, and Germany. He teaches documentary film and video at
the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
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Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Touring Performance
of Much Ado About Nothing
March 24, 2010
A packed house enjoyed the Burning Coal Theatre
Company’s touring production by William Shakespeare. The
play was directed by Emily Ranii, daughter of Bonnie
Tilson, Humanities instructor at Durham Tech.
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Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Touring Performance
of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
April 1, 2009
Burning Coal brought 13 cast members to the ERC auditorium
for a high-energy erformance of one of Shakespeare’s
best-loved omedies. An audience of almost 200 students, faculty, and staff members attended the performance.
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 Reading, Discussion, and Book Signing by Dr. Paul Austin, author of Something for the Pain and emergency room
physician at Durham Regional Hospital
October 22, 2009
Many community members as well as several Durham
Tech classes attended this event which was co-sponsored by
Durham Reads Together 2009. Austin, who had an amazing
rapport with students in the audience, told stories about
emergency room cases and addressed topics such as sleep
deprivation, how to get published, and “the narrative arc.”
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Touring Theatre of North Carolina Performance
of Piece Work by Barbara Presnell
November 10, 2009
The North Carolina Humanities Council sponsored performances
of Piece Work at 10 community colleges, including Durham Tech.
Professional actors portrayed workers in a textile mill who shared
their feelings about their work, families, relationships, values,
and the closing of the plant. Students in Durham Tech’s Oral
Interpretation class had already performed the poems and had
many questions for the actors. |
Dar He: The Emmett Till Story
February 14, 2008
This one-man play written and
performed by Mike Wiley chronicled
the 1955 Mississippi murder of
14-year-old Emmett Till and the
trial of the men accused. |
 Durham: A Self Portrait
February 27, 2008
The story told of this unique
North Carolina city that
reinvented itself for the
21st century. |
