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The Gallery is your opportunity to glance into the activities, programs, and performances sponsored or supported by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. Please click on a thumbnail image to see and read about each gallery.

On Sunday, September 23rd, a live simulcast of Washington National Opera's production of Puccini's La Boheme was presented at the Stevens Center. NCSA was one of 31 universities, colleges and high schools across the country to participate in this event. On Tuesday, September 18th, the Kenan Institute for the Arts welcomed Sir Ken Robinson, an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, as the keynote speaker for The Black Box Sessions. The Open Dream Ensemble is dedicated to serving youth through innovative, multi-disciplinary performances and residencies that support the public school curriculum, using artists professionally trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Washington National Opera Simulcast of La Boheme
Black Box Sessions Keynote Address by Sir Ken Robinson
Open Dream Ensemble 2007
 
On Saturday, May 5, 2007, the Kenan Institute for the Arts presented a symposium entitled Aspirations and Achievements: West Side Story Then and Now in Crawford Hall in the Gray Building on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. On Saturday, April 21, 2007, the Kenan Institute for the Art presented the Women and the Arts Exhibition which celebrated the visual, performing and moving image arts created by women artists in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.
West Side Story Symposium
Women and the Arts Exhibition
Kenan Writers' Encounters presents Stanley Crouch, April 5, 2007
 
The third Digital Arts Symposium was hosted March 5th and 6th, 2007 on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Penland Fellowships Panel Discussion and Visual Arts Workshop
Kenan Writers' Encounters presents Eve Ensler in October 2006
Digital Arts Symposium 2007: Storytelling Through Design
 
Trained as Teaching Artists by some of the most highly regarded instructors in the field, ODE members are dedicated to creating educational sessions that have a lasting impact, such as this residency at Diggs Elementary, an A+ school in Winston-Salem, NC. Theatre Nohgaku performed its world premiere of Pine Barrens, a noh play in English, September 15th & 16th on an outdoor stage built over the Filmmaking School's reflecting pool.
Photography by Brian Faini, Kenan Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts 2006
Open Dream Ensemble in Residency at Diggs Elementary School
Theatre Nohgaku 2006
 
The Open Dream Ensemble is comprised of professional artists trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts. ODE presents original performances that are tailored to meet requirements of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. The Magnolia Baroque Festival's second season, June 20-25, 2006 in Winston-Salem, featured virtuosic performances of baroque orchestral, solo and chamber music, classical era music on period instruments, and baroque dance. On April 10, 2006, Project Love performed a benefit concert for the prevention of child abuse. This concert was held in the DeMille Theatre on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Images by Travis Van Sweden.
Open Dream Ensemble 2006
Magnolia Baroque Festival 2006
Emerging Opportunities: Project Love II
 
The second Digital Arts Symposium in the Main Theatre on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Images by Christine Rucker. The second lecture of the second season featuring Brian Greene on March 30, 2006 on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Photos by Christine Rucker. The first lecture of the second season featuring Eiko Ishioka on February 2, 2006 on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Photos by Christine Rucker.
Digital Arts Symposium 2006
Kenan Writers' Encounters: Brian Greene
Kenan Writers' Encounters: Eiko Ishioka
 
The Open Dream Ensemble in rehearsal for The Amazing Adventure of Anna Marie and in residence at Parkview Elementary School in High Point, NC. Theatre Nohgaku was in residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts August 29 - September 10, 2005.
New Horizons Performance Series with The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem
Open Dream Ensemble 2005
Theatre Nohgaku Residency 2005
 
Internet 2 session in Watson Hall on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. The Magnolia Baroque Festival's inaugural season, June 22-26, 2005 in Winston-Salem, delighted audiences with beloved Baroque masterpieces, played on original period instruments, along with a masked Venetian ball complete with Italitan Baroque dancers.
Internet 2 Performing Arts Forum
Magnolia Baroque Festival 2005
Digital Arts Symposium 2005 In Performance Place at NCSA
 
Second lecture in the series featuring Carol Gilligan on April 8, 2005 in Watson Hall on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Photos by Christine Rucker. Inaugural lecture featuring Sherman Alexie on February 10, 2005 on campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Photos by Christine Rucker.
Kenan Writers' Encounters: Carol Gilligan
Kenan Writers' Encounters: Sherman Alexie
Master Class: New York, Changing Landscape in the Arts
 
Visitors from Theatre Nohgaku gave a lecture and demonstration of Japanese noh theatre technique in January 2005. The Kenan Institute supported a collaboration between Carolina Ballet and NCSA to stage Lynne Taylor-Corbett's Lost and Found, performed here at NCSA's Spring Dance concert in May, 2004. Photographs by Rick McCullough. In October 2004, the Kenan Institute for the Arts sponsored the participation of Ellen Dissanayake and Suzanne Lacy in the conference, hosted by NCSA
Theatre Nohgaku Lecture and Demonstration
Spring Dance Concert
Roots to Radicals: Tri State Sculptors' Conference
 
Patrick Spottiswoode, director of Globe education at the International Shakespeare Globe Centre in London, visited NCSA in November 2003 for an informal talk on the Globe experience. Photographs by Christine Rucker. Renowned African drum master Mamady Keita led a workshop for NCSA students and community members in September 2004 In the fall of 2003, veteran teachers from the Shakespeare Lives! program led their students in performing scenes from Richard III. Photographs by Christine Rucker.
A visitor from the Globe
Emerging Opportunities: African Drumming Workshop
Shakespeare Lives
 

 
     
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