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Performances

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    Puppeteers perform "Book of Mountains and Seas" on stage. On the left, lit with white light from above, puppeteers maneuver a large puppet that somewhat resembles diftwood and somewhat resembles a human figure using ropes on pulleys. On the right is a red round paper lantern.
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    FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 7:30 PM: A daring new music theatre work by composer Huang Ruo and puppeteer, designer, and director Basil Twist, "Book of Mountains and Seas" is a modern take on ancient Chinese creation myths that are relevant to our current climate change struggle.

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    Country musician Rissi Palmer, a light-skinned Black woman with curly brown hair, wears a black leather jacket and a white shirt, and stands in the street in front of run down red brick commercial buildings. She holds an acoustic guitar by the neck and props the body up on her left shoulder.
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    THURSDAY, MARCH 30-FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 8 PM: As a passionate voice for country artists of color and those who have been marginalized in mainstream country music, Rissi Palmer's gift lies in reaching across all musical boundaries.

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    Shirlette Ammons, a Black woman with natural hair cut into a fade, sits on stool in a library row wearing jeans, a grey t-shirt with rolled sleeves, black scarf, and black framed glasses. She smiles lightly at the camera.
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    FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 8 PM: Shirlette Ammons is a Durham, North Carolina-based poet, musician, emcee, and film creative whose highly collaborative work defies genre and interrogates her own relationships to gender, Blackness, and Southernness.

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Exhibitions

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    Conor McGrady's "Mountain Series," 2018-2022 (detail); gouache on paper; 22 x 32 inches. This black and white art work features large white mountains set against a stark black background, with small and scattered pine trees in foothills in the foreground.
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    ONGOING: These works have been produced in the context of the ongoing tension between the desire for openness and fluidity on the one hand, and the ringfencing of nation states and territories as ideological enclosures, with an increase in barriers to mobility and migration on the other.

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    Anne Samat's "Follow Your Heart Wholeheartedly 2" installed at the Moss Arts Center.
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    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16-SATURDAY, APRIL 22: Malaysian artist Anne Samat meticulously juxtaposes beadwork and traditional South Asian weaving techniques with common items.

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    Yanira Collado's "Zafa/ A Spellworking of Temporal Geometry" installed at the Moss Arts Center.
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    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16-SATURDAY, APRIL 22: Yanira Collado explores the ideas of migration, reliquary, and memory through construction and ritual.

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