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Humanities Programs
Join us for these cultural and historical programs. All Humanities Programming is presented by Durham Library Foundation.
May | June
May
Just Friends that You Never Knew: A Personal and Historical Glance at Durham's Integration of Public Facilities
Saturday, May 18, 3 p.m.
Hayti Heritage Center
Durham native, historian and former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard will speak about the events surrounding Durham’s May 18, 1963 mass civil rights demonstrations.
Participants in the 1963 events who attend this program will be recognized. Co-sponsored by the St. Joseph Historic Foundation: Hayti Heritage Center. Herald-Sun photo by Harold Moore, Courtesy North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library
Art with the Experts: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
Monday, May 20, 7 p.m.
Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Juline Chevalier, Curator of Education at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, present a discussion and slide lecture on the work of Wangechi Mutu.
The internationally-renowned artist’s first major solo museum exhibition is currently on view at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University addressing issues of globalization and identity. Photo of Wangechi Mutu by Kathryn Parker Almanas
Muslim Journeys/GenteXt Book Club
Monday, May 20, 8 p.m.
Doolin’s Irish Pub, 3211 Shannon Rd.
Join the GenteXt book club for a discussion of Minaret. Register through meetup.com.
This program is part of the Muslim Journeys series which is a series of programs and a collection of 25 books selected to help public audiences in the United States become more familiar with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims around the world and within the U.S. This project was funded by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association.
Sacred Rest: A Time Sensitive Matter
Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m.
Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
In today’s culture, we often think of rest as a reward, but in many religious and spiritual traditions, rest and the notion of Sabbath is a practice.
What does it mean to approach rest from a place of sacredness? Join the community conversation with Frank Stasio; Rabbi Steve Sager, Rabbi Emeritus of Beth El Synagogue in Durham; Claudia Horwitz, Founding Director of Stone Circles at The Stone House; and Usha Rajagopalan, former Hindu Chaplain at Duke University.
