WHO                     North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA)

 

WHAT                   The second annual University of North Carolina (UNC) Festival of the Arts. The festival is family-friendly, free and open to the public and will feature dance, music and drama performances as well as student films from universities in the UNC system. There also will be special guest performances by the R.J. Reynolds High School Arts Magnet Program. Kids’ activities including a scavenger hunt and face painting will be going on Saturday afternoon. Food will be available for purchase. Parking for the festival will be at Bowman Gray Stadium with shuttle service to the NCSA campus.*

 

WHEN                   Saturday, April 12,  noon to 6 p.m.

                             Sunday, April 13,  1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

 

WHERE                 North Carolina School of the Arts

                             1533 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

                             *Parking for media: enter campus through Main Street entrance, NCSA Police will direct you to parking. Please bring media credentials to be allowed access to campus.

 

The North Carolina School of the Arts, located in Winston-Salem, was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, NCSA opened in Winston-Salem in 1965 and became part of the University of North Carolina system in 1972. More than 1,100 students from middle school through graduate school train for careers in the arts in five professional schools: Dance, Design and Production (including a Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music. The North Carolina School of the Arts is the state’s only public arts conservatory, dedicated entirely to the professional training of talented students in the performing, visual and moving image arts. The chancellor, deans, and faculty work with students in a residential setting to create an educational community that is intimate, demanding, and performance-centered. Learning is enriched by access to an academic program responsive to a conservatory curriculum. Founded to be both an educational institution and a resource enhancing the cultural life of the state of North Carolina and the Southeast, NCSA offers numerous public performances, on- and off-campus, as well as community education in the arts.