Feminist Casting Agency is a multi-disciplinary art experience with many manifestations from installations to roving performance to media art. Our work is playful, respectful, enlightening, inclusive, empowering, positive, and kind.

We support equal pay, equal employment, and equal representation.

Thomas “Fats” Waller rose to international fame during the Golden Age of the Cotton Club and swing music. This incredible musical revue recalls Waller’s sharp humor and energy as the cast sings and struts their way through the songs he made famous from uptown clubs to Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood and Europe! 

After a yearlong postponement, the barrier-breaking, repertoire-expanding wind ensemble Imani Winds will return to Durham. This fall’s offering, Revolutionary aka The Civil Rights Project, thematically organizes several commissions from the past dozen years around the ongoing struggle for racial justice in America. Following an arrangement of Sam Cooke’s plaintive and pointed “A Change is Gonna Come,” we hear Frederic Rzewski’s “Sometimes,” commissioned by and premiered at Duke Performances in 2015 in celebration of the legacy of historian John Hope Franklin. Vijay Iyer’s “Bruits,” composed in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s 2012 killing, features pianist Cory Smythe and treats “the murderous consequences of the stand your ground law,” while Jason Moran’s “Cane” — a reference to his ancestral home near the Cane River in Louisiana — explores the impact of slavery within his family history. The evening rounds out with Imani co-founder Valerie Coleman’s “Bronzeville,” an invocation of three poems by Chicago literary legend Gwendolyn Brooks.

A number of arts and cultural service organizations and individuals have created lists of resources for organizations and artists in response to COVID-19. We will continue to update this list. If you have other resources for the arts and cultural community to add to this list, please contact us. If you would like to post your COVID-19 resources, please see our guide.

American Alliance of Museums

COVID-19/Coronavirus: Resources & Information for the Museum Field - The American Alliance of Museums has compiled this guide to help museums prepare internally and externally for outbreaks in their communities.

Americans for the Arts

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource and Response Center - Americans for the Arts continues to closely monitor recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Federal and D.C. governments as developments evolve concerning the coronavirus.

Artist Relief

ArtistRelief.org - To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States.

City of Boston

Boston establishes Artist Relief Fund in response to Coronavirus - fund application and donation information

COVID-19 & Freelance Artists

COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources - an aggregated list of FREE resources, opportunities, and financial relief options available to artists of all disciplines

The Field

The Field COVID-19 Resources - a curated list of up-to-date, relevant information to benefit artists and other stakeholder.

Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA)

News from the Field continues to cover the latest on the response to the coronavirus and resources for the arts sector.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

COVID-19: Resources and an Update from NYFA contains resources from arts and culture organizations to supplement what you have likely already seen from city and national health organizations including information on emergency grants and health resources.

New Yorkers for Culture and Arts (NY4CA)

Resources for Arts and Culture re: COVID-19 Outbreak - NY4CA is working to gather information about relief offerings for small non-profits and artists impacted by cancellations and reduced attendance due to the Coronavirus in New York City.

Opera America

Covid-19 Resource Hub - Opera America lists information on help & data, sector response, advocacy, additional resources, and a resource tracker

Springboard for the Arts

Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resources for Artists - listing resources, opportunities, and support services for artists, freelancers, and contractors affected by the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Vera List Center for Arts at Politics at The New School

COVID-19 Resource Toolkit for Artists and our Extended Communities - resources ranging from virtual programs and events to emergency grants and funding for those in need during this time

In commemoration of Juneteenth, Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner and Hadestown star André De Shields performs an excerpt from his self-crafted solo work “Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.” The one-man show explores the life and achievements of the great emancipator Frederick Douglass.

“Though Douglass began his life as a slave, through heroic effort, he became one of America’s most important and historically influential icons,” said De Shields. “Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” tells a story about brutality and deliverance that is implausible yet historically accurate. De Shields portrays the Great Black Emancipator with a performance that is as filled with hope and achievement as it is darkness and anger.

IDEAL FOR: Ages 14 and up

PRICE: $90/BRAHM members; $105/non members

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Participants in this session will learn how to make a turkey wing broom. Cull processed hurl, separate the hurl into nine sections, tie sequentially into the shape of a wing, and fasten the handle using broom corn stalks. Included in this session also will be information about the history of broom making, the plant (sorghum vulgare), sources of both broom corn and twine, and other possible types or styles of brooms.

PLEASE NOTE: Limited seating available. An 80% refund will be issued if the participant cancels three weeks prior to the event. For cancellations made less than three weeks prior to the event, BRAHM will issue a refund IF the museum is able to fill the vacated spot. 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Peter Werner has been a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild since 2008. He learned his craft 26 years ago, and often demonstrates at the Folk Art Center in Asheville. He has taught broom making throughout the Southeast as well as in California and Wisconsin. His brooms are featured in the Baker Center at the NC Arboretum, and the Folk Art Center and Guild craft Stores of the SHCG.

COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS:

This workshop has limited tickets to ensure social distancing. Everyone will have their own table to work at, with plenty of space in between. People who share the same house may work at the same table. Masks are required.

Screening of Alex Prager’s (American b. 1979), Face in the Crowd, 2013, HD Digital Video, 11 minutes, 36 seconds

A part of our current exhibit, TRANSFORMATION: A Photography Exhibit.

All Screening Times:

Tuesday, June 1st - 6pm

Thursday, June 24th - 11AM

Thursday, July 8th, 5:30PM

Tuesday, July 20th, 5:30pm

Thursday, July 29th, 5:30pm

Thursday, August 12th - 11am

About the Exhibition:

The photographer is an artist who applies a lens to the world and the contemporary social order.  TRANSFORMATION is a gathering of powerful and intriguing images that open stories of our times and portray a world undergoing transformation.  

The exhibition will also explore the transformation of the photographic process. Photography as an artistic medium has been the beneficiary of changing technologies and new materials in the last quarter-century.  The artist now has dramatic latitude in terms of scale and visual media. Photography is no longer just a pretty picture or a document. It can be many things at once, integrating many materials and media.

Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel!

Join us for this landmark musical about a remarkable woman named Celie. All she knows is heartbreak and dispare, until her friend Shug helps her realize her own self-worth. Celie uses her flair for fashion to build a better future. With a joyous score featuring jazz, gospel, blues, and African music, THE COLOR PURPLE is a story of resilience and a testament to the healing power of love.

Rated M for Mature. This play contains some language and adult themes.

BASED UPON THE NOVEL WRITTEN BY Alice Walker AND THE WARNER BROS./AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT MOTION PICTURE BOOK BY Marsha Norman MUSIC & LYRICS BY Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, & Stephen Bray

DIRECTED BY Brian Harlan Brooks

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Military Appreciation Night- Wed. May 11, 2022

Teacher Appreciation Night- Fri. May 13, 2022