Funeral traditions vary around the world, but food is always involved.

Wake, Karamu, Funeral Luncheon, Kich’vo, Mercy Meal, Repast…

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Alia El-Bermani, Echo/Departed diptych, Oil, 2019

Closing reception for Death Planted A Garden. Free and open to the public.

Teddy Devereux, Mother Nature's Daughters

This creative, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the fundamentals of estate planning and funeral planning...

Registration required.

Teddy Devereux, My Memory Palace, Glass, 2015

Meet the artists. Free and open to the public.

echo hower, wait(weight), Homemade watercolor and mixed media on paper, 2024

Meet the artists. Free and open to the public.

Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.

Gadisse Lee, The Yawning Grave

This creative, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the fundamentals of estate planning and funeral planning...

Registration required.

Catherine Edgerton, Peach Stone, Illustration, Stop Motion GIF by Jax

Third Friday Durham. Free and open to the public.

Patrizia Ferreira, A Crevice in the Garden of Eden, Fiber Art, 2023 (Detail)

Durham Art Asylum presents a workspace to learn about Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives. An advance directive articulates care you wish to receive (or not receive) if you become unable to advocate for yourself due to mental health challenges.

The Durham Art Asylum is a web of artists living with and loving through mental health challenges. We create and share resources we need to be well and make magic. Join us to work on a psychiatric advance directive that includes poetry, art, spaciousness, and prompts about safety, music, food, and systems of support that make and keep us well.

$10-$20 Suggested donation to the Durham Art Asylum; nobody turned away!

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Saba Taj, Everything is Embarrassing, Mixed Media, Oil, 2024

Free and open to the public.

Meet artist Jim Lee. Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.

Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.

Art supply giveaway by DurmPac. Free and open to the public.

Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.

Meet photographer and exhibit curator Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.

Closing reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.

Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett.

Free and open to the public.

Screening of La Principessa Nuda (1978): Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of her racy past.

Free and open to the public.

Screening of Shakedown (2018): From 2002 to 2015, filmmaker Leilah Weinraub documents explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles. Free and open to the public.

Opening reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.

Screening of Girl 6 (1996): A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator. Free and open to the public.

Join us for a Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett of We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment.

A slow art tour presents a philosophical and literal alternative to the way visitors have traditionally consumed art. The tour challenges the notion that one needs to ‘know’ about art to appreciate it. A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Free and open to the public.

“Meet the Artist” is a conversation series hosted by Pop Box Gallery cofounder, Mavis Gragg. Mavis sits down with an artist or arts professional to discuss their work, providing practical tips for collecting art.

In this special edition of the series, Mavis will lead a panel discussion with some of the featured artists in our current exhibit, We don't Care: reclaiming our environment. Free and open to the public. Image: Jessica Clark, Dark Water 6, 20.5” x 26.5”, 2021

Celebrate the opening of We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment, curated by Gail Belvett on Earth Day. Free and open to the public. Image: Honeyed Gardens Open by Saba Taj, 66” x 78”, 2021

Join us on Saturday, November 19 at 1pm for a Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett. Gail will facilitate a one-hour conversation about a work of art in Zaire McPhearson’s exhibit, For Colored Girls, at Bright Black. Free and open to the public.

Join us for an opening celebration of Zaire’s exhibit at Bright Black’s new Creators Studio during Third Friday Durham on November 18.

During November’s Third Friday Durham event, join us at perfect lovers for a final look at Colonies by Catherine Edgerton and enjoy live experimental and improvised string music performed by Emma Dunlap-Grube and Zach Aliotta. Performance begins at 7pm. Free and open to the public.

Come connect with your oceanself at this intimate multisensory art experience. Open to the public, $10-$20 suggested donation to support the artists.

Artist Catherine Edgerton will share more about Colonies, their artistic practice, and meaningful collaborations in conversation with Lewis Wallace and five of Catherine’s creative co-conspirators. Free and open to the public.

Join us for a Slow Art Tour of Catherine Edgerton’s exhibit, Colonies, at perfect lovers. Free and open to the public.