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Celebrate Black History Month with Weymouth Center!
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Black History Month Events | Inclusivity is important to us and we are committed to continually educating ourselves on how to better serve our community, in its full variety of humanity. While we celebrate Black culture and uphold inclusive narratives year-round, we also recognize February as a special month to dedicate our efforts and spotlight the Black voices that make this community, this state and this country joyful, profound, and rich. Please join us at our events dedicated to uplifting and supporting Black history and culture. |
Author Brendan Slocumb and The Country Bookshop Present The Violin Conspiracy
February 28 12PM - 1PM
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Brendan Slocumb will be presenting his debut novel, The Violin Conspiracy. In partnership with The Country Bookshop, we are beyond excited to bring you this in-conversation event with one of the most anticipated novels of the season.
Kimberly Daniels Taws of The Country Bookshop will interview Brendan Slocumb in the Great Room of the Boyd House at Weymouth as part of "Weymouth Wonderful 100," a year-long celebration of 100 events commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the Boyd House in 2022.
An audience Q & A will follow.
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More about the Author & Musician
Brendan Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, NC and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education, concentrations on Violin and Viola. While at UNCG, Brendan was the concertmaster for the University Symphony orchestra and served as the principal violist. He performed with numerous small chamber ensembles, including flute and clarinet choirs, and in the BESK string quartet. For the past twenty-three years, he has been a public and private school music educator from kindergarten through twelfth grade, teaching general music, orchestra and guitar ensembles.
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More about the Novel
Slocumb's debut novel, "The Violin Conspiracy," is a riveting tale about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious classical music competition in the world... Ray is determined to get it back. But now his family and the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray's great-grandfather are each claiming that the violin belongs to them. With the odds stacked against him and the pressure mounting, will Ray ever see his beloved violin again?
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Tickets are $28 and include a signed copy of "The Violin Conspiracy."
Purchase tickets by clicking the button below!
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Until further notice, for this and all indoor events at Weymouth we have adopted COVID protocols to allow for social distancing, capacity is limited to 45 attendees, masking and proof of vaccination is required, to be shown at the door. | |
Freedom Park Series, Part 2
March 13 2PM
“Freedom Park: The Inspiring Story of How a Monument to Freedom is Built While Confederate Statues are Coming Down”
-- Speakers, Reginald Hildebrand and Reginald Hodges
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Reginald Hildebrand is an author and former co-chair of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project. Hildebrand has dedicated his career to African American Studies and History as a professor both at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | |
Reginald Hodges is a member of the North Carolina Freedom Park board of directors, and former Executive Director of the Durham Literacy Center, 2004-2014. He's an avid collector of African Art of which he has donated hundreds of statues, textiles, and vintage photographs to museums across the country. | |
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More about the 20-Year Journey to Freedom Park...
In 2001, the Paul Green Foundation initiated a tribute to the African American struggle for freedom in this state. After twenty years of planning and fundraising, ground was broken in 2021 in the center of Raleigh for North Carolina Freedom Park. Designed by the late Phil Freelon (lead architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.), the Park will provide a more complete story of North Carolina’s history to visitors and thousands of school children who annually come by bus from across the state for their 4th and 8th grade study of North Carolina history. Freedom Park will highlight the history and accomplishments of Black North Carolinians and is, in the words of Dr. John Hope Franklin, “…a continuing reminder of…how much more we need to do to achieve equity and justice in our society.” Ribbon cutting will be in late 2022.
Weymouth’s “Freedom Park” Two-Part Arts & Humanities Lecture series is generously sponsored by Deirdre Newton.
Outdoor reception immediately follows with a meet and greet with the presenters.
For more information, visit weymouthcenter.org
$15 Supporters
$20 General
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Classical Music Sundays
February 27 2PM
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Join us in the Great Room for our popular series in an intimate concert setting, featuring internationally recognized classical musicians, University of North Carolina School of the Arts faculty and internationally renowned soloists Kevin Lawrence, violin, and Dmitri Shteinberg, piano. Program to include violin-piano sonatas by Bach, Schubert and Bloch.
$25 Supporters/$35 General
Outdoor reception immediately follows with a meet and greet with the artists.
Thank you to our sponsors: Deirdre Newton, Martha Parsons, Jack and Claudie Wells!
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For more information about performers and tickets, tap the button below!
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Live from the Great Room
Wednesday, March 9, 7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Introducing a new way to enjoy live music at Weymouth Center!
Party like the Boyds! Imbibe vintage-inspired craft cocktails from our cash bar and listen to LIVE music in the historic salon where music was presented and celebrated by the Boyds. Our official launch of this new event features Ryan Keberle and Catharsis.
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“Shamrock the House!” St. Paddy’s Day Warm-Up Dinner: Pickup or Picnic
Saturday, March 12, 5pm - 7pm
The Women of Weymouth present "Shamrock the House!”
Warm-Up St. Paddy’s Day Dinner and Celebration!
Dinner will be catered by Broad Street Bakery & Café and is available to pick-up and go, or to stay and picnic on the beautiful Weymouth Center grounds and enjoy Irish Music by traditional harpist, Eryn Fuson, beer from Southern Pines Brewing Company and more!
Reserve your meal by March 7 at weymouthcenter.org.
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Photo credit: John Gessner | |
From Director of Property Management, Alex Klalo:
A special thank you to Weymouth's core volunteer group, the Dirt Gardeners, who put in a lot of hard work in helping with the property clean up from the recent ice storm. As always they come through no matter what mother nature throws our way, whether it's an ice or snow storm or a hurricane. They make every inch of Weymouth's 26 acre property not only a place of beauty year round but also a safe one for the numerous people, canines, and occasional horses that enjoy our grounds. Joining our Dirt Gardeners in the clean-up effort were sisters of the Church of Latter Day Saints and John Talton, who saved a number of trees on our grounds. Thank you to our volunteers!
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"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." - Rosa Parks | | | | |
