NC Legislative Building

A couple of years ago I shared the history of one of my favorite buildings, the North Carolina Legislative Building. This weekend will be an opportunity to learn about the architect behind it.

The architect of the NC Legislative Building was Edward Durell Stone, who also designed the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, among many others. In addition to the Legislative Building, Stone also designed the original building of the North Carolina Museum of Art, now the East Building.

His youngest son, Hicks Stone, will be in Raleigh this weekend hosting two events. The first is a book signing event at Quail Ridge Books on Wade Avenue. The second is a lunch and lecture at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Hicks, himself a practicing architect, was very accommodating in providing research for earlier articles which referenced his father’s works. I haven’t yet read the newly-published book, but I have no doubt it will be an interesting look into the history of modern architecture and the man behind so many important buildings, including here in Raleigh.

Further Reading:

• Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect at Quail Ridge Books
• Lunch and Lecture: Edward Durell Stone: American Modernist (North Carolina Museum of Art)

Related Articles:

• An Intersection of Architectural Masters
• North Carolina’s Newest Wonder: The NCMA

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If you are free this Sunday, consider this great cause at Tir Na Nog.

Oliver is 2 1/2 and has cancer. Please join Tir Na Nog and friends this Sunday to help Oliver with his treatments. Tir Na Nog will donate 10% from food sale from 3PM until 9:30PM.
$5 admission: $5 raffle tickets
With performances from James Odin and Friends, The Debonzo Brothers, Bad Circus and Left Outlet.
Music @ 7:30! Hot date auction @11! Raffle prizes throughout the night!
For information on the auction or some of the raffle prizes, call 919-833-7795

For more information on the event and Oliver, check out Raleigh on the Rocks.

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Among the many other events taking place for First Friday is the show for senior design students at NC State.  The theme is the use of graphic design within aid or crisis situations, at both local and global levels.

A few of the topics covered include deforestation prevention, affordable housing, economic development in rural North Carolina, promoting literacy in Afghanistan, among many others.

There are several opportunities for technology to better the lives of those in need, and those opportunities can’t be effective without good communication and design. This is a good chance to see innovation in this field on a practical level.

Welcome to our senior graphic design exhibition: Design for Relief and Aid. This semester, we have worked to demonstrate the role of graphic design within crisis and disaster situations. Our emphasis was on identifying and addressing the needs which arise in crises. These design solutions are a response to this need, demonstrating that we can be more than just producers of beautiful design, but also be essential to understanding breakdowns in communication in order to diagnose a problem. We have expanded our personal expectations for what design can be and do; and we share this exhibition with you not to display finished products or final solutions, but as a way to continue the life of our work.

The show consists of several media formats including projections, pin-ups, as well as assembled books.

The College of Design’s Downtown Studio is located at 131 1/2 Wilmington Street.

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Fall is upon us and the weather this weekend looks to be beautiful! We at Goodnight Raleigh are excited about three upcoming events happening this Saturday, October 15. As our faithful readers know, Goodnight Raleigh celebrates the arts, architecture, history and the community of Raleigh. This Saturday you can experience all this and more. We are happy to announce the Cooke Street Carnival, the Downtown Raleigh Historic Church walk, and Triangle Home Movie Day.

The Cooke Street Carnival

The Cooke Street Carnival is an annual community street fair held every October in the Idlewild neighborhood near downtown. This year the family friendly festival features more than 30 vendors, including artists, food trucks, four bands, kid’s activities, a pie eating contest sponsored by Raleigh’s Pie Bird restaurant, a stilt walker and even a bearded lady! The carnival is free and open to the public. So y’all come on out and have fun at this neighborhood event. It runs from 1 pm until dark.

Photo courtesy Jedidiah Smith Gant

These are some photos from last year’s event.

Photo courtesy Jedidiah Smith Gant

And a good time was had by all!

Photo courtesy Jedidiah Smith Gant

I can’t wait to see the bearded lady!

The Cooke Street Carnival also sponsors a Can Drive for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina so bring some canned food to donate!

Downtown Raleigh Historic Church Walk

Sacred Heart Cathedral

The first annual Downtown Historic Church Walk will be held Saturday, October 15 from 9 am – 12 noon. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit and learn about the history and architecture of eight downtown Raleigh churches. The self-guided tour features Edenton Street Methodist Church, First Baptist Church Salisbury Street, First Baptist Church Wilmington Street, First Presbyterian Church, Christ Episcopal Church, St. Paul AME Church, Church of the Good Shepherd, and Sacred Heart Cathedral. All are within easy walking distance around Raleigh’s historic Capitol Square. Welcome balloons mark the entrances at each site, and visitors will find a church walk brochure at each location. It includes a map, photographs and historical information about these historic churches.

Historic Christ Church

Home Movie Day

Do you have old home movies in your family vault? Do you want to know what’s on them, what condition they’re in, and how to take care of them? Interested in what other people filmed with their old movie cameras back in the day? Then bring your family’s old 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm home movies to the Triangle Home Movie Day event, Saturday, Oct. 15.

At Home Movie Day not only will you be able to talk with film archivists about the best ways to preserve your movies, but you will be able to see them projected — a real treat if you have not seen them in a while. No home movies? Then come on out anyway and join in the fun watching the old movies of others. It’s not only historically significant — it’s fun too!

Home Movie Day is a worldwide celebration of amateur home movies, how they are important historical records of our culture and what we can do to save them for future generations.

Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 from 1 – 4pm

North Carolina State Archives Auditorium
109 East Jones St.
Raleigh, N.C.

All three of these fun events are free and open to the public. Now that’s something for everyone!

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First Friday for the month of March will feature two photography events: the Allen Forge Traveling Photography Show and ghosts of movement and shelter. The former is a photography exhibit about travel, the latter features my photographs of buildings and items associated with travel that have since been abandoned.

The show at the Allen Forge Gallery, which is located at Kurt Eichenberger AIA in the Warehouse District. The show features work by the following photographers:

• Katherine Ball
• Jessica Cochran
• Jason Cole
• Kurt Eichenberger
• Tina Partin
• Doug Van de Zande
• Marshall Wyatt

I’ve seen the works of several of these, and already know it will be a great show.

The ghosts of movement and shelter exhibit at Café Helios features photography of abandoned buildings and modes of transportation in the Rust Belt (mainly Detroit and rural Ohio), but there are a few from North Carolina as well. It will be up for the rest of the month of March.

Although not a part of First Friday, March 13th will see the exhibited titled Photographs by Allen Weiss and Works by His Subjects:

Entitled “Black & White/Color & Light,” the exhibition will include black and white photographic portraits of well-known artists by Allen Weiss, alongside examples of their work. The featured artists are: Edith London, Ted Potter, Herb Jackson, Joe Cox, George Bireline, Harvey Littleton, Maud Gatewood, Claud Howell, Robert Irwin, Francis Speight, and Sarah Blakeslee. Opening: Sun., March 13, 2-5 p.m.

This show will be at the Lee Hansley Gallery on Glenwood Avenue.

Facebook event listings:

• The Allen Forge Traveling Photography Show
• ghosts of movement and shelter
• Photographs by Allen Weiss and Works by His Subjects

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This Saturday, there is not one but two out of the ordinary don’t-want-to-miss it happenings to break your Holiday slog – The Bombshell Academy and KIFFmas!

The Bombshell Academy is an event being put on at the Cherry Bomb Grill, with instructors to help you produce vintage pin-up style pics.

Afterward, for everyone who read about Scumfest and thought “man, I would love to go see some burlesque dancers, firebreathing metal heads, and Pabstman saw stuff in half with a chainsaw” now is your golden opportunity, because Saturday night, KIFF is going to jingle some f***in bells at Volume 11!

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Do you have home movies in your family vault? Do you want to know what’s on them, what condition they’re in, and how to take care of them? Interested in what other people filmed with their old movie cameras back in the day? Then bring your family’s old 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm home movies to the Triangle Home Movie Day event, Saturday, Oct. 16.

At Home Movie Day not only will you be able to talk with film archivists about the best ways to preserve your movies, but you will be able to see them projected — a real treat if you have not seen them in a while. No home movies? Then come on out anyway and join in the fun watching the old movies of others. It’s not only historically significant — it’s fun too!

Bring your films, or just come to watch and to play Home Movie Day Bingo!
Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 from 1 – 4pm

North Carolina State Archives Auditorium
109 East Jones St.
Raleigh, N.C.

For more information contact: 

Skip Elsheimer, A/V Geek, 919.247.7752
skip@avgeeks.com

Marsha Orgeron, Associate Professor, Film Studies, NCSU, 919.515.4149,
mgorgero@unity.ncsu.edu

Devin Orgeron, Associate Professor, Film Studies, NCSU, 919.515.4138,
devin_orgeron@ncsu.edu

Co-sponsored by A/V Geeks and the Film Studies Program at North Carolina State University.