Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Explore the breathtaking nature photography of ecologist B.W. Wells and discover his passion for the flora and fauna of the Lower Cape Fear region.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Featuring Local and Regional Poets including Jacar Press and Press 53

The 19th annual Wilmington Garden Show will be held on February 4th and February 5th, 2012 at the Schwartz Center of Cape Fear Community College in downtown Wilmington. There will be over 50 booths selling a wide variety of products and services for gardening and landscaping. Many returning vendors, as well as new sellers offering the latest in gardening products will be on hand. This year the Garden Show is truly a one-stop event. It's where the public can find a hint of spring in the displays, the plants and decorative items. In addition, you can save time, money and gas by coming to the one event where you will see gardening products, gain information face to face with experts and listen to informative and interesting talks on a variety of topics. Garden Show hours are Saturday, February 4th from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM and Sunday, February 5th from 11:00 AM-4:00 PM. Admission is $7.00, Children under 12 are free. "Friends of the Arboretum" members get in free. Please show your membership card at the door.

Explore artifacts, conduct experiments, and play fun games at facilitated carts stationed throughout the Museum. Activities and locations vary – What exciting cart will you encounter on your visit?

New Hanover County residents are admitted free to the Museum the first Sunday of every month.

There's nothing like the Cape Fear Rollergirls.

Enjoy Wilmington's Bottega Art Bar & Gallery. Find all your Bottega events at http://bottega.enjoywilmington.com

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Enjoy Wilmington's Susan Savia with her 3.5 octave voice.

When aspiring author Felix notices a neighboring prostitute plying her trade he complains to the landlord who has her evicted. He soon has Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring "model and actress, thank you very much," pounding on his door. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity and complications.

In 1936, a young girl struggles to understand the moral divide tearing at the homey fabric of her quiet southern town. When her gentle father, a lawyer, takes on the defense of a young black man falsely accused of a heinous crime, he becomes the target of the very bigotry he fights against so tirelessly. He is an idealist who operates in the real world-a man who understands that while progress toward freedom and justice for all is invariably incremental, it requires unstinting commitment and personal moral integrity. This esential story seems to be a perfectly tailored fit for any and every socio-political moment. Its themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence lead to ultimate uplift in this most inspriing of modern American classics. February 2nd to 5th. For more theater visit theater.enjoywilmington.com

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Will the Panthers be traveling to Indianapolis for the Lucas Oil Stadium Superbowl?

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Thalian Association, the Official Community Theater of North Carolina, will hold auditions for the Wilmington premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE on Monday and Tuesday, February 6 and 7 from 7-9:30PM at the Community Arts Center, 120 S. 2nd Street in downtown Wilmington. Please prepare a traditional musical theater song to sing a cappella and be prepared to dance (no sandals or flip flops). The production, directed by Michael Walton-Jones with choreography by Carson Capps and music direction by Jonathan Barber, runs at Thalian Hall March 29-April 8. For full character breakdown, visit thalian.org.

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (KirstenDunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at asumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), andbrother-in-law John (KieferSutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, withfamily tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet calledMelancholia is heading directly towards Earth… Melancholia is apsychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier. Nominated fornumerous awards, Kirsten Dunst has already won Best Actress at the Cannes FilmFestival. “A masterwork of grandeur, millennial angst and high romanticstyle, Melancholia takes themes that have marked the best films of 2011 andspins them into a blast of cosmic sparkle dust. - The WashingtonPost Rated R. 2 hrs. 15 mins.

The Museum will presents Story Times for younger visitors every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. Kids will get to hear a couple of stories, enjoy activities and get "creative" in the Children's Hall. Only $4 per family and FREE for Museum members.

Trivia in Hell's, every monday

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Thalian Association, the Official Community Theater of North Carolina, will hold auditions for the Wilmington premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE on Monday and Tuesday, February 6 and 7 from 7-9:30PM at the Community Arts Center, 120 S. 2nd Street in downtown Wilmington. Please prepare a traditional musical theater song to sing a cappella and be prepared to dance (no sandals or flip flops). The production, directed by Michael Walton-Jones with choreography by Carson Capps and music direction by Jonathan Barber, runs at Thalian Hall March 29-April 8. For full character breakdown, visit thalian.org.

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (KirstenDunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at asumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), andbrother-in-law John (KieferSutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, withfamily tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet calledMelancholia is heading directly towards Earth… Melancholia is apsychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier. Nominated fornumerous awards, Kirsten Dunst has already won Best Actress at the Cannes FilmFestival. “A masterwork of grandeur, millennial angst and high romanticstyle, Melancholia takes themes that have marked the best films of 2011 andspins them into a blast of cosmic sparkle dust. - The WashingtonPost Rated R. 2 hrs. 15 mins.

Part of the Rucker Johns Jazz series. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Going Green Book Club featuring David Gessner

Enjoy Wilmington's Bottega Art Bar & Gallery. Find all your Bottega events at http://bottega.enjoywilmington.com

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (KirstenDunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at asumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), andbrother-in-law John (KieferSutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, withfamily tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet calledMelancholia is heading directly towards Earth… Melancholia is apsychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier. Nominated fornumerous awards, Kirsten Dunst has already won Best Actress at the Cannes FilmFestival. “A masterwork of grandeur, millennial angst and high romanticstyle, Melancholia takes themes that have marked the best films of 2011 andspins them into a blast of cosmic sparkle dust. - The WashingtonPost Rated R. 2 hrs. 15 mins.

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Enjoy Wilmington's Bottega Art Bar & Gallery. Find all your Bottega events at http://bottega.enjoywilmington.com

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at the Aquarium? Come explore spaces for animal holding, husbandry, life support systems, and backstage access to exhibits. Participants should wear closed-toed shoes. For ages 8 and up. Children ages 8 to 14 must be accompanied by a paying adult. $7 for members $13 for ages 8 to 12 $15 for ages 13 and up

Preregister to be a team in the Bowl

Creatures come alive in this story telling and critter-creating program. A special craft is included with each program. A different animal topic is offered for each date. Some programs include live animals. For ages 3 to 5. Children must be accompanied by a paying adult. $5 for members ages 3 to 5 $11 for non-members ages 3 to 5 $8 for adults admission (No fee for program)

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Some of the best jazz musicians in the Wilmington area and beyond showcasing a range of jazz genres will be at CAM for your listening (and dancing, if there's room!) pleasure on first Thursdays. The series kicks off with area favorite Grenoldo Frazier, pianist, composer and arranger on Sept. 1. The lineup will include Frank Bongiorno and Friends offering jazz and strings on Oct. 6, Lee Venters and Vermillion Sands on Nov. 3. Jan. 5, 2012 El Jaye Johnson & the Port City All Stars sets the tone for a cool, hot and jazzy first week of the New Year. Join us for a special pre-Valentine’s performance date —2nd Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012—when Stardust puts everyone in a romantic feel-good mood. Mar. 1—The Wahl Project performs bebop and beyond, and the series wraps with the artistry of the Benny Hill Quartet on Apr. 5. Held in collaboration with the Cape Fear Jazz Society, www.capefearjazzsociety.org.

Learn how to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge and stewardship of North Carolina's water resources, with particular emphasis on the local ponds and watersheds. This workshop is a fun, hands-on, action packed, informational workshop for anyone interested in natural resources and environmental education. The workshop offers educators exciting new activities to use in teaching math, science, language arts, social studies, and environmental studies. 10 CEUs. Call 341-0075 to preregister.

SONGWRITER SHOWCASE featuring Rob Bocchino and Meredith Jones, Thursday, February 9, at 7:30 pm at The Reel Café, Second Floor Ballroom. Additional music by Michelle Seidman, Richard D’Anjolell, Chris Hedrick, Steven Compton, Andrew Beyson. LISTENING ROOM.

We are hosting an event called Sweets For Your Sweet Bazaar at the RiverRoom event venue downtown next Thursday, February 9th from 5-9pm! We are inviting local vendors to come and sell their products/crafts/goodies and it is free to the public. It will be BYOB & there will be catered dinner plates available from A Thyme Savor for $5.00.

When aspiring author Felix notices a neighboring prostitute plying her trade he complains to the landlord who has her evicted. He soon has Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring "model and actress, thank you very much," pounding on his door. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity and complications.

Live, pub-style team trivia! Come on down and play for a chance to win prizes and gift certificates. Absolutely free to play!

Join us for a free wine tasting every weekend! We host a weekly tasting Thursday-Saturday. This is an open tasting, please feel free to drop in any time during the tasting hours. We offer a 10% discount on all tasting wines, all week. Thursday - Wine 3:00 - 8:00 Friday - Wine 3:00 - 9:00 Saturday - Wine 11:00 - 7:00

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

When aspiring author Felix notices a neighboring prostitute plying her trade he complains to the landlord who has her evicted. He soon has Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring "model and actress, thank you very much," pounding on his door. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity and complications.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Part of the Children's Theater by Thalian Association.

It’s feeding time, and you’re invited to watch. Visit the top of our largest exhibit, the Cape Fear Shoals, during an expanded tour behind the scenes. Get a birds-eye view of this 235,000 gallon tank as sharks, stingrays, moray eels, and other fish swim below! Aquarists feed the animals during the tour, offering a unique opportunity for close-up viewing. For ages 8 and up. Children ages 8 to 14 must be accompanied by a paying adult. $12 for members $18 for ages 8 to 12 $20 for ages 13 and up

Drop your children off at CGA for free play, every Friday & Saturday night, from 6-10 p.m. For ages 3 - 12, boys and girls, open to members and non-members. Bring food for dinner/snack, or bring money for the healthy snack machine. $6.75 per hour, with sibling discounts. For the safety and security of all children, NO ADULTS are allowed to stay in the facility during Parents Night Out.

Enjoy your music at the Goat. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Punchline Magazine as one of the Top 10 Comedy CD’s of 2010 Bob and Tom Show Golden Shingle Award at the Rooftop Comedy Festival

On Fridays our galleries open at 9:00 am. Bring your family, friends and make new friends while enjoying organic, fair-trade coffee from locally owned Folks Café, or tea, juice and more. Munch on delicious natural baked goods, made fresh daily by Tidal Creek Co-op Food Market. Free WiFi. Bring your laptop, read our art magazines and books, or bring a book or sketchbook.

Enjoy Wilmington's Bottega Art Bar & Gallery. Find all your Bottega events at http://bottega.enjoywilmington.com

Contact Person: Dale Thompson, president, 619-1054 Music plays from 8p.m.- 11p.m. Music/Dance style is ballroom variety, shag, two-step and occasional line dancing. Admission: DJ dances - members $8; guests $10.(unless otherwise noted) Suitable for single adults, 21 yrs and older. No smoking, shorts, miniskirts, denim jeans or excessive intoxication. Find all your dance at http://dance.enjoywilmington.com Contact Person: Dale Thompson, president, 619-1054

We host a weekly tasting Thursday-Saturday. This is an open tasting, please feel free to drop in any time during the tasting hours. We offer wine by the glass during tasting hours and a 10% discount on all tasting wines, all week. Thursday - Wine 3:00-8:00 Friday Wine & Beer 3:00-9:00 Saturday - Wine 11:00-7:00

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

When aspiring author Felix notices a neighboring prostitute plying her trade he complains to the landlord who has her evicted. He soon has Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring "model and actress, thank you very much," pounding on his door. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity and complications.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Part of the Children's Theater by Thalian Association.

Drop your children off at CGA for free play, every Friday & Saturday night, from 6-10 p.m. For ages 3 - 12, boys and girls, open to members and non-members. Bring food for dinner/snack, or bring money for the healthy snack machine. $6.75 per hour, with sibling discounts. For the safety and security of all children, NO ADULTS are allowed to stay in the facility during Parents Night Out.

Punchline Magazine as one of the Top 10 Comedy CD’s of 2010 Bob and Tom Show Golden Shingle Award at the Rooftop Comedy Festival

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Free for members or with Museum admission Discover the African influences in Lower Cape Fear art and culture. Explore the geography of Africa. Uncover the origins of Lowcountry basketry then make a basket to take home. Find out how African artisans helped design local historic architecture. Create your own art using African-influenced symmetry and design in the style of local artist Minnie Evans.

Join Aquarium staff on a behind-the-scenes tour, help prepare animal diets, and participate in some daily care and maintenance tasks. This program is a hands-on, up-close experience where your group can learn more about how an aquarium works. Participants should wear closed-toed shoes and be prepared to smell fishy. For ages 10 and up. Children ages 10-14 must be accompanied by a paying adult. $17 for members $23 for ages 10-12 $25 for ages 13 and up

Come celebrate at the Brooklyn Arts Center when 60 regional fine artists present their work in BAC's spectacular, historic church, in the beautiful, private courtyard, and in the church manse. Expect magnificent pottery, paintings, drawings, sculpture, jewelry, photography, watercolors, glass, metal, and more, priced perfectly at $25-$250. That's right, every piece of original fine art for $250 or less! The awesome Long Island Eatery will serve fantastic food, and the BAC cash bar will serve lovely liquid refreshments. Admission is $5 and tickets are available at Mitzy Jonkheer (4410 Wrightsville Avenue) and at the BAC Box Office (516 North 4th St.). All for art and Art for All! For more information about Art for All or to sign up as a vendor please contact BAC assistant to the executive director Heather at heather@brooklynartsnc.com or 910-616-9882.

Join us for our Social Dance and lesson, hosted by Azalea Coast NC USA Dance chapter, to be held on the second Saturday of each month, save September which is the 3rd Saturday, at the New Hanover Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC. The social dance group lesson begins at 6:45 pm – 7:30pm, then dance to our custom mix of ballroom & latin music from 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm. Your admission price includes the group lesson, no partner is needed – $8 members, $10 non-members, $5 military with ID, $3 students with ID. Contact info: phone (910)799-8566, email to: AzaleaCoastDance@aol.com, chapter website: www.azaleacoastncusadance.org

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

The Cape Fear Contra Dancers meet 7:30 to 9:30 PM on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month. We ask for a donation of $4.00. Normally these dances are held at the 5th Avenue United Methodist Church in historic downtown Wilmington. We also hold dances one Saturday evening of each month from 7:30 to 11:00 PM, except for December, and June through August. We ask for a donation of $7.00 from CFCD members, $10.00 from non-members, and $5.00 for students with an Id. These dances are normally held at the 5th Avenue United Methodist Church. We encourage dancers to pay $20 for a one-year membership. Your membership helps to defray the expenses of our Saturday dances not covered by donations at the door. As a special inducement to join the Dancers, donate $10.00 for a first-time membership.

Dads and their children interact and learn together about aquarium animals. Afterward, you can enjoy free playtime in our Freshwater Wonders Room, which will be reserved just for program participants. Different topics will be offered each program. For ages 1 to 2 with accompanying adult. $4.50 for member parent and child pair $13.00 for non-member parent and child pair $1.00 for each additional child

DANGERMUFFIN ADMISSION:$8 Advance / $10 Day Of DOORS: 9:00 SHOW: 10:00

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. We will explore the area around Halyburton Park to indentify birds, as well as learn how to submit data.

Saturday night karaoke with your host, DjBe! Come on down and sing your favorites with your friends at S. 3rd and Greenfield

Along with Bob & Mary Margaret Corriston, we are expanding the Northern Southerns Reunion with the “Let the Good Times Rock & Roll, 50’s SOCK HOP” on Saturday, February 11, 2012. Beau Rivage Golf & Resort, located at 649 Rivage Promenade, Wilmington, NC 28412 (Off US-421S/Carolina Beach Road - Approx. 15 miles from Leland) is hosting the Valentine’s Day Sock Hop, presented by Jam Sam Entertainment. This get together is for everyone, no matter which state you grew up in, because that is the origin of Beau Rivage. In French, Beau Rivage means “beautiful shore.” It signifies new beginnings living by the river. Rivers have always played a key role in settlements. They were where communities formed, where cultures emerged and flourished. The 50’s SOCK HOP is where you will make connections with strangers, forming a bond for future get-togethers or re-kindle old ones. Donating proceeds to the local Fisher Houses and inviting soldiers from the Wounded Warriors project is our way of saying, “Thank you for your service and welcome home; we are here to help you to assimilate back into the community.” Building new connections in new communities is part of our journey in life.

Downtown Wilmington is a food lover's dream, and this tour gets to the heart of this delicious area. You'll sample 7 significant downtown restaurants. You'll experience food, cocktail and wine tastings. You'll meet the city top chefs, go inside its best kitchens, and get a cooking lesson, too. All of this comes with big servings of Wilmington food history and restaurant dish. Find out where to eat and how the Port City become a foodie paradise. Tours happen rain or shine. Bring appropriate clothing. Tours are under 1 mile, but wear comfortable shoes. Tours are $38.00 per person

With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts. These Opera's are performed live and shown at Lumina in HD with subtitles. Opera fans love it! Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Enjoy Wilmington's Bottega Art Bar & Gallery. Find all your Bottega events at http://bottega.enjoywilmington.com

The Wilmington Symphony celebrates conductor Steven Errante’s 25th Anniversary Season by performing some of his own works, including Symphony No. 2 and Cradle Songs. The concert also spotlights the winners of the 35th Annual Richard R. Deas Student Concerto Competition.

Support the Seahawks Men's basketball team. Find all your sports at http://sports.enjoywilmington.com Find everything around the University at http://university.capefearpassport.com

Join us for a free wine tasting every weekend! We host a weekly tasting Thursday-Saturday. This is an open tasting, please feel free to drop in any time during the tasting hours. We offer a 10% discount on all tasting wines, all week. Thursday - Wine 3:00 - 8:00 Friday - Wine 3:00 - 9:00 Saturday - Wine 11:00 - 7:00

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at the Aquarium? Come explore spaces for animal holding, husbandry, life support systems, and backstage access to exhibits. Participants should wear closed-toed shoes. For ages 8 and up. Children ages 8 to 14 must be accompanied by a paying adult. $7 for members $13 for ages 8 to 12 $15 for ages 13 and up

Broadway Now, an original production, will feature a large cast of the area's finest actors, dancers, and musicians between the ages of 7-18. The production will be a musical review based on the contemporary Broadway scene. You may expect to see selections from all of your favorite shows including the smash hits Wicked, Mama Mia, Rock of Ages, and many more. This production will feature a large cast of the areas finest actors, dancers, and musicians between the ages of 7-18. Be sure to take your staycation in the heart of downtown Wilmington. Prepare to be dazzled by multiple Broadway offerings with enough diversity to rival the Tony Awards!

PASSAFIRE TOMORROW’S BAD SEEDS PACIFIC DUB ADMISSION:$10 Advance / $12 Day Of DOORS: 8:00 SHOW: 9:00

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

When aspiring author Felix notices a neighboring prostitute plying her trade he complains to the landlord who has her evicted. He soon has Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring "model and actress, thank you very much," pounding on his door. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity and complications.

Plan all your celebrations at http://plan.enjoywilmington.com

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

AUDITIONS: Come show us your talent and audition for the hilarious Neil Simon comedy God's Favorite! Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, February 13 and 14 at the Cape Fear Playhouse. In this contemporary fable, businessman Joe Benjamin in a modern day "Job," with a high-maintenance wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household help. Just when things couldn't get any worse, he is visited by a "messenger from God" on a mission to test Joe's faith and report back to "The Boss." Roles available for men and women of all ages. Show dates are April 12-15, 19-22 and 26-29 at the Cape Fear Playhouse. Tony Moore is directing. Call 910-471-0242 for more information.

Single? No date for Valentines? Have you recently been done wrong by who you thought was your true love? Then come to the Lazy Pirates Anti-Valentines Day Party and drown your sorrows with kindrid spirits. Ahhh the Life of a Pirate done dirty by those scallywags and wenches, but we will show them by partying with the best drink specials and food specials around! It will be so much fun you will forget anything bothering you!

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Monday, Feb.13 - Documentary Shorts Tuesday, Feb. 14 - Animated Shorts Wednesday, Feb. 15 - Live Action Shorts On three separate nights, Cinematique presents this nationally-touringfilm showcase highlighting the Live Action Short Films, Animated Short Films,and Documentary Short Films nominated for Academy Awards. Film selections willbe announced and listed at WHQR.org on Jan. 24. "The Oscar shorts program offers a more accurate, more completeglimpse of the state of cinema than the features ... it’s also, for thosewhose interest in film extends beyond the red carpet, where the actionis." - The New York Times

Trivia in Hell's, every monday

Prologue presents Celia as she talks about her book "You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl"

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

AUDITIONS: Come show us your talent and audition for the hilarious Neil Simon comedy God's Favorite! Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, February 13 and 14 at the Cape Fear Playhouse. In this contemporary fable, businessman Joe Benjamin in a modern day "Job," with a high-maintenance wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household help. Just when things couldn't get any worse, he is visited by a "messenger from God" on a mission to test Joe's faith and report back to "The Boss." Roles available for men and women of all ages. Show dates are April 12-15, 19-22 and 26-29 at the Cape Fear Playhouse. Tony Moore is directing. Call 910-471-0242 for more information.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

Monday, Feb.13 - Documentary Shorts Tuesday, Feb. 14 - Animated Shorts Wednesday, Feb. 15 - Live Action Shorts On three separate nights, Cinematique presents this nationally-touringfilm showcase highlighting the Live Action Short Films, Animated Short Films,and Documentary Short Films nominated for Academy Awards. Film selections willbe announced and listed at WHQR.org on Jan. 24. "The Oscar shorts program offers a more accurate, more completeglimpse of the state of cinema than the features ... it’s also, for thosewhose interest in film extends beyond the red carpet, where the actionis." - The New York Times

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

The Cape Fear Contra Dancers meet 7:30 to 9:30 PM on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month. We ask for a donation of $4.00. Normally these dances are held at the 5th Avenue United Methodist Church in historic downtown Wilmington. We also hold dances one Saturday evening of each month from 7:30 to 11:00 PM, except for December, and June through August. We ask for a donation of $7.00 from CFCD members, $10.00 from non-members, and $5.00 for students with an Id. These dances are normally held at the 5th Avenue United Methodist Church. We encourage dancers to pay $20 for a one-year membership. Your membership helps to defray the expenses of our Saturday dances not covered by donations at the door. As a special inducement to join the Dancers, donate $10.00 for a first-time membership.

Bash always has something going on at the Gypsy. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

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This acclaimed British-American touring company’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest overflows with humor, elegance and romantic comedy. Since its first performance on Valentine’s Day in 1895, Wilde’s masterpiece has become a respected piece of literature delighting audiences everywhere. This deliciously witty comedy details the escapades of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, two members of the fashionable British upper crust. In an attempt to escape their dull country lives, they invent wild tales about the imaginary Ernest and Bunbury. Their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of hilarious discoveries that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits. Full of larger than life characters and memorable satirical humor, Aquila's creative staging and sparkling flare for language make this production one not to be missed. Sponsored by UNCW Presents, South Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Carolina, Wrightsville and Kure our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Wrightsville, Kure, and Carolina are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

WHQR91.3fm Public Radio is excited to announce the MC Erny Gallery at WHQR willopen a new show on January 27 – Out ofthe Pocket: iPhoneography by Lynn Casper, Dorian Hill and Morgan Kenny. The exhibit begins with the Opening Reception on Friday,January 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm featuring Wilmington’sfirst exhibit of iPhone photographic art. Guests are invited to meetthe artists and the WHQR staff and on-air personalities, while enjoying greatfood and wine. The show will remain on display until March 9, 2012. A portionof the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

Come take “A Walk in the Woods” and explore colorful art at the N. C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The newest installation in the Aquarium’s Spadefish Gallery, entitled “A Walk in the Woods: North Carolina’s Maritime Forests,” showcases the artistry of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA). On display from now to March 1, the creative works celebrate the rich animal and plant diversity of maritime forests along our coast. These unique ecosystems have adapted to the effects of salt spray and wind because of their proximity to the ocean. Each of North Carolina’s maritime forests is slightly different from the next and provides habitat for migrating and resident wildlife and a great array of plant species. All pieces in the show are original and while other medium, such as watercolor or pastels, can be used, these pieces are at least 75 percent colored pencil. Fine art colored pencils offer color intensity, depth and the ability to create fine detail ideal for illustrations, representational art, nature paintings and portraits. The Spadefish Gallery at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher showcases artists throughout the year. Artwork that coincides with the Aquarium’s mission of “Inspiring Appreciation and Conservation of North Carolina’s Aquatic Environment” is located on the second floor of the Marine building, near the auditorium.

Richard Ritter, a celebrated glass artist, in this exhibition reveals his complex “murrini” process; a technically intensive development of complex patterns and decorations. Mark Peiser, also a glass artist, reinterprets the 1934 world event: the historic 20-ton glass casting of the 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror. In a second casting, this largest single piece of glass ever made is now a component of the Palomar Observatory in California. Craft is rooted in the fundamental human impulse to use mind and hands to transform basic materials into objects of beauty and utility and is reflected in the exhibition, Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination.

Monday, Feb.13 - Documentary Shorts Tuesday, Feb. 14 - Animated Shorts Wednesday, Feb. 15 - Live Action Shorts On three separate nights, Cinematique presents this nationally-touringfilm showcase highlighting the Live Action Short Films, Animated Short Films,and Documentary Short Films nominated for Academy Awards. Film selections willbe announced and listed at WHQR.org on Jan. 24. "The Oscar shorts program offers a more accurate, more completeglimpse of the state of cinema than the features ... it’s also, for thosewhose interest in film extends beyond the red carpet, where the actionis." - The New York Times

Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.

Come learn how FSB makes its delicious microbrews. Everyday between 3 pm and 5 pm, Brewmaster Kevin Kozak and Asst. Brewer Tim Boissey offer tours of the brewing facility. Ask the hostess upon arrival

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory. This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.

Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are our three great beaches. Try each and enjoy its unique experience.

Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection features 127 “first hand” drawings depicting colorful aspects of life and action during the Civil War era. These original drawings by artist-reporters for the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, were used to inform a reading public consumed by the need to know what was happening throughout America as it struggled to establish its national identity. Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection is curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher with Boston College. The traveling exhibition is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Pasadena California. Drawings from the Becker Collection premiered at the McMullen Museum at Boston College in the exhibition First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection which was organized by the McMullen Museum and underwritten by Boston College and Patrons of the McMullen Museum.

Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present "Black & White" a Thrive Studio group exhibit showcasing new black and white artworks by Thrive Studio artists Scott Ehrhart, Zachariah Weaver, Lance Strickland, Gaeten Lowrie, Jason Jones, Zachary Duff, Geoffrey Scott Queen, Drew Swinson, Miranda Welborn Duncan, Emily Russell, Trek Matthews and Michael Watters. Founded in 2009, Thrive Studios is a visual arts collective and studio rental space located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Co-owners Scott Ehrhart and Gaeten Lowrie built Thrive to establish a home for progressive artists with a desire to enrich and diversify the local arts community. Members of our studio embrace the need to challenge the conceptual boundaries and to question the nature of art. Thrive is a haven where artists can be surrounded by their peers, and feel comfortable sharing ideas and inspirations. The family of artists that we've formed have interests spanning all forms of art and creativity. We believe all people hold the capacity to express themselves through art; self-expression and our ability to communicate through art is what defines us as human. At Thrive, the courage of a new idea is celebrated, and the freedom to create is paramount.

The Thalian Association, managers of the HBHUSO/CAC are proud to announce the January 2012 Artists Exhibition featuring the work of eight emerging and known artists from our area. An opening reception is planned for Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6pm – 9pm to coincide with the FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 23, 2012. Eight local artists will present their work in various mediums. MELANIE WALTER creates pine needle baskets embellished with other natural materials . She is inspired by a childhood desire to create something from nothing. BARBARA BEAR JAMISON has painted since the age of 10 and she works to present pieces of life with oil on canvas. JENNY WRIGHT is a plein air artist who works primarily in oils and captures the emotional richness of our local landscapes in her work. RYAN LEWIS creates mixed media abstract paintings that give shape and color to the invisible – sound. DA PASCUA presents a photographic collection of landscape images from world travels – beyond the horizon of Wilmington. LYNETTE ASHBY is a jewelry artist who works in recycled aluminum and believes in the three R’s – reduce, reuse and revamp. RONALD WILLIAMS uses water color to depict memories of growing up in Wilmington and to showcase the beauty of the southern coast and our architecture, from Virginia to Florida. Our final artist, IVEY HAYES, is known for his vivid use of bold color and unique shapes that reflect his life experiences in acrylic on canvas. Mr. Hayes will be presenting his first new work since 2010.

This month is Joel Finsel with his book Cocktails and Conversations form the Astral Plane. He is also the author of our Annual Vicious Valentine - 50 copies limited edition FREE to our dear friends!

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Outrageous, hilarious, off the wall – The Producers is a musical that could only have come from the madcap mind of Mel Brooks! Max Bialystock, a down-on-his-luck theatrical producer, and Leo Bloom, his stage-struck accountant, hatch the ultimate scam: raise more money than you need for a surefire Broadway flop and pocket the difference. They find the perfect musical, guaranteed to offend everyone and close in one night - Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden. What could possibly go wrong? Featuring dancing storm troopers, dirty old ladies, wickedly witty songs, and more raucous comedy than should be allowed, The Producers is sure to offend anyone without a funny bone and bring nothing but childlike glee to everyone else. Fast, fierce, and shameless, The Producers is intended for a mature audience. Producers is produced by Opera Theater Company

Part of the Rucker Johns Jazz series. Find all your music at www.music.enjoywilmington.com

Enjoy Wilmington's Bottega Art Bar & Gallery. Find all your Bottega events at http://bottega.enjoywilmington.com