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Culture Mill Culture Mill is a non-profit organization based in Saxapahaw, North Carolina; it fosters artistic exc

Culture Mill collaborator, Kamara Thomas has been in residency with Culture Mill this spring. The Durham-based songspell...
05/15/2026

Culture Mill collaborator, Kamara Thomas has been in residency with Culture Mill this spring. The Durham-based songspeller and storyteller reports from the lands she has been working on:

“Spending time in the wilds of Hyde County— salt marshes and unsullied beaches have been nourishing me. I’ve been going back to basics: breath, voice, land. I’m exploring how the non-human world, especially the Avianr kingdom, communicates, in search of a musical language derived from the Earth’s rhythms.”You can learn more about Kamara’s work at www.kamarathomas.com

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Showing tomorrow in Munich 🙌 Murielle has been in Munich, Germany for a residency with collaborator Alexandre Iseli to d...
05/12/2026

Showing tomorrow in Munich 🙌 Murielle has been in Munich, Germany for a residency with collaborator Alexandre Iseli to develop their forthcoming duet Tremors, a performance investigating the choreographers’ experience of aging, dance, and identity. Tremors will premiere in January 2027 at Firkin Crane — Dance Cork (Ireland).

Culture Mill collaborator and Durham-based artist, R Stein Wexler has been in residency with Culture Mill this Spring. A...
05/06/2026

Culture Mill collaborator and Durham-based artist, R Stein Wexler has been in residency with Culture Mill this Spring. A self-taught artist trained as an urban planner, Stein’s research-based practice spans civic art, social practice, and multimedia installation.

During her three month residency, she’s been exploring dominant notions of time, including productivity and efficiency, while developing a new series rooted in humor and the familiar form of the calendar.

As her residency concludes in May, stay tuned for opportunities to experience this evolving body of work!

You can learn more about Stein’s work at www.rsteinwexler.com

We’re back at with the Parkinson’s Performance Project 🙌 Last week we worked with on group composition, unison, and fo...
05/01/2026

We’re back at with the Parkinson’s Performance Project 🙌 Last week we worked with on group composition, unison, and focus!

Join us for remaining workshops on May 4 and May 11 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM 🙌✨

Culture Mill’s Parkinson’s Performance Project workshops explore contemporary dance and improvisational practice informed by neuroscience and occupational and physical therapy. Part dance practice and part community conversation, these multigenerational workshops cultivate ease and fluidity of movement, body awareness, adaptability, embodied imagination, improved balance, and an increased sense of agency, connection, and play.

Workshops are for anyone living with Parkinson’s Disease, their care partners, and professionals working in the field of PD therapies and/or research.

This series lays the ground for Culture Mill’s 2027 ADF-commissioned performance Anatomy of Care. The multigenerational, multidisciplinary performance is a space for collective re-imagination of the poetics of care developed in collaboration with dancers living with PD, dance artists and educators, scholars, health practitioners, and researchers.

04/13/2026

That’s a wrap! Thank you all who attended Eclipse, the Southern Futures Assembly, and the many works, practices, and collaborations that have evolved and deepened over the course of our Southern Futures residency ❤️‍🔥 To stay up to date on our next projects, sign up for our newsletter at link in bio ✨

THIS WEEK don’t miss the Southern Futures Assembly including our last show runs of Eclipse 🧱🔥 Event registration & perfo...
04/05/2026

THIS WEEK don’t miss the Southern Futures Assembly including our last show runs of Eclipse 🧱🔥 Event registration & performance tickets available at link in bio ✨

Southern Futures Assembly Lineup:
4/7, 11:30-1PM: Bricks as Memory Lecture*
4/8, 10-11AM: Well Practice*
4/10-4/11, 7PM: Eclipse performances**
4/12, 2-4PM: Restorative Circle***

* Free, Registration Requested
** ”Name Your Price” Tickets
*** Free, Registration Required

03/31/2026

Bricks as Memory
NEXT Tuesday, April 7 at 11:30am to 1pm
The Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC (Hyde Hall)
***meeting point: The Old Well in front of South Building at UNC***

This 90-minute program will engage the scope of Culture Mill’s five-year residency with Southern Futures at Carolina Performing Arts in both academic and poetic language. In it, speakers will contextualize an iterative process that has engaged a racialized history on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, and how the complex intersections of power and place continue to land on our bodies today. Through reflections on performances of Eclipse and processes such as the Social Geographies Seminar and the Old Well Practice, we will explore ways in which artistic interventions on university campuses open new pathways for experiential learning and knowing to be an agent of change.

Presenters and facilitators include Dr. Elizabeth Olson, Professor of Geography and Global Studies and IAH Interim Director; Culture Mill artists-in-residence at Carolina Performing Arts; and Dr. Cortland Gilliam, former Chapel Hill poet laureate.

This program is free, but registration is requested. See link in Bio!

Behind the scenes remounting Eclipse at 🧱🔥 Eclipse opens TOMORROW (sold out show!) — Get your tickets for 3/31, 4/10, 4...
03/29/2026

Behind the scenes remounting Eclipse at 🧱🔥 Eclipse opens TOMORROW (sold out show!) — Get your tickets for 3/31, 4/10, 4/11 at the link in our bio!

Following each show run on 4/1 & 4/12, metabolize your Eclipse experience with a restorative circle practice — registration required, see link in bio!

Don’t miss the full Southern Futures Assembly:
3/30-3/31, 7PM: Eclipse performances*
4/1, 2-4PM: Restorative Circle***
4/7, 11:30-1PM: Bricks as Memory Lecture**
4/8, 10-11AM: Well Practice**
4/10-4/11, 7PM: Eclipse performances*
4/12, 2-4PM: Restorative Circle***

* ”Name Your Price” Tickets
** Free, Registration Requested
*** Free, Registration Required

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03/24/2026

Opening night of Eclipse is SOLD OUT 🧱🔥 Get your tickets for 3/31, 4/10, and 4/11 while they last — visit link in bio!

Eclipse Details:
March 30 & 31 + April 10 & 11 at 7pm
Joan H. Gillings ArtSpace at CURRENT

Just before sundown, you are invited to join a choreographic practice outside the Joan H. Gillings ArtSpace at CURRENT (formerly known as CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio) which uses restorative practices and embodiment tools to investigate how our assembled bodies and stories might form the architecture for a togetherness we don’t yet know.

Don’t miss the full Southern Futures Assembly:
3/30-3/31, 7PM: Eclipse performances*
4/1, 2-4PM: Restorative Circle***
4/7, 11:30-1PM: Bricks as Memory Lecture**
4/8, 10-11AM: Well Practice**
4/10-4/11, 7PM: Eclipse performances*
4/12, 2-4PM: Restorative Circle***

* ”Name Your Price” Tickets
** Free, Registration Requested
*** Free, Registration Required

03/19/2026

Bricks as Memory
Tuesday, April 7 at 11:30am to 1pm
The Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC (Hyde Hall)
***meeting point: The Old Well in front of South Building at UNC***
Register at link in bio!

This 90-minute program will engage the scope of Culture Mill’s five-year residency with Southern Futures at Carolina Performing Arts in both academic and poetic language. In it, speakers will contextualize an iterative process that has engaged a racialized history on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, and how the complex intersections of power and place continue to land on our bodies today. Through reflections on performances of Eclipse and processes such as the Social Geographies Seminar and the Old Well Practice, we will explore ways in which artistic interventions on university campuses open new pathways for experiential learning and knowing to be an agent of change.

Presenters and facilitators include Dr. Elizabeth Olson, Professor of Geography and Global Studies and IAH Interim Director; Culture Mill artists-in-residence at Carolina Performing Arts; and Dr. Cortland Gilliam, former Chapel Hill poet laureate.

This program is free, but registration is requested. (Lunch included for participants who register before March 24th)

Register at Link in Bio!

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