Durham Performing Arts Center

There's no business like show business in Durham. You're invited Community Ribbon Cutting & Open House 5:30pm Dec 1. Featuring the unveiling of the Plensa light sculpture: Sleep No More.

Durham Performing Arts Center Community Open House

What: Community Open House and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the New Durham Performing Arts Center

Theme: "There's No Business Like Show Business In Durham!"

When: Monday, December 1, 2008, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Who: City of Durham

Where: Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC), 123 Vivian Street, Durham, N.C. 27701
(Located just off the Durham Freeway (Highway 147, Exits 12B or 13) at the corner Vivian and Mangum Streets. DPAC is located adjacent to the American Tobacco Campus, which is located within the American Tobacco Historic District. Visit www.dpacnc.com/plan/parking-directions for more detailed directions.)

Fast Facts:

The City of Durham is hosting a Community Open House and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the new Durham Performing Arts Center. All Durham residents, Triangle neighbors, and the news media are invited to attend this free event. Parking will be available at the North, South, and East Deck Parking Garages located within the American Tobacco Historic District.

Pre-show festivities kick off outside of the Durham Performing Arts Center at 5:30 p.m. with live music and dance entertainment.
At 6 p.m., the unveiling of Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc.'s light sculpture "Sleep No More," by world-renowned artist Jaume Plensa, will occur. Plensa will join Capitol Broadcasting Company in presenting this gift to the City of Durham. The CBC Plaza and Diamond View Park will also be dedicated at this time.
Immediately after the "Sleep No More" dedication, Mayor William V. "Bill" Bell and members of the Durham City Council will lead the official ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by live entertainment inside the Durham Performing Arts Center on all three levels. Entertainment will include Lois DeLoatch, the Durham Children's Choir, Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble, The Pitchforks, members of the Durham Symphony and surprise guests.
In addition to live entertainment, attendees will enjoy light refreshments and self-guided tours of the new theater.

About The Durham Performing Arts Center

The Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) is a $44 million, state-of-the-art performing arts at the corner of Vivian and Mangum Streets in downtown Durham. The DPAC will feature North Carolina's largest stage for major Broadway shows, opera, concerts, drama, and family shows. There are 2,800 seats in a very intimate setting with no seat more than 135 feet from the stage. The DPAC is owned by the City of Durham and will be managed by Nederlander/PFM, a partnership combining Nederlander, the world's largest owner and producer of Broadway shows, with PFM, manager of a number of performing arts facilities in the United States. To learn more about the DPAC, visit www.durhamnc.gov/departments/eed/dpac or www.DPACnc.com.

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