Are you WikiCurious? Bring a laptop and help deepen Wikipedia’s coverage of country artists featured in the special country music issue of Southern Cultures—especially up-and-coming and underrepresented artists. The SC editors and North Carolina Wikipedians will be on hand to show you everything you need to know. No experience needed! Co-sponsored by the University Library »

From autographs to photographs, and from behind the scenes to front of stage, we look back at the Grand Ole Opry through the lens of its most ardent fans. Garth Brooks gets a friendly squeeze. Paul McCartney only has eyes for Dolly. Charley Pride touches hearts and hands. And a group of nuns gather at »

On view now at the Center for the Study for the American South, portraits from Amanda López’s ongoing documentary project, “This Is Country Music.” As Lopez writes in the Country Music’s Mythology issue of Southern Cultures, “My project . . . was born from a desire to reclaim my space in the genre and amplify »

It’s a Reading Day square dance and poetry reading, y’all! Poet Anna Lena Phillips Bell will read from her new book, Might Could (2026), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and call an ungendered square dance on the Love House lawn. Be there and be square! Refreshments provided. April 28, 5:30–7:00 PMCenter for the »

Our fall Snapshot: Climate issue features more than 60 photographs and accompanying short reflections from artists, activists, photojournalists, and scientists to provide a “snapshot” look at climate impacts across the (global, Atlantic, gulf) South. With support from the Mellon Foundation and Carolina Public Humanities, 25 photographs from Snapshot: Climate will travel to galleries across the South over the next year. All »