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SUMMARY:Up Close and Personal
DESCRIPTION:The Future of Arts Programming\n\n\nWhere: Hickory Choral Society Rehearsal Hall\nWhen: Sunday, March 15, 2026, 3:30 – 5.30pm\n\n\n\nUp Close and Personal Embodies the values of The Center for Creative and Compassionate Communities by providing literary arts programming for community members seeking a unique and rewarding cultural experience.\n\nThis experience includes enjoying the blending of the performing arts with the literary arts and deepening the audience’s experience by expanding the opportunities to interact with the writers and performers.\n\nUp Close and Personal ( https://ccccommunities.com/up-close-and-personal/ )\n\n\n\nHALEH LIZA GAFORI\nIs a poet/translator of the 13th century Persian mystic Rumi.\n\n\n“There’s a rich fluency here not just in idiom but in gesture, in spirit. It’s uncanny to encounter eight-hundred-year-old verse this urgent. Gafori’s Rumi teaches me how to wander into mystery—“humble as soil”—without galloping toward some hasty and inorganic conclusion. What a gift this is, what gold.” —Kaveh Akbar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLIAM BAILEY\n\n\nPlays the Violin/fiddle.\nLiam Thomas Bailey is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in Hickory, North Carolina.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \nSALLY FANJOY & JAMES LABRENZ\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Labrenz and Sally Fanjoy are conceptual artists and photographers (Hickory, North Carolina) weaving art and life for 45 years. Sally studied at the International Center for Photography in New York City. James is self-taught and both are life long learners.\n\n\n\n\nTheir work explores the physical and spiritual connection with light – how it talls, retlects, transmits, connects and has been exhibited throughout the US. They were selected for the 2025 and 2023 NC\nArtists exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, N.C., the ArtPop Street Gallery Class of 2023 and the ArtFields 2024 in Lake City, S.C. Their Seeing Light at the Hickory Museum of Art (September 2019-January 2020) was an artist mash up using Corning Optical Communications fiber glass to create both individual work and a team immersive environment within the gallery of the Hickory Museum of Art.\n“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.” Miles Davis\nBRITTANY BAILEY\n\n\nEast Coast based dance performer, choreographer, and teacher.\nBrittany Bailey’s background is an eclectic mix of education, culture and environment, from training with the Merce Cunningham company to appearing in live performance art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to learning about the movement of Whirling Dervish practitioners, to a degree in Anthropology from Columbia University.\nGraduated high school in 2008 from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Completed a B.A. at Columbia University in 2023. Trained with Merce Cunningham as well as whirled with the dervishes of the Mevlevi Order. Worked with Marina Abramović at MoMA in 2010,  as well as on numerous projects with Robert Wilson, and was a member of the Michael Clark Company for performances at the Tate Modern in 2011. Authorized to teach, stage, and perform Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A. Currently on faculty at the Washington School of Ballet.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n
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