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The Stevens Center was originally the Carolina Theater, a movie theatre, before it was donated to the School of the Arts in 1980 by the Winston-Salem Journal.It was renovated by the School of the Arts using $9.6 million in state bond money and opened on April 22, 1983, with a star-studded gala featuring the UNCSA symphony Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Isaac Stern as soloist ...
The RiverRun International Film Festival is an annual Oscar-qualifying film festival held each spring in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The festival is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization and presents a variety of feature-length and short films from all genres, and also presents special events, regional premieres of significant ...
Independent movie theater. The Little Theatre in Rochester, New York, an example of an indie cinema. An independent movie theater ( American English) or indie cinema ( British English) is a movie theater which screens independent, art house, foreign, or other non-mainstream films. [1] It can be contrasted with a mainstream theater (often a ...
The Winston-Salem Foundation donated the land the coliseum now sits on to the city of Winston-Salem in 1969. The city of Winston-Salem completed construction of the coliseum in 1989 at a cost of $20.1 million. [7] On May 20, 2013, the Winston-Salem city council approved the sale of the Joel Coliseum to Wake Forest University for $8 million.
The International Black Theatre Festival (IBTF), formerly the National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF), was founded in 1989 by Larry Leon Hamlin in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Serving as its executive director, Hamlin’s goal in creating the Festival was "to unite black theatre companies in America to ensure the survival of the genre into the ...
Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned quarter-mile asphalt flat oval short track and longstanding football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as "NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track".
Harold Nicholas, film dancer, entertainer; Jacqueline Novak, comedian and actress; Daniel Peddle, film director and screenwriter; Jeryl Prescott, actress; Stuart Scott, sportscaster; Stephen A. Smith, sports journalist, Winston-Salem State University alum, radio host, analyst for ESPN First Take [15] Meg Steedle, actress
Arts Council was founded in 1949 with $7,200 in seed money from the Junior League of Winston-Salem. They were the first arts council created in the United States and continue to be a model for similar organizations throughout the country. [4] In the late 1980s, city and county leaders recognized Arts Council as the official local arts agency ...