December 26- January 1, 2008
at the Hayti Heritage Center
804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC
Nightly at 7:30 PM
Doors open at 6:30 PM w/ Vendors
Except on Jan.1st, doors open at 12 noon, program begins at 2PM
The only triangle seven-day celebration of Kwanzaa, free to the public. Yearly an artists host this event with local professional and non-professional artists participating nightly. This event is a family affair and boost interactive programming and audience participation.

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My name is Stephen Hayes and this is a quick introduction into my many faces. The son of Lender and Stephen, I was lucky at first to grow up with two parents to look up to, but due to drugs, in 1990 my mother decided to separate from my father. My father preferred to support his drug habit rather than his family. So we left and I began another stage of my life with my mother and older brother to look up to.My brother is someone I always looked up to. He was the motivation factor in my love of art. By watching my brother overtime making something out of nothing, I became motivated to creating, building, and drawing things. Art became a way of self-expression for me. My mother saw the potential I possessed. When other children were getting bicycles and toys for Christmas, she brought me a workbench and tools.

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November 30 and December 1, St. Joseph’s Performance Hall at Hayti Heritage Center
Tickets: $15 adults/ $10 student w/id and Senior Citizens
This project is funded by St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, National Performance Network, Southern Arts Federation, North Carolina Arts Council, City of Durham and PennPAT.When Tania Isaac broke free from the cagelike apparatus in Rennie Harris Puremovement’s Facing Mekka to perform the show’s exhilarating solo, the dancer anointed herself a rising star in the city’s modern dance community. Effectively incorporating ethnic and Western dance forms as well as text, video and movement, Isaac shows herself to be a multitalented artist whose work both explores and expands the boundaries of contemporary Dance Theater.

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This exhibition “Impressions from Monet’s Garden� by Walter Edmonds will be on display in the Lynda Moore Merrick Gallery at the Hayti Heritage Center starting October 15 through January 28, 2008. This exhibit will complement the exhibition “Landscapes of Impressionism� at the North Carolina Museum of Art which starts on October 21 through January 2008. Walter Edmonds was awarded a fellowship and residency at Monet’s Garden. The residency resulted in a body of large scale painting and intimate watercolor impressions of Monet’s Garden that capture the magnificence of nature’s bounty, highlighting vivid purple irises, and stunning black eyed susans, fields of poppies and water gardens. On Friday November 16, 2007 at 6-8pm, come and enjoy “Jazzy Friday� which includes live jazz music, refreshments, and an evening of reflections of Walter Edmonds’ “Impressions from Monet’s Garden�. This will be held at the Hayti Heritage located at 804 Old Fayetteville St. Durham This event is free and open to the public.