(From June 15-20, 2007)

It's time to submit your proposal for a session at the 2008 NCMC Annual Meeting, to be held Fayetteville, NC, from March 5-7, 2008. This year's theme is Challenges of the New Century. Every year NCMC provides some excellent professional development opportunities at our annual meeting, and it's all because of YOU, North Carolina's talented and generous museum professionals. Please consider sharing your experience, special knowledge, and tricks of the trade with your museum colleagues across the state in 2008. To submit a session proposal, contact Professional Development Chair Kathryn Beach at profdevelop@ncmuseums.org by August 1. Also, check the NCMC website at www.ncmuseums.org for an online proposal submission form.

The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) is presenting its 2007 Annual Meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, from October 2-6. The annual meeting will include 44 sessions and workshops, an annual business meeting and awards luncheon, an outstanding resource expo including over 60 exhibitors, three evening events, and post-annual meeting trips. The early registration deadline is September 10, 2007. For further information, go to: www.semcdirect.net.

Heritage Preservation has issued a call for information regarding outdoor murals from communities across the country -- to check out the details or file a report for the new project, take a look at Rescue Public Murals online at www.heritagepreservation.org/RPM/index.html.

"Haunted Evening: A Historical Drama in New Bern" will be presented every Saturday night from now through October 20 by the New Bern Historical Society, by candlelight at the Attmore-Oliver House. Details are available by calling the Society at 252-638-8558 or the Craven County Visitor Center at 252-637-9400.

"Point of View IV: Windgate Charitable Foundation" can be visited through December 2 at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte.

Historic Stagville, Durham, will celebrate Juneteenth with a special event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 23.

The 25th Anniversary Great Race will make a stop at the Wheels Through Time Museum, Maggie Valley, making a lunch stop there on July 1 as part of its 4,000-mile journey across the U.S. This Sunday, June 24, the Museum will also host Speed Channel's "My Classic Car" series as part of its 8 a.m. showing that day.

Coming up at the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill: Art After Dark from
5-9 p.m. on Friday, July 13, and Drawing in the Galleries from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 14.

A discussion of Theater in Wilmington will be the Forum topic for Sunday, July 15 (2 p.m.) at the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington (admission by donation).

The Asheville Art Museum will open its "Living by Design: Mid Century Modern" exhibit on Friday, July 13th, with an Opening Reception from 5-8 p.m. (free for members or with museum admission). The exhibit will remain through October 28. The Reception will also celebrate "Groovy Garb: Paper Clothing from Mars Manufacturing Company," which will open a week earlier (July 6) and remain through October 7.

The Health Adventure, Asheville, will hold its second annual Red Riot Party on Saturday, August 18th at the Diana Wortham Theatre. Tickets are available in advance for $12 - check website for performers and ticket details.

This Saturday, June 16, is the next African-American History Day at Bellamy Mansion, Wilmington, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Similar events are set for September 22 and December 6.

The Wayne County Museum, Goldsboro, is gathering material for future exhibits, and particularly is seeking historical documents, stories and photographs of Wayne County plantations. Anyone who can share material of this sort should contact Christopher Lawson at the Museum (website:
www.waynecountyhistoricalnc.org).

The summer season at Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, includes "Emergence: Recent Paintings by Liisa Salosaari Jasinski," "Creatures from the Plastiquarium by David Edgar," and "WILD Life by Bryant Holsenbeck."
Exhibitions open June 16 and remain through August 25. A public reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, June 22 (free); Ms. Holsenbeck will given an artist lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 26.

Pastimes in the Park at the High Point Museum on July 8 and 9 will be a blacksmithing demonstration.

Nine museum replicas of flags from United States history (1776 through
1814) are on display at the State Capitol, Raleigh, through July 4 on the first floor of the building.

The Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame will be located on the second floor of the Wilkes Heritage Museum, Wilkesboro. The Hall of Fame was announced on June 9. Nominations and voting will be held in late 2007 and early 2008, and the first inductees will be on June 13, 2008.

A variety of art camps for children and teenagers are scheduled for the Mint Museum of Art for the July 9-13 and July 16-20 time periods.

A program for youths age 5-8, with adult, is set for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 11 at the N.C. Museum of History -- subject, "Bluegrass Music." Call 910-807-7992 to register.

Greensboro Children's Museum's Creation Station has been completely made over and reopened recently. Not only does it encourage recycling among children, it has a long list of items that donors can recycle by bringing them to the Creation Station and the Museum.