Kabbalah topic of talk

CHAPEL HILL — The New Age of Kabbalah is the topic of a lecture from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Friday Center.

Boaz Huss, associate professor at Ben-Gurion University, will examine some of the major features of contemporary Kabbalah, and the context of the revival of Jewish Mysticism in today’s culture. For more information, call the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at (919) 962-1509.

Author probes life of Ga. slave

CHAPEL HILL — The Hutchins Lecture topic for Jan. 26 will be “The Autobiography of a Slave Hunter.”

It will be presented from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Royall Room of the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on the UNC campus by Lucinda MacKethan, professor of English at N.C. State University. For close to 10 years, she has been researching the life of a slave named Marlborough Jones, who was the carriage driver on a rice plantation in Liberty County, Ga., below Savannah. Not only does his identity remain an enigma, but increasingly, the identity of the writer trying to “recover” him is becoming an enigma as well.

For more information, call Lisa Beavers at the Center for the Study of the American South at (919) 962-0503.

‘All My Sons' at Green Theatre

CHAPEL HILL — “All My Sons” is the title of the play to be shown from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, Jan. 27-Feb. 14, and from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays and Saturday (Feb. 6) at the Paul Green Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art on the UNC campus.

Arthur Miller’s masterpiece asks what are we responsible for and who are we responsible to in a time of war as a business decision rocks a World War II-era family. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play premiered in 1947. Tickets are $10-$40. For more information, call the PlayMakers Box Office at (919) 962-7529.

Poetry featured Jan. 28 at UNC

CHAPEL HILL — Armfield Poetry Reading will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library on the UNC campus.

For more information on this reading by Beth Ann Fennelly, call Anita Braxton at (919) 962-4000.

Korean music, storytelling set

CHAPEL HILL — “P’ansori: Korean Music and Storytelling,” will be presented from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in Hill Hall Auditorium on the UNC campus.

Chan E. Park will perform.

Tickets are $15 for general admission; $10 for UNC students, faculty and staff. For more information, call the UNC Department of Music at (919) 962-1039.

‘Multimedia trip’ set for UNC stage

CHAPEL HILL — “The break/s: a mix tape for stage” will be presented at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 in Memorial Hall on the UNC campus.

A multimedia trip through planet hip-hop, the break/s dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the personal narrative of poet-performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. It is billed as being “challenging, funny and touching,” as it investigates the conflicts between Bamuthi’s public identity as a spoken-word artist and his private identity as a young man coming of age in our globalized, multi-everything era.

Tickets are $10-$20. For more information, visit http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org or call (919) 843-3333.

Ehrman featured in Bible seminar

CHAPEL HILL — “The Greatest Stories Rarely Told: Scholars and the New Testament,” will be presented from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 29-30, on the UNC campus.

This encore Distinguished Scholar seminar features Bart D. Ehrman, the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies. This seminar will look at some of these problems and consider the diverging voices of the New Testament, which often make it difficult to hear the voice of the historical Jesus himself. The tuition is $125 ($110 by Jan. 5), and tuition for teachers is $62.50 ($55 by Jan. 5). For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2010_Spring/1-NewTestamentEncore.htm.

Contact Dan E. Way at dway@heraldsun.com or (919) 918-1035. E-mail items of interest to Chapel Hill & More readers to chh@heraldsun.com.