BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CalDiscovery//caldiscovery//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Raleigh: literary\, this weekend (Fri Sep 18 to Sun Sep 20\, A merica/New_York). Rolling: the window moves forward every day\, so subscri be rather than download. Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https: //caldiscovery.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains in formation from CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. SOURCE:https://caldiscovery.com/raleigh-nc/this-weekend-literary.ics X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H X-WR-CALDESC:Raleigh: literary\, this weekend (Fri Sep 18 to Sun Sep 20\, America/New_York). Rolling: the window moves forward every day\, so subscr ibe rather than download. Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https ://caldiscovery.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains i nformation from CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. X-WR-CALNAME:Raleigh · literary · this weekend · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Free Tasting Fridays - Sticks & Vines DTSTART:20260918T220000Z DTEND:20260919T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T004021Z UID:2804-1789754400-1789761600@trianglegrapevine.com CATEGORIES:drink,free,literary DESCRIPTION:Free Friday Wine TastingsKick off the weekend with complimenta ry wine tastings every Friday evening at Sticks & Vines. From 6:00–8:00 PM\, guests can sample a rotating selection of wines\, discover new favori tes\, and chat with fellow wine lovers in a relaxed\, welcoming atmosphere . Whether you’re looking to expand your palate or simply enjoy a casual Friday night out\, these free tastings are the perfect way to start the we ekend. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T004021Z LOCATION:Sticks & Vine\, 905 Fayetteville Rd Ste 203\, Durham\, NC\, 27713 \, United States URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/event/free-tasting-fridays-sticks-vines- sept18/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Triangle Grapevine X-SOURCE-URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/wine-events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Champagne & Friends DTSTART:20260918T223000Z DTEND:20260919T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T004021Z UID:2630-1789756200-1789761600@trianglegrapevine.com CATEGORIES:drink,literary DESCRIPTION:Champagne & FriendsPop the cork on a broader world of bubbles with this lively tasting class from Vitis House. While Champagne takes cen ter stage\, guests will also explore sparkling wines from around the globe \, including Crémant\, Cava\, Prosecco\, Franciacorta\, Cartizze\, and un expected finds from regions such as Slovenia\, Portugal\, Argentina\, and the United States. Along the way\, you’ll learn how different production methods shape flavor and texture\, how to read sparkling wine labels\, an d how to properly open\, pour\, store\, and pair each style. With guidance from Chef Doreen Colondres—and the possibility of a few well-matched bi tes—this 90-minute class is equal parts education and celebration. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T004021Z LOCATION:The Loading Dock\, 1053 E Whitaker Mill Rd\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27604 \, United States URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/event/champagne-friends/?utm_source=cald iscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Triangle Grapevine X-SOURCE-URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/wine-events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jean-Marc Brocard Tasting DTSTART:20260918T230000Z DTEND:20260919T001500Z DTSTAMP:20260918T004021Z UID:2840-1789758000-1789762500@trianglegrapevine.com CATEGORIES:drink,literary DESCRIPTION:A Special Chablis Wine Tasting with Jean-Marc BrocardExplore C hablis through the wines of Jean-Marc Brocard during this seated tasting a t Seaboard Wine. Guillaume Hoog\, Export Manager for the estate\, will gui de guests through six wines\, including Aligoté\, Saint-Bris\, Chablis\, and a Premier Cru\, while sharing the history of the winery and its organi c and biodynamic farming practices. The tasting will also highlight how so il and site shape each wine’s expression within Burgundy\, with assorted cheeses and spreads served alongside the lineup. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T004021Z LOCATION:Seaboard Wine\, 1914 Bernard Street\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27608\, Unit ed States URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/event/jean-marc-brocard-tasting/?utm_sou rce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Triangle Grapevine X-SOURCE-URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/wine-events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Human Factor: Jesse Eisenberg DTSTART:20260918T233000Z DTEND:20260919T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260813T183049Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53392649270313 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Academy Award-nominated actor\, wr iter and filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg to explore how we keep our stories huma n — messy\, funny and heartfelt.\n\nA celebrated actor\, playwright and author\, Eisenberg is widely recognized for roles in The Social Network\, Now You See Me\, and Zombieland\, and most recently wrote\, directed and s tarred in the acclaimed film A Real Pain. His work is marked by sharp insi ght\, humor and emotional depth in exploring contemporary life. LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T183049Z LOCATION:Talley Student Union\, Stewart Theatre URL:https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/the-human-factor-jesse-eisenberg?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:NC State University Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.ncsu.edu/group/charlotte_alumni_network END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading: The Color of Death DTSTART:20260918T233000Z DTEND:20260919T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T062958Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53764149794320 CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Join University Theatre for the final reading of The Color of Death\, a 2026 Creative Artist Award-winning comedy\, before its productio n this fall.\n\nThe comedy follows Jasper\, a young man with a life haunte d by death\, who takes a job at a graveyard to make ends meet. On his firs t day\, he meets Zoe\, a young woman with a lively perspective on death. T heir odd friendship keeps their days and nights bearable. Through Zoe\, Ja sper explores a new perspective on life and to embrace a different underst anding of the colors of death. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T062958Z LOCATION:Frank Thompson Hall - Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre URL:https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/reading-the-color-of-death?utm_source= caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:NC State University Calendar Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.ncsu.edu/group/charlotte_alumni_network END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coffee House DTSTART:20260918T233000Z DTEND:20260919T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T131305Z UID:4928@uufr.org CATEGORIES:literary,music DESCRIPTION:A live music/story-telling/poetry open-mic style event in Foun ders Hall ((bottom floor of main sanctuary building) at the Unitarian Univ ersalist Fellowship of Raleigh\, Founders Hall \, 3313 Wade Avenue\, Ralei gh)\, on the third Friday of every month\, 7:30-9:30 pm. If you’d like t o perform\, please arrive a bit early. For more info contact Chris Wise at (chriswise1152@gmail.com). LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T131305Z LOCATION:Founders Hall\, 3313 Wade Avenue\, Raleigh\, North Carolina\, 276 07\, United States URL:https://uufr.org/events/coffee-house-2-2026-08-21-2026-09-18/?utm_sour ce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh X-SOURCE-URL:https://uufr.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CUCC Poetry Workshop DTSTART:20260919T190000Z DTEND:20260919T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T124633Z UID:50675-1789830000-1789835400@communityucc.org CATEGORIES:education,literary LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T124633Z LOCATION:Zoom (CUCC) URL:https://communityucc.org/event/cucc-poetry-workshop-2026-01-24-2026-09 -26/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Community United Church of Christ X-SOURCE-URL:https://communityucc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Roaming Readers: Science Fiction DTSTART:20260920T133000Z DTEND:20260920T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260827T002231Z UID:11754-1789896600-1789896600@www.midtownmag.com CATEGORIES:literary,outdoors DESCRIPTION:Roaming Readers is an audiobook club with a twist! Join us as we hit the trails in RTP for a morning of fresh air\, light movement\, and literary adventure. This month’s theme is Science Fiction and the sugge sted books include Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan\, Of Monsters and M ainframes by Barbara Truelove or Area X by Jeff Vandermeer. LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T002231Z LOCATION:Hub RTP\, 3151 Elion Drive\, Durham\, NC URL:https://www.midtownmag.com/event/roaming-readers-science-fiction/?utm_ source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Midtown Magazine X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.midtownmag.com/holiday-craft-fairs END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Celebrating the Legacy of Alma Thomas and Black Artistry DTSTART:20260920T170000Z DTEND:20260920T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260913T060337Z UID:10010246-1789909200-1789914600@unitedarts.org CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:“Not Unlike Sunlight”: Celebrating the Legacy of Alma Thom as and Black Artistry Though Primary and Colorstruck!\n\n\nJoin acclaimed writers Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Richard J. Powell for a conversation cele brating the legacy of pioneering artist Alma Thomas and the enduring influ ence of Black artistry. \nHosted on the closing day of All American: Conte mporary Perspectives from HBCU Artists\, the program brings Gumbs and Powe ll together in celebration of their new books\, Primary and Colorstruck!. In Primary\, Gumbs writes as a spiritual student of Thomas\, offering a po etic response to Thomas’s life and work\, while Colorstruck! draws upon Powell’s expansive scholarship on color\, Black art\, and visual culture \, with Thomas among the artists considered throughout the book. \nAs the first graduate of Howard University’s art department\, Thomas holds an i mportant place within the history of HBCU arts education and American abst raction. Through readings and conversation\, Gumbs and Powell will reflect on her creative legacy\, the possibilities of writing alongside visual ar t\, and the many shades of Black artistic expression that continue to emer ge in her wake. \n \nAbout the Authors \nDr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs\, author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is a queer Blac k feminist love evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. Publish er’s Weekly calls her writing “groundbreaking.” She is also the auth or of four earlier books aka portable textual ceremonies\, including Undro wned which won the 2022 Whiting Award in Non-Fiction. A recipient of the W indham-Campbell Prize in Poetry\, the National Endowment of the Arts Creat ive Writing Fellowship and a National Humanities Center Fellowship\, Dr. G umbs lives and loves in Durham\, North Carolina. \nDr. Richard J. Powell i s the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke Universi ty\, where he has taught since 1989. Powell\, an authority on African Amer ican art\, has organized numerous art exhibitions\, most notably: The Blue s Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989)\; Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997)\; To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999)\; Back to Black: Art\, Cinema\, and the Racial Imaginary (2005)\; and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014). Powell has published books on numerous topics\, includi ng Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991)\, Black Art: A Cultural History (1997\, 2002 & 2021)\, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Bla ck Portraiture (2008)\, Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020)\, and Colo rstruck! Painting\, Pigment\, Affect (2026). From 2007 until 2010\, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin\, the world’s leading English l anguage journal in art history. \n \nAbout Artspace \nArtspace is a non-pr ofit visual arts center located in Downtown Raleigh. Visit Artspace to exp lore exhibitions featuring national and community artists\, engage with mo re than 30 artists working in their studios\, and enjoy art classes and co mmunity events for all ages and abilities. To learn more about Artspace\, visit artspacenc.org \n \nParking and Accessibility \nFree street parking is available on Davie Street. Free parking is available at the following p arking decks: \n\nCity Center Deck\, 429 S. Wilmington St.\nMoore Square D eck\, 233 S. Wilmington St.\nMunicipal Complex Deck\, 201 W. Morgan St.\nW ilmington Street Station Deck\, 117 S. Wilmington St.\n\nThere are also se veral pay lots nearby: City Market parking lot and several Secure P lots f or night + weekend parking (314 E Davie St\, 415 S Person St\, 417 S Perso n St). \nExplore accessibility information with our Know Before You Go Gui de. LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T060337Z LOCATION:Artspace\, 201 East Davie Street\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27601\, United States URL:https://unitedarts.org/calendar/celebrating-the-legacy-of-alma-thomas- and-black-artistry/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=ra leigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:United Arts Wake County X-SOURCE-URL:https://unitedarts.org/programs/arts-integration END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eat the World: Istanbul DTSTART:20260920T203000Z DTEND:20260920T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T004021Z UID:2409-1789921800-1789927200@trianglegrapevine.com CATEGORIES:drink,food,literary DESCRIPTION:Eat the World: IstanbulTravel to the crossroads of Europe and Asia with this immersive food and wine experience at Wedgewood Cheese Bar. Eat the World: Istanbul explores the vibrant culinary traditions of the B osphorus through a guided wine flight and four paired bites inspired by bu stling markets\, waterfront taverns\, and the city’s rich history of cul tural exchange. Guests will enjoy mezze\, cheeses\, breads\, spices\, and regional wines that showcase the layered flavors and shared-table spirit t hat define Istanbul’s cuisine. Rich in storytelling and full of Mediterr anean and Middle Eastern influences\, this experience offers a delicious g limpse into one of the world’s most captivating food cultures. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T004021Z LOCATION:Wedgewood Cheese Bar\, 100 Brewer Lane\, Ste B\, Carrboro\, 27510 \, United States URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/event/eat-the-world-istanbul/?utm_source =caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=raleigh-nc X-SOURCE-NAME:Triangle Grapevine X-SOURCE-URL:https://trianglegrapevine.com/wine-events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR