A - Arts, Culture, & Humanities

The Salisbury Symphony seeks to educate, entertain, inspire, engage and enrich our community through music.

Friends of Community Radio, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity that operates 103.3 Asheville FM (WSFM-LP, online at http://ashevillefm.org). The Corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of supporting grassroots community radio in Western North Carolina. A key component is producing and broadcasting community programming via volunteer-driven radio.

The Franklin County Arts Council is a nonprofit community organization which is passionate about developing all areas of arts within our diverse community. We devote ourselves, our resources, and programs as a way to support economic growth in Franklin County through the enhancement of art mediums such as literary, visual, dance, theater, music, and culinary arts for all ages.

To Tell Tryon's Story We tell the Story of Tryon NC through museum exhibits, lecture series and special events.

Our mission is to collect and preserve the history and culture of African-Americans in Cabarrus and Rowan County, North Carolina. KAA-MaCC seeks to inspire, educate, and enrich communities through diverse activities to enhance quality of life in a cultural center setting.

To preserve our barns in history and in fact.

To promote music as a fundamental component of education and to provide opportunities for lifelong learning by supporting teachers, students and communities in developing and fostering excellence in music.

To educate in the social and material history of the plantation South, hands-on preservation technology, and African-American history. Historic Stagville is a North Carolina State Historic Site that preserves the remnants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. Stagville is dedicated to interpreting the lives, culture, and labors of enslaved people on the Bennehan-Cameron plantations.

For over 50 years, Preservation Greensboro Incorporated has served to preserve historic sites, neighborhoods, and streetscapes that provide the Gate City with a unique sense of history and place. As the city’s only non-governmental membership organization dedicated to this cause, Preservation Greensboro has provided resources to enhance our distinctive sense of heritage and has helped the city maintain a tradition of adaptive reuse, renovation, and recycling.

Our project portfolio includes Architectural Salvage, Blandwood historic house museum, the Blandwood Carriage House special events center, a preservation resources library, the annual Tour of Historic Homes, and community advocacy. We promote architecture and neighborhoods through our activities such as educational tours, special events, seminars, and publications, while our sister organization the Preservation Greensboro Development Fund finds extended uses for historic buildings owned by others through partnerships and creative solutions.