Listen to the newest episodes of the Arts Across NC Podcast! This week's episode features an interview with 2025 Heritage Awards honoree, Gaurang Doshi, a north Indian classical musician. Each week, we will drop new episodes of the five-part mini-series featuring this year’s honorees hosted by Folklife Director Zoe van Buren. Visit https://www.ncarts.org/arts-council-z/arts-across-nc-podcast to listen to the Heritage Awards series podcast and like and subscribe to Arts Across NC wherever you get your podcasts, so you won’t miss an episode. Want to see these extraordinary artists receive this honor? The 2025 Heritage Awards will take place at Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh on June 7. Learn more and purchase tickets at https://pinecone.org/event/2025-down-home-concert-series-north-carolina-heritage-awards/ PineCone - Piedmont Council of Traditional Music Come Hear North Carolina NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources Photo: Graphic with words North Carolina Heritage Awards, and Gaurang Doshi. Image of the 2025 North Carolina Heritage Awards honoree Gaurang Doshi. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Arts Council. (fb)

North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green hosted a reception with First Lady of North Carolina, Anna Stein in attendance at the North Carolina Executive Mansion on May 13th to celebrate the 2025-26 Orange County Schools and of Chapel Hill- Carborro City Schools high school poet laureates. They also honored the first North Carolina Youth Poet Laureate, Rishi Janakiraman of Raleigh. The runners-up for North Carolina Youth Poet Laureate were Vanessa Hunter, Youth Poet Laureate of Charlotte, and Kenna Zhang of Cary. Congratulations to all our exceptional high school poet laureates! Jaki Shelton Green Anna Stein, First Lady of North Carolina Orange County Schools, NC Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Urban Word Alt text: first photo: Orange County High School and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools high school poet laureates and 2025-26 North Carolina Youth Poet Laureate Rishi Janakiraman, pose with First Lady of North Carolina, Anna Stein, North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, and Orange County Schools Superintendent, Dr. Danielle Jones at the North Carolina Executive Mansion. Second photo: North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green. Third photo: North Carolina Youth Poet Laureate, Rishi Janakiraman. All photos by Andie Freeman, courtesy of North Carolina Arts Council. (fb)