BCCC Foundation offers Rembrandt and the Rockettes Trip | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Join the Beaufort County Community College Foundation Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, for a trip to the Triangle to see an exhibit of works by Rembrandt at the North Carolina Museum of Art and a performance by the famous Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC).

    The trip will also include a four hour shopping excursion to the Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane as well as first class accommodations at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham.

    The cost of the trip, open to all BCCC students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the college, is $361 per person, double occupancy, and $435 per person, single occupancy. It is limited to 22 participants. The registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 28.

    The price of the trip includes tours of two exhibits and lunch at the N.C. Museum of Art, a trip to Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane, one night at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham, one breakfast and one dinner on Sunday, and tickets to the Christmas Spectacular at DPAC, as well as transportation, tips and taxes.

    The trip will leave the parking lot at BCCC by 7:30 a.m. Nov. 12 and arrive at the art museum about 10 a.m. Once there, the group will be met by a docent and tour the museum's collection of 17th Century Dutch and Flemish paintings. Among the masterpieces are works by Hendrick ter Brugghen, Govaert Flinck, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Gerard Seghers, Jacob Jordaens, and Anthony van Dyck.

    Following the tour, the group will have lunch in the museum's Iris Restaurant, a full-service restaurant featuring contemporary American cuisine in a distinctly modern setting. This luncheon menu will include braised beef short rib pot pie, roasted root vegetables, puff pastry crust, mixed field greens in an herb and shallot vinaigrette dressing, and a beverage.

    After lunch, the group will tour the museum's "Rembrandt in America" exhibit, the largest collection of Rembrandt paintings ever presented in an American exhibition and the first major exhibition to explore in depth the collecting history of Rembrandt paintings in America. The NCMA is the only East Coast venue for this exceptional show that features works of art from across the United States.

    After leaving the Museum of Art, participants will be driven to the Washington Duke Inn on the campus of Duke University an AAA Four Diamond Award-winning luxury hotel. The Inn features the Duke University Golf Course, and the award-winning Fairview Dining Room as well as the Bull Durham Bar.

    At this point, luggage will be unloaded and participants may choose from a number of different activities: shopping at the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane, a visit to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, a stroll around the Duke University campus, or just relaxing in the room.

    For those remaining on the bus, the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane will be the next stop. Upon arrival, the group will disembark at Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, where each traveler will receive a mall map and a mall coupon book. Four hours has been scheduled for shoppers to visit to enjoy the shops. The mall also features a food court where tour participants may dine-on-their-own. The bus will return the shoppers to the hotel by 9 p.m.

    On Sunday morning participants can enjoy breakfast buffet until 10 am in the hotel's Vista Restaurant. After breakfast, the bus will provide a ride to Duke Chapel at 10:30 a.m. for those wishing to attend the 11 am church service.

    The Duke Chapel, reminiscent of England's Canterbury Cathedral, features a majestic cruciform chapel with a bell tower that rises 210 feet and houses a 50-bell carillon that rings out before and after the service each Sunday. A Flentrop organ with more than 5,000 pipes ─ one of the finest in the Western Hemisphere ─ is also a special feature of the church.

    Between noon and 12:30 p.m., the bus will gather up all participants at the hotel and the chapel, and go to DPAC for a 1 p.m. performance of the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR® featuring the world-famous Radio City Rockettes®.

    After the show, the bus will take participants for dinner to Maggiano's Little Italy Restaurant at Durham's South Square Mall for a family style meal. Dinner at Maggiano's, the winner of the 2011 Open Table - Diners' Choice, will feature two appetizers, two salads, four main course dishes, and two desserts.

    By 5 p.m. the bus will reload and return to Beaufort County around 7 p.m.

    For more information, or to register, please contact Marcia Norwood at 252-940-6218 or Judy Jennette at 940-6326. Information is also available on the BCCC website at www.beaufort ccc.edu.