Lift receiver from handset 2. Confirm dial tone 3. Conventions and meetings open to the public are included in the Community Calendar . A gleaning of the other 4,200 conventions and meetings held in Durham each year is published every two months in the Durham Bulls Eye newsletter. There is a selection on the menu for Peak Periods , which typically revolve around university homecomings, parents weekends, commencements, etc.
Some dates are related to mega-events in Durham or nearby communities.
Leading up to peak weekends like commencement, Durham lodging properties periodically report to DCVB the number of guest rooms still available. To save the time it would take to call one hotel after another, DCVB makes this information available to visitors by telephone and on this web site. ADF is the largest and most influential modern dance festival in the World, featuring more than two dozen modern dance companies and hundreds of choreographers, writers and students participating in classes, seminars and performances. Also called the East Coast Blues, it is a sensitive, delicate and upbeat form of the Blues that was pioneered in Durham during the 1920's and '30s. Each year in September, performers appear at the Bull Durham Blues Festival to celebrate this and other types of Blues music.