Big Night In for the Arts aired March 10 on WRAL-TV. You can still support here. We are thrilled to partner again with our friends at WRAL, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, Durham Arts Council, and the Orange County Arts Commission to bring you Big Night In for the Arts 2022. This… Read More →
Arts for Resilient Kids Season 2021-22
Artists-in-Schools 2021-22 Our 2021-22 season was a smashing success! We visited 15 Chatham County Schools through our Artists-in-Schools Initiative, 2 Chatham County neighborhoods with Truck and Trailer Roving Performances, and 750 folks joined us to celebrate art at the 20th Annual ClydeFEST. We can’t wait to do it all again in 2022-23! We’ll have more… Read More →
Go See This: The Talk, now available to view online
As new members of our Chatham County community, Chatham Park is powering our Go See This series this year because art is an integral part of Chatham County’s identity. They join us in inviting you to Go See This . . . There have been many theater productions with large casts and big productions with the power… Read More →
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Meet This Artist: Mike Wiley—The Busiest Man in Show Business
This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Multiple hyphenate Mike Wiley, an actor-playwright- director-arts educator, came to Pittsboro because he and his wife, Jodi Neely Wiley, were living in Apex and expecting a second child when their first was almost four and they needed more room. And Jodi Neely… Read More →
Meet This Artist: Dorrie Casey is giving art to support art for children
Since she was a child, Dorrie Casey was all about theater – writing, performing, designing, and making music. Then, quite by chance, a new art form grabbed hold of her and even kept her up at night. “It was as though something inside me had been sleeping a deep sleep and it suddenly woke up,”… Read More →
Meet This Artist: Derrick Ivey is master-of-many theater magician
This month’s Meet This Artist is by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Native North Carolinian Derrick Ivey was a Radio, Television and Motion Picture major at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, studying journalism and screenwriting. He moved to Atlanta briefly then returned to Chapel Hill and settled in Chatham County where he… Read More →
Go See This: Once Upon A Mattress
When Pittsboro’s Northwood High School Arts students take the stage at the end of March to present the annual spring musical, they are not only continuing a long NHS tradition, but joining thousands of peers across the country for whom the term “spring musical” is, if not redundant, at least, synonymous. “Opening for A Princess”… Read More →