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September 12, 2019

Go See This: Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention

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 . . . The 13th Annual Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention is being hosted at Shakori… Read More →

By Selbe Bartlett | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Children, Community, Creative Culture, Go See This, live music, Music, Shakori Hills

November 5, 2018

GO SEE THIS: PICKIN’: A MUSIC CELEBRATION on November 11! Featuring The Bluegrass Experience. Sponsored by Opus Financial Advisors.

Pickin 2017

We’re trying something new with our Go See This series—a more intimate look at the behind-the-scenes of creating arts events in Chatham County. We hope you enjoy this, the second offering in this experiment, by Luis Melodelgado. Catching a moment While driving the back-county roads on route to my appointment with Catherine Hobbs and Robena… Read More →

By Luis Melodelgado | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: artists-in-schools, Arts Ed, Bluegrass Experience, catherine hobbs, Chatham Central High School, choral music, Chorus, Megan Clark, Music, pickin', robena meek, snuffy smith, tommy edwards

September 27, 2018

Go See This: Fiesta! This Weekend in Siler City

We’re trying something new with our Go See This series—a more intimate look at the behind-the-scenes of creating arts events in Chatham County. We hope you enjoy this, the first offering in this experiment by Luis Melodelgado. Desplázate hacia abajo para leer en español. It’s almost 6:30 p.m., and I am about to act on… Read More →

By Luis Melodelgado | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: El Vinculo Hispano, Fiesta, Grassroots Arts Grants, Hispanic Liaison, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Siler City

August 8, 2018

Artists-in-Schools: Diali Cissokho Brings West African Music to Chatham County Schools

The beat of an African drum is not something that every child is familiar with.  But for West African musician Diali Cissokho (pronounced “Jelly”), the beat was an integral part of everyday life.  “Before we had a phone, radio, or a TV in our village, we used the beat of the drum to let people… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Collaboration, Creative Process

August 6, 2018

Allison Gaither

By Allison Gaither | |

March 17, 2018

Meet This Artist: Writer Michele Tracy Berger Celebrates Community in Speculative Fiction

This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley.  Michele Tracy Berger describes herself as a writer, professor, and pug-lover. Reenu-You, Michele’s sci-fi novella, was published in 2017 by Book Smugglers Publishing. In addition to science fiction, she writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has appeared in The Feminist Wire,… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: authors, books, Chatham County, Community, feminism, gender studies, Literary Arts, Meet This Artist, non-fiction, Pittsboro, Poetry, speculative fiction, Writing

September 5, 2017

Siler City Dance & Gymnastics Academy

By Allison Gaither | |

April 12, 2017

Go See This: Day of the Books / El Día de los Libros

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”― Albert Einstein The annual Day of the Books/ El Día de los Libros is coming up on Saturday, April 29th, ready to bring books to life and delight in both… Read More →

By Danielle DuClos | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, Events, Go See This, Grassroots Grants, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Advocacy, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Chatham County Partnership for Children, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Cultural Events, dance, Day of the Books, el Dia de los Libros, Go See This, Literary Arts, live music, Music, painting, performance, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Siler City, Visual Arts & Crafts

March 23, 2017

Go See This: Once Upon A Mattress

image with princess gowns, harp, crown, and two pictures of couples in cast

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 →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Arts in Education, County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, #CCNC, Art Show, Arts Ed, Arts education, CCSArts, Chatham County, Collaboration, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, Music, Musical Theatre, Northwood High School, NorthwoodArts, theater

March 29, 2016

Meet this Artist: Liz Bliss is a Cirque Performer with a Flare

Chatham County artist Elizabeth Robertson (aka Liz Bliss) is a cirque performer, aerial artist, acrobat, stilt dancer, fire dancer and instructor. “I tend to think of myself more as a professional smile maker.  My goal is to inspire others to move, express and be,” she said. Though she pursued a career in public health and… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: acrobatics, aerial, arts, circus, cirque, costumes, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, dance, face painting, fire dancing, hooping, make-up, stilt walking, stilts, theater, theatre

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