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October 21, 2019

The Chatham Experience 2019: Exceptional Talent, Unique Collaborations, HOT Fun!

True. Chatham. Experience. If you were lucky enough to attend The Chatham Experience: Benefit Concert for Chatham Arts Council’s Artists-in-Schools Initiative in late September, you know what we’re talking about. Only in Chatham could you go to a unique venue like the Chatham Beverage District, enjoy local eco-friendly food and drink while listening to well-known musicians… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, Arts education, Chatham County, Collaboration, Community, Cultural Events, Music, performance

September 25, 2019

Go See This: The Chatham Experience

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 . . . Here at the Chatham Arts Council, we’ve got a uniquely Chatham gathering for you–The Chatham… Read More →

By Selbe Bartlett | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, artists, Arts education, Arts in Education, Bluegrass Experience, Chatham Beverage District, Chatham County, Chatham Rabbits, Children, Craft cocktails, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, Diali Cissokho, live music, performance, Smelt, spirits, tommy edwards

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

July 15, 2019

The Chatham Experience 2019: Save the Date!

Chatham Rabbits, The Bluegrass Experience, and Diali Cissokho all on one stage in the Chatham Beverage District?! Yep! Save the date for The Chatham Experience: Benefit Concert for Chatham Arts Council’s Artists-in-Schools Initiative, on Sunday, September 29! This year’s event is a unique cross-generational fundraising concert, sponsored by Opus Financial Advisors, featuring musical performances by… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Slideshow Featured |

June 29, 2019

Meet This Artist: The Multi-Hyphenate Felix Obelix (a.k.a. Wendy Spitzer)

Woman in glasses holding an electric bass guitar. Keyboard behind her.

The fine folks at Hobbs Architects in downtown Pittsboro are powering our Meet This Artist series this year. Architecture is art, and the Hobbs crew values art in our community. They join us in inviting you to take a look. Meet your very inspiring neighbors. Meet This Artist . . . The uncertainties—or open possibilities—begin with her… Read More →

By Elisabeth Lewis Corley | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: artists, assemblages, Chatham County, Children, Classical Music, Collaboration, collages, Community, Creative Process, Music, music festival, performance, visual art, wendy spitzer, woodwinds

June 24, 2019

Go See This: Rave On in the Lustron with The Straight 8s

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 Straight 8s will rock ODDCO’s circa 1951 Lustron home—number 2144 of only 2500 manufactured… Read More →

By Elisabeth Lewis Corley | Filed Under: County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Children, Creative Economy, Go See This, live music, ODDCO, Outsider Art, Pittsboro

May 22, 2019

Artists-in-Schools: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Residencies Bring Out the Inner Artists in Students at Two Chatham County Schools

Spanish dancing. It’s not the typical after-school activity for students at Moncure School or North Chatham Elementary. When Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana arrived at those two Chatham county schools this March as part of the Artists-in-Schools Initiative, Spanish dancing became THE ticket to eliciting smiles and big participation–and to unleashing the inner artist in students… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Slideshow Featured |

March 22, 2019

Go See This: ClydeFEST, My Favorite Time of Year

ClydeFEST has been a part of my childhood for as long as I can remember.   According to my mom, I first met Clyde Jones—and started going to ClydeFEST—when I was around three years old. My family has been volunteering as part of ClydeFEST for just as long . You could say it is in… Read More →

By Virginia Johnson | Filed Under: ClydeFEST, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Bynum, Children, clydeFEST, Community, Creative Process, Creativity, Go See This, Volunteer

December 5, 2018

One More Year of Reveling in the Fiddle: Pickin’ 2018 Sure Was Fun!

Well, it’s come and gone – Pickin’: A Music Celebration, that is. It’s so hard to believe Chatham Arts Council’s Annual Benefit for Artists-in-Schools is over. All who gathered in mid-November at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center were in for a treat as they listened to Chatham County’s own Tommy Edwards and The… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Arts education, Chatham County, Community, live music, performance

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

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