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 →
Once Upon a Mattress
King Sextimus, Queen Aggravain, Prince Dauntless and the Royal Court have taken up residence at Northwood High School‘s B. J. Lee Auditorium. There’s an opening for a princess, and a most unlikely candidate has shown up. Join the knights and their ladies faire, the minstrel, the jester, and magician, along with the royal family to find out if this unlikely princess can… Read More →
Rachel Thomas-Levy
Aimee’s Music Studio
New Home, New Board Members, New Year
In the last two years, the Chatham Arts Council introduced a new logo, new brand, new mission focus, and new website. As we enter the new fiscal year, there’s even more new, minty freshness to report. We recently moved to a new location while continuing to strengthen our presence in the county through programs that “invest in… Read More →
Go See This: Shakori Hills Stimulates the Senses
For four days in the fall and spring, the bucolic Chatham County community of Silk Hope is enhanced with an event that awakens all the senses. Celebrating its fourteenth year, the Shakori Festival of Music and Dance is a world of sights, sounds, smells, and feelings that helps make Chatham an especially amazing place. Bands from across the state and around… Read More →
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 →
Ken Corsbie
The Wedding Singer—NHS Spring Musical
Come back to New Jersey, circa 1985, when “wannabe rock star (professional wedding singer) is left at the alter and finally changes his tune. The Wedding Singer takes you back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room…. Read More →
