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December 4, 2018

Buy Local and Give Locally on Giving Night

Local arts and artists, a creative culture, small businesses, and Pittsboro’s authentic downtown are all topics we’re passionate about so you could say we’ve been glowing about Giving Night in… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Slideshow Featured |

June 26, 2018

Go See This: Hot & Blue Folk and Roots Revue

The 2nd Annual Hot & Blue Folk and Roots Revue and Spicy Wing Cook-off at the City Tap in Pittsboro on Sunday, July 15 promises to be much more than… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: benefit, blues, Community, competition, culinary, Music, performance

June 23, 2018

Meet This Artist: Sculptor Hamidou Sissoko

Written by guest blogger, Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Hamidou Sissoko found his way to Chatham County in search of an affordable house in which to raise a family. The path he… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: blacksmith, folkart, Mali, nature, recycling, sculptor, welding, whimsical

June 19, 2018

Go See This: Summer Fest 2018

What does a historic downtown do in the summer to bring neighbors together to celebrate their town? The Pittsboro Business Association hosts Summer Fest! At Summer Fest, Pittsboro’s main north/south… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Uncategorized | Tagged With: circus arts, Community, crafts, Creative Culture, Go See This, live music, Pittsboro

June 11, 2018

Go See This: Music by Shiloh Hill

Shiloh Hill is a band that not only understands their roots but also understands how to create music that’s continuously evolving and fully unique. This is a project that focuses… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This | Tagged With: banjo, Bynum, Bynum Front Porch, Community, folk music, mandolin

June 4, 2018

Meet This Artist: Gary Phillips, Poet Laureate & Multiple Hyphenate

Written by guest blogger, Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Gary Phillips, a life-long North Carolinian born in Appalachia and long-term resident of Chatham County, is the 2016-2018 poet laureate of Carrboro, North… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Appalachia, fiction, full moon, memoir, Morehead-Cain, non-fiction, poem, poet, Poetry, Silk Hope, writer

May 14, 2018

Go See This: David Sedaris Reads from “Calypso”

Written by guest blogger, Gilda McDaniel. McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village will host world-renowned author and Raleigh native David Sedaris when he makes a rare live appearance at the Fearrington… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Author reading, authors, Chatham County, Community, Fearrington Village, non-fiction, Writing

May 10, 2018

Go See This: Pittsboro Youth Theater

Written by guest blogger, Selbe Bartlett. Did you know that Chatham County had a public theater? In downtown Pittsboro, the county’s seat, is a delightful space called the Sweet Bee Theater…. Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Go See This, performance, Pittsboro, theater

May 9, 2018

Go See This: The “Art of Rural” Reception

On Tuesday, May 29th, the North Carolina Rural Center will host an evening reception in Raleigh focusing on the economic impacts of the arts in rural North Carolina.  The reception… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Community, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, innovation, rural

April 17, 2018

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… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: actor, Arts education, books, Chatham County, Community, memoir, Music, non-fiction, performance, Pittsboro, theater

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