Chatham Arts Council

Paint Social
2025-01-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-01-22 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Finders & Seekers Emporium, 23 Rectory St, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
Join us in our classroom every other Wednesday evening for a laid back guided painting session with complimentary wine and beer! This community centric event is the perfect laid back atmosphere to get creative with other members of our wonderful community!
All materials and instruction will be provided. Our intimate classroom can only seat up to 8, allowing our instructors more individual assistance! Sign up fast before all the seats are taken.
This event is every other Wed 6-8pm and costs $50. This is a 21+ event. Tickets can be purchased at findersandseekers.com
We can’t wait to get creative with you!

All-Together! Friends Group for Adults with 'dis'Abilities - Dance, Games, Art, More
2025-01-09 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-23 11:00 - 13:00 | The Studio at Chatham Mills, Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
Adults and Teens of all abilities and disabilities gather every (most) Thursdays for dance, art, games, and more. We are an inclusive community of friends who enjoy a diversity of art forms, activities, and fun socializing together.
DANCE: and move your body’s way that is natural for you with both form and freedom. We explore a variety of guided dance form and choreography as well as freedance co-created by participants. Dance styles vary from pop, hip hop, jazz, lyrical, modern to whatever style inspires the group. Express yourself through dance and music!
ART: We do ‘easy’ basic art right now, with plans to create more robust art as we gather art supplies and find a volunteer art leader.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: We enjoy board games, horticulture/gardening, music, bowling, field trips, theatre arts, and Special Olympics spring games.
CAREGIVERS are asked to stay. This co-op group is a community collective of friends with volunteer dance and art leaders.
PLACE:
“The Studio” at Chatham Mills
480 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro
Suite 410
(former Joy of Movement Studio)
Wheelchair accessible
www.ForestHallAtChathamMills.com/Studios
More Info: Contact Maria Troiani-Howard at howardranch@aol.com

Zumba Fitness Class
2025-01-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-01-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-01-25 09:00 - 10:00 | 7 Dance Centre, 55 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
Zumba Fitness is a dance inspired, instructor led fitness class that feels like a party on the dance floor. Move and groove to international and latin rhythms from around the world while learning new dance steps in the process. Start off with feet, add arms, then start follow the pattern shown through non-verbal direction at the front of the class. Tanja has been teaching Zumba fitness classes since 2012 in and around Chatham County. She also teaches Zumba Gold classes for those who need a little less intensity, have balance issues or injuries, and still want to party, but in a safe environment. Classes are weekly.
Zumba: Sat 9AM at 7 Dance Centre, Pittsboro (first time is free; after that $10 cash drop in or $8-9/class with a punch card)
Zumba Gold: Tue 2P at Pittsboro Center for Active Living (free; for anyone 55 and older)
Zumba Gold: Fri 9A at Siler City Center for Active Living (free; for anyone 55 and older)
Questions: zumbawithme.tanja@gmail.com
website: https://www.zumba.com/en-US/p/tanja
facebook group for all things local: Zumba in Chatham County

Slow Flow Yoga @ The Plant
2025-01-11 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-01-18 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-01-25 11:00 - 12:30 | The Plant, 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
This slow-flow vinyasa class is focused on building strength and encouraging flexibility. Class begins with a short grounding and centering exercise during which students are guided into their breathwork practice, followed by gentle movements to warm up the body. We’ll then move through modified sun salutations and standing postures, after which, inversions will be offered to support the circulatory system. The class will end with seated and reclined postures to cool the body down and prepare for savasana. Modifications are offered throughout practice, and all levels are welcome!
This class will meet outside on the lawn in front of the stage, or in Building 2 in the event of rain. If you have any questions, head into Fair Game Beverage Company and someone there will show you where to go.

Phillip Shabazz at Silk Hope School
2025-01-13 08:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-14 08:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-15 08:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-16 08:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-17 08:00 - 12:00 | Silk Hope School
Through poetry, students will improve their writing skills by connecting with their core beliefs. Kids will draw on their own personal experiences to create original poems, and then they’ll celebrate their work with a class-wide reading of their poetry on the last day.
“I loved it! I felt like I would write 1,000 pages of poetry!” – Chatham 6th grader after a Phillip Shabazz residency

Zumba Gold Class
2025-01-14 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-21 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Pittsboro Center for Active Living, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States

JumpstART Proposals Due
2025-01-21 00:00 - 23:59 | Chatham Arts
DEADLINE IS TODAY – JANUARY 21, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
A sense of place, a landscape that reflects our past, present, and future as a community, is vital to our mental health and feeling of belonging. We want JumpstART to inspire artists to reflect back to us who we were, who we are, and who we want to be here in Chatham County. JumpstART commissions artists to make art, from tiny to medium-sized projects–and then to share those works in the public sphere. If you want to be considered for a JumpstART commission this year, CLICK HERE.

Improv @ The Plant
2025-01-22 18:00 - 19:30 | The Plant, 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
4th Wednesday’s are for live improv! Featuring a rotation list of regional improv actors (including Chatham’s own Jane Allen Wilson) who will create a show for you in real time based on your suggestions. It’s a hoot!

African American Musicians of North Carolina
2025-01-24 09:00 - 18:00, 2025-01-25 09:00 - 18:00, 2025-01-27 09:00 - 18:00, 2025-01-28 09:00 - 18:00, 2025-01-29 09:00 - 18:00 | Chatham Community Library, 197 Hwy 87N, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
View this traveling exhibit honoring the African American musicians from North Carolina who “helped define American music for the entire world.”
This exhibit is on loan until February 15.
Where: Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro, NC

Tree Museum Grand Opening and Whiskey Release
2025-01-25 16:00 - 21:00 | The Plant, 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
The Plant is throwing a grand opening of their new tree museum, and Fair Game Beverage Company is releasing a new batch of whiskey! Come out to take a tour of the trees, learn about sustainability and native tree planting, enjoy the winter market, and dance the evening away while sipping on your favorite beverage. Guitarist Daniel DeLorenzo will be playing his guitar, and Starrlight Mead, BMC, Fair Game Beverage, and Koshu will be there slinging their signature drinks!

EbzB Productions at Pittsboro Elementary
2025-01-27 08:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-28 08:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-29 08:00 - 12:00 | Pittsboro Elementary
This week, EbzB Productions is bringing the fun of theatre to Pittsboro Elementary! Fourth-graders will draw on the creativity and innovation of the dramatic arts to develop their own choose-your-adventure play, integrating concepts from their current science and language arts units on animal defense mechanisms.
