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August 23, 2017

Go See This: Sunday Afternoon Poetry at the Joyful Jewel

This month’s “Go See This” is written by guest blogger Selbe Bartlett. Sunday, September 17th will mark the first in a regular monthly series of Sunday afternoon poetry readings at Pittsboro’s Joyful Jewel. This new series provides an ongoing, consistent time and space for poets and poetry lovers in the area to gather. It will feature established… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Community, Creative Culture, Go See This, Literary Arts, Pittsboro, Poetry

July 3, 2017

Meet This Artist: Screen printer Vidabeth Bensen is inspired by her world travels

While Vidabeth Bensen was studying art at Brooklyn College in the 1950’s, some actor friends asked her to make posters for upcoming plays they were performing in. Creating multiples of posters by hand using pens, brushes, paint and India ink was very tedious so she did a bit of research on silk screen printing. “My… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Artsist Guild, classes, Fearrington Village, printmaker, printmaking, prints, silk screen, silkscreen, silkscreening, t-shirts, workshops

June 29, 2017

Go See This: Old-Time, Celtic, and World Music

This month’s “Go See This” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley. “The show always goes on, even if it’s six months later,” says Pittsboro musical artist, Sue Wilson.   Wilson recalls that the upcoming concert of old-time, celtic, and world music by Baltimore’s nationally acclaimed father-son roots duo Ken & Brad Kolodner, joined by guitarist Luke Chohany making it a trio, was originally scheduled… Read More →

By Elisabeth Lewis Corley | Filed Under: Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Collaboration, concert, Cultural Events, Go See This, Music, performance, Pittsboro

June 27, 2017

Go See This: Bynum Front Porch Music Series

This month’s “Go See This” is written by guest blogger Selbe Bartlett. On summer Fridays in the friendly Chatham County community of Bynum, people are sitting in their rocking chairs or relaxing on their blankets enjoying the sounds of musicians from across the state.  What are you doing this Friday night? If you find yourself yearning for a… Read More →

By Selbe Bartlett | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Bynum, Bynum Front Porch, Go See This, Music, performance

May 17, 2017

Meet This Artist: Shannon Bueker Reveals The Spirits of The Wild

Amidst a wilderness of animals and spirits of the wild, I met with artist Shannon Bueker. In fact, we were not out in the wilds of Chatham County, but in her home studio, densely-packed with her lush paintings of animals and people in their element and on the move. Almost indistinguishable at times, the forms are… Read More →

By Danielle DuClos | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, Artist, Arts education, Community, Creative Culture, painting, sculpture, Visual Arts & Crafts

April 18, 2017

Meet This Artist: Dorrie Casey is giving art to support art for children

Since she was a child, Dorrie Casey was all about theater  – writing, performing, designing, and making music. Then, quite by chance, a new art form grabbed hold of her and even kept her up at night. “It was as though something inside me had been sleeping a deep sleep and it suddenly woke up,”… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Artist, bones, collage, installation, lichen, metal, moss, recycle, repurposed, sculpture. texture, wool

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 28, 2017

Meet This Artist: Derrick Ivey is master-of-many theater magician

 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 →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: acting, actor, directing, drama, Man Bites Dog, plays, playwright, theater

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 21, 2017

Go See This: Premiere of “The Courthouse”

“The courthouse is on fire!” Many local folks know where they were on the afternoon of March 25, 2010. That was the day the iconic, historic 1881 Chatham County Courthouse on the circle in Pittsboro was almost lost to a fire. Fortunately, local documentary filmmaker Mike O’Connell, of Haw River Films was ready with his gear to capture on film footage from that… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Architecture, Chatham County, Community, Documentary Film, historic renovation, Pittsboro

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