Documentary filmmaker Linda Booker follows her subjects where they lead, attributing the impact of her films to the people who tell her their stories. For her latest film “Straws”, she singles out Jackie Nunez, founder of the Last Plastic Straw, who has been at the forefront of this movement since 2011, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, Dr…. Read More →
Meet This Artist: Linda Booker fuses art and issues through documentaries
As a child, Linda Booker was especially drawn to these three things: art, reading and the little brook that trickled near her home. The latter provided a quiet retreat where her creativity and her passion for learning flourished. Thus when she founded a company in 2005, she chose the name By the Brook Productions through which… Read More →
OMG meet me @Santigold in #ChathamNC
Thirty-one years ago, my grandfather and I watched MTV together when the station launched a channel dedicated to music videos. I loved seeing my rock heroes visually express the soundtrack to my adolescence. My grandad, originally from a hardscrabble life in the Appalachian mountains where they lived “off the grid” not because they were cool… Read More →
Annual Meeting: The State of ChathamArts
This is the address given by Board President Lesley Landis during the Annual Meeting for 2012: Welcome to the ChathamArts Annual Meeting. Your presence tonight makes you a shareholder of sorts in ChathamArts as some of our operational money comes from the admission you pay at the door. Thank you for supporting local! This year… Read More →
An Immersion at the Arts Integration Institute
So I have to admit I was a little hesitant about going to this year’s workshop at The United Arts Council Arts Integration Institute, provided by the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County (supported in part by the N.C. Arts Council) and located at the Cary Arts Center. But why? After all it… Read More →
Details Delight as Compositions Unfold
I spend a lot of time observing the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, and I know that my paintings- mere snapshots in time- can ever do justice to the intricacy that I see around me. The pleasure I derive from spending the hours, days, and weeks to study my portrait subjects- noting the… Read More →
ChathamArts Celebrates 30 Years!
July first marks the beginning of our new fiscal year and the 30th anniversary of ChathamArts, the county’s arts council. As we consider the past year, we want to share the ways our organization has nurtured in Chatham County what physician, author, inventor, and consultant Edward de Bono calls “the greatest human resource of all:… Read More →
ChathamArts Celebrates Sustainable Cinema Anniversary!
Submitted by Sustainable Cinema Founder and Coordinator, Linda Booker. Thank you, Linda! You are a local treasure with which to be reckoned. Happy Anniversary ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema Series – Now heading into its Fourth Year! by program director Linda Booker In 2008, then ChathamArts President, Gilda McDaniel and I started talking about our dream of… Read More →