Pittsboro Holly Days 2022
Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesVisit downtown Pittsboro for a month of family-friendly holiday celebrations! Special events happening November 20 - December 18. Check our full event calendar for even more. Tree Lighting Celebration Sunday, November 20, 3:30-6:30 p.m. An old-fashioned Christmas celebration featuring school choirs, carolers, Santa Claus, shopping, and more. Festivities culminate with the lighting of a 18-foot Christmas tree at the historic Chatham County Courthouse. Businesses are hosting special events all day. Santa visitation starts at 3:30! Don't forget to bring your camera/camera phones. Small Business Saturday Saturday, November 26, all day Shop small, shop local! You can find great gifts for everyone on your list from local businesses in Pittsboro and Chatham County. Come downtown and check us out! We’ll have gift wrapping and shoppers’ passports (visit local stores and be entered for drawings for gift cards) at the Welcome Center. First Sunday Artisan Fair Sunday, December 4, 12-4 p.m. An artisan market featuring crafts, music, and food. Shops, restaurants and the Historical Museum host special events. Pittsboro Christmas Parade Sunday, December 11, 3 p.m. Marching bands, dancers, holiday revelers, and Santa Claus parade through downtown in this annual tradition. Brought to you by the Town of Pittsboro. Pittsboro by Luminaria Thursday, December 15, 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. Come downtown, shop, sip, dine, and enjoy the downtown area lit by luminaria. Thanks to our sponsors! Save
Live Jazz on Wednesdays at The Sycamore
The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesJazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our performers for December: 12/21- Dave Quick 12/28- Tony Galiano So make a reservation and join us for dinner tonight! Lounge menu served in the dining room, and the lounge, and our full dinner menu as well.
Doris Betts Book Club at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NCLast Tuesday of every month at 11 am Fellowship Hall Join us for the Doris Betts Book Club meeting for a lively discussion of this month’s book. How does it work? Group members select books, both fiction and nonfiction, with themes and challenges that draw us to consider the role of faith and spirituality in our lives. Didn’t finish the book? (or even read it?!) Come anyway and enjoy the fellowship, conversation and intellectual stimulation. Have a book you’ve read that you’d love to discuss? Come and propose it to the group! We look forward to seeing you there. June 28, 2022 “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith Led by Martha Adcox Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors
Live Jazz on Wednesdays at The Sycamore
The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesJazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our performers for December: 12/28- Tony Galiano So make a reservation and join us for dinner tonight! Lounge menu served in the dining room, and the lounge, and our full dinner menu as well.
Marcia E. Herman-Giddens presents UNLOOSE MY HEART, with PJ MacAlpine at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCA deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman’s family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her mother’s proud antebellum heritage. In 1966, weary of Alabama’s toxic culture, Marcia and her young family left Birmingham and built a life in North Carolina. Later in life, Herman-Giddens resumed a search to find out what she did not know about her family history. Unloose My Heart interweaves the story of her youth and coming of age in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement together with this quest to understand exactly who and what her maternal ancestors were and her obligations as a white woman within a broader sense of American family. More than a memoir set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and the civil rights struggle, this is the work of a woman of conscience writing in the twenty-first century. Haunted by the past, Unloose My Heart is a journey of exploration and discovery, full of angst, sorrow, and yearning. Unearthing her forebears’ centuries-long embrace of plantation slavery, Herman-Giddens dug deeply to parse the arrogance and cruelty necessary to be a slaveholder and the trauma and fear that ripple out in its wake. All this forced her to scrutinize the impact of this legacy in her life, as well as her debt to the enslaved people who suffered and were exploited at her ancestors’ hands. But she also discovers lost connections, new cousins and friends, unexpected joys, and, eventually, a measure of peace in the process. With heartbreak, moments […]
Joan Barasovska presents ORANGE TULIPS with Chris Abbate and Sherry Siddall at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCOrange Tulips is a story, told in narrative lyric poetry, of a young woman’s protracted struggle with mental illness and her eventual hard-won recovery. Victoria Reynolds writes, “These are poems that relish ‘the ecstatic lift/of strength and artifice,’ that poetry-making contributes to the difficult work of becoming who we are. Joan Barasovska lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She will host a poetry series at McIntyre’s Books in 2023 and serves on the Board of the North Carolina Poetry Society. For thirty-five years, Joan has been an academic therapist in private practice. Her poems appeared in Kakalak, San Pedro River Review, Flying South, Crossing the Rift, Red Fez, Speckled Trout Review, Main Street Rag, among other journals and anthologies. In 2020 Joan was nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Joan is the author of Birthing Age (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Carrying Clare (Main Street Rag, 2022), and Orange Tulips (Redhawk Publications, 2022). Chris Abbate's poems have appeared in numerous journals including Connecticut River Review, Cider Press Review, and Comstock Review. He is a two-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, has been nominated for a Best of the Net award, and has received awards in the Nazim Hikmet and North Carolina Poetry Society poetry contests. His poetry has also been featured on Verse Daily. His first book, Talk About God, was published by Main Street Rag in 2017. His full-length collection, Words for Flying, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2022. Visit him at chrisabbate.com Sherry Siddall wrote poetry as a child, and studied creative writing at Oberlin College as an undergrad. She continued to write sporadically while raising a family and working. In the last ten years she has been able to re-engage with poetry with intention and the support of a wide and generous community […]
Chatham SPARK
CCCC Siler City 400 Progress Blvd., Siler City, NCGet assistance with developing a business plan and gaining insight into financing, legal considerations, marketing, bookkeeping, and taxes for your business. Apply to join the Chatham SPARK program by Jan. 31st. Central Carolina Community College’s Siler City Center, 400 Progress Boulevard, Siler City, and will run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLASS ONE: Starting a Business/Building a Plan Monday, March 13, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session offers an introduction to the program, the basics of starting a business, and how to put together your business plan. Discussions will include developing an entrepreneurial mindset and evaluating the feasibility of your business idea. You'll also discover the resources available to help you start and successfully operate your business. This seminar will teach you the important components of a business plan and help you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don'ts of writing a plan, and the steps for making the process easy. CLASS TWO: Legal Considerations of Starting a Business Monday, March 20, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session will address the potential legal issues facing small business owners. Discussion will include business structure, licensing, zoning, protecting your business assets, employer responsibilities and business insurance. (Business plan review) CLASS THREE: Business Taxes Monday, March 27, 2023, 6 - 9pm Gain a solid understanding of taxes required for small business owners and develop the best tax strategy for your business. Become familiar with the latest tax forms and procedures for both state and federal taxes. Discover how everyday business decisions can have tax implications that can affect your bottom line. This seminar is important for both new and experienced business owners. (Business plan review) CLASS FOUR: How to Find Your Customers (Market Research) Monday, April 5, 2023, […]
Sip-n-Shop at Reclamation
Reclamation Home Furnishings 136 Fayetteville Street, Suite F, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesJoin us for a grand reopening after the holidays! Stop on by to check out all the new inventory while you enjoy snacks and beverages. 1/6/23, 4-7pm
10th Annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize Discussion, with Ben Fountain at Flyleaf Books VIRTUAL
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCJoin us for the 10th Annual Crook's Corner Award Winner Discussion hosted online by Chapel Hill Public Library, Flyleaf Books, and the Crooks' Corner Book Prize Foundation. We'll chat with the winner (to be announced on January 9!) and this year's judge, Ben Fountain (Beautiful Country Burn Again and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).
Wolfspeed Supplier Information Day
Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center 1192 US-64 BUS, Pittsboro, NCPlease join us for a presentation on Wolfspeed and the opportunities available at our new facility in Chatham County. When: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Where: Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center - Hall A, B & C Presentation Times: 8:00 AM | 10:00 AM | 12:00 Noon | 2:00 PM Preregistration required.
Member Meeting January 2023
The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesJoin us at The Sycamore at Chatham Mills! 9 am, guests welcome. The speaker will be Sharon Culpepper, from the County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling.
Tea Hacic-Vlahovic presents A CIGARETTE LIT BACKWARDS at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCSet in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s A Cigarette Lit Backwards is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest novel about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a novel that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and essential new voice for our time. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic is a Croatian-American writer based in Los Angeles. She has contributed to numerous publications, including i-D, Dazed, Oyster, Flaunt, and Autre magazines and has also served as a columnist for Vice and Wired Italy, a contributing editor for Wonderland magazine, and the director of Bullett TV. In spring 2020 her first novel, Life of the Party, was released in the United States by Clash Books to critical acclaim. It was an instant bestseller in Italy and is soon to be a film.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Unity Day Celebration
Come out Sunday night and join Quiltmaker Cafe and Pittsboro United Methodist Church for the Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration. Can't wait to see you all!
Chatham SPARK
CCCC Siler City 400 Progress Blvd., Siler City, NCGet assistance with developing a business plan and gaining insight into financing, legal considerations, marketing, bookkeeping, and taxes for your business. Apply to join the Chatham SPARK program by Jan. 31st. Central Carolina Community College’s Siler City Center, 400 Progress Boulevard, Siler City, and will run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLASS ONE: Starting a Business/Building a Plan Monday, March 13, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session offers an introduction to the program, the basics of starting a business, and how to put together your business plan. Discussions will include developing an entrepreneurial mindset and evaluating the feasibility of your business idea. You'll also discover the resources available to help you start and successfully operate your business. This seminar will teach you the important components of a business plan and help you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don'ts of writing a plan, and the steps for making the process easy. CLASS TWO: Legal Considerations of Starting a Business Monday, March 20, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session will address the potential legal issues facing small business owners. Discussion will include business structure, licensing, zoning, protecting your business assets, employer responsibilities and business insurance. (Business plan review) CLASS THREE: Business Taxes Monday, March 27, 2023, 6 - 9pm Gain a solid understanding of taxes required for small business owners and develop the best tax strategy for your business. Become familiar with the latest tax forms and procedures for both state and federal taxes. Discover how everyday business decisions can have tax implications that can affect your bottom line. This seminar is important for both new and experienced business owners. (Business plan review) CLASS FOUR: How to Find Your Customers (Market Research) Monday, April 5, 2023, […]
Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Janis Harrington and J.S. Absher
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCFlyleaf Books is pleased to welcome back our regular Poetry Series! Join us on the Second Sunday of the month for an afternoon of poetic readings. All are welcome. Janis Harrington’s second full-length book, How to Cut a Woman in Half, was a Finalist for the Able Muse Press Book Award. She won the Lena Shull Book Award, given by the North Carolina Poetry Society, for her first collection, Waiting for the Hurricane. In 2022, she was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. A Chapel Hill resident, she has published poems in Tar River Poetry, Journal of the American Medical Association, and North Carolina Literary Review, and other journals. Stan Absher’s first collection, Mouth Work, won the 2015 Lena Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. He is also the author of two chapbooks. His nonfiction books, Love Letters of a Mississippi Lawyer and My Own Life, or The Deserted Wife, were published in 2021. His poems have appeared in many journals including the North Carolina Literary Review, San Pedro River Review and Tar River Poetry. In 2018, he won the Larson Poetry Prize from BYU Studies Quarterly. He lives in Raleigh with his wife, Patti.
Speech-a-thon: I Dream A World at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCCelebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and listen to community members share messages that inspire you to promote equality amongst all. For more information, please contact Dr. Clare at [email protected] with the subject line: I Dream a World
Joanna “Jo” Sisk-Purvis presents THE WATCHERS at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCWatchers’ eyes track a miles-distant bird. Listeners’ ears hear a whisper a village away. Knowers, extinct for 500 years, possessed telepathic powers straight out of a nightmare. Alesea’s sole extraordinary trait is her musical talent. But when Watchers invade her tiny island on the night of her professional debut, she’s the only one who escapes—unwittingly using the powers of a Knower. Now, it’s up to her to save her people while coming to grips with her dangerous new identity, her pacifist beliefs, and only a traitor to help her. Joanna “Jo” Sisk-Purvis is a writer, musician, and educator from Chapel Hill. Her stories for young people have been published in Cricket Magazine. She is a freelance flutist, music director for several local theatre companies, and a teacher at Carolina Friends School. She lives in the woods with her husband, three children, and far too many animals. THE WATCHERS is her debut novel. Event date:
Dan Kois presents VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES, with Jami Attenberg at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCIt’s 1991. Em moved to New York City for excitement, adventure, and possibility. The Big Apple, though, isn’t quite what she thought it would be. Working as a literary agent’s assistant, she’s down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a Lower East Side squat, and Lucy, a middle-aged novelist and single mom. Em’s life revolves around these two wildly different women and their vividly disparate yet equally assured views of art and the world. But who is Em, and what does she want to become? It's 2004. Em is now Emily, a successful book editor, happily married and coping with the challenges of a new baby. Though she barely thinks of her early days in the city, the past suddenly comes back to remind her. Her old friend Lucy wrote a posthumous work that needs a publisher, and her ex-friend Emily has reached out and is eager to reconnect. As they did once before, these two women—one dead, one very alive—force Emily to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead. A sharp yet reflective story of a young woman coming into herself and struggling to find her place, Vintage Contemporaries is a novel about art, parenthood, loyalty, and fighting for a cause—the times we do the right thing, and the times we fail—set in New York City on both side of the millennium. Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where he’s been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. He’s the author of How to Be a Family, a memoir of parenting around the world, and the co-author (with Isaac Butler) of The World Only Spins Forward, an oral history of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, […]
Chatham SPARK
CCCC Siler City 400 Progress Blvd., Siler City, NCGet assistance with developing a business plan and gaining insight into financing, legal considerations, marketing, bookkeeping, and taxes for your business. Apply to join the Chatham SPARK program by Jan. 31st. Central Carolina Community College’s Siler City Center, 400 Progress Boulevard, Siler City, and will run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLASS ONE: Starting a Business/Building a Plan Monday, March 13, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session offers an introduction to the program, the basics of starting a business, and how to put together your business plan. Discussions will include developing an entrepreneurial mindset and evaluating the feasibility of your business idea. You'll also discover the resources available to help you start and successfully operate your business. This seminar will teach you the important components of a business plan and help you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don'ts of writing a plan, and the steps for making the process easy. CLASS TWO: Legal Considerations of Starting a Business Monday, March 20, 2023, 6 - 9pm This session will address the potential legal issues facing small business owners. Discussion will include business structure, licensing, zoning, protecting your business assets, employer responsibilities and business insurance. (Business plan review) CLASS THREE: Business Taxes Monday, March 27, 2023, 6 - 9pm Gain a solid understanding of taxes required for small business owners and develop the best tax strategy for your business. Become familiar with the latest tax forms and procedures for both state and federal taxes. Discover how everyday business decisions can have tax implications that can affect your bottom line. This seminar is important for both new and experienced business owners. (Business plan review) CLASS FOUR: How to Find Your Customers (Market Research) Monday, April 5, 2023, […]
Forest Hall Winter Wedding Fair
Forest Hall 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NCSign up and mark your calendar for the Forest Hall Winter Wedding Fair! 📅 Sunday, January 22nd from 3-6pm. Free to couples planning weddings, their families and friends! Peruse vendors as you sip a glass of bubbly 🥂, enter to win one of our great prizes, enjoy menu samples from 39 West Catering and more! Discover fun and unique vendors for your wedding, view the beautiful Forest Hall venue and get wedding planning tips from seasoned planners. Some of the vendors include: Blossom Artistry 💐 Blossom Artistry FiveStarFayNC 🎵 Carolina Cravings Co. 🧁 Carolina Cravings Co. Curated Events Raleigh 🍽 Curated Events 39 West Catering 🍤🍝🥭 39 West Catering and more to come! Visit our eventbrite page here https://rpb.li/IkADGJ to reserve your spot. It's free, but just sign up so we know how many to expect. Anyone in your life recently engaged? Tag someone below who might want to attend!