Ric’s Leather on the Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour

Ric's Leather 575 Chapel Ridge Drive, Pittsboro, NC

If you're looking for that perfect leather gift to give to someone (or yourself), you can find me at the following events: December 3, 4, 10 & 11, Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour (visit me in my work environment...but it will be cleaned up!!) 10-5 on Saturdays, noon-5 on Sundays.

Holiday Festival with United Way at Mosaic at Chatham Park

Mosaic Family Commons 60 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC

Join us for a Holiday Festival with United Way! You'll meet non-profits, shop local artisans and enjoy food + drink from food trucks. Lawn is open from 2 - 5 pm. Grab the family and enjoy some holiday cheer! Find the artisan + food truck info here: https://www.mosaicatchathampark.com/news/.

First Sunday, Dec 2022

Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Come out and enjoy a bit of Pittsboro's downtown charm. This family-friendly event is free to attend. Artisans, non-profits, and local businesses will be out and about as we enjoy some sweet treats. Just a few of the downtown businesses that are usually open on First Sunday: Pittsboro Toys French Connections LiquidAmbar Gallery and Gifts Reclamation New Horizons Downtown Pittsboro Gallery of Arts Chatham County Historical Museum Welcome Center Studio 17 Deep River Mercantile The Beagle Circle City Books and Music M2 Graphics Carolina Cravings The Chocolate Cellar Oakmoss Screaming for Vintage Would you like to be a vendor at First Sunday? Please fill out an application. Make sure to add all the Holly Days events to your calendar! Thanks to all our sponsors!

Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening

Hewitt Pottery 424 Johnny Burke Rd, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Holiday Kiln Opening 2022 Pottery & Showroom Open dates & times: Friday, November 25 10-5pm Saturday, November 26 10-5pm Sunday, November 27 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 3 10-5pm Sunday, December 4 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 10 10-5pm Sunday, December 11 noon-5pm Mark Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening Can’t wait? Need a shopping appointment now? Not to worry, we are happy to set up an appointment! Please call 919-542-2371 and listen for Carol’s cell number in the voice message, or email us at sales@hewittpottery.com. COVID guidelines: All staff are fully vaccinated and our large barn/showroom with open doorways is more like being outside than in, so masks at your discretion.

Julia Kennedy at Liquidambar Studio of Art

Liquidambar Gallery & Gifts 80 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Julia Kennedy is our Featured Artist this month. The Reception is this Sunday, December 4th, from 2-4 pm. Everyone is invited! Julia Kennedy has lived in Pittsboro for over twenty years. She previously was on the Chatham Artist Tour for 14 years. Julia is also a two time award recipient for the JumpstART Grant awarded by the Chatham Arts Council. Julia will be here during the reception, so you can ask her questions about her work. (Julia is also working at Liquidambar during the holiday season.)

Live Jazz on Wednesdays at The Sycamore

The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Jazz 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: 12/7- Kris Whitenack trio 12/14- Lauren Meehan Band 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.

Boutique Sale at Restorative IV Therapies, PLLC

Restorative IV Therapies, PLLC 90 Launis Street, Pittsboro, NC

Love to shop? 💕Save the date! Come to our boutique sale on Dec. 10th. From 10-2pm @integrativefunctionalmedicine (90 Launis St. Pittsboro, NC 27312) We will have great deals on some well loved clothes and accessories. Don’t miss it!

Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening

Hewitt Pottery 424 Johnny Burke Rd, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Holiday Kiln Opening 2022 Pottery & Showroom Open dates & times: Friday, November 25 10-5pm Saturday, November 26 10-5pm Sunday, November 27 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 3 10-5pm Sunday, December 4 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 10 10-5pm Sunday, December 11 noon-5pm Mark Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening Can’t wait? Need a shopping appointment now? Not to worry, we are happy to set up an appointment! Please call 919-542-2371 and listen for Carol’s cell number in the voice message, or email us at sales@hewittpottery.com. COVID guidelines: All staff are fully vaccinated and our large barn/showroom with open doorways is more like being outside than in, so masks at your discretion.

Ric’s Leather on the Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour

Ric's Leather 575 Chapel Ridge Drive, Pittsboro, NC

If you're looking for that perfect leather gift to give to someone (or yourself), you can find me at the following events: December 3, 4, 10 & 11, Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour (visit me in my work environment...but it will be cleaned up!!) 10-5 on Saturdays, noon-5 on Sundays.

Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening

Hewitt Pottery 424 Johnny Burke Rd, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Holiday Kiln Opening 2022 Pottery & Showroom Open dates & times: Friday, November 25 10-5pm Saturday, November 26 10-5pm Sunday, November 27 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 3 10-5pm Sunday, December 4 noon-5pm & Saturday, December 10 10-5pm Sunday, December 11 noon-5pm Mark Hewitt Pottery Kiln Opening Can’t wait? Need a shopping appointment now? Not to worry, we are happy to set up an appointment! Please call 919-542-2371 and listen for Carol’s cell number in the voice message, or email us at sales@hewittpottery.com. COVID guidelines: All staff are fully vaccinated and our large barn/showroom with open doorways is more like being outside than in, so masks at your discretion.

Member Meeting

This will be our annual holiday party. Food will be provided by Greg and Maria Lewis, owners of 39 West Catering and The Sycamore at Chatham Mills.

Live Jazz on Wednesdays at The Sycamore

The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Jazz 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: 12/14- Lauren Meehan Band 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.

Pittsboro by Luminaria

Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Come downtown to see Pittsboro lit by luminaria! Stores will be open to help you check off your shopping list. Thanks to all our sponsors! Full Schedule

Annual Holiday Dinner at The Sycamore

The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Save the date for our second annual holiday dinner. With a coursed meal sure to impress any palate, plenty of holiday cheer and drinks to go around, you won’t want to miss out on our most festive evening of the year. Live piano music will bring some of the season’s classics as you enjoy an extraordinary dining experience. Check back soon for the menu. Reservations are open by telephone only.

Live Jazz on Wednesdays at The Sycamore

The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United States

Jazz 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, NC

Last 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 States

Jazz 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, NC

A 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, NC

Orange 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 […]