Live Jazz on Wednesdays at The Sycamore

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

We are now open every Wednesday night and will feature live music each week from 6-9pm. Reservations highly recommended. See schedule below and check back for new bands to be added weekly! 10/12- Kris Whitenack trio 11/2- Oakboro 11/9- Dave Quick 11/16- Lauren Meehan Band 11/23- Kris Whitenack trio

Hang Your Shingle, Part 3

Central Carolina Community College 764 West St., Pittsboro, NC, United States

In this third and final session, participants will be presented with the Chatham County Zoning and Permitting process and cover the insurance requirements for becoming an LGC. Insurance topics include Liability, Workers Compensation, General Risk and Bonding. Contact the Small Business Center at Central Carolina Community College.

Bal Masque at Pittsboro Gallery of Arts

Pittsboro Gallery of Arts 44-1 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC

Pittsboro Gallery of Arts presents Bal Masque': ART UNMASKED An art reception like no other! . Art Salon - Immerse yourself! . Hors d'oeurves, French cocktails, music and photo opportunities. . Masquerade attire optional, but encouraged. . Friday, October 14th, 5:30 - 8 PM .

Movies at Mosaic

Mosaic Family Commons 60 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC

Each other Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a movie on the Phil Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol can be brought inside the venue. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Event lawn opens at 7 pm. Movies start at sundown. Oct 14 Raya and the Last Dragon Food + beverage by: BMC Brewing, Vintage Scoops Oct 28 Lightyear Food + beverage by: BMC Brewing, Vintage Scoops, NC

Fall Festival at Huckleberry Trail Farm

Huckleberry Trail Farm 143 Pleasant Hill Church Road, Siler City, NC, United States

2022 FALL FESTIVAL This year our farm will be open to the public every weekend beginning Saturday, September 24 through Sunday, October 30. We will also be holding our Home Teacher Work Day/ Home Schooler Day Oct 14 (more information below). Our hours are: Saturdays 10 am to 6 pm Sundays 1 pm to 6 pm We suggest you plan on at least two and a half to three hours to experience all the farm has to offer. Last admission is always 1 hour before we close, last hayride is always 30 minutes before we close, so come early to enjoy all the fun!

Quiltmaker Cafe’s Pay-What-You-Can Community Feast

The Plant at Lorax Lane 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, United States

Join us on Sunday, October 16, at 5:00 pm for a Pay-What-You-Can Community Feast! Gather at The Plant under a fall sunset with friends new and old from the Chatham community. You'll enjoy amazing food, swap stories, and be a part of building beloved community. Plus, you'll get to practice the pay-what-you-can model — the core feature of The Quiltmaker Café, a new nonprofit, fast-casual restaurant coming to Pittsboro in Spring 2023. This event has been organized by a patchwork of incredible community partners, including: The Quiltmaker Café Abundance NC The Local Church Café Root Cellar Postal Fish Company Chatham Health Alliance Fair Game Beverage BMC Brewing Copeland Springs Farm Heart Song Farm Lilly Den Farm Carolina Cravings St. Bart's Community Lunch The Chatham Chuckwagon Communities In Schools of Chatham County ... and many more! Learn more and register at the link provided! All are welcome; all belong.

Michael Parker for I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Acclaimed author Michael Parker tells the searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changed the course of a young man’s life. In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina’s disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin, and with little financial support from his working-class family, he is sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Forty years later, Earl is released into a world he can barely navigate. Settling in a small town on the Oregon coast, he attempts to establish a sense of freedom from both bars and razor wire and the emotional toll of incarceration. But just as Earl finds the rhythm he’s always sought, his past returns to endanger the new life he’s built. Steeped in the music and atmosphere of the 1970s, I Am the Light of This World is a gritty, gripping, and gorgeously written story of loss, redemption, and the power of the imagination, perfect for fans of Ron Rash, Rachel Kushner, and Laird Hun. The author of seven novels and three collections of stories, Michael Parker has been awarded four career-achievement awards: the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the R. Hunt Parker Award, and the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Oxford American, Runner’s World, Men's Journal, and others. He is a three-time winner of the O. Henry Prize for his short fiction and his […]

Nita Tyndall presents NOTHING SUNG AND NOTHING SPOKEN, with S. Jae Jones at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Fans of Ruta Sepetys, Monica Hesse, and Malinda Lo will devour this heart-wrenching queer historical YA romance set in the underground Swing Youth movement of World War II Berlin. Charlotte Kraus would follow Angelika Haas anywhere—which is how she finds herself in an underground club one Friday night the summer before World War II, dancing to contraband American jazz and swing music, suddenly feeling that anything might be possible. Unable to resist the allure of sharing this secret with Geli, Charlie returns to the club again and again, despite the dangers of breaking the Nazi Party’s rules. Soon, terrified by the tightening vise of Hitler’s power, Charlie and the other Swingjugend are drawn to larger and larger acts of rebellion. But the war will test how much they are willing to risk—and to lose Nita Tyndall (they/them) is a passionate queer advocate and literary translator who writes the kinds of books they needed in high school. Their translations from the German have appeared in World Literature Today, and they have previously written for outlets like Autostraddle and were part of the Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat in 2017. They live in North Carolina with their partner and a beautifully fluffy cat.

Chatham Historical Museum Volunteer Chat

Historic Chatham County Courthouse 9 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro, NC, United States

The Chatham Historical Museum functions as an all-volunteer effort, welcoming visitors from far and wide to stop, stay a while and soak up the history of the county. The lifeblood of the museum is its dynamic volunteer corps. The volunteers give a voice to Chatham history--one that brings several hundred visitors to the courthouse every year. Join some of our current volunteers on Wednesday, Oct . 19 between 11 and 1 to chat about how your talents and interests might fit in. Drop in at the Museum, which is located in the Historic Chatham County Courthouse. Think you don’t know enough to help? We can fix that! Training on the museum holdings is provided to all new volunteers, and we also provide a list of people to whom you can refer any questions you are not equipped to answer. You’ll learn Chatham history and help pass it along to other interested people. More info here: https://chathamhistory.org/Museum-Volunteers or contact us at MuseumVolunteers@chathamhistory.org

May-lee Chai presents TOMORROW IN SHANGHAI, with Nina de Gramont at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai’s latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality—always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world. May-lee Chai is the award-winning author of eleven books of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, including her latest short story collection, Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories (Blair, 2022). Her prior story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, won the 2019 American Book Award. She previously taught in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and is now chair of the creative writing department at San Francisco State University. Her writing has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman (selected by Tayari Jones), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and recipient of an honorable mention for the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Awards. Her short prose has appeared widely, including in Seventeen, New England Review, Longreads, Paris Review Online, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Times, Best Small Fictions anthology, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and cited as Notable in two editions of the Best American […]

Third Thursday

Join many of the PBA members for Third Thursday on the SOCO patio. Stores will be open late, look for food trucks, live music.

Danielle Keats Citron presents THE FIGHT FOR PRIVACY, with Jolynn Dellinger at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

The essential road map for understanding—and defending—your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers and stakeholders across the globe to protect what she calls intimate privacy—encompassing our bodies, health, gender, and relationships. When intimate privacy becomes data, corporations know exactly when to flash that ad for a new drug or pregnancy test. Social and political forces know how to manipulate what you think and who you trust, leveraging sensitive secrets and deepfake videos to ruin or silence opponents. And as new technologies invite new violations, people have power over one another like never before, from revenge porn to blackmail, attaching life-altering risks to growing up, dating online, or falling in love. A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves. Drawing on in-depth interviews with victims, activists, and advocates, Citron brings this headline issue home for readers by weaving together visceral stories about the countless ways that corporate and individual violators exploit privacy loopholes. Exploring why the law has struggled to keep up, she reveals how our current system leaves victims—particularly women, LGBTQ+ people, and marginalized groups—shamed and powerless while perpetrators profit, warping cultural norms around the world. Yet there is a solution […]

Music at Mosaic: Trial by Fire and She Bop

Mosaic Family Commons 60 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC

MOSAIC at Chatham Park is hosting free concerts on every other Friday through the summer, except for July. Join us for free live music, food, fun and first looks! Event lawn opens: 6pm for Friday night concerts (7pm-8:30pm) Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Food, beer + wine available for purchase. Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312

School Field Day Weekend at Huckleberry Trail Farm

Huckleberry Trail Farm 143 Pleasant Hill Church Road, Siler City, NC, United States

NOTE: Sunday hours are 1-6 Turns out we had an extra weekend in October this year…..so….on this weekend, get $1.00 off admission to the farm for each person who wears something that represents their favorite school. Sorry, this discount is not available with online ticketing.

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

Innovate Carolina at Mosaic

Passionate about the food + farming industry? Don't miss Innovate Carolina at 79 Degrees West Innovation Hub on Oct 26 from 4-5:30. Network with food-loving #entrepreneurs and learn more about innovation within this industry! Pre-registration required.

Florence Dore presents THE INK IN THE GROOVES at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC

Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up—the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since Dylan went electric, listening to rock 'n' roll has often been a surprisingly literary experience, and contemporary literature is curiously attuned to the history and beat of popular music. In The Ink in the Grooves, Florence Dore brings together a remarkable array of acclaimed novelists, musicians, and music writers to explore the provocatively creative relationship between musical and literary inspiration: the vitality that writers draw from a three-minute blast of guitars and the poetic insights that musicians find in literary works from Shakespeare to Southern Gothic. Together, the essays and interviews in The Ink in the Grooves provide a backstage pass to the creative processes behind some of the most exciting and influential albums and novels of our time. Florence Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina–based musical artist as well as Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her second album, 2022's Highways and Rocketships, was produced by Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. She is the author of Novel Sounds and coexecutive producer for the Billboard-charting compilation album Cover Charge.

Pittsboro’s Bazaar Night Market at The Plant

The Plant at Lorax Lane 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, United States

Look for the Bazzar Night Market at The Plant, brought to you by Reclamation Vintage! Food Trucks, Beverages, Music, Vintage Vendors, Local Artisan Vendors, Music and much more!

Movies at Mosaic

Mosaic Family Commons 60 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC

Each other Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a movie on the Phil Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol can be brought inside the venue. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Event lawn opens at 7 pm. Movies start at sundown. Please confirm the starting time of this event at the Mosaic website. Oct 28 Lightyear Food + beverage by: BMC Brewing, Hot Dog Central, Red Moose Brewing Company, Vintage Scoops