2nd Annual Found It! Chatham Rabbit Hunt
Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesGather your family, your BFFs, or go it alone on this scavenger hunt for six (6) rabbit sculptures embellished by local artists that are hidden outside along Hillsboro Street and in the immediate vicinity. Find four (4) of them and take a selfie with each rabbit sculpture. (Please leave the sculpture where you find it.) The first 25 people to show selfies to the Welcome Center attendant at 37 Hillsboro Street will get a $10 voucher to redeem at participating downtown businesses. Every one who plays gets entered into the raffle to win one of the rabbit sculptures. To increase your chances of winning, purchase raffle tickets for $5 each at the Welcome Center.
Palm Sunday at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NCJoin us this Sunday at 11am as we kick off Holy Week with Palm Sunday. PPC is proud to have palm fronds from Eco-Palms. Not only are they sustainably grown, Eco-Palm harvesters receive a higher price, which improves their income and gives their families financial stability.
Reclamation Pop-Up Market
Reclamation Home Furnishings 136 Fayetteville Street, Suite F, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesReclamation will be hosting a unique outdoor vintage and artisan market with beverages, a food truck and an eclectic mix of some of the best vintage and artisan vendors around. Come enjoy the laid back, fun-day Sunday vibe in The SOCO District behind The Mod in downtown Pittsboro. This event is Sunday April 10th from 12-5pm. Family fun and free event! Please park in public parking spaces only, parking near the store will be limited, look for the "Market" signs!
Laura Whitfield presents FAITH, FAILURE AND SOLID GROUND at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCA coming-of-age memoir that takes readers from North Carolina’s Outer Banks to disco-era New York City and home again, Untethered follows Laura Whitfield as she fumbles her way through young adulthood, learning along the way that you sometimes have to fall hard a few times before you land where you’re meant to be.
PBA Member Meeting Apr 2022
The Root Cellar 35 SUTTLES ROAD, PENGUIN PLACE, Pittsboro, NCAt Forest Hall in Chatham Marketplace.
Alan Shapiro presents PROCEED TO CHECK OUT, with Matthew Buckley Smith at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCNote--the image says April 7, but this event IS scheduled for April 14. Alan Shapiro’s fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife. These poems take on fundamental subjects—like the nature of time and consciousness and how or why we become who we are—but Shapiro presses them into becoming urgent and timely. Employing idiomatic range and formal variety, Shapiro’s poems move through recurring dreams, the coercions of childhood, and the mysterious connections of mind and matter, pleasure and memory. They meet an abiding need to find empathy and understanding in even the most challenging places—amid disaffection, public discord, and estrangement. His grasp of contemporary life—in all its insidious violence and beauty—is distinct, comprehensive, and profound.
Joint Maundy Thursday service at St. Barts
St. Barts will be hosting a joint Maundy Thursday service with Pittsboro Presbyterian. Dinner at 6 pm; indoor service at 6:30 pm.
Easter Sunday Sunrise service at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NCSunrise service at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church.
Easter Sunday service at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church
Pittsboro Presbyterian Church 95 East Street, Pittsboro, NCEaster Sunday service at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church with communion.
Shiitake Mushroom Inoculation Class Fundraiser
Quiltmaker CafeWe had so much fun, we've decided to add another class! Join The Quiltmaker Café for a Shiitake Mushroom Inoculation Workshop REGISTER NOW: https://thequiltmakercafe.org/shiitakemushroomclass/ WHEN: April 23, 2022 (Rain Date: May 7th) TIME: 10:00am – 1:00pm WHERE: 1197 Green Level Road, Apex NC 27523 DONATION: $75 donation per person, maximum 12 participants Learn how to inoculate your own logs with Shiitake Mushrooms! Take home three inoculated logs with a soaking bucket to harvest your own mushrooms at home. Please note: Inoculated logs will not be ready to harvest for 5-12 months. Check out photos from our last event at https://thequiltmakercafe.org/fundraising/ ALL proceeds from this event will go toward The Quiltmaker Café, a non-profit pay-what-you-can café with the mission of providing community and healthy meals to all, regardless of means. Donations are TAX-DEDUCTABLE. Questions? Contact [email protected]
Let’s Resin with Molds at The Creative Goat
The Creative Goat 984 Thompson Street Suite F, Pittsboro, NCThe first class is to get you started into the world of resin. Since resin can be tricky and it's not a cheap product, its best to learn and try avoiding expensive mistakes. Learn how to use two-part resin with the easy, proven methods of an artist with resin experience. You will be amazed with how you can use resin as a quick and simple way to make unique items. By the end of this class, you will feel confident you have the skills and knowledge to make your own distinctive resin goodies to add to your collection, give to others or even sell!
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. April 26, 2022 “Daisy Miller” by Henry James Led by JoAnne Robb Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”
T.Kingfisher presents NETTLE & BONE at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCMarra never wanted to be a hero. As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. But her sister wasn’t so fortunate—and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince. Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks: build a dog of bones, sew a cloak of nettles, and capture moonlight in a jar But, as is the way in tales of princes and witches, doing the impossible is only the beginning. Hero or not—now joined by a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, an enigmatic gravewitch, and her fowl familiar—Marra might finally have the courage to save her sister and topple a throne.
French Connections at QuiltFest Greenville (SC)
French Connections will have a vendor booth at QuiltFest Greenville on April 28-30. If you're in the area, stop by and say hello.
Roy Hoffman presents THE PROMISE OF THE PELICAN, with Elaine Neil Orr at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCAt once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your immigration status. Hank Weinberg is a modern-day Atticus Finch, recently retired as a defense attorney in Mobile, Alabama, and a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis as a young child. With his daughter in rehab, he's now taking care of his special needs grandson. Mourning his dead wife, spending mornings fishing on the pier with other octogenarians, he passes the rest of his days watching over his sweet grandson with the help of Lupita, a young Honduran babysitter. When her brother Julio, an undocumented immigrant, is accused of murder, Hank must return to the courtroom to defend him while also trying to save his daughter and grandson's life from spinning out of control. The Promise of the Pelican takes its title from the legend that a pelican will pierce its own breast for blood to feed its starving chicks, a metaphor for one old man who risks all to save the vulnerable.
First Sunday, May 2022
Downtown Pittsboro 9 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesCome 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 Edwards Antiques Reclamation Would you like to be a vendor at First Sunday? Please fill out an application.
Local on Lorax
The Plant at Lorax Lane 220 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro, United StatesThe bright hues of Spring bring to mind two things: the promise of farmers’ fields found nearby abundant with fresh growth, and the renewed sense of creativity for local artists of all genres. In Pittsboro, small farms and a robust creative culture is a way of life. Help us celebrate this good life with a pop-up dinner that has a super-local twist. We've gathered area farmers, chefs, restaurants, craft beverages, and visual and performing artists for a good time. Join us for “Local on Lorax: A Farm & Art Dinner” on Sunday, May 1st, 5-8pm outdoors at The Plant, 192 Lorax Lane, Pittsboro NC. A limited number of vegetarian entrees are available. Email [email protected] to request your vegetarian entree.
Jim Grimsley presents THE DOVE IN THE BELLY at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NCA story of the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it's also about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned capacities for grief and joy. At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart. Until he can't. The Dove in the Belly is about the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it's also about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned capacities for grief and joy.
Spring Flowers Painting Class at The Creative Goat
The Creative Goat 984 Thompson Street Suite F, Pittsboro, NCCome out for a fun Friday night with your friends to paint this cute Spring Flowers in a vase. Pick your own flowers 🌺 colors. Date: May 6th Time 7-9pm $35 ticket includes: All supplies, pre-traced 11 x 14 canvas, step by step instruction, and light refreshments. Beginner painters are welcome and encouraged. Limited seats for this Pre-Pay event! (Registration closes May 4 or until Sold Out).
Derby Day at The Sycamore at Chatham Mills
The Sycamore at Chatham Mills 480 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC, United StatesKentucky Derby Day Sat May 7 The Lounge will open at 3pm. Watch the the most exciting two minutes in sports on widescreen, shoot a game of pool. Enjoy our Charcuterie Board with a Kentucky Mule or Mint Julep before, during, and after the horses run. New Lounge menu now being served every weekend. Warning: Lounge visits may be habit forming.