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W. M. Hewitt Pottery is delighted to announce an exhibition to be held in conjunction with @nceca @nceca.rva “Thrown Together: Tradition, Apprenticeship, and Individualism,” March 19-23, 2024 in Richmond, VA. Details and concept at thrown-togetherdotcom. The show will include @markhewittpottery @mattjonespotter @danieljohnstonpottery Alex Matisse @eastforkpottery @josephsandpottery @okeefepottery and @the_barefoot_potter Here’s a brief outline: During the last forty years a group of potters in North Carolina has coalesced to reimagine a venerable regional American tradition by realigning it with elements of the Mingei Movement, contemporary studio pottery, and industrial practice. Mark Hewitt and his North Carolina based former apprentices continue to improvise within a vibrant Southern aesthetic. Please check the event's website for details.

The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music. "People tell me it's country music," Terry Allen has joked, "and I ask, 'Which country?'" For nearly sixty years, Allen's inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing boundaries between disciplines and audiences by conjuring indelible stories out of the howling West Texas wind. In Truckload of Art, author Brendan Greaves exhaustively traces the influences that shaped Allen's extraordinary life, from his childhood in Lubbock, Texas, spent ringside and sidestage at the wrestling matches and concerts his father promoted, to his formative art-school years in incendiary 1960s Los Angeles, and through subsequent decades doggedly pursuing his uncompromising artistic vision. With humor and critical acumen, Greaves deftly recounts how Allen built a career and cult following with pioneering independent records like Lubbock (on everything) (1979)--widely considered an archetype of alternative country--and multiyear, multimedia bodies of richly narrative, interconnected art and theatrical works, including JUAREZ (ongoing since 1968), hailed as among the most significant statements in the history of American vernacular music and conceptual art. Drawing on hundreds of revealing interviews with Allen himself, his family members, and his many notable friends, colleagues, and collaborators--from musicians like David Byrne and Kurt Vile to artists such as Bruce Nauman and Kiki Smith--and informed by unprecedented access to the artist's home, studio, journals, and archives, Greaves offers a poetic, deeply personal portrait of arguably the most singularly multivalent storyteller of the American West. Brendan Greaves is founder and owner of the record label Paradise of Bachelors and has collaborated on numerous projects with Terry Allen, including Pedal Steal + Four Corners, for which he earned a Grammy […]

featuring Keith Richotte, Associate Professor of American Studies Learn about the deeper contexts behind issues too often reduced to sound bites. DETAILS Guests may attend Humanities in Action lectures IN PERSON or VIRTUALLY. Cost: $20; $15 with a Carolina Alumni Membership discount Date and Time: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 4:30-6:00 PM Location: Flyleaf Books Registration is available at the door, or in advance online or by calling 919.962.1544 before 3pm on February 14th. DISCOUNTS Advance registrants can take advantage of our FLYLEAF SEASON PASS and receive a discount on the purchase of all eight lectures. Tuition for virtual viewing is free for K-12 teachers. If you are a current K-12 teacher, click here to register for virtual viewing of any Fall 2023 Humanities in Action lecture. Complimentary teacher registration closes two hours before the start of the event. Visit Carolina Alumni for information about membership-- all Carolina Alumni members receive a discount to Humanities in Action events. We thank Carolina Alumni for its generous support of this series.

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 upcoming performers 3/20 – Combo Platter 3/27 – Dave Quick Jazz

Calling all Dancers! The Triangle Jazz Orchestra returns to The Plant this Wednesday, March 20th at 7 PM. The Triangle Jazz Orchestra is a big band composed of enthusiastic musicians from across the Triangle area of North Carolina. They perform the great American music of the jazz masters of the swing era, including Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Benny Carter as well as more recent jazz and blues tunes. Their 18 musicians including vocalist Greg Hohn play in the traditional big band format with a full horn section for rich harmonies and a complete rhythm section for a driving, danceable beat. Come out and have a great time dancing to some wonderful music! Kingston 99, Fair Game and BMC Brewing will be open for food and drinks!

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Chatham County's Ag Fest is coming up on Saturday, March 23 from 10 to 3 at the County Agriculture and Conference Center. Look for Chatham County Historical Association volunteers there -- out back by the smokehouse. We'll be sharing some Chatham history and hoping to hear what you know about Chatham's story. Volunteers will also be keeping the Chatham Historical Museum open in the courthouse in Pittsboro, so plan to stop by before or after you visit Ag Fest for a tour of the museum and courthouse. We'll be open from 10 - 3.

Easter Egg Hunt and More This is a pay-what-you-can event. Attendees are asked to contribute/donate what they can in support of the creation of a PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN restaurant being planned for the Pittsboro-area by the non-profit Quiltmaker Cafe. There will be many activities besides the egg hunt. Hay ride around the farm (this is a great opportunity to see the farm as it starts to bloom). Egg races Egg coloring Egg toss (if you dare) Sack races Wiffle ball Easter story trail You may even see some EASTER bunnies hopping around!!! Egg Hunt Times: 12:30 / 1:30 / 2:30 / 3:30 Please arrive 15 minutes early Make your reservation at https://huckleberrytrailfarm.com

The event will be at Postal Fish Company. Postal has teamed with amazing oyster purveyors from Shuckleford Banks Shellfish, Ghost Fleet Oyster Company, and Changing Tide Oysters. There will be an incredible menu of raw oysters, cooked offerings, beer selections from Ballad Brewing, and perfectly selected wine pairings from 3 wine distributors for an afternoon of culinary delight! (See full menu below). Please note, this is a "social" and "wine & beer tasting" - there will not be full glasses of alcohol served. Cost is $80 (all inclusive) per person and seating is limited. To reserve a space, call Postal at 919-704-8612 or email them at ([email protected]) to make a reservation request. All reservations will be first-come first-served until sold out. Please note, credit card information is required to hold the reservation. Please also indicate which seating you would like to attend. We look forward to sharing this fun event with you all again!

Interested in Dixie Bell products but don't know where to start? Join us Sun March 24 from 2-4 for a demonstration and class to learn all about Dixie Bell paints and the techniques used to refinish gorgeous furniture and crafting projects. This is a complimentary event, but requires signup ahead of time. DM, email ([email protected]), or call 919-533-6530 us to sign up!

Join bmc brewing and Kingston 99 Kitchen for a 4 course Jamaican dinner with bourbon, beer, or wine pairings!

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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland “Bewitching and seductive.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You “A treasure: a writer who understands the magic and mysteries of the human soul." —Chris Bohjalian, author of Hour of the Witch “This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake." —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective—she doesn’t, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her “pictures” foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes a terrible mistake. But her second sight may allow her a second chance. Luminous and transporting, The Road from Belhaven once again displays “the marvelous control of a writer who conjures equally well the tangible, sensory world . . . and the mysteries, stranger and wilder, that flicker at the border of that world.” —The Boston Globe Margot Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine other novels, […]

The Pittsboro Business Association would like to invite all its members, as well as those interested in joining the Association, to attend the upcoming Spring membership meeting. The event will take place on March 26 from 5:30-7:30pm at BMC Brewing located at The Plant in Pittsboro. Hors d'oeuvres will be served by Kingston 99 Kitchen. This is a great opportunity to socialize and connect with other business owners in your community. We hope to see you there!

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 upcoming performers 3/27 – Dave Quick Jazz

Featuring Robert Buxton, pianist Join Carolina Public Humanities for an evening of music and conversation on the Flyleaf Stage. Pianist Robert Buxton brings music from the past to life today as a performer and public speaker. He offers a unique lecture-recital combination to retirement communities, association meetings, private events, schools, and universities. He makes piano music accessible and enjoyable to everyone by explaining the history of each piece, what to listen for, and through stories, humor, and personal anecdotes. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in New York (Symphony Space, the YIVO institute, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Spanish Consulate, and Steinway Hall), Europe (Scuola di Musica in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy, the Maison Erard in Amsterdam) and in Japan, (Sakata, Kyoto, and Tokyo). His interviews and recordings have been featured on major classical radio stations in New York City and Kyoto. Robert has been on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at East Carolina University. He studied under Vladimir Viardo at the University of North Texas (M.M. and D.M.A. degrees) and with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music (B.M. degree). His doctoral dissertation involved the philosophy of Henri Bergson as a mode of interpreting nostalgia in the piano music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and he continues to write about music in a personal idiom. Robert is passionate about less well-known repertoire of all eras and new music, particularly U.S. composers William Grant Still, Charles Ives, Florence Price, and Roy Harris. He often includes southern gospel improvisations at concerts. Also a composer and arranger, he frequently performs his own transcriptions of Mahalia Jackson’s gospel recordings, an elegiac piano sonata, “Freedom Summer—Mississippi 1964,” short pieces based on Jack Kerouac’s Haikus, free arrangements of medieval […]