Join us at the Chatham County Wedding Showcase! Grab your free passes on our Eventbrite link below or in our bio and explore Forest Hall at Chatham Mills (@foresthallatchathammills). Visualize your dream wedding and meet incredible vendors. Save the date: February 25, 2024.

Don't wait to get your tickets for the 2024 Pigs and Pearls dinner at Postal Fish Company, featuring meat from Lily Den Farm.

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Join West End Kitchen for tea on the last Monday of every month, from 2-5 pm. Reservations required.

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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 2/28 – Dave Quick Jazz 3/6 – Lauren Meehan 3/13 – Tony Galiani Jazz Quartet 3/20 – Combo Platter 3/27 – Dave Quick Jazz

Join Carolina Public Humanities for an evening of music and conversation to celebrate the launch of the sixth book from the Music Maker Foundation, Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology. The Music Maker Foundation meets the day-to-day needs of the artists who create traditional American music, ensures their voices are heard, and gives all people access to our nation’s hidden musical treasures. Since 1994, they have served over 500 musicians whose work spans the entire history of American music: blues, gospel, folk, singer-songwriter, Appalachian string band and Native American. DETAILS Cost: Free and open to the public. Donations to the Music Maker Foundation welcome. Sign up here to receive updates. Date and Time: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 PM (note early start) Registration is available in advance by calling 919.962.1544 before 3pm on February 28th. While the event is free, space is somewhat limited and registering in advance will ensure a seat.

Twenty-one short stories that paint a portrait of a magical realist world that is both chaotic and corrupt. These stories paint a portrait of a magical realist world that is both chaotic and corrupt. In "Blister" a young widow remains faithful to her wedding vows even after her husband's deception is revealed. The husband in "Others" is haunted by a picture from the sixteenth century that has seemingly come to life and threatens to destroy his marriage. The soldier in "A Soldier's Lament" refuses to order the execution of an enemy combatant with whom he has fallen in love. The teenage girl in "Skipping Stones" is troubled by her father's second marriage, resulting in an existential crisis. Brian Biswas has published over sixty short stories in the United States as well as internationally. His short story "A Betrayal" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and anthologized in The Irreal Reader. He is the author of the short story collection A Betrayal and Other Stories (Rogue Star Press) and the novel The Astronomer (Whiskey Tit Press). He is listed in the International Writers and Authors Who's Who, Marquis Who's Who, and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

The Chatham Chamber of Commerce invites you to their annual meeting! See details at the link below.

The Chatham County Historical Association and Wren Memorial Library have partnered to sponsor monthly get-togethers to discuss and record Siler City history. We'll be there to listen and learn from you Siler City folks, as well as sharing what we know. The topic in January will be businesses on Chatham Street and Birch Street, but discussion of other topics is welcome! Let us know what you'd like to talk about in the months to come. Meetings will be on the first Friday of each month, from 10:30 to 11:30am at Wren Memorial Library. Light refreshments will be served. Join us on Friday, January 5 for our first meeting. The meetings are free and everyone is welcome.

On March 1, Flyleaf Books is launching The Book Club at the End of the Universe - a rebrand of our beloved SFF book club! TBCEU will meet at 6 pm in our events space to discuss Civilizations by Laurent Binet. All are welcome, and make sure to mention the book club when you purchase any club picks to get 15% off. While you’re at it, join the newsletter and check out the upcoming book picks on our website. We’re celebrating the Book Club at the End of the Universe launch with a SFF party on March 1 that promises to be out of this world!! You do not have to be a book club member to attend - the party will run after the book club meeting, from 7-10 pm. We’ll have snacks and drinks, SFF trivia, a MASSIVE drop of secondhand SFF titles, a costume contest (!!) and more. Don your cosplay finest and bring a board game to play with new friends! We can’t wait to see you there. ⚔️

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featuring Christian Lentz, Associate Professor of Geography and Environment 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 6, 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 3/6 – Lauren Meehan 3/13 – Tony Galiani Jazz Quartet 3/20 – Combo Platter 3/27 – Dave Quick Jazz

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March 11th! The Quiltmaker Cafe pay-what-you-can food truck will be in the Red Moose Brewing parking lot from Noon to 2pm!

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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 3/13 – Tony Galiani Jazz Quartet 3/20 – Combo Platter 3/27 – Dave Quick Jazz

Sage Rountree will present her new books: the revised edition of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, 2nd ed and The Art of Yoga Sequencing. The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery is an invaluable guide to help athletes maximize training gains by making the most of their recovery time. Recovery—physical and mental—is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology, and commerce have all taken note. But which practices and devices really make a difference in recovery, and which should be avoided? What will truly maximize performance? Emphasizing the fundamentals of sleep, nutrition, and stress management, this second edition features up-to-date research that has emerged to support the importance of these basic recovery strategies and includes a much-needed, careful look at new devices on the market. Whether self-coached, coached, or team-sport athletes, The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery provides readers with an evidence-based approach to finding the right balance between stress and rest. The Art of Yoga Sequencing is an inclusive guide for yoga teachers and practitioners to create balanced movement sequences and well-rounded classes for all students. Rountree’s approach to teaching grows from a simple truth: bodies feel better when they move in many different ways and directions. And when they feel better, they work to make the world a freer, more liberated place. But in a social-media fueled yoga scene that over-celebrates acrobatic, unrealistic poses, it’s easy for even the most experienced instructor to lose touch with their students. The fix is clear: Real students need simple lessons taught clearly. Yoga teacher, trainer, and bestselling author Sage Rountree draws on years of expert experience to offer a fresh, contemporary approach to yoga sequencing and mindful movement that reflects the diversity and meets the needs of the modern yogi. Sage Rountree, PhD, is the preeminent authority in yoga for athletes, a […]

Registered Republican voters and registered Unaffiliated voters in Chatham County as of January 31, 2024 are welcome to attend. However, only Republicans who are registered to vote in Chatham County can be voting Delegates. To register to attend, go to https://secure.winred.com/ccgop-ec60b911/convention24. All persons attending must register on line prior to March 14. The is no on-site registration.

Join Pittsboro United Methodist Church for food, fun, and fellowship.

Live music starting at noon, dancing, and bagpipes. And of course, beer, food, and coffee.

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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 (b.love@postalfishcompany.com) 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 (info@findersandseekers.com), 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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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!

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, […]

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 […]

Join me in painting this pretty ‘Sunflower Barn’ while showing support for BMC Brewing. Your $35 ticket includes everything needed to leave with your very own masterpiece. I will guide you step by step and your canvas will be pre-drawn for you. So you do not have to be an artist and beginners are welcome! PLEASE NOTE: Arrive 20 mins early to grab a drink, food and get prepped to paint. We begin painting at 6:00.

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In her revelatory memoir Devout: A Memoir of Doubt, Anna Gazmarian seeks to bridge the gap between science and spirituality by telling the story of how her Evangelical upbringing in North Carolina provided an inadequate framework to understand the mental health diagnosis she received, and the work she had to do to find proper medical treatment while also maintaining her faith. When Anna is diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2011, she is faced with a conundrum: while the diagnosis provides clarity about her manic and depressive episodes, growing up in an Evangelical community means that her diagnosis is regarded as an affliction of the spirit rather than a medical condition. Over ten years, we follow Anna on her journey to re-frame her understanding of mental health to expand the limits of what her religious faith can offer The Wet Wound is Maddie Norris's debut essay collection, inspired by the grief she experienced in the wake of her father's death from cancer when she was seventeen. Norris uses a medical lens to examine the anguish that followed and likens mourning to wound care. These linked essays examine grief from different angles, resulting in a multilayered exploration of why, contrary to popular belief, keeping wounds open is the best way to care for them physically and emotionally. Norris approaches the narrative through various topics--the investigation of body preservation, the history of skin grafts, and a deep dive into physical pain--all of them related to how she carries this fundamental loss. By centering on the importance of mourning (a long-term practice frowned upon in Western culture), the essays unsettle conventional wisdom as the text pushes against the stereotypical notion of "letting go" and "moving on." The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays thus unpacks the question: What happens when, instead of following steps […]

featuring Eren Tasar, Associate Professor of History 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, April 3, 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.

Drink a pint while learning step-by-step how to paint this month's design by Hannah Grace Studios. All materials + 1 drink is included in ticket prices.

The perfect glove box book for every hungry North Carolina traveler. D. G. Martin is back with a fully updated edition of his beloved guide, North Carolina's Roadside Eateries, ready to help Tar Heels and visitors alike find the places locals love to eat. D.G. is your personal tour guide, and he takes you to more than 120 notable roadway haunts, including over 30 new restaurants, that aren't just great places to eat but fixtures of their communities as well. A trusted companion to thousands of North Carolinians, this book not only offers new and exciting ways to get a good meal but will also help folks learn about and appreciate the rich local history of the Tar Heel State. The book features locally owned and community favorites and covers a range of food tastes from BBQ and traditional southern fare to Mexican food and Laotian cuisine. It will introduce the restaurant owners and locals who make these places unique and includes current contact information, hours, and directions. It even recommends nearby points of interest to explore after eating. D.G. Martin was the host of PBS-North Carolina's long-running program Bookwatch, the state's premier literary series. A graduate of Davidson College and Yale Law School and a former Green Beret, Martin practiced law in Charlotte for twenty years before joining the University of North Carolina, where he served as vice president for public affairs and chief legislative liaison. Since his retirement, he has served in interim leadership positions at UNC-Pembroke, North Carolina Central University, Trust for Public Land, Triangle Land Conservancy, and North Carolina's Clean Water Management Trust Fund and as president of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund.

GRAND OPENING Schedule: Fryeday April 5 5:00-9:00 Ribbon Cutting & Reception Saturday April 6 12:00-6:00 Music: Dmitri Resnik 12:00-3:00 Glenn Jones 3:00-5:00 Sunday April 7 11:00-4:00 “Tea & Biscuits” Come join us for a drop in Sunday Social then go and enjoy Dowtown Pittsboro’s First Sunday Vendor Market *All weekend ~ Raffle to benefit Chatham Arts Council and Drawing for Frye Studios Gift Certificate

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GRAND OPENING Schedule: Saturday April 6 12:00-6:00 Music: Dmitri Resnik 12:00-3:00 Glenn Jones 3:00-5:00 Sunday April 7 11:00-4:00 “Tea & Biscuits” Come join us for a drop in Sunday Social then go and enjoy Dowtown Pittsboro’s First Sunday Vendor Market *All weekend ~ Raffle to benefit Chatham Arts Council and Drawing for Frye Studios Gift Certificate