The Orange County Department on Aging is currently hosting an art exhibition at the Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center to feature works by Gary Owens. His collection showcases a variety of painted caricatures that depict influential cultural, historical and religious figures of the last century. The exhibit began with a reception last Friday.
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The fair, located at 4285 Trinity Rd., will kick off at noon on Oct. 13. It will be open from 9 a.m. into the late evening after opening day.
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The market and showcase of local and regional artists, artisans and performers, will return to Chapel Hill for three successive Saturdays, beginning on Oct. 8.
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"Our post-COVID-19 era has developed a societal standard that contradicts what the past 40 to 50 years have prioritized: incessant perseverance. While this turn of events has emphasized wellness and self-care, it is possible our generation has consequently started to lose its edge."
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More than 50 artists from four states are participating in the event. Each artist will produce at least one painting outdoors within Orange County, capturing a subject or scene of their choosing.
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"Freedom Hill" was directed by Resita Cox, a filmmaker and UNC alumna. The film is a documentary on environmental racism and its effects on Princeville, N.C. Princeville has experienced repeated flooding following hurricanes, and the majority-Black residents of the town were often forced to live close to the flood-prone Tar River.
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"'Don’t Worry Darling' was lazy, unoriginal and downright frustrating. And to think the trailer and pre-premiere drama made me expect anything more. What a shame."
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Sculptor and artist Sawyer Rose has brought a series of works titled “The Carrying Stones Project” to UNC's campus this fall. They will be on display in Davis Library until Nov. 14. Her work aims to spark meaningful conversations about women’s work inequity in viewers.
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An eight-piece New Orleans brass ensemble called The Soul Rebels performed with special guest Big Freedia at Memorial Hall last Friday night to open up the Fall 2022 Carolina Performing Arts season.
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Returning for its 25th anniversary, the festival will take place this Sunday in downtown Carrboro with over 100 music groups in attendance. It will host performers in over 15 indoor and outdoor locations beginning at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
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The annual Efland Ruritan Club Rodeo, hosted by the local Ruritan Club, is scheduled to take place on Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, after a two-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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After a two-year pause, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Holiday Parade will return this year with a focus on promoting diversity in the community. The new application for a parade unit includes questions about the applying organization's advancement of community goals and any work for diversity, equity and inclusion.
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"Saying you have a Black friend and are nice to women because you know them, are not acknowledgments of wrongdoing. Further, a fine only throws money at an issue rather than digging deep to correct and heal."
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Multimedia artist Anike Robinson will present "Gris Gris Gurlz" — her unique collection of collages, paintings, videos and dolls — in the Brown Gallery and Museum at the Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History this Thursday. The exhibition will run through the fall and closes on Dec. 10. “This is a place where I get to feel right, in many ways,” Robinson said. “I feel right with the universe, I feel centered and healthy and good. So when I'm joyous, or even when I'm having an anxiety and depression-filled day or month, (art) is the thing that helps me power through.”
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Southern Village’s Live Music on the Village Green series concluded this Sunday, but Sept. 22's open mic and karaoke night will be the last music event of the year. The series wrapped up the last of its professional performances on Sept. 18 with a performance by the Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra.
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The Chapel Hill Public Library is celebrating Banned Books Week through a partnership with Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. This year the week will be from Sept. 18 to Sept. 24. The week was first celebrated 40 years ago in 1982.
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"Why has the genre of the American working class that is revered for its ability to tell stories over beautifully and simply written melodies become the laughing stock of the music industry?"
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A new bench memorializing late Chapel Hill resident and activist Eva Metzger will be installed on the Tanyard Branch Trail on Sept. 21.
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The Campus Y's first-year council chose the design of Tam Le, a junior majoring in biology, for the creation of a new mural centered on themes of mental wellness and mental health awareness.
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Community members will soon be able to see drawings of renowned Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn right on UNC's campus. Beginning Sept. 23, visitors to the Ackland Art Museum can view the new exhibit “Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum.”
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