Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:13:19 -0400
From: Molly Matlock
Subject: Cultural Wonder off the Beaten Path: Things You Must Have on Your Calendar
First, if you have not yet heard, the Bynum Front Porch Music Series is back! Every Friday night at 7 pm through August. Check the calendar at www.bynumfrontporch.org. Get your roots music on!
Also, catch ChathamArts’ improv instructor and comic genius, Anoo Brod this Saturday at “Spring Loaded” @ Elizabeth Kenan Theatre at UNC-CH. Call for reservations: 919-491-7745 or 919-923-1168. This event sold out last year, and I hope you’ll go and be inspired to register for ChathamArts’ next round of improv classes launching June 8.
It’s incredibly fun in a slightly terrifying way, you know, like the 76-foot free fall slide at Wet ‘n’ Wild. Take the class. It’ll make you a better person. Register for this and our other summer classes and youth camps at http://www.chathamarts.org/programs/programs-classes10.html
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And for future social planning, here’s what ChathamArts’ has in store:
ChathamArts and the Durham Symphony Orchestra bring a special, *first ever* symphony program to Chatham County. Sunday, May 23, 7 pm, in the beautiful new Benjamin J. Lee Performing Arts Center at Northwood High School. The evening’s program will feature work from “Porgy and Bess” among others and includes a one-time only special violin Tchaikovsky Concerto. Tickets are also available for the Decadent Dessert Reception with Maestro William Henry Curry www.chathamarts.org/programs/springpopsconcert2010.html
Thank you to Bill Willcox and the Chatham News and Record for the Fab-o cover story in this week’s issue!
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Next: ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema at the Fearrington Village Barn.
Admission at door $5/$3. Cash Bar & Concessions
http://www.facebook.com/l/f3e04;www.chathamarts.org/programs/sustainablecinema.html
Tuesday MAY 25th, 7:00 PM: Shooting4Change Films Premiere with Special
Guests Sacrificial Poets, Girls Rock NC, and Opinionated Films!
A celebration of youth empowerment though creativity. One Shooting4Change
member stated, “Our films could help some teen or kid out there in the
world. I’ve been through a lot… and there is a lot of other kids out there
that’s been through the same kinds of things.”
Also participating in the event are:
The Sacrificial Poets, North Carolina’s only youth performance poetry team.
http://www.facebook.com/l/f3e04;sacrificialpoets.com.
Nyssa Cave of Girls Rock NC! www.girlsrocknc.org.
Opinionated Films, a Chapel Hill filmmaking group of five teens with autism,
ages 14-15, will present a preview trailer of their movie *5-4-3-2-1* – a
short murder mystery about friendship, deception and revenge.
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June 13th, 4 – 7 pm at the Sustainable Agriculture Campus as Central
Carolina Community College: It’s ChathamArts’ Annual Potluck in the Pasture..
Book reading and signing with CLYDE EDGERTON. Music by KICKIN’ GRASS. ART
and LOCAL food by YOU and your neighbors!!! Don’t miss it!
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Then, JUNE 29th, ChathamArts’ Sustainable Cinema screens JUNEBUG with
Screenwriter/Playwright ANGUS MACHLACHLAN. Pre-Screening Reception 6:30-8
PM, Film at 8:00 PM: ChathamArts brings you the Indie hit JUNEBUG! (Rated R,
1 hour 47 min.) A pre-screening reception/party will be held at the Roost’s
beer garden at Fearrington Village from 6:30 – 8:00. Actor and playwright
Angus MacLachlan was nominated for several awards for Junebug’s screenplay
and recently adapted one of his plays into the film STONE directed by John
Curran and starring Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, and Edward Norton.
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June 27th: BRAvo! Lingerie Soiree for the Arts
Following the courthouse fire, the ChathamArts Gallery artists sought some
immediate uplift. Since then, their imaginations have encountered no limits..
Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski, Lyn Sims, Florence Johnson, Stan Pomeranz, and
John Makowski say that they couldn’t stop laughing when they began
brainstorming fresh ways to make Chatham the “most colorful cultural
destination in the South.” They have a series of top secret efforts up their
sleeves, but the first one they’re unveiling is the “ChathamArts BRAvo!
Lingerie Soiree.”
Area artists and other local agencies and businesses have been working
tirelessly to help “support the arts with support bras during this sagging
economy.” They’ve knitted, welded, carved, and crafted a variety of “bra-art
sculptures,” which will be raffled at the “BRAvo! Soiree” on June 27th at
the City Tap from 4 – 7 pm. There’ll be live music, food, beverage, and foxy
male bra models there to flaunt the merchandise.
A BRAvo! preview is on exhibit at the ChathamArts Gallery throughout May and
June, 115 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC 27312. It’s not too late to submit
a bra of your own to the cause. Call 919-542-4144 or email
for details.
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P.S. Tune into ChathamArts’ Radio Talk Show “Inside the Artist’s Studio”
every Tuesday afternoon from 4 – 5 pm on WCOM-FM, 103.5. Live stream at
www.wcomfm.org, or listen to archived recordings at http://tiny.cc/efqvo
See you on the flip side,
Molly Matlock
Executive Director
Chatham County Arts Council
PO Box 418
Pittsboro, NC 27312
http://www.facebook.com/l/f3e04;www.chathamarts.org
919-542-0394