Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:07:18 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Why you might see colorful goats popping up around Pittsboro
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Local businesses are teaming up with area artists for a public art display in Chapel Hill and Pittsboro, known as the Goat Parade.
Chatham and Orange counties are teaming up and have formed the Goat Parade Committee, which is deciding which artists, sponsors, merchants and businesses will contribute to the parade.
The parade will take the form of art installations such as painted goats dispersed in Chapel Hill (there are 10, in case you go looking), and 10 painted goats around Pittsboro.
Why goats? The Galloway Ridge Retirement Community, host of the auction of art at the end of the goat parade, sits beside Fearington Village in Pittsboro, which is known for belted cows as well as goats.
The goat parade will culminate in a silent auction on Nov. 14 at Galloway Ridge Retirement Community in Pittsboro, and proceeds will go towards supporting the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center and the Chatham County Council on Aging, two non-profit organizations Richardson says are similar to Galloway Ridge.