On Tuesday, May 4, the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved the move of the arts commission office into a larger, front-facing, space at the Eno Mill in Hillsborough. Suite 17 is a 7,000 square foot space offering small and large classrooms, a gallery and events space, as well as several affordable spaces available for… Read More →
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Down On Copperline: The Freight Train’s Pulling into Town Once More
—Article by David Menconi The Town of Carrboro’s annual Freight Train Blues Music Series honors the music, memory and legacy of legendary native daughter Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten, born there 128 years ago. But there will be a distinctly contemporary, circa-2021 feel to this year’s edition. One aspect is the obligatory nod to safety protocols because of… Read More →
Orange Crush: The Darkroom Stays in the Picture
—article by Brian Howe Modestly sized, matted but unframed, and mounted on plain, honest wooden boards, the pictures flow in a sinuous grid along Epilogue’s crumbly brick walls. Taken one by one, they tell the stories that five photography students at UNC-Chapel Hill sought to sear onto black-and-white film and coax out in the darkroom, on… Read More →
This Human Way: The Poetic Curator, Fred Joiner
—Article by Emilie Menzel Many of you are perhaps already familiar with Fred Joiner’s written forms of poetry. Since 2019, he’s served as Carrboro’s poet laureate, bringing poetry into the community through events like the West End Poetry Festival. His poems appear recently in anthologies like Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry… Read More →
