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Monthly Features

Feb 13 2026

2026 Summer Camps now OPEN!


Posted by Orange County Arts Commission · Categorized: Monthly Features

Feb 08 2026

Mark Katz finds himself teaching music in unconventional classrooms


—David Menconi, Down on Copperline Most of the time, Mark Katz teaches in pretty conventional spaces on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. But some of his classroom… Read More →

Posted by Orange County Arts Commission · Categorized: Down on Copperline, Featured Blogs, Monthly Features · Tagged: Carolina Prison Music Initiative, david menconi, Distinguished Professor of Music at UNC, Donovan Livingston, down on copperline, Mark Katz, Orange Correctional Center

Feb 08 2026

Meet Carrboro’s Ninth Poet Laureate: Dr. Amanda Bennett


Amanda Bennett holding a book

—Arshia Simkin, The Underline When Amanda Bennett was in her twenties as a graduate student at Duke University, she was working on a dissertation about Black feminism; she remembers studying… Read More →

Posted by Orange County Arts Commission · Categorized: Featured Blogs, Monthly Features, The Underline · Tagged: amanda bennett, Arshia Simkin, carrboro poet laureate, chapel hill art and humanities, The Underline

Jan 02 2026

Come Sing a Sea Chantey at Hillsborough’s Colonial Inn


—David Menconi, Down on Copperline When it comes to singing sea chanties, the appropriate setting seems like it would be aboard a ship at sea – or at least close… Read More →

Posted by Orange County Arts Commission · Categorized: Down on Copperline, Featured Blogs, Monthly Features · Tagged: Chantey Pub Sing, Colonial Inn, Dani Black, david menconi, down on copperline, hillsborough, Jerry Bragg and Laura Bradford, sea chantey, Ship’s Company Chanteymen

Dec 05 2025

Cue the music: Greg Bell joins Arts Commission team


—David Menconi, Down on Copperline If you have attended any sort of live-music event anywhere in the Triangle over the past three decades, chances are that Greg Bell was part… Read More →

Posted by Orange County Arts Commission · Categorized: Down on Copperline, Featured Blogs, Monthly Features · Tagged: Chantal, david menconi, down on copperline, Festival for the Eno, Greg Bell, IBMA, Katie Murray, SleepyFest, Uproar Festival of Public Art

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