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Artist Reception for Wings, Wheels and Rails

Margaret Lane Gallery 121 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC, United States

Calling all rail fans, car buffs, airplane enthusiasts! The gallery will be filled with transportation images from local and visiting artists, including Kevin Flynn Bell, R. Chamberlin, William Hill, David Knox, Ray LaMantia, Lynn Schmoock, Jerry Smith, Nancy Ellen Walker, and Barbara Younger, working in an array of media. You will find also find small... Read More →

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Last Fridays Concert with Second Set

Join us at the Historic Orange County Courthouse lawn with Second Set! From Burlington, NC Second Set will play Soul, Beach, Motown, Top Forty and Dance music 6:30 - 9:30 pm. Please be sure to visit downtown and West End retail shops and restaurants and check out the exhibits on the Hillsborough Art Walk Last... Read More →

Music on the Porch: Jennifer Curtis & Melodic Refuge Orchestra

Join us on the lawn as we kick off another season of Music on the Porch! Our first fall concert features world-renowned local violinist and composer Jennifer Curtis. An educator with a focus on music as humanitarian aid, Curtis has performed with musical shaman of the Andes, improvised for live radio from the Amazon jungle,... Read More →

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With Us Comes the Parallax Exhibition Opening

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History 150 South Road, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Stone Center will kick off its 30th anniversary with the opening of the exhibition With Us Comes the Parallax. This show will feature works by past Stone Center visiting artists, dating back to 2004. The opening will also include talks by some of the participating artists, including Toni Scott, Arturo Lindsay, Lucia Mendez, Michael... Read More →

Second Thursday Poetry at Flyleaf Books

Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill

Featured readers at the monthly Second Thursday Poetry Reading will be Adrian Rice and Iris Tillman. An open mic follows, at which poets may read one poem no more than a page long. An informal get-together at The Root Cellar next door begins at 6 p.m. 919-942-7373. www.flyleafbooks.com

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Opening Reception: Unique As We Are Alike

This fall the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC Chapel Hill will feature the work of two Lumbee artists, community-based visual artist Ashley Minner of Baltimore’s Lumbee community, and artist Alisha Locklear Monroe from the home of the Lumbee people, Robeson County, North Carolina. "Unique As We Are Alike" is a... Read More →

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Opening Reception: Unique As We Are Alike

This fall the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC Chapel Hill will feature the work of two Lumbee artists, community-based visual artist Ashley Minner of Baltimore’s Lumbee community, and artist Alisha Locklear Monroe from the home of the Lumbee people, Robeson County, North Carolina. "Unique As We Are Alike" is a... Read More →

Free

Neko Case

Memorial Hall 114 E. Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill

In the universe of independent singer-songwriters, Neko Case is near the epicenter. After several years collaborating with kd lang and Laura Veirs, she has released her first solo album since 2013: the acclaimed Hell-On. Speaks for itself, no?

LitSpark

Readings by Piedmont Laureate Nancy Peacock and poet Claire Hermann.

Recurring

Robin Frohardt’s Plastic Bag Store

CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This is no ordinary store: All of the products that line the shelves are just plastic bags. There are bottles of bags, cans of bags, boxes of bags, and, of course, bags of bags, each product an original design, made from discarded plastic stuffed inside other discarded plastic, creating an endless cacophony of packaging.  ... Read More →