Puppet Show Incorporated https://www.puppetshowinc.org/ presents the classic folk story Stone Soup. Activities include a story time, puppet show and make and take art activity. Puppetry programs will be held at the following community locations. Recommended ages are 4-8. FREE November 16th at 10:30-11:30 Carrboro Branch Library. FREE November 14th at 4:00-5:00 Hillsborough Main Library FREE… Read More →
Create a Puppet Workshop
Create a Puppet workshop on Saturday, October 19th at the Carrboro Branch Library at 10:30 am. Make a mini shadow puppet theater out of a file folder and mini shadow puppets. Please bring your own light source such as a flashlight for the full effect. Space is limited, advance registration required by calling the Carrboro… Read More →
No Plastic Please: An Artist’s Plastic Fast
“Folk Art in the Library” on view in the Orange County Main Public Library
Hillsborough, N.C. – The owners and artists of Mike’s Art Truck are happy to return to the Orange County Main Public Library in Hillsborough with a new collection of self-taught art. “Folk Art in the Library” on display through February 25, 2019, features work by three popular folk artists: Ruby C. Williams, Michael Banks, and… Read More →
“Folk Art in the Library”
The owners and artists of Mike’s Art Truck are happy to return to the Orange County Main Public Library in Hillsborough with a new collection of self-taught art featuring work by three popular folk artists: Ruby C. Williams, Michael Banks, and Sam Ezell. Roadside paintings by Ruby C. Williams like those in the exhibit once… Read More →
Writing About Family Violence: A Poetry Workshop led by Pam Baggett
Pam Baggett will create a safe space in which to write about childhood abuse and/or intimate partner violence. Writers who have not experienced abuse are welcome to explore their thoughts on the violence ingrained in our society. Pam is a former volunteer at the Compass Center in Chapel Hill, where she co-wrote and facilitated a… Read More →
No Longer Silent: Poets on Family Violence
The Orange County Main Library honors Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a reading by four poets who write with courage and candor about experiences with family and/or intimate partner violence and the journey through pain to empowerment. Featured readers: Pam Baggett, Terri Greco, Janis Harrington, and Priscilla Webster-Williams. The event is free and open to… Read More →
Writing About Home: A Poetry Workshop led by Pam Baggett
Where is home? What do you love about it? What if you had to leave your home and move to another country? In this generative workshop, we’ll write about homes we love, past or present, then turn our attention to the theme of immigration, exploring the work of poets who write about what it’s like… Read More →
This Week in the Arts: June 15-21, 2018
#OCNCARTS IN THE NEWS NC names its first African-American Poet Laureate to be ambassador for spoken word | News & Observer OdysseyStage Theatre and OdysseyStage Present ‘NC 10 By 10: A Festival Of 10-Minute Plays’ | Broadway World YOUR WEEKEND CALENDAR ART FRANK presents Brumley Forest Travel Journal Session Tomorrow, 9am | Brumley Forest Trails Untitled, 2018 Tomorrow 8am-5pm | John and June Allcott… Read More →
This Week in the Arts: May 11-17, 2018
#OCNCARTS IN THE NEWS Longleaf Film Festival showcases North Carolina filmmakers | The News & Observer Photography exhibit of southern musicians coming to Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center | The Virginian-Pilot A Home Filled With 1,200 Miniature Buildings In Hillsborough Captures History | The State of Things on WUNC YOUR WEEKEND CALENDAR ART Tibetan Buddhist Monks construct sacred… Read More →