Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
Join us for our annual screening of a film that centers the neurodivergent experience, followed by a panel conversation with Autistic adults. Panelists will reflect on their lived experiences, highlighting systemic challenges, resources and ways to be an ally to the disability and neurodivergent community. This year's selected film is "Unmet," a powerful short documentary... Read More →
In partnership with UNC's Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward, join us for our second Community Book Conversation and workshop series. This year, we will focus on the history of education in our local schools while centering the experiences of Black students and educators. We will bring together the authors of the books... Read More →
In partnership with UNC's Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward, join us for our second Community Book Conversation and workshop series. This year, we will focus on the history of education in our local schools while centering the experiences of Black students and educators. We will bring together the authors of the books... Read More →
In partnership with UNC's Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward, join us for our second Community Book Conversation and workshop series. This year, we will focus on the history of education in our local schools while centering the experiences of Black students and educators. We will bring together the authors of the books... Read More →
In partnership with UNC's Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward, join us for our second Community Book Conversation and workshop series. This year, we will focus on the history of education in our local schools while centering the experiences of Black students and educators. We will bring together the authors of the books... Read More →
What do an Irish immigrant, an unhoused person, an essential worker and a child in her unstudied wisdom have in common? Their humanity calls to our own. This free storytelling performance for adult audiences is a retrospective show for our times, comprised of three original dramatic monologues written across Milbre Burch’s nearly-fifty-year career alongside family... Read More →
Saturday, June 22, 2024 - Talk at 2 pm, signing line to follow** Come celebrate PRIDE Month with Flyleaf Books and the Chapel Hill Public Library! There will be an opportunity to purchase books by these authors and have them signed at the event. **Please note this panel event will be held offsite at the... Read More →
Join us for a free, in-person, creative poetry workshop with the talented Chapel Hill Poet Laureate, Cortland Gilliam. Across the globe, Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized communities of color are among the most vulnerable to the adverse consequences of environmental crises and the solutions proposed to remedy them. Nevertheless, popular media often separates environmental concerns... Read More →
OCCRC, Carolina Public Humanities, and the Chapel Hill Public Library will host NCSU English Professor Dr. Jason Miller to discuss Langston Hughes’ most famous anti-lynching poem, which he debuted in Chapel Hill during his 1931 visit to Orange County. His appearance was so controversial that police were stationed outside the door of his public reading.... Read More →
YOU are invited to join authors William “Sandy” Darity and Kirsten Mullen in a community reading of their book, “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century” in a 4-part community book club. We will listen to, and learn from, the book’s authors, community elders and members, and artists. We will... Read More →
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