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 January
in the ChathamArts Gallery The Power of One.
Showcasing the work of Eddie White and Forrest
Greenslade, who have created imaginative works using only
one material. Also, featuring the "one" best work from a
sampling of our 90 gallery artists. This is a show not to be missed.
Join us for refreshments and a "meet the artist" reception on First Sunday, January 4th from noon - 5 pm. Eddie White and Forrest Greenslade will present and discuss their work, at 1 pm and 2 pm, respectively. Learn more about the show. |
| 100-Mile Film Series - Sustainable Cinema
Tuesday, January 27th, Fearrington Barn (note venue
change), 7 pm. Pearl Diver - Chapel Hill Writer/Director Sidney King received numerous film festival awards for his visually beautiful and engrossing drama "Pearl Diver" - a story of two sisters, how they are haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when an accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. Learn more about the film series, Download the flyer. |
| 2008-2009 Writers' Series- Join us for
the third year of our Writers' Series. Six 3-hour workshops are open
to writers of all skill levels. Dates are all Saturdays, Sept 13,
Oct 11, Nov 8, Jan 10, and Feb 7. Download
registration form. Ruth Moose, Poetry Writing, January 10th at CCCC, Building 1, Conference Room 1, Fee: $25. Ruth Moose has published two collections of short stories, the Wreath Ribbon Quilt and Other Stories (St. Andrews Press) and Dreaming in Color, (August House). She is the author of three collections of poetry: To Survive (Book Mark Press), Finding Things in the Dark (Briar Patch Press), and Making the Bed (Sandstone Press). Moose has published individual stories in Atlantic Monthly, New Delta Review, South Carolina Review, St. Anthony Messenger among other places. Her poems have appeared in Yankee, New Mexico Humanities, the Nation, Christian Century and several anthologies from Papier Mache Press. She received the PEN Awards for Syndicated Fiction, a Robert Ruark Award for Short Story, a North Carolina Writers Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship and the Oscar Arnold Young Award for Poetry. |
| Arts in Education On November 17 - 21st,
ChathamArts brought nationally renowned Arts in Education Residency
& Performance, Shakespeare in Communities, to
Jordan Mathews and Chatham Middle Schools. The program was enormously
successful. Read a description & press reviews, Learn
more about Arts in Education. Jordan Mathews English teacher, Jane McEvoy recalls, "Our Spanish teacher just came to me with thank-yous one after the other for her class getting to attend the workshop with Joseph Henderson & Walltown Children's Theatre this morning. I am so thrilled that so many of our youngsters are experiencing this incredible residency. I've never seen them so energized." |
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your calendars • For Mardi Gras '09 on February 28th • For ClydeFest at the Bynum Ballpark on April 25th |
| Visit our Calendar page for all ChathamArts events. |