Local Events Calendar

Sculptural acrylic paintings by Linda Carmel,
abstract landscape paintings by Ellie Reinhold, abstract metal sculpture by
Jason Smith.  June 24^th  – July 21^st. Opening reception
during Hillsborough’s Last Friday Art Walk, June 28th 6-9pm. Founded in 2006,
the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts is owned & operated by 22 artists and
features painting, sculpture, photography, glass art, jewelry, wood, pottery,
fiber and textile arts. 121 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough NC, 919-732-5001.
Hours: 10-6 Mon–Th, 10-9 Fri & Sat, 12-4 Sun. HillsboroughGallery.com

Carrboro is celebrating the 50th
anniversary of Stonewall with Pride Month events throughout June! Come out to the Oasis in Carr Mill to discuss LGBTQ issues. More events
listed in the link below.

Mingle, sip, and enjoy great weather and live music at our open social! Each week, we offer free palate-pleasing samples of a different wine or wine cocktail (think Sangria!), discounts on all wine, expanded patio seating and live music. Small plates, gelato, and sorbetto available for order.

• Taste a new wine or wine cocktail each week
• 30% off wine glasses
• 50% off wine bottles
• Live Music on the Patio
• Free Treats for Kids

April 10: Vinyl Revival (Classic Rock/Rockabilly)
April 17: Popcorn Blue Band (Jazz/Pop)
April 24: Azul Zapata (Pop/Rock)
May 1: Four on Six (Jazz)
May 8: Naked Blue (Americana/Rock)
May 15: Peter + Elle of Carolina Sound Committee (Jazz/Pop)
May 22: Popcorn Blue Band (Jazz/Pop)
May 29: Tea Cup Gin (Pop/Jazz)
June 5: Vinyl Revival (Classic Rock/Rockabilly)
June 12: Azul Zapata (Pop/Rock)
June 19: Four on Six (Jazz)
June 26: Tea Cup Gin (Jazz/Pop)
July 3: Michael Paris (Folk/Americana)
July 10: Popcorn Blue Band (Jazz/Pop)
July 17: Andrew Kasab (Folk/Harp Guitar)
July 24: Peter + Elle of Carolina Sound Committee (Jazz/Pop)
July 31: Azul Zapata (Pop/Rock)
Aug 7: Vinyl Revival (Classic Rock/Rockabilly)
Aug 14: Tea Cup Gin (Pop/Jazz)
Aug 21: Four on Six (Jazz)
Aug 28: Neville’s Quarter (Bluegrass/Americana)
Sept 4: Eric Banan (Folk/Funk/Blues)
Sept 11: Peter + Elle of Carolina Sound Committee (Jazz/Pop)
Sept 18: The Nashvilifiers (Americana)
Sept 25: Michael Paris (Folk/Americana)
Oct 2: Andrew Kasab (Folk/Harp Guitar)
Oct 9: Vinyl Revival (Rock/Rockabilly)
Oct 16: Jesse Rainey (Jazz)

Come visit us every Wednesday! Learn communication skills through prepared speeches, evaluations, impromptu speaking, and listening. Build confidence in leading teams, departments, or companies. Practice interviewing, using body gestures, removing filler words, listening better, leading meetings and much more. We offer a safe, friendly, and supportive environment. Our club consists of novice speakers to expert communicators of all ages and professions. Located at UNC we are not just open to students but to all community members as well.

Carrboro is celebrating the 50th
anniversary of Stonewall with Pride Month events throughout June! We’re closing out the month with a dance party at Carrboro Town Commons on June 26, a significant date in the history of LGBTQ legal freedoms. Come celebrate with us! More events
listed in the link below.

As modern technology prolongs our lives, a life well-lived can often end with a long and painful struggle . Increasingly, there are choices available for end-of-life options that afford greater personal control over the time and manner of death. A “good death” is more likely when medical practitioners and those supporting the dying person are more informed about these options .The Project EngAGE End of Life Choices Senior Resource Team proudly hosts Elliott and Susan Schaffer for a discussion on the medical, ethical and legal issues involving VSED, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking – a little known end of life option. They will share the end of life story of Susan’s mother, Beatrice Belopolsky, a resident of a retirement community in New Jersey .

Elliott Schaffer, MD, is a retired geriatrician who was formerly the Medical Director at Martins Run Life Care Community in Media, PA.

Susan Schaffer, JD, is a retired attorney who was formerly Senior Counsel at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.

Register by: Tue, Jun 25 at 919-245-2015

Fee: FREE

LET THE STARS GUIDE YOUR FAMILY TO A FREE MOVIE AND POPCORN IN DOWNTOWN CHAPEL HILL!

Arrive early to this summer’s Movies Under the Stars to get the best spot on McCorkle Place. Take in the summer breeze and a movie – all part of the fun at Movies Under the Stars!

Bring your own blankets, chairs, or whatever makes you feel at home for the flick. Grab dinner to go from a downtown restaurant and enjoy it on the grass.

The summer’s lineup is packed with family-friendly titles – there is something for everyone!

On Thursday, June 27, the popular animated movie Frozen will be on offer, along with pre-show frozen treats for sale. The movie and activities will take place on the edge of UNC-Chapel Hill’s McCorkle Place, on the grass lawn on the west side of Morehead Planetarium. Movie-goers should bring chairs or blankets to the screenings.

For more information about parking, visit parkonthehill.com. On-street parking is free after 6 p.m. and after 8 p.m. in public decks and lots, including Wallace Deck, the closest to McCorkle Place. For information about this and other upcoming activities, follow the program partners on Twitter at @chcommunityarts, @chdpartnership, and @CUAB.

Movies at 8 p.m./Activities at 7:30 p.m.

To celebrate the opening, the restaurant will host a grand opening event on Friday, June 28.

The doors will open at 5 a.m. to award free coffee for a year to the first 50 guests!

Exciting elements of Dunkin’s new restaurant experience at the Chapel Hill location include:

· Modern Design: The openness, colors and materials used in the design help to create an approachable, positive and energetic environment.

· Premium Pours: Dunkin’s signature cold beverages are now served through an innovative tap system serving eight consistently cold beverages such as coffees, iced teas, cold brew coffee and nitro infused cold brew coffee. Crew members will also use top-quality flavor-maximizing espresso machines to make hand-crafted drinks to order.

· Dunkin’ on Demand: With fully-integrated digital kiosks coming in the near future, guests will be able to choose to order with or without the help of a crew member.  Dunkin’ has also introduced an area dedicated to mobile pickups, so that members of the DD Perks® Rewards program who order ahead via Dunkin’s Mobile App can get in and out of the restaurant faster than ever before. Guests will be able to track the status of their orders placed for pickup inside the restaurant via a new digital order status board.

Local artist Ann Hobgood will create a piece that everyone is invited to help paint on June 28. The piece will be hung in the museum’s entranceway for July’s Last Friday, so you can see your work displayed! This will take place at the museum on Last Friday in June and July. Come out and paint!

Join the Fun Every Friday on the Front Porch of the Carolina Inn!

Come to The Carolina Inn each week for Fridays on the Front Porch (#FOFP) a popular end-of-the-week celebration in Chapel Hill. Relax on our shady front porch listening to live music, sipping on refreshing beverages and enjoying delicious food truck fare.

Join the Hillsborough Arts Council as we present our Last Friday’s celebration on the lawn of the Old Courthouse, in the heart of Downtown. This community-wide block party features live music, artist vendors, non-profits, food, and more!

Head to Downtown Hillsborough on Last Fridays all summer long to enjoy the outdoor festivities, venture out on the 11 venue Art Walk, shop at our local boutique shops, and dine at the award-winning restaurants in town.

This month: UBU Band

Come enjoy free concerts on Fridays at the Village Green in Southern Village at 7 p.m. Bring your own chairs and coolers!

For more details visit http://www.southernvillage.com/events/.

Market Hours are 8 am-12 noon every Saturday at University Place off of Estes Drive!

We have NEW VENDORS coming to market! Please come welcome Humble Umbel Farm, Two Chicks Farm and Haw River Farmhouse Ales! You’ll also be happy to hear that long-time vendors Flat River Nursery and Farm are back with Greenhouse Tomatoes! Market opens at 8am. See you there!

The Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market was founded in 2008 by local farmers, for local farmers. We are a truly local market that supports farmers and artisans within a 60 mile radius of Chapel Hill to offer fresh, quality farm and artisanal products year round. The market is vendor run and operated so every dollar spent helps support our local economy.  We are dedicated to educating consumers about the nutritional, environmental, and economic value of buying local, sustainably-produced farm products. The Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market brings our town and our producers “to the table” to create a sense of community and establish customer-vendor relationships so you can be sure about where your food comes from, and how it’s produced.

What’s Ripe & Ready…

Vendors!

Big Bundts & More

Boy Wood Farm

Carrboro Coffee Roasters

Chappell’s Peaches & Apples

Chocolatay Confections

Coon Rock Farm

Dancing Pines Farm

Dig It Farm

Ever Laughter Farm

Feather Village Farm

Fickle Creek Farm

Flat River Nursery & Farm

Gather Creek

Hillsborough Cheese Co.

Kalawi Farm

Laurent Lavender

Loaf

Locals Seafood

Open Door Farm

PlowGirl Farm

Pomegranate Kitchen

Prodigal Farm, LLC

S&H Farm

Seeing Stars Farm

South Wind Produce

T-5 Farm

Timberwood Organics Farm

Tri Sa for Transplanting Traditions Community Farm

Waterdog Farm, LLC

Wild Dog Farm

Make beautiful paintings and bugs, flowers, butterflies, and bird paper crafts.

This is a high energy, all-levels, workout that takes place in outside on the 140 West plaza in the heart of downtown Chapel Hill! Join us for great music, great exercise, and then a trip to a local restaurant for brunch specials and community fun!

The Saxapahaw Rivermill summer series starts up again this year in May. The weekly festivities include performances by top bands featuring bluegrass, back porch, blues, folk, gospel, latin, celtic, funk, roots, americana and old time music and a thriving Farmer’s Market with fresh local produce, cheese, eggs, baked goods, flowers, honey, organic meat, locally produced wine, hand made arts and crafts and more. Every week we feature exciting events and activities for children. Market: 5-8pm Band: 6-8pm

The sounds of American Blues Music will be rocking in Downtown Hillsborough for July 4th Weekend as the Annual Picnic in the Park concert returns on June 30.  Produced by The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and Music Maker Relief Foundation, the free concert features four musical acts, food trucks, community groups, kid’s activities and more. It will take place at the Farmers Market Pavilion at River Park on Sunday, June 30 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.

The Lineup

11:00 – LIGHTNIN’ WELLS

Mike “Lightnin’” Wells brings traditions together in his entertaining, informative and down-home one-man shows. His latest album, titled O Lightnin’ Where Art Thou?, displays his range as never before as he plays and sings his way through songs from early country and bluegrass to blues, gospel, and old time mountain music. Born in West Virginia and largely raised in North Carolina, Lightnin’ was smitten early by the famed WWVA Jamboree radio show out of Wheeling, West Virginia. When his family moved to the Chapel Hill, North Carolina area, he discovered a rich vein of piedmont blues and old time music as well. On this episode of Across the Blue Ridge, we hear selections from the new album, plus an interview and songs from his 2016 appearance at Muddy Creek Music Hall in Winston-Salem, NC. Also on the show, a selection of classic cuts from the three most significant bands in the early history of bluegrass music: Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys; The Stanley Brothers; and Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys. There’s some great old time string band music as well from The Reed Island Rounders and The Camp Creek Boys.

12:00 – DEDICATED MEN OF ZION

The Dedicated Men of Zion all grew up in the church together in Eastern North Carolina and led by Anthony Daniels. “We were all each others’ fans,” Daniels says, and they jumped at the opportunity to join together. Daniels recalls that music was taken very seriously in his home. His mother taught him to sing in harmony, and by age 7 he led his church’s choir. Each member grew up deeply immersed in song and faith. Together, the Dedicated Men of Zion have recored two albums and are establishing themselves as an emerging group across the state of North Carolina. “We love what we do, we love the purpose,” Daniels says.

1:00 – HARVEY DALTON ARNOLD

Harvey Dalton Arnold is a singer, guitarist and North Carolina-native who has a passion for the blues. He sold millions of albums as a member of southern-rock band The Outlaws from 1976-80 and has played at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. Harvey performs a left-handed finger-picking style and slide playing on electric and acoustic guitars.Though he made a career of electric rock, his roots are in bluegrass and old country from his upbringing in eastern North Carolina. In 2005, Harvey was diagnosed with head, neck and tongue cancer. After a year of treatment, his health recovered along with his passion for music. He taught himself to talk and sing again, returning to the music of his childhood: the blues.

2:00 – ALABAMA SLIM

“I grew up listening to the old blues since I was a child. I spent summers with my grandparents who had a farm. Them old folks would get to moanin’ while they worked, and I just started moanin’ with them. That’s where I learned to sing.” – Alabama Slim Slim grew up playing in juke joints in Alabama and moved to New Orleans in the ‘60s. Since joining MM, his music has been felt at performances in the States and abroad and he has recorded The Mighty Flood, an album featuring Slim & blues guitarist Little Freddie King.

The event will also include community vendors and food from the food trucks Taco Grande, American Meltdown, a Loco Pops.

Rock, roll and even more soul! The Farmhouse Jams concert series at Wendell Falls returns for another night of great music and great times! Join us to hear the Back Porch Orchestra on June 30 starting at 3 p.m. The concert is free, but BYOC (bring your own chair). Come early (and hungry with delicious food on-site)! Arrive in time to explore our Wendell Falls community, including model homes, miles of trails and acres of open space and Grounds Café.