Orange County Arts Commission Events

Friday December 5 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

Members of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts present their annual holiday show, The Art of Giving, from November 11th through December 31st with an Opening Reception on November 28th from 6 – 9pm.Each holiday season the members of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts transform the gallery to showcase original holiday ornaments and hand-made gifts. The gallery’s 21 members work in a variety of media, providing a wide array of fine art and fine craft for holiday shoppers. The glass art includes hand-blown and kiln-formed vessels, ornaments, hummingbird feeders and paperweights. The jewelry in the show covers a variety of styles and techniques, from copper and bronze to sterling and fine silver necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings, some with gold accents and stones. Visitors will also find metal sculpture, figurative sculpture, turned wood, pottery, and hand-made furniture. Oil, watercolor, and acrylic paintings, scratchboard, collage and mixed media work festively surround the three-dimensional pieces on pedestals. Holiday ornaments and other decorations are an annual specialty.• Artist Lynn Wartski has created one-of-a-kind felted wool ornaments made with quilt batting and colored wool which she needle-felts to achieve the desired shape and fullness.• Furniture maker Pete Rodrigues made ornaments by cutting thin slices of hardwood, filling voids in the wood with transparent colored epoxy.• Painter Chris Graebner creates small scratchboard ornaments. Each ornament is different, and each is an original piece of art.• Potter Evelyn Ward has created hand-built, raku-fired bird ornaments in many sizes and colors. She also has adorable ceramic ladybugs.• Artist Jude Lobe has created more of her southwestern themed shaman ornaments as thoughtful holiday gifts.• Painter Ellie Reinhold has returned with her unique lotus pod ornaments for the holiday season.• Artist Sally Terrell has created framed mini scratchboards, which can hang either on the wall or a tree.• As always, glassblower Pringle Teetor has made beautiful blown-glass balls in many colors, patterns and textures. Her new design this year is a Sugar Plum!• Glass artist Mark Kinsella has created snowflakes, stars, icicles, glass Christmas trees and glass stockings.Come in and explore all the original art on display at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts and find a perfect gift for that special person. The Art of Giving runs from November 11th through December 31st with a reception during Hillsborough’s Last Fridays Art Walk on Friday, November 28th from 6-9pm. About the GalleryThe Hillsborough Gallery of Arts is owned and operated by 21 local artists and represents these established artists exhibiting contemporary fine art and fine craft. The gallery’s offerings include watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings, metal and figurative sculpture, photography, ceramics, scratchboard, turned wood, jewelry, glass arts, metals, encaustic, enamel, and handcrafted furniture. 121 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278. Phone: (919) 732-5001. The gallery’s hours are 10am-6pm Monday – Saturday, 12-4pm on Sunday. More information can be found on the HGA website: http://www.HillsboroughGallery.com

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Friday December 5 7:30pm - 8:30pm EST

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Center Theater Company's production of A Christmas Carol

Announcing Center Theater Company’s 3rd annual production of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol in Carrboro, December 5-21! This holiday season, step into a Dickensian town and follow Ebenezer Scrooge through the past, present, and future as he finds his way back to the merrime......More

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Friday December 5 7:30pm - 9:45pm EST

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

Join PlayMakers for a family-friendly comedy. Meet the Sycamores, a delightfully eccentric, freewheeling bunch with no regard for social norms. But when their daughter falls for the straight-laced boss’s son, two worlds hilariously collide. Laugh out loud with this hear......More

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Saturday December 6 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Saturday December 6 10:00am - 1:00pm EST

Blue Hill Event Center, 200 S Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, 27514

Inclusive Business Holiday Gift Market

The holiday season is near! You can check gifts off your list while simultaneously making a positive impact at the Inclusive Business Holiday Gift Market, co-sponsored by Extraordinary Ventures and Work Together NC! All featured vendors are disability-owned small busine......More

Blue Hill Event Center, 200 S Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, 27514

Saturday December 6 11:00am - 6:00pm EST

City Plaza, 443 Fayetteville St, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States

MAKRS Holiday Fest

Welcome to our 5th annual MAKRS Holiday Fest!Join us on Fayetteville St. in downtown Raleigh from 11am-6pm on December 6th, 2025!We have plenty of activities and additions this year! -200 local vendors -Food Truck Rodeo -Live music and a DJ -A holiday wrestling ring fea......More

City Plaza, 443 Fayetteville St, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States

Saturday December 6 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Center Theater Company's production of A Christmas Carol

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Saturday December 6 2:00pm - 4:15pm EST

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Saturday December 6 7:30pm - 9:30pm EST

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Center Theater Company's production of A Christmas Carol

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Saturday December 6 7:30pm - 9:45pm EST

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Sunday December 7 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Sunday December 7 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Center Theater Company's production of A Christmas Carol

Center Theater Company, 300 G-East Main St., Carrboro, 27510

Sunday December 7 2:00pm - 4:15pm EST

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Sunday December 7 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST

Orange County Public Library, 137 W Margaret Ln, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Upcoming Classic Film: Chaplin's "City Lights"

The HILLSBOROUGH CLASSIC FILM SOCIETY’s holiday movie this year will be Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights:” Sunday, December 7th, at 2pm. Please notice the location: this month only, the film will be shown at the ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY on West Margaret Lane in Hillsborough.Chaplin made the film in 1931, resisting the advent of sound just after talkies began to appear. In the essay that accompanied the Criterion restoration of the film, Gary Giddins called it “an indelible masterwork of cinema,” and noted that now, nearly a century after its release, it seems safe to call it a masterwork of Western civilization as well:“City Lights … represents both a beginning, in that it has been endlessly imitated, and an end, in that it has never been superseded. … Chaplin’s new art was a form of storytelling combining burlesque comedy and dreadful pathos, each tuned to a pitch so high that the audience is jolted from one physical response to another: laughter and tears, the two faces of Comedy and–not Tragedy but rather–the melodramatic concession of Pathos …. Familiar territory today, but … no one had brought it off before, and Chaplin–the orphaned music hall clown who became, through movies, the most popular comedian the world has ever known–defied his partners warnings that his ambition would cost him his audience.”It didn’t cost him his audience, of course. Chaplin, “the orphaned music hall clown,” became, through movies, “the most popular comedian the world has ever known.”Francesca Talenti will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterwards. Francesca is a Professor Emerita of Media Production at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a filmmaker and animator, a director and a media designer who has exhibited her work from The Folger and the Guthrie (design, Hamlet, Pericles), to Sundance, to PBS National, by way of Mumbai, Göteborg, Casablanca, and many others. She has won 18 awards and has received numerous grants. She’s led the discussion for us on Vertigo (2019) Top Hat (2022) The Searchers (2023) West Side Story (2024) and a Christmas program of Chaplin films back in our second year of operation, 2019.As always, the film is open to the public and free, and the popcorn is free too. If you would like to attend, please sign up by going to our website,www.hillsboroughclassicfilms.com,scrolling down to the line “PLEASE REGISTER HERE,” and clicking on the link.And, once again, please don’t confuse the location: this month only the film will be shown in the Orange County Public Library, 137 West Margaret Lane in Hillsborough. (A note for those who are helped by the presence of subtitles: Since this is taking place in the Library Meeting Room subtitles would be difficult or impossible to see luckily this is, by and large, a silent film.)

Orange County Public Library, 137 W Margaret Ln, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Monday December 8 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Monday December 8 10:00am - 1:00pm EST

Margaret Lane Gallery Annex/F-Stop 2, 302 W Corbin Street, Hillsborough, 27278

Anything Goes Art Meet Up, Drop in Art Session

Informal creative sessions – a time for artists, dabblers, and anyone seeking a creative outlet to share inspiration and camaraderie while creating their own art in their medium(s) of choice. You are welcome to bring work in progress or start something new. You can use ......More

Margaret Lane Gallery Annex/F-Stop 2, 302 W Corbin Street, Hillsborough, 27278

Tuesday December 9 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Wednesday December 10 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Thursday December 11 All Day

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

The Art of Giving

121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC 27278-2533, United States, 121 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States

Thursday December 11 5:00pm - 9:00pm EST

Moore Square, 201 S. Blount Street, Raleigh, 27601

Moore Square Winterfaire

Raleigh Parks and MAKRS Presents… Moore Square Winterfaire!Welcome to our 1st annual Moore Square Winterfaire, a European Christmas Market and Festival.This event will feature: -60+ local vendors in European-style booths -A Food Truck Rodeo (including European style foo......More

Moore Square, 201 S. Blount Street, Raleigh, 27601

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