Special event volunteers are needed to assist with community events throughout the year. If you would like to be involved please call 918-7364 OR complete a Volunteer Service Application. These forms are available at the Recreation and Parks offices, 100 North Greensboro Street and also on this web site

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TODDLER PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME

TOWN HALL DAY FOR TEENS

COMMUNITY BOOK FORUM

COLLECTOR and CRAFT FAIR

POETRY REVEALED

ORANGE COUNTY EGG HUNT CELEBRATION

ANNUAL KITE FLY

CARRBORO DAY

CARRBORO TEEN TALENT CONTEST

LUNCHBOX CONCERT SERIES

KEVIN VAN SANT

JANET PLACE and MARTHA PEARSON

BIG CELTIC FUN

GYPSEY TOWN

CENTURY CENTER CINEMA

BUSTER KEATON in Silent Classic, Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

WIZARD OF OZ(1939)

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER…and SPRING )(2004)

NORTH CAROLINA INDIE FILM FESTIVAL

JAM SESSION SERIES

LOLLIPOP SERIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

TRISH MILLER

MOTHER GOOSE

NC MUESEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE

ENTERTAINMENT ADVENTURES

FAYE STANLEY from CLAPPING DOG -

AMERICAN WILDLIFE REFUGE-

GARY BLAKENSHIP-

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This event gives teens an opportunity to learn about local government and meet town officials. Participants will have an opportunity to attend a board of alderman meeting and then plan their own mock board meeting. Enjoy pizza and soft drinks while you plan a mock board meeting of your own! Space is very limited! Call in registration is required-918-7364.

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Community Technology Forum: Twitter
Step-up to the Carrboro Tweet-up! Come on Friday, February 19th, 6:30pm to the Carrboro Century Center and join panelists Molly Buckley (@mollybuckley), social media coach and consultant, and Paul Jones (@smalljones), director of ibiblio, for a discussion of how and why we use this new social media. Twitter is a free social networking service that allows people to share short 140-character messages with their friends and followers. A list of recommended reading is available at the Cybrary. Current twitter users are encouraged to attend. We want to hear your thoughts and ideas at this forum event where discussion of Twitter will be led by expert panelists.
For more information, call the Cybrary at 918-7387 or cybrary@co.orange.nc.us.

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3rd Annual Collectors and Crafts Fair
New this year!, these two great events have joined together to provide easier access to all the unique gifts and artwork present in the last two years!
Local artists and crafts persons join with a variety of collectors from across the region to provide the Carrboro community with a diverse selection of gifts and unique novelties in this one of a kind shopping experience. Come view an assortment of classic creations and treasured collectibles that may be the perfect gift for yourself or someone you know. Call 918-7392 for more information.

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POETRY ALIVE! is a series of programs and events offered during the year that focus on the art of poetry. The events range from a two-day event highlighting local and national poets to workshops for all ages. For more information about West End Poetry Festival or visit check out our bi-monthly newsletter at Carrboro Recreation and Parks .

Join Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department and Open Eye Cafe the first Tuesday of each month for POETS OPEN MIC NIGHT. This is a night where poets can engage with others and share the power and diversity of poetry. This event is staged to provide the venue for people to celebrate, to share, and to encourage the writing, reading, and listening of poetry.

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Co-sponsored with the Carrboro Cybrary

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a few wonderful poets reading from their works. On Thursday April 15, 2010 at the Century Center. Bring your dinner or enjoy a snack provide by the Recreation Department and coffee from the Open Eye, and feast on poetry!

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The Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department, along with the Orange County Recreation & Parks Department, and the Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation Department will sponsor a spring celebration for children ages 2-10 years on Saturday March 27, 2010 from 9:30am -12noon at Hank Anderson Park, Carrboro NC. FREE activities include a Giant egg hunt for three age groups, live children's entertainment, games, and prizes. ARRIVE EARLY!

EGG HUNT BEGINS AT 10:30AM SHARP!

For Detail Information vistit Orange Co. Egg Hunt web site

pdf copy of map to the site and area parking

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Let's go fly a kite! Kite flying is an ageless activity that can be enjoyed whether you are 2 or 90 years old! This welcome-to-spring event provides plenty of fun as well as ribbons in a variety of categories for both youth and adults. Bring a kite and help fill the skies with color! A few kites will be available for those without one, and the kite doctors will be on hand to repair your damaged kites.

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Celebrating a Sustainable Community! Join neighbors and friends and celebrate the unique qualities that make our town special. Enjoy story sharing, live music, poetry, crafts and interactive family games. Bring a chair or blanket and make yourself at home. For more detailed information visit: CarrboroDay.com. Rain site Carrboro Century Center.

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Whether you can rap, sing, dance or read a poem, come and show off for your friends and family! Contestants must register and audition on Thursday, May 20 from 5:30-9:00pm in the Century Hall. On Friday, May 28th contestants will perform for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes! Contestants must perform the same act at both the audition and the performance. Acts with inappropriate language, actions or clothing will not be selected for the performance. Acts must be no longer than 5 minutes. If a CD is used for accompaniment, it must be a karaoke track with no lead singer on the recording. Call 918-7371 with questions or to register.

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This popular series returns with additional shows, so come in from the cold for free live music! Just bring your lunch to Century Hall every Thursday in January & February and enjoy free concerts featuring the best of local and regional Classical, Bluegrass, Jazz and Celtic music artists in concert. Last year's shows were packed to capacity, so come early! Music begins at 12:00pm and ends at 1:00pm
Free coffee is provided courtesy of Open Eye Café

Tampa Blue's music is based on the blues and spirituals he heard growing up outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He established himself as a blues artist in Florida during the 1980s where he was that state's first master artist of the blues for the NEA's apprenticeship program in 1991. He was also the Pioneer Florida Old-Time Music Champion for Finger-Pick Guitar in 1990. When asked what kind of music he plays Blue once replied, "Traditional, acoustic, Delta, slide, Piedmont, finger-style, Southern rural, pre-war, country, pre-electric with a touch of spirituals, hollers, rags and American finger-style guitar seasoning."

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Members of the Church of the Harvest/Campus Crossroads are a group of sojourners who have come together for the purpose of exalting their Christian faith through the vehicle of music. They are helping to provide a soundtrack for the on-going story of the Judeo-Christian God and His relationship to humanity. In addition, they aspire to make great music.

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Jazz guitarist and Durham resident Kevin Van Sant has been a fixture on the Triangle jazz scene for a number of years. He and his groups have played around the world in such locations as Russia, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, France and Spain. He has released 11 CDs as a leader or co-leader. Whether he is performing solo or in ensembles,
listeners enjoy what Owen Cordle of Jazz Times magazine calls his "remarkable mastery".

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Singer/songwriter Janet Place is most often seen as the front woman for the Americana band, Great Big Gone. She will be performing in a rare pared down style accompanied by Martha Pearson on harmony vocals. Martha often sings with The Bad Mothers. Janet was a member of the seminal D.C. alternative country band, The Slim Jims, before moving to NC in 1995 and forming the bluesy roots band, The Kickbacks, then the Brown Mountain Lights and finally Great Big Gone. No Depression magazine, said "Janet Place's voice, reminiscent of a huskier Patsy Cline ... drips with country hard luck and hard-won wisdom". Rick Cornell in the Independent wrote that one of her songs on Great Big Gone's 2008 debut CD "needs to make it into the hands of Emmylou Harris". Janet won honorable mention in the 2008 Nashville Music Studio Songwriting Contest.

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Bringing together members of John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff (Chapel Hill/Durham) and The Darnell Woodies (Winston-Salem) this powerhouse of a trio features John Howie Jr. (of Two Dollar Pistols fame) on guitar and baritone vocals, the phenomenal Nathan Golub on pedal steel, and Billie Feather on upright slap bass and banjo. Also there will be a trio of friends that are nothing short of captivating. With true country and rockabilly influences, the Sweethearts will leave you begging for more.

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Tim Smith and Eileen Regan have been playing Irish and other Celtic music since they met at an Irish music jam session in Washington, D.C., in 1980. They've been living in Chapel Hill, NC since 1990 and they love the music of their ancestors and play it every chance they get. Eileen plays a mean fiddle and sings beautifully the songs and ballads of Ireland and Scotland and America. Tim plays Celtic tunes on flute, tin whistle, and English concertina and accompanies Eileen on piano. He also has been known to deliver a song or two including some originals. Drew Pilant should also be helping out for this one. Drew is a Carrboro native and percussion whiz will be pulling out beats from his world-beat bag of tricks.

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Gypsy Town was founded by members Michael and Earleen Burch, and since 1974, the two have been performing their unique style of Original Southern California Folk Rock.
Gypsy Town is family oriented and often includes their son, Ryan Burch (percussion and vocals), daughter Amelia Shull (vocal harmonies) and son-in-law Andy Shull.
Michael Burch, a Songwriter since the 1960's, carries on in the tradition of The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and others, with deep roots in the sounds of warm desert nights and sweet harmonies.

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Expect foreign classics, silent features, and independent films to be shown throughout the series.
Curator Nic Beery

A young dandy (Buster Keaton) gets caught in the midst of a feud between his father, Steamboat Bill Sr. (Ernest Torrence), and rival riverboat proprietor J.J. King (Tom McGuire). As Bill Sr. goes about toughening up his foppish son, Junior is busy falling for -- who else? -- King's daughter (Marion Byron). The kids attempt to defuse the rivalry, but when Bill Sr. ends up in the clink for decking J.J., the lovebirds have their work cut out.

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There's no place like home for young Dorothy (Judy Garland), who's been swept away from her farm in Kansas to a wonderland of munchkins, flying monkeys and different-colored horses. She must follow the Yellow Brick Road to the all-knowing Wizard of Oz to find her way home. Along the way, she meets the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), the Tin Man (Jack Haley) and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), who help her fend off the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton).

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This Korean film was exquisitely filmed drama directed by Kim Ki-duk is entirely set on and around a tree-lined lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breathtaking landscape. The story is divided into five segments, with each season representing a stage in a man's life. Under the vigilant eyes of Old Monk (Oh Young-soo), Child Monk (Kim Jong-ho) learns a hard lesson about the nature of sorrow when some of his childish games turn cruel.

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Century Center Cinema is proud to host The NC Indie FF. Award winning short films from around the world take over the Century Center for the evening. Expect the unexpected!

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Carrboro believes in promoting the joy of music: Expressing oneself through song, rhythm, dance and the magic of creating! These gatherings in Century Hall are designed with that in mind. Pay at the door.

A night of jigs, reels and anything Celtic. Led by accordionist David DiGiuseppe and multi-instrumentalist Rob Sharer. Bring you tunes, songs, instruments, or just come to listen.

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Come and experience the pleasure of Nia, the hottest fusion fitness technique in mind-body wellness!
For all levels and ages, Nia is a joyful and exhilarating practice that combines dance, yoga, martial arts and spiritual self-healing. For one and 1/2 hours, four licensed Nia teachers will guide you through a collage of movement to uplifting universal music. Join us for Nia and experience the joy of movement, a 'no-pain' technique that is the body's way!

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Storytellers, musicians, puppeteers, and clowns entertain for our performing arts series for young children. Call in registration is requested at 918-7364. While the programs are geared for young children, older youth and adults are welcomed. Pay at the door.

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Don't miss story time with Mother Goose. Mother Goose relates nursery rhymes to her stories in a fresh, educational, and participatory style. Her stories are accompanied by music, instruments, puppets and more

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Cosponsored by the Carrboro Branch Library
Enjoy performances by a variety of artists in this Sunday afternoon series. Call in registration requested, but not required at 918-7364. Programs are generally held on the 3rd Sunday of each month at the Carrboro Branch Library, located in McDougle Middle School, 900 Old Fayetteville Road in Carrboro. FREE!

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Faye is a storyteller, musician, and entertainer who's strong voice and engaging style guide participants in an amazing array of musical, multicultural games, stories and songs. She is particularly skilled at making connections across cultural boundaries and empowering groups to realize their own artistic capabilities. The wealth of material Faye brings to audiences and groups reflects her many years as a performer, educator, and collector of folk arts. In addition to the Bachelors and Masters degrees Faye holds in Music Therapy, Music Education and Education, she performs in schools, as well as performing theatrical and popular music nationally.

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GET INVOLVED
Much of the vitality of life in Carrboro is due to the active involvement of citizens in the community. Volunteers of all ages regularly share their talents, skills, and ideas by planning or assisting with large events, serving on town advisory boards, or coaching a youth sports team. While some activities require the contribution of many hours others call for only a few hours of time. Not only can you share your talents, you can have fun, make new friends and discover more about your town.

"INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITY - BY LENDING A HELPING HAND"