Explore Orange County, NC Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough Weekly Calendar of Events
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Explore Orange County, NC Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough Weekly Calendar of Events October 29 – November 4, 2018 A list of interesting events happening in Orange County over the next week, prepared by Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau. MONDAY Oct 29 SENSE OF PLACE TOURS 3 PM – 4:30 PM UNC Visitors' Center / 250 East Franklin Street Chapel Hill (919) 962-1630 The UNC Visitors Center offers Sense of Place tours at 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 1 p.m. on Friday. Registration is required prior to tours. Visit website to sign up or email us at [email protected]. Tours are not held during holidays or campus closures. *Guests are advised that tours may be cancelled due to severe weather or high temperatures. Questions? Please call at (919) 962-1630. www.unc.edu/visitors/explore-carolina/ SMITH'S FAMILY FUN FARM FALL EVENTS 3:30 PM TO 6:30 PM Smith Family Farm / 1715 St. Mary's Rd Hillsborough (919) 619-2145 Pumpkin Patch opens for the Fall Season. Free admission but visitors are asked to purchase a pumpkin starting at $5. Tractor rides are $1 children (with every child purchase, one adult rides free). Also there is a play area with a giant slide. Fun for the whole family. www.facebook.com/Smiths-Family-Fun-Farm- 155775117795681/ MUSIC AT LOCAL 506 6:30 PM Local 506 / 506 West Franklin Street Chapel Hill (919) 942-5506 Admission: $15. Crank it Loud Presents: Like Pacific, Roam, Story Untold, Bearings, Between You and Me www.local506.com 'HAINTS MISBEHAVING' GHOST TOUR 9 PM Riverwalk Entrance / Nash and Kollock Street Hillsborough (336) 538-3117 Admission: $13.44 Adults; $10.75 Students, Seniors, Military "Haints" Misbehaving Ghost Tour - This two-hour tour focuses on local ghost tales and legends. Visit three haunted houses and hear about ten or so other tales of mystery and imagination. This two-hour tour focuses only on local ghost tales and legends ~ no colonial history. Some of the spooky tales are unique to this tour! www.hauntedhillsborough.com/ TUESDAY Oct 30 HAUNTED HILLSBOROUGH TOUR 6 PM Riverwalk Entrance / Nash & Kollock St Hillsborough (336) 538-3117 Admission: $13.44 Adults; $10.75 Students, Seniors, Military Historic Ghost Tour - In 1771, Enoch Pugh swung from the gallows in Hillsborough, and he has been hanging around (well, buried close by) ever since. Join Enoch for a 2 hour, 1.5-mile walk around downtown Hillsborough. At a dozen stops along the way ~ including haunted houses and the execution site ~ Enoch will describe real history, native and post-colonial legends, and numerous "haints" reported in homes or in the area. You will hear about...Old Poplar, a house with only a dozen or so varied spirits. Spirits of Seven Hearths, and the possible identities of both. A perfumed lady spirit in the Roulhac Hamilton house. And the Declaration signer who is buried here, and elsewhere. Enoch also tells about his pre-Revolution exploits, gruesome death, and mysteries about him that have recently been solved, and others that have not....Join us for tales of history, mystery, murder, and imagination! www.hauntedhillsborough.com/ ACKLAND FILM FORUM 7 PM Varsity Theatre / 123 East Franklin Street Chapel Hill (919) 967-8665 Admission: Free with One Cards. $7 general public Join us for a series of seven films in the Ackland Film Forum Fall 2018 series, “Women with a Camera: American Female Directors, 1990-Present.” The series is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the “CMPL 144: American Films of the 90s” course installation on display in Ackland Upstairs, 17 Oct – 16 Dec 2018. Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (USA, 2015, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour), Not Rated | 1h 41 min, Cohosted by the Chapel Hill Film Society, In the Iranian ghost town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire. ackland.org/ AUTHOR EVENT AT FLYLEAF BOOKS 7 PM Flyleaf Books / 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Chapel Hill (919) 942-7373 Art Chansky discusses Blue Blood II & the UNC-Duke Rivalry. www.flyleafbooks.com/ PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD AND TAMARA STEFANOVICH, PIANOS 7:30 PM Memorial Hall / 114 East Cameron Ave Chapel Hill (919) 843-3333 Admission: Tickets $27. Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, renowned for their spectacular virtuosity and piercing intelligence, join forces in this wide-ranging program of modern piano masterpieces. www.carolinaperformingarts.org/ MUSIC AT CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM 8 PM Cat's Cradle / 300 East Main Street Carrboro (919) 967-9053 Admission: $10 in advance, $12 day of show. Adult Mom, Derek Ted www.catscradle.com/ MUSIC AT LOCAL 506 9 PM Local 506 / 506 West Franklin Street Chapel Hill (919) 942-5506 Admission: $15 in advance, $18 day of show. Chase Atlantic, Cherry Pools www.local506.com WEDNESDAY Oct 31 – Happy Halloween!! ACKLAND ART MUSEUM TOUR 2 PM TO 2:30 PM Ackland Art Museum / 101 South Columbia Street Chapel Hill (919) 966-5736 Explore the Ackland’s Collection in a free, 30-minute docent-led tour every Wednesday. These tours enable visitors to explore the Ackland Art Museum collection with a guide. Meet at the visitor services desk in the Ackland’s lobby. ackland.org/ MUSIC AT LOCAL 506 8 PM Local 506 / 506 W Franklin St Chapel Hill (919) 942-5506 Admission: $5. Halloween Dance Party with 20th Century Boy www.local506.com MUSIC AT CAT'S CRADLE 8 PM Cat's Cradle / 300 E Main St Carrboro (919) 967-9053 Admission: $22 in advance, $25 day of show. Second Show Added! Hippo Campus, The Districts www.catscradle.com HOMEGROWN HALLOWEEN ON FRANKLIN STREET 8 PM – 10:30 PM Click here for all the details. https://www.townofchapelhill.org/town-hall/departments-services/community-arts-culture/festivals- events/halloween MUSIC AT CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM 9 PM Cat's Cradle / 300 E Main St Carrboro (919) 967-9053 Admission: $7 in advance, $5 student, $15 ticket & CD. 40Hz Presents: Lazaris Pit – A Spooky CD Release Party, People of Earth, Gordy40 www.catscradle.com THURSDAY Nov 1 UNC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL 6 PM Carmichael Arena / 301 South Road Chapel Hill (919) 962-2296 UNC vs. Carson-Newman (Exhibition) www.goheels.com/ BEACH SHACK BOIL 6 PM TO 9:30 PM Barn at Valhalla / 1040 Duffy's Way Chapel Hill Admission: $50 per person. You're invited to our 10th annual Beach Shack Boil with live music by String Beings! Please RSVP by October 18th. www.skjajafund.org/ AUTHOR EVENT AT FLYLEAF BOOKS 7 PM Flyleaf Books / 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Chapel Hill (919) 942-7373 Joseph Fink in conversation with Lauren Spohrer about his new thriller ALICE ISN’T DEAD. www.flyleafbooks.com/ GODSPELL 7:30 PM TO 9:30 PM ArtsCenter / 300-G East Main St Carrboro (919) 929-2787 Admission: $10. This successful rock opera took the world by storm when it debuted on Broadway in 1971 and is the first musical theatre offering from composer Stephen Schwartz (who went on to write such well-known hits as Wicked, Pippin, and Children of Eden). Based on the Gospel according to Matthew, it broke new ground in its dramatization of Jesus’ parables and the community that formed around them. The play features a comedic troupe of eccentric characters in their personal journeys to find kindness, charity, acceptance, and – most of all – love. This joyful musical is appropriate for all ages, and features a vibrant and eclectic musical score including the international hit “Day by Day.” Godspell is produced by UNC Student Theater Company Carolina. artscenterlive.org/ MUSIC AT CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM 8 PM Cat's Cradle / 300 East Main Street Carrboro (919) 967-9053 Admission: $16. Nicki Bluhm, Gill Landry www.catscradle.com MUSIC AT LOCAL 506 8 PM Local 506 / 506 West Franklin Street Chapel Hill (919) 942-5506 Admission: $12 in advance, $15 day of show. Boy Named Banjo, Thomas Strayhorn www.local506.com MUSIC AT CAT'S CRADLE 8:30 PM Cat's Cradle / 300 E Main St Carrboro (919) 967-9053 Admission: $16 in advance, $18 day of show. Cursive, Meat Wave, Campdogzz www.catscradle.com FRIDAY Nov 2 MCKEE CORNFIELD MAZE 3 PM TO 8 PM McKee Cedar Creek Farm / 5011 Kiger Rd Rougemont (919) 732-8065 Admission: $12, Children 0-2 Free. McKee CornField Maze, Family Fun in the Country. Fall family tradition at McKee's cornfield maze, come take a hayride and get your fall pumpkins. 2 mazes for family fun plus pumpkins, mums, corn stalks, corn, straw, gourds and other fall decorations, farm animals, hayrides, Barrel Train, a shady picnic area, grassed play areas, corn hole and lots more fun. See website for special events. http://www.mckeemaze.com/ UNC WOMEN'S SOCCER 5:30 PM WakeMed Soccer Park / 201 Soccer Park Dr Cary (919) 962-6000 ACC Tournament Semifinals. The University of North Carolina will play host to five games this fall at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., while the new Fetzer Field is being built on the UNC campus. http://www.goheels.com/ UNC VOLLEYBALL 6:30 PM Carmichael Arena / 301 South Road Chapel Hill (919) 962-6000 UNC vs. Duke. www.goheels.com/ MUSIC AT LOCAL 506 7 PM Local 506 / 506 West Franklin Street Chapel Hill (919) 942-5506 Admission: $13.50 in advance, $15 day of show. Crank it Loud Presents: Pvmnts, WSTR, Hold Close www.local506.com UNC MEN'S BASKETBALL 7:30 PM Dean E.