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February 26, 2003
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Artistry and Community ! |
Coming Soon: Learn Spanish at the Store! The Store is hosting open Spanish lessons for the whole community - everybody is welcome to stop by! Lessons are held between 6:30pm - 7:30pm every Wednesday (prior to Salsa dancing) starting March 12th. Feel the Passion! Learn to Dance Salsa with award winning Guillermo H. Escobar and Melissa Stausburg! Starting March 12th
Guillermo and Melissa have performed at Fiesta del Pueblo, Chapel Hill, Apple Chill, and Fiesta Internacional Raleigh. Additionally, they have assisted in Salsa Congress in LA, NY, Miami, and DC in competition workshops and performance. Both are also instructors of Salsa Aerobics at the Metro Sport Athletic Club in Durham. Stop by the store for more details! Let us fulfill your Catering Needs! Catering at the office or entertaining at home? Breakfast, lunch or dinner! When you're hungry for something good, the General Store Café will create the food for your event! Call us at (919) 542-2432 or email us at info@thegeneralstorecafe.com if you would like us to suggest some delicious dishes for your event!
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Featured Artist: Erick J. Davis's "Arbor Ancestry" series - Gallery Opening Thursday, February 27th 6:30pm - 7:30pm Erick J. Davis was born in Falls Church, Va, however, was mostly raised in North Haven, Ct. He attended Brooks School in North Andover, Ma, then moved on to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent much of his summers and free time exploring the Appalachian Mountains of New England, particularly the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont. In the summer of 1997, he took some time off from school and moved to Chapel Hill, NC where he messed around and lost track of time, so much so that to this day he still thinks he is around twenty two years old. He has continued his training as an artist by participating in several sessions of figure drawing classes at UNC and at the Arts Center, as well as having the opportunity to paint with Jane Filer and glassblowing with Sally Resnik. He is currently working as a freelance mural artist as well as working in the culinary arts, the fine dining industry, another one of his passions. Erick now lives in Pittsboro and hopes to stay there and crank out artwork in his barn for a very long time Artist's statement: The name of the series, "Arbor Ancestry," was inspired from the fact that when people die, their physical body remains here on earth. Whether they are buried, cremated or floated out to sea, their physical material came from and is returned to this earth. (ashes to ashes). The body is then recycled in some way, turned into energy for animals or nutrients for plant life. I’m sure that we are all familiar with the theory that states, "energy is neither created or destroyed, rather it changes from one form to another". These thoughts came to me as I was painting a group of birch trees and noticed some human faces in the bark of the trees I had just painted. These faces were quite unintentional. However, they inspired the "arbor ancestry" series. They are all oil on canvas and were painted using a lot of terp. This is an ever-developing technique that produces a completely original and unique style. The arbor ancestry series has been featured in such places as: The Bronwyn Merrit Gallery, the Mosaic Vortex Gallery, Pepper’s Pizza, Internationalist Books, friends and collectors’ homes, and now is quite honored to grace the walls of the General Store Café. New: Wireless Internet Access! So come in and enjoy your coffee while using your laptop or PDA (you need your own wireless LAN-card to take advantage of this service)! Blast Internet Services provides the connection.
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This Week's Evening Menu, Thursday through Saturday Evening:
...and more in-store specials of the day and soups of the day - see the board in the store for more details ! |
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MUSIC THIS WEEK! Thursday, February 27 - The Mahlon Hoard Trio (Jazz) Featuring Mahlon Hoard with Bobby Cohen on Drums and Scott Sawyer on Guitar. Friday, February 28 - Cynthia Crossen & Friends (Folk) Cynthia has performed her original songs since the mid 1970’s in various venues from coffeehouses to concert halls, environmental festivals to multiracial celebrations. She sings for compassion, community, and connection, the sacredness of our earth, kindness to each other, and the recognition of women’s voices. Last spring, with help from family and friends, she created the CD Feel This Love, which is being distributed free as part of the Ken Crossen Music Project (crossen@mindspring.com). On February 28 at the General Store Café, she will be joined by longtime singing friends and fellow musicians Lea Clayton, Nina Elshiekh, Paul Ford, Dandelion John, and Donovan Zimmerman. Together, this group offers divine acapella harmonies accompanied by acoustic guitars, banjo, harmonica, drums, and electric bass. Saturday, March 1 - Open Irish Jam Session (Irish Folk) We host the always popular Open Irish Session on the first Saturday of every moth, so bring your Irish instrument and come jam, with us (and have your favorite stout, lager or bitter while listening to the music!) |
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Chatham and Orange February & March Events Calendar! This is a new section of the newsletter where we highlight some of the many upcoming events in Chatham (and some in Orange) in February. Check out What's Happening! If you have an upcoming event you want us to highlight in this newsletter, please email info@thegeneralstorecafe.com . Please title and date your event. All entries must have no more than 200 words. Do not submit attachments. All entries are left to the discretion of the GSC to edit as necessary.All February - Art Show "African American Contributors to Chatham County Progress" commemorates Black History Month. The Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library will commemorate Black History Month with an art show in the Reeves Auditorium during February. The show is free and open to the public during regular library hours, Mon., Wed., and Fri. 9am to 6pm; Tues. and Thurs. 9am to 8pm and Sat. 9am to 5pm. The library is located at 158 West Street, just over a block from the Chatham County Courthouse. Please call the library at 542-3524 for more information. Tuesday - Sunday, February 18-23, Some Like It Hot ! (Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh) Tony Curtis stars in this Broadway Series South production, Tuesday-Saturday, Feb. 18-22, 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23, 2 and 7 p.m., Memorial Auditorium, BTI Center, Raleigh. $16-$66. Ticketmaster, 834-4000 and 831-6060. Thursday, February 27- Sustainable Soil Conference The Chatham County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service will offer an all-day soil management conference as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Thursday, February 27, from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Agricultural Building in Pittsboro. For more information, please contact Debbie Roos by email at: debbie_roos@ncsu.edu or view the website http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/workshops.html Thursday, February 27 - Basic Canoeing Meet at Ebenezer Beach in Jordan Lake for a canoeing adventure. No experience necessary. Participants must be at least 12 years old. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by and adult. Pre-registration required. Please call 919-362-0586 before 2/24/03. All equipment provided. Thursday, February 27, 7:30pm - An evening with noted author, poet, and scholar Emily Herring Wilson The Friends of the Pittsboro Library is sponsoring an evening with noted author, poet, and scholar Emily Herring Wilson, who will speak about her new best seller, Two Gardeners: A Friendship in Letters. The Letters of Katherine White and Elizabeth Lawrence. A passionate advocate for women's literature, Wilson is known statewide and nationally for her mentorship of other writers; and her book North Carolina Women: Making History, won the Mayflower Cup. We invite the community to join us for supper at the Cafe first, then join us at the library for a lively program! Saturday, March 1- Herbology Class at One Spirit, 9am-6pm The Class will cover three main aspects of Herbs; culinary, medicinal and magical. These three Workshops will compliment and interconnect with each other. Each participant will spend two packed hours in each of the three different Workshops offered. The day begins at 9 AM and ends at 6 PM and will cost $30. For more information, please contact Libby Ann Capaldi at 919-542-7307 or view http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/onespirit/ Sunday, March 2 - Video and Potluck and lively discussion at Windsong Retreat Center Come to Windsong Retreat Center for good food, good company, and an engaging, video. Potluck is at 6:00 PM, video is at 7:00 PM. This month's video pick, "No Man's Land." No Man's Land is set in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. 2540 Seaforth Rd. Pittsboro, NC 27312 For more info, 919-542-2611. Monday, March 3 - A public reading of Aristophanes classical Greek anti-war comedy, "Lysistrata", 7:15 pm. A most amusing play with a message in which all the ladies deny their men their beds unless they stop fighting the War! Be a part of an international effort sponsored by Theater Artists Against the War in which dozens of cities and smaller communities are reading and presenting this play on this day! So far over 538 readings scheduled in 38 countries. Come to listen or read or both! Speak out creatively and with humor! Pittsboro Library on West Street. For more information, call 967-3716 Tuesday, March 4 - March Madness Hike, 2:00-4:00pm (Jordan Lake) Meet at the Old Oak Trail - Ebenezer, Area A, for an easy three-mile hike with a Jordan Lake park ranger. 2pm - 4pm. 280 State Park Road Apex, NC. Call 919.362.0586 Friday-Sunday, March 7- March 9: Magic Theatre - A Play for Children Realbatross Productions presents "MAGIC THEATRE, A play for Children" by Saundra Matthews-Deacon. Friday, March 7, 7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 8, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday March 9, 2:00 p.m. at Central Carolina Community College, Pittsboro. Admission: $6 adults, $4 children under 12. Tickets are available at French Connections, Trading Post or at the door. The play is approximately 1 hour long and has 6 little songs and several opportunities for audience interaction. All proceeds benefit the Pittsboro Montessori Preschool. For more information call 542-7090.
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Beginning Wednesday, March 12 and every Wednesday thereafter, Guillermo
H.Escobar and Melissa Stausburg, winners of the Salsa Competition in
Acapulco Mexico of 1999, will teach salsa dancing. Learn this seductive
dance
from these award winning performers! 
The General Store Café is pleased to present Erick Davis's "Arbor
Ancestry" series. Join us on Thursday, February 27th from 6:30 -
7:30 for some wine and hors d'oeuvres and take a few moments to view
Erick's
fine paintings. Jazz music by The Mahlon Hoard Trio will follow at 8:00pm.