The Chatham Arts Council nurtures creative thinkers in Chatham County. We're focused on doing two things and doing them well: We invest in Artists. We educate kids through the arts.

Oakland Farm is a serene wedding and event venue located in Bear Creek, central to the Greensboro,

Raleigh, and Fayetteville areas. The venue includes a large barn for indoor events with a maximum

capacity of 400 guests, a covered pavilion for outdoor events, and a Farmhouse that sleeps 10 people.

The stunning views of our fields, cows, and horses are unparalleled.

The Silk Hope Farm Heritage Park is the home of the Silk Hope Ruritan Club's Old Fashioned Farmer's Day. The park contains many locations for parties, reunions, corporate fun day celebrations, weddings and other events. There is an old-fashioned homestead, arena, outdoor music stage, barn pull track and a state of the art community building which includes a fully equipped kitchen.

Susan's Muse provides the following services on a part-time basis: 

• Solo harp music for sacred and secular celebrations in English, German and Russian
• Choir accompaniments
• Background music for banquets and receptions
• Solo harp music in houses of worship, the lobbies of buildings, in dining halls
• Harp and piano lessons
• History of the Harp lecture-demonstrations for school classes and library patrons
• Harps transported to art classes and watched as a subject for sketching and drawing
• Original writing
• Original compositions for harp, piano and/or recorder
• Homemade crafts and edibles
• Tutoring in English as a Second Language
• Basic cooking lessons with a strong emphasis on nutrition as requested by college students, newlyweds and other groups
• Tutoring in German and Travel German 
• Coaching on the Russian alphabet, with simple phrases and cognates for school groups as cultural enrichment
• Lectures on J.S. Bach for school groups (if a keyboard instrument is available).

The Plant is a diverse 17-acre eco-industrial park located on the east side of Pittsboro, North Carolina. We are the home to like-minded local economy focused small businesses. The Plant has turned local commerce into an experience with an art gallery, many outdoor spaces for gatherings and events, amazing spirits, ciders, meads, beers, a coffee roaster and a farm to fork kitchen that grows her food on site. Hemp clothing and CBD products are also part of the offerings.

In the 1940's, it was part of an enormous flower farm, Sunshine Gardens or Boardman’s Flower Farm and in the late ’80’s, The Plant was acquired by Inco Alloys who constructed the four main buildings and used them to manufacture metal alloys for military use. Inco Alloys closed their plant in 1993. Lyle Estill and Tami Schwerin bought the property in 2004 and have renovated the industrial buildings.

Today, The Plant is the home of the Chatham Beverage District, and as such, home to Fair Game Beverage Company, with local NC delicacies, Chatham Cider Works, Starrlight Mead and BMC Brewing. We enjoy the smells of coffee from Vortex Roasters too!

Activities include Chatham Axes (if you have aggression to release), Pittsboro Electric Bikes for rent or sale, a Petanque court (kind of like bocce ball) and a playground for little ones. There are trails and lots of outdoor space to gather.