MARCH - NOVEMBER
Keep Art Connecting Community!
Last Fridays & the Art Walk are FREE town-wide celebrations of art & community, hosted by the Hillsborough Arts Council. Free community events require community support! Click below to support another year of arts programming for Hillsborough, NC!
DOWNTOWN HILLSBOROUGH,NC
Programming Legend:
Details on this page are generally finalized the week before each Last Friday event. Stay tuned for updates here (starting mid-March 2023), signup for our e-news, or follow us on social media to get the most up-to-date information possible.
MAKERS MARKETS (May - Oct) on the OLD ORANGE COUNTY COURTHOUSE LAWN:
104 E King St
LIVING ARTS COLLECTIVE in RIVER PARK (March - Oct):
228 S Churton St
THE ART WALK (Jan - Nov):
Click map icons or scroll down for venue addresses.
November 24!
SPECIAL HAPPENINGS!
Shop Small Weekend
November 24 - November 28, 2023
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Explore Hillsborough and support local businesses during the nation-wide Shop Small Weekend.
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- Black Friday: Join us for November's Black Friday Last Friday + the Art Walk.
- Small Business Saturday: Shop local and support small businesses in Hillsborough.
- Artist Sunday: Discover local artists and galleries.
- Giving Tuesday: #GivingTuesday is a global movement that encourages us to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity, and we need your help to continue bringing the magic of accessible, community arts events to Hillsborough indefinitely!
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Every donation, regardless of size, plays a significant role in helping us cover the costs of operating events like Last Fridays, Solstice Lantern Walk, and many more. Think of HAC this #GivingTueday!
Make and Take Table
in the HAC Gift Shop
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Ongoing; November 24 - December 19, 2023
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Drop in to the HAC Gallery & Gift Shop starting at November’s Last Friday & the Art Walk to decorate and take home a free paper-mâché lantern for this year’s Solstice Lantern Walk! We'll be adding paint, paper, leaves and flowers, glitter, and more to lantern shells prepared in advance by incredible HAC volunteers.
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Last Friday at the Burwell School
3-5 pm
Visit the Burwell School during its special opening hours for Novembers Black Friday Last Friday.
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Discover complex, multi-layered stories of freedom-seeking, oppression, and women's education through the lives of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, Mary-Ann, the Murphy sisters, and Anna Burwell. The Burwell School strives to provide a balanced picture of our collective American history - bearing witness to the ways women's education, the lives of the enslaved and their enslavers, survival, religion, and legacy all coalesce to reveal the history of those who lived at the house.
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MAKERS MARKET (May - Oct)
RETURNING TO THE OLD COURTHOUSE LAWN MAY 2024
Rolling applications for participation in 2023 Last Fridays Makers Markets are now closed.
Applications to participate in 2024 markets will re-open early in Spring of next year.
LIVING ARTS COLLECTIVE (March - Oct) 6-9pm