We’re celebrating 100 years of our historic Boyd House with 100 events in 2022.
Here’s what we have planned so far for 2022. The dates are subject to change and details need to be worked out, so check back often. In addition, we will be hosting the Young Musicians’ Festival, the Literary Hall of Fame Induction, The Free Company Radio Plays. The James Boyd Book Club, Art and Writing Camps for Kids, Writers-in-Residence readings, Lunch and Learn programs, Family Gardening Days, Weymouth Equestrian programs, plus Docent Tours of our historic Boyd House and our 26 of gardens and grounds.
The Sandhills Wedding Expo 2022
Come to the Fair Barn for all things WEDDINGS! See what Weymouth has in store to make your special day beautiful.
The Sandhills Wedding Expo 2022 allows you and your entire bridal party to sample wedding cake and food choices, hear music, meet photographers, videographers, and planners, talk to wedding vendors face-to-face, try some make-up and jewelry, and gain hundreds of wedding ideas and tips. Plus, experience some of the best wedding gowns, flowers, lighting, and designs on display for you to touch, smell, and see.
General Admission opens at 1PM. VIP hour kicks off at 12:00 pm. Grab your ticket and arrive early, meeting our wedding professionals with only a select few around.
Come on and make a joyful sound! Bring your own instrument and a beverage and join in. Listeners are welcome too!
All attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID.
Free Admission
Join us as we kick off the Weymouth Wonderful 100 celebration of our historic Boyd House with the Moore County Hounds Meet. We’re offering a stirrup cup to all mounted/unmounted members of MCH.
Horses have long been an integral part Weymouth’s history, as James and Jackson Boyd founded the MCH in 1914. This year,
as we renovate our barn and bring horses back on site, we will launch our Weymouth Equestrian after school program for underserved teens, designed to serve the Southern Pines community with inclusion and relevance, while continuing our equestrian heritage well into the future.
Free Event. Open to the public.
January 29 at 9 a.m.
Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 Connecticut, Southern Pines
“Freedom Park: The Inspiring Story of How a Monument to Freedom is Built while Confederate Statues are Coming Down”
In 2001, the Paul Green Foundation initiated a tribute to the African American struggle for freedom in this state. Although it took twenty years of planning and fundraising, the ground was broken in 2021 in the center of Raleigh for North Carolina Freedom Park. Designed by the late Phil Freelon (lead architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington), the Park will provide a more complete story of North Carolina’s history to the visitors and especially for the thousands of school children who annually come by buses from across the state as part of their 4th and 8th grade study of North Carolina history. While statues to Confederate soldiers and white supremacists are coming down, this monument project is, in the words of Dr. John Hope Franklin, “…a continuing reminder of…how much more we need to do to achieve equity and justice in our society.” Ribbon cutting will be in late 2022.
Part 1: Sunday February 13, 2022, at 2 pm. with presenter, Marsha Warren
Part 1 features poet Marsha Warren, the 2018 NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee who established the N.C. Literary Hall of Fame (with Poet Laureate Sam Ragan), and the1991 recipient of the Sam Ragan Award for Contributions to the Fine Arts.
Part 2: Sunday, March 13, 2022, at 2 pm.
Lecture part 2 begins with speaker Reginald Hildebrand, author and former co-chair of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, and former Professor of African American Studies and History at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Following Reginald Hildebrand, speaker Reginald Hodges, a member of the North Carolina Freedom Park board of directors, and former Executive Director of the Durham Literacy Center, 2004-2014.
Click here for tickets. $15 Weymouth supporters / $20 General admission
Note: Original dates were changed from January, February and March to February and March.
JANUARY’S in-person meeting has been canceled. Zoom business meeting only.
Please email Bev Reynolds if you would like to take part in the online Zoom meeting. Bev’s email is: bevyreynolds@gmail.com
Social meeting begins at 9:30 followed by 10:00 business meeting. Speaker from the Moore County community follows business meeting.
Free to attend.
Masks and COVID vaccinations required.
Come on and make a joyful sound! Bring your own instrument and a beverage and join in. Listeners are welcome too!
All attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID.
Free Admission
Join us in the Great Room for our popular series featuring internationally recognized classical musicians in an intimate concert setting. Sunday, February 27 features University of North Carolina School for the Arts faculty and internationally renowned soloists Kevin Lawrence, violin, and Dimitri Shteinberg, piano. Program to include violin-piano sonatas by Bach, Schubert and Bloch.
For more information about performers and tickets, visit weymouthcenter.org
Tickets: $25 Supporters/$35 General
See weymouthcenter.org for our most recent COVID-19 protocols and requirements.
Praised for his “vibrant intensity,” (The Times, London) and playing “supremely convincing in its vitality,” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) violinist Kevin Lawrence has consistently elicited superlative responses for his performances throughout the United States and Europe: at Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and in Houston, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Rome, Prague, Bucharest, Sofia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam, where the Dutch press described him as “simply miraculous.” (Het Vaderland). He is heard in recordings on the New World label, featured on NPR’s “Performance Today,” and with renowned flutist Carol Wincenc on a CD of American flute quintets released by Bridge Records named as Critic’s Choice by American Record Guide. Lawrence is string chair at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he has been a faculty member since 1990. For fourteen summers he taught at the Meadowmount School, and he is founder and director of Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, which held its 17th season during the summer of 2021. Lawrence has given master classes throughout the United States, in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel, China, Korea, Thailand, Costa Rica and Venezuela.Dmitri Shteinberg
Dmitri Shteinberg has appeared across North America, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel. His solo performances include the Jerusalem Symphony, The Italian Filarmonica Marchigiana, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Camerata Orchestra and Porto National Symphony under the batons of Massimo Pradella, Roger Nierenberg, Florin Totan and David Shallon, among others. In the United States, he appeared with the Baton Rouge, Richmond, Charlottesville, Salisbury and Manassas symphony orchestras. Shteinberg was a guest artist at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Summit Music Festival, Music Festival of the Hamptons, the ”Oleg Kagan” Festival in Germany, Festival Aix-en-Provence in France and Open Chamber Music in Cornwall, England. Chamber music appearances include the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Saunders Theatre in Boston. Called ”protean and refined” by the New York Times, Shteinberg recorded for the Israeli ”Voice of Music” radio station, NPR, the Bavarian Radio, Summit Records and Sono Luminus labels and the Yamaha Disklavier; collaborated with members of the New York Philharmonic and the cellists Han-Na Chang and Natalia Gutman.
● Receptions are allowed, and may be held outside on the veranda.
● Hand sanitizer is available.
● The Boyd house is cleaned in full weekly, on the Monday of each week.
● Air filters will be changed after every event.
Shamrock the House!
The Women of Weymouth will be serving up a St. Patrick’s Day dinner on the grounds. Pick up or Picnic on the grounds. Bring a chair or blanket. Tickets will be on sale soon.
“Freedom Park: The Inspiring Story of How a Monument to Freedom is Built while Confederate Statues are Coming Down”
In 2001, the Paul Green Foundation initiated a tribute to the African American struggle for freedom in this state. Although it took twenty years of planning and fundraising, the ground was broken in 2021 in the center of Raleigh for North Carolina Freedom Park. Designed by the late Phil Freelon (lead architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington), the Park will provide a more complete story of North Carolina’s history to the visitors and especially for the thousands of school children who annually come by buses from across the state as part of their 4th and 8th grade study of North Carolina history. While statues to Confederate soldiers and white supremacists are coming down, this monument project is, in the words of Dr. John Hope Franklin, “…a continuing reminder of…how much more we need to do to achieve equity and justice in our society.” Ribbon cutting will be in late 2022.
Part 2: Sunday, March 13, 2022, at 2 pm.
Freedom Park Lecture part 2 begins with speaker Reginald Hildebrand, author and former co-chair of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, and former Professor of African American Studies and History at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Following Reginald Hildebrand, speaker Reginald Hodges, a member of the North Carolina Freedom Park board of directors, and former Executive Director of the Durham Literacy Center, 2004-2014.
Click here for tickets. $15 Weymouth supporters / $20 General admission
Save the date for world-class classical music in the Great Room at Weymouth Center.
More information to follow.
JANUARY’S in-person meeting has been canceled. Zoom business meeting only.
Please email Bev Reynolds if you would like to take part in the online Zoom meeting. Bev’s email is: bevyreynolds@gmail.com
Social meeting begins at 9:30 followed by 10:00 business meeting. Speaker from the Moore County community follows business meeting.
Free to attend.
Masks and COVID vaccinations required.
Friends of Weymouth Annual Meeting follows the March Board Meeting.
If you support Weymouth Center with a monetary donation of $50 or more you are welcome to attend.
Please wear a mask while indoors.
It’s time for “Come Sunday” Jazz Brunch!
Show and Brunch $40 Weymouth Supporters / $50 General Admission
Music Only $25 Weymouth Supporters / $35 General Admission
Tickets on sale soon. Catering TBD.
Shana Tucker and ChamberSoul will provide the music for the year’s first “Come Sunday” Jazz Brunch. “Cellist. Singer-Songwriter. Arts Advocate. Teaching Artist. Collaborator. Cultural Conduit. In each role, Shana Tucker is a builder-of-connections, whether she’s associating STEM concepts with backbeats or engaging a packed house through candid song-storytelling in performance. Shana’s unique genre of ChamberSoul™ weaves jazz, roots, folk, acoustic pop, and a touch of R&B into melodies that echo in your head for days.”
Click here for a sample of Shana Tucker’s music.
Come on and make a joyful sound! Bring your own instrument and a beverage and join in. Listeners are welcome too!
All attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID.
Free Admission
Schedule to be announced.
Prior to fundraiser, the Dirt Gardeners will be accepting items for the gardener and the yard like, tools in working order, garden decor, plants, decorative pots, etc. You may drop them off at the propagation shed at the back of the Boyd House on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 9am to noon.
JANUARY’S in-person meeting has been canceled. Zoom business meeting only.
Please email Bev Reynolds if you would like to take part in the online Zoom meeting. Bev’s email is: bevyreynolds@gmail.com
Social meeting begins at 9:30 followed by 10:00 business meeting. Speaker from the Moore County community follows business meeting.
Free to attend.
Masks and COVID vaccinations required.
Celebrate the oldest known living longleaf pine in the world! All kinds of festivities and history of the “Tar Heel”.
Park in the Weymouth Center main lot and proceed to the Boyd Tract of Weymouth Woods.
Show and Brunch $40 Weymouth Supporters / $50 General Admission
Music Only $25 Weymouth Supporters / $35 General Admission
Tickets on sale soon. Catering TBD.
Band: Leroy Jones with company
Come on and make a joyful sound! Bring your own instrument and a beverage and join in. Listeners are welcome too!
All attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID.
Free Admission
Details TBA