Monday - Thursday 7 am - 11 pm
Friday & Saturday 7 am - midnight
Sunday 8 am - 11 pm
Open Eye Cafe Sponsors the Evolve Multisport & TRIStacey Coaching 2012 TRICamp
Hosted by Evolve Multisport and TRIstacey coaching. Double trouble. Double the fun!!
go to Tri Camp Info for more info
Who: All levels. Pace groups and multi-level workouts. Group cap is 30 people. 12 signed up already!
What: Race-prep workouts, group track run, epic bike ride with time trial, master swim session, and lots of learning breaks. Workshops include: functional strength, open-water sports psychology, TRX, yoga, biomechanics, bike fitting, and training principles. Open Eye coffee bar and classroom space will be our chosen hang out. See agenda sheet for specifics.
Where: Chapel Hill, NC! Venues include Homestead Aquatic Center, Bolin Creek paved trail, Fleet Feet Sports, UNC track, and country bike rides to Dairyland road and beyond. Public parking and dining is easy in downtown Carrboro. Nearby hotels include the Franklin, Carolina Inn, or the A Loft hotel.
When: March Friday 30th 12-5pm, Saturday 9-4pm, Sunday 8 am to 12pm. Saturday night social begins at 5pm.
Sponsors include Balega socks, Fleet Feet Carrboro , Off n Running Greensboro, Balanced Movement Studio of Carrboro, Kiwami triathlon gear, Cary Cycle Surgeon, Farrell Partnership, Open Eye Cafe, and Suzanna Dupee Massage. Add your name to this list: stacey@tristacey.com
Why: To give you the edge you need for 2012 to be your best year, ever. Be smarter, fitter, and clear about your training and race goals. Count on the coaches to provide you with a great camp experience and for the sponsors to send you off with great goodie bags.
Coaches: Stacey Richardson, Professional triathlete and level II USAT, level II USA Cycling, level I USATF coach. She is the owner of TRIstacey coaching LLC and holds numerous age group titles, has raced amateur short -course and long course world Championships (including kona) and has raced 3 years as a professional triathlete, 70.3 distance
Coach Marisa Carter of Evolve Multisport is USAT Level I coach, an RN, holds a MS in Exercise Physiology, and a is certified Newton Natural Running Coach. She is an elite amateur triathlete, an avid yogi, and a true scientist.
Our combined experience runs the gamut from novice to professional athletes, from first 5k to vector analysis of running biomechanics. We promise to impress you!
stacey@tristacey.com or marisa@evolvemultisport.com for more information
Stacey Richardson
www.tristacey.com
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Marisa Carter
www.evolvemultisport.com
UNC Habitat for Humanity Fundraising Art Show, “Mixed Concrete”, at Open Eye Cafe
On Saturday, January 21, 2012, the UNC Habitat for Humanity Honduras Global Village Team will begin a two-week fundraising art show benefiting the spring break service trip to build houses in Honduras. The main event is hosted by Open Eye Café & Carrboro Coffee Roasters who for the past 8 years have worked diligently to bring a sustainable and equitable relationship with coffee farmers in Honduras, as evidenced by their Direct Relationship Program that highlights coffee grown by small family farms.
The silent auction of the student artwork will take place on Saturday, January 28th from 1-7 pm. We are inviting all members of the surrounding community to come check out the artwork and help out this great cause. Throughout the two-week exhibit, the Mixed Concrete exhibit will showcase the talent of over fifteen UNC students with artwork bridging various mediums, sizes, and themes. The show will provide a wonderful opportunity for students, faculty, friends, and members of the entire Chapel Hill and Carrboro community to come together in support of a great cause.
WHAT: Mixed Concrete is a two-week long, student artwork-based, fundraising art show benefiting the spring break service trip to Honduras. The show is organized and run by students from the HFH Honduras Global Village Team and features only student work.
WHO: More than 15 students and their artwork will come together to raise money in support of HFH Honduras.
WHEN: The silent auction is on Saturday, Jan. 28th from 1-7pm. The artwork is on display from Saturday, Jan. 21 through Saturday, Feb. 4.
WHERE: Open Eye Café in Carrboro.
101 South Greensboro Street
Carrboro, NC 27510
DETAILS: Media should check in with Habitat staff upon arrival at the Open Eye Cafe and are permitted to come and go between 1pm and 7pm on Saturday, Jan. 28th. Video recording and photography are permitted throughout the silent auction event. UNC Habitat for Humanity representatives, students and volunteers are available for interviews throughout the exhibition period on the 28th.
VISUALS: We encourage the media to send a photographer/film crew to the cafe as there will be students, family, friends, and members of the community coming together and a lot of amazing student artwork throughout the exhibition and, especially, during the event on January 28th.
Help Carrboro become the next Lovetown USA….
Carrboro is in the running for a new reality dating show called “Lovetown, USA,” a creation of the BBC and the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Hundreds of residents recently turned out to hold events to convince the producers to pick Carrboro. Well, Carrboro has made the cut!!! Now the producers are coming back for a Town Hall Meeting from 6 – 8 pm on Tuesday, December 13 at 301 W. Main Street in Carrboro.
So if you love Carrboro and you want Oprah to do Lovetown here, tell your Carrboro single friends to apply to be on the show and come and meet the producers on December 13. The application is on the Carrboro Town’s website.
The winning town must show those producers that it has the small-town feel and enthusiasm they want. The original, unscripted TV project is about mass matchmaking in an American town of roughly 15,000 residents with a good sense of community spirit and a picturesque location.
The show, expected to begin taping early next year, will bring professional matchmakers to town for 30 days to pair up singles and see how their developing relationships affect the town. The top 20 towns, which also include N.C. towns Newton and Reidsville, will learn the final decision in January and begin taping shortly after. The series is set to air in 2012. Annette Stone, the town’s economic development director, has been working with producers and local businesses, such as Open Eye Cafe, to promote the town’s participation.
The show, expected to begin taping early next year, will bring professional matchmakers to town for 30 days to pair up singles and see how their developing relationships affect the town. The top 20 towns, which also include N.C. towns Newton and Reidsville, will learn the final decision in January and begin taping shortly after. The series is set to air in 2012. Annette Stone, the town’s economic development director, has been working with producers and local businesses, such as Open Eye Cafe, to promote the town’s participation.
New Years Hours at Open Eye Cafe:
We will be open the following hours over the New Years weekend:
Be sure to buy some whole bean coffee for the morning!
Saturday, 12/31 – 7am to 5pm
Sunday, 1/1/12 – 9am to 11pm
Carrboro Coffee’s Scott Conary was Head Judge at 2011 Guatemala National Barista Championship
Carrboro Coffee President Scott Conary has visited Guatemala to certify judges and be the Head Judge for this years National Barista Championship. The Competition took place during ANACAFE’s Annual Coffee fest celebration which highlights the fantastic coffees to be found in Guatemala, and includes many educational and fun activities, including a coffee culinary competition.
This is the third year Scott has judged in Guatemala, and he has seen the ability of its baristas continue to improve year after year – resulting in higher and higher placement in the World Barista Championships (WBC), as evidenced by 2010 Guatemala Champion Raul Rodas, who finished 2nd place overall in the London WBC.
This years Champion was again Raul Rodas from the Acatenango area, and he will go on to compete at the 2012 WBC in Vienna in June.
Watch the Competition livestream here:
AAA Magazine Highlights Open Eye Cafe in an Article on Carrboro this Month
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Join MS Team Open Eye for the Chilly Cold Chili Ride- Saturday, January 7 · 10:00am – 2:00pm
Join us at the Open Eye Cafe for the 2012 Chilly Cold Chili Ride!
62 and 25 mile route options are available through the Orange County countryside.
The ride starts 10AM on Saturday Jan 7th!
$10 minimum contribution goes to the Eastern NC Multiple Sclerosis Society, and gets you a spot in the flaming hot chili peloton that will be cruising through rural Orange County, as well as some hot and tasty homemade vittles when you get back!!
Vittles include the best tasting Chili, Cornbread, and Coffee you’ll ever have!! Food and drinks are provided by The Open Eye Cafe, the TriCyclists Bicycle Racing Club, and the Team Open Eye BikeMS Cycling Club
Please come out early to register and get your cue sheets for the ride.
Spread the word! See you there!!
All Single People!!! Come out to the Cafe and sign up for the show Love Town USA
Single people! Come out to Open Eye Cafe for the BBC/Oprah Winfrey Productions Sign Up for the show Love town USA. Singles will need to fill out an application that will be sent to the Show. The Cafe will feature a special Rose wine to help you unwind as you fill out the form. Community response is the key to getting our town selected, so come sign up! Tuesday, 11/8 from 6-9pm.
What Carrboro needs now is Love, Sweet, Love! Attention all Carrboro Citizens, do you, or someone you know, who is single, want to find love? This could be your chance. The BBC World Wide Productions and Oprah Winfrey Network are in search of the town with the biggest heart and the most love to give.
Love experts from the BBC and OWN will be taking over one whole town for the biggest dating challenge in TV history. For 30 days, an expert team of matchmakers will guide the quest for love, examining the effects it can have on the DNA of one American community.
Show the love Carrboro and come together to help match singles and bring a new found mutual love to your entire community. Singles will need to fill out an application that can be found at businesses all throughout the community.
Special events are being held during the week, with a kick off at the 12 p.m at Glass Half Full, Tuesday, November 8th and continuing Tuesday evening, 6-9pm at Open Eye Café where they will be featuring a Rose wine to aid in the process.
On Wednesday those in search of love can apply at the Carrboro Farmer’s Market from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and then join Southern Rail for Trivia Night and Love Connection beginning at 7:00 p.m. More events are being planned so stay tuned!
The requirements to be considered for this opportunity is a town with a population of approximately 15,000 residents, a storybook, picturesque location and a definite sense of community. We are relying on all the cool creative talents of Carrboro folk to get Oprah’s attention! Photographers, artist, filmmakers are needed to help document the enthusiasm, show the love Carrboro!
If you are a business and want to host an event, please contact Annette Stone, Economic and Community Development Director at (919) 918-7319 for details.
Beer Enthusiasts – Join Open Eye Cafe in Supporting the Homebrew for Hunger Festival – November 12th
Come celebrate local beer and support a great cause at the Homebrew for Hunger Festival on November 12th, 12-5pm!
Open Eye Cafe is helping sponsor this Festival, which will be located at the brand new West End Public at 462 West Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, NC.
Homebrew for Hunger brings together North Carolina’s vibrant homebrewing community to benefit The Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina.
You can taste and learn about beer from over 30 local homebrewers and craft breweries such as Carolina Brewery, Fullsteam Brewery, Bull City Burger & Brewery and Mystery Brewing Company!
In addition to the tastings, the Festival will host educational events and a panel discussion and raffling off great prizes. Better yet, all money raised will go to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, which has been feeding children and adults at risk of hunger for thirty years.
Tickets are $20 and are available at www.HomebrewforHunger.com or at Fifth Season Gardening stores in Carrboro and Raleigh. Also, see our website for volunteer opportunities as well as the opportunity to bring your brew! We still have plenty of space for homebrewers and encourage people to sign up!
Did you know the Food Bank can provide 4 meals for every dollar donated? That means your $20 ticket to Homebrew for Hunger provides 80 meals to area families in need! Join us November 12th to taste incredible local beer, attend our HomebrewU educational events and most importantly raise money for an incredible charity.
