Pink House Forever

The Pink House was like an underground United Nations. Chapel Hill's aspiring artists, musicians, poets, DJ's, activists, actors, writers, nudists, flutists, knuckleheads, and couch-surfers, all living together in (relative) harmony, united by their common bohemianism. Life inside the Pink House often consisted of weird shit happening at all hours, every day, it rarely stopped. And there's something about that place that won't allow the vibe to ever fully dissipate. / PinkHouseForever.org

Pink House. 130 North Street. Back In The Day.

Fellow residents from the 1991-94 years were Clint Curtis, Shyam Patel, Raj Krishnasami, Lydia Craft, Jess Deltac, Kyle York Spencer, Caroline Rivers Hall, Mel Lanham, Michelle Sinnott, Jay Murray, N'Gai Wright, Scott Bullock (who crashed on the couch for a year before finally moving in), Bryan Ellerson, Karen Hurka, Sally Stryker, Ryan Mathias, Charlie Speight, Chris Palmatier, Trent McDevitt, and Steve William.

Besides holdovers and returnees Jay, Scott, Mel (& Laverne!), Chris, and N'Gai, residents during 1995-97 included Ian Williams, Greg Humphreys, Allen Sellars (who, like Jay, lived at both the Pink House and 401 Pritchard), Zak Bisacky, James Dasher, Linden Elstran, Jiffer Bourguignon, Grant Tennille (who first made the scene as a fixture in N'Gai's room circa summer '93), Zia Zareem, Ben Folds, Tom Holden, and Chris "Chip" Chapman.

- Erik Ose

Friday, March 3, 2000

Third annual Hi Mom! Film Festival

Hi Mom! press release, 10/9/99

Name: Camille Hawley
E-Mail: chawley@email.unc.edu
Home Page: http://metalab.unc.edu/cpg
Date: Sat Oct 9 15:45:12 1999

The Carolina Production Guild is pleased to announce that we are now accepting short films and videos to screen at our third annual Hi Mom! Film Festival. Hi Mom 2000 will be a three glorious days and two swingin' nights of rowdiness, food, drink, free stuff, music, and (oh yeah) movies. Hi Mom is a festival for filmmakers with big ideas and little bank accounts, deep thinkers with shallow pockets, short on gimmicks but long on talent. The festival is an opportunity for filmmakers of all ilks to come together as group to have fun and learn from one another in the capital city of Indy culture in the Southern US, Chapel Hill, NC.

Filmmakers are encouraged to attend. We'll find lodging for them (as space is available) and we will ply them with beverages and pancakes in the shapes of their initials. And we will have prizes of 16mm film stock and other goodies for best film and video in various categories. Anyone is eligible to enter (except for fat cats. No fat cats allowed.) We can screen SVHS, VHS, super8, 16mm, and 35mm.

This year the festival will take place March 3-5, 2000, at various venues in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

To enter, send a VHS tape to: Michael Connor 401 Pritchard Ave. Chapel Hill, NC 27514

ENTRY FEES AND DEADLINES Early deadline: January 11, 2000 Early Fee: $0 (right, that's zero) Final deadline: February 1, 2000 Final fee: $10

For more info, visit: metalab.unc.edu/cpg/
Email: mconnor@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-967-8969
Post: Hi Mom! c/o Michael Connor 401 Pritchard Ave. Chapel Hill, NC 27514