Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources
David Wood
Phone: 919-249-1120
Fax: 919-362-8655
Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm
The Halle Cultural Arts Center of Apex is located at 237 North Salem Street in Historic downtown Apex. It currently has 3 galleries,
2 studio classrooms, and a 135 seat theatre. (Driving directions 
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Please note: ETix is a third-party service hosted by ETix and use of this service is offered strictly for the convenience of the ticket purchaser. Those choosing to utilize ETix will be charged a convenience fee based on the amount of the purchase with a minimum charge of $1.00. As the service provider, this convenience fee goes directly to ETix and has no relationship to the ticket price being charged.Tickets are only available at the box office on the day of the event.
Volunteer Ushers Needed
If you would like to volunteer to usher events at the Halle Cultural Arts Center please click HERE for The Volunteer Usher Job Description & Expectations and Application.
Call For Student Artists
SUMMER KIDS ART EXPO
A Juried Exhibition and Sale
July 20-Aug 20
Reception: Thursday, July 29, 5-7 pm
Awards and Certificates will be presented along with refreshments and musical entertainment!
Enter your best work!
Categories: High School, Middle School, Elementary School, Homeschoolers are welcome and should submit in the appropriate category for their age group.
Please click here for brochure and application.
Easy Company and No Eyes with The Tourist
Sunday, August 8
8 pm (doors: 7:30 pm)
Tickets: $5/Advance and $7/Door
Easy Company returns to the Halle in probably the last way you would have expected to see them... with only 4 members. Upon finishing their sophomore record, "Blue on Blue," set to release this winter, Easy Company has downsized the band and has created an interesting live interpretation of their songs that are quite different from any studio recordings. Still complete with strings, horns, winds, guitars, keys and percussion, this Apex come back show is one that you won’t want to miss.
No Eyes is an eruptive band from Boone/Raleigh that has been crowding clubs all across North Carolina. No Eyes has crafted their own blend of rock music combining the smooth melodies of 60s rock with catchy modern guitar riffs and vocals.
Hunter Macdermut is The Tourist. He is simple, and he is quaint, and he is nothing you can take your eyes or ears off of. His songs are modest and honest with an appropriate sugar coating of wit. He has just finished recording a new record and many of these songs will be a debut at this show.
Hit, Run, and Broadcast: The New Wave of Artistic Interventions in Public Space
AN EXCLUSIVE EVENING WITH GLEN WEISS
Co-sponsored with Cary Visual Art
Thursday, August 12
7 pm
FREE-(limited seating)
Come and listen to Glenn Weiss, Manager of Public Art & Design in Times Square, NYC speak about the importance of urban planning, architecture, landscape and public art in today’s society. Reception to follow.
Modigliani (2004) Rated R
Fri, Aug 13, 8pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
Tickets: $2
Set in Paris in 1919, this biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, falls in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child and Jeanne’s bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles his work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece. Andy Garcia stars.
Rentals, Forms and Information
- Facility Brochure
- Rental Request Worksheet
- Alcohol Permit
- Hold Harmless Agreement
- Floorplans
- Artist Application
- Instructor Application
- Artist/Gallery Contract
The Halle Cultural Arts Center was built as the Town of Apex Town Hall in 1912. The population of Apex was estimated at 700. Construction cost was $7,500.
It served many purposes. Outside the front door on the sidewalk was a hand operated pump well. The first floor contained a farmers’ market offering seasonal fruits, vegetables, and fresh chickens. A firehouse and two jail cells were in the rear. A ticket office was near the front door.
Upstairs was the Mayor’s office and a theatre with opera style seating an
d large windows for ventilation (HVAC today!). It was a home for silent movies, dramas and musicals, as well as the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources.It is located in the heart of the downtown Historic District and is perfect for exhibitions, musicals, dances, plays, speechifying, receptions, chautauquas, fund raisers, and celebrations.