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April 11th- April 17th 2013

by Pam & Michael Davison

In addition to all the fun going on here in the Triangle, Wilmington will host the North Carolina Azalea Festival all weekend. The five day long festival encompasses a wide variety of both free and ticketed entertainment including a parade, street fair, circus, concerts and pageantry highlighting the city's rich array of artwork, gardens, history and culture.

Start You Weekend with the NC Science Festival

The NC Science Festival continues this weekend! Thursday night is all about entertainment. The Science Cafe at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences boasts Earth's Premier Science Comedian, Brian Malow presenting Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet..

Not too far away at the NC State Centennial Campus, they will be discussing the Science in Science Fiction Movies with film clips, refreshments and prizes.

Its Yuri's Night, Friday night at the Museum of Life and Science. An adult only celebration of Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space 52 years ago. Join 200 other groups of people in 51 countries in a World Space Party.
 

Over a decade old, the 2nd Friday ArtWalk in Downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro invites you to enjoy the opportunity to see a large variety of artwork during a single evening while socializing with fellow art lovers.

 
Art After Dark and a Downtown Cruise In combine with the En Plein Air Paint-Off in Downtown Fuquay-Varina. The area's most talented painters will compete, En Plein Air (in the open air). A four-hour contest of skills will challenge each artist to create an original oil or acrylic masterpiece of Fuquay-Varina Downtown's historic landscape.
 
Art After Hours will bring the streets of downtown Wake Forest come alive with food, merchants and music!
 
The North Carolina Museum of Art invites you to enjoy music by Sidecar Social Club for Friday's Art in the Evening along with Sound Bites about some of the first objects of devotion created in ancient Egypt and the 1924 movie, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.
 
Friday evening at Bass Lake Park will feature a fun evening of Family Bingo. The monthly event has become very popular so get there early to secure a seat for the fun.
 
Crowder Park comes alive after dark! Let the moon guide your way as you play fun games and try to catch some nocturnal bugs during Crowder By Night.
 
The State Fairgrounds kicks off most of their events Friday night and continues them through the weekend. For those of you starting to work in your gardens, there will be both an Azalea Sale and a Geranium Sale. The Boat Show & Sale is for those of you looking for some watery down time. And the Raleigh Invitational Horse Show is an American Saddle Bred and Morgan horse show.

Festivals & Fun
 
The Longleaf Festival returns to Harris Lake County Park on Saturday! Enjoy activities, games, crafts and learn about the importance of the 60-acre Longleaf Pine stand.

 

Are you ready to Robot Rumble? As part of the NC Science Festival, the annual Robot event is back this Saturday to the Museum of Life and Science
Also a part of the NC Science Festival, the UNC Science Expo will include demonstrations, hands-on activities, lab tours, exhibits, and science talks from professors and students at UNC in a family friendly format.
 
The Annual Hillsborough Arts & Crafts Show will take place Saturday on the lawn of the historic Alexander Dickson House. Along with a wide variety of original art and quality handcrafted items, the show will feature live music and festival food.
 
The first Carrboro Open Streets event or Ciclovias is Saturday. Weaver Street will be closed to encourage walking, biking, and other forms of physical activity to the event which boasts yoga, hooping, zumba, a cargo bike display, a bike-powered smoothie-maker and a climbing wall.
 
Saturday is Discovery Day at the Sara P. Duke Gardens. Join them for demonstrations, stories, experiments and hands-on projects.
 
Hope for a good breeze on Sunday for the Annual Kite Fly at Hank Anderson Park. in addition to kite flying, kids can come early and design their own paper kites and inexperienced flyers can take advantage of the lessons by area experts.
 
Durham Central Park will host the Courage Rocks! Be Bold Festival on Sunday. The family friendly event will include live music, special appearances by Ashley Mills; Miss North Carolina USA 2013 and Becca June; 2012 Country Female Artist of the Year, and a variety of kids activities.
 
The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival returns to the Page-Walker Arts & History Center on Sunday. Click through for the schedule of poets.
 
The NC Science Festival launches into next week with a Celebration of Undergraduate Research Symposium at UNC on Monday. The event showcases the wide variety of research conducted by undergraduates in all disciplines at UNC.
 
Tuesday is NC Science Festival Day at the NC General Assembly. 20 exhibitors from around the state will be there with hands-on and interactive exhibits showcasing North Carolina businesses, museums and STEM competitions.
 
Culture, Music & Movies
 
Mables continues the NC Science Festival with fun special events This weekend. You are invited to join them for a Butterfly Bash and Science Solvers on Saturday and a Green Energy Workshop and some Sweet Science on Sunday. This week is also Target $2 Tuesday Night at Marbles Kids Museum. Bring the whole family for a night of play for just $2 per person.

 

Want to get inside Historic Yates Mill? Join them for a Half-hour Tour on Saturday or a Mill Heritage & Local History Tour on Sunday.
 
The Wild will be the featured flick at Saturday morning's family movie at the Holly Springs Cultural Center. Come back for their Monday Morning Movie to see Lion King 3.
 
Come to the Art Museum on Saturday for Teen Art Scene, their annual spring teen event featuring dance troupes, high school musical artists and photography-inspired activities. Also on Saturday, you can help them celebrate the Grand Opening of the Blue Loop a one mile walking and cycling nature trail in the Museum Park. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will present his interactive installations that intersect architecture and performance art on Sunday.
 
Donna Ray Norton will delight an audience at the North Carolina Museum of History Sunday afternoon as her Music of the Carolinas concert highlights the musical traditions of the original settlers of Madison County.
 
In Seeing Trees on Sunday at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, writer Nancy Ross Hugo will share some of the secrets she discovered in her intense, two-year investigation of the seeds, catkins, cones, flowers, resting buds, emerging leaves, and other small phenomena usually overlooked on backyard trees.
 
The Lorax will be the Tuesday Morning Movie over at the Halle Cultural Arts Center.
 
Barbara Claypole White will be at the Burwell School Historic Site Wednesday night to do a reading from her novel, The Unfinished Garden. Following the reading, enjoy a meet-and-greet reception with the author and light refreshments
 
More Fun at the Parks
 
Lake Crabtree County Park will host both the Victoria Class Regional Championship Regatta and an Invasive Species Awareness Week program about the Vine That Ate the South on Saturday.

 

On Sunday, Lake Crabtree Park will offer Orienteering 101 or you can take Basic Land Navigation at William B. Umstead State Park and learn how to find your way using only a compass and a map
 
Kids that want to learn how to fish should check out a C.A.S.T. (Catch A Sure Thing!) at Jordan Lake State Recreation Area. The Saturday morning program will teach the basic fishing skills and test out the new knowledge.
 
Bass Lake Park invites you to join them Saturday on a Tree ID Hike. Come back Sunday to learn the Basics of Fishing.
 
Take a hike to look for some 'gross' but cool things at Durant Nature Park on Saturday and learn how Nature's Yucky.
 
Volunteers are welcome to join the staff of Crowder District Park Saturday morning to Volunteer-in-Park and keep the park beautiful.
 
Jordan Lake Jordan Lake Environmental Education invites you to their Eagle Watch Sunday afternoon and Jordan Lake State Recreation Area welcomes you to help them along with the
New Hope Audubon Society with an Eagle Count Sunday morning.
 
West Point on the Eno's Spring Hike this Sunday will explore the Bobbitt's Hole and Cole Mill Trail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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