FEATURED APRIL
SERIES: April 5-21, 2013 NC Science Festival
For the calendar of events visit www.ncsciencefestival.org
Weds., April 11 - Sun., April 15, 2012
65th Annual North Carolina Azalea Festival
in Wilmington, NC(further afield)
Wednesday, April 11 - Sunday, April 15, 2012 Features arts, music, parade, street fair, circus, celebrities, home
and garden tours, concerts, and more. Events take place in historic
downtown Wilmington and at area beaches. Click
here for schedule of events.
Sat. April 7, 2012
Preservation
Society of Chapel Hill Easter Egg Hunt Horace Williams House, 610 E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill.
Saturday, April 7, 2012, 10 am
For children ages 8 and under; 10am sharp. Bring a basket or bag for
gathering eggs! Children will be divided into age groups to search in
separate areas for 1,000 eggs stuffed with candy. There will also be
ten special prize eggs to be redeemed for special prizes such as stuffed
animals. Also planned for the event are games, contests, spelling
bees, egg races, and "bowling for bunnies" events. Free; donations
accepted.
(919) 942-7818.
Sat., April 14, 2012
11th ANNUAL
ClydeFEST! Saturday, April 14, 2012, 11 am-4 pm. Bynum Ball Field
$3 for children under 12,
$7 for adults
Rain date: April 15 from Noon-5.
Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation presents Earth Action Day, a celebration
for sustainable living at Southern Community Park.
Hosted by ChathamArts and the ClydeFest Committee, ClydeFest features art
activities, live music and entertainment, games, food, environmental
displays, and of course, wonderful CRITTERS hand-crafted by beloved local
folk artist/natural-wood-sculptor Clyde Jones. For the ClydeFest finale,
Clyde Jones creates a critter in front of the audience that is then
auctioned off to a very lucky winner. Clyde Jones does not sell any of his
work; instead he makes his Critters to give away or to be auctioned off for
charities to benefit children. VERY cool.
Sat., April 14, 2012
Earth Day In
Chapel Hill Saturday, April 14, 2012, 12 pm - 5pm
Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation presents Earth Action Day, a celebration
for sustainable living at Southern Community Park.
The outdoor event will feature a host of interactive activities for all
ages, live entertainment, and a great food pavilion, featuring local foods.
5K and a one-mile family fun run at 10 a.m. at the park before the festival.
Weds. -
Sat., April 12-15 2012
HatchFest 2012 in Asheville, NC (much further afield) Interested in the
Arts, Film, Fashion, Design? This festival provides a wide array of
opportunities to learn from and observe masters in the field in an
entertaining festival setting in beautiful Asheville, NC. Take a trip
to the mountains; visit the Biltmore; attend HATCHfest.
Description from the HATCHfest website:
"HATCHfest
is the first international mentoring festival for the creative and media
arts communities. This festival is a celebration that springs naturally
from the HATCH mission: To provide mentorship, education, inspiration
and recognition to the next generation of creative innovators. Each
HATCHfest brings together luminaries in the arts and entertainment world
to serve as mentors to groundbreaking new creative talent. The magic of
HATCHfest comes to life when this unique community of creative minds
from many disciplines including film, music, journalism, architecture,
photography, graphic design, fashion design, technology and fine art,
engage in the spirit of mentoring, networking and play."
Thurs. -
Sun., April 19-20, 2012
The Festival of
Legends - NEW Festival in 2012! Storybook Farm, 1 Storybook Lane (off Jones Ferry Rd.), Chapel Hill, NC
27516 Overflow parking will be at the Jones Ferry Park and Ride in Carrboro,
just a few miles away from the festival site, with shuttle bus service to
the festival.
North Carolina's newest festival/faire, The Festival of Legends will take
place on Saturday and Sunday April 21-22 2012. From the website: "Come
frolic with all manner of creatures mythical, enjoy fine mead and beer while
extraordinary entertainers perform on our stages; peruse artist's creations
and dance to the the beat of tribal drums! It will be a party retold in
stories for a long time to come... Festival hours will be 10 AM-6 PM, and
the magic will take place at One Storybook Lane, Chapel Hill, NC."
Activities include archery, wildlife refuge exhibit (CLAWS), Wee Folk Stage
entertainment, story telling, music, food, wonderful costumed creatures
(dragons, fairies, knights in shining armor) and much more!
Tickets $12 adult, $6 child (Sat. or Sun.)
10th
Annual Spring Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance,
1439 Henderson
Tanyard Road,
Silk Hope, NC (near Pittsboro)
Just down the road from Pittsboro, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, etc. Within an
hour’s drive of Raleigh, Durham and Greensboro Thursday - Sunday,
April 19-20, 2012 An all-ages family-friendly event featuring great music (blues,
bluegrass, african, reggae, country, latin, native american, roots rock,
zydeco), on-site camping, foods, arts, crafts, dance, workshops, poetry
slam, kids area (face painting, bubbles, drawing crafts, puppets, "Earth"
ball, parachute games, make your own jewelry, clown, Mother Goose story
telling and more!), dance tent.Weekend and day tickets available,
click here for ticket information.
Shakori Hills Farm, 1439 Henderson Tanyard Road, Silk Hope, NC (18 miles
southwest of Chapel Hill in Chatham County, North Carolina). http://www.shakorihills.org/
(919) 542-8142
Sat., April 21, 2012
10th
Annual Used Book Sale at St. Thomas More School
920 Carmichael St., Chapel Hill, NC (lower school hall) Sat
April 21, 2012, 10am - noon Choose from thousands of books, DVDs and CDs. $10 a bag; all proceeds
will benefit the school library.
At Trinity School, we ask ourselves two
questions: Do our students love to learn? And are our students learning
to love?
These are foundational concerns for our
transitional kindergarten-12th grade educational experience. We believe
that students are best able to master the tools of learning-listening,
speaking, reading, writing, calculating-in an atmosphere of warm
relationships and trust, in an environment that is multisensory and
experiential, through a curriculum that is rich and meaningful, and in a
school day that is challenging and productive.
Trinity is an independent Christian School for Transitional Kindergarten
through 12th Grade.
April 22, 2012 is Earth Day!
Sat, April 25, 2012
YMCA
Take on Summer Healthy Kids Day Sat, April 25, 2012, 1-5pm. Join the Chapel Hill Y for a full day of FREE family fun and
entertainment! Giant inflatables, games & prizes, community resource
information, family fun for everyone!
26th Annual North Carolina Pickle Festival in Mount Olive (further afield - about a two hour drive from Chapel Hill; 90 minutes
from Raleigh) Friday - Saturday,
April 27-29, 2012. A family-friendly festival celebrating the pickle and featuring music,
classic cars, bikes, games, food, carnival rides, a 5K run,
Downtown, from 8am - 6pm, there will be Carnival Rides, Pig and Duck Races,
Free Mt. Olive Pickles, and the special Children's Area, which will include
Pony Rides, the Pickle Derby, balloons, Paint a Pickle, Push a Pickle,
decorate your own hat, Cuke Toss, face painting, fingernail painting/hair
spray, Put the Feet on Pickle Pete, make your own bracelet or necklace, and
a petting zoo! Also guess the number of pickles in the pickle jar
(winner receives a prize!)
Trivia: Did
you know that North Carolina is the second largest producer of cucumbers
for pickles in the United States?
Directions:
www.moachamber.com/Chamber.html (The Mount Olive Area is in
the coastal plain of North Carolina, between the Piedmont and the
Atlantic Ocean.)
(919) 658-3113.
Sat., April 28, 2012
Inaugural 5K for
Fitness and Mascot Dash - hosted by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School
Foundation and Fleet Feet Sports Saturday, April 28, 2012 at McCorkle Place, UNC Campus; The 5K will
begin at 9am; Mascot Dash will begin at 8:45 am. Come walk and run with your
teachers, friends and family and show support for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools. The 5K for Fitness replaces the Race for Education that has
been held in conjunction with the fall Walk for Education.
For
a course map, click here
The Foundation and Fleet Feet Sports are
teaming up to offer a 5K for Fitness and Fitness Fair on Saturday, April
28th and a six-week training program that leads up to the event.
Everyone is invited: all staff, parents, students and community members.
The Mascot Dash will be held at 8:45am - come
cheer on your school's mascot!
Sat -
Sun, April 28 and 29, 2012
17th
Annual CFSA Piedmont Farm Tour
(Carolina Farm Stewardship Association)
Sat - Sun, April 28 and 29, 2012, 1-5pm. Learn more about organic produce and pasture-raised livestock!
Enjoy educational and entertaining tours of small family farms raising a
wide range of flora and fauna including flowers, organic fruits and
vegetables, free-range chickens and pasture-raised cows. Also
demonstrations such as yarn spinning; sample ice cream at Maple View Farm.
Purchase a "support local farms" button and visit any of 30 or so farms on
the tour located in Alamance, Orange, Durham, Chatham and Lee counties.
Admission fee $.
147th Anniversary of the Largest Troop Surrender of the Civil War at Bennett
Place State Historic Site in Durham, NC.
Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29, 2012 10 am - 4 pm.
Surrender Reenactment and 147th Anniversary Commemoration. In April,
1865, Confederate General Johnston surrendered to Union General Sherman at
the Bennett Farm near the Durham Station, the largest troop surrender of the
Civil War. Visit Bennett Place and meet the generals who convened here and
signed the papers, which made them prominent figures in history.
Re-enactors will describe military life and
the activities of the common soldier. Various domestic skills will be
presented to evoke the home life of James and Nancy Bennett. Costumed
interpreters will portray the Bennett family, and a surrender negotiation
vignette between Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Gen. William T. Sherman will be
performed throughout the day. Living History interpreters demonstrate
soldier life and home front activities. A memorial ceremony will be held at
the Unity Monument on Sunday. Living history programs will be held
throughout the weekend. Donations gratefully accepted. FREE.
Kinetix Health Club Fitness Prescription for Life!
Chapel Hill & Carrboro click here
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