Sat & Sun, April 2 & 3, 2011 (additional weekends: April 9 & 10,
and April 16 & 17, 2011)
The North
Carolina Renaissance Faire - Poplar Creek Village, Poole Road,
Knightdale, NC 27545.
Directions to
Poplar Creek Village
(Historical note: prior to 2009, the Renaissance Faire was held at
the State Fairgrounds, in 2009 the event was held in Wake Forest; the Faire
now is held in Poplar Creek, Knightdale, NC).
Sat & Sun, April 2 & 3, 2011 (additional weekends: April 9 & 10,
and April 16 & 17, 2011)
10 am - 6 pm
Bring the whole family and come join in a wonderful "environmental
theater" celebration of medieval life and times at the North Carolina
Renaissance Faire! Walk into the gates and enter a medieval or
renaissance village and become a part of it for the day. Meat lords
and ladies, knights and maidens, pirates, fairies, or royalty; play games,
and enjoy live music, dancing, storytelling, puppetry, magic, sword
fighting, and jousting. (Watch the knights on horseback as the jester
gallops alongside on a little pony!) There is always something new to
discover as you step back in time at the North Carolina Renaissance Faire!
Tickets: $10 adults; $5 Kids 5-12; Seniors FREE: Kids under 5 years old
FREE. New in 2011: Military Discount is $5 Adults and $3 kids. You
must show a Military ID, DD214 or VA Card to get the discount at the gate.
Cash Only at The Gate. (ATM available).
Find 16th Century Men's, Women's and Children's clothing; capes & Cloaks,
costume patterns and more at
www.tudorshoppe.com, the official costume supplier of the North Carolina
Renaissance Faire. Children love to dress up; the North Carolina
Renaissance Faire is a great opportunity to become a knight or princess or
magician or fair maiden!
Weds., April 6 - Sun., April 10, 2011
64th Annual North Carolina Azalea Festival
in Wilmington, NC(further afield)
Wednesday, April 6 - Sunday, April 10, 2011 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 & Sun, April 9 & 10, 2011 (additional weekends: April 2 &
3,
and April 16 & 17, 2011)
The North
Carolina Renaissance Faire - Poplar Creek Village, Poole Road,
Knightdale, NC 27545.
Directions to
Poplar Creek Village
(Historical note: prior to 2009, the Renaissance Faire was held at
the State Fairgrounds, in 2009 the event was held in Wake Forest; the Faire
now is held in Poplar Creek, Knightdale, NC).
Sat & Sun, April 9 & 10, 2011 (additional weekends: April 2 &
3
and April 16 & 17, 2011)
10 am - 6 pm
Bring the whole family and come join in a wonderful "environmental
theater" celebration of medieval life and times at the North Carolina
Renaissance Faire! Walk into the gates and enter a medieval or
renaissance village and become a part of it for the day. Meat lords
and ladies, knights and maidens, pirates, fairies, or royalty; play games,
and enjoy live music, dancing, storytelling, puppetry, magic, sword
fighting, and jousting. (Watch the knights on horseback as the jester
gallops alongside on a little pony!) There is always something new to
discover as you step back in time at the North Carolina Renaissance Faire!
Tickets: $10 adults; $5 Kids 5-12; Seniors FREE: Kids under 5 years old
FREE. New in 2011: Military Discount is $5 Adults and $3 kids. You
must show a Military ID, DD214 or VA Card to get the discount at the gate.
Cash Only at The Gate. (ATM available).
37th Annual Capital Area Gem Festival sponsored by the Tar Heel Gem and
Mineral Club. Gov. Kerr Scott Building, State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh, NC
Friday 5 to 9 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
** Free admission. **
This
show is sponsored by the Tar Heel Gem & Mineral Club and includes 29
dealers plus Club areas of demonstration, silent auction, geodes and
hospitality. Finished jewelry, rough minerals, fossils, geodes, related
books and tools on display and for sale. Familiarize your children with
the Lapidary Arts. FREE admission. Grab bags with rocks and minerals,
some containing a faceted gem, available for kids. The club will sell
and cut geodes and offer an on-going Silent Auction with new items every
hour. One large area is set up to demonstrate faceting, cabachons,
Opals, chainmaking, wirewrap, and gem trees.
The Renaissance Rally event for students
and educators takes place at Poplar Creek Village on Monday, April 11 from
10 am to 2 pm. Step back in time and history!
www.ncrenfaire.org
North Carolina Renaissance Faire 2011 dates:
Sat & Sun, April 2 & 3, 2011; April 9 & 10,
and April 16 & 17, 2011; 10 am - 6 pm.
Sat., April 9, 2011
Earth Day In
Chapel Hill Saturday, April 17, thru Saturday April 24, 2010
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.
HatchFest 2011 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."
Editor's note:Okay, so with a
bunch of little kids (and children in school as well) this event is not
for us, but we can at least dream, right? HATCHfest sounds like a
very creative and inspirational event for people who have the logistical
flexibility and ability to attend :)
Sat., April 16, 2011
Orange
County/Chapel Hill Egg Hunt Celebration
Ages 2-10.
NEW LOCATION for the 2011 Chapel Hill Egg
Hunt: Homestead Community Park in Chapel Hill
Festivities from 9:30 am - 12pm (rain or
shine);
Egg hunt begins at 10:30 am sharp.
Egg hunts and prizes for three age
categories: 2-4 years, 5-7 years, and 8-10 years.
6th Annual NC Turkish
Festival,
Raleigh State Fairgrounds
Exposition Center Saturday, April 16 - 17, 2011, 11am - 7 pm,
Enjoy Turkish Folk Dances, Turkish Cuisine, kids' entertainment, cooking
classes, dress like sultans, water marbling, calligraphy, Turkish bazaar.
Admission Fee. (Fees not yet posted as of February 2011. In 2010 the
admission fees were: $3; Seniors/students $2; Kids under 10 Free. Look for
annual ad
in Chapel Hill News for coupon for One Free Admission).
(919) 386-3464.
Sat & Sun, April 16 & 17, 2011 (additional weekends: April 2 &
3,
and April 9 & 10, 2011)
The North
Carolina Renaissance Faire - Poplar Creek Village, Poole Road,
Knightdale, NC 27545.
Directions to
Poplar Creek Village
(Historical note: prior to 2009, the Renaissance Faire was held at
the State Fairgrounds, in 2009 the event was held in Wake Forest; the Faire
now is held in Poplar Creek, Knightdale, NC).
Sat & Sun, April 16 & 17, 2011 (additional weekends: April 2 &
3
and April 9 & 10, 2011)
10 am - 6 pm
Bring the whole family and come join in a wonderful "environmental
theater" celebration of medieval life and times at the North Carolina
Renaissance Faire! Walk into the gates and enter a medieval or
renaissance village and become a part of it for the day. Meat lords
and ladies, knights and maidens, pirates, fairies, or royalty; play games,
and enjoy live music, dancing, storytelling, puppetry, magic, sword
fighting, and jousting. (Watch the knights on horseback as the jester
gallops alongside on a little pony!) There is always something new to
discover as you step back in time at the North Carolina Renaissance Faire!
Tickets: $10 adults; $5 Kids 5-12; Seniors FREE: Kids under 5 years old
FREE. New in 2011: Military Discount is $5 Adults and $3 kids. You
must show a Military ID, DD214 or VA Card to get the discount at the gate.
Cash Only at The Gate. (ATM available).
8th
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 21-24, 2011 (Gates open at 10am on Thursday; 9am Friday - Sunday). 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 23, 2011
Preservation
Society of Chapel Hill Easter Egg Hunt Horace Williams House, 610 E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill.
Saturday, April 23, 201, 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.
Fri. -
Sat., April 29-30, 2011
25th 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 29-30, 2011 (this annual event is being held one week later than usual
in 2011). 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.
April 22, 2011 is Earth Day!
Sat -
Sun, April 16 and 17, 2011
16th
Annual CFSA Piedmont Farm Tour
(Carolina Farm Stewardship Association)
Sat - Sun, April 24 and 25, 2010, 1-6pm. 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 $.
146th Anniversary of the Largest Troop Surrender of the Civil War at Bennett
Place State Historic Site in Durham, NC.
Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17, 2011 10 am - 4 pm.
Surrender Reenactment and 146th 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.
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