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2010
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| Weds., April 7 - Sun., April 11, 2010 | |
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63rd Annual North Carolina Azalea Festival
in Wilmington, NC (further afield) Wednesday, April 7 - Sunday, April 11, 2007 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. |
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| Weekends Sat. - Sun., April 10 - April 25, 2010 | |
| The North
Carolina Renaissance Faire - New Location since 2009 (prior years were at
the State Fairgrounds - NEW LOCATION in WAKE FOREST, NC since 2009)
13239 Capital Blvd, Wake Forest, NC 27587 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: $12 adults; $6 Kids 5-12; Seniors FREE: Kids under 5 years old FREE. See the North Carolina Renaissance Faire website for more information. Weekends April 10 - April 25, 10am - 6:30pm. www.ncrenfaire.com (800) 755-8004. 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!
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| Sat. - Sun., April 9- April 11, 2010 | |
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36th Annual Capital Area Gem Festival sponsored by the Tar Heel Gem and
Mineral Club. Scott Bldg., 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.
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| Sat., April 4, 2009 | |
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County/Chapel Hill Egg Hunt Celebration
Ages 2-10. NEW LOCATION for the 2010 Chapel Hill Egg Hunt: Hank Anderson Park in Carrboro. 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.
http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/parks_&_rec/community_events/
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| Sat., March 27, 2010 | |
| Durham Easter
Egg Hunts Saturday, April 4th 10:30am Easter Hunts in Durham for kids 12 are scheduled for Saturday, March 27 at 10:30 am, at Campus Hills Park and at West Point on the Eno Park, 5101 N. Roxboro Road. For more information about age ranges visit www.durhamnc.gov/departments/parks.
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| Saturday, April 3, 2010 | |
| Preservation
Society of Chapel Hill Easter Egg Hunt Horace Williams House, 610 E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill. (919) 942-7818. 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.
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| Weds. - Sat., April 15-18, 2010 | |
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HatchFest 2010 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:
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 :)
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| Sat., April 17 - 18, 2010 | |
| NC Turkish
Festival Saturday, April 17 - 18, 2010, (Sat 11am - 9pm & Sun 12-8), Raleigh State Fairgrounds Exposition Center Enjoy Turkish Folk Dances, Turkish Cuisine, kids' entertainment, cooking classes, dress like sultans, water marbling, calligraphy, Turkish bazaar. Admission: $3; Seniors/students $2; Kids under 10 Free. (Look for ad in Chapel Hill News for coupon for One Free Admission). (919) 386-3464.
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| Sat., April 18 - Sat., April 26, 2010 | |
| Earth Week In
Chapel Hill Saturday, April 17, thru Saturday April 24, 2010 Chapel Hill's Parks and Recreation Department will partner with many local organizations to promote a full week of great activities celebrating Earth Day. See Chapel Hill events scheduled for the week of Earth Day. Commencing with the Earth Action Day celebration on April 18th (Saturday, April 18, 2009, 12pm-5pm UNC's Morehead Planetarium), other interesting and informative activities include, Earth Day with the University's Institute for the Environment, Green Home tours at Briar Chapel, storytelling with the Chapel Hill Library, Morehead Planetarium's ?Our Vanishing Nights Film?, and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School's Earth and Sky Celebration.
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| Thurs. - Sun., April 21-24, 2010 | |
| 7th
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, 2010 (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). |
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| Fri. - Sat., April 23-25, 2010 | |
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24th 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 23-25, 2009 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.)
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| April 22, 2010 is Earth Day! | |
| Sat - Sun, April 24 and 25, 2010 | |
| 15th
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 $. www.carolinafarmstewards.org (919) 542-2402.
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| Sat. and Sun., April 17 and 18, 2010 | |
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145th Anniversary of the Largest Troop Surrender of the Civil War at Bennett
Place State Historic Site in Durham, NC. Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18, 2010 10 am - 4 pm. Surrender Reenactment and 141st 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.
Bennett Place, 4409 Bennett Memorial Rd., Durham, NC 27705 |
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Saturdays & Sundays
Oct. 2 - Nov. 21, 2021
https://www.carolina.renfestinfo.com/
Morehead Planetarium
Afterschool, Birthday Parties,
Summer Science Camps,
Planetarium
Shows and Events
The Animal Hospital
112 W Main St, Carrboro
* Summer Camps
* Farm Preschool & Kindergarten
* Birthday Parties *
Gemstone Mining
* Meet the Farm Animals
1870 Farm
Spence's Farm
After School, Summer Camps,
Birthday
Parties, lots more!
Foreign Language Resources
and Summer Camps
Immersion Island
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