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Cary's Picks
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| City Market, Moore Square FREE concert
Friday, May 7, 7pm
Big Rick and The Bombers perform music form the
past and the present. Family oriented, fun and food.
Bring your chairs! (parkgeek.com)
The Designers Downtown Market
Featuring Fine Locally Made Arts and Crafts
Downtown Raleigh, May 8, 9am-3pm
Latino Arts Festival in Apex
May 7-8, Halle Cultural Center
Music, Dancing, Food, Arts and Crafts
BrickMagic Lego Festival
May 8-9, Raleigh
Artsplosure
May 15-16, Downtown Raleigh
Includes a "Kidsplosure" area!
Kids Appreciation Day
Parish Womble Park, Saturday 15, 2-4:30pm
Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Holly Springs
Free Pizza and Snowball for kids. Giant Inflatable Slide and Rides, Face
Painting, Arts and Crafts and lots more!
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale, Kidtoons Series
Carmike Cinemas, Morrisville
Saturdays and Sundays in May
$5 Adults, $3 Kids
Got to be NC Festival
May 21-23, NC State Fairgrounds
FREE Admission and Parking
North Raleigh Arts and Creative Center
Presents Charlotte's Web
Click Here for May Schedule
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Parks
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| Arts in the Garden: Family Fare, Duke GardensPaperhand Puppet InterventionMay 30, 1pm (Rain date: June 6), $10 per personStorytime May 8, $2 Ages 3-8TurtleFestMay 8, Bass Lake, Holly SpringsVisit
interactive exhibits, meet biologists,
herpetologists,
and wildlife rehabilitators,
make crafts, win contests and play games.
Student Art Contest FREE EVENTMay Fishing Fun DayMay 15, Harris LakeAnnual Old-Fashioned Community PicnicMay 15, 11am-3pmHistoric Yates Mill County Park |
Museums
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| NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Story Time and Meet the Animals
Monday-Friday
Click link about for times.
If you have younger kids and haven't been, try to go!
We love the staff who do these events. Makes a great
morning at the museum, even if you've been
hundreds of times before!
Marbles Kids Museum
Artsplosure activities May 15-16
Hooray for Ballet, Carolina Ballet Series
Saturday, May 8, 10am-2pm
Carolina RailHawks
Fun-Family Fit Series
Saturday,
May 22, 2pm
Family Fun Night
Thursday, June 10, 5:30-8pm
For play and learning for children 10 and under
with special needs and their families.
North Carolina Museum of Art
Everyone is excited that the NCMA has re-opened!
Family Fun Saturdays fill up quickly! May is full.
The June schedule is not posted yet but check back.
If you are interested, you'll need to sign up way
in advance. Don't forget the museum park is
open everyday!
Museum of Life and Science
Bear
Awareness Week, May 16 - 22 Meet the keepers to learn about these
fascinating
animals and the issues they face, daily at 2 pm
at the Bear
Exhibit.
Butterfly Bash, May 22
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NC State Fairgrounds
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| May 9
Cinco de Mayo Celebration
May 14-16 78th Sportscard and Sports
Memorabilia Show
May 20-23 Raleigh Summer Boat Show & Sale
May 21-23 GOT TO BE NC FEST
May 22-23 WRAL's Wellness Weekend
May 29
Bird Fair
www.NCStateFair.org
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Community
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| Eve Griffith, age 2, was diagnosed with bilateral Wilms Tumor.
She is now in a 5-cycle post-op chemo phase. Eve and her family
are residents of Apex, NC; she is the daughter of Matt and Christy
Griffith; youngest of 3 children. "Team Eve" is planning a spring
fundraiser- BBQ and Family Fun Day to be held at Womble Park in
Holly Springs, NC on Sunday, May 23 from 11am-3pm.
For more info, contact
teameve@rocketmail.com
evegriffith.blogspot.com
4yr old John Camilo (aka Superman and John-John) is in the
fight
of his life. John has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. www.johncamilo.com
Two events listed below to benefit the John Camilo Leukemia Fund--
Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction May 19
at Grace Church, 3725 Kildaire Farm Rd
and John-John's Fight Against Leukemia Golf Tournament at
Keith Hills Country Club, Campbell University June 26
If you have a business that can donate products or services,
please click here to learn how.
White Plains United Methodist Youth
Present
The Oldies Drive In
May 14, 5-9pm (rain or shine)
313
SE Maynard Drive, Cary
Classic
Diner Food, Thick Milkshakes, Roller Skating Waitresses,
Music
and Entertainment from the 50's and early 60's,
Classic
Automobiles
Father Daughter Dance
May 23, 3:30-5:30pm
Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex
Hosted by Jordan Lake Sudbury School
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