Stuart Spooktacular: Stuart, VA
Come and enjoy this free community event where kids are welcome to trick-or-treat up and down Main Street and have fun in a safe environment!
Abundance NC’s 14th Annual Pepperfest: Pittsboro, NC
A celebration of sustainable agriculture, farmers and the creativity of the Piedmont’s top chefs, and the Piedmont’s most nutritious and abundant local superfood:
The Pepper!
Celebration at The Plant, a 16-acre eco-industrial park to safely spread out and enjoy our tasting styled Fest!
Pepperfest will host around 1,000 folks who enjoy live music and revelry, learning and discovery – while filling up on delicious pepper-themed dishes made with delicious, locally grown sweet, hot and smoky NC peppers. Chefs compete for awards. Foodies taste all the different dishes made from peppers grown in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Children run wild, folks dance, laugh and enjoy the many different creations. Pepper awards are crowned, local businesses and non profits share their news and we all go home very happy.
There will be live music with Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, Colin Cutler, Imagine Circus performers, an artistic educational and cultural walkthrough, a 21+ lounge, a kid’s zone with activities, vendors, a small farmers’ market and fun for the entire family.
Partake in all the small businesses on The Plant, including the Chatham Beverage District’s distillery, cidery, meadery and local beers, Copeland Spring Farms and Kitchen, Chatham Axes, Carolina Hemp Tours, Hempsmith, Oak City Hemp, Tick Warriors, Vortex Brew, Smelt Art Gallery and BMC Brewing COMING SOON!
Join us for an unforgettable day.
Lazy Daze Arts and Crafts Festival: Cary, NC
Join us at Cary’s Town Hall campus on Academy Street for the 45th Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival. The two-day event will feature over 300 artists including Jerry Miller Award winners, live music, children’s activities, and a variety of food and drink vendors. We look forward to enjoying the Lazy Daze of summer with you!
150th Celebrate Cary: Cary, NC
It is Cary’s Birthday Year, and we are celebrating it in a big way! Please join us at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 24, for a community street party. This party will have something for everyone!
- Entertainment from roaming entertainers.
- Food Trucks, and Beer and Wine Vendors
- Putt-Putt
- Larger-than-life interacting games and kid activities.
The highlight of the night will be a Project Light Show on the Cary Arts Center. This show will highlight Cary’s Past, Present, and Future.
Celebrate Freedom: Chesapeake, Virginia
Celebrate America’s Birthday with the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, providing stirring patriotic sounds. Following the concert, fireworks by Pyrotecnico will illuminate the dark sky after sunset.
The Chesapeake Public Art Committee will be on hand spreading awareness and taking donations for the Chesapeake 9/11 Memorial, along with the Fine Arts Commission’s fundraising arm – ART’S ALIVE!
Bring your own chairs or blanket. (Tents, feather flags and oversized umbrellas are not permitted!)
SCHEDULE (Times are approximate.)
7:00 p.m. Gates Open | Roaming Entertainment | Food Vendors
7:00 p.m. U.S. Fleet Forces Band Concert
8:30 p.m. Tidewater Winds Concert Band
9:30 p.m. Fireworks (approximate time)
Holly Springs July 5th Celebration: Holly Springs, NC
A second day for the USA! Celebrate Independence Day on July 5 with food, live entertainment, and fireworks!
The celebration kicks off at 6 p.m. at Sugg Farm, 2401 Grigsby Ave. Hotdogs, ice cream, tacos, bbq, funnel cakes and more will be available from 20 various food trucks and concessionaires. Dance along to live music from Irresistible Groove 5. End the night with one of the best firework shows around at 9:15 p.m.
Fireworks are weather dependent and are subject to a time or date change.
Lake Reidsville Independence Day Celebration: Reidsville, NC
Gates open at 5 p.m. as Reidsville’s Independence Day Celebration returns to Lake Reidsville on Saturday, July 3, 2021. More details to be forthcoming!
2021 Fun Fourth Freedom Fest: Greensboro, NC
Fun Fourth in Downtown Greensboro is back!
We’ve planned a day of family-friendly experiences as the world begins to reopen post-pandemic.
3 Stages
Patriotic Path
Strolling Entertainment
Dunk A Celebrity
Mechanical Bull
Laser Show (beginning at 9:30 PM in the parking lot at the corner of Davie and Market Streets)
Look for Imagine Circus Stilt Walkers, Bubble Artist, and Aerialist!
33rd Annual Thad & Alice Eure Walk for Hope: Raleigh, NC
In the 32 years since it began, our flagship charity event has helped raise millions of dollars towards better understanding of and treatments of mental illnesses like depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, postpartum depression, schizophrenia and anorexia.
Each year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk a 5K route to show solidarity for family, friends and community members living with a mental illness. After the walk is over, we celebrate our achievement with a family-friendly afternoon of food, games, music and prizes. We also offer a certified 5K Race for Steak run, with prizes for top finishers in each age group.
Can’t make it this year, or prefer to walk or run with us from afar? You can still make an impact by joining us VIRTUALLY instead or making a DONATION! It’s more important than ever to support mental illness research right here in the Triangle.
100% of the money raised by participants directly funds local mental illness research at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry. And, just as critically, it helps call attention to the stigma and significance of these often invisible illnesses, which now due to the pandemic affect as many as one in three American adults.
Your passion helps us touch more and more lives in our community, across our nation, and around the world. Your dedication leads us to record-breaking goals in numbers and funds raised. We believe research is hope, and hope keeps us moving forward.
Despite COVID, let’s strive to go further and do more than ever before. Registration will be open SOON for the 2021 Walk for Hope!
Note: We are prepared to creatively reimagine the Walk as a DRIVE-THRU event again if we must, but we are thinking positively and are moving forward with our plans to make the 33rd Walk for Hope better than ever!
Brunch Moore Market
A monthly artisan market and outdoor brunch at Moore Square in Downtown Raleigh.
The Brunch Moore Market is brought to you by the Raleigh Night Market. The brunch market takes place on the 2nd Sunday from May – Oct. 2021 Enjoy food trucks, a picnic on the lawn, beer, beverages and live music from 11 AM – 3 PM. Plus shop from local farmers at the Moore Square Market