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September 13th - September 19th 2012
by Pam & Michael Davison
Welcome to a fabulous fall festival weekend and the kick-off of the PARKGEEK PASSPORT CHALLENGE! There are so many awesome festivals throughout the parks and museums this weekend to pick from with a great variety of music, culture and activities. Downtown Raleigh will host both Bugfest and Sparkcon and just five miles down the road Historic Yates Mill Park will host the Fall Harvest Festival.
If you have never been to Bugfest, you can't imagine how an incredible collection of bugs can make for a fantastic event packed full of activities. If you have been to Bugfest before, you already know what an entertaining event it is. Bugfest is the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science's biggest and wildest annual event. Promising to be bigger and better than ever, Bugfest fills the museum as well as the outdoor mall with everything buggy. For the really brave, there will be an assortment of delicious bug-filled delicacies at the Café Insecta.
For the slightly more adult crowd that doesn't want to fight the crowds, Bugfest transforms into the Evening Insectival at 5pm. The evening crowd can relax with a new round of activities and live music to finish out the evening.
ParkGeek is excited to launch the PARKGEEK PASSPORT CHALLENGE at BugFest! Come find our booth outside on Jones Street and start the Challenge! Starting this Saturday at BugFest and running through First Night Raleigh on January 1st, the Passport Challenge will be a fun, scavenger type hunt using QR Codes to log in a wide variety of fall events and parks. How many Challenge Destinations can you log?
The official start to BugFest is the Café Insecta Cook-off Friday morning. Two local chefs go head to head in a bug-cooking battle. Taste-testing judges include Debra Morgan from WRAL, Steve Daniels from WTVD, Julie Fertig from News 14 and their own Canopy Meg
Festivals Throughout the Triangle
Celebrate the fall season by participating in a variety of hands-on activities and demonstrations at the Harvest Celebration at Historic Yates Mill County Park. Learn how corn and wheat were traditionally harvested, stored, and processed, and explore harvest-related handcrafts featuring corn shucks and wheat straw. Listen to old time music, and enjoy harvest songs and dance. Do you have a fabulous cornbread recipe? Yates Mill invites you to make your most delicious recipe using cornmeal and enter their Cornmeal Cook-Off Contest.
Not only will Downtown Raleigh be full of bugs this weekend, but they are also hosting the annual SPARKcon Festival. Starting Thursday night and running through Sunday, there will be street painting, art installments, fashion shows, loads of entertainment and evening events on Fayetteville Street and throughout Downtown Raleigh. Click through for all the details on the 14 different Sparks or art components of the festival.
Each fall for 39 years, over 100 juried fine artists, craftsmen and performers from across the country gather together in Downtown Durham to dazzle, inspire, delight and entertain you. There will also be over 30 performing arts groups featuring 200 performers filling three stages with continuous music, dance and entertainment. A wide variety of festival food and international fare plus a Kids Zone makes Centerfest Arts Festival a fabulous destination for the whole family both Saturday and Sunday.
Are you in the mood for some stuffed grape leaves and some baklava? Head on over to the Holy Trinity Greek Festival at the State Fairgrounds. Along with delicious Greek delicacies, you can also enjoy the marketplace, Greek music and Greek dancers. Click through for information on how to get free admission tickets.
Good Neighbor Day at Holding Park assembles people from all walks of life for a Sunday of food, fun, and family entertainment. By bringing together a mix of cultures, music, ages, and ethnicities, the event celebrates diversity and promotes goodwill among all of Wake Forest's citizens.
A Kids Bicycle Rodeo sponsored by the Holly Springs Police Department will highlight safety in a fun way with special events and prizes Saturday in Downtown Holly Springs.
Fun Fall Events at the Parks
Can't wait until Saturday to see bugs? Head on over to Eno River State Park Thursday morning for a Beetle Bonanza. Come back to the park Saturday to learn about the mysterious Bats of the Eno, the difference between Mushrooms & Toadstools or what you can learn from Animal Tracks & SCAT. On Sunday, a park naturalist invites you to a program on Foxes of the Eno.
Are you ophidiophobic? Whether you dislike snakes or can't get enough scaly critters, you are invited to join a ranger at William B. Umstead State Park Saturday to learn about Snakes of North Carolina. Tuesday morning, come back to the park to take a Beginning Fly Casting course or Wednesday for some Fishng Fun.
Bring the family to the Annie Louise Wilkerson Nature Preserve Sunday to take the Great Migration Challenge. Families will play a fun outdoor game to learn the hazards and adventures of birds on migration and then take a bird walk
Culture in the Triangle
The weekend fun starts Thursday night! Bring the whole family over to the Halle Cultural Arts Center for Pizza and a Show. Enjoy a slice or two of pizza while watching The Lorax.
Hip Pocket will be playing everything from 60's soul and 80's Dance Music to today's Hot New Country and Party Rock & Roll for a Music off Main Concert Thursday evening in Garner.
A Taste of Science, the Thursday night Science Cafe held each week at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences Daily Planet Cafe will feature National Geopgraphic Explorer Mark Moffett.
The Cary Town Band will play a concert at Cary's Sertoma Amphitheater Friday night for the opening concert of their Fall season. Come back to the Amphitheater Saturday for Pops in the Park with the Triangle Brass Band.
Bass Lake Park kicks off the weekend Friday with an evening of friendly competition with some Family Bingo.
On the second Friday night of each month the streets of Downtown Wake Forest come alive with food, merchants and music for Art After Hours.
Historic Preservation Society of Durham docents lead a Durham Civil Rights Legacy Walking Tour Saturday morning focusing on sites in downtown Durham that were important in the 1950's and 60's Civil Rights movement.
With all the election hype, the North Carolina Museum of History invites you to Buttoned Up, a drop in activity on Saturday featuring political buttons from North Carolina's past.
The Sunday in the Park Concert Series continues this weekend at Lake Johnson Park with the Triangle Brass Band.
A Bit More Fun
Take a Child Outside Week starts on Monday, September 24th. We will highlight the TACO events in next weeks newsletter. You can also go to the Events Search on ParkGeek.com and search for Take a Child Outside Week.
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