Happenings This Week June 9 to July 16, 2009 Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming activities this week. The Greensboro Museum Shop at the Greensboro Historical Musuem is closed for the remainder of the summer/early fall 2009 due to renovation. However, in mid-July a temporary location will be open in the Museum’s lobby with a limited selection of merchandise. Located at 130 Summit Avenue. Downtown Jazz at Churchill’s on Elm on Thursday, July 9 from 8:00-11:00pm with the Upperlineup Jazz Jam Session. Every Thursday evening, musicians and vocalists perform with an experienced ensemble for a local evening of quality music and performances that otherwise might not be heard. Experience what others are already making a Thursday evening destination, no cover charge. Located at 213 S. Elm Street. Find It The Greensboro Children’s Museum (GCM) offers weekly programs such as Busy Bees Monday's, Workout Wednesday's, Family Fun Friday Nights. Admission $6, Sr.’s $5, 1 and under FREE and half price on Fri 5-8pm & Sun 1-5pm. Located at 220 N. Church Street. This week features: · FREE Big Bang Boom Concert on Friday, July 10 from 6:00am-8:15am. Watch a free concert by Big Bang Boom! WGHP Fox 8 will be taping live shots for their morning news summer concert series and the GCM wants as many kids to attend as possible and sing and dance along to the band. If you're interested in getting your child on TV and giving them free play in the Museum, call Steffany Reeve at 574-2898 x306. Admission for the concert is FREE! · Rockets and Robots on Saturday, July 11 from 9:30am-4pm. The GCM will have plenty of interactive and entertaining activities for kids of all ages. The incredible Robot #9 will be special guest along with space-themed activities including posing for a picture with Robot #9, helping design a giant rocket using recycled materials, creating your very own robot using aluminum and tin cans, launching rockets in the Museum’s backyard using air and water, dancing like a robot and compete in the robot contest, and painting a ceramic robot ($5 extra charge quantities limited). General admission fees apply this day. · Brain Minders Puppet Show on Saturday, July 11 at 10:30am. Join the Brain Minder Buddies as they explore how to “Play Safe and Play Smart”! Created by the Pilot International Club, this interactive puppet show will show you how to protect your brain! · Groovin’, Gardenin’ & Grillin’ on Tuesday, July 14 from 4:00-8:00pm. Join in the GCM’s backyard and celebrate summer with music by Big Bang Boom and garden activities. Families can bring their own picnic dinners to enjoy or food can be purchased. ------------------------------------------------------------- Feline Entertainment & Fanatique de Glam presents Burlesk! Magical Tails on Friday, July 10 at Artistika and enjoy myths, legends, fairy tales, and stories to thrill and entice you with live burlesque performance of dance, comedy, sideshow, music as performers’ fairy tale themed acts charm and allure you. Burlesk! Magical Tails will be starring well-known local personalities. For more information, visit www.meowbabe.com. Tickets $10 (adults), show starts at 9pm (doors open at 8pm). Located at 523 S. Elm Street. Stand-up with your Band Up 'Comics and Chords on Saturday, July 11 at 8:00pm at The Green Bean. This summer, the “Comics and Chords” entertainment series kicks off its first two shows in Greensboro. Each show in the series will feature two local bands as well as two local stand-up comedians. Saturday includes comedians Chris Fox and Trent Bowles and the bands The Three-Brained Robot (GSO) and Sugar High Gang (W-S). Raleigh comic Joe Weinhouse will host this show. Located at 341 S. Elm Street. Chick-fil-A is OPEN on Saturdays from 11am-2pm with summer themed events at the DOWNTOWN location ONLY. This Saturday, July 11 is Pirate Day, dress in your favorite pirate and visit with Captain Jim. Bring your family, friends and co-workers. FREE-Top Your Own Banana Split or Ice Dream Sundaes. The Greensboro Grasshoppers continue their 8-day home stretch with the following specials this week. Gates open at 6:00pm with game time at 7:05pm: 7/09 College Alumni Night and Fireworks Fridays 7/10 Cow Appreciation Day and ZOOperstars! and Skyrocket Saturdays 7/11 Fly PTA Night & Boy Scout Sleepover and Thirsty Thursdays Shana Banana is Back for EMFKids. Back by popular demand, Shana Banana invites you to join her Banana Beach Party USA, a musical show about ocean animals and environmental awareness at Triad Stage (232 S. Elm Street) on Saturday, July 11 at 10:30pm. Shana is a multi-award winning Florida singer/songwriter whose lively stage presence, dynamic voice, wonderful video and CDs have earned her Parents' Choice and NAPPA awards. Join this fun-filled family concert geared toward children age two to seven. Tickets: adults $10/ children $6/20% discounts available for groups of 10 or more. For more visit http://www.easternmusicfestival.org/fringe.php, or call toll-free: 1-877-833-6753. www.shanabanana.com Free Fitness By the Fountain: July 13 features African Dance with Wesley Williams. This event runs every Monday from 6:30 to 7:30pm at Center City Park. Bring your own mat and wear comfortable clothes. Wine Dinner Benefits Friends for An Earlier Breast Cancer Test. Join the Undercurrent for a one-of-a-kind dining experience on Wednesday, July 15 at 6:00pm. Mary Hansen, Vintner of Oregon's Arbor Brook Vineyards teamed up with Undercurrent’s Chef de Cuisine, Michael Harkenreader and Owner Ben Roberts, to craft a delectable three course dinner with exquisite wine pairings; $65 per person includes tax, gratuity and donation. 15% of all Arbor Brook wine sales from this event to be donated to Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test. Click here for menu/reservations. Tunes @ Noon: July 15 features music by Clay and Benjy. This event runs every Wednesday from May to mid October from 12:00–1:30pm at Center City Park. Business After Hours at Studio B on Thursday, July 16 from 5:00-7:00pm. Take this opportunity to benefit from meeting over 125 customers/clients face-to-face and telling them first-hand about your products and services at this popular after-work networking event hosted by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Bring your entire staff and plenty of business cards and turn this extraordinary networking opportunity into revenue dollars. Studio B is located at 520 S. Elm Street. Register to participate (FREE for Chamber members). For more information, contact Janeen Matherly at (336) 387-8328 or jmatherly@greensboro.org Downtown Jazz at Churchill’s on Elm on Thursday, July 16 from 8:00-11:00pm with the Upperlineup Jazz Jam Session. Every Thursday evening, musicians and vocalists perform with an experienced ensemble for a local evening of quality music and performers that otherwise might not be heard. Experience what others are already making a Thursday evening destination, no cover charge. Located at 213 S. Elm Street. Find It Gallery Nomads at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art highlights six galleries from Raleigh. The first in a series of exhibitions focusing on regional art centers, Gallery Nomads introduces Green Hill patrons to several of the most vibrant art venues in the Triangle and present works by over fifty artists. The exhibit runs now to August 29 and is free and open to the public (a $5.00 donation is encouraged). More info at www.greenhillcenter.org. The Historic Carolina Theatre presents the inaugural Carolina Kids’ Club. Each Tuesday morning in July, the Theatre in partnership with the Natural Science Center, will open doors at 8:45am to welcome in Triad children for a morning full of entertainment. Tickets include a welcome and sing-along with emcee Eric Chilton, a special presentation featuring some of the Natural Science Center’s favorite animals, and a family-friendly film on the Theatre's huge screen. The film lineup for this Tuesday, July 14 is Over the Hedge (2006, rated PG). Festivities will end around noon. Tickets $5, under 12 $4. Natural Science Center members received $1 off ticket, special discounted snack packs available at Theatre’s concession stand. Special 4 for $15. More info. SUMMER FILM FEST with 32 films in eight consecutive weeks at the Historic Carolina Theatre. See your favorite movies in grandeur and on the big screen in Dolby® Digital Surround. Tickets are only $5, students with ID $4. Shows start at 7:30pm. This week features: 7/09 Dazed and Confused, (Cult Classics), 1993 R 7/13 Stripes, (New Comedy Classics), 1981 R 7/14 Mallrats, (Kevin Smith Director Series), 1995 R 7/15 O Brother, Where Art Thou?, (Coen Brothers Director Series), 2000 PG-13 7/16 Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, (Cult Classics), 1965 Unrated The Greensboro Central Library at 219 N. Church Street this week includes: Business & Career Events-Elevator Speeches on Thursday, July 9 from 6-8pm; Job Talk and Java on Wednesday, July 15 at 10am; Computer Classes-Intro to email on Saturday, July 11 from 2-4pm, -Intro to Microsoft Word on Wednesday, July 15 from 10:00am-noon; Genealogy-Introduction Genealogy on Wednesday July 15 from 7:30-8:30pm. For more information and to register, click here. The Greensboro Merchants Association at 225 Commerce Avenue holds monthly meetings, this week includes: C.A.N. Group on Friday, July 10; Networking Gurus on Monday, July 13; Key Professionals on Wednesday, July 15; and BIZ- Links on Thursday, July 16. For more information and to register, click here. Chamber’s Business Insider at The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, 342 N. Elm Street this week includes: Leads Group II on Wednesday, July 15 from 7:45-9am; New Online Tools for Your Business on Thursday, July 16 from 8:30-10:30am; Leads Group III on Thursday, July 16 at 11:45am-1pm; Business After Hours at Studio B on Thursday, July 16 from 5-7pm; For more information and to register, click here. Changes to Downtown Parking Decks, the City of Greensboro parking decks add two new features, Pay-in-Line Device and Ticket Retrieval System: 1. Pay-in-Line: Beginning July 1, the City of Greensboro will make changes to its downtown parking decks starting with the addition of the Pay-in-Lane Device at the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck. The Pay-in-Lane Device allows hourly customers to use cash or credit/debit cards to exit without going through the parking attendant booth. If a customer's parking ticket is validated by a downtown merchant, it will still need to be given to the parking attendant at the exit gate. 2. Ticket Retrieval System: Beginning August 1, a Ticket Retrieval System will be implemented at all downtown parking decks. Currently, downtown decks raise the gates in the evening and on the weekends so customers can enter free of charge. This method doesn't allow the City's Parking Operations to keep an accurate count of customer usage after hours. With the new Ticket Retrieval System, customers can still enter for free but they will have to take a ticket from the ticket dispenser before the gate raises, allowing them to enter. When customers exit, they will need to deposit the ticket into the Ticket Retrieval System at the main exit. If the ticket is lost, it will require a $1 deposit into the Ticket Retrieval System to exit.
For more information, visit Parking Operations' Web site or call 336-373-4368. ------------------------------------------------------------- For This Week’s Event Calendar, click here Upcoming | 