NCMC Events From Around the State… May 3, 2010

1). Greensboro Children’s Museum The Greensboro Children’s Museum has an exciting line up of weekday summer camps for 2010, including the one-of-a-kind Edible Schoolyard camps. Camps are offered weekly throughout the summer starting June 21st and running through August 20th. Camps are available for boys and girls, ages 4 to 11 years old and include a variety of themes like science, music, art, nature, construction, fantasy, cooking and gardening.

2). Rocky Mount Arts Center invites you to Summer Exhibitions: 2010 Opening Reception with the Artists - Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:00 – 4:00 PM. At 2:30, the 53rd National Juried Art Show awards will be announced. Exhibits include Austin Shepperd: The Sum of the Parts; Dorothy McGuinness: Baskets: More than Function; Anne Lemanski: A Stitch in Time; Michael Dorsey: A Perception of Events; 53rd National Juried Art Show; Ceramics Selection from the Permanent Collection.

3). Turchin Center for the Visual Arts presents Collecting Worlds: Suzanna Bryan, April 2 - July 31, 2010 in the Mayer Gallery. Painter Suzanna Bryan works with layers of media, representing layers of consciousness. Her creative process involves working on multiple paintings at once, and her intuitive style involves developing images and figures in acrylic that she enhances with a variety of media, including collage materials, oil pastels, gouache and India ink. Layers of media reveal powerful images and figures.

4). The Bascom Art lovers from around the region are invited to open The Bascom's 2010 season in style when the nonprofit art center hosts its Season Kickoff Party on Saturday, May 15, from 1 to 5 p.m. The free drop-in event will feature an open house, popcorn and lemonade, a meet-the-artist reception with Patrick Taylor, and the chance to view several new exhibitions: An Artist in Construction: Patrick Taylor, Mud to Music: Ceramic Instruments, Ceramic Wine Goblets, Recent Works: Chad Awalt, and Regional High School Showcase. The Bascom and its shop are open May 15-December 18, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday afternoons beginning May 30 from 12-5 p.m.

5). N.C. Maritime Museum In ceremonies next week, communities on the Outer Banks pay honor to World War II British and Canadian sailors who gave their lives to defend the coast of the United States. The British War Grave ceremonies take place at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 6, at the World War II British Cemetery in Buxton, and again at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 7, at the World War II British Cemetery in Ocracoke. Receptions follow both events at 1 p.m. Held by the Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum, the Ocracoke Community, the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Park Service and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the ceremonies honor the 63 foreign sailors who lost their lives just off the coast of the Outer Banks.

6). Museum of the Albemarle Blackbeard’s Crew will be returning to the Museum of the Albemarle for the weekend of May 14 & 15 in conjunction with the North Carolina Potato Festival. Blackbeard’s Crew will create an encampment and entertain with living history exhibits by accurately portraying the lifestyle, manner of dress and speech, common knowledge and skills, weapons, tools and crew organizations of both pirates and ordinary seamen afloat and ashore during the Golden Age of Piracy.

7). N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences The terror has surfaced. A movie so bad it makes chum look good. We triple dog dare you to join us at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday, May 7 at 7 p.m. for this mysterious and unnamed shark feature. Plus, enjoy biting commentary and a shiver of terrifyingly bad shark-related shorts from the A/V Geeks archive. Parental guidance encouraged.

8). N.C. Transportation Museum The N.C. Transportation Museum’s fourth annual Learning to Fly event takes visitors into the wild blue yonder, with a special celebration of aviation. The event will be held May 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free. While “Learning to Fly” is typically limited to the open area between the museum’s parking lot and exhibit buildings, this year’s event will stretch across the museum’s 57 acre property, with some new additions and a close up looks at the beginnings of powered flight.

9). Reynolda House Museum of American Art Reynolda House Museum of American Art is hosting a Reynolda After Hours event Barbecue, Brews, and Blues on the Lawn on Thursday, May 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. This fun and festive event is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition “William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961–2005,”on view in the Museum’s Babcock Wing gallery through June 27, 2010.

10). Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens presents From New Bern to a New Birth of Freedom a free lecture. Before the Emancipation Proclamation, the efforts of North Carolinians of African descent in the New Bern area to end the tyranny of slavery were some of the boldest and most productive in the country. Their impact was regional and national. The heroes were many. This lecture will tell their story of a glorious march from slavery to freedom as liberators and true defenders of the Constitution. Lecture on Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m. in the Tryon Palace visitor center auditorium. Free.