NCMC Events From Around the State… September 12, 2011

1). N.C. Maritime Museum at Beaufort presents “Locals’ Reception: ‘Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge’ Exhibit” on Friday, Sept. 16, 5–7 p.m. This is an off-season opportunity to experience the Museum’s newest permanent exhibit. Light refreshments provided. This is a free event supported by the Friends of the NC Maritime Museum in Beaufort.

2). Port Discover Spend some time in Port Discover’s “Kids Grow” garden during “Nature IDs,” Port Discover’s Toddler Time program, on Thursday, September 15 at 10:00 am. The kids will create a science nature journal for recording, observing, and identifying the natural world around us. Programs in “Kids Grow” garden is made possible by a grant from AgCarolina Financial. Toddler Time is a special science program just for preschoolers, ages 3 – 5. Cost for the program is $5 per family and reservations are required. Parents or guardians must accompany the child.

3). Joel Lane Museum House The Joel Lane Museum House will present “Lizzie Lane’s Colonial Tea” on Sunday, September 28, 2011 from 3 to 5 pm with a rain date of Sunday, October 2. Elizabeth was Colonel Joel Lane’s seventh child. He was a founding father of Raleigh and an officer in the Militia during the American Revolutionary War. In the beautiful colonial gardens at the Joel Lane Museum House, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and granddaughters will learn the etiquette of taking tea and cakes in colonial times. After tea, they will have a chance to participate in early American crafts and games. The strains of live music will fill the air. Admission is by advanced purchase only, and tickets have sold out early for the last two years.

4). N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Whether they’re hiding in the corners of our homes, spinning a web or descending upon us on a single thread of silk, spiders are undeniably fascinating which is why they’re the theme bug for this year’s “BugFest”—the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ biggest event of the year and the largest, one-day, bug-centric event of its kind in the country. On Saturday, September 17 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., all four floors of the Museum, as well as Bicentennial Plaza, Jones St. and Edenton St. will become bug central station!

5). Museum of the Albemarle “Pre-Schooler Time” will be held at the Museum of the Albemarle on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:00 am. Participants must be between the ages of 3 to 5 years old and must be accompanied by an adult. Children will discover the purpose of blimps, what blimps are made of and how they float in the air. Read a book and participate in a hands-on activity. This is a free family program.

6). Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present this September’s ArtFacts workshop, “Collecting WPA Prints”, with June Lambla, owner and manager of Lambla artWORKS, LLC. The workshop will be held at the Museum on Monday, September 12 at 5:30 p.m. The cost for the workshop is $5 for Museum Members and $6 for Non-Members, and includes light refreshments. Advance registration is requested, but not required.

7). Maria V. Howard Arts Center September 17th and 18th Christine Zoller will offer a silk painting workshop. Participants will experiment with a number of silk painting techniques and become comfortable with a fabric some times considered intimidating. The class will also offer a few quick dye methods and will focus on using textile flowable paints and fiber reactive dyes with resists. The workshop will take place from 10:00am to 4:00pm each day in the Arts Education Building of the Maria V. Howard Arts Center at the Imperial Centre. The cost of the workshop is $80 for city residents and $85 for non residents. There will be a separate $25 material fee paid to the instructor.

8). Weatherspoon Art Museum presents "Persona" Opening Reception + Artist Talk on Friday, Sep 16, 6-9pm. Join us for special exhibition preview of “Persona: A Body in Parts”. The evening begins with a Talk by participating artist Kate Gilmore at 6pm followed by a public reception and premiere of Gilmore's live performance artwork at 7pm.

9). CSS Neuse State Historic Site and the Governor Caswell Memorial presents Military Through the Ages on September 17, 2011 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. There will be re-enactors portraying soldiers from the American Revolution through World War II. Visitors will be invited to learn about uniforms, accessories, equipment, and weapons that soldiers used during the wars represented. The event is free, but donations are welcome.

10). Mount Airy Museum of Regional History presents History Talks Lecture Series: Kevin Duffus presents “The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate”, 2PM Sunday September 18, Free to the Public, Museum Conference Room. What happened during Blackbeard's last days that precipitated his demise? Who, truly, was Edward Teach, and from whence did he come? What was his true name and where may he have hidden his treasure? North Carolina Humanities Council's Road Scholar author Kevin Duffus, in his newest lecture, invites audiences to enter the dimly-lit passageway of time and learn surprising contradictions to previously-published historical accounts of the last days of Blackbeard the pirate.