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Clean Plates Benefit Worthy Cause
Event supports Just for Kids Kampaign
Go gourmet for all the right reasons when local eateries offer an array of healthy treats to benefit construction of the new WakeMed Children’s Hospital. The second annual Dish It Up! takes place Sept. 14 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre.
While bringing together the delicious creations of 30 restaurants, the event also educates the community and promotes healthy lifestyles, according to Heather Monackey, a spokesperson for WakeMed Health and Hospitals.
Along with samples of healthy meal options prepared by the local chefs, the day features bands and other entertainment as well as a special kids’ area where the young ones can work up an appetite with a climbing wall, games, crafts and other activities. Twinkle, the WakeMed children’s mascot, is also scheduled to make an appearance.
Among the restaurants scheduled to serve samples are 18 Seaboard, Mura, Duck and Dumpling, La Residence, Enoteca Vin and Margaux’s. The participating restaurants and their chefs also contributed recipes for their signature dishes to a cookbook available for sale at the event and online.
Proceeds from Dish It Up! and sales of the cookbook go to the Just for Kids Kampaign, a $20 million fundraising effort to build a children’s hospital on the fourth floor of the patient tower currently under construction at WakeMed’s Raleigh campus. The hospital is planning to expand its pediatric services to keep up with the area’s tremendous growth, Monackey says. Construction is scheduled to be completed in December 2009.
Admission is free for children 6 and younger, $10 for all others, and there are a range of options for purchasing tasting and beverage tickets. For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, visit www.wakemed.org. Tickets also are available at the event.
— Aleta Payne
Art Hits the Streets in Durham
CenterFest Arts Festival celebrates 35th anniversary
From clay to fiber, photography to sculpture, CenterFest Arts Festival has it and more. In its 35th anniversary year, the event, sponsored by the Durham Arts Council, brings together more than 110 juried artists for the longest-running street arts festival in the state.
And it’s not just visual artists. More than 30 performing arts groups are featured at this year’s event, taking place Sept. 20 and 21 on Foster Street in the Downtown Durham Central Park District.
Two creative Kids Zones provide hands-on art activities, including creating traditional Japanese fish prints, embellishing one-of-a-kind hats and producing Matisse-inspired watercolor paintings. And among the musicians scheduled to perform is the kid-friendly Sandbox Band.
Food offerings range from the oh-so-American turkey leg and roasted corn to Mediterranean gyros and Thai-Chinese favorites.
Saturday hours for CenterFest are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday runs from noon to 6 p.m. Admission is free, but a suggested donation of $4 per person or $12 for families of four or more goes to support artists, art programs and organizations in the community through the Durham Arts Council.
Visit www.centerfest.durhamarts.org or call 919-560-2722 for more information.
— Aleta Payne
From Cakes to Crafts, Colonial Tea Steps Back in Time
Raleigh museum offers old-fashioned afternoon
Sip a cup of history and learn a bit about life in Raleigh more than 200 years ago when the Joel Lane Museum House hosts Lizzie Lane’s Colonial Tea. Scheduled for Sept. 28 from 3 to 5 p.m., with a rain date of Oct. 5, the event takes place in the gardens of the museum house and is named for the seventh child of Col. Joel Lane, a founding father of the state’s capital city and a militia officer during the Revolutionary War.
Among the afternoon’s events are lessons in Colonial etiquette that might be a surprise to today’s vibrant and vivacious children. Back in the day, they would have been seen and not heard, and strict rules would have dictated most aspects of their lives, according to Rachel Dickens, the education programs coordinator from the North Carolina Museum of History who will lead a discussion of Colonial manners and morals.
After tea or lemonade and cakes, visitors can decorate a paper fan, make a rag doll, and play graces or other games. And they can learn Scottish country dance from a local instructor, with music provided by the string quartet Flies in the Kitchen.
The tea takes place at the museum, 728 W. Hargett St., Raleigh. Tickets must be purchased in advance and cost $25 for adults and $15 for children 12 and younger. The minimum age to participate is 5. For more information, call 919-833-3431 or visit www.joellane.org.
— Aleta Payne
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