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Friday July 11, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Piedmont Triad Omnium
Start: 1:20 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Choose your speed – you can race with the cyclists at the Piedmont Triad Omnium, a series of bike races in Davidson County, or meander through uptown Lexington at the Summer Night Stroll, where you can shop, dine and listen to local music. Either way you’ll be in the heart of the action. 336.249.0383
Saturday July 12, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Bayou Bash
Start: 5:00 pm
Join Greensboro Beautiful in the Bog Garden for Bayou Bash, recreating an evening in the bayou with live Cajun music, storytelling and a rain room to help you keep cool. Family-friendly and free, this event starts at 5pm.
Sunday July 13, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Simone Veil's borthday
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Simone Veil, France’s former Minister of Health, was born on this day in 1927. Veil was a Holocaust survivor (she, her mother and sister were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau) who went on to build a good life and political career, despite losing her father, brother and mother during the Holocaust. She pushed the notable laws of making access to contraceptives easier (1974) and legalizing abortion (1975) and went on to become President of the European Parliament (1979-1982) and still continues to be socially and politically active.

Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin played guitar with Muddy Waters in the ‘70s. Hear the blues musician and his band for free on the founder’s lawn at Guilford College at 6pm as part of the Music for a Sunday Evening in the Park program of EMF Fringe.
Monday July 14, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Tuesday July 15, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Maggie L. Walker's birthday
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Maggie L. Walker, the first female founder/president of a bank in the US, was born on this day in 1887 to a former slave and an abolitionist. She worked her entire life trying to make life better for African Americans and women—the founding of her bank was due to her idea that people should pool their money together to help each other. Her bank, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, still exists today as the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company in Richmond, VA.

synerG’s Making Connections Around the Table
Start: 1:24 pm
synerG’s Making Connections Around the Table continues with a visit from Moses Cone Health System president and CEO Tim Rice. This bimonthly dinner program is sponsored in part by American Express. synerg.org.
Wednesday July 16, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Ida B. Wells' birthday
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
On this day in 1862 Ida B. Wells was born. Wells fought for equality of women and African Americans—especially the equality of African American women in the suffragist movement. 71 years before Rosa Parks, Wells refused to give up her seat on a train, and when they made her move, she sued the railway company. She won her case in the local court but lost when the railroad took it to the Tennessee Supreme Court.  Her refusal to stand in the back of suffragist parades garnered her more media attention for her causes.
Thursday July 17, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Friday July 18, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Saturday July 19, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Seneca Falls Convention anniversary
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Today is the 160th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention—the first women’s rights convention in the United States.

African-American Independence Day
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum in Sedalia will celebrate African-American Independence Day with a program from noon to 5pm. Learn more about North Carolina’s African-American heritage. www.nchistoricsites.org/chb/
Sunday July 20, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Monday July 21, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Tuesday July 22, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Wednesday July 23, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Thursday July 24, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Amelia Earhart Day
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Amelia Earhart Day honors the birthday of the woman who took aviation and feminism to new heights.

Friday July 25, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Saturday July 26, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Tomato Day
Start: 6:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
I say tomato, you say tomata -- venture over to the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market for Tomato Day. Sample more than 20 different types of tomatoes grown right here in the Triad.  The day starts at 6am and ends at noon, when you get to vote on your favorite!
Modern dance
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

A concert of modern dance, “Multiple Exposure: New Work by North Carolina Choreographers” will be presented at 7:30 pm in the Black Box Theatre of Elon University’s Center for the Arts, 203 Williamson Avenue, Elon. 

Professional dancers will present 12 original dance pieces involving athletic brilliance as well as stimulating artistic expression. 

Sunday July 27, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Monday July 28, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Tuesday July 29, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Bridal festival
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
It’s wedding season, and Castle McCullough is getting into the spirit with a bridal festival from 6 to 9pm. Brides can register at castlemccullough.com for a free ticket and information about the top wedding vendors who will be onsite. 336.887.5413
Wednesday July 30, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Endangered Species of NC class
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm

Discover the wild side of North Carolina at Bur Mil Park.  At 6:30pm the park will be putting on a fun and informative class on the Endangered Species of NC. Bring the whole family and learn how you can help maintain the wildlife of this beautiful region.

Thursday July 31, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Friday August 1, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
(all day)
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Maria Mitchell's birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in the United States, was born on this day in 1818. Mitchell was raised in a Quaker community, which was one of the few groups that felt women should have equal educational opportunities as men. She had the notable discovery that sunspots are “whirling vertical cavities” and not, as thought at the time, clouds. 
Saturday August 2, 2008
Eastern Music Festival
End: 1:32 pm
Start: 07/05/2008 - 13:32
End: 08/02/2008 - 13:32
For six weeks, 200 of the country’s top young musicians will descend on Greensboro, bringing with them a talented roster of performers, both classical and contemporary. Accompanying the school is a calendar of standout performances, from violin concertos to the blues. See what the Eastern Music Festival has to offer in its 47th season. Performances begin July 5 and run through August 2, at Guilford College and Triad Stage. easternmusicfestival.org
Men Can Cook
Start: 1:14 pm
Anyone who loves the Food Network knows that men can cook. Watch them prove it at Men Can Cook, benefiting the Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro. Sample dishes from more than 50 local men and watch an “Iron Chef”-style showdown between three of Greensboro’s greatest chefs. A silent auction and Fire and Ice diamond raffle offer the chance to go home with more than just a full belly. Tickets are $40, womenscentergso.org
Myrna Loy's birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” Myrna Loy would have been 103 today. She used her fame in the 1930s-40s to champion the rights of black actors and to give them dignity onscreen, rather than the stereotypes they often played at the time.
Sunday August 3, 2008
Martha Stewart's birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Martha Stewart’s birthday is today. Bake a cake entirely out of the flour you hand-milled from your personal wheat crop and decorate it with homemade buttercream frosting and fruit from your organic orchard to celebrate.

Monday August 4, 2008
Meg Whitman's birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today is the 52nd birthday of Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay. Since resigning from eBay in March 2008, she is considering a run for Governor of California in 2010.

Tuesday August 5, 2008
Miriam Rothschild's birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Dame Miriam Rothschild, a leading entomologist and zoologist, was born on this day in 1908. Scientifically, she was a foremost expert on fleas and was the first person to figure out the biology of how fleas jump. Socially, she campaigned for the legalization of homosexuality in the U.K. in the 1960s and was a vegetarian—she refused to wear any form of leather or fur.

Wednesday August 6, 2008
REGROWTH
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
The works of nine artists are featured in REGROWTH, an exhibition at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina art using nature imagery to depict themes of death and renewal. Join curator Edie Carpenter for a guided tour and discussion of the reasons she chose each piece. This free event takes place from 12:30 to 1:30pm. greenhillcenter.org
Lucille Ball’s birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Lucille Ball’s birthday is today…she clashed with CBS execs after they tried not to let her have a pregnancy storyline in her show. They finally caved, but still wouldn’t allow her to say “pregnant.” Throughout the episode, they had to refer to her as “expecting” instead.

Grandma Moses’ birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Grandma Moses was born 148 years ago today. She started painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult for her to continue her art of embroidery. She went on to become one of America’s most popular folk artists and lived to the age of 101.
Thursday August 7, 2008
Music@Muse
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The Music @ Muse series continues with a performace by Tornado beginning at 5:30pm in the Muse parking lot, located on Kathleen Avenue in Friendly Center. Bring your lawn chairs and help support Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. Entry is $5 and kids 12 and under are free. chsnc.org
Friday August 8, 2008
Peaceful Beginnings Grand Opening
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Celebrate the grand opening of Peaceful Beginnings, offering natural baby products and services, from 5 to 8pm at 208 State Street in Greensboro. Learn about the store’s variety of prenatal and birthing assistance services and enjoy light refreshments.

Destination Greensboro: A Music Oasis
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Global Crest Music presents Destination Greensboro: A Music Oasis, bringing together local multicultural musicians at Proximity Hotel’s Weaver Room. Tickets are $57 each or $100 per couple and include catering by Print Works Bistro. 9pm, 336.333.2605
Saturday August 9, 2008
Big Bang Boom
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm

Greensboro’s own Big Bang Boom, a children’s rock group, will perform from 11am to 1pm at the grand opening of Peaceful Beginnings, an environmentally focused baby boutique. Bring a blanket and enjoy a picnic on the nearby lawn.

Jazz Fest
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Greensboro’s finest jazz musicians will showcase their sound at Jazz Fest 2008, taking place in Sunset Hills Park, 303 W. Greenway Drive North in Greensboro. The event, which will feature two stages of live music, wine and Natty Greene’s beer, is a project of the Rizzo Center, a non-profit group that aims to reach youth through music. Bring your lawn chairs and relax under the stars. rizzocenter.org
Janie Porter Barrett’s birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Janie Porter Barrett was born on this day in 1865. She founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, a rehabilitation center for troubled girls which was centered on self-reliance and self-discipline. It became a model for other similar schools and was extremely successful—the majority of students found jobs and had families after leaving the facility. It became integrated in 1965 and still exists today under the name of the Barrett Learning Center.

Sunday August 10, 2008
Mary Gove Nichols’s birthday
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Mary Gove Nichols was born 198 years ago, today. She traveled the country speaking about women’s health and anatomy, but was scorned by many of her time for her belief in “free love” instead of marriage, which Nichols considered to be the “annihilation of women.” She believed that health, freedom and sexual liberation were all linked was an outspoken advocate for all three.

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