On exhibit Saturdays and Sundays through October from 12 to 4 p.m. (weather permitting), Rocky Cove Railroad is a G-Scale (garden scale) model train that demonstrates the coming of trains to western North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibit is located below the Grand Garden Promenade.
Events Calendar
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Sunday, May
2, 2021
WNC Farmers Market Open Daily
Grab Brunch at River’s End
SRHS looking for vaccination shift volunteers
The Enveloping Landscape: A Contemplative Photographic Journey
Biltmore Gardens Railway
Biltmore: Stickwork by Patrick Dougherty
Taste of the Upstate
Rocky Cove Railroad Exhibit
Rocky Cove Railroad Exhibit
Downtown Trolley Greenville’s Main Street
Mean Girls
The A.R.M.E.S. Dance Concert 2021
Gala – Celebrating 95 Years Greenville Theatre
Mean Girls
Charlotte Hornets vs. Miami Heat
With the convenience of being open year-round, 7 days a week, the WNC Farmers Market offers a selection of farm-fresh produce at the lowest prices in Western N.C. Our popular retail buildings, providing a selection of non-perishables, fruits, vegetables, crafts and more, are open daily.
River’s End Restaurant is an iconic spot for locals and visitors to Bryson City. Enjoy spectacular views of the gorge, with paddlers passing through as they complete their Nantahala River Rafting trip. Stop in for year-round lunch and dinner, with weekend brunch during the summer season, and choose from a wide range of appetizing entrees, burgers, salads, pizza, and sandwiches. Hang out for a while and enjoy a large selection of signature cocktails, wine, and beer, including local favorites.
In River’s End Restaurant, every seat has a view of the river! Enjoy music by the river and views of paddlers passing through as they complete their Nantahala River Rafting trip. Join our waitlist online to reserve a table or order online and grab your meal to go, for a sunny lunch right by the river!
If you’re interested in helping protect our community and encouraging Spartanburg’s healthcare workers, you can volunteer at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System’s vaccination clinic at USC Upstate.
Volunteers will serve as greeter and help people through the clinic, and must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (two weeks elapsed since the second vaccine shot).
How can the community help?
Words of Encouragement
Your kind words can lift their spirits and let them know they are not alone. Letters, hand-drawn pictures, posters or cards can be sent via email or regular mail. These positive messages will be posted for associates to view.
Email your words of encouragement to [email protected].
Mail your words of encouragement to:
Community Cares
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Attn: SMC Volunteer Services
101 East Wood Street
Spartanburg, SC 29303
Food/Meal Donations
Companies or individuals that would like to provide food or treats for the frontline staff can get more details and/or make arrangements by emailing us at [email protected].
Small Gestures
If you have a neighbor, friend or relative who works in health care, consider sending them words of appreciation and encouragement through social media, email, regular mail, a phone call or a note in their mailbox. It means more than you’ll know.
The Enveloping Landscape: A Contemplative Photographic Journey is a visual celebration of the transformative power of place-based education. In this first-ever collaboration between the Arboretum’s Exhibits and Adult Education programs, images from award-winning documentary photographer Susan Patrice join those of 22 student photographers in a breathtaking exhibit that explores the ways that we are indelibly shaped by place. Through their images, these photographers reveal not only the rich biodiversity of Southern Appalachia, but a renewed sense of kinship with their local landscapes found through photography.
What began as a documentary photography project launched by Patrice in 2016 became a collaborative Arboretum workshop led by the artist in early 2020. The project invited photographers of all levels to return each season to focus their gaze on what called to them in the landscape — deepening a contemplative practice of seeing, knowing and caring for a place. When everything abruptly changed in March of last year, this photographic community wasted no time in moving online. What seemed like an unnatural distance imposed by technology became a path into both familiar and uncharted places. This exhibition chronicles these photographers’ year-long journey, inviting viewers to step into an intimate world where the landscape is alive, waiting to be met, understood and entered.
The Enveloping Landscape: A Contemplative Photographic Journey is on display daily January 16 – May 2, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., inside the Baker Exhibit Center. Face coverings are required for visitors ages 5 years and older.
Exhibit support for The Enveloping Landscape: A Contemplative Photographic Journey is provided in part by The North Carolina Arboretum Society; Asheville Citizen-Times; RomanticAsheville.com Travel Guide; Smoky Mountain Living Magazine; The Laurel of Asheville; and Henco North Creative Imaging.
Image: Susan Patrice, Enveloping Landscape #1, archival pigment print, 45 x 45 inches, © Susan Patrice
Included with admission
Our fun-for-all-ages botanical model train displays invite you to experience our grounds in an engaging new way. Located in the Conservatory in the Walled Garden, the displays feature replicas of structures connected with Biltmore and its founder George Vanderbilt. Each beautifully executed piece was handcrafted from such natural elements as leaves, bark, and twigs.
In compliance with state and local mandates related to COVID-19, all guests must enter the Conservatory via the ADA entrance in the back and follow a one-way route.
Included with admission
A unique-to-Biltmore, large-scale outdoor sculpture will be crafted and installed in Antler Hill Village this spring by Patrick Dougherty. Over the last three decades, this internationally-acclaimed artist has combined his carpentry skills and love of nature to build over 300 of these wondrous works, captivating the hearts and imaginations of viewers worldwide.
Image: Close Ties (2006) Scottish Basketmakers Circle, Dingwall, Scotland. Photo: Fin Macrae
NOTE: This is an example of Patrick Dougherty’s work; the artist will create Biltmore’s unique structure in Antler Hill Village this spring.
Loaves & Fishes is getting creative with its most popular fundraiser, Taste of the Upstate, in response to the pandemic. To keep guests as safe as possible, Loaves & Fishes has reinvented the event by offering the Perfect Picnic. Guests can purchase picnic meals online to be picked up, drive-thru style. Picnic meals will include 4 savory and 1 sweet offering from Moe’s BBQ, The Lazy Goat, Passerelle Bistro, Southern Pressed Juicery, Sidewall Pastry Kitchen, basta. & more. Guests will have a choice between a traditional fare or a vegan offering this year.
On exhibit Saturdays and Sundays from 12 – 4 p.m., Rocky Cove Railroad is a G-Scale (garden scale) model train that demonstrates the coming of trains to western North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibit is located below the Grand Promenade. Please note, Rocky Cove Railroad will not operate in rainy or wet conditions.
Downtown trolleys add to the excitement and enjoyment of Greenville’s Main Street experience. The red and blue open-air trolleys offer a vintage look and feel complete with a cow catcher on the front and wooden bench seats inside. Trolleys are wheelchair accessible and are equipped with bicycle racks.
Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and director Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.
New York Magazine cheers, “Mean Girls delivers with immense energy, a wicked sense of humor and joyful inside-jokery.” USA Today says, “We’ll let you in on a little secret, because we’re such good friends: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!”
The A.R.M.E.S. Dance Concert 2021 is a showcase of our afterschool dance program at the Fine Arts Center. Dance 1 our youngest group and Dance 2 our intermediate group, will both perform ballet and modern dance pieces. Dance 3, is our oldest group that will be showcasing their ballet and modern pieces along with the classic “Farewell” piece.
Gala – Celebrating 95 Years
One Night Only!
May 2, 2021
Sunday at 6 pm
A limited number of tickets will be sold for this special celebration event which will include hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and live entertainment.
Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and director Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.
New York Magazine cheers, “Mean Girls delivers with immense energy, a wicked sense of humor and joyful inside-jokery.” USA Today says, “We’ll let you in on a little secret, because we’re such good friends: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!”
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Monday, May
3, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccination Appointment Options
Grants for printing + distribution: Recycling outreach materials in rural + small communities
Mother’s Day Giveaway
Nantahala River Rafting Fully Guided
REAL Academy Casting Call
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How are you celebrating Mom this year? With dinner out? With a sweet, well-thought out gift? With a fun day spent with family and friends? Why not do all of that and more by entering her into the Drive’s Mother’s Day Giveaway! She’ll have the chance to win the “Mother of all Gifts” from the Greenville Drive and Hale’s Jewelers! One lucky Mama will win a $500 shopping spree to Hale’s Jewelers, tickets to the Drive’s Mother’s Day game on Sunday, May 9th, the TD Bank “Most Convenient Parking Spot” for that same game and a special swag bag from the Drive! Oh, I almost forgot…in-game recognition as our “Mom of the Game” too! Submit a picture and Share Your Story as to why you think she should be the one to win this fantastic prize pack! Our Winner will be chosen on Wednesday, May 5, 2021!
A guided whitewater rafting trip is one of the best ways to experience the Nantahala Gorge. The crystal-clear Nantahala River is the perfect family-friendly river where experienced river guides will help you navigate through splashy Class II-III rapids and bouncy waves, with occasional calmer waters where you can enjoy the spectacular mountain scenery. The fully guided rafting trip the most popular adventure at NOC, with thousands of families returning year after year.
Ryan Fogarty
30 min
We are excited about inviting local and regional actors to come and try out for roles in our simulation events and the production of a series of mini movies called Stories. Our mission at the REAL Academy is to equip social workers with the tools and confidence to make good decisions in child welfare cases. We have seen the benefits of simulation training for social workers and the best way to provide that is using skilled actors to play realistic roles that challenge students before they practice in the community. This is a great opportunity for theatre students and professional actors alike because they will be paid for their work and also contribute to communities across North Carolina.