FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                              May 29, 2008


 

 

TOWN OF CARY ’S

WEEKEND UPDATE

Friday:

May 30

Cary Pulse (formally Cary Art Loop)

6-9 p.m.

Cary Pulse highlights Triangle arts & culture in the Cary area offering extended hours for participating art galleries, restaurants, coffee houses, and other businesses that showcase art, music and more!

For more, visit www.carypulse.com.

 

Karin Baumeister-Rehm, EMBRACE Summer Art Installation & Reception

Cary Senior Center , 5:30-8 p.m.

Join Karin Baumeiter-Rehm, mixed media artist, as she installs “Nesting for Peace” as well as for a lecture about her work “EMBRACE Summer” followed by a reception in the Cary Senior Center. 

For more, call (919) 469-4081.

 

Jordan Hall Portrait Artists

Town Hall & Herbert C. Young Community Center galleries

Artists’ Reception 6-8 p.m.

The Jordan Hall Portrait Artists Group formed about 10 years ago.  It is a cooperative group formed to engage local artists, amateur and professional, to work from a live model.

For more, call (919) 469-4061.

 

PAQA-South: ART QUILTScultures

Professional Art Quilter's Alliance-South

Page-Walker Arts & History Center , 1st floor gallery

Exhibition open through Wed Jun 25, open for Cary Pulse

The Professional Art Quilt Alliance-South presents ARTQUILTScultures, our sixth annual international juried exhibition of innovative quilts, with the Page-Walker Arts & History Center in Cary , North Carolina . 

For more, visit www.artquiltersouth.org.

 

Eric Saunders: Landscapes - Mostly Natural

Page-Walker Arts & History Center , 2nd floor gallery

Medium: Photography

Exhibition open through Wed Jun 25, open for Cary Pulse

 

Deborah Younglao, Nature Expressed On Silk

Jordan Hall Arts Center Gallery and Display Case

Artist’s Reception 6-8 p.m.

Medium:  Dye Painting on Silk

 

Ben Folds

Koka Booth Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.

For more information visit www.boothamphitheatre.com

 

NCAA Division I Baseball Cary Regional

USA Baseball National Training Complex at Thomas Brooks Park

Teams Participating are UNC – Chapel Hill , Elon, UNC – Wilmington and Mt. St. Mary ’s. 

Game Times Elon vs UNC-W at 2 p.m and Mt St. Mary ’s vs UNC-CH at 6 p.m.

For ticket information, call (800) 722-4335.

 

Saturday:

May 31

 

 

 

Play with the Pros

Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park , 7:30 p.m. (Gates open at 5 p.m. )

Please join us for the first North Carolina Symphony Summerfest concert of the season at the Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park . The Eleventh Annual Play With The Pros concert will feature a full program by the North Carolina Symphony.  At the conclusion of the concert, over 40 talented local musicians will take the stage to perform the final three selections of the evening side-by-side with the pros in one magnanimous finale! Free.

For more, call (919) 462-2052.

 

NCAA Division I Baseball Cary Regional

USA Baseball National Training Complex at Thomas Brooks Park

Teams Participating are UNC – Chapel Hill , Elon, UNC – Wilmington and Mt. St. Mary ’s

Game Times 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.   Teams TBA

For more, call (800) 722-4335.

           

Sunday:

June 1

 

Philharmonic Association Alumni Concert

Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park , 3 p.m.

Celebrate 20 years of youth performing great music!

Free.

For more, call (919) 467-2727 or visit www.philharmonic-association.org.

 

NCAA Division I Baseball Cary Regional

USA Baseball National Training Complex at Thomas Brooks Park

Teams Participating are UNC – Chapel Hill , Elon, UNC – Wilmington and Mt. St. Mary ’s

Game Times 1 p.m and 5 p.m.   Teams TBA

For ticket information, call (800) 722-4335

 

 

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WEEKEND UPDATE is a publication from the Town of Cary distributed each Thursday afternoon to help you plan your weekend news coverage. WEEKEND UPDATE gives the date, time, location, contact person, and short description for any significant activity sponsored in whole or in part by the Town during the upcoming Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. A NR designation indicates that the activity does have an associated news release, so check your files or visit us online for further details.

 

 

PRIMARY CONTACTS:

April Raphiou, Deputy Public Information Officer, (919) 481-5091

Susan Moran, Public Information Officer, (919) 460-4951