CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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Inside Fayetteville May 4 Kids Fest 2013 An event that offers arts and crafts, games, inflatable attractions and more. Several community agencies are expected to be on hand with family-based information and giveaways. Festival Park. 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. eon, a celebration of women and an awareness symposium for heart disease, at the Embassy Suites on Lake Valley Drive. Keynote speaker Susan Sparks. Information: www. goredforwomen-fayettevillenc.org. May 17 Fayetteville After 5 May 4 Eastover Heritage Day Partake in Eastover's annual Heritage Day celebration, held from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Flea Hill. Information: www.eastovernc.com. May 11 All-American Jazz Festival A one-day festival to celebrate the legacy of jazz, featuring local and world-renowned artists and jazz masters, including: The Jazz Crusaders, with Special Guests Keiko Matsui, Maysa and Marcus Johnson. Sponsored by WFSS 91.9. Festival Park. 3 p.m. Kick off those work shoes and kick up your heels at Fayetteville After 5, now on the third Fridays each month. Admission is free and activities include a corn hole tournament, 50/50 raffle giveaway, prizes, food and beverage vendors and activities for children. Festival Park. 5 — 11 p.m. May 17 — 18 Town of Stedman Centennial Celebration The Town of Stedman is turning 100! This two-day event includes a street dance, parade, live entertainment, food and craft vendors, a kids area and more. Stedman Recreation Center. Information: 910.323.1892. May 18 Armed Forces Day at the North Carolina Veterans Park A memorial ceremony, wreath laying and table ceremony featuring Jack Britt High School JROTC Color Guard, in celebration of United States Armed Forces Day. North Carolina Veterans Park. 10:30 — 11:30 a.m. May 23 82nd Division Memorial Service Join the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum in a Memorial Service honoring the 7,000 war dead of the 82nd Division from 1918 — 2012. 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum. 11:30 a.m. Information: 910.432.3443. www.82ndairbornedivision museum.com May 16 — 26 The River Show: "Cotton Patch Gospel" This reverential retelling of the book of Matthew transplants the "Ain't No Love Like a story of Jesus into the American South, and considers what might Mother's Love!" May 18 A dynamic stage production inspired Sandhills Sankofa Festival have happened had Jesus been born by the book "Dark Clouds" by The 11th Annual Sandhills Sankofa in Georgia. Campbellton Landing Crystal L. Bass and starring Shelly Festival and Art of Gospel celebrates Amphitheater. Thursday, Friday and Garrett as well as national comedian the heritage of rural African- Ameri- Saturday 7:30 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. "Arnesto" from HBO and B.E.T.'s Information: 910.323.4234; cans in the Sandhills. Features "Comic View." Crown Theatre. www.cfrt.org. homegrown foods, hand-made Information: www.atthecrown.com. crafts, and African dance, storytelling, mimes and musical performanc- May 24 May 14 es throughout the day. Spring Lake Spring Concert Series: Go Red for Women Luncheon Community Center. 11 a.m. — 7 p.m. The Backbeat Join the American Heart Association Information: www.sandhillsfamilyA family-friendly Friday evening conat the Go Red For Women Lunchcert series. Bring a blanket or lawn heritage.org. May 11 — 12 68 | May/June • 2013