📆 Around town this weekend
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Today
🎅 Pictures with Santa @ Waterline Brewing Company | Friday (11/28) at 12:00pm – Skip the mall lines and snag festive photos with Santa at Waterline Brewing, plus a Highland cow happy to photobomb your holiday card. $18 sitting fee, packages galore, or all digital shots for $25. Spots go fast, reserve a slot, and celebrate with a pint.
🚢 Holiday Lights River Cruise Aboard @ Wilmington Water Tours | Friday (11/28) at 5:30pm – Trade the traffic for twinkle lights and hop a cozy Cape Fear cruise, complete with local musicians, a festive cocktail, and zero decorating required. The enclosed catamaran keeps you warm, the skyline does the showing off, and visiting relatives think you planned everything.
This weekend
🛍️ Small Business Saturday @ The ArtWorks | Saturday (11/29) at 11:00am – Small Business Saturday is your annual reminder that the best gifts come with paint under the nails, not two-day shipping. Wander South Front, sip something warm, and snag art, bites, and gifts from folks who actually know your name. Your porch will thank you.
🧶 Fiber Arts Group, crochet, knitting, macramé @ Pine Valley Library | Sat (11/29) at 1:00pm – Whether you’re a yarn wizard or you still crochet like you’re wrestling an octopus, this cozy Saturday meetup has room for you. Get tips from seasoned crafters, swap project inspo, and finally tackle that scarf you swear you’ll finish “someday.” It’s low-pressure, high-creativity, and the perfect excuse to stitch the afternoon away.
🎧 DJ Matt Smith @ Seven Mile Post | Saturday (11/29) at 8:30pm – Remember when music had sides? Seven Mile Post brings the warm crackle back with DJ Matt Smith spinning an all vinyl mix of throwbacks and funky favorites. Great drinks, no cover, 21+, and you don’t have to get up to flip anything.
🏃 Relay Relay @ Waterline Brewing Co. | Sunday (11/30) at 3:00pm – Waterline’s got Relay Relay in the house, the kind of local gig that pairs nicely with a crisp pint and not having to shout over your friends. Expect good beer, easy vibes, and conversation-friendly volume.
🎶 Port City Quartet @ Olivet Baptist Church | Sunday (11/30) at 6:15pm – Swap the noisy bar scene for rich four-part harmonies with the Port City Quartet, and let your shoulders drop a notch. Expect classic favorites, tight vocals, and local charm, the musical equivalent of a well-poured bourbon. Grown-up night out, zero regrets.
Next week
🎭 Drama Unmasked: The Art of the Stage @ Wilma W. Daniels Gallery at CFCC | Tue (12/2) at 10:00am – Step behind the velvet curtain and into the world where sets, lighting, costumes, and character work all pull strings to make stage magic happen. This exhibition celebrates the craft and collaboration that turn scripts into goosebump-worthy performances. Expect set models, costume renderings, sound design, and more—all created by CFCC’s talented theatre team. If you’ve ever wondered how a single prop or gesture can make an audience swoon, this is your chance to see the artistry up close.
🎨 Messy Hands @ Pleasure Island | Tuesday (12/2) at 10:15am – Got a tiny Picasso at home? Take them to Pleasure Island Library for Messy Hands, a child-led art free-for-all for ages 2 to 5. You supervise, they splatter, everyone wears play clothes, and yes, you need to register.
🤖 Ozobot Robots @ Northeast Regional Library | Tuesday (12/2) at 4:00pm – Got a kid who treats the remote like mission control? Northeast Library’s Makerspace lets ages 9 to 12 program Ozobot robots, flex some independence, and play tiny engineer. Registration required, caregivers remain in the library while the bots, and the kids, do their thing.
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