Christmas Activities in Greensboro

Monday, December 19th

Christmas break Holiday Camps

Dec 19, 2022, – Jan 2, 2023

iCode Greensboro

3712 Lawndale Dr C, Greensboro, NC

Looking for a last minute place for your child to go while on Christmas break? iCode Greensboro is still enrolling for 5 days 3 days camps and 1 day camps! 

For more information visit https://icodeschool.com/greensboro/camps/ or call 336-790-1882 and find out how to save your child a seat! Camps are 8 am - 5 pm.

Christmas Festival at McLaurin Farms

Dec 19 - 23, 30th,  6 – 9 PM

5601 N Church St, Greensboro, NC

Memories are made at Christmas, and McLaurin Farms is here to help you do that, as our Christmas event is one of the highlights of our season. It’s so much more than your typical “drive-through” light show; it’s so much more! You can take a hayride through the lights. You have beautiful photo opportunities as well, as kids get to see Santa. 

More info: https://local.aarp.org/event/christmas-festival-2022-12-19-greensboro-nc.html

Christmas in Connecticut - Christmas in the Crown

Dec 19, 2022, 7:30 PM

Carolina Theatre

310 S Greene St, Greensboro, NC

Barbara Stanwyck stars as a famous expert on marriage, cooking, and homemaking who is asked by her publisher to host a national hero for Christmas dinner at her famous Connecticut home. It should be simple, but she must scramble to keep the secret that she’s single, can’t cook, and doesn’t own a home. With a lot of help, meticulous planning, and split-second timing, the urban sophisticate may just succeed, but the unforeseen happens when she falls in love with her guest. Also starring Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet. Directed by Peter Godfrey. 1945. Not Rated. 1 hour 42 minutes.

https://carolinatheatre.com/event/78204amgkpmqgdlbtnbsgcsbrdllbcjrv/

Holiday Piano Concert at the Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, Well Spring

Dec 19 2022 at 7:30 pm

Well•Spring, A Life Plan Community, 

4100 Well Spring Dr, Greensboro

A collection of Holiday favorites featuring fun versions of classic carols, White Christmas film favorites and Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas. It's sure to be a treat to celebrate the holidays with your favorite carols!

https://allevents.in/greensboro/holiday-piano-concert/200023727966237

Wednesday, December 21st

Market open for Winter Solstice-Pre Christmas

Dec 21, 8 AM – 12 PM

Greensboro Farmers Curb Market

501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro

https://gsofarmersmarket.org/page/2/

Christmas Around the World

Wed, Dec 21, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

McGirt-Horton Branch Library

2501 Phillips Ave, Greensboro

Celebrating holidays around the world and the McGirt-Horton Branch is hosting the Christmas celebration on Winter Solstice. Free

https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/82215/23

Thursday, December 22nd

RunClub's Holiday Guzzler 2022

Dec 22, 6 PM

SouthEnd Brewing Co

117B W Lewis St, Greensboro

Save the date! The Guzzler is back, bigger and better this year, combining forces from SouthEnd Run Club and the Monday OG RunClub from Sticks & Stones!

We're planning a new ~5ish mile pub run route around downtown GSO mixing up some new stops and past favs. Details to follow after we get it dialed in.

Wear your most festive holiday outfit (that you can run in, of course!). The lighter, brighter, merrier... the better!

We'll start and end with beers from SouthEnd, getting back in plenty of time to place a dinner order from their awesome kitchen.

https://allevents.in/greensboro/guzzler

Friday, December 23rd

It’s A Wonderful Life – Carolina Classic Holiday Movie

Dec 23, 2 PM

Carolina Theatre

310 S Greene St, Greensboro, NC

George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate that he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. (He sacrificed his education for his brother’s, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart.) As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived. Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Henry Travers. Directed by Frank Capra. 1946, Rated PG. 2 hours 12 minutes.

https://www.artsgreensboro.org/event/its-a-wonderful-life-carolina-classic-holiday-movie-2/2022-12-23/

Saturday, December 24th (Christmas Eve)

Christmas Eve Market 

December 24th, 7am-12 noon

Greensboro Farmers Curb Market

501 Yanceyville St, Greensboro

Last minute gift buying or special meal preparations? Come be a part of the festive Christmas cheer at the Market on Saturday, December 24th. You’ll enjoy a warm holiday atmostphere to finish up those final holiday details!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1844644399088127/

Black Santa Comes To Greensboro - 4th Annual Holiday Event

Dec 24, 2022 from 9am to 1pm

Genius Creations, 2804 Randleman Rd, Greensboro

$10 Breakfast with Santa:

9:00am-9:30am.

$30 Professional Photos

9:45am-11:45am.

Snack with Santa

12:00pm-12:30pm.

Write Wish List & Give to Santa 12:30-1:00pm.

https://allevents.in/greensboro/black-santa-comes-to-greensboro-nc-4th-annual-holiday-event/200023620910703

You can also find What's Good in Greensbroro? on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Whats-Good-in-Greensboro-848569635208317/ . See you there!

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Fun, Free Things to Do in Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, NC Has Lots of Free Summer Treats

Summer's here, and the living may be easy, but vacation plans in the current economy might be a little tougher for most people. More and more people are choosing a "stay-cation" that keeps them closer to home, not only saving money on travel and lodging, but also cutting down on hotel-room insomnia, backseat territorial squabbles and cries of "Are we there yet?", not to mention saving the planet from all the greenhouse gases our peregrinations normally produce.

But what if your activity budget is as limited as your travel budget? Take heart, Greensboro residents (and out-of-towners sleeping on their couches): There is much to see and do in Greensboro that won't cost a penny.

Things to Look at: Greensboro has a thriving art community, which results in a good number of galleries as well as public art pieces, most of which are concentrated in the downtown area. There is a nice mural at South Elm and Washington Streets, as well as a number of sculptural pieces in various outside locations as you stroll about. South Elm Street is also a hot spot for art galleries, including Ambleside Fine Arts (528 S. Elm), Artmongerz (610 S. Elm), Emmett Williams Gallery (Old Greensborough Gateway Center, 620 S. Elm), Emmett Studio (1009 S.Elm), Heart of Living Home Gallery (320 S. Elm),Metamorphosis Interior Design and Fine Art (524 S. Elm), South Elm Pottery and Gallery (500 S. Elm), and Yew Tree Gallery (604 S. Elm). Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (606 S. Elm) is not technically a gallery but a presentation space for ever-changing displays of visual and performance art; there is no charge, and the artists like it when people come to see what's up.

Just a few blocks from South Elm Street is the Greensboro Cultural Center at 200 N. Davie St, which houses the Center for Visual Arts, the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, and the Guilford Native American Art Gallery. The Green Hill Center hosts ArtQuest, a fun, interactive spot in which your kids can create art of various types. A donation is suggested to help them cover supplies, but the amount is up to you. If you have a car and just can't get enough art, Guilford College, A& T University andUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) all have very nice art galleries.

There is even a free museum in Greensboro! The Greensboro Historical Museum is located at the corner of Summit Avenue and Lindsey Street, close by the Greensboro Cultural Center (above) and the Greensboro Public Library (entrance on Summit Ave.) The historical museum is open Tues-Sat, 10a-5p and Sun 2-5p. The public library, which has a small art gallery, a cool children's section and internet access (you need a library card to use the computers, but ask a librarian for a temporary passcode if you are just visiting), is open Mon-Thurs 9a-9p, Fri-Sat 9a-6p, and Sun 2-4p

Places to Play: There are several public parks in Greensboro with free admission. If you are touring the arts district downtown, make sure to stop by City Park on North Elm Street (on your way from the galleries of South Elm to the Cultural Center

Other public parks include Country Park, with entrances off of Lawndale Drive and Pisgah Church Road,Battleground Park, entrance off of Old Battleground, which connects Country Park and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, scene of the historic Battle of Guilford Courthouse (we're talking Revolutionary War, here, not Civil War), at 2332 New Garden Road, which provide walking and biking trails and historical information (the most kid-friendly of these three is Country Park, which has a beautiful lake with ducks and geese to feed, and a large play area.

Another good park for kids is Lindley Park, off Wendover Avenue at West Market Street, which has picnic and play facilities, a basketball court and the Greensboro Arboretum, a beautifully-landscaped 17 acres that features over 2,500 ornamental trees, shrubs and other plants native to the Piedmont.

Events: There are tons of free activities in Greensboro sponsored by local clubs: Good Ole Volks VW owners and enthusiasts, gather every Thursday at 6:30p at Herbie's Place, a local VW-friendly restaurant on Battleground Ave near Westridge Rd; Carolina Dog-Training Club meets Thursdays 8-9p at the Lewis Recreation Center (at Country Park, above), the Mystery Book Club, Fiction Book Club and other book-discussion groups meet regularly at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family branch of the Greensboro Public Library at Price Park off of Hobbs Road between Jefferson and New Garden Road, and all branches of the library regularly host storytelling, presentations and other entertaining activities for kids and adults alike-for more information and schedule of events, go to the library website.

There are new events-everything from free concerts and movies to arts and crafts shows and demonstrations-occurring all the time in Greensboro, and a good source for schedules and locations iswww.gotriad.com.

It is amazing how much free stuff is available in your community, once you start looking. Now if you will excuse me, I think I am going to run out and take advantage of some of it!

You can also find What's Good in Greensbroro? on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Whats-Good-in-Greensboro-848569635208317/ . See you there!

Another gorgeous shot of the Greensboro Arboretum by Ptncsu12 from Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greensboro_Arboretum_2.JPG