The North Carolina Holiday Flotilla Festival in the Park in Wrightsville Beach features inflatable slides and bounce houses, a coloring contest, the Arab Choo Choo, festival food, and more. The event also includes arts and crafts booths, and an antique car show, and is a prelude to the popular NC Holiday Flotilla.

The Christmas Train & Light Spectacular at the Railroad Museum in downtown Wilmington, NC, features more than 25,000 twinkling lights, trains running through a winter wonderland, model train exhibits, a visit from Santa, and cider and cookies.

Join us over two weekends in December for a twinkling arts, crafts and gifts bazaar. Let the kids run around & join in the reindeer games. A Merry Little Christmas Festival is our way of sharing a little of the holiday spirit with our neighbors, families and friends.  The grounds, outbuildings and Manor House of Poplar Grove will be […]

Bring the family to the annual Wilmington Holiday Parade!  See floats and fun in the downtown area.  The parade will be an evening parade and will be televised live on WECT’s Bounce channel. The exact parade start time will be based on Bounce programming schedule to be released early November. Rain Date: The parade will […]

Poplar Grove Plantation in Wilmington, NC, presents A Merry Little Christmas Festival featuring a European Winter Bazaar experience with arts and craft vendors, a bonfire, lawn games, outdoors screenings of classic movies such as The Polar Express, A Christmas Story, and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The grounds and barnyard will be decorated with seasonal vignettes and interactive […]

Cameron Art Museum honors the life and work of civil rights activist Martin Luther King with the "I Have a Dream" Peace Flag Project. We invite the community to take inspiration from King’s iconic speech from 1963 and think deeply about our own hopes and dreams for ourselves, our city, our nation, and the world. […]

Cameron Art Museum honors the life and work of civil rights activist Martin Luther King with the "I Have a Dream" Peace Flag Project. We invite the community to take inspiration from King’s iconic speech from 1963 and think deeply about our own hopes and dreams for ourselves, our city, our nation, and the world. […]

Cucalorus was founded in 1994 by the underground filmmaking collective Twinkle Doon. At the inaugural event, crowds wrapped around the block to see 16 local films screening at Water Street restaurant by the Cape Fear River. These days Cucalorus takes place every November, celebrating independent and international film for five days in historic downtown Wilmington, […]