Craig Stinson

THE ARTS IN WILMINGTON CALENDAR / Most Recent Update: April 4, 2025

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Through April 10: CALL FOR ART – The Art League of Leland’s It’s ALL Art show and sale
Through April 12: CFCC Department of Fine and Performing Arts Presents Tartuffe by Moliere
Through April 13: Blithe Spirit with UNCW Theatre
Through April 13: God of Carnage with Big Dawg Productions
Through April 13: And Then There Were None with Brunswick Little Theatre
Through April 16: ARTIST APPLICATION DEADLINE: Southport Plein Art Festival
Through April 24: Samantha Spalti Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
Through April 25: DEADLINE: 2025 ArtsMarket Artist Showcase App lications with North Carolina Presenters Consortium
April 4: Artist Talk with Michael Griffin at Coastal Carolina Clay Guild
April 4: Tab Benoit at Kenan Auditorium
April 4: First Friday Gallery Walk in Southport
April 4 – 6: Hadestown Teen Editition with Ashley High School Theatre
April 4 – 13: Mary Poppins with Thalian Association Community Theatre
April 5: Meeting of the Art League of Leland
April 5: Slow Art Day at Cameron Museum of Art
April 5: Opening Reception for Samantha Spalti at Leland Cultural Arts Center
April 5: The Raleigh Ringers at Music On Market
April 5: Alt-Zalea Fest
April 5 – 6: Arts Education Pop Up Show at DREAMS
April 6: Azalea Art Sale
April 6: City Ballet presents Jubilee at Kenan Auditorium
April 6: Beckwith Recital Series presents Dmitri Vorobiev
April 8: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS—Spring Tour 2025 at Jengo’s Playhouse
April 9: New Member Coffee at Cameron Art Museum
April 9: Urban Sketchers at Hanover Stables
April 10: Workshop with Waterway Art Association
April 10: Artiste Spring Art Preview
April 10: Comedy with Darren Carter “The Party Starter” at Thalian Hall
April 10: Opening Reception for Spring 2025 Senior Exhibition at CAB Gallery
April 10 – 13: North Carolina Black Film Festival
April 10 – May 9: Spring 2025 Senior Exhibition at CAB Gallery
April 11: Burgaw Blueberry Jam Concert with Pender Arts Council
April 11: Iron & Wine at Wilson Center
April 11 – 12: Workshop with Art League of Leland
April 12: Urban Sketchers at Brooklyn Cafe
April 12: Wilmington Dance Festival at Kenan Auditorium
April 12: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
April 13: Madafo Day with Arts Council of Wilmington
April 13: Symphony Speakeasy
April 14: Wildlife Artists of the Carolinas Meeting
April 14: Our Planet Live at Wilson Center
April 15: Meeting of the Cape Fear Camera Club
April 15: Beth Hart at Wilson Center
April 16: Island Arts Council Social
April 18: Southern Circuit – North Putnam at Jengo’s Playhouse
April 18: 21st Annual ARTS SENSATION! with Forward Motion Dance Theatre
April 19: AUDITIONS: Beetlejuice Jr with Thalian Association Community Theatre
April 19: Women and The Wind at Jengo’s Playhouse
April 19: Kanekoa at Thalian Hall
April 19: Cape Fear Contra Dance
April 19: Cape Fear Swing Dance Society in Southport
April 21: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
April 21 – 23: Clue at Wilson Center
April 22: ARTS Day 2025
April 23: Sketch Meet at Belville Riverwalk
April 24: No Quarter – Honoring The Led Zeppelin Legacy at Thalian Hall
April 25: Larry The Cable Guy at Wilson Center
April 25: The Great Gatsby Ballet by the World Ballet Company at Kenan Auditorium
April 25: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
April 25 – May 4: Fame Jr. with Thalian Association Community Theatre
April 25 – September 7: We Belong Here: The Gutierrez Collection Exhibition at Cameron Art Museum
April 26: Spring Art Market at Leland Cultural Arts Center
April 26: Art at the Harbor Way Gardens
April 26: The Drifters at Thalian Hall
April 26: Menopause The Musical 2 at Wilson Center
April 27: Art of Paige Wheeler at Angie’s Hair Salon
April 27: Handel’s Messiah with UNCW Choirs
April 27: Ivalas Quartet with Chamber Music Wilmington
April 27: UNCW Dance Company at Kenan Auditorium
April 27: Sing On! Welcomes, Blessings & Benedictions with Wilmington Choral Society
April 27 – May 6: Wilmington Jewish Film Festival
Through April 27: Elizabeth Chant Exhibition at Cameron Art Museum
April 29: Workshop with Art League of Leland

MAY 2025

Memorial Weekend with Smith Island Art League
May – October: Venus Flytrap On Parade
Through May 1: Nancy Donaton Rotating Art Exhibition at Crush & Grind (Island Arts Council)
Through May 1: CFCC 2025 Student Art Exhibition at Wilma Daniels Gallery
Through May 30: Natalie Campbell and Doris Jean Young at Sweet Nectar’s Florist
May 1: Meeting of the Art League of Leland
May 1 – 3: Southport Plein Air Festival
May 1 – July 27: Janice Castiglione at The Bellamy Mansion Museum
May 2: Sesame Street Live! Say Hello at Wilson Center
May 2 – 3: The First Day Of Spring with Theatre For All
May 2 & 4: Wilmington Voices presents Considering Matthew Shepard at Kenan Auditorium
May 2 – 4: Ten-Minute Miscellany with Port City Playwrights
May 3: Urban Sketchers meet at Cargo District
May 3: Errante: A Celebration Symphony with Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
May 4: Youth Orchestras with Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
May 5 – 11: Emerald Isle Artist Retreat with Wilmington Art Association
May 6 – 31: Five Brush Strokes Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
May 8: Opening Reception Five Brush Strokes at Leland Cultural Arts Center
May 8: Jazz at the Bellamy Mansion
March 8 – 23: SCOTOPIA Play Festival with Mouth Of Babes Theatre
May 9: Design NC at Cameron Art Museum
May 9: Burgaw Blueberry Jam Concert with Pender Arts Council
May 9: Gaspard & Dancers at Thalian Hall
May 10: 2025 Pender Arts Council Community Connections Quarterly Membership Meeting
May 11: Afloat, The Buoy Project Workshop with Island Arts Council
May 11: Stravinsky: The Firebird with North Carolina Symphony
May 11: Mother’s Day Concert with Tallis Chamber Orchestra
May 12 – 17: Waterway Art Assoc 34th Annual Judged Spring Art Show and Sale
May 13 – 14: Workshop with Art League of Leland
May 15: Sunset Performance Series featuring Christa Gabrielle Faison at CAM
May 15 – 16: Workshop with Art League of Leland
May 16: Opening Reception – “Unchained Expression: Art Beyond Confinement” with Pender Arts Council
May 16: Dessert Theater Fundraiser with Cape Fear Chorale
May 16 – 25: Legally Blonde with Thalian Association Community Theatre
May 17: Triple Threat at Jengo’s Playhouse
May 17: Art-Full Home Show and Sale
May 17 – 18: Muralfest with Carolina Beach Mural Project
May 18: Lost And Found with Wilmington Symphonic Winds at Kenan Auditorium
May 19: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
May 20: Meeting of the Cape Fear Camera Club
May 21: Napoleon Dynamite Live! at Wilson Center
May 22: Cathy Ladman at Thalian Hall
May 22 – September 1: 2025 Studio Art Faculty Biennial at CAB Gallery
May 23: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
May 24 – 25: 29th Annual Orange Street ArtsFest
May 25 – June 30: CALL FOR ART: 2025-2026 NC First in Freedom Festival Regional Art Contest with Pender Arts Council
May 29 – 31: It’s ALL Art 2025 Show and Sale with Art League of Leland
May 31: Cape Fear Contra Dance
May 31 – June 1: Sleeping Beauty with City Ballet

JUNE 2025

Docutime Film Festival
Cape Fear Shakespeare On The Green – Macbeth & Taming Of The Shrew
Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Opera Wilmington
Through June 15: Renewal at Gallery Citrine
June 1 – 8: Port City Music Festival
June 3 -25: Marybeth Bradbury Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
June 4: Ledisi – Love You Too at Wilson Center
June 5: Meeting of the Art League of Leland
June 5: Opening Reception Marybeth Bradbury at Leland Cultural Arts Center
June 5 – 22: More Fun Than Bowling with Brunswick Little Theatre
June 7: AUDITIONS: Cape Fear Chorale
June 7: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with Wilmington Conservatory of Fine Arts
June 12: Jazz at the Bellamy Mansion
June 13: Burgaw Blueberry Jam Concert with Pender Arts Council
June 14: Bluegrass In The Grove
June 16: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
June 17: Meeting of the Cape Fear Camera Club
June 18: New Member Coffee at Cameron Art Museum
June 19 – June 21: Leanne Morgan at Wilson Center
June 19 – July 6: Hairspray with Opera House Theatre Company
June 21: ALMOST QUEEN: A Tribute to Queen at Kenan Auditorium
June 21: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
June 22: Afloat, The Buoy Project Workshop with Island Arts Council
June 27: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
June 27: Opening Reception – Janice Castiglione at The Bellamy Mansion Museum
June 27 – 29: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid The Musical with Performance Club Theatre Company
June 28: Social Dance with Cape Fear Contra Dance
June 28: Triple Threat at Jengo’s Playhouse

JULY 2025

Summer Show with Smith Island Art League
Lumbee Film Festival
July 2: Stars & Stripes with North Carolina Symphony
July 4 – 6: Ocean City Jazz Festival
July 8: Diana Krall at Wilson Center
July 8 – 31: Ellen McNair Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
July 10: Opening Reception Ellen McNair at Leland Cultural Arts Center
July 10: Jazz at the Bellamy Mansion
July 11: Latin Social Dance at Leland Cultural Arts Center
July 11: Burgaw Blueberry Jam Concert with Pender Arts Council
July 12: Jaws In Concert at Wilson Center
July 17 – 27: 9 to 5 The Musical with Opera House Theatre Company
July 18 – 20: Summer Art Market at Sunset River Gallery
July 19: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
July 19: Summer Art Market at Leland Cultural Arts Center
July 21: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
July 21: Jason Isbell and the 400 unit at Wilson Center
July 25: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
July 25 – 27: One Upon A One More Time with Performance Club Theatre Company
July 26: Cape Fear Contra Dance
July 27: Everything’s Fine at Wilson Center
July 30 – August 10: Vivace International Music Festival
July 31 – August 17: The Hallelujah Girls with Brunswick Community Theatre

AUGUST 2025

Oak Island Art Guild Arts & Crafts Festival
August 1 – 10: SARUS Festival
August 2: Open House at Leland Cultural Arts Center
August 2 – 27: Instructor Showcase Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
August 4 – 15: Brunswick Arts Council 2025 Annual Arts Show
August 8: Burgaw Blueberry Jam Concert with Pender Arts Council
August 8 – 10: Into The Woods Jr. with Performance Club Theatre Company
August 14: Jazz at the Bellamy Mansion
August 14 – 24: Oklahoma! with Opera House Theatre Company
August 15 – 17: Carolina Art Show
August 16: Cape Fear Contra Dance
August 18: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
August 22: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
August 23: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
August 25: Brit Floyd – Wish You Were Here at Wilson Center
August 28: Reception for 2025 Studio Art Faculty Biennial at CAB Gallery

SEPTEMBER 2025

Write Wilmington! with UNCW Creative Writing
September 3 – October 2: Andy Alvarez Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
September 6: Opening Reception Andy Alvarez at Leland Cultural Arts Center
September 6: Up Your Arts’ 4th Annual Cool & Fancy Gala Fundraiser
September 11: May 8: Jazz at the Bellamy Mansion
September 13: American Craft Walk
September 13: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark at Wilson Center
September 15: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
September 17 – 20: Landfall Art Show & Sale
September 18 – 19: CAPE FEAR ARTS IN MOTION with Forward Motion Dance Company
September 20: 2025 Pender Arts Council Community Connections Quarterly Membership Meeting
September 20: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
September 20 – 21: Art in the Yard with Island Arts Council
September 25: Opening Reception for Mauricio Naya at CAB Gallery
September 25 – October 29: Mauricio Naya at CAB Gallery
September 26: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
September 27: Cape Fear Contra Dance
September 29: Soweto Gospel Choir at Wilson Center

OCTOBER 2025

Through October 5: The Game Changers: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, and Rauschenberg Exhibition at Cameron Art Museum
Writers’ Week with UNCW Creative Writing
Big Annie’s Annual Bluegrass Festival at Humphry Farms
October 2: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes at Wilson Center
October 4 – 30: Lourdes Rosas Rasdall Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
October 9: Opening Reception Lourdes Rosas Rasdall at Leland Cultural Arts Center
October 9 – 16: Red Velvet with Brunswick Little Theatre
October 11: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
October 11: 2025 Brunswick County Intercultural Festival
October 14: Empty Bowls 2025 Southport
October 20: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
October 24: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)
October 25: Cape Fear Contra Dance

NOVEMBER 2025

Cucalorus Festival
Arts By The Shore with Oak Island Art Guild
Thanksgiving Show with Smith Island Art League
Coastal Carolina Clay Guild Annual Pottery Sale and Show
November 1 – 25: Art League of Leland Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
November 6: Opening Reception Art League of Leland at Leland Cultural Arts Center
November 11: Veterans Day Dance at the USO with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
November 13: Opening Reception for Fall 2025 Senior Exhibition at CAB Gallery
November 13 – December 12: Fall 2025 Senior Exhibition at CAB Gallery
November 15: Cape Fear Contra Dance
November 16: Mass in Troubled Times with Cape Fear Chorale
November 17: Meeting of the Quilters By The Sea Guild
November 28: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)

DECEMBER 2025

December 2 – 20: Kristen Dorsey Exhibition at Leland Cultural Arts Center
December 4: Opening Reception Kirsten Dorsey at Leland Cultural Arts Center
December 4 – 21: Greetings with Brunswick Community Theatre
December 6: Social Dance with Cape Fear Swing Dance Society
December 6: Holiday Art Market at Leland Cultural Arts Center
December 26: Fourth Friday Gallery Walk (Visit Arts Council of Wilmington for Official List of Participants)

JANUARY 2026

CFCC Humanities International Film Festival
January 17 – 18: Salty Swirl with Cape Fear Contra Dance

FEBRUARY 2026

North Carolina Jazz Festival
Fundraiser for Forward Motion Dance Company
Annual Boundless Lecture with Daniel Jones at CAM
Joy of Art Show & Sale

MARCH 2026

Spring Art Show at Oak Island Recreation Center

APRIL 2026

MAY 2026

JUNE 2026

JULY 2026

Ocean City Jazz Festival

AUGUST 2026

SEPTEMBER 2026

OCTOBER 2026

NOVEMBER 2026

Cucalorus Festival

DECEMBER 2026