Pride takes downtown this Saturday, and it is a bigger version of itself than usual: the twentieth anniversary comes with the city’s first-ever Pride parade. Almost everything else lands on Saturday too, and the National Weather Service forecast for Greensboro has Friday near 92 degrees and dry, Saturday near 87 with showers and thunderstorms likely, and Sunday near 88 with a chance of storms. Do the outdoor part early. And if you came looking for the NC Folk Festival, that is next weekend, not this one.
Friday evening, Salsa Three Ways with April Westenberg runs 6 to 9 p.m. at the Marshall Muse Gallery, 314 North Church Street. You build three salsas by hand with a mortar and pestle, mild through hot, and eat them with chips as you go. It is $55, ingredients included, with a card-only cash bar.
Saturday starts on the Downtown Greenway. SPCA On the Greenway meets at the Freedom Cornerstone, 750 Plott Street, from 9 to 11 a.m., pairing you with a shelter dog for a one- to two-mile walk. It is free, but you have to register in advance.
The Greensboro Farmers Curb Market is open Saturday morning at 501 Yanceyville Street, with a demonstration on children’s sleep routines from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. One caution: the market’s own site lists Saturday hours as 8 a.m. to noon in one place and 7:30 a.m. to noon in another, so treat that early half hour as unconfirmed.
The Greensboro Pride Parade and Festival steps off at 10 a.m. along Elm Street, and the festival follows from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. around LeBauer Park, spreading through the blocks bounded by East Friendly, North Church, East Lindsay and North Davie. Several stages, vendors, food and drink. Free, with a paid VIP area as well.
If you would rather not be in that crowd, the International Village Food and Music Festival runs noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Winston Square Park, 310 North Marshall Street in Winston-Salem. The city’s Human Relations Department puts it on: food trucks, a crafts marketplace, and live performance from local cultural groups all afternoon. Free, and downtown street parking is free on weekends.
Wet ‘n Wild Emerald Pointe has moved to weekends only for the rest of the season: closed Friday, open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday at 3910 South Holden Road. Given the Saturday forecast, Sunday is the safer of the two.
Sunday afternoon is quieter. Bouquets and Bubbly runs 2 to 4 p.m. back at the Marshall Muse Gallery, where Tyler Joyner walks the room through arranging seasonal flowers. You leave with the arrangement in a glass vase; prosecco or kombucha is included. $65.
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