A tasty adventure awaits culinary explorers at Busch Gardens® Food & Wine Festival.
"Putting for Patriots" Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf, in Williamsburg, VA, will host the Twelfth Annual Putting for Patriots fundraiser from Friday, May 11 through Monday, May 28.
Our waterfront farmers market is one of the most unique in Hampton Roads-offering spectacular views of the York River, live music, food trucks, chef cooking demonstrations, and a variety of vendors! This year, the season starts mid-April, and you can enjoy weekly markets through the end of October. Every Saturday, you'll discover something new!
Get all your Memorial Day Weekend goodies! Over 30 vendors will attend the Williamsburg Farmers Market this Saturday with strawberries, asparagus, Spring produce, prepared foods and baked goods, flowers, artisan chocolate, cheese, meats, peanuts and handmade soaps.
LCV Project is performing from 9:00 am – 11:00 pm. Amber Ox is at the Chefs Tent with demonstrations from 9:00 am – 11:00 am.
Join the Watermen's Museum this summer for several different fun summer camps for kids from kindergarten thru 12th grade. See website for full details. $ 757.887.2641
Team up with the Virginia Master Naturalists to learn about and catalog wildlife in our local parks! Enjoy a day of learning about data collection and animal identification to help better understand the distribution of wildlife in the area. Bring a camera and discover birds, frogs, butterflies and mammals! This is for adults 18+.
Come fire reproduction 18th-century firearms at the Colonial Williamsburg Musket Range. Participants will learn some history of and become familiar with two 18th-century weapons commonly used during the Revolutionary War.
It's the longest standing exhibit at the Gallery and you don't want to miss the new additions for spring. Visit the Gallery to admire these beautiful handcrafted quilts. You'll also find a collection of new art, jewelry, pottery, and much more for sale.
The gallery sells the work of hundreds of local artists and you'll find ever-changing art, jewelry, pottery, and more for sale.
Closed Mon. Tues - Sat 10am to 4pm, Sunday 1 to 4pm. Free. 757.890.4490
Attention all out-door-lovers!️
The annual Coleman U.S.A. Truckload Sale is BACK. WHO: Coleman, Sevylor, Stearns, and two newbies: Marmont & Ex Oficcio! WHAT: Your favorite camping brands up to 70% off. (All major credit cards are accepted.) WHEN: Thurs, 5/24: 9-7
Friday, 5/25: 9-7
Saturday, 5/26: 9-7
Sunday, 5/27: 10-6
Try a new form of hands-on, 18th-century education and fun at our interpretive Ax Range. You'll learn the history of ax throwing during the Revolutionary War, the uses of belt axes, and proper technique. After a safety briefing, get ready to take a swing at things yourself.
The Governor's Music provides an experience for musicians of all levels playing chamber music with a professional group in a relaxed, private setting.
Guests ages 10 and up are invited to sign up for individual learning lessons on a spinet, a stringed instrument, or voice. The program time is split between a short coaching on the chosen instrument/musical selection (geared to your playing ability) and playing or singing the piece with members of the ensemble.
The Chownings and friends present plays and entertainments for all ages! Stop in to see one of our plays performed by our ridiculous ensemble.
Located at the Playbooth theatre.
No event ticket required. Included with admission. 10:30am-10:50am, 11:30am-11:50am, 2pm-2:20pm
The Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center's second 2018 Members Co-op Show opened on May 1 and is now underway through June 8. Featuring bodies of work of member artists and artisans, the show offers lots to see and take in – a variety of mediums and styles in the main and middle galleries. Meet the artists at a public reception with refreshments on Thursday, May 17, from 5:30-7 p.m.
ALISON STINELY'S GILDED SPLINTERS In "Gilded Splinters," Alison Stinely utilizes various types of sculpting in collaboration with oil painting in order to create impactful pieces that are independent of a traditional frame. Stinely's work exudes a breath of life that it is everlasting, fantastical, and honest.
Guided tours by knowledgeable museum volunteers introduce you to some of the masterworks on exhibit, including paintings, ceramics, textiles, furniture and silver. Programs and exhibitions at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.
If you've been to the meadery before you may already know that due to Virginia ABC law we are typically unable to sell mead by the glass. The exception is that a few times a year we are able to obtain a special permit which allows us to serve to you by the glass. We call these special weekends: MEAD UP.For our first MEAD UP of 2018 we are excited to be releasing a brand new limited edition mead made entirely from Virginia ingredients.
FREE Water Exploration Program at Waller Mill Park will give kids a hands-on opportunity to explore the reservoir and learn what makes a healthy water source, how our water sources are connected and how they impact the water sources around them.
Activities will include dip netting for the invertebrates that call the reservoir their home, testing the water in various ways and discussing how all of these are interconnected.
Discover whimsical and fascinating paintings, sculpture, and textiles from Mrs. Rockefeller's collection on this guided tour. These pieces are the basis of the museum's original collection.
Guided tours by knowledgeable museum volunteers introduce you to the whimsical and fascinating paintings, sculpture, textiles and more from Mrs. Rockefeller's original collection, with which the museum was founded.
Join our walking T-Rex for dinosaur parades, photo ops and a roaring good time on the Dinosaur Discovery Trail! The trail also includes a Paleo camp, dig pits for amateur paleontologists, and displays of dinosaur fossils, including an actual whale specimen from Hampton Roads.
This one-hour walking tour takes guests through the stable and carriage facilities and introduces them to the rare breeds conservancy program operated by Colonial Williamsburg.
Chosen by her master to fulfill the role normally held by a wife, Aggy, a slave, is forced to navigate the world she will never be welcomed into while separated from the enslaved community in which she was raised. No event ticket required. Ticket included with admission.
Step back in time to 1934 and meet the mayor's wife during your tour of Bassett Hall. Mrs. George P. Coleman became a close personal friend of the Rockefellers during their restoration of Williamsburg. Bassett Hall, a two-story, 18th-century frame house located on 585 acres of gardens and rolling woodlands, is a part of the story of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. It was in this house that John D. Rockefeller Jr.
In this museum theatre experience free and enslaved historical figures share reflections about living in a slave society and the Actor Interpreters bringing them to life explore the complexities of portraying the enslaved and the slave owners. Directly following, join the conversation about slavery, racism, and healing.
Nelson House May 26, at 4 PM, 200 Nelson St
Memorial Day Ceremony, York Hall, 301 Main Street, May 28, at 12 PM. Free. 757.898.9418