Kitty Hawk Kites is teaming up with Dare Arts Council to create the Outer Banks ‘Sweep the Beach’ Trash Art Contest! In conjunction with Earth Day, they ask artists to create work from the trash they have collected from our beaches and sounds. After submission, the artwork will be placed on their TrART Walk at Jockey’s Ridge Crossing. Submissions will be placed on (or around) March 30th. Until April 21st, pieces will be adjudicated and voted on for varying prize categories. Select pieces will be collected and moved to Jockey’s Ridge State Park for Earth Fair OBX, April 22nd, where winners will be announced at the Kitty Hawk Kites booth in Jockey’s Ridge State Park parking lot at 3:45 pm

*Submissions are due by March 30th

Visit their website to learn more!

The public is invited to attend the first-ever Hatteras Island Museums Open House Fall Extravaganza, which will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 27.

Explore your favorite Hatteras Island museums during this full-day event, including the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station, Frisco Native American Museum, Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, and The Lost Colony Museum, as all four sites will all be open and offering special activities during the Wednesday open house.

Want to try something new? Each site is also giving away recipes! Collect them all and create your own recipe books, and have fun at each museum’s scavenger hunt.

The schedule for the open house is as follows:

10:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m., Chicamacomico Life Saving Station, Rodanthe (Admission)
Mel Poole returns with more tales at 11 a.m. and a scavenger hunt will also take you to some great recipes.
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, Hatteras Village (Free)
Expand your recipe collection with great local recipes. Delve into the past with the Graveyard of the Atlantic’s special edition scavenger hunt. Kids get a chance to do a craft in the morning.
10:00 a.m.— 5:00 p.m., Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center, Frisco (Admission)
Discover Native American history, countrywide and local. Their Native-themed scavenger hunt will be fun and challenging. Grab some real Native recipes – (nut-fried squash, anyone?) – to add to your collection.
9:30 a.m.— 5:00 p.m., Lost Colony Museum, Buxton (Donation Requested)
You’ll be tempted by cider to check out the museum, and learn about the Lost Colony mystery. Hoard some more recipes to try back home.

Reservations for all of the museums are not required, and individuals can contact each site for additional information.

*Information as provided by Island Free Press

The third annual Shuck Hatteras Oyster Festival, a SHELLABRATION of community, music, and mouthwatering food will take place on December 20-21, 2024!

This festive weekend features live local music, fresh oysters from Kinnakeet Oyster Co., unique local art vendors, and exciting events like the Oyster Cook-off Challenge and an ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Oyster Roast (ticket required). Plus, fun games and activities will keep the kids entertained!

Best of all, ALL PROCEEDS from Shuck Hatteras III will support the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station.

Help support the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Civic Association Scholarship Fund with some sweet treats when you visit their Thanksgiving Pie and Bake Sale. Located at the RWS Community Building in Rodanthe, join them on November 27th, 2024 from 10am-Noon (or until sold out).

Sponsored by Midgett Realty

Race Website
Additional race information can be found at https://www.hatterasyouth.com/surfin-turkey-5k.

Place
56658 NC-12
Hatteras, NC US 27943

Description
Join us to raise money for Hatteras Island students in this race sponsored by Midgett Realty! Run this beautiful 5K course through the historic fishing village before your big Thanksgiving feast! A fun pancake breakfast immediately follows the race along with the awards ceremony, The proceeds from this race support the Hatteras Island Youth Education Fund (HIYEF). During the 2023-2024 school year, HIYEF provided more than $60,000 in grant funded projects to our two Cape Hatteras Schools. HIYEF provides funding for educational and enrichment opportunities for our Hatteras Island students.

There is one water station on the course. This is not a timed race; it is a family fun event, if you want to know your time please wear a watch or make sure you look at the clock at the finish line.

*******This is a non-refundable charity event.********

Race is rain or shine but will be canceled for safety reasons in the event of severe weather.

Slower runners and walkers should start at the back of the corral. Strollers are welcome; we just ask that you begin at the back of the crowd for safety purposes. Please note that bikes, e-bikes, scooters or skates are not permitted on the race course.

This is a family fun event. If you want to know your time, wear a watch or make sure you look at the clock at the finish line.

Registration:
Surfin’ Turkey 5k Pricing:

On and after 11/1/2024*
Individual: $40.00 (+$3.00 sign up fee)

**After November 10th T shirts are NOT GUARANTEED and you will not be asked to enter a t- shirt size. We always purchase extra t-shirts and do our best to have shirts available at Packet Pickup.

For pre-registration, shirts are only guaranteed during packet pick up time slots. We do not ship packets that were not claimed at packet pick up.

We will have all inventory available at our second table for all participants that register after November 10, 2024 **

On-site Registration: $45. We are PAPERLESS which means we will have volunteers available to assist you to use our QR code to sign up with your phone. ApplePay will also be accepted.

Puppy Drum (1/4 mile) Fun Run for children aged 12 and under

Children 12 and under: Free for run or walk, and post-race breakfast, NO T-SHIRT. We will have children’s t-shirts available for purchase onsite. Please consider a food pantry donation of 2+ cans per runner.

Extra Youth T-shirts may be purchased for $20.00 depending upon availability.

Packet-Pick-Up and On-site Registration:
On-site registration will be available during Packet Pickup at the Hatteras Village Civic Center on Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from 4pm to 6pm and on the morning of the race between 7am and 7:30am. Packets may be picked up either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning before the race. If you do not register online, we will not be able to guarantee a shirt as part of your race packet. Race bags will include coupons and swag from local businesses.

Parking:
There will be limited race day parking on site. Additional on-street parking available nearby.

Refund, Transfer and Weather Policy:
Non-refundable charity event. Race is rain or shine but will be canceled for safety reasons in the event of severe weather.

Recognition and Awards:
The top three males, females and children under 16 will receive special recognition. This is a family fun event. If you want to know your time, wear a watch or make sure you look at the clock at the finish line.

Refund, Transfer and Weather Policy:
This is a non-refundable charity event. There will be no refunds or transfers.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the annual Day at the Docks Festival is returning once again this fall and will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 13-14.

Initially launched as a one-day event in 2004, Day at the Docks (DATD) was created as a community-wide effort to recover after 2003’s Hurricane Isabel, which cut a new inlet south of the village, effectively cutting off Hatteras from the rest of the world for weeks. Always tied to honoring our watermen, it is now an annual celebration of the strength of the community, its heritage, and the living traditions of those within the local commercial and charter fishing industries.

Friday launches the two-day celebration with five-course “Seafood Under the Stars” dinner featuring local chef, Tyler Naughton. Formally of Konbi, Los Angeles, he is now the current owner of Toucana Grill, Hatteras.

Saturday boasts a wide array of events including the Fishy 5K, Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s Chowder Cook-Off, the Seafood Throwdown, the Concrete Marlin Competition, and wraps up with the Blessing of the Fleet. Find a variety of vendors and more when check out this family-friendly festival located all along the docks of Hatteras Village! For more details, follow the event’s Facebook page.

Can you think of anything more important than saving the life of a child?

Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue is participating with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to raise money and fund cures for kids with #cancer. Join us as we help #ConquerKidsCancer and #GiveKidsALifetime!

To donate, go to www.stbaldricks.org/events/Station48.

Wanna be really awesome? Sign up to be a shavee, and #RocktheBald with us!

St Baldrick’s

Schedule:

THURSDAYS: 9am – 2pm
SATURDAYS: 10am – 4pm

MARCH
Saturday 30 Easter Show

MAY
Thursdays 16, 23, 30
Saturday 11 – Frisco Woods Campgrounds Springfest

JUNE
Thursdays 6, 13, 20, 27
Saturday 15 (pop-up)

JULY
Thursdays 4, 11, 18, 25
Saturday 6 (pop-up)

AUGUST
Thursdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Saturday 31 (pop-up)

SEPTEMBER
Thursdays 5, 12, 19, 26
Saturday 21 (pop-up)

OCTOBER
Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Saturday 19 – Frisco Woods Campgrounds Fall Festival

NOVEMBER
Saturdays 2, 9

Tri-Villages Market will happen on Saturday, May 25th on Memorial Day weekend 9am-1pm. And every Wednesday 9am – 1pm starting on Wednesday, June 12th thru September 25th. All are welcome to stop by and shop! Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo are the Tri Villages and our Tri Villages Market is located at Camp Hatteras Campground. Rain or Shine.

Artists and makers will be OUTSIDE on the sound side yard and INSIDE the conference center! Rain or Shine. So if the weather is iffy, we will adjust and have all artists and makers inside.

The artists and makers attending each week changes, we will post the artists and makers attending closer to each Wednesday.

Tri-Villages Market Schedule

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Lifesaving Service on the North Carolina Coast, Dare Arts and the Chicamacomico Historical Association are hosting the Chicamacomico Shakes Exhibit in April. The exhibit will feature over 100 cedar shakes from the 1911 Cookhouse at Chicamacomico that have been transformed into works of art by local artists.

There will be an opening reception from 6-8pm on Friday, April 5 in Dare Arts’ Courtroom Gallery where visitors can meet some of the artists who created shakes for the exhibit along with members from the Chicamacomico Historical Association. The Chicamacomico Shakes Exhibit will be on display through Saturday, April 27.

Chicamacomico Shakes Exhibit

Join local artisans from Hatteras Island one weekend each month at the Lighthouse Assembly of God Family Life Center across from Cape Hatteras Secondary School in Buxton, NC.

Lighthouse Local Artist Show Schedule

Celebrate the visual and performing arts on Hatteras Island June 6-7 with an art show, concert, and gallery tour during the 12th Annual Rock The Cape. The free, family-friendly event will begin on Thursday, June 6 with a full afternoon of art and live music from 2pm to 7pm on the lawn at Kitty Hawk Kites’ Waves Village Resort in Rodanthe.

Rock The Cape 2024