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Center City Live!

Presented by Action Greensboro at Center City Park

April 14-April 20, 2007

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Center City Live! The spring celebration week at Center City Park: April 14-20, 2007 Center City Live! is sponsored by: AIG United Guaranty, Lincoln Financial, and VF Corporation. In addition, the Greensboro Partnership sponsored the Center City Park Ribbon Cutting on December 1st, 2006. Our media partners for Center City Live! are: Bouvier Kelly for design work for marketing materials, the News & Record as our print media sponsor, WFMY News2 as our television sponsor, WKZL, Rock 92, and WFDD 88.5 as radio sponsors, and Fairway Outdoor Advertising for billboards. Center City Park has free Wi-Fi access provided by Time Warner Cable Saturday, April 14th: 11:00-4:00 Our sponsors for Saturday are: The Junior League of Greensboro, Moses Cone Health System and the Moses Cone Wesley Long Community Health Foundation. Saturday’s entertainment supported also by: AG Edwards, Bank of America, Bank of North Carolina, Carolina Bank, Charles Aris, Inc., Craft Insurance, Merrill Lynch and Bernard Robinson, Highwoods Properties, RBC Centura, SunTrust Banks, and Wachovia The day will be held together with the Junior League’s Passport to Center City Live! Attendees will travel through the fun and games of the day enjoying activities and entertainment throughout. There will be 6 fixed stations of activities: Science: Giant tortoises from the Natural Science Center Living History: a real live sit-in counter with photo opportunities and coloring books from the International Civil Rights Center and Museum and the Greensboro Historical Museum Play: Bubbletown from the Children’s Museum to include bubble art, stomping, bubblegum blowing contest, make your own bubble wand Literacy: Greensboro Public Library’s Reading Railroad Art: the big box city project, make your own hat, and pottery demonstrations from ArtQuest @ Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art Health & Wellness: firetrucks, policecars, bicycle safety, body mass indexing, … (Saturday, April 14th 11:00-4:00 cont.) There will be staged music and entertainment to include: 11:00 - Grimsley High School’s Blue Steel drumline 11:30-12:30 Hot Pink Flamingos (steel drums) 1:00-1:30 Panama Angels (Latin American dance group) 2:00-2:30 Kollabo (dance squad and hip hop dance instruction) 3:00-3:30 Nutbush Ramblers (old-time/blue grass) There will be roaming entertainment throughout the day including: 11:30-1:30 Flame and Ember 11:30-3:30 Krackerjack the balloon clown 1:30-3:30 Richard Erno/Fire Phoenix. Sunday, April 15th: Concert sponsored by The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro and the artists talk sponsored by Schell Bray Aycock Abel & Livingston. Picnics, blankets, chairs, dogs, & families encouraged. 4:00 Open House with Center City Park artists & landscape architects Bob Uhlig, Halvorson Design Partnership will be on hand to speak about the design of the park Tim Knowles, Triad Section Chair, NC Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects will talk about the plant material Jim Cooper, fountain vessel and decorative fencing metalsmith Fred Johnston, bird pitcher & chicks potter 5:00 special public art announcement 5:15 concert with the Allison King Band Week of April 16th-20th: 11:30-1:30 each day Enjoy a lunch break downtown – bring your own, pick something up at a local restaurant, or purchase something at the park. Mon, April 16th – Hear Greensboro - sponsored by Arbor House Condominiums Musical performances will be on stage to include: 11:30-11:45 – Steel Drums 11:45-12:15 – Beautiful Experience (R&B/top 40 covers) 12:15-12:45 – the Mantras (Blues fusion) 12:45-1:15 – Guilty Pleasures (UK influenced rock) 1:15-1:30 – Steel Drums Tues, April 17th –See Greensboro - sponsored by Weaver Investments & Smith Barney 36 blocks of space surrounding & in the park will be filled with local artist demonstrations Team Lump will do an on site performance mural painting piece Wed, April 18th – Perform Greensboro - sponsored by American Express & Center Pointe Theatrical and Comedic sketches to include: 11:30-11:50 – City Arts Drama – a preview of The Taming of the Shrew 11:50-12:10 – Triad Stage with a preview of the 2007-2008 Season 12:10-12:30 – The Idiot Box – improv comedy 12:30-12:50 – Greensboro College dance 12:50-1:10 – Community Theatre of Greensboro 1:10-1:30 – UNCG Theatre – a preview of Jack & the Wonder Beans A Fairy Godmother & the Giants from UNCG will provide roaming entertainment Thurs, April 19th – Active Greensboro - sponsored by United HealthCare and US Trust American Red Cross’s Mobile Disaster Kitchen & Disaster Preparedness Moses Cone Health System & the Moses Cone Wesley Long Community Health Foundation’s health screenings and prevention demonstrations to include: The Behavioral Health Center on stress management The Regional Cancer Center on a variety of cancer prevention topics The Outpatient Rehabilitation Center on BMI screenings/ergonomics Guilford Genomic Medicine Initiative on family history use for risk factor screenings The Congregational Nurse Program - blood pressure screenings and nutritional/obesity prevention counseling Healthy eating samples brought to you by Earthfare staged demonstrations to include: 11:30-11:55 – Belly Dancing with SoulFlower Studios 11:55-12:20 – Fencing with the YWCA 12:20-12:45 – Hula Hoop/Dance Demo with Patika Starr 12:45-1:10 – Zumba Fitness Dance 1:10-1:30 – Capoeira (Brazilian Martial Arts) & Salsa Fri, April 20th – Opportunity Greensboro - supported by Dell Inc. Make Connections with Greensboro’s young professionals and college students Live music with Traveling Mayhem, free lunches for students, and giveaways including a Dell Computer made right here in the Triad Friday, April 20th Closing Event: 7:00-11:00 pm 7:00 Beer & Wine Tasting sponsored by WFDD 88.5 – the Triad’s NPR station Natty Greene’s famous local brew North Carolina’s own Creekside Winery and Grove Winery 7:30- 8:15 Opening Band: Thacker Dairy Road 8:45 – 11:00 Headliner: Urban Sophisticates