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Community Events in the Arts - August 2024

Updated: Jul 31

As the inaugural Arts Council in the United States, Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has played a pivotal role in promoting creativity, enhancing cultural experiences, and encouraging community involvement for 75 years.


One of our favorite ways we do that is by promoting Arts Community Events by investing in Marketing Partners on behalf of the community and through our monthly Community Events E-Blast and blog.


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Browse below for August 2025 Winston-Salem events in the Arts including (click the underlined title to be directed to the section of your interest):


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Literature/Books 



  • Events at Forsyth County Library

    • Book Walk - FREE

      • August 2, Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler


  • Winston-Salem Writers

    • August 3, Writers Around Town

    • August 5, WSW Open Mic (Zoom)

    • August 13, Generative Workshop

    • August 14, One Your Feet Open Mic

    • August 26, TWIO Open Mic

 

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Live Theater 



  • Little Theatre of Winston-Salem

    • Volunteer Social

      • August 6, 5:30 - 7:30pm



  • Sip & Improv

    • August 5, 6:00pm - 8:30pm

    • Kaleideum


 

 

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Family Friendly Events


  • Art Crush

    • Every third Fridays, August 15

    • 7-10pm

    • 6th and Trade Streets


  • Forsyth County Library

    • Storytimes

    • Book Babies





  • Spring Theatre At Kaleideum

    • Imagination on Stage, August 2, 2pm - 3:30pm

    • Come Meet Captain Crabtoe (The Beardless) August 3, 11am - 1pm

    • Stories with Spring: The Three Little Pigs, August 17, 2:00pm

 

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Exhibitions: 


  • Arts for Arts Sake

    • A Harvest of Colors

      • Red Dog Gallery

      • Reception August 1, 6-8pm

      • Show Starts 7/28/25 and ends 10/25/25


  • Associated Artsits of Winston-Salem

    • Metamorphic Realities

      • Masonic Center of Winston-Salem

      • June through October

    • Benton/Spring Summer Exhibit 

      • Benton Convention Center

      • May through November


  • Delurk Gallery

    • Sarah Mosseller + Rogelio Calvo, Opens August 1



  • Piedmont Craftsmen

    • Bob Kopft Exhibit


  • Reynolda House

    • Camel City: Tobacco & Transformation, August 16 – January 4, 2026

    • Still I Rise: The Black Experience at Reynolda, Ongoing


  • Timothy S Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology

    • Poems Made to Wear: Traditional Colors in East Asia 

      • October 15, 2024 – August 16, 2025 

    • Fragments of Changsha: Medieval China in Miniature 

      • April 19 – November 22, 2025  


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Visual Arts Community Events 


  • Art Crush

    • Every third Friday, August 15

    • 7-10pm

    • 6th and Trade Streets




 

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Dance 


  • A Cultural Wellness Night ,

    • YMCA REACH Center, 901 Waterworks Road 

    • Afro-Brazilian History, movement and music 

    • August 1, 6-8pm 

    • with Delta Arts Center







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Music 





  • Live Music at the Coal Pit 

    • Aug 07 (Thu): Camel City Blues, 6-9pm

    • Aug 09 (Sat): Bre Kennedy, 7pm

    • Aug 14 (Thu): Hinge Theory, 6-9pm

    • Aug 23 (Sat): Dr Bacon




  • Piedmont Opera 

    • The Martha Bassett Show with Piedmont Opera, Thursday August 7 

    • Opera LITE in Lewisville 

     

  • Aug 03 - Grammy-winning Western swing masters Asleep at the Wheel

  • Aug 09 -  Grateful Dead tribute legends Cosmic Charlie 

  • Aug 16 - Tom Petty tribute band Somewhat Petty 

  • Aug 21 - Virtuosic bluegrass guitarist Molly Tuttle 

  • Aug 22 - Legendary gospel-soul icon Mavis Staples

  • Aug 28 - Gritty Americana rock duo Shovels & Rope



  • Music Carolina Summerfest 

    • Aug 03: Jazz Classique @ Salem College's Shirley Recital Hall

    • Aug 09: Part Of Your World: Songs of Disney (w/ Martha Bassett) @ Shirley Recital Hall

    • Aug 15: Jazz, Poetry & Wine @ Acadia Foods

    • Aug 17: Cuban Grooves, Jazz and Blues @ Piedmont Music Center

    • Aug 17: International Dance + Hot Jazz @ the Intergeneration Center

    • Aug 31: Martha Bassett's Quinteto Brasil @ Milton Rhodes Center





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Movies 



  • Aperture Cinema

    • Heartworn Highways

    • Bunea Vista Social Club

    • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

    • Studio Ghibili Festival, August 2 with Vecino Center

      • Howl's Moving Castle

      • Spirited Away

    • Weapons

    • It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

    • Big Backyard Movie Nights at Crossnore

    • Dinner + a/movie Series

    • and more!


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Classes 


  • Aperture

    • Film A/ppreciation: August 4 - 8

      • Introduction to the art of cinema for rising grades 6-9


  • Art Shac

    • Vintage Post card earrings, August 2


  • NCMA (Secca)

    • Teen Animation Club – August 2 


  • Sawtooth – variety of classes 

    • Clay, photography, watercolor, acrylic painting, video making, writing, jewlery, glass mosaic, cutting boards, silk scarf dying, digital arts, and more! 


  • Beginner Sewing and Crochet

    • Forsyth County Library



 

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July 29 – August 3, 2024 

 

Did we miss something? Contact agaskins@intothearts.org to inform us of an arts event.

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