area event schedule
Appalachian Festival 2022
Join the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, the Youth Museum of Southern WV and the Raleigh County Beekeepers Cooperative Association for their “Beckley Honey Festival”, Saturday, August 20, from 10:00 – 4:00 pm.
It will be a fun day filled with honey bee products, activities, vendors and great information. Visitors can learn how to raise bees, taste and purchase local honey, see live honey bee demonstrations, visit informational display tents, and participate in great activities for the entire family! Special children’s activities will take place at the Youth Museum such as bee dissections, an art activity, and visitors can see the new museum exhibit,
Music will provided by the Long Point String Band throughout the day. There will also be specialty vendors and food vendors. Exhibition Coal Mine tours will be available all day at discounted rates.
Saturday, August 20 – Saturday, August 27
MONDAY – THURSDAY 9-7
FRIDAY – SATURDAY 9-5
Join the Beckley Branch of the Raleigh County Public Library for some interesting Appalachian Festival events:
Saturday, August 20th at 12pm
Appalachian Slime Time gooey mountain goodness – Recommended ages from 6 years and up. We will also be drawing a winner for an Appalachian “make-do” rag doll. Displays of various toys, arts, and literature from the mountains will be featured as well.
Saturday, August 20 – Saturday, August 27
Join the Beckley Branch of the Raleigh County Public Library for some interesting Appalachian Festival events:
scavenger hunts
puzzles
Appalachian recipes
Our childrens department will be sponsoring a Raleigh County Humane Society King and Queen competition – children will have an opportunity to vote for their favorite royal canine and feline. We hope to secure enough donations to be able to help cover the adoption fees for the queen and king. Our furry winners will be decided on Saturday, August 27th at 1 pm.
Saturday, August 27
Mountaineer Mud Bug crafts, coloring sheets and at-home scavenger hunts as long as they last on the 27th.
Tour underground, visit the Coal Camp, the Museum and the Gift Shop stocked with West Virginia items & freshly made fudge in a variety of flavors. The hands-on exhibitions and underground coal mining tour offer wonderful opportunities for our visitors to learn, explore, interact and share.
As the focal points of the City’s lovely New River Park, the Exhibition Coal Mine and the Youth Museum draw thousands of people to the area annually. The unique underground mine, the recreated coal camp, the Youth Museum and the Mountain Homestead are surrounded by inviting lawns, colorful flowers, picnic areas, an imposing coal miner statue and a whimsical 20 ft. “Peace Totem”.
At the Exhibition Coal Mine, one can ride through the dark passages of a vintage coal mine. The guides are veteran miners and provide firsthand accounts of the daily responsibilities and travail of past and present day miners.
In addition to the Mine, one can tour the period coal camp buildings situated throughout the grounds. Lovingly restored, the Coal Company House, Superintendent’s Home, Pemberton Coal Camp Church, and the Helen Coal Camp School, give visitors a true representation of early 20th century coal camp life.
Visit during the Appalachian Festival and receive a Discount Admission Ticket Price
Explore the mind, inventions, art and ideas of the original Renaissance Man, as you engage in a dozen hand-on activities; Create a copter, solve math puzzles, try your hand a backward writing, make your own Mona Lisa masterpiece, engineer towers, bridges and simple machines.
Multiple-user workshop tables allow individuals or groups to learn about Leonardo DaVinci’s many areas of interest in science and art – 500 years ago, this amazing polymath was adding the ”A” to STEM, and now you can , too !
The exhibit explores all the fascinating facets of Leonardo’s work. His work crossed all disciplines and the exhibit captures that perfectly.
In very hands-on ways, visitors can build, sketch, test and design via activities tied to Leonardo’s era and ideas. Children and adults both will find the brain challenges, opportunities for creative expression, and intriguing ideas appealing.
The exhibition includes interactive science and art exhibits, including: a photo-op with Mona Lisa, ratio-coordinated gears to create your own 2D and 3D interlocking mechanisms, an opportunity to recreate Leonardo’s amazing tool-and-hardware-free interlocking bridge, cut out and fold your own air-powered flying ‘copter, learn Leonardo’s special mirror writing and so much more.
Leonardo’s Lab was organized by Carnegie Science Center (Pittsburgh) and presented by Sciencenter (Ithaca).
Join in our Dan and Cynthia Bickey Art Gallery for Processing, A Digital Art Exhibition. We are excited to introduce this theme idea from our BAC exhibitions committee. Through this exhibition we hope to highlight a medium that is sometimes left out of the fine art world. For this special experimental exhibition, our gallery will be filled with artwork from illustrators, digital artists, photographers and video/media artists!
The Craft Beverage Festival is BACK
Join us here at Daniel Vineyards on Saturday, August 20th, from 12pm-7pm for the 3rd Annual Craft Beverage Festival!
• $20 gate fee, CASH ONLY
• Includes complimentary wine & beer tastings from local wineries & breweries, commemorative DV wine glass, & live music
• Local food & craft vendors will be on site throughout the event
*** Please email our event coordinator, Chad Fox, at dvine@danielvineyards.com with all vendor inquires
Mark your calendars and come have fun with us this August!
Cheers!!
We invite you to join us at Daniel Vineyards for the 3rd Annual Craft Beer & Wine Festival
Live Music
Food Tastings
Beer Tastings
Commemorative Wine Glass
Saturday, August 20
12pm – 7pm
ADMISSION
$20 per person
ACTIVE Southern West Virginia
https://activeswv.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/August-program-flyer-72822.pdf
Appalachian Festival Walk / Hike on Piney Creek Trail System
Sunday, August 21, 1pm
meet at the Beckley YMCA soccer complex in the last parking lot.
Saturday, August 20 – Saturday, August 27
MONDAY – THURSDAY 9-7
FRIDAY – SATURDAY 9-5
Join the Beckley Branch of the Raleigh County Public Library for some interesting Appalachian Festival events:
Saturday, August 20th at 12pm
Appalachian Slime Time gooey mountain goodness – Recommended ages from 6 years and up. We will also be drawing a winner for an Appalachian “make-do” rag doll. Displays of various toys, arts, and literature from the mountains will be featured as well.
Saturday, August 20 – Saturday, August 27
Join the Beckley Branch of the Raleigh County Public Library for some interesting Appalachian Festival events:
scavenger hunts
puzzles
Appalachian recipes
Our childrens department will be sponsoring a Raleigh County Humane Society King and Queen competition – children will have an opportunity to vote for their favorite royal canine and feline. We hope to secure enough donations to be able to help cover the adoption fees for the queen and king. Our furry winners will be decided on Saturday, August 27th at 1 pm.
Saturday, August 27
Mountaineer Mud Bug crafts, coloring sheets and at-home scavenger hunts as long as they last on the 27th.
Tour underground, visit the Coal Camp, the Museum and the Gift Shop stocked with West Virginia items & freshly made fudge in a variety of flavors. The hands-on exhibitions and underground coal mining tour offer wonderful opportunities for our visitors to learn, explore, interact and share.
As the focal points of the City’s lovely New River Park, the Exhibition Coal Mine and the Youth Museum draw thousands of people to the area annually. The unique underground mine, the recreated coal camp, the Youth Museum and the Mountain Homestead are surrounded by inviting lawns, colorful flowers, picnic areas, an imposing coal miner statue and a whimsical 20 ft. “Peace Totem”.
At the Exhibition Coal Mine, one can ride through the dark passages of a vintage coal mine. The guides are veteran miners and provide firsthand accounts of the daily responsibilities and travail of past and present day miners.
In addition to the Mine, one can tour the period coal camp buildings situated throughout the grounds. Lovingly restored, the Coal Company House, Superintendent’s Home, Pemberton Coal Camp Church, and the Helen Coal Camp School, give visitors a true representation of early 20th century coal camp life.
Visit during the Appalachian Festival and receive a Discount Admission Ticket Price
