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Sponsored by IBM Coporation
Media Sponsors: WQDR 94.7-Today’s Best Country

IBM Children's Celebration
3:00-5:30pm (Two years and under admitted free)

Animal of the Hour
2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Third Floor Windows on the World (Capacity 75)
Meet a different live animal every hour.
Media Sponsor: Cleveland Post

Birdman Dave
3:15-3:45, 4:00-4:30 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
First Floor Auditorium (Capacity 260)
Discover the wonders of birds. Learn how they fly and how special adaptations protect them. Belle, a parrot, and Christopher Columbus, a barred, owl, show that birds have intelligence, feelings and thoughts of their own. www.birdmandave.com
Media Sponsor: Carolina Parent

Andy Bonner
3:00-5:00 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Second Floor — Underground (Capacity 50)
This musician from the Eastman School of Music brings a unique mix of multi-traditional folk, bluegrass and Celtic fiddle tunes.
Performer provided by Triangle Theatre Festival, www.theatrefestival.org

Butterfly Wings
3:00-5:30 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Third Floor — Classroom A (Capacity 50)
Create a butterfly for the People’s Procession.

Café Chameleons
3:30, 4:30 & 5:30 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Fourth Floor Acro Café (Capacity 50)
Enjoy great folk singers and a snack in this unique Café. The Café Chameleons play acoustic music, mostly instrumental tunes from Appalachian fiddle and bluegrass repertoires, with some from Irish, jazz, and other genres.

The Acro Café will be open all day until 9:00pm serving a full menu with hot and cold dishes and beverages.

Colossal Nerve
4:45-5:15 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
First Floor Auditorium (Capacity 260)
A special show for kids featuring pop, rock and do-wop harmoneis from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, combined with an off-beat sense of humor. www.colossalnerve.com
Media Sponsor: Carolina Parent

Earn Your Wings
3:00-5:30 NC Museum of History Red Room (Capacity 65)
Create a pair of wings to pin on and wear.

First Night — First Flight Wings
3:00-5:30 Bicentennial Plaza
Help decorate a community set of wings for the First Night — First Flight Fence on Fayetteville Street Mall.
Sponsored by A. J. Fletcher Foundation, Plywood Provided by Home Depot

Flow Circus
3:00-5:00 NC Museum of Natural Sciences First Floor Lobby
Juggling guru Paul Miller performs amazing gravity-defying feats of prestidigitation. www.flowcircus.com
Media Sponsor: Garner News

Hanyu Hanna Chio’s DancEast Ensemble
3:00-3:30 NC Museum of History Daniels Auditorium (Capacity 300)
Asian cultural dance team tells stories of "Spring Blossom" and the "Monkey King" through movement. In Spring Blossom, dancers portray sprouting plants, and their overlapping hands, grown trees. Dancing gestures are similiar to those seen in Hindu folk dance. Monkey King is one of the best-known stories from China of a most clever and courageous monkey born from a rock. The dance describes one of Monkey King's tricks, multiply his identity into five monkey kings.

Helping Hand Mission Band
5:00-5:30 Bicentennial Plaza
Dance to the different beat of this spirited drum and dance line.

Henna Tattoos
3:00-5:00 NC Museum of History Third Floor
Temporary henna tattoos by Deepika Bhatt promise good fortune for the New Year.
Media Sponsor: Holly Springs Sun

Jan Tu
3:00-5:00 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Third Floor — Mountain Cove (Capacity 50)
Edu-tainer will spin heartwarming folktales intermixed with fascinating nature talks for children of any age.
Media Sponsor: Kidsville News
Performer provided by Triangle Theatre Festival, www.theatrefestival.org

Kites, Caps and Capes
3:00-5:30 Bicentennial Plaza
(Timed entry of 20 minute visits beginning at 3:00pm.)
Transform recycled scrap materials into a kite or a colorful costume for the People's Procession.

Key West Poodle Show
3:00-3:30 & 4:00-4:30 Bicentennial Plaza
A Vaudeville style poodle show full of traditional and classic poodle tricks will transport you to the Island Paradise of Key West. You’ll visit the Key West café, the Floppy Jones, the Sunset Sailboat, and the very famous Southernmost Point. Stars of the show include Cupid, the magic poodle, Blondie the Brave, and Pirouette, the pretty boy. These beautiful poodles exhibit their natural talent and agility, jumping through hoops, dancing and showing off magic tricks.

Discovery Room
Second Floor Museum Discovery Room (Capacity 50)
Open until 5:30
Enjoy a family oriented hands-on self-guided backyard nature exploration.

NC Museum of Natural Sciences Second Floor Special Exhibits Gallery
"Powers of Nature" reveals the science behind natural disasters. Visiting exhibit from the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, open until 9:00pm. Admission Fees: $5 adult, $3 children 4-11 and seniors over 60

Paper Airplane Contest
3:00-5:30 NC Museum of History First Floor (Capacity 50)
Farthest Flight? Best Design? Try your hand at paper folding and win a prize.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention
3:00-4:00 Bicentennial Plaza
Larger-than-life spirits of the seasons greet the celestial creations of Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger in the puppet drama "Listen to the Sky."
Sponsored by White Oak Properties, Media Sponsor: Independent Weekly

"Playspace" Toddler Room
3:00-5:30 NC Museum of History Purple Room (Capacity 50)
For children ages 6 months to 4 years.

Michael Stanwood
4:00-4:30 & 5:00-5:30 NC Museum of History Daniels Auditorium (Capacity 300)
This First Night favorite leads a romp around the world through instruments and the music of many cultures. His virtuosity showcases the Didjeridoo, an ancient Australian Aboriginal musical instrument made from a branch of a eucalyptus or gum tree that has been hollowed out by termites. Its sound produces a mesmerizing drone and bass rhythm used traditionally to accompany song and dance. Rock paintings on caves have established that the Didjeridoo is at least 20,000 years old. It could be the oldest musical instrument in the world.
www.coloartists.org/stanwood.htm
Media Sponsor: The Carolina Times

Voices’ Paper Airplanes & Whirligigs
3:00-5:30 NC Museum of History Demo Gallery (Capacity 40)
Write about your hopes, dreams and visions for the coming year. Write them on handmade whirligigs and paper airplanes and watch them take flight at 5:00 in a launch from the steps of the History Museum.
Media Sponsor: Kidsville News

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