PoeFest Community Festival
October 21, 2023 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
PoeFest Community Festival 2023
Come to the Poe Center’s FREE community festival to celebrate healthy choices! Please join us for fun, food, prizes, special guests, interactive activities, and local entertainment.
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 224 Sunnybrook Rd, Raleigh NC 27610
Fun for Everyone:
- Traffic Garden Activity – a miniature “town” with roadways will be set up for young and old alike to traverse in their bikes/scooters, learning safety and the rules of the road along the way. Bring your bike or scooter to participate! More info.
- Storytime with Donna Washington, internationally known, award-winning storyteller
- Live entertainment – N.C. State Ballroom Dance Team
- Door prizes & giveaways, including a chance to win one of 6 NEW children’s bicycles
- FREE books
- FREE produce
- KidLab’s Learning Lab: offering tinkering, art-making, and learning through creative play.
- A look at the MindWELL Garden & Labyrinth
- Fun interactive activities & crafts
- Community Health Fair
- Make-and-take snacktivities
- Games, bubbles, and more!
- Jones Lemonade Slushy will be onsite with slushys available for purchase.
Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor and Bike Activity Sponsor:
Capital City Clauses
Thank you to our CookWELL sponsors for the Traffic Garden Activity, presented in partnership with Oaks and Spokes, sponsored by SafeRoutes to School Wake County:
Safe Routes to School Wake County
Oaks and Spokes
Thank you to our CookWELL Sponsor:
KidLab
Thank you to our PlayWELL Sponsor:
Oberlin Road Pediatrics
Thank you to our PlayWELL Sponsor:
Athletic Club Raleigh
Thank you to our GrowWELL Sponsor:
Josef’s Pharmacy
Special Guests will be onsite:
Storytime with Donna Washington, internationally known, multiple award winning storyteller, spoken word recording artist, and author. Brought to us by Wake Up and Read.
Dancing from the N.C. State Ballroom Dance Team
AmeriHealth Caritas Educational Bus – presenting Menus, Muscles, and More, a program for 3rd-5th grade