Community Calendar

The Burgwin-Wright House is excited to celebrate our 100th art show in our gallery by welcoming back local artist, Janet Sessoms, for her show "Colorful Reflections.”

The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday, March 27 from 6-9PM.

Sessoms artworks will be on display and for sale in our art gallery through June 20th. Admission is free. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm.

About the Artist
Janet B. Sessoms, who works primarily in oils, describes her style as painterly realism. Her paintings reflect her fascination with the effects of light on the environment and inanimate objects, as well as her fondness for the landscapes of the southeast. Sessoms wanted to be an artist since the age of eight. An art educator for 22 years, Sessoms retired fourteen years ago and has been realizing her dream ever since. A self-described, life-long learner, she enjoys taking workshops by nationally renowned artists. Sessoms maintains a studio at ArtworksTM and is an active member of the Wilmington Art Association, the Art League of Leland, and Oil Painters of America. To view the artist’s portfolio visit www.janetbsessoms.com.

Explore the waters on a custom pontoon boat around Masonboro Island and Wrightsville Beach. Captained by a naturalist ,this one hour trip provides a combination of natural history and local flora and fauna ecology

We’re excited to welcome you and help with anything you need as you choose your plants. To make the experience comfortable for everyone, shoppers visiting on Friday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. will enter in 15-minute intervals, giving each group room to explore.

We will be offering the following for sale: vegetable and herb plants, annuals and perennials, native plants and Master Gardener Home Grown Favorites. We will also have our Monthly Garden Planners for Zone 8, and our Ask a Master Gardener Booth for gardening questions

Cinematique is back! Join us for the first Cinematique at Jengo's screening with the film that started it all- Citizen Kane! Join us for the kick-off of the re-imagined Cinematique, hosted by WHQR and the Cucalorus Film Foundation. Stay after the 4pm matinee or show up early for the 7:30pm screening to enjoy the Cinematique Social Hour from 6pm-7:15pm in the Jengo's Bar (we'll provide the snacks!) After the second screening, Todd Berliner, Professor of Film Studies at UNCW, will discuss the profound impact Orson Wells' film had on filmmaking.

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Three Nights. Three Churches. Three Stories.
April 24 - 26, 2026
Years before the Bible was canonized, people told the stories around fires and in homes that we now read in the scriptures. Biblical storytelling takes a two-dimensional “reading” of the scripture and turns it into a three-dimensional ”telling” of the story.

Davide Bardi and Paola Balbi, are the Artistic Directors of Raccontamiunastoria (Tell Me A Story). They will perform three times over the weekend of April 24 - 26. They have told these stories for more than a decade, and make every performance different through music and improvised content.

These events are FREE and open to the public, but donations are welcome to bring professional artists, like Davide and Paola, to Wilmington.
"A Tale from the Time of Martyrs” Ad Catacumbus, The Praetorian of Christ
Sebastian is a young and handsome man, commander of the Praetorian Guard - the most sought after position in the Roman army - and personal bodyguard of the emperor Diocletianus. He has a brilliant career, he is powerful and popular all over Rome and is considered the perfect embodiment of "Romanitas" (Roman virtue) and "mos maiorum" (the moral virtue of the ancestors) but the course of his life will change dramatically when he comes across the teaching of a revolutionary preacher from the obscure province of Palestine, sentenced to death two centuries before.
This powerful and passionate story from early Christianity comes to life through the voices and bodies of Davide Bardi and Paola Balbi in a performance that is a real Storytelling marathon, where each of the performers embodies four different characters. Unforgettable male and female figures emerge from the setting of a violent and corrupt imperial Rome. They will shape the course of human history and spirituality. This captivating and emotionally engaging performance will immerse the audience in one of the lesser-known periods of ancient Rome, where being a Christian was considered the worst of crimes, and defying the emperor was pure madness and meant certain death.

Three Wilmington Presbyterian congregations are joining together to host an extraordinary weekend of sacred storytelling with international performers Davide Bardi and Paola Balbi. Through a dramatic retelling, with conversation and reflection to follow, we’ll explore the legend of Saint Sebastian in Part 1 of the three-part storytelling experience.

Friday's story is a gripping, historically grounded retelling of the life of Saint Sebastian, Roman soldier turned Christian martyr. Two performers embody multiple characters, bringing imperial Rome’s danger, corruption, and spiritual upheaval to life. Commissioned for the 2025 Jubilee, the piece blends research, drama, and immersive storytelling. The Q&A session will occur after the performance.

THIS SHOW IS A TOTAL DISASTER… AND YOU’LL LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT!
Are you tired of normal musicals where things go right?
Sick of happy endings that make sense?
Then buckle up, because Disaster: The Musical is here to absolutely ruin your expectations.
Earthquakes!
Fires!
Tidal waves!
Questionable life choices set to 70s hits!
All happening at the same time. Because why have one disaster when you can have ALL OF THEM?
Featuring iconic songs you didn’t realize could narrate complete chaos, including:
People falling in love… during mass panic
People breaking up… during mass panic
People singing instead of evacuating… during MASS PANIC
Witness dramatic slow-motion running!
Emotional ballads mid-catastrophe!
Absolutely zero regard for safety protocols!
Critics are saying:
“I laughed, I cried, I reconsidered cruise vacations.”
“Like a rollercoaster… if the rollercoaster was on fire.”
So grab your friends, your sense of humor, and maybe a life jacket—just in case.
Disaster: The Musical
Because sometimes everthing is chaos and it is hillarious!
Stein Theatre: April 23-May 3. Thurs-Sat 7:30 Sun: 2:00
Tickets are on sale now!! https://www.thalianhall.org/pan-disaster-26

A variety of locally grown vegetables, herbs, perennials, and landscape plants will be for sale, as well as hanging baskets of flowering plants. There will be free activities for children in The Children's Garden. The Plant Clinic will be open to answer your gardening questions. Educational displays will focus on Pollinators and Native Plants. Visitors can enjoy touring The Discovery Garden and visiting the Onslow County Farmers Market. This fundraiser supports Educational Programs. This is a CASH ONLY event. Bring your wagon or boxes, and load up on plants.
If there is construction, please find us behind the construction.

A variety of locally grown vegetables, herbs, perennials, and landscape plants will be for sale, as well as hanging baskets of flowering plants. There will be free activities for children in The Children's Garden. The Plant Clinic will be open to answer your gardening questions. Educational displays will focus on Pollinators and Native Plants. Visitors can enjoy touring The Discovery Garden and visiting the Onslow County Farmers Market. This fundraiser supports Educational Programs. This is a CASH ONLY event. Bring your wagon or boxes, and load up on plants.
If there is construction, please find us behind the construction.

A variety of locally grown vegetables, herbs, perennials, and landscape plants will be for sale, as well as hanging baskets of flowering plants. There will be free activities for children in The Children's Garden. The Plant Clinic will be open to answer your gardening questions. Educational displays will focus on Pollinators and Native Plants. Visitors can enjoy touring The Discovery Garden and visiting the Onslow County Farmers Market. This fundraiser supports Educational Programs. This is a CASH ONLY event. Bring your wagon or boxes, and load up on plants.
If there is construction, please find us behind the construction.