Events are selected for a mix of geography, price points, and interests, with a focus on community. This post is updated with new events and event details throughout the month.
🎶 Waverly Place Summer Music Series (Wednesdays starting June 3): The Cary shopping center music series will host free live music on Wednesdays from 5:30-8:30 p.m. throughout the month of June. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair.
- Some of the restaurants on site offer to-go options, and wine and beer will be available for purchase.
- Bands include Bounce Party Band (June 3), Island Time Band (June 10), The Embers (June 17), and Heads Up Penny (June 24). More info here.
📽️ Downtown Cary Park: “Back to the Future” (June 5): A free showing of the 1985 classic movie will be at the Great Lawn at the Downtown Cary Park. Lawn seating setup (BYO blankets and chairs) starts at 5 p.m. with pre-screening activities starting at 6 p.m. The movie will begin at sunset. Food trucks will be on site.
- “Wicked: For Good” was rescheduled to June 12.
🚣♀️ Bands Bites Boats (June 5): The monthly Friday night series at Cary’s Bond Park Boathouse continues with live music, after-hours boat rentals, and food trucks. Enjoy it from Bond Lake or bring your own lawn chair, 6-8 p.m. June.
- June’s band is LaureNicole Duo, food trucks are Super Spuds and Corner Boys BBQ, and the beer vendor is Fortnight Brewing Company. Free to attend.
🏳️🌈 Morrisville Music in the Park: Pride Celebration (June 5): Enjoy live music from the band 22 Strings at Morrisville’s Indian Creek Trailhead, 101 Town Hall Drive, on a Friday night. The event is 6-8:30 p.m. June 5, with Drag Bingo and Party in a Pita food truck.
🎨 SuperFun Saturday (June 6): Kids ages 4-12 meet at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex for free arts and crafts activities with their caregivers. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., no registration required.
📽️ North Carolina Indian and South Asian Film Festival (June 6): This event beginning at 1 p.m. at The Cary Theater includes screenings of indie films from South Asian filmmakers and non-South Asian filmmakers “whose work features South Asians themes or actors.” The event includes conversations with directors, actors, and filmmakers.
🎶📽️ Rhythm & Reels (June 6 and June 13): Spend Saturday evening at Apex Nature Park Amphitheatre with live music and movies. June’s lineup includes a concert by psychedelic power pop fusion band Sweet Dream on June 6 at 7 p.m. and a showing of “Freakier Friday” on June 13 at dusk.
📽️ The Cary Theater’s Summer Family Series, (Sundays beginning June 7): On Sundays at noon through August, the theater shows retro movies on the big screen in Downtown Cary. The movies are generally rated G or PG. In June, the theater will show:
- “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (June 7)
- “The Wiz” (June 14)
- “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” (June 21)
- The Hayley Mills version of “The Parent Trap” (June 28)
🥂 Girls Night Out at Home For Entertaining (June 10): The Downtown Cary shop opens its back patio for a ladies’ night out on one Wednesday night per month, including free s’mores, wine for purchase, and pop-ups. From 6 to 8 p.m. June 10, children’s boutique Ruby James will also be on site. If you register, you can play a game of mahjong with Cary Mahjong Club, too.
📚 Little Fentonians Book Bonanza (June 11): This free event for children in Fenton Square, 21 Fenton Main Street, Cary, includes live storytelling and a free picture book to take home. 10 a.m.-12 p.m., register in advance so there are enough books for all.
🏳️🌈 PRIDE in the Park (June 13): Pride Month, typically held in June, celebrates the LGBTQ+ community. At PRIDE in the Park, Downtown Cary Park activities start with themed crafts in the Nest Pavilion 4-8 p.m. The Pride Night Market, organized by The Night Market Co., will have goods for sale by “LGBTQ+ artisans and allies” from 5-10 p.m. Then, from 7:30-10 p.m., there will be a Pride-themed Silent Disco.
🎉 Holly Springs Juneteenth Celebration (June 13): The Saturday before Juneteenth, which is June 19, the town of Holly Springs and the Holly Springs MLK Committee will hold an event from 5 to 8 p.m. at Parrish Womble Park, 1201 Grigsby Avenue. Vendors, a kids zone, live music, and performances will be included.
- Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when all previously enslaved Black people in the last state, Texas, heard federal orders of freedom.
🎉 Morrisville Music in the Park: Juneteenth Celebration (June 19): Enjoy live music from the band Sahara Reggae Band at Morrisville’s Indian Creek Trailhead, 101 Town Hall Drive, on a Friday night, commemorating Juneteenth. The event is 6-8:30 p.m. June 19, with Trivia and DeeVine Dogs food truck.
🎨 SuperFun Saturday (June 6)(June 20): Kids ages 4-12 meet at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex for free arts and crafts activities with their caregivers. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., no registration required.
🎉 Juneteenth in the Peak (June 20): The free community festival in Apex, founded in 2021 by T.J. Evans and Mayor Jacques K. Gilbert, includes live performances, family activities, two Black history exhibits (one on Apex, another focused on Rosenwald Schools), food trucks, and other vendors.
- The details: 1-8 p.m. June 20 at the Apex Town Hall Campus, 73 Hunter Street.
- This year’s theme is “Come Take a Seat at the Table.”
- A genealogy station from FamilySearch will give attendees free access to historic records, “a resource of particular significance for families tracing lineage through slavery and emancipation,” organizers shared in a release.
- Serving community: A mobile health screening bus from AmeriHealth Caritas of NC and a mobile food pantry from Ripe Revival will be on site.
🎉 Juneteenth Celebration in Cary (June 20): A Juneteenth Celebration curated by Historian Darrell Stover will be held 4-9:30 p.m. in the Downtown Cary Park on June 20. The event will honor “expression, resilience, and joy through live performances and moments that invite everyone to join in.” See the full schedule.
🎶 CaryLive with Abraham Alexander (June 27): The musician, songwriter, and guitarist will perform at Downtown Cary Park’s free concert series, 7:30-9:30 p.m. June 27 at the Great Lawn.
🌈 Drop Drag Gorgeous – Pride Month Drag Brunch (June 28): Drag artist Naomi Dix will perform at RBF, Your Authentic Champagne Bar, 12 p.m. June 28. Tickets are $55 and include the drag show, a brunch buffet, dessert bar, and discounted champagne bottles.
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