Last Saturday marked the 5th annual Raleigh Wide Open downtown festival. While the event as a whole was surprisingly well orchestrated, heavily trafficked, and overall pretty awesome, the highlight of the event was the debut show of Maximus Circus, a collaboration of Gamil Design and AcroEntertainment.
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The local urban assasin game, Raleigh Wars, begins its fifth game on August 1 at midnight. Each game sees new players join, and this round has picked up several sponsors for the event.

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For the past 3 years or so, two good friends of mine have been building their skills and their audience through the performance of a mutant hybrid of yoga and acrobatics. Aptly named AcroEntertainment, Kaci Torres and Katie Magee have been performing on street corners, in night clubs and warehouses, and at children’s parties and other events. In the past year or so, they’ve been joining up with performers of many stripes to bring a festive and entertaining show — jugglers, hula hoopers, and fire dancers, to name a few. Together, they’ve been bringing the streets and venues of Raleigh a type of performance not yet seen before.

The next couple of months will see even more developments and opportunities for the loose group of performers.

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The Kirby Derby, Raleigh’s most popular home-grown, sponsor free, non-traditional block party, made its ninth appearance on the quaint neighborhood adjacent to Western Boulevard and Dorothea Dix campus. This year, the theme of the event was ‘The Future is Now’ and it provided for a lot of martian themed floats and sleek, space age soapbox cars.

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