Events on the Eno

Join the Orange County Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail to fight invasive wisteria! 

Click here for more info and to RSVP.

This event is FREE to the public!

Enjoy free music and performance art, visit our community partner tables, and take home new Eno River Association merchandise.

Live Performances
Paperhand Puppet Intervention – Beloved local artists bringing imaginative puppetry and visual storytelling to the celebration.
Five Points Rounders with Rowdy Square Dance (Caller Simone Fine) – An energetic old-time string band accompanied by an interactive community square dance.
Durham Labor Choir – A community choir performing labor and movement songs that celebrate worker power through traditional favorites and contemporary arrangements.
Duo d’Antan – A duo performing an eclectic blend of Parisian musette, Brazilian choro, swing, Irish folk, and traditional café music.

Interactive Activities
The Scrap Exchange – Reuse-focused crafting activities using reclaimed materials.
Eno River Community Mural – A live mural painting with opportunities for community members to contribute to the artwork.
ERA Merchandise Station (“Little Big Top”) – Commemorative merchandise celebrating the Association’s 60th anniversary.
ERA Information Booth – Learn about conservation initiatives, volunteer opportunities, and ways to support the Eno River Association.

Whether you’ve been part of our community for decades or are just getting to know the Eno, the plaza celebration is free and open to everyone.

Buy tickets here!

Doors at 6:30pm
Performances at 7:30pm

In 1966, the Eno River Association was formed by a small citizen-led resistance effort to confront the city of Durham’s plan to dam the Eno River and create a water supply reservoir. Public outreach and organized lobbying for environmental protections accompanied political action to put the Eno in the public eye. Through fundraising and land acquisition, the Eno River Association helped form the first boundaries of Eno River State Park as well as five other riverfront parks in Durham and Orange counties.

Six decades later, the Eno River Association continues to protect the robust conservation corridor directly adjacent to the river and its major tributaries. And as development pressure moves deeper into the Eno watershed, ERA continues to expand a protection footprint while also honoring the cultural and historical threads fundamental to our region’s woven narrative as a whole.

We invite you to join us as we celebrate sixty years of informed advocacy and mindful stewardship and commit to evolving in solidarity alongside the diverse needs of our community to ensure a vibrant, accessible, nature-focused future for all.

VIP Tickets in the Legacy Boxes and Pit will include a limited edition 60th Anniversary silkscreen concert poster designed by Gabriel Eng-Goetz, signed by the artist and featured performers.

Join us to work on the new trail at Blue Indigo Preserve!

RSVP and find more info here.

Come fight invasive tree of heaven at the Confluence Natural Area!

Find more info and RSVP here.

Join the Eno Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail for a volunteer stewardship workday at Eno Trace! On this workday we will be removing more trash, removing invasive plants, particularly privet, and doing minor trail repairs, and hopefully using some rock to do more major trail repairs at a problematic spot.

Email dietrich@duke.edu for more info and to RSVP.

Join Circular Triangle for a Garment Mending Workshop at the Confluence Natural Area!

Join us to learn how to repair or embellish your garments! Bring a garment and volunteers will guide you through the hand mending process using supplies provided by the sponsor –  Circular Triangle https://www.circulartriangle.org/.  And it’s free!