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Things to Do | March 27-April 3
March 27-April 3
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“Things My Mother Taught Me”
Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together. They’ve just packed up all their belongings and driven halfway across the country to start a new life together in Chicago. Their moving day doesn’t go as planned though, and things become slightly more complicated when all their parents show up to help.
Time: 2 p.m. (Sunday), 7:30 p.m. (Thursday), 8 p.m. (Friday & Saturday)
Runs through April 7 (No show on March 31, Easter Sunday)
Location: Richardson Theatre Centre, 518 W. Arapaho Rd.
Admission: $22 adults, $20 seniors & students (Sunday & Thursday), $24 adults, $22 seniors & students (Friday & Saturday)
Additional details: Things My Mother Taught Me
Free Tax Prep Help
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is offering free tax preparation help through April 15 at Heights and Huffhines Recreation Centers. Those wishing to take part need to complete an AARP tax packet, available at the Library and the recreation centers.
Time: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (Appointments are available only on Mondays and Wednesdays)
Runs through April 15
Location: Huffhines Recreation Center (Mondays), Heights Recreation Center (Wednesdays)
Admission: Free, fill out a request online for Huffhines or for Heights
Additional details: Tax Forms and Information | Richardson, TX (cor.net)
Emerging Artist Program - People's Choice Award
The Emerging Artist Program was created to recognize the talent of young local artists. See these talented artists' works and vote for your favorite in the People's Choice Award.
Time: Voting closes April 16 at noon
(One vote per person)
Additional details: Emerging Artist | Cottonwood Art Festival
Student Art Contest
Calling all elementary artists! Kids in grades K-6 can enter the Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival’s Student Art Contest. Participants could win prizes and tickets to Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival. The theme of this year’s contest is “Take a Walk in the Park.”
Time: Deadline to enter is April 25
Admission: Entry form available online
Additional details: 2024 Student Art Contest
March 27
Spelling Bee at Happy Hippie Brewing Co.
Join this adult spelling bee at Happy Hippie Brewing Co. in the Lockwood District. The event is a fundraising event put on by FearLess Dallas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting women and gender minorities within the community. There will be a twist on the traditional spelling bee, where adults will have the opportunity to relive their childhood dreams of becoming a spelling bee champion.
Time: 7-9 p.m. (Wednesday)
Location: Happy Hippie Brewing Co., 500 Lockwood Dr.
Admission: $10, purchase tickets here
Additional details: 3rd Annual Spelling Bee
Alamo Time Capsule 1994: “Street Fighter”
Join Alamo Drafthouse to go back in time to some movies from 30 years ago. Watch “Street Fighter,” which features nearly all your favorite fighters and a whole heaping of ‘90s cheese.
Time: 7:25 p.m. (Wednesday)
Location: Alamo Drafthouse, 100 S. Central Expy.
Admission: $10
Additional details: Street Fighter | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
March 28
Southfork Ranch
Join the Richardson Senior Center to tour the famed Ewing Mansion and relive exciting moments from the series in the “Dallas Legends” exhibit, featuring an array of memorabilia from the series.
Time: 9:15 a.m. (Thursday)
Location: Meet at the Richardson Senior Center
Admission: $27 (nonrefundable), bring money for lunch at McAlister’s Deli
Additional details: Call 972-744-7800 for additional details
Jeopardy Game by Navigating Elderly Solutions Together
Join the Richardson Senior Center and play a game of Jeopardy. Topics introduced will cover senior living, estate planning, memory care and in home care. Prizes will be given away to the top two winners.
Time: 10 a.m. (Thursday)
Location: Richardson Senior Center, 820 W. Arapaho Rd.
Admission: Free, registration required
Additional details: Call 972-744-7800 to register and for more information
March 29
Hiring Fair for Summer Camp Staff
The Richardson Parks and Recreation Department is looking for summer camp counselors interested in taking kids on field trips, playing games and running activities. If you're looking to be a positive impact on someone this summer, consider applying today and attending the hiring fair.
Time: 1-5 p.m. (Friday)
Location: Huffhines Recreation Center, 200 N. Plano Rd.
Admission: Free, applications available online
Additional details: Employment Opportunities
March 30
Eggstravaganza 2024
Hop into spring with the Richardson Parks and Recreation Department’s Easter Eggstravaganza 2024. Activities will include an egg hunt, library storytime, photos with the Easter Bunny, arts and crafts and yard games.
Time: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (Saturday)
Location: Breckinridge Park Pavilions, Breckinridge Park Complex C
Admission: $10 (resident), $12 (nonresident)
Registration required for each child, adults are free
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
Activity #39775
Seasonal Success: Designing and Creating Your Ideal Yard
Join the Richardson Public Library to hear from North Texas Master Naturalists Sean and Chrissy Cortez-Mathis as they discuss design elements when looking at our landscapes, how to create spaces that people can enjoy both inside and outside the home and the wonderful plants and creatures you discover when you bring native plants into your yard. Free seeds will be available while supplies lasts. This event is for adults and teens.
Time: 10:30 a.m.-noon (Saturday)
Location: Richardson City Hall, City Council Chamber
2360 Campbell Creek Blvd., Suite 525
Admission: Free
Additional details: Seasonal Success: Designing and Creating Your Ideal Yard
Cooking Well, Exploring Cultures
Taste different cultures while cooking in a group setting. “Cooking Well, Exploring Cultures,” hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, provides traditional and flavored recipes from Greece, West Africa, the Caribbean and French/Creole cultures. Recipes are modified to fit in a healthy lifestyle, without sacrificing traditional flavors. Membership to the Richardson Senior Center is not required.
Time: 10 a.m. (Saturday)
Other sessions include April 6 and 13
Location: Richardson Senior Center, 820 W. Arapaho Rd.
Admission: $30
Additional details: Call 972-744-7800 to register and for more information
Contemporary West Dance Theatre
Eisemann Center Presents Contemporary West Dance Theatre (CWDT), a multicultural nonprofit organization. The company has a dance methodology that integrates classical and modern paradigms with an athleticism that gives audiences a more profound dance experience.
Time: 8 p.m. (Saturday)
Location: Hill Performance Hall, Eisemann Center
Admission: $42-$52
Additional details: Event Details | Contemporary West Dance
2024 National Championship of College Chess
This 24th annual tournament features UT Dallas, the University of Missouri, Webster University and UT Rio Grande Valley. Each group is pursuing a championship in the biggest college chess event of the season.
Time: 10 a.m. (March 30-31)
Location: Naveen Jindal School of Management (JSOM), 1.606
800 W. Campbell Rd.
Admission: Free
Additional details: The President's Cup - 2024 National Championship of College Chess
March 31
Great Room Escape
Have fun with friends and family at the Great Room Escape. The theme of the room is 80’s House Party.
Time: Times vary
Location: Great Room Escape, 715 N. Glenville Dr.
Admission: $99.99 flat rate (1-3 guests), $28.99 per person (4 or more guests)
Additional details: Great Room Escape: The Nations Premier Escape Room
April 1
Game Zone
Join Heights Recreation Center for some fun in a new Game Zone Room. Kids can play Xbox, Playstation, foosball, air hockey, board games and more.
Time: Open during Heights Recreation Center’s normal operating hours
Location: Heights Recreation Center, 711 W. Arapaho Rd.
Admission: $25 (yearly pass)
Additional details: Heights Game Zone
April 2
Alamo Time Capsule 1994: “Clifford”
Join Alamo Drafthouse to go back in time to some movies from 30 years ago. Watch “Clifford,” which features Martin Short as Clifford, a 10-year-old-boy with a simple dream: to visit Dinosaur World in Southern California.
Time: 6:15 p.m. (Tuesday)
Location: Alamo Drafthouse, 100 S. Central Expy.
Admission: $10
Additional details: Clifford (1994) | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Walk
Join UT Dallas to walk to together to fight suicide and raise awareness about mental health. Register as a walker or create a team to raise funding that will go toward suicide prevention efforts in North Texas.
Time: 6-7 p.m. (Tuesday)
Location: Student Union, SU Mall, 2601 N. Floyd Rd.
Admission: Free, registration required
Additional details: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) Campus Walk
Youth Fitness Training
Kids ages 11-17 can join Heights Recreation Center for a brand-new fitness, agility and strength class. This class will help them develop and grow in ways that are healthy and beneficial to their bodies.
Time: 5-5:45 p.m. (Tuesdays, April 2-30)
Location: Heights Recreation Center, 711 W. Arapaho Rd.
Admission: $20 (5 sessions), $5 (drop-in fee)
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
Activity #40589
April 3
XJ Star Academy Annual Dance Performance
This exhibition features Chinese classical dance, Chinese ethnic folk dance, contemporary dance and pop dance.
Time: 6 p.m. (Wednesday)
Location: Hill Performance Hall, Eisemann Center
Admission: $20-$30
|Additional details: Event Details | XJ Star Academy
Chess and the Holocaust: “Checkmate: Chess Artifacts and Artworks Made and Played in Extremis”
The game of chess was pictured and played across Nazi-occupied Europe by those in hiding during World War II. Devising ingenious ways to improvise chess sets out of found materials and detritus, they also drew and painted chess games to document and allegorize their experiences. Hear from Dr. Rachel E. Perry as she discusses how these material remnants, both artifacts and artwork, offer important insights into how individuals living under Nazi oppression thought and felt.
Time: 7-8 p.m. (Wednesday)
Location: Performance Hall, Erik Jonsson Academic Center
800 W. Campbell Rd.
Admission: Free, registration required
Additional details: Chess and the Holocaust: “Checkmate: Chess Artifacts and Artworks Made and Played in Extremis”
Alamo Time Capsule 1994: “Forrest Gump”
Join Alamo Drafthouse to go back in time to some movies from 30 years ago. Watch “Forrest Gump,” which is based on a novel by Winston Groom. It was the number one movie in the U.S. for 10 weeks in a row and one of the most acclaimed of its day.
Time: 6:15 p.m. (Wednesday)
Location: Alamo Drafthouse, 100 S. Central Expy.
Admission: $10
Additional details: Forrest Gump | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Spring Creek Nature Area Walk
Join the Richardson Parks and Recreation Department for a 1.5 hour walk of Spring Creek Nature Area. Learn about the historic elements of this location including the early settlers, also the native trees and wildflowers and possibly catch a glimpse of early bird migration.
Time: 9 a.m. (April 6)
Location: Spring Creek Nature Area Portal Monument
Admission: Free
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
Activity #40404
Routh Pioneer Cemetery Tour
This will be a one-hour tour of the large cemetery that includes the burial sites of many of the early pioneer families. It is located within the Reserve at Spring Creek Apartments. Learn about some of the early settlers and explore their final resting places.
Time: 9 a.m. (April 13)
Location: 2710 Routh Creek Pkwy.
Admission: Free
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
Activity #40403
Adaptive Renaissance Adventure to Scarborough
Join the Richardson Parks and Recreation Department to spend the day at Scarborough Renaissance Festival. You will meet at Heights Recreation Center and travel to the festival in Waxahachie. Attendees will get a chance to witness a day in the life of the Renaissance time period filled with crafty artisans and tradesmen that wield steel, mold and cure pottery along with blowing glass to make things that are needed and still used today.
Time: 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (April 13)
Location: Scarborough Renaissance Festival, Waxahachie, TX
Admission: Free, registration required
Participants must bring cash for food, drinks and souvenirs
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
Activity #38962
RALC Murder Mystery
At this fun, interactive event, community leaders and professional actors perform a mystery comedy play while attendees work in teams to solve the “crime.” This year, AI will take center stage. Will AI be the victim or will AI be the villain. This year’s guest actors are Abbie Kaufman from Network of Community Ministries, Richardson Mayor Bob Dubey, Richardson Police Chief Gary Tittle and Dr. Jennifer Burr from the Region 10 Education Service Center.
Time: 7 p.m. (April 13)
Location: Richardson Senior Center, 820 W. Arapaho Rd.
Admission: $85 (general admission), purchase tickets here
Additional details: Murder Mystery 2024 | RALC
41st Annual Richardson Open (Registration Closes Soon)
The 41st Annual Richardson Open is a long-standing Richardson tournament featuring a Level 5 Adult Major Zone with a multi-level tournament offering a diverse range of competitions including father and son teams, husband and wife duos and players of varying skill levels.
Time: (April 19-21)
Location: Huffhines Tennis Center, 1601 Syracuse Dr.
Admission: $35-$49.50, register here
Registration closes April 11
Additional details: 41st Annual Richardson Open
Disc Golf Tournament
Registration is underway for the third annual Richardson Disc Golf Tournament. The tournament will feature one round (18 holes) of singles play. Registration ends April 24.
Time: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 (April 27)
Location: Breckinridge Park Disc Golf Course, Breckinridge Park Complex C
Admission: $30, registration required
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
E-mail Jonathan.Winters@cor.gov for more information
Adaptive Disc Golf Tournament
Join the Parks and Recreation Department for the first Adaptive Disc Golf Tournament. There will be special prizes for first, second and third places. Specialized instruction will be available before the tournament begins.
Time: 1-8 p.m. (April 27)
Location: Breckinridge Park Disc Golf Course, Breckinridge Park Complex C
Admission: $15, registration required
Registration deadline is April 25
Additional details: Activity detail | City of Richardson Parks and Recreation
Activity #39153