Norfolk Tides Promotions 2023

Season long: 

• $2 Tuesdays, grab a beer or a popcorn for $2.00. 
• Winedown Wednesdays: $5 glass of wine 
• Free Car Wash Friday: If the Tides have a clean inning, each person will receive a free car wash at Green Clean Express Auto Wash 

April 9th: Take free photos with the Easter Bunny.

April 21: STEAM Education Night

April 22: Star Wars Night

April 23: Bark in the Park 

May 6: Fireworks 

May 7: Visit form the Oriole Bird 

May 20: Fireworks 

May 30: Bark in the Park 

June 3: Fireworks 

June 13: Bark in the Park 

June 16: Boy Scout Night 

June 17: Fireworks 

June 18: Father's Day Pre-Game Catch on the Field 

June 28: Turn Back the Clock Night 

June 30: Negro League Tribute Night 

July 1: Fireworks 

July 2: Fireworks 

July 3: Fireworks 

July 14: Youth Jersey giveaway 

July 15: Fireworks 

July 16: Bark in the Park 

July 25: Baseball Card Giveaway 

July 29: Fireworks 

July 30: Princess Night 

August 1: Bark in the Park 

August 2: Baseball Card Giveaway 

August 5: Fireworks 

August 22: Turn Back the Clock Night 

August 23: Baseball Card Giveaway 

August 26: Fireworks 

August 27: Halloween Night 

September 5: Baseball card giveaway 

September 9: Fireworks 

September 16: Fireworks 

September 17: Bark in the Park 

REACH: Big Free Bookstore

The Big Free Bookstore has a new location at Janaf Shopping Yard. Visitors can come twice a week and get two free new books and two free used books at each visit. 

It's not a scam, REACH, which stands for Reading Enriches All Children, knows the impact that covid had on our community. They set up the bookstore so that people had books and literature, no matter what. The books range from baby books to adult contemporary. I loved that there was representation of different cultures and religions. 

The bookstore is funded by donations, the community, corporate partnerships, and grants. They also have programs for stocking daycares and classroom libraries for teachers. Take your kiddos by and check it out! 

Current Exhibits in Hampton Roads

Checkout these current exhibits around Hampton Roads! I love taking kids to traveling exhibits because there is always something new to learn! 

Nauticus: Game Changers 

The Children' Museum of Virginia: Storyland: The tale of Peter Rabbit, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and more. 

The Chrysler Museum: Facing Ourselves: Mike Disfarmer and the American Portrait 

The Barry Art Museum: The Great  Exhibition: Bebes At the Barry: French dolls from the nineteenth century. 

The Hermitage Museum: Egyptomania- Egyptian styles of art including sculptures, paintings, jewelry, costumes, and furniture. 

The Virginia Living Museum: Mazes and Brain Games 

The Virginia Aquarium: Discover Steampunk 

The Charles H Taylor Visual Arts Center: Hampton Arts League Member Exhibition and From the sea to the Stars 

Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center: Youth Art Exhibit 

Hampton History Museum: Teetotalers and Moonshiners, and Hampton's Prohibition Story 

Portsmouth Colored Community Library: Rooting for the Hometeam- Portsmouth's Black Baseball Players, Promotors, and Parks 

Storyland: Children's Museum of Virginia

Open now until May 7th, you can visit Storyland at the Children's Museum of Virginia. The exhibit lets children play inside of popular story books such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. 

Activities include matching, search and find, imaginative play, prereading strategies, letter recognition, rhyming, and more. 

As always, when visiting the Children's Museum, be sure to check out their planetarium shows, STEM lab, and make it take it art room. 

Nauticus: Game Changers Exhibition

Open now until April 30th, Game Changers Exhibition is the new traveling exhibit at Nauticus. Visitors can discover how video games have progressed and changed over time, while playing some favorite games of the past. Over 120 of the most influential games, including some of our absolute favorites are in the exhibit. Play 16 games like Pac-Man, Mario, and Guitar Hero. 

Test your knowledge, and match popular video game soundbites to their game, step inside a game and see yourself as a game character, or play Tetris on a giant gameboy. 

As a note, much of the second floor of Nauticus is closed for renovations. You can still play with the magnetic fish, jump around on the floor projector, play in "Our Mighty Seaport", and go aboard the Battleship Wisconsin. The Hampton Roads Naval Museum is also open (and free) on the second floor. 

Tickets are $15.95 for adults or $11.50 for children. Children 3 and under are always free.