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Your Napa Weekend: What to Do?

What's happening this weekend in Napa? Only about a zillion different fun and interesting things, including the Rock & Stroll, Open Studios and much more. Here are just a few tips from our Events calendar, where you'll find many other cho

When you're planning your time off in Napa, turn to the Napa Patch Events calendar to see what's happening around the area. It's a free service to the community where anyone can upload a local event, from a yard sale to the annual gala.

Just a handful of weekend events are highlighted below; find them all at napa.patch.com/events and add your own at napa.patch.com/events/new.

And if you'd like to plug a weekend event not listed in this article, go ahead and tell us in the comments section.

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Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Rock & Stroll Carbo-Load Dinner, 5 p.m., Napa General Store, 540 Main St: $15

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The National Circus of the People's Republic of China, 7 p.m., Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St$35

The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee, 8 p.m. Napa Valley Playhouse, 1637 W Imola Ave, Napa$30 (also Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.)

Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012

It's not too late to register for the 4th Annual Napa River Rock & Stroll: Same-day registration starts at 7 a.m. at Kennedy Park, 3291 Streblow Dr., Napa and the timed 6k fun run starts at 8:30. Napa Patch will be there! 

Napa Valley Open Studios celebrates its 25th anniversary with 43 locations around the county: Here's where to click to find links to the map and photos of the artists and their art.

Ballet Folklorico de Napa performs at 8 p.m. at the Napa Valley Opera House: $15

Ozomatli plays at 8 p.m. at the Uptown Theatre, 1350 3rd St, Napa$35

Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012

Christian Music with De La Croix, 10 a.m., Valley Community Church, 4149 Linda Vista Ave, Napa

Napa Valley Open Studios, see above.

Friends of the Napa Library September Book Sale, 2 p.m., Napa County Library, 580 Coombs St, Napa

The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee, 2 p.m., see above.

Sunday Afternoon Concert, 4 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of St Helena, 1428 Spring St, Saint Helena: Soprano Suzanne Clark, Kent Cohea on flute and saxophone and Tom Flesher on piano and the church’s splendid Rieger pipe organ. Free, $10 suggested donation, wine and cheese reception to follow concert.

Do you have an event you'd like to add to this week's tipsheet? Let us know in the comments section below. For more things happening around Napa every day of the week, check our Events Calendar. You can even add your own events at napa.patch.com/events/new.

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