No matter your goals in 2024, you’ll find something on this list that piques your interest and inspires you to experience something new in Winston-Salem this year!
Learn about Crafting Cocktails at easytalk.
Join the Ginger Fox Beverage at easytalk for an interactive class on making (and drinking) cocktails. Classes are typically held on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. for those with reservations. Tickets include the class, two cocktails, a cocktail guide, and bar snacks.
easytalk by Ginger Fox Beverages
905 South Broad Street, Suite 105
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Tour Sutler’s craft distillery in West End Mill Works.
Sutler’s Spirit Co. is a craft distillery in Winston-Salem’s West End Mill Works, producing small-batch, handcrafted gin. They emphasize using locally sourced ingredients, highlighting the region’s flavors. The distillery is occasionally open for tours and tastings where visitors can learn about their production process and sample their spirits. Contact them directly to see when they’re opening the tasting room for tours and tastings.
Sutler’s Spirit Co.
840 Mill Works Street, No. 120
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Stay at the top wish-listed Airbnb in Winston-Salem.
On the outskirts of Winston-Salem’s West Salem neighborhood is an artsy lodging site known as the West Salem Art Hotel. The hotel offers creative and artful accommodations inside a historic 1931 brick building. The WestSalem Art Hotel currently hosts three different apartments for booking: “Art” partment #1, the Rose Room Apartment, and the Paris Suite.
West Salem Art Hotel
910 Albert Street SW
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Time travel back to the ’80s at Wieners & Losers.
Wieners & Losers is a 1980s arcade museum. Owned by a 1980s arcade preservation enthusiast, the admission fee of $15 gives you access to all the museum’s arcade games. For the whole immersive 1980s experience, the museum doubles as an Airbnb in Winston-Salem. Like untouched history, the 1980s aesthetic stay features retro posters, bedding, and access to the arcade.
Discover your next creative hobby at Mixxer Community Makerspace.
If you want to learn how to make something (anything) or have a project you’d like to start but need the tools, this is your place! Mixxer is a makerspace providing membership access to high-tech tools, traditional tools, and the space to use them. They have the tools for almost everything: sewing, welding, woodworking, graphic design, etc. The environment attracts creatives and innovators who enjoy collaborating and sharing knowledge.
Mixxer Community Makerspace
375 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27107
Experience spaces and places from diverse perspectives at the reimagined Kaleideum.
Kaleideum is an experimental learning museum that will open a new location in Winston-Salem’s downtown in February 2024. The new building, the reimagined Kaleideum, is nearly 70,000 square feet and four stories filled with exhibition galleries and an expansive rooftop. The downtown location will have nine new exhibition areas: By Design, In Motion, Digital Dome, Our Nature, Storytelling, Wonders of Water, and Try It! Studio, Little Learners, and Rooftop Adventure.
Kaleideum (new location opening February 2024)
120 W Third Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Take a visual arts class at Sawtooth School for Visual Art.
Named one of Our State’s ‘Best-Kept Secrets in the Triad,’ Sawtooth School for Visual Art is a nonprofit community arts school in downtown Winston-Salem. Sawtooth offers over 500 art classes in a year, catering to beginners, intermediates, and experts. The school is in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, operated by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.
Sawtooth School for Visual Art
251 N Spruce Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
