INTERVIEW: Lighthouse Beer and Wine Festival coming to Live Oak Bank Pavilion

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Lighthouse Beer and Wine Festival is scheduled to come to Live Oak Bank Pavilion this October.

The festival will include brewery and winery sampling, along with delta drinks, live music, and food.

Jason Adams of Lighthouse Beer and Wine and Laura Pawlewicz of the Carousel Child Advocacy Center visited the WECT studio to discuss the festival.

Adams says that for the 24th year of the festival, organizers are hosting the Voracious Cellar Sea Shore Event.

“It’s a little more of a boutique-y, upscale event,” Adams said. “We’ll have about 25 breweries, five or six wineries, seven or eight chefs on hand preparing their local cuisine and what they feel is best from the area.”

The festival will benefit the Carousel Child Advocacy Center of downtown Wilmington.

The Carousel Child Advocacy Center’s mission is to ”support healing, promote justice and foster resilience in children victimized by physical or sexual abuse, and improve our community through education, prevention, and advocacy," according to the center’s website.

Pawlewicz says the proceeds will help create an environment that allows kids to return to being kids with the necessary resources.

“We have nurse practitioners, trauma therapists, forensic interviewers and family advocates that work with our community partners in a child-friendly, child-focused center,” Pawlewicz said.

Purchase of a ticket will give you access to unlimited ‘responsible’ sampling.

Ticket prices start at $75. For more ticket information, click here.

The all-day event is scheduled for Oct. 18.