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Play this pop-up putt putt game all across downtown. Clubs and balls are available at every hole. Keep score or just play for fun. Pick up a scorecard and map at the HDR info booth on Court Square or at any of the eleven holes.

Grab a Sip & Stroll drink and discover some great local music on our three stages.

Sip & Stroll is an element to our events that replaces the usual beer garden. Adults aged 21+ can purchase a beer, wine or cocktail at a participating brewery, cidery, or restaurant and enjoy it while strolling within the downtown event footprint.

Look for the Mobile Museum behind the Smith House Galleries off Main Street

Located at Blue Ridge Florist at 165 N Main St

Parents can relax in a private, air-conditioned area set up for nursing, changing a diaper, or just taking a break. This area will be staffed by Moriza Dovis, a family wellness practitioner, who will be available to color with the kids while parents sit.

Also in this area:

• $20 Grab-n-go bouquets
• Full Tea Service at Blue Ridge Florist Tea Room from 11am-1pm. Reservations still available. Call (540) 434-9931 to reserve a time. Includes a 3-tier tasting with a variety sweets & treats from Bittersweet Bakery and a flight of 4 teas.
• Walk-ins for tea & scones starting at 1pm.
• Polaroid Selfie Station in front of the flower wall.

While Best.Weekend.Ever. is an event for all ages, we have a variety of activities specifically geared toward kids and families. Make sure to check out the KIDS ZONEs while you are at the festival for crafts, games, art, free museum admission, farm animals, play zones, and more.

While Best.Weekend.Ever. is an event for all ages, we have a variety of activities specifically geared toward kids and families. Make sure to check out the KIDS ZONEs while you are at the festival for crafts, games, art, free museum admission, farm animals, play zones, and more.

Look for farm animals, combines, etc. in the parking lot area
Explore a real-life combine, ambulance, tractor, and farm animals

Dig your fingers into the sand and get building with the Lantz Construction Play Zone!

Look for a variety of activities all down Liberty Street

It’s BEST.WEEKEND.EVER. & Liberty Street is celebrating with a LAWN PARTY in Downtown Harrisonburg on Saturday, June 15, 12 – 6 PM! Sip & Stroll your way down Liberty Street and discover pop-up vendors, live music, and lawn games, and more at participating businesses.

SIP & STROLL 12 – 6 PM

 Grab a drink and walk downtown!
 Must be 21+ to consume alcohol. Nonalcoholic options available.

 

GIVEAWAYS
Grab a BINGO sheet at participating businesses and enter to win merch or gift cards from those downtown businesses!
 Earn stamps by following the prompts on the BINGO board.
 Five stamps in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) is a BINGO.
 Earn 1 entry into the giveaway for every activity you do. Earn 10 bonus entries for a BINGO.
 Turn in your card at a participating Liberty Street location for your chance to win a prize from participating businesses.

 

PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES
 DART Resale & Trade
 Mashita
 Pale Fire Brewing
 Sage Bird Ciderworks
 Restless Moons Brewing
 Magpie Diner
 Aristocat Cafe
 Liberty Street Tattoos
 Blue Ridge Dog
 The Frame Factory & Gallery
 Bittersweet Bakery
 Liberty Street Mercantile
 Rootstock Wine Bar
 Harrisonburg Farmers Market
 Friendly City Safe Space
Horizon Gifts

Family & Dog-Friendly Event. Presented by Glo Fiber.

Look for activities in the Pale Fire roundabout across from the Harrisonburg Farmer’s Market.

At the Harrisonburg Farmer’s Market (Turner Pavilion)
This event will help focus community attention community attention on the contributions of refugees in the Shenandoah Valley, and there will be opportunities to support refugees. CWS Harrisonburg and Virginia’s Immigrant Voices will celebrate World Refugee Day with music, cultural activities, food, storytelling, henna, facepainting, kids activities, and more at Turner Pavilion Downtown during the Best.Weekend.Ever!

Near Asbury Church

From 9:30am until 3pm, join artist Robert Mott – who has been making art with chalk in public settings for more than 30 years – as he creates a detailed chalk drawing in the parking area just outside Asbury United Methodist Church! Children are invited to create their own chalk masterpieces alongside the artist throughout the day. Materials will be provided! This activity is sponsored by Arts Council of the Valley, with support from The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

Robert Mott has enjoyed creating chalk art drawings in public settings for more than 30 years. In the early 1990s he was a regular artist at the I Madonnari Chalk Festival in San Luis Obispo, California where he was known for colorful recreations of historic California orange crate labels. He and his brother, Tom, led a collaborative team of chalk artists that was featured at the premier San Diego Chalk Festival in the late 1990s. In the early to mid-2000s, Mott began sharing his talents at Staunton Jams music festivals, the Staunton Pride Festival and more recently creating fantastical Harry Potter-themed street art at a number of Queen City Mischief and Magic Festivals. In 2017 Mott was invited to create a Jimi Hendrix drawing at the prestigious I Madonnari festival at the historic mission in Santa Barbara, California. His professional graphic design studio website is found at robertmottdesigns.com.

Virginia Quilt Museum

Enjoy free admission during the Virginia Quilt Museum’s last day at the Warren-Sipe House. See all of our exhibitions, visit our gift shop, and enjoy one last look at quilts in Downtown Harrisonburg.

Look for the picnic blankets on the lawn to the left of the Court Square Stage! The pinwheels will guide you there!

Grab your meal to-go and enjoy the live music on Court Square. We have picnic blankets for you to be able to sit on the lawn and enjoy the summer weather.

Look for the booth on Court Square

Enjoy free face painting – booth located on Court Square. Note – artist will be taking a 30-minute break at 3 PM.

Led by the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, come enjoy an instrument show & tell, hear classically-trained musicians perform live, and hear wonderful children’s literature read as well. Free for children of all ages and their caregivers.

www.mrlib.org

Roaming event, particularly N Main Steet

Stop by Smith House Galleries (311 South Main St) during special hours noon-6pm June 15! This month, the galleries feature a stunning exhibition of watercolors, Juxtaposed, by local artist Brenda Hounshell. In Juxtaposed, Hounshell harnesses a particularly challenging medium to explore color association and contrast, sharing palette-based vignettes among thoughtful groupings of tree subjects, glass objects, and abstract images. Visit during Best.Weekend.Ever. and chat with the artist herself while you admire her detailed watercolor creations!

City Hall

You do not need an excuse to vote in person absentee (early voting), and you do not need to fill out an Absentee application. You may vote early in City Hall (409 South Main St.) beginning 45 days before Election Day and ending the Saturday before Election Day. To vote absentee in person you must be a registered voter of Harrisonburg, provide your name and address, and show an acceptable form of ID. Early voting is open from 9:00am until 5:00pm.

Look for the booth in the KIDS Zone in the Jimmy Madison’s Parking Lot

Look for the booths across from Clementine and Ruby’s

Look for the action in front of Denton Park

Look for the tent in front of the Visitors Center on Main Street

Check out Visit Harrisonburg’s scavenger hunt kids along with giveaways

Harrisonburg Farmers Market, Turner Pavilion

Check out the Master Gardeners kid’s activity titled “Nocturnal Pollinators: Creatures of the Night”

Aristocat Cafe

The Humane Society will be bringing their cutest (by that we mean each and every one) of their pre-adoptable kittens from foster to the cafe on Saturday! Pre-apply for adoption today!

Look for Friendly City Safe Space’s Booth at Pale Fire’s Dog Days of Summer

Enjoy fun and free activities including tie-dying dog bandanas and making your own pronoun pin! FCSS also will have some resourcesincluding safer sex kits, menstrual kits, a selection of clothes from the closet, and raffle tickets.

Yogal Sol (90 N Main St Ste 101)

This special FREE class of the 26&2 practice will be held outdoors behind Yoga Sol. Join us for the original sequence of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises in an outside environment to celebrate Harrisonburg’s Best Weekend Ever. This Hatha style yoga class focuses on each individual posture with a short rest between and is led with full instructional dialogue. Beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome to attend! Participants will be entered into a raffle to win free classes at Yoga Sol or a blooming Mandevilla plant.

You can register online at http://www.Yogasolva.com , or arrive in person (early) to register before the class. Participants must 16 years or older to practice.

TBD

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