EVENT SCHEDULE

Saturday, June 17, 2023 | 12 – 6 PM

MUST SEE ACTIVITIES

SATURDAY, JUNE 17

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Art Incarnate's Third Annual Artisan Festival (11 AM - 4 PM)

Join Arts Incarnate for its third annual Artisan Festival! The event will b hosted once again at 75 N. Mason Street (right across from the Elizabeth Street parking garage). With live music, food, and artisan craft and art vendors you won’t want to miss!

 

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Silent Disco (12 - 3 PM)

Look for the banners near Liberty Park, in the parking lot by the music mural.

Enjoy a fun dance party where you get to choose the tunes!
Farm-to-City (12 - 4 PM)

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

 

All Kids Activities

 

KIDS ZONE Activities (12 - 5 PM)

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 two KIDS ZONES while you are at the festival for crafts, games, art, free museum admission, farm animals, play zones, and more.

 

All Kids Activities

 

Low Sensory Zone (12 - 5 PM)

Find this area on the Third Floor of the Explore More Museum
We realize that for some children, big events can be overstimulating. Please feel free to take a break and enjoy more solitude play in the low sensory zone located at the Explore More Discovery Museum’s third floor.

Live Music (12 - 6 PM)

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

All Live Music

 

Sip & Stroll (12 - 6 PM)

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.

Participating Locations

 

Liberty Street Lawn Party (12 - 6 PM)

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 Saturday, June 17, 12 – 6 PM! Sip & Stroll your way down Liberty Street and discover pop-up vendors, live music, and lawn games 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!
 
PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES
🦩 DART Resale & Trade
🦩 Mashita
🦩 Pale Fire Brewing
🦩 Sage Bird Ciderworks
🦩 & More Announced Soon!

 

Learn More

 

Dog Days of Summer (12 - 6 PM)

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

It’s the Best.Weekend.Ever…FOR DOGS! Find plenty of activities for all ages around downtown, but there’s only one place where four-legged furry friends are the star of the show.
💧 We’ll have “doggie” pools, free tennis balls, an agility course, and misting station plus…
🌭 Food from The Corndog Company and IceStickles shave ice.
🍺 A summery shandy Pale Fire beer and a seasonal sangria. You can also participate in the downtown Sip & Stroll (12-6pm) and BYO from another nearby restaurant.
📷 A pup costume contest and photo booth with Amelia Schmid. [details to come]
🐾 Toys, accessories, and treats from Blue Ridge Dog, or pup bandanas from Dogwood Goods.
🐶 Anicira on site with cornhole for humans plus canvas painting, doggie pool bobbing for treats, and agility games for dogs.
💜 A surprise visitor to be announced soon!
 
Learn More

 

World Refugee Day (3 - 6 PM)

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!

WORKSHOPS WITH PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED

Make-Your-Own Urban Wood Butterfly House Workshop

Friday, June 16 | 6 – 7:30 PM | Liberty Park | $10 per ticket

Create your own butterfly house using locally-sourced, urban wood at this interactive (and kid-friendly) workshop.

Each ticket gives you everything you need to build one butterfly house (couples, kids and parents, and small groups may share one ticket/kit).

MORE ACTIVITIES ON SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2023

Art Incarnate's Third Annual Artisan Festival (11 AM - 4 PM)

The Church of the Incarnation

Join Arts Incarnate for its third annual Artisan Festival! The event will b hosted once again at 75 N. Mason Street (right across from the Elizabeth Street parking garage). With live music, food, and artisan craft and art vendors you won’t want to miss!

Live Music (12 - 6 PM)

Downtown Harrisonburg

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

Liberty Street Lawn Party (12 - 6 PM)

Liberty Street

It’s BEST.WEEKEND.EVER. & Liberty Street is celebrating with a LAWN PARTY in Downtown Harrisonburg Saturday, June 17, 12 – 6 PM! Sip & Stroll your way down Liberty Street and discover pop-up vendors, live music, and lawn games 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!
 
PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES
🦩 DART Resale & Trade
🦩 Mashita
🦩 Pale Fire Brewing
🦩 Sage Bird Ciderworks
🦩 & More Announced Soon!

Dog Days of Summer (12 - 6 PM)

Pale Fire Roundabout

It’s the Best.Weekend.Ever…FOR DOGS! There’s only one place where four-legged furry friends are the star of the show.
💧 We’ll have “doggie” pools, free tennis balls, an agility course, and misting station plus…
🌭 Food from The Corndog Company and IceStickles shave ice.
🍺 A summery shandy Pale Fire beer and a seasonal sangria. You can also participate in the downtown Sip & Stroll (12-6pm) and BYO from another nearby restaurant.
📷 A pup costume contest and photo booth with Amelia Schmid. [details to come]
🐾 Toys, accessories, and treats from Blue Ridge Dog, or pup bandanas from Dogwood Goods.
🐶 Anicira on site with cornhole for humans plus canvas painting, doggie pool bobbing for treats, and agility games for dogs.
💜 A surprise visitor to be announced soon!

Low Sensory Zone (12 - 5 PM)

Find this area on the Third Floor of the Explore More Museum
We realize that for some children, big events can be overstimulating. Please feel free to take a break and enjoy more solitude play in the low sensory zone located at the Explore More Discovery Museum’s third floor.

World Refugee Day (3 - 6 PM)

Turner Pavilion (Harrisonburg Farmers Market)

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!

Sip & Stroll (12 - 6 PM)

Downtown Harrisonburg

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.

Farm-to-City (12 - 4 PM)

Near Explore More Discovery Museum

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

KIDS ZONE Activities (12 - 5 PM)

Weiler Orthodontics KIDS ZZONE and Horizons Edge KIDS ZONE

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 two KIDS ZONES while you are at the festival for crafts, games, art, free museum admission, farm animals, play zones, and more.

Splash Pad & Touch-a-Truck (1 - 7:30 PM)

Public Safety Building

Cool down with sprinklers and more at the Harrisonburg Fire Department’s Splash Pad. Budding firefighters can also explore a real firetruck!

Skateboard Demos & Tracks (1-7:30 PM)

Wonder Skate Shop

Shred it up with Wonder Skate shop as they bring out their ramp and demo skateboarding stunts outside the shop.

Tobini Roaming Magician (1 – 7:30 PM)

Court Square & Main Street

Presto! Make sure you find the mysterious Tobini, our Best.Weekend.Ever. roaming magician around Court Square and Main Street.

Henna Tattoos (1 – 7:30 PM)

Court Square

Get yourself painted with henna tattoos on the Court Square lawn by SKS Artworks.

The Rosy Co. Photo Booth

Court Square

Snap a picture to remember your Best.Weekend.Ever.!