FEATURED EVENTS

The American Indian Festival is VIRTUAL this year. Discover the rich and diverse culture of Native American Indians at this year's virtual festival. Join us with your phone, tablet, or computer for engaging experiences featuring guest historians, musicians, artists, and storytellers.

Delve into the arts, cultures, and marine environments of Asia during the Aquarium of the Pacific’s nineteenth annual Autumn Festival. Autumn Festival is going virtual this year and highlights the traditions and cultures of Japan, China, Korea, and the Philippines through a day of learning opportunities and family entertainment celebrating the rich diversity of Asian and Asian-American cultures.

There’s a Blue Moon on October 31st this year, which means that Halloween is about to get extra-spooky! The second full Moon in any month is called a Blue Moon, and it’s especially rare for one to fall on Halloween.We’re celebrating this rare event with a Scary Astronomy stream, including live views of the Halloween Blue Moon (weather permitting). Our frightfully fabulous Educators will talk about spooky celestial objects that are sure to give you chills and the possibilities for life on other worlds. Beware—there won’t be a Blue Moon on Halloween again for another 19 years, so you don’t want to miss out!

Can you smash your way to success? Discover forces and motion with the Connecticut Science Center and Danbury Library by crashing cars and playing virtual tug-of-war. Learn how forces and motion relate to each other, how weight impacts force and motion, and how to record and analyze data during this family friendly, 45-minute STEM workshop. All you need is your sense of discovery and a piece of paper and a pencil!

Enjoy Halloween fun while staying in your vehicle! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on gatherings, this year at Scare in the Park (a revised version of our usual Scare on the Square event) families will remain in their vehicles as they drive through a Halloween trunk-or-treat at Valley Ridge Park. Each vehicle will be handed a treat bag from each vendor it passes.

Get your chalk ready for our fall chalk art contest! In honor of November Arts Month, Chalk the Walk will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, November 7 at Heritage Park. In order to maintain current social distancing practices, artists will create their original work of art on every other square on the sidewalk. Additionally, there will not be a community box of chalk for participants to use. Instead, the Town will provide prefilled bags of random colors. Masks and hand sanitizer will also be available, if needed.

This Halloween, tune in for a night of Scary Stories from a variety of accomplished, local storytellers, hosted by award-winning actor and one of the creators of Mom's the Word, Deborah Williams. The Flame is a sold-out monthly storytelling event, celebrating its 12th season. Well known in the Vancouver storytelling community for being a sizzling storytelling series, The Flame features personal, true stories shared with a live audience. This past June, Deborah won the Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award for co-founding and coordinating The Flame. Her work in this Vancouver storytelling series was cited for continuing to provide “a marvellous, joy-filled resource… [and] celebrates the essential power of the liveness of theatre.”