


Craft Beer tasting tickets are sold separately. Most activities are included with Festival admission. Entrance to the Festival is $2 per person. The Mariners’ ARRRtober Festival is a family-friendly event, featuring live music, craft beer tastings, food trucks, pirate storytelling, Scallywag School, hayrides, and more! The Festival portion will begin at 1:00 PM, and will feature food trucks, live music, craft beer, cider and wine tastings, and lots of family-friendly games and activities. The Mariners' ARRRtober Festival - October 13 This event will take place prior to the Mariners' ARRtober Festival kickoff! Learn Moreĥ.


Runners can take on this challenging run solo, or team up with friends and do it as a relay. The Noland Trail Marathon & Relay will give runners the opportunity to race the ONLY event run on the beautiful Noland Trail in The Mariners’ Museum Park. The Noland Trail Marathon Relay - October 13 With live music, family art activities, and gourmet food vendors, the Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival continues to be recognized as one of the best and most talked-about fine art and sculpture shows in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
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14th Annual Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival - October 12-13įound at Styron Square in Port Warwick, nationally recognized artists showcase a full spectrum of original works. Watch a craftsperson plying their trade, try your hand at games of chance and skill, and cheer for the warrior of your choice at the Field of Honors. Entertainers and a market mix with the sounds of good-natured martial competition and the smells of period cooking. Harvest Faire: Peninsula's Oldest Renaissance Festival - October 11-13Ĭelebrating their 25 th year, Harvest Faire is a modern interpretation of a late 15th-century European fall harvest celebration and tournament at Endview Plantation. Celebrate fall with more than 200 craftspeople showcasing traditional crafts and trades, demonstrations, folk music, and the many sights, sounds, and memories that have been passed down from generation to generation. 46th Annual Newport News Fall Festival - October 5-6Ĭoastal Virginia’s biggest traditional craft show, the Newport News Fall Festival has been held in Newport News Park since 1974. To help you experience fall in Newport News to the fullest, we've put together a list of the fun activities you can look forward to in the upcoming weeks. Not to mention the fun wave of festivals that occur October-November to help us enjoy the mild temperatures. The trees dress gloriously in bright hues of red, green and yellow along our trails. Kenton Pike of Hampton said he'd been to a few fairs before this one, and had wanted to make it a family event.If there is one magical time of year in Newport News, it's the fall season. Aura readers and fortune tellers plumbed the depths of the unknown with attendees while belly dancers swayed to music ranging from period flute music to dubstep remixes. Vendors sold everything a medieval buyer could want, including swords and shields of all shapes and sizes. "There're a lot of people who come over and say, 'Oh, if I had known this was going on I'd have been coming for years," she said. Reineri's wife, Amy, said a lot of the attendees also help put on the event - there are as many as 200 performers, reenactors, vendors and organizers - but many are people who just wander by. Faire organizer Dave Reineri said the drizzly weather put a bit of a damper on attendance Saturday, but it was nowhere as bad as last year, when a downpour kept many away and fewer than 400 turned out. In its 20 t h year, Harvest Faire's organizers were hoping to draw between 600 and 800 people. Cloak-wearing attendees mixed with ladies of the realm, as knights and Scottish warriors wearing kilts and claymores swaggered through a small city of canvas tents. Landis dripped sweat from under his chainmail cowl.Īmong a small city of canvas tents, hunks of meat roasted on iron spits over simmering coals. You do have to be in shape if you want to do this," Fitzhugh said. The men practice monthly in western martial arts and demonstrate at faires and festivals in unscripted combat. Fitzhugh and his yellow knight-counterpart Richard Landis were performers at the Harvest Faire, a weekend-long Renaissance fair in Newport News.
