Mid Shore Mediation presents COMMUNITY IN HARMONY
A free concert in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s message of peace.
The 46th Annual Waterfowl Festival is November 11-13, 2016. This wildlife art show, sportsman’s expo and small-town festival celebrates all things “Eastern Shore” and showcases Easton in its autumn glory. Meet the country’s finest wildlife artists: painters, sculptors, carvers and photographers, and see their work in galleries spread across historic downtown Easton.
The Festival kicks off with Opening Ceremonies and the Premiere Night Party on Thursday, November 10th and then opens to general admission guests on Friday, November 11th.
Perennial favorites will also return including the popular Dock Dogs® Competition at Easton Middle School, the Retriever Demonstrations at the Bay Street Ponds, World Championship Goose and Duck Calling Contests at Easton High School and the Sportsman’s Pavilion at the Easton Elks Lodge. For a complete schedule of events and details about all the events and exhibits, festival visitors are encouraged to visit www.waterfowlfestival.org.
General admission tickets are $15 for all three days and Premiere Night packages are also available. For more information, to volunteer, or donate, visit www.waterfowlfestival.org or call 410-822-4567.
Explore a real lighthouse with stories, crafts, and technology! For children 7 and under accompanied by an adult. Registration is required and space is limited, so register ASAP! To register, call the St. Michaels library at 410-745-5877.
Teen Junior Naturalists from Pickering Creek Audubon Center will be hosting “Meet the Creatures” at the Talbot County Free Library in Easton. The students will be sharing their knowledge about our local environment with live reptiles and a touch table filled with bones, skulls, feather, pelts, and more. Come for a close encounter with wildlife and to learn more about Pickering Creek.
On Saturday, October 29, 2016, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting OysterFest, a celebration of the Chesapeake’s favorite bivalve. The event features live music on two stages, an oyster stew competition, boat rides, retriever demonstrations, oysters and other local fare, and cooking demonstrations, along with children’s activities, oystering demonstrations, harvesting displays, and more.
This year, Swamp Donkey — a high energy newgrass band with a twist of rock — is returning to OysterFest, playing live from the Tolchester Beach Bandstand. Performing on a second stage along the museum’s Fogg’s Cove will be the melodic Kent Island-based trio, Key Lime Pie, performing “barefoot-guitar” pop from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Family activities are in abundance at the event, with river cruises aboard Winnie Estelle, an oversized oyster puzzle game, an oyster nursery, and net-making and knot-tying demonstrations, a scavenger hunt, and face painting. Children can also build a take-home model boat for a $3 fee. The Chesapeake Bay Retriever Relief and Rescue club will also present retriever demonstrations on CBMM’s Navy Point.
Admission to OysterFest is $5 for CBMM adult members, or $18 for adults; $15 for seniors and students with ID; and $6 for children 6-17. CBMM members at the Family & Friends level and above also receive the $5 discounted admission for two adult guests. Food, drinks, and boat rides are an additional cost, with carry-on alcohol prohibited. For safety reasons, non-service dogs need to be kept home during museum festivals, as leashed dogs are permitted only during regular operating hours. Proceeds from the event support the non-profit museum’s education, restoration, and exhibition programs, with more information at www.cbmm.org/oysterfest or 410-745-2916.
The celebration will take place in downtown Easton, MD from 10 am until 4 pm, and will feature a variety of activities to educate and inspire the community about Frederick Douglass. The program will include a parade, which will begin promptly at 10 a.m. We will have live entertainment, educational speakers celebrating the life of Frederick Douglass, a Children’s Village, food vendors, craft vendors and our Knowledge Village of community organizations offering valuable information for our citizens. We have also included a walking tour of The Hill. Everything will be open throughout the day.
The Avalon Foundation is thrilled to be partnering with both the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Tidewater Inn again for the 2016 Outdoor Concert Series! It’s collaborative efforts like these that make our region such a wonderful place to live and we hope you will join us for at least one night of music, community, and dancing. The shows start at 7 pm and in the event of rain, we will move the fun into the Avalon Theatre.
All concerts are free and take place by The Tidewater Inn restaurant patio on Harrison Street between Dover & Goldsborough. We invite you to bring a chair, a picnic dinner, and your dancing shoes.
Enjoy a magic performance full of surprises. For all ages. Free tickets are required and may be picked up a week prior to the performance.
Celebrate this Irish Bank Holiday with all things Irish! Create your own “lucky charms,” learn about traditional Irish dance, participate in an Irish step dance lesson with Irish dancer Miss Elise McGovern, and end with an Irish tea party! For ages 5– 105. Registration required.
On July 23, 2016, the Avalon Foundation presents the US Navy Band, Commodores
The Avalon Foundation is thrilled to be partnering with both the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Tidewater Inn again for the 2016 Outdoor Concert Series! It’s collaborative efforts like these that make our region such a wonderful place to live and we hope you will join us for at least one night of music, community, and dancing. The shows start at 7 pm and in the event of rain, we will move the fun into the Avalon Theatre.
All concerts are free and take place by The Tidewater Inn restaurant patio on Harrison Street between Dover & Goldsborough. We invite you to bring a chair, a picnic dinner, and your dancing shoes.
NO TICKET PRICE! $5 FOR PARKING
Head to Triple Creek Winery and enjoy fun activities for the whole family. There will be crafts, vendors, hayrides, petting zoo, bounce house, food, wine, beverages, ice cream, music, and you can even walk through a balloon or take a ride. Can’t wait to see everyone.
Please note that no outside food or beverage will be allowed on premises during the festival.
Balloon Activities:
Friday, August 5
5:00pm – 9:00pm – Vendor/Crafters open
5:00pm – 8:10pm – Tethered Balloon Rides. Go up to 60-80 feet in balloon – $20 adults & $10 children under 12. Pay on site.
5:00pm – 8:10pm – Walkabout Balloon – Fun for kids, adults – $2 fee. Pay on site.
7:00pm – Mass Balloon Ascension – all flights are now booked
8:30pm – Balloons stand up and glow – 20 minutes. What a Show!
Saturday, August 6 (morning activities only)
6:00am — Mass Balloon Ascension all flights are now booked
— Tethered Balloon Rides. Go up to 60-80 feet in balloon – $20 adults & $10 children under 12. Pay on site.
— Walkabout Balloon – Fun for kids, adults – $2 fee. Pay on site.
7:30am — “Cow Drop” – 100 miniature cows will parachute from the sky with a free sandwich coupon courtesy of Chic-fil-A of Easton.
9:00am — Festival ends
The Avalon Foundation is thrilled to be partnering with both the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Tidewater Inn again for the 2016 Outdoor Concert Series! It’s collaborative efforts like these that make our region such a wonderful place to live and we hope you will join us for at least one night of music, community, and dancing. The shows start at 7 pm and in the event of rain, we will move the fun into the Avalon Theatre.
Kidsinger Jim will entertain the kids with his wonderfully playful songs and then the Late Bloomers will play a fun and danceable mix of honky-tonk, vintage swing, country and “bluesy-grass.”
All concerts are free and take place by The Tidewater Inn restaurant patio on Harrison Street between Dover & Goldsborough. We invite you to bring a chair, a picnic dinner, and your dancing shoes.
On Saturday, June 17, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., the Talbot County Free Library, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Choptank, will host the Second Annual Chesapeake Children’s Book Festival at the library’s Easton branch (100 West Dover Street). Attendees will meet over 30 authors and illustrators of some of today’s finest children’s books. The Festival will feature live music, a blacksmith working his smithy, make-a-book, an exhibit of Easton High School student art, free food and drink, sign up for the Imagination Library, a plant and seed exchange, a “Build Your Own Home” activity, a photo prop house children can have their picture taken in, and more. Several of the authors will give readings from their work.
The Festival will also serve as the kick-off event for the Talbot County Free Library’s annual summer reading program. Each child who signs up for the summer reading program will receive a voucher good for a free book from one of the Festival’s authors (while supplies last). The child gets to pick the book of their choice and have the author sign it. Studies have shown that children who read during the summer avoid significant drops in their reading skills and return to school in the fall better prepared than those that haven’t been reading. In keeping with the theme of this year’s summer reading program—“Build a Better World”—the library is partnering with Habitat for Humanity Choptank on the project. Every time a child in the summer reading program reads a book, a donation will be made to Habitat for Humanity Choptank.
All library programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.chesapeakechildrensbookfestival.com , or call 410-822-1626.
Thursday, May 19, 3:45 p.m. For children in grades 1-3, accompanied by an adult. Sponsored by the Young Gardener’s Club of the Talbot County Garden Club. Preregistration required. Call 410-822-1626.
2016 JUNETEENTH TO CELEBRATE HERITAGE IN ART AND STORIES
2016 Juneteenth Celebration
Saturday, June 18, 2016, 10 am – 4pm
Held at the Academy Art Museum
The Academy Art Museum and the Frederick Douglass Honor Society are hosting the 5th annual Juneteenth Celebration on Friday, June 17 at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Celebrating Our Heritage in Art and Stories.”
Juneteenth, one of the most important African American holidays in the country, marks the abolition of slavery. The Celebration will commemorate Emancipation Day, celebrate the significant contributions of African Americans in our country, and reflect on the common values that we share as a community.
This year’s program will include a variety of free events. First, the exhibition, Ruth Starr Rose (1887 – 1965): Revelations of African American Life in Maryland and the World, will be on view in the Waterfowl Building in Easton throughout the Juneteenth Celebration. This comprehensive exhibition offers a rare glimpse into African American life at the turn of the century on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Many of the subjects are descendants of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman. Second, the exhibition, Ernie Satchell: A Few of MY Favorite Things (June 17 – August 7, 2016) features the ceramics of artist Ernest Satchell, a native of the Eastern Shore and retired professor from UMES. Finally, on Saturday there will be a keynote talk by Carole Boston Weatherford, Professor and Director of the Professional Writing Program at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC, and author of the award winning children’s book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.
Other activities include the acknowledgement of 2016 Juneteenth Honorees Jeffery Moaney, Barbara Paca, and St. Matthew United Methodist Church, as well as performances by local church choirs, art projects for children and families, craft displays, food, and a knowledge village in the block of South Street between the Museum and the Waterfowl Building.
Come to the St. Michaels Library at 2pm for a fun family movie event! Ages 7 and older welcome.
Bring the whole family to the library for an evening of board games and fun educational children’s games. For all ages (children 5 and under need to be accompanied by an adult).
When: Saturday, March 5, 2016 10:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Talbot County Library – 100 W. Dover Street, Easton, MD
What: To celebrate each others heritage through displays and demonstrations presented by members of the community
Robbie Schaefer – Free Family Show
Friday, March 11th, 2016 – 7:00pm
Avalon Theatre, 40 E Dover St., Easton MD 21601
Robbie Schaefer, one of the founding members of the acclaimed alt-rock favorite Eddie from Ohio will spend 4 days at Easton Elementary introducing them to songwriting. The residency will culminate with a performance where the students will perform their unique songs on the Avalon Theatre stage. Robbie has an easy rapport with kids that helps them discover the fun of expressing themselves through creating and performing original music. http://www.robbieschaefer.com/
The Academy Art Museum and ChesMRC are teaming up to offer you and your family a fun and educational day called:
Travel the World at the Academy Art Museum
featuring the art and culture of ITALY
Children 6 + and their parents will work together on a fun art project and enjoy typical Italian snacks.
When: Saturday, March 12, 2016 from 10:00 am -1:00 pm
Where: The Academy Art Museum, 106 South St in Easton
Travel the World day is FREE, but please let us know if you are coming as it will help us plan.
You can call the Museum at 410-822-2787 or ChesMRC at (443-786-1120) or email the Museum’s Director of ArtReach and family programs, Constance Del Nero at cdelnero@academyartmuseum.org or ChesMRC’s director, Matthew Peters at mateo@chesmrc.org
Wednesdays, February 3- March 16, 2:00-2:45 p.m.
accompanied by an adult.
This event is FREE to the public and has food, games, inflatables, rides, face painting, pony rides, petting zoo, and our biggest feature is the 50,000 egg – egg hunt that is broken down into 5 age groups. Local resources will also be present to share information. It will be held at the VFW here in Easton this year.
Come to Story Time at the Library in Easton! Listen to a story, sing, dance and interact.
All Tuesdays, November 8 – December 6 at 10:00 a.m. For children 5 and under accompanied by an adult.