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Welcome to AVA’s monthly calendar of events. Take a peek and plan your stay-cation or your next visit to our region. The city’s most notable annual events include historic home tours, outdoor summer concerts and movies under the stars, and the Northwest Art and Air Festival.
*Note for event organizers: If you’d like to have your event listed on the AVA calendar, head over to our contact page and submit your event to us.
Sybaris presents The Twentieth Annual Thanksgiving ABC House Benefit Dinner
Thursday, November 23rd at 1:30pm
Please call 541-928-8157 to reserve your spot for this special fundraiser
$40 per person/ $20 children 7-13/ children 6 and under eat free
All Dinner Sales Go Directly To The ABC House
Join us for the 32nd annual Federweisser German Fall Festival and Barn Dance!
Featuring:
-Federweisser: Cider-like, unfiltered, semi-sweet white-pinot noir.
-Zwiebelkuchen: onion, egg, bacon, swiss cheese, and sour-cream pie.
-Pepper Tree Sausage House on the grill.
-Traditional oompah/ German festival music during the day. (We may change this to modern music by request)
-Live rock and classics Saturday night from local band Shatterproof.
-Showing of the OSU-UofO civil war football match on Friday, with rounds of trivia after the game- winner gets a prize!
-Live Jazz on Sunday by local singer Just Lōnna.
-Roaring fire outside.
-Games available all weekend: board games, card games, strategy, corn-toss and more! (Please bring your games from home as well, hours-long gamers are welcome)
Cover charge is $5 per person, per day, which includes a free tasting for adults 21+. Paid at the door. Anyone wearing lederhosen or dirndl, and kids younger than 15 enter for free!
Come try our delicious cider-like, unfiltered, semi-sweet white-pinot noir Federweisser, alongside the infamous Zwiebelkuchen onion, egg, bacon, swiss cheese and sour-cream pie.
Albany’s own fine meat and sausage producer Pepper Tree Sausage House will be prividing various bavarian style hot dogs and sausages with grilled onions and sourkraut all weekend! Food is CASH-ONLY.
**The Barn Dance is on SATURDAY the 25th, this year.**
The days and hours are:
Friday, Nov. 24th, from Noon-5:00pm (or until the game/trivia ends)
Saturday, Nov. 25th, from noon to 10:00pm. (Or until the band ends)
Sunday Nov. 26th, from noon-6:30pm. Lōnna will be singing from 4:45pm-6:00pm for dinner. (She may sing later for requests/tips)
See you there!
South Albany Boys Basketball is hosting its annual holiday bazaar in the SAHS Cafeteria, November 25th-26th from 9:00am-4:00pm each day. Come see us and support our 20+ vendors from around the community! We will be having raffle baskets available to be won!
Admission is free, donations are appreciated. Funds go towards RedHawks Boys Basketball.
Christmas Storybook Land Scene Setup Event
Help create the winter wonderland, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. shifts, at the Linn County Fair & Expo, Cascade Pavilion. Bonus: Two admissions to the Linn County Fair this summer for helping to unload trailers and set up scenes. Coupons available while they last. All volunteers welcome, especially families and teens. Dress warmly. Community service validation available. Lunch provided.
Register online https://christmasstorybookland.org/volunteer-login/ or sign up at the door.
Information: 541-928-4656.
Holiday Open Art Studio. Art Sale – Holiday Gifts. Visit the Misner Family Century Farm and Therese Misner’s Art studio for art and gifts.
The Misner Family and artist, Therese Misner, open their Century Farm for a festive day of art, gifts, and relaxing on the farm. Visit an artist working studio, home gallery, and tour the Misner Century Farm.
Join us for the 32nd annual Federweisser German Fall Festival and Barn Dance!
Featuring:
-Federweisser: Cider-like, unfiltered, semi-sweet white-pinot noir.
-Zwiebelkuchen: onion, egg, bacon, swiss cheese, and sour-cream pie.
-Pepper Tree Sausage House on the grill.
-Traditional oompah/ German festival music during the day. (We may change this to modern music by request)
-Live rock and classics Saturday night from local band Shatterproof.
-Showing of the OSU-UofO civil war football match on Friday, with rounds of trivia after the game- winner gets a prize!
-Live Jazz on Sunday by local singer Just Lōnna.
-Roaring fire outside.
-Games available all weekend: board games, card games, strategy, corn-toss and more! (Please bring your games from home as well, hours-long gamers are welcome)
Cover charge is $5 per person, per day, which includes a free tasting for adults 21+. Paid at the door. Anyone wearing lederhosen or dirndl, and kids younger than 15 enter for free!
Come try our delicious cider-like, unfiltered, semi-sweet white-pinot noir Federweisser, alongside the infamous Zwiebelkuchen onion, egg, bacon, swiss cheese and sour-cream pie.
Albany’s own fine meat and sausage producer Pepper Tree Sausage House will be prividing various bavarian style hot dogs and sausages with grilled onions and sourkraut all weekend! Food is CASH-ONLY.
**The Barn Dance is on SATURDAY the 25th, this year.**
The days and hours are:
Friday, Nov. 24th, from Noon-5:00pm (or until the game/trivia ends)
Saturday, Nov. 25th, from noon to 10:00pm. (Or until the band ends)
Sunday Nov. 26th, from noon-6:30pm. Lōnna will be singing from 4:45pm-6:00pm for dinner. (She may sing later for requests/tips)
See you there!