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Albany Visitors Association
110 3rd Ave. SE,
Albany OR 97321
PO Box 965
Phone:
541-928-0911
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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.
Oct
6
Fri
Oct 6 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
On the first Friday of every month, the carousel opens up in the evening from 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, and for just $5 per person you get UNLIMITED CAROUSEL RIDES, plus a fun activity or craft for the family thanks to Party Perfection Oregon, along with gift shop specials and a great deal on a tasty treat at the Carousel Café!
October’s Theme is Halloween– so get your costume ready, ghouls and boos, for some scarily good fun for the whole family!
Photo by Nathan Pendley.
Oct 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Another 1st Friday event! The Featured Artists at Gallery Calapooia Artist Reception for the month of September are Linda Heard and Pat Spark. Their work will be showcased up front at the gallery and in their featured artist window from September 26 to October 8.
Oct
7
Sat
Fresh and local produce, baked goods, meat, flowers and more! For information visit Albany, OR Farmers’ Market
Candy CARNAGE: Live LOCAL ROLLER DERBY
SATURDAY, OCT 7th 2023, doors open at 5 pm
Sick Town Roller Derby is on the track!! Grab those cowbells and get ready for a night of full-contact roller derby mayhem at Candy Carnage!
featuring Half-Time Entertainment, Food Carts, & ALCOHOL!
Tickets
Kids 5 & Under get in free!
$12 in Advance, purchase tickets here
$15 at the Door
Linn County Expo Center
3700 Knox Butte Rd E
Albany, OR
Oct
13
Fri
Why visit a haunted house, when you can see a whole haunted town?
Three ways to experience the ghostly tour:
- Ghost Walking Tours – October 13th and 14th (tours begin at 6, 7, 8, and 9 o’clock)
- Trolley Tours – October 20, 21, 27, 28 (tours begin at 6, 7, 8, and 9 o’clock)
- VIP Experience Ghost Hunt – October 21 and 28 (10:30pm – 1am)
To purchase your tickets, please visit the website at monteithhouse.ticketleap.com or call 541-220-0421.
A fundraiser to support the Monteith House.
Oct
14
Sat
Fresh and local produce, baked goods, meat, flowers and more! For information visit Albany, OR Farmers’ Market
OFFF is ON for 2023! Oct 14 & 15 at the Linn County Expo Center in Albany, OR.
Oregon Flock and Fiber is a weekend filled with classes, demonstrations, livestock shows, and an expansive marketplace with a wide array of fiber goods and accessories.
Admission is FREE!
Workshops will be Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
The marketplace is open Saturday 9am – 5pm and Sunday 9am – 4pm.
Please join them for a weekend of fiber fun and community.
For information visit Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival
Photo by Melinda Martin.
Cider pressing fun for the whole family is scheduled for three Saturdays this fall–September 23, October 14 and 28. Thompson’s Mills State Heritage Site is open free to the public from dawn to dusk with cider pressing from 11am to 3pm. Fresh cider is available (limit one gallon per family) for your donation to Thompson’s Mills Preservation Society. TMPS President Rebecca Martin will have storytelling for the younger ones and mill-themed gifts are available. Telephone the Mill for additional information at 541.491.3611. Docents are on hand for mill tours–pack a lunch and make a day of it!
Fresh-pressed apple cider was one of the delicious food of settler life. The Oregon Trail settlers who built Thompson’s Mills pressed apples for cider, and now you can too! Come early before we run out of apples! For a donation, you can take home half-gallon containers filled with apple cider. You are also welcome to bring your own apples to press.
The turbines will be running all day, and guides will be stationed throughout the mill to help you make your own flour, explain how the turbines work and tell the story of how and why the last water-powered mill in Oregon still operates. Operating the hands-on exhibits and seeing wooden beams hand-hewn when Abraham Lincoln was president make Thompson’s Mills a memorable family experience. Hosted by the Thompson’s Mills Preservation Society.
SECOND SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH
12PM-2PM
Monteith LIVING HISTORY ACTIVITIES
12PM-2PM
Monteith LIVING HISTORY ACTIVITIES
Step into 1850 with them on the second Saturday of each month, from 12 pm to 2 pm, at the Historic Monteith House. Exciting activities like, woodworking, pioneer doll making, baking biscuits, making butter, and so many other family-friendly activities! Each time will be something new, and you’ll learn a little more about this important piece of Albany’s history.
REGISTERING IN ADVANCE is important so they know how many kits to prepare before you arrive.
Why visit a haunted house, when you can see a whole haunted town?
Three ways to experience the ghostly tour:
- Ghost Walking Tours – October 13th and 14th (tours begin at 6, 7, 8, and 9 o’clock)
- Trolley Tours – October 20, 21, 27, 28 (tours begin at 6, 7, 8, and 9 o’clock)
- VIP Experience Ghost Hunt – October 21 and 28 (10:30pm – 1am)
To purchase your tickets, please visit the website at monteithhouse.ticketleap.com or call 541-220-0421.
A fundraiser to support the Monteith House.
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