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
21
Sat
DETAILS: https://www.antiquepowerland.com/events
What: Powerland Halloween: Journey to Atlantis
When: Saturdays and Sundays in October (except Oct. 1)
Where: Powerland Heritage Park in Salem, Oregon
Cost: $16 per person (under 2 years old free)
Tickets: Tickets will soon be available online. This year you will also be able to pay at the gate!
Adventure Length: The immersive Journey to Atlantis adventure is about 30 minutes. But this year we’ve added several activities for kids to turn your adventure into several hours!
Guests are encouraged to come in Halloween costumes and really get into the adventure.
Follow and Like Powerland Halloween on Facebook to get fun Backstory and Behind-the-Scenes posts!
Oct
22
Sun
DETAILS: https://www.antiquepowerland.com/events
What: Powerland Halloween: Journey to Atlantis
When: Saturdays and Sundays in October (except Oct. 1)
Where: Powerland Heritage Park in Salem, Oregon
Cost: $16 per person (under 2 years old free)
Tickets: Tickets will soon be available online. This year you will also be able to pay at the gate!
Adventure Length: The immersive Journey to Atlantis adventure is about 30 minutes. But this year we’ve added several activities for kids to turn your adventure into several hours!
Guests are encouraged to come in Halloween costumes and really get into the adventure.
Follow and Like Powerland Halloween on Facebook to get fun Backstory and Behind-the-Scenes posts!
Oct
28
Sat
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.
DETAILS: https://www.antiquepowerland.com/events
What: Powerland Halloween: Journey to Atlantis
When: Saturdays and Sundays in October (except Oct. 1)
Where: Powerland Heritage Park in Salem, Oregon
Cost: $16 per person (under 2 years old free)
Tickets: Tickets will soon be available online. This year you will also be able to pay at the gate!
Adventure Length: The immersive Journey to Atlantis adventure is about 30 minutes. But this year we’ve added several activities for kids to turn your adventure into several hours!
Guests are encouraged to come in Halloween costumes and really get into the adventure.
Follow and Like Powerland Halloween on Facebook to get fun Backstory and Behind-the-Scenes posts!
Oct
29
Sun
DETAILS: https://www.antiquepowerland.com/events
What: Powerland Halloween: Journey to Atlantis
When: Saturdays and Sundays in October (except Oct. 1)
Where: Powerland Heritage Park in Salem, Oregon
Cost: $16 per person (under 2 years old free)
Tickets: Tickets will soon be available online. This year you will also be able to pay at the gate!
Adventure Length: The immersive Journey to Atlantis adventure is about 30 minutes. But this year we’ve added several activities for kids to turn your adventure into several hours!
Guests are encouraged to come in Halloween costumes and really get into the adventure.
Follow and Like Powerland Halloween on Facebook to get fun Backstory and Behind-the-Scenes posts!
Nov
25
Sat
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.
May
17
Fri
SAVE the DATE for this fun family event with a parade, live music, exhibits, quilt show, car show, and sheepdog trials and more!
The Fat Lamb Fiber Fest is part of the Lamb & Wool Fair activities.
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
May
18
Sat
SAVE the DATE for this fun family event with a parade, live music, exhibits, quilt show, car show, and sheepdog trials and more!
The Fat Lamb Fiber Fest is part of the Lamb & Wool Fair activities.
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
May
19
Sun
SAVE the DATE for this fun family event with a parade, live music, exhibits, quilt show, car show, and sheepdog trials and more!
The Fat Lamb Fiber Fest is part of the Lamb & Wool Fair activities.
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
Jun
29
Sat
Come to the Native American Cultural Encampments summer of 2024, with Deitrich Peters and friends. The public is invited to come learn about Native culture, explore handcrafts and items for sale, watch the Pow-wow style dancing (there is usually one dance where you are invited to participate) and practice traditional skills and crafts. Listen to some beautiful flute playing, enjoy stories, and explore the drum and more. Many different tribes are represented at these gatherings.
SCEC will be there with a table showing Kalapuya Ways items of material culture, and presenting different crafts classes and atlatl throwing. Karen Rainsong, our Executive Director, presents this teaching and may also tell a few Kalapuya stories.
On Sunday mid afternoon there is a big feast where everyone can eat for free. “Indian tacos” are served. No need to RSVP. Please join the fun!
DATES
June 29th – July 1st Roaring River County Park in Scio
July 19- 21, Waterloo County Park in Lebanon
Aug 23 – 25, Cascadia County Park in Sweethome
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