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.
Sep
21
Thu
Blackberry Junction is a wonderful indoor show that features UNIQUE items for both your home & garden.
2023 SHOW INFORMATION
SEPT. 21st-23rd
Linn County Fairgrounds Albany, OR. (Santiam Bldg.)
Admission: Tickets sold at door ( Kids 12 & under free).
Presale night Thursday (3-7pm) $10.00 Friday (10-6) $5.00 Saturday (10-5) $5.00
Contact: Blackberryjunction521@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/blackberryjunction/
blackberryjunctionshows.com
Sep
22
Fri
Carson Albany Chevron is hosting a customer appreciation event Friday, September 22 from 11am – 2pm.
Free Lunch, Door Prizes, Raffles, Fuel Discounts, and More!
Cruise-in with your hopped-up classic cars beginning at 5 pm, followed by Music Bingo from 7-9 pm. Free for participants, this event is an interactive night of competition against the crowd featuring music from the last decade. As Albany’s home for Music Bingo, Deluxe Brewing hosts the perfect marriage of classic bingo and name-that-tune with a night filled with music and chances to win fun prizes.
The Savannah Sipping Society by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Directed by: Scott Harvey
Performances: Sep. 15, 16, 17(matinee), 22, 23, 24(matinee), 28, 29, 30, 2023
In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
Box office opens 45 minutes before performances
Sep
23
Sat
This gun show brought to you by the Albany Rifle and Pistol Club.
For more information call (541) 491-3755 or visit ARPC Gun Show
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.
The biggest night of celebration and “One Helles of a Party”. Enjoy Deluxe’s finest selection of taproom games from 1-5 pm, followed by live music with local band Thunder Road from 7-9 pm. Thunder Road is a 5-piece variety cover band, based locally in the Mid-Willamette Valley. Expect to hear fan favorites from all over the musical spectrum, including songs from Bob Seger, Elle King, Bonnie Raitt, Little Big Town, Blondie, CCR and more.
We invite skaters of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to join Kids for the Culture for Soul Skate Night! This is their first fundraiser held in partnership with NW Skateland and the Mid-Willamette Family YMCA. Groove to live music and support their educational and community building programs.
Saturday, September 23
7 – 10 PM
$10 Entry
Location: Mid-Willamette Family YMCA Family Activity Center (3201 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany, OR)
Event page: https://facebook.com/events/s/soul-skate-fundraiser/318297880598424/
The Savannah Sipping Society by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Directed by: Scott Harvey
Performances: Sep. 15, 16, 17(matinee), 22, 23, 24(matinee), 28, 29, 30, 2023
In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
Box office opens 45 minutes before performances
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