Start your summer with this popular annual event! This year’s Fairy Festival is full of family-friendly activities inspired by art, nature, and story. Activities include making fairy houses, tea parties, crafting, face painting, fairy yoga, and more.
Celebrate the start of summer at Salisbury Beach with the Summer Kick Off! Fun for the whole family! The beach front stage comes alive for an afternoon of live entertainment, kids’ activities, the ever-popular Beach Pizza Eating contest, face painting and so much more! The evening is topped off with a Free outdoor concert with Roomful of Blues followed by Spectacular Fireworks!
Cape Ann Animal Aid celebrates the 10th Annual Dog Day event at Stage Fort Park! You'll find doggy fun and festivities for the family, fun activities for the kids, more vendors than previous years, and some special surprises!
Come to Spencer Peirce Little Farm for the Ipswich Harvest Fest! Come enjoy live music by the Orville Giddings Band, delicious BBQ, & Vintage Base Ball with 1860's rules! As if that's not enough to be excited about, this year we are pleased to announce that the festival will be complete with all new kids activities and a bouncy house! So brings the kids (and the dog!) down to the farm for a day and fall fun!
The Newbury Town Library has teamed up with Joppa Flats Education Center to bring you a butterfly festival! It's FREE and for the whole family! Come in from the summer heat and humidity and learn all about butterflies, make crafts, play games!
The Newbury Town Library invites kids to use everyday items like bananas to play a virtual piano or use a pencil and PlayDoh to make a controller for a computer game! Computer technology is everywhere and used by many professionals, including inventors, artists, teachers, engineers, musicians, scientists and computer programmers.
The Newbury Town Library invites kids to come and learn about electronics and basic circuits using the Arduino microcomputer and software. In this workshop for budding engineers or any young person wanting to learn about electronics, basic circuits will be explained and instructions given on how to build a simple robot.
Nothing to do after school on a Friday half day? Come to the Newbury Town Library for a movie! On Triton School District Half-Days (Professional Days), The Newbury Town Library will be showing movies at 1pm. Popcorn and water will be served. Movies will be rated G or PG, and posted before the movie day. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Please register to let us know you're coming :-)
Holiday Fairs at Essex Churches - The warmth of an old country church fair enlivens the town on a cold, winter’s day when all three of Essex’s downtown churches hold their annual Holiday Fair. All three churches are within walking distance with free on street parking. Gift bargains are served up along with homemade food and hot beverages. A dollar goes a long way at this event.
The Friends of the Newbury Town Library invite you to our annual Harvest Fest. Please join us for a fun day out with your family and support our library on Saturday, October 13 from 10am to 2pm at NTL. Here’s what’s happening this year:
