Come join your family, friends and neighbors for an old time gathering at our historic Plaza Park in downtown Ventura. There will be carnival games, races, pie eating contests, a scavenger hunt throughout downtown Ventura, musical performances, an old-fashioned barbecue and much more!
11:15 AM City Welcome and Opening Remarks (Main Stage)
11 AM - 3 PM Paint Ventura Art Activities (Fir Street)
11:45 AM Mayors’ Pie Eating Contest (Gazebo)
12:30 - 3 PM Million Acts of Kindness Touchstone Art Activity
Picnic Lunch ($1.50 per child for hotdog & chips or fruit. Adult options vary.)
Carnival Games with Kids’ Prizes - FREE Treasure Map Contest - FREE (Info Booth)
Family Interactive Activities - Free
• Learn to plant and care for a fruit seed and take it home
• Play a thaumatrope game that was popular in the 19th century
• Make and take home paper flowers
• Create a touchstone for the Community Mosaic Project
Bring a family photo, hang it up!
Bring a copy of a new or old family photo to our showcase of family history in Ventura. No photo?
Check out the exhibit!
Model A Cars, Roving Barbershop Quartet, Period Costumed Docents and more!
1:50 PM 150th Anniversary Group Photo! (In front of stage)
Live Music
12:15 PM Ventura Jazz Orchestra - Big band music
1:15 PM Barrelhouse Wailers - New Orleans style jazz
2:15 PM The Mighty Cash Cats - Country rock Swilly’s will keep us dancing in between acts!
Family Relay Races (Left of stage)
12:30 PM 3-Legged Race
1 PM Gunny Sack Races
1:15 PM Egg Toss
1:30 PM Dizzy Bat Race - old time fun!
2:30 PM Limbo - How historically low can you go?
2016/04/02 - 2016/04/02
Plaza Park
Corner of E. Thompson and S. Chestnut streets, Ventura, CA 93001