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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Pride Festival
More than two decades after the first Fort Wayne Pride festival, organizers are hoping to welcome a record number of people to this year’s event.
“The first festival had less than 100 people there,” said Executive Director Nikki Fultz. “In 2...
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Festivals & Events
Three Rivers Festival
Hours vary, Friday, July 12-Saturday, July 20
Summers are pretty busy in downtown Fort Wayne thanks in no small part to Headwaters Park which make...
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Festivals & Events
Whatzup Fireworks Guide
The Whatzup guide to fireworks displays and other patriotic activities in Northeast Indiana.
Saturda...
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Festivals & Events
Taste of the Arts
Although they provide assistance to a large number of local arts organizations like the Fort Wayne C...
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BuskerFest
Now in its 10th year, BuskerFest — or just busking in general — was something of a novelty when ...
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Gearfest 2019
Fort Wayne’s contribution to the arts has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and a big par...
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Festivals & Events
BBQ Ribfest
When Mark Chappius attended a rib festival in Toledo more than two decades ago, he was immediately h...
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Fort Wayne Air Show
For those who watched last February’s Super Bowl, Gladys Knight’s stirring rendition of the Nati...
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Fort Wayne Germanfest
Fort Wayne’s German community knows how to throw a party! And they should, since they been hosting...
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Festivals & Events
Lunch on the Square
Remember those days back in January when wind chills were 40 below and the only thing you could do w...
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Arab Fest
Obviously, camel rides are a big draw. But the big reason for Arab Fest is to introduce area residen...
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Festivals & Events
Beatlefest
There are few things more universal in our fractured world than love and respect for the Beatles.
M...
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Festivals & Events
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Last month, American society was stymied by a quandary that required the mobilization of one of our ...
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Miami Indian Heritage Days
It’s easy to drive by a historic house on Bluffton Road without a second glance, overlooking its s...
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Festivals & Events
Sol Fest
CANCELED ON ACCOUNT OF FLOODING
In 2017, Sol Fest was cancelled due to flooding on Fox Island.
The c...
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Michiana Wine Festival
Necessity is the mother of invention, and that little pearl of wisdom is apparent when talking about...
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PFW summer camp
Having a large university in any city is a plus, but that advantage goes well beyond providing educa...
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Festivals & Events
Jeff Corwin
I interviewed Jeff Corwin in 2001 when he was experiencing his first wave of fame, thanks to the Ani...
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Festivals & Events
Record Store Day
It’s the day we celebrate the independent record store. It’s the day we celebrate music and comm...
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Festivals & Events
Maumee Mary & Joseph Comedy Festival
As the third Maumee Mary & Joseph Comedy Festival is about to get under way, it is remarkable to con...
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Fort Wayne TinCaps
One of the surprising things about all the activity in the front office of the Fort Wayne TinCaps is...
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Festivals & Events
Arts United Center
Local historic preservation organization ARCH is shining its spotlight on the Arts United Center, a ...
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Festivals & Events
Under the Big Top
After years of black-tie fundraisers, the Community Harvest Food Bank decided to try something diffe...
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Dancing with the ARC Stars
With its instantly recognizable hook, referencing one of the most popular competitive shows on telev...
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FAME Festival
It’s the one time a year when more than 6,500 pieces of art are on display and 2,000 students show...
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Plan your St. Paddy's celebration
In 2017, Fort Wayne came in at number 26 on WalletHub’s list of the best places to spend St. Patri...
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Spring Forward Fest
It was a festival whose time had come.
In fact, it’s a festival that was long overdue.
Sure, the f...
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Turnstone Casino Night
There are few activities more intergenerational than visiting casinos. Whether it’s a weekend in L...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show
At the end of the month, a semi will dump 20 tons of sand inside the Memorial Coliseum. That’s 40,...
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Another Bazaar Evening on the Maumee
One of the many organizations dedicated to keeping the local rivers vibrant is Save Maumee. The orga...
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Down the Line 13
What’s better than a whole night that showcases local musicians? One that features those same arti...
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Weather the Fort
Four years ago, a group of community-minded young leaders worked to come up with a new way to bring ...
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Festivals & Events
John Cusack plus High Fidelity
Last year, the notoriously insular actor John Cusack was offered the chance to preside over public s...
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Festival of Trees
When Cindy Friend decorates a Christmas tree, she tends to shy away from traditional ornaments and g...
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Christmas on Broadway
If the heart of Christmas celebration lies at home with our families, it’s community celebrations ...
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Cirque Dreams
When Cirque Dreams returns to the Honeywell Center in Wabash, bringing with it the seasonal spectacu...
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Fright Night
On Saturday, Kinta Dowdell will transform himself into a zombie for the ninth time when he attends F...
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Festivals & Events
whatzup Pick
With the huge rise in popularity of craft beers and microbrews over the last decade, we have seen a ...
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Festivals & Events
Middle Waves
When passionate volunteers come together with a vision, great things can happen. That’s what the o...
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Brewed IN the Fort
Mad Anthony’s first craft beer festival happened 20 years ago under a tent in a parking lot behind...
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Festivals & Events
whatzup Pick
When lists of the best neighborhoods in Indiana are made, Fort Wayne’s West Central Neighborhood r...
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Festivals & Events
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival
As the City of Auburn progresses into the future, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival invites the co...
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Tri-State Bluegrass Festival
If it’s Labor Day weekend, it must be time for some serious pickin’, with acoustic string instru...
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Festivals & Events
Taste of the Arts
As if hours of family fun, entertainment, arts, and cultural pleasures weren’t enough, the 10th ed...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Pride
Having seen Pride celebrations throughout the month of June, which is officially Pride month, it’s...
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Festivals & Events
Three Rivers Festival
This year’s Three Rivers Festival is the 50th annual edition, but executive director Jack Hammer ...
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Buskerfest
There's at least one thing that makes busking more difficult than any other kind of performing.
Wi...
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Festivals & Events
Voices of Unity
In recent years Voices of Unity have put Fort Wayne in the musical spotlight through their successe...
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Festivals & Events
Gearfest
Sweetwater Sound’s Gearfest is not only unusual among music industry trade shows.
It is unusual ...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Germanfest
Long time Fort Wayne residents know that once summer time comes to northeast Indiana, it is time to...
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Festivals & Events
Hobnobben Film Festival
It's time once again for the Hobnobben Film Festival, the gathering of filmmakers that has put Fort...
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Arab Fest
The 4th annual Arab Fest kicks off the summer festival season with a lineup of world-renowned perfo...
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Festivals & Events
Embassy Theatre Community Celebration
The opening of the Emboyd Theatre on May 14, 1928 was a pretty big deal, as one can imagine when r...
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Northern Indiana Bluegrass Festival
The mission of the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association is simple: to introduce and promote blueg...
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Cherry Blossom Festival
Fort Wayne is fortunate to have a diverse community which in turn provides everyone the chance to e...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Pride
If you traveled back in time about two decades and told people that an LGBT pride festival in Fort ...
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Festivals & Events
Three Rivers Festival
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Just one year removed from its 50th anniversary year, Three Rivers Festival has once again bec...
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Festivals & Events
GearFest
There may not be another event in the world quite like Sweetwater Sound's GearFest.
Most showcase...
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Festivals & Events
Buskerfest
Launching an event called Buskerfest was a brave thing to do in Fort Wayne in 2009.
Busking, both...
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Festivals & Events
Festival of Gingerbread
For more than three decades the Fort Wayne History Center has been making local history of its own ...
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Festivals & Events
Fright Night
People may love their Christmas trees and their Labor Day cookouts and their dinner out for Valent...
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Festivals & Events
Hysterium
By the time that local haunted attraction impresario Brett Molitor acquired the Haunted Cave in 201...
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Festivals & Events
Brewed IN the Fort Craft Beer Fest
duction and letting the music seek its own path. He says "check this out." If you like it, great. If...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Pride
When the Fort Wayne Pride festival debuted modestly in Freimann Square in the mid 90s, the Summit C...
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Festivals & Events
Three Rivers Festival
Each year as Fort Wayne anticipates the biggest week of a very busy festival season, the upcoming s...
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Festivals & Events
Three Rivers Festival
The concert schedule in Fort Wayne this summer has been jam-packed with a remarkable lineup of cla...
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Festivals & Events
Buskerfest
A funny thing happened on the way to last year's Buskerfest. Rain. And lots of it. While that in i...
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Festivals & Events
GearFest 2016
It only lasts two days, but Sweetwater's GearFest is the kind of event people talk about for weeks,...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Germanfest
Suggestions anyone? It seems that Germans have a word for every complex emotion known to humans. Yo...
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Festivals & Events
Cherry Blossom Festival
The Cherry Blossom Festival, now in it's 11th year, has its roots in a neglected garden.
The Japan...
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Festivals & Events
Michiana Wine Festival
Nichole Thomas, Cristal Reader and Lisa Beber are three wine-loving friends who are willing to trav...
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Record Store Day
Ten years ago Bob Roets was more than a little concerned about the financial viability of his busin...
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Festivals & Events
8th Annual Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival
By Steve Penhollow
The Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival, in its eighth year, happens all day S...
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Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show
What is the surest sign that spring is coming? It's not the mobs of people lined up for a pre-Flori...
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