Prospect’s Pumpkin Festival and the Scarecrow Festival in Wallingford are among Saturday’s fall events. In New Haven, Erector Square Open Studios and cARTie’s Fall Festival offer art, food and family activities.
Prospect Pumpkin Festival
The town’s family-friendly festival features food and drink stands, local vendors, games, activities and music. The program also includes pumpkin decorating, a hay-bale race and a car and truck costume parade.
- When: Saturday, Oct. 17. 4–8 p.m.; the parade starts about 5:45 p.m.
- Where: Prospect Town Green, Prospect
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Erector Square Open Studios
Visitors can meet local artists, designers and craftspeople in their studios, see work in progress and browse artwork for sale. The weekend also includes live music, food, a scavenger hunt and family art activities.
- When: Saturday, Oct. 17, through Sunday, Oct. 18. Noon–6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
- Where: Erector Square, 315 Peck St., New Haven
- Cost: Free
- More: Erector Square Open Studios
cARTie Fall Festival
The Westville festival features art-making, a community mural, local artists, live acoustic music and food trucks. Visitors can also explore cARTie’s art museum buses.
- When: Saturday, Oct. 17. Noon–4 p.m.
- Where: Central Patio, 650 Central Ave., New Haven
- Cost: Free
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Zion Lutheran Church Scarecrow Festival
The festival has local crafters and vendors, live music, food, games, face painting, a bounce house and a hayride. Visitors can also build a scarecrow to take home and buy homemade apple fritters.
Dudley Farm Harvest Day
The family-friendly farm event includes a giant-pumpkin weight guessing game, photos on a vintage tractor and demonstrations of 19th-century skills and crafts. Activities for children include face painting and pumpkin painting.
- When: Saturday, Oct. 17. 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
- Where: The Dudley Farm, 2351 Durham Road, Guilford
- More: Dudley Farm Harvest Day
Kulturally LIT Fest
The seventh annual festival is titled “And Still We Rise: The Effect of Black Women Over Time.” Tickets are pay what you can.
- When: Saturday, Oct. 17. 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Where: Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven
- Cost: Pay what you can
- More: Kulturally LIT Fest
Dunbar Church Apple Festival
At the church’s 57th annual Apple Festival, the pie table sells 10-inch deep-dish apple pies, fresh baked or frozen, for $12.50, and mini pies for $6, first come, first served. A to-go café serves apple crisp, apple pancakes and aebleskivers, and there is a tag sale, a bake sale, a used book sale and a basket raffle. Proceeds support community outreach programs. The festival runs rain or shine.
Also this weekend
- GLOW Wild, Bridgeport, Friday through Sunday: the zoo’s nighttime walk past more than 40 lit-up wildlife lanterns, 5:30–9:30 p.m.
- Community Health Fiesta, New Haven, Saturday: The free family event includes food trucks, live entertainment, games and face painting, 1–4 p.m. Saturday at 374 Grand Avenue.
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