Family Awesome Educational Fun Activities Just 4 Kidz

  Check out the Educational Villages, Traditional Native American Harvest Dance, Gourd Festival and more. Include us in your Halloween Fun.*
Reserve tickets of 6 or more for Friday's Kidz Harvest Fest Online at harvestgathering.org/kidz---harvest-fest.html
Or pick up advance tickets at one of these Ticket Locations.
Friday, Oct. 30 - Kidz Harvest Fest
We invite you to explore the Educational Villages
  • Photo Booth
  • Interactive Displays
  • Native American Indian Games - Geocaching
  • Children’s Traditional Dance Program
  • Methods of Food Preservation using Indigenous technologies (Fish Drying)
  • Hand Drums, Singing and Flute Playing
  • Professional Storytellers
  • Book Authors
  • Indigenous Survival Skills – Bow drill art of fire making, flint napping Stone Tools-Arrow heads, leather goods, hide tanning etc..
  • Fly Fishing Demonstrations
  • Corn-Husk Doll Demonstrations
  • Gourd Washing
  • Leather Demonstrations
  • Environmental Educational Exhibits with USDA – Soil Exhibit
  • Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
  • Farm Service Agency (FSA)
  • VCE-Extension Office – Watershed Model
  • Master Gardeners
  • Master Naturalist Programs
  • Registered Medical Herbalist
  • Pony Rides and Agricultural Exhibits
  • Kids Nutritional, Health and Emergency Preparedness Info
  • Weaving Demonstrations
  • Ribbon-work Demonstrations
  • Bee Keeping
  • Gourd Classes & Crafts
  • History of Corn (Kettle-Corn Vendor)
  • Hand Screen Printing
  • Trail Mapping, Hiking Guidebooks and History Books
  • Wampum Making
  • Trading Post and Food Vendor
  • "Chocolate" Making it Fair
  • Tribal Nation Maps Available (pre-contact)
  • Native American Sterling silver jewelry and gourd ornaments
  • Paper-making Demonstrations
  • Beadworking Demonstrations

Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday, Nov. 1
  • Native American Harvest Dance, Children Bring in the Harvest
  • Candy Dance
  • Book Forum (The Gathering of Authors and Illustrators)
  • Discovery Museum
  • And many of Friday's activities and demonstrations

Saturday Only
  • Twilight Auction
  • Go Blue Ridge Travel
  • SPECIAL Twilight "Trick or Treat" Trot 6:00 pm main stage


Subject to Change

SPECIAL "TRICK OR TREAT" TROT*

Halloween Special Event
Sat. Oct. 31 at 6:00 pm
Main Stage Area
Clarke County Fairgrounds
* NOTE: The Halloween Event has nothing to do with Native American Indian Culture.
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Indian child with gourd. Let the Spirit of The Gathering Catch You


Click here to hear Radio Oral Stories from Dennis Zotigh, co-master of ceremonies for The Gathering. He belong to the Kiowa, Santee Dakota and San Juan Pueblo tribes and is an American Indian Research Historian.
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Pre-contact maps available; lists tribal names the tribe wants to be called - $35 Contribution. Maps autographed by the Map Artist