Community Calendar

September 15 - October 15 - Join us for a month-long celebration of new vegan dishes all over the Lehigh Valley!

Businesses across the area will showcase exciting special vegan menu items, giving everyone the opportunity to explore creative plant-based dishes crafted by talented local chefs.

🗓 How It Works:

1. Visit participating restaurants across the Lehigh Valley.
2. Try their exclusive vegan offerings.
3. Share your experience—rate and review the dishes you try, comment, post photos of your favorite meals, and tag us at @VeganChefChallengeNE.

This event is open to everyone, not just vegans! It’s about bringing our community together to celebrate incredible food and support our region’s chefs.

🙌 Get Involved: Looking for ways to connect? Volunteer with us! We’re seeking passionate individuals to help with outreach, event promotion, and community building throughout the month. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and make a difference! Volunteer using this link: TinyURL.com/VOLVCC

Join us in making the Lehigh Valley an even more inclusive, vibrant, and compassionate community.

For details on participating businesses, menus, sponsorship opportunities, and more, visit our website at veganchefchallenge.org/Lehigh.

September 15 - October 15 - Join us for a month-long celebration of new vegan dishes all over the Lehigh Valley!

Businesses across the area will showcase exciting special vegan menu items, giving everyone the opportunity to explore creative plant-based dishes crafted by talented local chefs.

🗓 How It Works:

1. Visit participating restaurants across the Lehigh Valley.
2. Try their exclusive vegan offerings.
3. Share your experience—rate and review the dishes you try, comment, post photos of your favorite meals, and tag us at @VeganChefChallengeNE.

This event is open to everyone, not just vegans! It’s about bringing our community together to celebrate incredible food and support our region’s chefs.

🙌 Get Involved: Looking for ways to connect? Volunteer with us! We’re seeking passionate individuals to help with outreach, event promotion, and community building throughout the month. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and make a difference! Volunteer using this link: TinyURL.com/VOLVCC

Join us in making the Lehigh Valley an even more inclusive, vibrant, and compassionate community.

For details on participating businesses, menus, sponsorship opportunities, and more, visit our website at veganchefchallenge.org/Lehigh.

Thousands of books for all ages, sorted; CDs, DVDs, puzzles, games. Main sale room is in the basement, not handicapped accessible; some items on main floor.

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Every October in Downtown Easton, PA. Eat! Drink! Stink! Weekend event, FREE ADMISSION!

2025 Headline Chef Paul Ratchaphol Rojrattana of La Kang

We're thrilled to announce that Chef Paul Ratchaphol Rojrattana of La Kang Thai-French Cuisine will be the Headline Chef for 2025!

New: PREVIEW NIGHT on Friday, Oct. 3

New this year we will kick off our annual stinkfest on Friday evening, October 3 with a FREE concert featuring the one and only Start Making Sense: a Talking Heads tribute band! Join us on the Main Stage at S. Third & Ferry Streets starting at 6 pm for a concert experience you won't want to miss! More details coming soon, so follow us on our socials for updates.

Official Festival Website

Enjoy a special evening of literature, creativity and community as the Charter Arts Literary Arts Department kicks off its "Showcase at the Lodge" series on Oct. 3rd from 6-8 PM at Cafe the Lodge.

Students will showcase a variety of original written works, from poetry to prose to short stories and spoken word. Come celebrate creativity, expression and the power of storytelling.

Charter Arts is honored to continue its collaboration with Cafe the Lodge which began over 10 years ago as part of SouthSide Arts District First Friday celebrations.

Students of the Charter Arts Literary Arts Department engage in a comprehensive writing curriculum with courses such as Character Development, Exploration of Modernism & Postmodernism, Children’s Literature, Film Studies, Exploration of the Romantic Style, Media Studies, and more.

Artistic Director, Kristin Liemberger, shares: "Students write and analyze creatively and critically, experimenting with their own creative voices in the construction, production, and performance of original works. This intensive program provides students with a rigorous curriculum rooted in the creative process while reinforcing that reading, writing, film, and the spoken word are integral parts of the history and advancement of society."

Learn more about the literary arts program and the school at CharterArts.org.

Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering (BES) invites the community to its "Shindig at the Shelter," a fundraiser to benefit and support our unhoused neighbors. The event will take place on Friday, October 3, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT, at Christ Church UCC, 75 East Market Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018.

The “Shindig” will include dinner provided by The Taste Smokers, as well as beer and wine options. The evening’s entertainment will feature live music by the popular local band Big Valley Bluegrass, who will perform a mix of country, rock, and bluegrass.

Tickets are $100 per person, or $175 for two, and can be purchased online at BethlehemEmergencySheltering.org

Proceeds will go directly to Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering, Inc., to help provide a safe and warm place for those experiencing homelessness in the community.

By Christopher Chen
A searing and timely exploration of colonialism, power, and the invisible walls that divide us. Passage is a gripping modern-day allegory that speaks directly to our current moment-challenging us to reflect on systems of oppression and the struggle to connect across differences. Urgent, thought-provoking, and profoundly human, this play invites audiences to question how we move forward in a fractured world. Adam Ercolani, director.

Fri, 10/03/2025 - 7:30pm
Sat, 10/04/2025 - 7:30pm
Sun, 10/05/2025 - 2:00pm
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 7:30pm
Thu, 10/09/2025 - 7:30pm
Fri, 10/10/2025 - 7:30pm
Sat, 10/11/2025 - 7:30pm

Their Carnegie Hall performances are an established highlight of that venue's fall season. The ensemble has garnered accolades from The New York Times that described the group as "...top-notch...more essential at this moment than ever...a vibrant, assured performance..."; and The Washington Post wrote "true to their name, the Sphinx Virtuosi call up the vision of an iconic mythological feline with its immeasurable power, unwavering command, and soulful beauty." Partial Repertoire: Jose White: La Bella Cubana; William Grant Still: Suite for Cello (featuring Sterling Elliott); Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 Stalingrad.

Beppe Gambetta returns to Godfrey Daniels with a lifetime of music that bridges oceans and generations. Hailing from Genova, Italy, Gambetta has carved a singular path as a guitarist, composer, and cultural ambassador, blending American roots and European traditions into a vibrant, distinctive sound. From early collaborations with Norman Blake and Tony Trischka to his solo projects exploring Italian string virtuosi and immigrant ballads, Gambetta’s work invites listeners into a rich, cross-cultural conversation shaped by fifty years of musical exploration. His latest release, Terra Madre, features collaborators like David Grisman, Tim O’Brien, and Howard Levy, continuing his legacy of crafting heartfelt compositions rooted in heritage and human experience.

Opening the evening is Rees Shad, a masterful Americana storyteller known for his deep catalog of narrative-driven songs and cinematic songwriting approach. Together, Gambetta and Shad offer a night of acoustic depth and global perspective—an experience tailor-made for Godfrey Daniels’ intimate, listening-room setting.

Voted “Musician of the Year” at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2023, and with a career spanning several studio albums and numerous high-profile collaborations, Julie Fowlis’ “crystalline” and “intoxicating” vocals have enchanted audiences around the world. Her music is deeply influenced by the Hebridean islands where she grew up and the Highland landscapes where she now resides. She will forever be recognized for singing the theme song to Brave, Disney Pixar’s Oscar-, Golden Globe-, and BAFTA-winning animated film set in the ancient highlands of Scotland.