Community Calendar

The Bethlehem Rose Garden is a curated farmer's market that serves as a thriving and welcoming outlet, directly connecting the greater Lehigh Valley community to our local farmers, artisans and service providers. The market is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2026.

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The Mayfair Festival of the Arts will return to Cedar Crest College over Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24, 2026. The festival, a Lehigh Valley tradition for more than 30 years, features a selection of art, crafts, food, and live entertainment.

Admission and on-site parking for the event are free.

The festival includes more than 35 artisan craft vendors and various food and beverage options. Family-oriented activities are centered in Franki’s Fun Zone, which features a climbing wall, Crayola table, inflatable obstacle course, trampoline, and a train ride.

The entertainment schedule for the weekend includes:

• Friday, May 22: Rogue Diplomats (4 p.m.), Kristen Morgenstern (6 p.m.), and Go Go Gadjet (7 p.m.).
• Saturday, May 23: The Large Flowerheads (noon), Stacy Gabel (2 p.m.), Billy Bauer Band (3 p.m.), Erin Kelly (4:30 p.m.), The Wonton Soups (5:30 p.m.), Kendal Conrad (7 p.m.), and Steal the Sky (8 p.m.).
• Sunday, May 24: Class of ’84 (noon), Adeline Csontos (2 p.m.), The Castaway Band (3:30 p.m.), Melody Cruz (5:30 p.m.), and the Philadelphia Funk Authority (7 p.m.).

The festival will conclude Sunday night at 9 p.m. with a drone show featuring more than 200 illuminated drones.

Cedar Crest College has led the festival since 2018. All proceeds from the event support students through the Cedar Crest Fund.

Festival hours are 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, and noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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Drop-in to the Art Ways Interactive Family Gallery on the second floor of the Museum every Saturday and Sunday to make your own art to take home during ArtVentures. Museum educators are on hand to help guide you in creating an artwork inspired by the Museum’s collection. Design your own creation and bring it to life on one of our 3D printers. All ages and abilities welcome! Free.

Join Pennsylvania Youth Theatre in celebrating our 40th season with Seussical™, a fantastical, magical musical extravaganza! TONY winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination - Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

It is a story where the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community are challenged and emerge triumphant. Seussical™ is fun for the whole family! Performances are located at the Charles Brown Ice House in Bethlehem, PA. Showtimes are Fridays at 7 pm and Saturdays & Sundays at 2 pm.

HELD: An Evening for Couples with Kelly Forté & Bill Childs

When was the last time you and your partner made something together that had nothing to do with a decision, a schedule, or figuring out what to have for dinner?

Not a date night where you sit across from each other and do the same conversation you always do, but something where you actually get to use your hands and get a little bit lost in creativity and get to see what comes out on the other side.

HELD is an evening of intuitive painting and conversation for couples, guided by fine artist Kelly Forté and creative director Bill Childs. Over the course of the night, Kelly walks you through each of the seven energy centers in the body, and for each one you paint whatever comes up on your own canvas while Bill guides the dialogue between you and your partner. You don't need to know how to paint and you don't need to know anything about chakras or energy work. You just need to be willing to pick up a brush and be a little surprised by what happens.

You go home with two paintings and whatever opened up between you while you were making them.

Goes perfect with a bottle of wine and some light snacks (bring what feels good for you!).

$175 per couple. Limited to six couples per evening.

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams take the stage with their quartet for a special Golden Jubilee celebration honoring 50 years of Godfrey Daniels. The acclaimed Americana duo—longtime collaborators with Levon Helm and members of Bob Dylan’s band—bring decades of shared musical history and a partnership that has been unfolding since 1986. Their songs reflect the life they’ve built together through music, shaped by years on the road and in legendary rooms like Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studio, home of the Midnight Rambles.

This milestone concert at Moravian University’s Foy Concert Hall celebrates not only their remarkable collaboration but also the enduring spirit of Godfrey Daniels as a premier Live Music Listening Room. Join us for an evening that honors five decades of music, storytelling, and community in Bethlehem, offering audiences a rare chance to experience artists whose connection and craft have been shaped over a lifetime.

SPONSORED BY WDIY 88.1 FM | MORE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
- contact Kate Hughes, Chair 50th Jubilee Committee
before May 13 - 610.390.4324 | development@godfreydaniels.org

LOCATION: MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY FOY CONCERT HALL | 342 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018

IceHouse DIY Presents:

RA!D - Post-Punk - Lehigh Valley
Purple Lung - Doom Metal - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Hello, Operator? - Alternative/Punk - Lehigh Valley Girls Rock Alumni

Flier by Miki Tamura

Contra dancing (lively traditional American Folk Dance) with a caller, live acoustic music, and instruction for beginners. Second and 4th Saturdays,7-10:30 pm (except July and August) A welcoming community. New and experienced dancers welcome; no partner necessary. Supervised children are welcome to join the dancing. New dancers come at 7 for introductory lesson.

Bring wood-floor friendly shoes for dancing, Bring a water bottle (a water dispenser is available), and a snack to share. Adults $15-20; $10/students, Children 12 and under free with an adult.

Parking in the Church lot-enter on W Laurel St and on the street. Do not use College lots.

Diane Wittry, Conductor
Erik Ralske, principal horn of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

GRAZYNA BACEWICZ Overture
RICHARD STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 1
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 1 “Titan”

To hell and back.

Experience a symphonic powerhouse as Diane Wittry and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra close the season at Miller Symphony Hall.

The program opens with the bold, electrifying sound of Grażyna Bacewicz, followed by Met Opera principal horn Erik Ralske in Strauss’s virtuosic Horn Concerto No. 1.

Then: Mahler. Youthful. Wild. Exuberant. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan,” is a journey of extremes—dark, defiant, and ultimately triumphant. Only Mahler could take you to hell and back.

Drop-in to the Art Ways Interactive Family Gallery on the second floor of the Museum every Saturday and Sunday to make your own art to take home during ArtVentures. Museum educators are on hand to help guide you in creating an artwork inspired by the Museum’s collection. Design your own creation and bring it to life on one of our 3D printers. All ages and abilities welcome! Free.