Festivals in Chesapeake, VA.
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The Bodacious Bazaar Fall

November 8 - 10, 2024

bodaciousbazaar.com

(757) 255-8680

Hampton Roads Convention Center - Hampton, VA

The Bodacious Bazaar is an amazing three day shopping extravaganza and wine festival that is held at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in the Hampton, Virginia. Our show is designed to promote talented artists, crafters, local businesses and wonderful Virginia wineries at an extraordinary venue. Our show donates a percentage of its net to chosen non-profits each show.

Bodacious Bazaar and Wine Festival

November 8 - 10, 2024

bodaciousbazaar.com

(757) 255-8680

Hampton Roads Convention Center - Hampton, VA

This will be a huge shopping extravaganza and a three-day wine Festival with a portion of the profits going to local charities We will have vendors in all categories, food, crafts, fine art, and wine tasting & buy by the glass, or bottle, all quality and unique vendors. We are still accepting vendor applications until we fill up!

Virginia Cat Festival

November 10, 2024

vacatfestival.com

(703) 362-9577

Williamsburg Lodge - Williamsburg, VA

A festival celebrating all things cats, including a vendor MarCATplace, guests, live performances, film screenings, panels, workshops, cat-themed activities, and more!

Craft + Design

November 22 - 24, 2024

craftanddesignrva.com

(804) 353-4457

Main Street Station - Richmond, VA

Now in its 60th year, Craft + Design showcases the work of contemporary craft artists from across the United States. Shoppers spend the weekend eating, drinking and browsing the work of artists from all over the country. Awards are presented in ceramics, precious metals, glass, wood and recycled materials, sustainability, booth design, contemporary design, innovative use of traditional craft materials and fiber. VisArts also presents a best in show award as well as an award for the best new artist.

Highland County Maple Festival

March 8 - 17, 2025

highlandcounty.org/maple-festival

(540) 468-2550

Highland County - Monterey, VA

The award-winning Highland County Maple Festival, designated a Local Legacy by the Library of Congress, offers maple sugar camp tours where visitors can observe traditional and modern techniques of sugar making in the beautiful mountains of Virginia. This award-winning festival attracts 20,000 - 30,000 visitors annually during the 2nd and 3rd weekends of March, where visitors enjoy maple syrup, famous maple doughnuts, pancake, and buckwheat cake meals, sweet and savory treats, handmade arts & crafts, live entertainment, and small-town hospitality. Come on out, and experience the tradition that's been running strong since 1959!

Richmond African American Book Festival

April 19, 2025

eventbrite.com/e/richmond-african-american-..

(804) 873-0982

Richmond Diversity Center - Richmond, VA

The African American Book Festival was built to give the cemented and newly emerging authors, bookstores, and publishers of our culture a platform to spread the messages that are embedded in the pages of their iconography. With one goal in mind, we want to educate, entertain, and impact the Richmond community through African American literature, by shining light on the stories told in their books. Come out to support your authors, meet them face to face, get pictures, buy books at discounted prices, network with other professionals, and bring back reading books into normalcy and support authors in spreading their messages.

Festival Argentino

May 31, 2025

(703) 212-5850

Kenmore Auditorium - Arlington, VA

38th Festival Argentino 2025, Sat May 31, 3:30 pm–10:30 pm. Presented by: Festival Argentino USA. Venue: Kenmore Auditorium Tickets · $15-35. Argentina Sings, Dances, and Exhibits in the USA with a spectacular show for the whole family featuring folk music, tango, dances, and rock-pop music with artists coming from Argentina & Top great local artists, Exhibitor-Booths + Food + Catalogs in the 38th Annual Festival Argentino!

Virginia Lake Festival

July 18 - 19, 2025

(434) 374-2436

Virginia Avenue - Clarksville, VA

Ranked in the Top 20 Events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. Juried arts & craft show, free tethered hot air balloon rides for children 12 and younger, musical entertainment, 14 hot air balloons and gathering of the boats and fireworks over the lake & more--all this in Southern Virginia.