Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair

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Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair

We are a community fair organized by a 20 member volunteer board of directors
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11/11/2024

Fantastic end of year dinner last night celebrating this great group of people (missing a few). Thank you for hosting us!

11/07/2024

Our Board of Directors was honored to be recognized at the City Council meeting last night for our time and commitment to the success of the 52nd Annual Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair. As an all-volunteer Board, we are always looking for enthusiastic individuals from our wonderful community to continue our tradition. If you are interested in applying to be on our 2025 Board of Directors, please fill out the application linked in our bio. Open roles will be announced in February and you will be asked to rank your preference at that time. If you have any questions please feel free to email [email protected].

Come join the fun!

10/15/2024

We want YOU! Interested in joining our Board of Directors? We are always looking for enthusiastic individuals from our wonderful community to continue our tradition and join our Board of Directors. This is a great way to get involved and give back to the community while having fun! If you are interested in joining us, please fill out our general interest application (link in bio). Specific open roles will be announced at the beginning of 2025 and in-person interviews will take place in March 2025. You must have ties to the Manhattan Beach community and be at least 21 years of age to be eligible for appointment. For any questions or concerns please feel free to contact [email protected].

10/14/2024

Thank you to everyone who shopped our 52nd Annual merchandise at the Fair! Many of you who were unable to attend or stop by our booth have reached out about wanting to purchase our merchandise and you’re in LUCK! We have a limited quantity of most items still in stock - link in bio for availability or you can visit our website www.mbfair.org and click on the “Purchase 2024 Fair Merchandise” button on the homepage. You can order directly through the link or email [email protected]. We accept Venmo! Free local delivery and flat-rate shipping options are available. We have belt bags, hats, tees, and hoodies! All proceeds from our merchandise sales go directly back to the Fair which is a non-profit organization run entirely by volunteers.

Feel free to comment or DM any questions about our post-Fair Merchandise Sale. Thank you for your support!

10/11/2024

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT 🎸🤘

This year’s Battle of the Bands competition featured four extremely talented youth bands - it was hard to pick a winner but big congratulations to THE JACKRABBITS who will be returning to the Main Stage at next year’s 53rd Annual Hometown Fair! Last year’s BOB winner took the stage immediately after the competition and gave an awesome performance! Thank you to our BOB judges, Main Stage Director for organizing everything and our amazing emcee from . And thanks to all who came out to show some love and support for the bands!

10/10/2024

Our in-person public meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22 at 7pm. This is the forum where you can stop in to speak to our volunteer Board of Directors regarding any of your feedback or concerns.

Please send a DM or email [email protected] with your contact info, and we will provide the location and confirmation of your attendance. If you cannot make the meeting, feel free to email your feedback. We welcome any and all comments!

10/06/2024

Day 2 - let’s gooo!! 🔥🔥

Special thanks to - we are loving our new shoes!! 👟

10/04/2024

Annual Friday Morning Fair Kick-off Breakfast at with our Board of Directors and Assistant Chairs (missing a few). We are fueled and ready for the best weekend ever!

Special thanks to our fearless leader and President for the awesome Fair weekend survival kits! Let’s do this Team!!! 🔥🔥🔥

10/03/2024

Feeling lucky? Stop by our Raffle Booth on Dorsey Field all Fair weekend and enter our Raffle! All proceeds are directed to civic engagement, event ex*****on and scholarships/grants to non-profit civic and booster organizations and deserving local students. Our Community Relations Director .shaw.group has outdone himself this year and secured some INCREDIBLE prizes thanks to these generous community donors:

-A two-night stay in a Casita Suite at
-Blix Sol Eclipse Cruiser eBike donated by
-4 tickets to a game plus dinner and signed canvas
-Original framed 24”x36” photograph by
-2 tickets to the inaugural Festival for Saturday October 12
-Original framed 32”x22” photograph by

One Raffle Ticket for $5
Five Raffle Tickets for $20
Winners Announced Sunday at 6pm

What are you hoping to win?? 🎰

10/03/2024

Heading to the Fair this weekend? There’s ALOT to do and see so start planning out your weekend now! A copy of this ad will also be appearing in print in today’s edition of and the digital version is available on our homepage www.mbfair.org if you click the “2024 Schedules” button. You can also find a detailed Fair Map on our website as welll. What are you going to do first??

10/01/2024

Friends of the Fair Gold Donor Spotlight: Anheuser-Busch

We are so thankful for our long standing partnership with our friends at to provide our Beer Garden patrons with the best variety of beers and organic seltzers from as well as sangria wine cocktails from this year. NEW this year - CREDIT CARDS will be accepted in the Beer Garden so you don’t have to worry about bringing tons of cash (unless it’s to support our food and paid games booths of course 😉). Returning - on Sunday our Game Truck will be streaming NFL RedZone all day. Can’t wait to see you all there! 🍻

The Beer Garden will be open Saturday and Sunday from 11 am - 6 pm. Beer Garden tickets will be sold until 5:00 pm and Last Call is at 5:30 pm. Must be 21+ to enter the Beer Garden. Please drink responsibly.

09/30/2024

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

We can’t wait to welcome you to our 52nd Annual Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair THIS weekend!! To make things easier, here’s everything you need to know about Parking/Transportation, Bike/Stroller Valet and Fair Accessibility!

We strongly recommend walking, biking, using rideshare, or taking our complimentary shuttle to the Fair if possible. There is free parking and free shuttles leaving from the Kinecta Rosecrans lot located at 1440 Rosecrans Ave. Saturday and Sunday from 9 am - 6:30 pm for the general public and shuttles depart approximately every 30 minutes.

A map of the fairgrounds is available on our website at www.mbfair.org as well as other information and schedules for the weekend. Please feel free to check it out in advance!

09/29/2024

Thank you our Friends of the Fair Silver and Bronze Donors!

As a non-profit organization, we have worked hard to support local local organizations and artists for the past five years while running a fair that is free for the public to attend and enjoy. We are so grateful for all the many generous donors from our amazing local community who have helped us to we keep the tradition going. Your support means the world 💙

Visit https://www.mbfair.org/friends-of-the-fair/ for the full list of this year’s donors.

09/27/2024

2024 KID COUNTRY SCHEDULE

Swipe to see the full weekend schedule - pony rides, petting zoo, bounce houses, shows, magic shows, live animal shows, balloon animals, and more! Hours of FREE entertainment for your kiddos and guaranteed FUN! And did we mention it’s FREE? 😃

We are proud to be one of the few city fairs left in California to offer free admission and free activities and entertainment for our fairgoers. The Fair is run by an ALL-volunteer Board of Directors (we’ll be the ones wearing the blue “Fair Official” shirts 👋) and we do it purely for the benefit of our community!! Each purchase made goes back directly to local artists, small businesses, non-profit organizations and local youth groups. That’s how the Fair has been run for the last 52 year and that’s how we want it to stay…but we can only do it with your support 🙏🏻 So please - browse our wonderful arts and crafts booths, stop into the Beer or Wine Gardens, play a few paid games and definitely grab some food/drinks from the booths on Live Oak and Dorsey Fields. Thank you in advance - we can’t wait for next weekend!!

09/26/2024

Feeling lucky? Stop by our Raffle Booth on Dorsey Field all Fair weekend and enter our Raffle! All proceeds are directed to civic engagement, event ex*****on and scholarships/grants to non-profit civic and booster organizations and deserving local students. Our Community Relations Director .shaw.group has outdone himself this year and secured some INCREDIBLE prizes thanks to these generous community donors:

-A two-night stay in a Casita Suite at
-Blix Sol Eclipse Cruiser eBike donated by
-4 tickets to a game plus dinner and signed canvas
-2 tickets to the inaugural Festival for Saturday October 12
-Original framed 24”x36” photograph by

One Raffle Ticket for $5
Five Raffle Tickets for $20
Winners Announced Sunday at 6pm

What are you hoping to win?? 🎰

09/26/2024

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE 🙌

We’re talking about our Free Games happening all weekend long on Dorsey Field. All ages* are welcome for some good old-fashioned fun with our three-legged race, sack race, hula hoop contest, water balloon toss, obstacle course and you won’t want to miss the Diaper Derby and Toddler Trot on Sunday morning 👶🏻 No need to sign up in advance to participate in any of the Free Games, just show up! Our new Director of Games has hit the ground running and secured some AMAZING prizes for our Free Games winners! Look for her on Dorsey Field fair weekend - she’ll be the one with the 📢😃

Thank you to all our community donors for your generous contributions 🙏🏻

*Entrants for the Diaper Derby must still be crawling, and for the Toddler Trot we’re looking for walkers under 24 months. Five racers at a time, number of heats determined by number of entrants, and top racers from each heat will compete in the finals.

09/24/2024

So many exciting things happening on the Main Stage this year! Here are just a few highlights:

🎸Back by popular demand, will be headlining on Saturday 10/5 at 4pm - you won’t want to miss it!
🎸Sunday 10/6 at 10am - come out and support our four talented amateur bands competing in the Battle of the Bands 🤘
🎸Immediately following Battle of the Bands, last year’s winner will take the stage Sunday 10/6 at 12pm!

Can’t wait to see you there! Rock on!

09/23/2024

It’s official! See you at the 52nd Annual Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair October 5-6!

Address

1901 N Valley Drive
Manhattan Beach, CA
90266

Website

http://www.mbfair.org/

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