Valparaiso Events

11/01/2024

Our Business Member, Honey + Sage Charcuterie, handcrafts custom charcuterie boards + boxes that are filled with an array of carefully selected gourmet meats, cheeses, crackers, fruits, nuts and more, all arranged beautifully for an impressive presentation that is perfect for any occasion! 🥂🧀🫶🏼

The Lincoln Kitchen: 704 Silhavy Rd Valparaiso, IN 46383
Monday-Sunday 11am-6pm

www.honeyandsage.co

10/25/2024

Looking for unique sweet treats for Halloween or just to treat yourself? 🍭

Rocket Fizz Valparaiso, Indiana is your premier destination for imported and specialty treats.
Be sure to check out the specialty Asian & imported treats area the next time you visit!

Stop in, say hello👋, and pick up something sweet for yourself or someone you know that rocks! 🍬🚀

Rocket Fizz | 157 Lincolnway, Valparaiso, IN 46383

10/25/2024

Say Hello 👋 to our newest Business Members of 2024, Firehouse Subs & The Lunch Box!

Firehouse Subs Valpo | The Lunch Box

Welcome new member, Firehouse Subs Valpo! Visit their location at 71 Silhavy Road year-round for some delicious subs and during October to show your support for First Responders Month so you can be a hero's hero! 🚒🔥

Thank you, The Lunch Box, for your continued membership & support in 2024!

The continual support from these local leaders and community members allows us to keep growing - and we are so thankful!👏 🎉



Interested in becoming a member? Check out our website or the link in our bio!

10/23/2024

Join our Executive Members – Memorial Opera House this Saturday, October 26, 2024, for PHANTOMS of the OPERA HOUSE!

This Year's Theme: Murder on the Dance Floor
7:00 p.m. - midnight
Porter County Expo Center • Ages 21+ | $35.00
Leave your little ghouls and goblins at home and join us for this haunted affair, as we present our THIRD ANNUAL Halloween Fundraiser Extravaganza!

Electric Retro will kick off the event at 7:30 pm, and emcee some phantasmic entertainment throughout the evening, including...
• Costume Contest
• Raffle Winners Announced Throughout the Evening
• Food Trucks
• Photo Ops
• Macabre Merchants

Visit: memorialoperahouse.com for tickets!

10/22/2024

🎃🍬🕷 Last Friday's Downtown Trick-or-Treat was ✨spooktacular✨! The streets of Downtown Valpo were alive with little ghosts and goblins enjoying tricks, treats, and Halloween fun from participating downtown businesses and non-downtown businesses on the Courthouse Lawn and in Central Park Plaza! Thank you to everyone who made this year's Downtown Trick-or-Treat a fang-tastic time! 🕷🍬🎃

10/16/2024

🎃🕸🍬 Get ready for a spook-tacular time at Downtown Trick-or-Treat THIS Friday, October 18th from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.! 🍬🕸🎃

🕷✨🍁 Dress up in your spookiest or silliest costumes and stroll through Downtown Valpo for candy, treats, and spooky fun from over 51 downtown businesses and 58 non-downtown businesses and organizations set up in Central Park Plaza & around the Courthouse Lawn! You won't want to miss this fang-tastic Downtown Valpo Halloween tradition! 🍁✨🕷

10/16/2024

🍁🎃🌻 We had a gourd-geous day at Fall Harvest Festival this past Saturday! Thanks to all the smiling faces who joined us for pumpkin painting, bounce houses, apple cider, caramel apples, face painting, Valparaiso Market vendors, and more! 🌻🎃🍁

Thank you to our 2024 Fall Harvest Festival sponsors for making this fall fun possible! 🍂🤎

Platinum: Hilltop Neighborhood House
Gold: Porter County Public Library System | Restoration Dental Studio | Valparaiso University | Indiana Army National Guard | NWI Trailer Rentals

10/10/2024

🍁🎃✨ Join us for Fall Harvest Festival this Saturday, October 12th from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. in Central Park Plaza for all things fall! ✨🎃🍁

🍎🍂 Fall Harvest Festival is held in conjunction with the last day of the 2024 season for the Valparaiso Market so, come out to enjoy Market vendors, pumpkin painting, apple cider, caramel apples, bounce houses, face painting, and more! 🍂🍎

Be sure to stop by the Valparaiso Events tent in the center of Central Park on Saturday to enter to win our 🍁✨ Fall Harvest Festival Raffle Basket ✨🍁 valued at over $150! Tickets will be sold for $5 per ticket or $20 for 5 tickets - cash and card accepted, credit card fees apply.

Thank you to our Fall Harvest Festival sponsors for making this fall celebration possible! 🧡🍂

Platinum: Hilltop Neighborhood House
Gold: Porter County Public Library System | Restoration Dental Studio | Valparaiso University | Indiana National Guard | Century 21 Circle - Valparaiso | NWI Trailer Rentals

🕸🎃‼️ DOWNTOWN TRICK-OR-TREAT will take place NEXT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., mark your calendars and get your spooky or silly costumes ready for this annual Downtown Valpo Halloween tradition! ‼️🕸🎃

10/09/2024

🍂✨ 2024 Autumn Promenade was a fall-tastic time last Saturday! ✨🍂

Thank you to all of the smiling faces who came out to delight in a day of fall fun, to all participating downtown businesses who made this event a great success, and to our Presenting Sponsor, Terry's Discount Windows & More, LLC ! 🍁

Bao's Pastry
Be Good Juicerie
Blackbird Cafe
Blockhead Beerworks
Designer Desserts-Valparaiso
E&A Jewelers
Ella Jayms
FLUID Coffee Roasters - Valpo South
Hungry Hound Boutique & Grooming
Indie Indie Bang Bang
Ivy Boutique
Journeyman Distillery
Lifestyles
Market 102
Memorial Opera House
Misbeehavin' Meads
Mixtape Social Kitchen
Old World Market
Pickles Kids
Porter County Museum
Rocket Fizz Valparaiso, Indiana
Scented Science
Six Cypress Boutique
The Press
The Spice & Tea Exchange
Toys in the Attic - Valpo
Valpo Velvet Ice Cream

10/04/2024

👻🎃🕸 Dress up in your spookiest or silliest costume and join other ghosts and goblins for Downtown Trick-or-Treat on Friday, October 18th from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Downtown Valpo! 🕸🎃👻

✨🍂🕷 Enjoy tricks and treats from over 44 participating downtown businesses and over 55 non-downtown businesses & organizations set up in Central Park Plaza & around the Courthouse Lawn at this Downtown Valpo Halloween tradition! Find the complete list of participating Downtown Trick-or-Treat stops on our website! 🕷🍂✨

☔️☀️ Downtown Trick-or-Treat will take place rain or shine, so make sure your costumes are ready for any kind of weather! ☀☔

10/04/2024

🍎🍁🌻 Celebrate all things fall at the annual Fall Harvest Festival next Saturday, October 12th hosted in conjunction with the last day of the season for Valpo Parks' Valparaiso Market! 🌻🍁🍎

🍂✨ Join us in Central Park Plaza from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. for market vendors, pumpkin painting, apple cider, caramel apples, bounce houses, face painting, and more! ✨🍂

10/04/2024

🍂✨ Need last-minute plans for fall fun this weekend? Join us for beautiful weather TOMORROW, Saturday, October 5th from 12:00 - 4:30 p.m. and delight in a day of fall fun at Autumn Promenade! ‼ VERY LIMITED tickets are still available, purchase yours ASAP at the link in our bio or at https://www.valparaisoevents.com/event/autumn-promenade! ‼ ✨🍂

🍁🍎 You won't want to miss out on enjoying a little bit of that Stars Hollow fall feel right here in Downtown Valpo! Ticketholders will stroll through downtown collecting fall-themed treats from participating downtown shops and restaurants. This event is similar to everyone's favorite springtime event, Chocolate Walk, but features your favorite fall flavors – caramel apple, cinnamon, maple, pumpkin spice and everything nice! 🍎🍁

Check out the full list of participating downtown businesses on our website at https://www.valparaisoevents.com/event/autumn-promenade!

10/04/2024

Join our Executive Member, Hilltop Neighborhood House, at Don Quijote Sunday, October 27th for an evening of wine & food pairings! 🍷🍴

With your ticket purchase, enjoy four courses each with their own authentic wine pairing. 100% of the proceeds will benefit hunger relief programs.

RSVP by October 13th via email or phone: [email protected] | (219)-477-4222 ext. 212

10/04/2024

Say Hello 👋 to our newest Community Members of 2024, Dina & Jesse Harper!

Thank you, Dina & Jesse, for your membership & support in 2024!

The continual support from these local leaders and community members allows us to keep growing - and we are so thankful!👏 🎉



Interested in becoming a member? Check out our website or the link in our bio!

10/03/2024

🍻 What a ✨hoppin'✨ time at 2024 Valpo Brewfest! 🍻

Thank you to all of our breweries, food vendors, Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, volunteers, and all the smiling faces you see in the photos! You made it a truly brew-tastic time! 🍺

A HUGE thank you to our amazing 2024 Valpo Brewfest sponsors, we couldn't host Valpo Brewfest without them! 👏🍻

Platinum: Avalon Springs Health Campus
Gold: Glacial Sands Oral, Facial, Implant Surgery | Indiana National Guard |Indiana Beverage | Lexus (Merrillville, IN)
Silver: Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago | ICON Aesthetics
Bronze: AM Stabilizers | Centier Bank | Central Midwest Carpenters | Northwestern Mutual - Doug Mogck | Northwest Indiana Tents & Events

09/28/2024

🍻🥨🎉 IT'S VALPO BREWFEST DAY! 🎉🥨🍻

Happy Days are Beer Again! Get ✨hopped✨ up with us 🌦 RAIN OR SHINE 🌦from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Central Park Plaza and sample 200+ brews, ciders, meads, and seltzers from America's best craft brewers, enjoy live music on the Northwest Health Amphitheater stage from Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, and eat delicious food from some amazing food vendors!

Purchase a 2024 Valpo Brewfest Merch shirt and other items at the Merch Tent during the event to rep Valpo Brewfest year round!

‼🎟 If you haven't purchased your tickets yet, tickets are still available! Purchase yours at: https://www.valparaisoevents.com/event/valpo-brewfest 🎟‼

A huge thank you to our Platinum Sponsor, Avalon Springs Health Campus! 🍺🎉

09/25/2024

🍻🥨 Kick-off Valpo Brewfest weekend with us at the Brewfest Biergarten this Friday, September 27th from 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. in Central Park Plaza! 🥨🍻

This event is ✨FREE!✨ and open to all ages! Come out to enjoy imported German beer, delicious food, and live entertainment from The German Band, Inc. from 4:30 - 6:30 and Mindfully Blind from 7:00 - 9:00 and get ready for a 🍺hoppin'🍺, brew-filled weekend in Valpo!

09/23/2024

🍻🎉 IT'S VALPO BREWFEST WEEK! 🎉🍻

Happy Days are Beer Again! Get ✨hopped✨ up this Saturday, September 28th at Central Park Plaza in Downtown Valpo! Enjoy live music from & the Rainbow Seekers on the Northwest Health Amphitheater stage and sample over 200 craft beers, ciders, seltzers, and meads from America's best craft brewers at this end of summer celebration. Cheers to ya! 🍺🥨

🎟‼️ Purchase your tickets at the link in our bio or at https://www.valparaisoevents.com/event/valpo-brewfest ASAP! They're going fast! ‼️🎟

21+ event | Food available for purchase

09/20/2024

🍂 Oktoberfest at Aftermath is THIS Saturday! 🍂

Join Aftermath for a day full of fun, food, and festivities! We’ll have German beers, delicious food specials, stein-hoisting contests, and live music from the German band, The Deutsch Meisters . 🎶🍻

Don’t miss out on all the excitement—come hang out with us all day Saturday! Prost! 🍂🎉 Cidery & Winery

09/20/2024

Happy Fall from ELLA JAYMS! New fall styles are arriving weekly! Stop in soon to see the EJ Girls! 🍂✨

Have a great weekend!

Xx Ella Jayms

09/20/2024

Welcome to our new Executive Business Members – Gail O’Neil & Rachel Roy with Weichert Realtors Shoreline & The Mortgage Exchange! 🎉👏

🍂 Make sure to visit with them at Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 12th! 🍂

Check out Gail’s listings at: https://gail-oneil.shorelineweichert.com/index.php

Thank you, Gail & Rachel, for your support! The continual support from these local leaders and community members allows us to keep growing - and we are so thankful! 👏 🎉



Interested in becoming a member? Check out our website or the link in our bio!

09/19/2024

🍁🌻✨ Fall is just around the corner and you won't want to miss the perfect way to delight in a day of fall fun in Downtown Valpo - Autumn Promenade! ✨🌻🍁

Join us for Autumn Promenade on Saturday, October 5th and stroll through downtown collecting fall-themed treats from participating downtown shops and restaurants. This event is similar to everyone's favorite springtime event, Chocolate Walk, but features your favorite fall flavors – caramel apple, cinnamon, maple, pumpkin spice and everything nice!

🍂✨ You won't want to miss out on enjoying a little bit of that Stars Hollow fall feel right here in Downtown Valpo! Purchase your tickets today at the link in our bio or at valparaisoevents.com! ✨🍂

Check out the full list of participating downtown businesses on our website at https://www.valparaisoevents.com/event/autumn-promenade!

09/18/2024

Forget your troubles … c’mon get hoppy…🍺

09/13/2024