St. Catharines is the entertainment capital of Niagara! Come and enjoy such popular events as the Niagara Grape and Wine festival which produces such events such as New Vintage Niagara, the Niagara Wine Festival and the Ice Wine Festival, Canada Day celebrations in historic downtown and in Port Dalhousie, or cultural festivals like May’s Niagara Folk Arts Festival, August’s Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, free summer evening concerts in Montebello Park and Ribfest – featuring the “Blues” and Ribs!
The following festivals are presented at various locations in St. Catharines and the surrounding area.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
To May 26, 2024
Tulip Picking and Wine Tasting
Henry of Pelham Estate Winery, 1469 Pelham Rd.
henryofpelham.com/tulip
Step into the sunshine at the TASC Tulip Pick Farm among millions of tulips at your fingertips. After your tulip picking adventure, visit Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery in St. Catharines, only a few minutes down the road, for a tasting of estate-grown wines. With several tulip and wine tastings options, there’s an experience for everyone.
May 22 – 25, 2024
2024 Garden City Comedy Festival
Downtown St. Catharines
www.gardencitycomedyfestival.com
The Garden City Comedy Festival returns for its 6th annual festival May 22-25 at multiple venues in Downtown St. Catharines and is set to bloom with laughter, fun, and community spirit. Proudly presented by Ravenshead Homes, this year’s festival promises to be a celebration of all things comedy in Niagara. With more than 20 performers from Niagara and beyond, the Garden City Comedy Festival will be highlighted by its Gala Night at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, May 25 headlined by one of Canada’s most beloved performers, Derek Edwards. The festival kicks off on Wednesday, May 22 with the Debut a showcase of the Grassroots Comedy Course and headliner Larry Smith at Mahtay Cafe and Lounge.
The Garden City Comedy Festival is excited to present a special performance by 27-time Guinness World Record holders The Monsters of Schlock on Thursday, May 23. You won’t want to miss hilarious headliner Keesha Brownie fresh off her performances at the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame at the festival’s annual Comedy Fundraiser show for Birchway Niagara on Friday, May 24.
May 25, 2024 | 9:00 AM TO 8:30 PM
Go Green
Downtown St. Catharines
The third annual Go Green event is a celebration of our natural world and our commitment to environmental stewardship. The event will feature:
- Guided hikes along Twelve Mile Creek Trail
- Community-led Tree Planting
- Tours of Sustainable Businesses & Initiatives Downtown
- Documentary Screening followed by a reception
- Downtown Spring Clean Up
May 25 – 26, 2024
No Man’s Land Music Festival
Downtown St. Catharine
nomanslandmusicfestival.com/
No Man’s Land is a new alternative music festival taking place this spring in Downtown St. Catharines.
Produced by IndoorShoes Music – the creative minds behind Warehouse Concert Hall – who have helped create Cicada Music & Arts Festival, Quench Craft Beer Festival and other events across St. Catharines, No Man’s Land celebrates the Canadian punk, hardcore and alternative music scene Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26. The No Man’s Land festival will feature 14 artists over two days, including some of Canada’s most celebrated alt music exports: Protest the Hero, Moneen, Cancer Bats, the Flatliners and many more.
May 31, 2024 – June 8, 2024
The Spring Handmade Market
13th Street Winery, 1776 Fourth Ave
www.handmademarket.ca
Shop 1,000S of one-of-a-kind handcrafted items in the 12th edition of the Spring Handmade Market May 31 to June 1 and June 7-8 at 13th Street Winery in St. Catharines. The Handmade Market features 200 Canadian makers and artists over two weekends! Tickets must be pre-purchased online in advance.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
To June 8, 2024
The Spring Handmade Market
13th Street Winery, 1776 Fourth Ave
www.handmademarket.ca
Shop 1,000S of one-of-a-kind handcrafted items in the 12th edition of the Spring Handmade Market May 31 to June 1 and June 7-8 at 13th Street Winery in St. Catharines. The Handmade Market features 200 Canadian makers and artists over two weekends! Tickets must be pre-purchased online in advance.
June 13-16, 2024
In The Soil
Downtown St. Catharines
suitcaseinpoint.com/in-the-soil-arts-festival
In the Soil Arts Festival brings Niagara artists from a range of disciplines together to provide unique audience experiences. The festival nurtures the creation of new work, showcases talent, encourages innovation, offers learning opportunities for youth, and provides intimate and uncommon platforms for audiences to experience work by contemporary performing and literary artists, musicians, and media artists. In the Soil is Niagara’s homegrown arts festival and is working to make a Niagara that is self-determining and culturally distinct. The St. Catharines Downtown Association is proud to be a sponsor of this festival.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
July 4 – August 24, 2024
The Foster Festival’s 2024 Season
Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, 2 Ridley Road, St. Catharines
The Foster Festival is thrilled to be returning to the Mandeville Theatre at Ridley College, our new home, for our 2024 Mainstage Summer Season! Two world premieres and one Canadian classic by our nation’s most prolific playwright, Norm Foster, directed by three outstanding Canadian directors.
July 30 – August 4, 2024
2024 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta
www.henleyregatta.ca
2024 will mark the 138th annual Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Come and join in the celebrations, and be a part of Henley tradition. Since the “Henley” settled in St. Catharines in 1903, it has grown to become the largest of its kind in North America.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
July 30 – August 4, 2024
2024 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta
www.henleyregatta.ca
2024 will mark the 138th annual Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Come and join in the celebrations, and be a part of Henley tradition. Since the “Henley” settled in St. Catharines in 1903, it has grown to become the largest of its kind in North America.
August 2 – 5, 2024
City of Port Colborne Annual Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival
www.portcolborne.ca/en/recreation-and-leisure/canal-days.aspx
Port Colborne’s signature event kicks summer into high gear with the transformation of downtown into festival grounds. With ship cruises, Boat Parade of Lights, Fireworks display over the canal, car shows, a concert series and a kite festival, Canal Days® caters to your quest for summer adventure.
August 30 – September 2, 2024
Greek Festival
St. Katharine Greek Orthodox Church, 585 Niagara Street
niagaragreekfestival.com
Come visit the Niagara Greek Festival for authentic Greek food, pastries, drinks, dancing, entertainment and music. See our entertainment schedule for more details. Visit the Children’s area for plenty of family fun.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
August 30 – September 2, 2024
Greek Festival
St. Katharine Greek Orthodox Church, 585 Niagara Street
niagaragreekfestival.com
Come visit the Niagara Greek Festival for authentic Greek food, pastries, drinks, dancing, entertainment and music. See our entertainment schedule for more details. Visit the Children’s area for plenty of family fun.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
November 5 – 9, 2023
Stories from the Front
St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, 1932 Welland Canals Parkway
The St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre presents Stories from the Front this November. Commemorate the sacrifices of soldiers and their families by taking in a performance of Stories from the Front featuring diaries and letters from the museum’s collection.
November 18, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Winter Festival of Lights
www.wfol.com
Enjoy spectacular illuminations and countless festive events at the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights, Canada’s foremost illumination festival. The most enchanting of Niagara Attractions– the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights- has become a Holiday tradition for over one million visitors from around the globe. Join us for spectacular light displays, the Fallsview Sound and Light Show, Holiday Lights Tours, and over 2 million lights displayed along the Niagara Parkway, Dufferin Islands and throughout Niagara Falls. There is no admission fee to enjoy them but donations are gratefully accepted with all proceeds used to enhance the lights and displays (a $10 per vehicle donation is suggested). Enjoy brilliant fireworks and a calendar full of festive events as we capture the magic of the holiday season.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
December 2024 | 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Winter at the Market
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
The Winter at the Market series runs for five(5) weeks, every Thursday from November 17 to December 15, 2022 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Vendors will be set up selling a selection of fine preserves, local wines, toys, and games, handmade jewelry and decor, woodwork, gift cards, quilts and more.
November – January 2025
Winter Festival of Lights
www.wfol.com
Enjoy spectacular illuminations and countless festive events at the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights, Canada’s foremost illumination festival. The most enchanting of Niagara Attractions– the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights- has become a Holiday tradition for over one million visitors from around the globe. Join us for spectacular light displays, the Fallsview Sound and Light Show, Holiday Lights Tours, and over 2 million lights displayed along the Niagara Parkway, Dufferin Islands and throughout Niagara Falls. There is no admission fee to enjoy them but donations are gratefully accepted with all proceeds used to enhance the lights and displays (a $10 per vehicle donation is suggested). Enjoy brilliant fireworks and a calendar full of festive events as we capture the magic of the holiday season.
November – January 2025
Winter Festival of Lights
www.wfol.com
Enjoy spectacular illuminations and countless festive events at the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights, Canada’s foremost illumination festival. The most enchanting of Niagara Attractions– the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights- has become a Holiday tradition for over one million visitors from around the globe. Join us for spectacular light displays, the Fallsview Sound and Light Show, Holiday Lights Tours, and over 2 million lights displayed along the Niagara Parkway, Dufferin Islands and throughout Niagara Falls. There is no admission fee to enjoy them but donations are gratefully accepted with all proceeds used to enhance the lights and displays (a $10 per vehicle donation is suggested). Enjoy brilliant fireworks and a calendar full of festive events as we capture the magic of the holiday season.
February 2025
SportFest, Festival of Sports™
Port Colborne
It is a city-wide, family-friendly, community SportFest, Festival of Sports™ event that attracts participants from across Niagara, with proceeds going to various charities. The Mayor’s Cup Hockey Tournament, indoor volleyball, family skating, ball hockey, trivia, and family skating are just some of the events that are traditionally offered to the public. Providing a sense of community pride and spirit with greater awareness of each community group and their contribution to the community, Sportsfest provides recreational activities for all ages, promotes a healthy lifestyle, an opportunity for organized fundraising, and promotes Port Colborne.
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
Open Year-Round St. Catharines Farmers Market
Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Market Square, 91 King St., St. Catharines
www.stcatharines.ca/en/arts-culture-and-events/farmers-market-events.aspx
Come experience the City of St. Catharines crowd-pleasing Farmers Market to find everything Niagara grows, bakes, and makes in our community! Since the early 1860s, the market has been a vibrant scene that offers fresh foods and handmade items from the local area. Visitors enjoy connecting and learning from the local vendors who grow and produce meats, fruits, veggies, and baked goods. It’s a thrilling farm-to-table experience you don’t want to miss!
