This is the place to learn about the on-going benefits of a healthful, compassionate and sustainable plant-based lifestyle. It’s the most fun you can have on a beautiful Sunday, and it’s free.

Gain inspiration as an impressive collection of trans-formative speakers and best-selling authors take the stage to address attendees about health, nutrition, and environmental issues. Learn to make delicious recipes at celebrity chef led cooking demonstrations. Sample gourmet vegan desserts and try new, healthy products and foods. There are tasty samples, as well as, new and different cultural experiences.

Gelato Festival World Masters is the most important event dedicated to Artisan Italian Gelato. It is a challenge of Gelato Chefs that recognizes the greatest flavors through competition. During the course of the next three years, five thousand Gelato Chefs from all over the world, will be competing against one another for a chance to participate in the 2021 grand finals in Italy. Only the best 36 gelato chefs will remain to battle for the title of Gelato Festival World Master.

Welcome to the premier Oktoberfest in Dallas. This family friendly event brings thousands of people across Dallas – Fort Worth for the good food, good beer and good times. This year’s annual event, to be held September 29th at Flag Pole Hill, will feature some of the best local bands, fun for the kids, and delicious restaurant offerings from brats to ice cream to pizza and brews.

If you are looking for some smooth tunes to take you through your weekend then the Denton Blues Festival should be on your bucket list. Hosted in partnership with the Denton Black Chamber of Commerce and Classic Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram of Denton, they are celebrating 20 years at this year’s festival. The 2018 lineup is sure to please, combined with kid friendly activities, arts and crafts, and delicious festival food!

This unique festival, designed to showcase the history and spirit of the west, invites attendees to find the cowboy in them through themed events, attractions, food, shopping and entertainment. Three festival stages feature national and regional live music and entertainment to flavor the air as festival-goers partake in the unique arts and crafts vendors, gunfight re-enactments, Native American singers and dancers, the World Tamale Eating Championship and car shows. Family fun continues with a multitude of children’s activities in the Kid Kountry area, face painting, strolling entertainers and the annual Huffines Auto Dealerships Lewisville Cattle Drive Parade – featuring 20-30 head of Texas longhorns.

Corrientes 348, a South American-based Argentinian Steakhouse,
will partner with Rosewood Ranches (Ennis, TX) to offer Wagyu beef as part of their menu during the restaurant’s Wagyu a la Parilla Event – Where Texas and Argentina Come Together, September 13-30, 2018.

Aubrey Peanut Festival dates to 1986, when residents began celebrating the harvest of the local cash crop.  Today it honors the area’s peanut heritage and includes a full slate of activities. Join in the peanut butter sandwich eating contest, the peanut spitting contest, the peanut butter cup relay and much more. Whether you are visiting […]

A Taste of Germany in Historic Downtown McKinney! 

McKinney Oktoberfest is a family favorite, offering authentic German music, food and drink, traditional costumes, dancing, children’s activities and much more. The “bier garden” covers a total of 14 blocks throughout McKinney’s Historic Downtown square so you can enjoy all downtown McKinney has to offer with a German beer in one hand and a bratwurst in the other. McKinney Main Street, supporting sponsors and the shops in Historic Downtown McKinney will host nonstop activities in the heart of our great city.

An authentic recreation of the Munich Oktoberfest, this event features more than 30 hours of continuous family-oriented entertainment. Serving special “Oktoberfest” Bier along with incredible German culinary fare, the festival also includes a Marketplace, music, and kid-friendly options like rides, midway games, and more.

Come experience the best of the Grand Prairie community! Held in September at Trader’s Village, the focus of this partnership event with the City of Grand Prairie is to highlight and promote local businesses, both community and chamber wide. The purpose is to educate the community about local companies and the many products and services available to them, as well as to provide exhibitors with an additional marketing tool with which to promote their products and broaden their customer base.