LA Balloon Festival Demo

Name: LA Balloon Festival Demo
Start: 2025-08-15T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Simard-Paine Park Oxford St Lewiston, ME 04210

Schedule

Fri, 15 Aug, 2025 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Simard-Paine Park Oxford St Lewiston, ME 04210 | Lewiston, ME

The Riding of Ravensbridge presents our 9th annual Balloon Festival Demo. We are excited that the theme for this year's festival is "Star Wars: Rise of the Balloons". With an estimated attendance of 100,000+ people, we invite you to join us for the entire weekend or even for a day. We will host as many aspects of the SCA as we can. We have A&S, we have forging, we have Fencing, we have Fighting, and this year we will be doing a "Cantina" offering music, dancing, cold refreshments and medieval food samples.

Our spot is in the shade with access to the open-air amphitheater for demos. This is a NON-CAMPING event.
We will be open
Friday from 3pm-6pm
Saturday from 10am-7pm
Sunday from 10am-7pm
Saturday, starting at 11am, there is a parade from Auburn to Lewiston that we would love for folks to participate in ( Please be there for 1030am). Sunday, on the big field, will be an extra Family Fun Day with a ton of Family activities.
Parking for participants will be in the Farmer's Market Lot and the Parking Garage next to the park. We will have access to a golf cart for folks who need help getting to the site as well as a wagon and extra hands for folks who need to bring stuff down to the site.

Tentative schedule for the event days:
Fri :
Set up (1pm-3pm)
Event Open (3pm-6pm)
Sat:
Set up (9am-10am)
Parade Line-up (1030am)
Parade (11am)
Event Open (10am-6pm)

Sun:
Set up (9am-10am)
Event Open (10am-7pm)
Site Opens: F 3pm-6m , S 10am-7pm, Sun 10am-7pm
Site Closes: 7pm Sun
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