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Looking for something to do that won't break the bank? Here's an assortment of events and activities throughout Delaware that are free and open to the public.
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Loose Threads Fiber Group
Newark Arts AllianceThrough January 27, 2023

4th Friday Drum Circle
Newark Arts AllianceThrough January 28, 2023

Puss in Boots with Rehoboth Summer Children's Theatre
Kent County Public LibraryAugust 9

Puss in Boots
Frankford Public LibraryAugust 9

Puss in Boots
Kent County Public LibraryAugust 9

Summer Arts in the Park: The Funsters
Brecknock County ParkAugust 10

Summer in the Parks: Darnell Miller presents HOUSE IN THE PARK with DJ Nine and Joe Redbird
Tilton ParkAugust 10

Signs Under the Sea
Appoquinimink Public LibraryAugust 10

Make It: Laser Earrings
Appoquinimink Public LibraryAugust 10

Puss in Boots
Lewes Parks and Recreation CommissionAugust 11

NEWSIES Jr. Camp Performance
Clear Space Theatre CompanyAugust 12

Mr. Jon & Friends
Appoquinimink Public LibraryAugust 13
More Events
- Jet Phynx Dirty Popcorn Black Film Festival
Saturday, August 13 @ Delaware Art Museum - Music at the Canal-The Band-Spokey Speaky
Sunday, August 14 @ Battery Park, Delaware City - Family 2nd Sunday
Sunday, August 14 @ Delaware Art Museum - True Crime Book Club: The Monster of Florence (Preston)
Monday, August 15 @ Kent County Public Library - Bubbly Beats with Miss Jolie
Monday, August 15 @ Appoquinimink Public Library - Dove Tales: Stories About Re-Creating a Colonial Vessel
Tuesday, August 16 @ Kent County Public Library - Tartan Terrors
Wednesday, August 17 @ Freeman Arts Pavilion - Pirates: Lost at Sea!
Wednesday, August 17 @ Appoquinimink Public Library - Music at the Canal-Old Crispy Minstrals
Wednesday, August 17 @ Battery Park, Delaware City - Evening of Readings: 15th Annual Lewes Creative Writers' Conference
Friday, August 19 @ Lewes Public Library - Working with Polymer Clay Demo
Friday, August 19 @ Milton Arts Guild - Writing Workshop: Hook 'Em from the Start
Saturday, August 20 @ Appoquinimink Public Library - 2022-2023 Fall Open House
Saturday, August 20 @ First State Ballet Theatre - Cold Reads: Superheroes
Monday, August 22 @ Kent County Public Library - What is Oceanography?
Tuesday, August 23 @ Appoquinimink Public Library - The Honey Badgers live at Delaware Art Museum
Thursday, August 25 @ Delaware Art Museum - Crime & Coffee: Murder in the Manuscript Room (Lehane)
Thursday, August 25 @ Kent County Public Library - Music at the Canal-Jimmy Pritchard Band
Thursday, August 25 @ Battery Park, Delaware City - 10th Regional Juried Biennial Exhibition
Friday, August 26 through Sunday, September 25 @ Rehoboth Art League - Zoomorphism: Finding Natural Impressions in Humanized Materials
Friday, August 26 through Sunday, September 25 @ Rehoboth Art League - Harvest Moon: Juried Members' Showcase Exhibition
Friday, August 26 through Sunday, September 25 @ Rehoboth Art League - First State Ballet at Freeman Stage
Thursday, September 1 @ Freeman Arts Pavilion - Fall Kick Off ~ Group Show
Friday, September 9 through Friday, September 30 @ The Station Gallery - Delaware Small Business Chamber FUN FEST
Saturday, September 10 @ Glasgow Park - Creative Art Saturday
Saturday, September 10 through Saturday, November 12 @ New Castle County Art Studio - Putting the RIGHT Words with your Photography by Lisa Langell
Wednesday, September 14 - Choppin' it Up with Jenifer Lewis
Thursday, September 15 @ Wilmington Public Library - University of Delaware Music Spectacular
Saturday, September 17 @ Freeman Arts Pavilion - Through the Lens: A Photographic History of the Rehoboth Art League
Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 30 @ Rehoboth Art League - Six Eyes: Common Vision
Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 30 @ Rehoboth Art League - DSU Creatives: Works from Delaware State University Art Faculty
Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 30 @ Rehoboth Art League - So I Go Through: Works by L Morgan Kelley
Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 30 @ Rehoboth Art League - "In the Hood" Outdoor Concert Series
Saturday, October 8 through Sunday, October 9 @ Rehoboth Concert Band - Girondines World Premiere
Friday, October 21 through Sunday, October 23 @ Presbyterian Church of the Covenant - Holiday Fair
Saturday, November 5 through Sunday, November 6 @ Rehoboth Art League - Painting with Light; A Transformative Process by Harold Ross
Wednesday, November 9 - Why Black and White by Cole Thompson
Wednesday, December 7 @ Coastal Camera Club - Creating Flowers from Paper
Saturday, April 29, 2023 @ Newark Free Library - Quartet Winter Issue 2022
Through Saturday, December 31 @ Quartet - Kid Lit Writers Group
Through Thursday, November 17 @ Lewes Public Library - Open Mic
Through Saturday, December 31 @ Dover Art League - The Market at CCArts
Through Sunday, October 2 @ Center for the Creative Arts - OUTSIDE IN - Discover Space by Leanna Bacani
Through Wednesday, May 31, 2023 @ The Delaware Contemporary - Garden Visitors Art Exhibit
Through Wednesday, August 17 @ Milton Arts Guild - Read and Make
Through Thursday, August 18 @ Biggs Museum of American Art - Teen Writers Group
Through Saturday, August 27 @ Kent County Public Library - Creative Market Monday's Vendor Market
Through Monday, October 31 @ Developing Artist Collaboration - Sound Bites Wednesdays
Through Wednesday, October 19 @ Developing Artist Collaboration - Fine Art Fridays
Through Friday, October 7 @ Developing Artist Collaboration - Art Loop: Theresa Angela Taylor "The Circumstances of Building an Honorable Life"
Through Monday, August 29 @ The Grand Opera House - Art Loop: Victor Bloise "Unregulated"
Through Monday, August 29 @ the baby grand - Food 4 Thought Discussion Group
Through Monday, October 24 @ Lewes Public Library - Poetry Free Write at the Lewes Public Library
Through Monday, October 31 @ Lewes Public Library - 84th Annual Members' Fine Art Exhibition
Through Sunday, August 21 @ Rehoboth Art League - Still -- Works by Melissa Husted-Sherman
Through Sunday, August 21 @ Rehoboth Art League - Hidden Waters -- Pastels by Donna Finley
Through Sunday, August 21 @ Rehoboth Art League - "Spirituality" Art Exhibit
Through Friday, August 26 @ Newark Arts Alliance - Flowers Don't Tell…They Show!
Through Saturday, September 24 @ Mispillion Art League - 49th Annual Outdoor Fine Art & Fine Craft Show
Through Sunday, August 14 @ Rehoboth Art League - Washington Society of Landscape Painters Exhibition
Through Sunday, August 28 @ Peninsula Gallery
Organizations
- Abraxas Studio of Art and Gallery · Southern Delaware
- AerieArt Gallery · Southern Delaware
- African-American Heritage Center · Northern Delaware
- Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware · Northern Delaware
- AIDS Delaware · Northern Delaware
- Air Mobility Command Museum · Central Delaware
- Alapocas Run State Park · Northern Delaware
- Arden Buzz Ware Village Center · Northern Delaware
- Arden Craft Shop Museum · Northern Delaware
- Arden Group Motion · Northern Delaware
- Art Loop Wilmington · Northern Delaware
- Avon Grove Library
- B&B Music and Sound · Central Delaware
- Bellefonte Arts Festival · Northern Delaware
- Bethany Beach Ocean Suites · Southern Delaware
- Biggs Museum of American Art · Central Delaware
- Bowers Beach Maritime Museum · Central Delaware
- Bridgeville Public Library · Southern Delaware
- City of Lewes Parks and Marina - Lewes, DE · Northern Delaware
- Copeland String Quartet · Northern Delaware
- Cornerstone Church · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Center for Horticulture · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs · Central Delaware
- Delaware Division of Human Relations · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Fun A Day · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Heritage Commission · Central Delaware
- Delaware Improvised Theater · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Medical Reserve Corps · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Nature Society · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Playwrights · Northern Delaware
- Delaware Public Archives · Central Delaware
- Delmar Public Library · Southern Delaware
- Dover Art League · Central Delaware
- Dover Public Library · Central Delaware
- Duck Creek Historical Society · Central Delaware
- DuPont Environmental Education Center · Northern Delaware
- DuPont Nature Center · Central Delaware
- Elkton Community Kitchen
- Eyeball It! · Northern Delaware
- First Presbyterian Church of Milford · Southern Delaware
- First State Heritage Park · Central Delaware
- First State Heritage Park Welcome Center · Central Delaware
- Gallery 107 · Southern Delaware
- Gallery 37- A Destination for Artful Living · Southern Delaware
- Gallery One · Southern Delaware
- Grace United Methodist Church, Millsboro · Southern Delaware
- Greenhill Imaging · Northern Delaware
- Greenwood Public Library · Southern Delaware
- Hardcastle Gallery · Northern Delaware
- Haynes Park · Northern Delaware
- Heidi Lowe Gallery · Southern Delaware
- Herman W. Holloway, Sr. Park · Northern Delaware
- Holts Landing State Park · Southern Delaware
- House of Coffi · Central Delaware
- JD Kurtz/ New Moon Rugs · Northern Delaware
- John Dickinson Plantation · Central Delaware
- Johnson Victrola Museum · Central Delaware
- Joshua M. Freeman Foundation · Southern Delaware
- Kemblesville United Methodist Church · Northern Delaware
- Kent County Public Library · Central Delaware
- La Esperanza · Southern Delaware
- LaFate Gallery · Northern Delaware
- Laurel Historical Society · Southern Delaware
- Laurel Public Library · Southern Delaware
- Lewes Public Library · Southern Delaware
- Little Italy Neighborhood Association · Northern Delaware
- Lums Pond State Park · Northern Delaware
- Lydia Black Cannon Museum · Southern Delaware
- Market Street Music · Northern Delaware
- Mezzanine Auditorium · Northern Delaware
- Mezzanine Gallery · Northern Delaware
- Middletown Main Street Inc · Northern Delaware
- Milford Community Bands · Central Delaware
- Milton Historical Society · Southern Delaware
- Mispillion Performance Series · Southern Delaware
- MoonCat Comedy · Southern Delaware
- Museum Square · Central Delaware
- New Wilmington Art Association · Northern Delaware
- Newark Community Band · Northern Delaware
- NextFab · Northern Delaware
- Out & About Magazine · Northern Delaware
- Pemberton Historical Park
- Peninsula Gallery · Southern Delaware
- People to People Delaware · Northern Delaware
- Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic
- Rehoboth Beach Bandstand · Southern Delaware
- Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild · Southern Delaware
- Seaford (city of) · Southern Delaware
- St. Stephen's Lutheran Church · Northern Delaware
- Sussex County Stamp Club · Southern Delaware
- The Arts at Trinity · Northern Delaware
- The Greater Millsboro Art League · Southern Delaware
- The Labyrinth at First & Central · Northern Delaware
- The Mesothelioma Center
- The Old State House · Central Delaware
- The Station Gallery · Northern Delaware
- The Written Remains Writers Guild · Northern Delaware
- Trinity Episcopal Church · Northern Delaware
- United Neighbors
- United States Army Field Band
- University of Delaware, Biden Institute · Northern Delaware
- University of Delaware, History Department
- University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery · Northern Delaware
- University of Delaware, Mineralogical Museum · Northern Delaware
- University of Delaware, Morris Library · Northern Delaware
- University of Delaware, Old College Gallery · Northern Delaware
- University of Delaware, Special Collections Gallery · Northern Delaware
- Urban Sketchers Delaware · Central Delaware
- Wilmington Public Library · Northern Delaware
- Wilmington State Parks · Northern Delaware
- Wilmington, Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs · Northern Delaware
- Zwaanendael Museum · Southern Delaware