Festivals and Expos

Fort Worth Prairie Fest is the annual fundraiser for Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Learn more about how funds are plowed back into Tandy Hills HERE.

Prairie Fest grew from a small neighborhood event in 2006 to become the “Best Outdoor Cultural Event in 2010”, according to the Fort Worth Weekly. By 2011, Prairie Fest had attracted hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of visitors to Tandy Hills.

A re-imagined festival is taking flight in 2012

For 2012, Prairie Fest has been re-imagined and re-focused back to discovery and enjoyment of Tandy Hills, itself. Instead of a single event, there will be three festivalsthroughout the Spring on the last Saturdays of March, April and May. Event hours will be from 4 PM - Dusk. We call it Prairie Festx3.

March 31 * April 28 *May 26

What Happens at Prairie Festx3?

Prairie-Wildflower Hikes

4 - 6 PM

MayFest is a four-day festival with live music, food and fun for all ages. MayFest is held in Trinity Park, along the banks of the Trinity River, in the Fort Worth Cultural District.

Date & Time

• May 3 – 6, 2012
• Thursday and Friday 3:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
• Saturday 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
• Sunday 11:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

Tickets

All prices are for a one day ticket to Mayfest:

The revival of the Dallas International Festival is a project of DFW International Community Alliance,
a nonprofit organization that produced the original festival for 12 years in various sites around the city.

FREE

http://www.dfwinternational.org/DallasInternationalFestival/

Returning Memorial Day weekend May 25 - 27, CityArts Festival presented by Big City Crushed Concrete will offer activities and entertainment for families, staycationers and art aficionados alike to enjoy against the backdrop of historic Fair Park. ARTFEST, the popular juried art show coordinated by The 500, Inc., will once again be held outdoors at CityArts Festival to showcase fine art and original pieces by nearly 150 renowned Texas and national artists. For more than 40 years, ARTFEST has supported and helped raise money for cultural arts organizations in the Dallas area. 

International Migratory Bird Day Festival at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center

Saturday May 12, 2012  

9:00AM – 5:00PM

Admission $3.00 (kids under 3 yrs free)

Celebrate our migratory birds and learn more about what you can do to help them during their amazing journey across the Americas. This event features fun activities for all ages, including kids’ crafts and activities, a live falcon, guided hikes, and a warbler identification class.

The DFW Truck Farm 5k Fun Run will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2012, at the Earth Day Dallas Festival at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.

www.dfwtruckfarm.com

The first annual 5K Fun Run is a non-competitive event (no chip timing) in which participants can run, walk, jog, or skip to the finish line!  This is a family event and strollers are  welcome!  For this year's fun run, we have designed a course full of farming-inspired challenges to complete before you cross the finish line!

You will have farm challenges along the way around the race course, you might harvest a seed, plant a seed, save water, or pollinate a flower.  Whatever the challenge you are faced with you will have a good ol' time completing it!

Earth Day

Join River Legacy Living Science Center as we celebrate Earth Day with nature walks, story times, crafts, activities and more. Fun for the whole family.

FREE

Come celebrate Earth Day early with us on Thursday, April 19th!  Our celebration features a variety of informational booths related to Earth Day, as well as live entertainment. 

Tarrant County Public Health Building, 1101 South Main at Rosedale.

Free admission and parking. Open to the public.

Dan Lepinski's "Solar Shuttle" solar trailer will provide 100% solar electricity for the event sound stage.

http://www.tarrantcounty.com/ehealth/site/default.asp