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LebFest 2025

A huge thank you to all the businesses, organizations, entertainers, and sponsors who made last year’s LebFest such a success! We’re excited to bring the community together again for another incredible celebration this year—mark your calendars and stay tuned for exciting updates!

 

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LebFest 2025

Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm at Colburn Park in Lebanon, NH.

LebFest is a family-centered, FREE community event for all ages with over 80 booths of activities, games, crafts, raffles, local vendors, music, food vendors and a Mac & Cheese competition featuring local restaurants. LebFest celebrates the Upper Valley community as a great place to live and raise a family! (Food and drink will be available for purchase.)

Presented by Upper Valley Business Alliance and Lebanon Recreation, Arts & Park

LIVE ANIMAL PRESENTATION

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Join us by the stage at LebFest in Colburn Park for this live-animal educational presentation by the Wildlife Encounters Ecology Center and meet a diverse selection of animals in this “imaginary safari around the world”!

Meet animals whose ancestors lived in a variety of habitats and discover their amazing adaptations and environmental contributions - while considering how we can positively affect our human impact and become positive environmental stewards.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

LebFest Live Music

12:30 PM - 3:00 PM

In addition to the Wildlife Encounters animal presentation, check out the live music line up happening on the bandstand at Colburn Park during LebFest!

  • 11:00 am - 11:45 am: Lebanon High School Band
  • 11:45am - 12:00 pm: Lebanon Ballet School
  • 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Band: Never Too Late

MAC & CHEESE COMPETITION

LebFest 2022 Mac & Cheese Competition Trophy

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Or Until Samples Are Gone

5th Annual LebFest Mac & Cheese Competition!

Sample homemade mac & cheese, made by local restaurants and then vote for your favorite! The winner will receive bragging rights and the coveted “Mac & Cheese Bowl”. (Samples are free so get to the tent early to taste them all!)

Who’s got the cheesiest, gooiest, most mouthwatering mac in the Upper Valley? We’ll find out soon!

Here's the official line up of the Competitors for 2025:

FOOD VENDORS

LebFest Food Vendors

Still hungry after the LebFest Mac & Cheese Competition? Check out these tasty food vendors!

Bangkok Thai

Captain Paige Bakes

Cotton Candy Kids

Howl'n Good Kettle Corn

K&P Catering Service

Sugar Street Buns

Sweet K's Lemonade

Upper Valley Dogz & Catering

Yao Thai BBQ

More to come!

VENDOR BOOTHS & ACTIVITIES

LebFest Kids Activities

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

LebFest is all about community and family fun! Check out all the local business booths for crafts, activities, games, raffles, giveaways and more!

*We are currently full with vendor booths for 2025, but please contact Nicole Follensbee, Member Relations Coordinator with UVBA, to be added to the waitlist.*

All Weather HVAC: Modified race car show and tell.

Alyssa Hughes Life Coaching: TBD

Alzheimer's Association MA/NH: Coloring pages, word puzzles and memory games.

America's Mattress: TBD

Ava Gallery: CAOS Art Making tables for kids

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust: SPONSOR

Berkshire Hathaway HS Verani Realty: Coloring pages and temporary tattoos.

BioMagnetic Recovery: TBD

Black Dog Bees & Maple Trees: Observation Bee Hive

Budget Print: Coloring pages, giveaways, games.

Canaveral Candles: Kids will be able to take out a sculptured candle from molds.

CCBA: TBD

City Center Ballet: TBD

Claremont Savings Bank: SPONSOR

Cocoplum Appliances: TBD

Co-op Food Stores: SPONSOR Milk bottle toss and/or coloring activity

Cota & Cota: Cota Truck Coloring Sheets and/or Kid Sized Truck Photo Op

Cover Home Repair & Store: TBD

Dartmouth College: SPONSOR

Dartmouth Health - Women's Health Resource Center: TBD

Dartmouth Health - VNH: TBD

DB Lights: TBD

Domino's Pizza: Cornhole game to win slices and other food items.

Dynamic Natural Advantage: TBD

Early Care & Education Association: Plinko

Great Eastern Radio/River 93.9 Broadcasting: SPONSOR

Fine Artist: Basic painting techniques

Flanders Steam Clean & Cleaning: TBD

Flora Primary Care: Mindfulness Coloring for Kids

Fresh Air Solutions: Clean the mini-split game for kids

Hopkins Center for the Arts: TBD

Jessica Dunn: Your Medicare Girl: TBD

Junction Arts & Media (JAM): TBD

Johnson Audiology: TBD

Kate & Co Real Estate: Bean bag toss with prizes and temporary tattoos.

Lebanon Boyscouts: Geocaching

Lebanon Opera House: TBD

Ledyard Bank: SPONSOR

Ledyard Charter School: Fall themed kids craft.

Legacy Mortgage: Decorate Your Own Birdhouse.

Listen Community Services: Giant Jenga.

Mascoma Bank: SPONSOR

New England School of the Arts: Karaoke.

North Country Community Theater: Dress Up with our Costumes & Props

Northern Stage: TBD

Patriot Fitness 24/7: TBD

rePlay Arts: Creative reuse artmaking activity

Revels NorthSing-a-longs and costumes for dress-up.

Revo Casino: SPONSOR

Riverbank Church, Students, and Kids: Ski-ball & Kids Craft Space

Rose of the Wood: Kids garden rock painting.

Running Water Recreation: Hover ball - shoot balls floating in the air with bows and arrows, mini golf.

Service Credit Union: SPONSOR

Strong Rabbit Designs: Color your sticker or button.

Sweetland Farm: Name the vegetable game or an apple activity.

Systems Plus Computers: Installing a hard drive into a Mac Pro Desktop

Team Sunshine Solar: A fun "How Solar Works" interactive game

TLA Creations: TBD

Transformative Aesthetics: TBD

Unmask the Invisible: "This is your brain on art" painting project.

Upper Valley Aquatic Center: TBD

Upper Valley BIPOC Network: TBD

Upper Valley Educators Institute: Postcards for children to illustrate and write a thank-you to teacher, which will be mailed!

Upper Valley Family Child Care Network: Sensory bin & games.

Upper Valley Music Center: Instrument Petting Zoo.

Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS): Biofact Discovery

Visions for Creative Housing Solutions: TBD

Vital Communities: Farm animal mask-making for kids, Upper Valley trivia game for adults.

Waypoint: TBD

West Lebanon Feed & Supply: Temporary tattoo booth for kids, guess the kibble in the jar for adults.

 

THANK YOU TO OUR LEBFEST SPONSORS!

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