Festival Information and Services

The official program guide will be published and distributed by Town & Gown magazine for the 44th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.  It is available free at the information booths, the welcome booth, and many downtown businesses.
Daily updates of festival information are available at information booths and the welcome booth. Information Booths are at the center and farthest points on each loop of the route.
Please inquire at the information booths or welcome booth regarding lost children, lost parents, or lost personal items.  Medical, fire, and police emergencies may be reported at the same locations.  General information is also available from officials wearing a green and white festival badges.

INFORMATION BOOTH HOURS                    
College/Allen Booth                                                 
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. - 7 p.m.                                        
Thursday-Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Pollock/Burrowes Booth
Thursday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Fairmount/Fraser Booth
Thursday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

EMERGENCIES
Medical, fire, and police emergencies:  Dial 911 on the nearest phone or report to information booth/welcome booth personnel or to an Arts Festival official wearing a green and white badge. 

For non-emergency assistance:
Campus  863-1111
Borough  234-7150

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE BOOTH
Located at the corner of College/Allen
Wednesday, July 7
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 8
9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday, July 9
9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Saturday, July 10
9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Sunday, July 11
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

FESTIVAL PARKING & BUS SERVICE TO THE FESTIVAL via THE BLUE LOOP
Penn State Campus
Visitors are encouraged to use the festival parking area at Jordan East (next to Bryce Jordan Center).  Please note that the Porter North and Porter South lots are not for Arts Festival parking.  CPFA parking is $5 per car per day. Parking revenues collected by the festival cover the costs of operating the service to the Festival.  These buses are free to the public and run continuously around campus and downtown with several stops including  one in the center of the festival at the corner of College Avenue  and Allen Street.

Wednesday, July 7, beginning at 4:45 a.m. Last departure to Jordan East, 10:20 p.m.

Thursday, July 8 and Friday July 9 beginning at 4:45 a.m. Last departure to Jordan East, 12:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 10 beginning at 8:30 a.m. Last departure to Jordan East, 12:30 a.m.

Sunday, July 11 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Last departure to Jordan East, 10:30 p.m.

Downtown State College
Limited spaces are available at municipal parking garages on Pugh Street and Fraser Street. 

ALLEN STREET MALL LANDSCAPING
The festival is pleased to have Landscape II create the landscaping for the Allen Street mall.  The dumping buckets water feature is sponsored by Roaring Spring Premium Spring Water.  On Monday, July 12 at 7:30 a.m., Landscape II holds a sale of most plants and fixtures in the landscaping on Allen Street.  Call Landscape II at 466-7955 for details.

MEDICAL
Emergency medical services are available during festival hours in 120 Sackett Building on the campus mall close to College Avenue.   State-certified emergency medical technicians and paramedics are on duty to provide assistance.  Medical-team personnel wear white uniform shirts with the EMS insignia.

REST ROOMS
Rest rooms on campus are in Sackett Building, Electrical Engineering East, and Willard Building, and downtown in the Pugh Street Garage, Fraser Street Parking Plaza, Hotel State College, Schlow Centre Region Library, Allenway Building, Fairmount Avenue School, and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.  Portable rest room facilities are on Foster Avenue at Central Parklet.

NO PETS, BICYCLES, ROLLERBLADES, OR SKATE BOARDS PLEASE
To enhance your Arts Festival experience, please refrain from bringing pets and animals into the festival zone.  Also, due to obvious hazards presented by rollerblades, skateboards, and bicycles in the festival zone, we discourage their use.

R & R FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
Members of the Centre Region Senior Citizens’ Center host open houses for tired and thirsty seniors Thursday and Friday, July 8 and 9 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 131 South Fraser Street. 

TRASH RECEPTACLES
The Arts Festival is pleased to have a trash-recycling program.  Please deposit aluminum and glass containers--and only aluminum and glass containers--in designated cans.  Thank you for helping the festival and the Centre County Solid Waste Authority in this important ecological effort.

BOTTLED SPRING WATER
Cold spring water is available along the festival route at these locations:
Information Booths located at Pollock/Burrowes and Fairmount/Fraser.

The water is provided by Roaring Spring Bottling Company of Roaring Spring, PA, and sold by the CPFA for $1.00 per bottle.

Festival Facts

2011 FESTIVAL DATES   
The 45th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts will be July 13-17, 2011.

ORGANIZATION & STRUCTURE
The festival is an independent, nonprofit corporation created as a cooperative town-and-gown venture.  A volunteer board of directors of representatives of the State College and Penn State communities establishes festival policy.  There are three full-time professional staff members.  More than 1,000 volunteers help make the Festival a reality each year.

TRADEMARKS
The “Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts”, “Arts Festival”, and the logo at left are trademarks within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  No use of these trademarks may be made in connection with the manufacture and/or sale of merchandise without the CPFA’s express written approval.

HELP THE FESTIVAL!
The 2010 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts needs more than 1,000 volunteers to make the event a success.  Volunteers are needed to assist with the sidewalk sale, physical arrangements, performing arts, welcome and information booths, and festival sales booths, and to serve as docents for the Festival Eyes program.  Call (814) 237-3682 to help with this wonderful community event.

PENNSYLVANIA’S FINEST FESTIVALS
Pennsylvania has many things to offer visitors: verdant mountains, sandy beaches, a rich history, and many wonderful places to take the family.
Pennsylvania is particularly proud of its great Festivals!
Film festivals, folk festivals, art & craft festivals, are all part of the Keystone State’s dynamic culture. The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is proud to be recognized by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office as a great event to visit!

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON STATE COLLEGE AND CENTRE COUNTY:

Central Pennsylvania Convention & Visitors Bureau
800 E. Park Ave.
State College, PA 16803
(888) 604-0693 or (814) 231-1400
www.centralpacvb.org

Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County
200 Innovation Blvd., Suite 201
State College, PA  16803
(814) 234-1829
www.cbicc.org

Downtown State College Improvement District
127 S. Fraser Street
State College, PA 16801
(814) 238-7004
www.downtownstatecollege.com

QUESTIONS?
Contact us by phone or e-mail
(814) 237-3682
(814) 237-0708 FAX
e-mail: office@arts-festival.com