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Stamford Downtown Signature Events.
Stamford Downtown is booming with exciting events. From June through December, whether it's a tour of our world class sculpture exhibit, music in Columbus Park, Arts & Crafts on Bedford Street or a giant helium balloon parade that marches through Downtown, Stamford Downtown is the place to find it all.  This is the Place!

Free events to please the entire family ...


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FRENCH MARKET
June through October, 2013 9 am - 3 pm
     

French Market
Saturdays - Bedford Street at Forest

Come celebrate our farmers' market with exciting new vendors offering the freshest fruits, vegetables, flowers, baked goods and more! Straight from the farm and right to your home.

 
     
Downtown Abstractions, Art in Public Places
June-August, 2013
     

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Downtown Abstractions, Art in Public Places presented by SAC Capital Advisors, L.P.
Each year Stamford Downtown hosts a distinguished outdoor sculpture exhibit designed to attract both local and regional audiences. Art in Public Places features sculptures lining the sidewalks and parks of the Downtown as well as the Stamford Town Center.

Click Here to View Sculpture Minisite

 

Sculpture Opening Party
June 11, Ticketed Event, please visit Sculpture Mini-site for an invitation, or call 203-348-5285 for an invitation

 

 Alive @ Five
Thursdays, June 20, 27, July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2013  5pm (No Concert July 4)
Columbus Park

Alive @ Five is a concert series with live music from national and regional headliners, which attracts after work crowds and families. Columbus Park is the place to be during the summer as Stamford Downtown produces great music, great dancing and great times!

Alive @ Five on the Bud Light Stage in partnership with Stamford Town Center, Reckson and BevMax is produced by the Stamford Downtown Special Services District and the City of Stamford.

Click Here to View this year's Line-up and more information

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Jazz Up July
Wednesdays, July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 2013 6:30pm
Columbus Park

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Peoples' United Bank
Jazz up July
presented by Stamford Town Center 
in partnership with
Purdue Pharma
on the Bud Light Stage

Click Here to View Jazz Line-up!

Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic
presents
Young Artists Summer Jazz Workshop 2013
in Stamford Downtown
July 8 - 14
Jazz Workshop All Stars' Performance at Jazz up July
icon Click Here for Jazz Workshop Flyer

   
A Grand Summer Night - August 14, 2013


 

 

Organized by the “Friends of Stamford Downtown” this annual fund-raiser salutes fine dining in Stamford Downtown. Net proceeds from the event are used to purchase outdoor art to grace the Downtown and to help defray the costs of significant Downtown art exhibits.

Please call 203-348-5285 for information.

A Grand Summer Night Cocktail Party at UConn Stamford and participating restaurants. 

Stamford Downtown Summer Restaurant Weeks
Monday, August 19 - Monday, September 2, 2013
 

     


Stamford Downtown Restaurant Weeks

 

Experience dinner in Stamford Downtown at prix-fixe daily specials.

 

Arts & Crafts on Bedford
September 21 & 22, 2013

 

Arts & Crafts on Bedford
  Arts & Crafts on Bedford

 

Arts & Crafts on Bedford is back for its ninth year in Stamford Downtown. Shop at our craft and artisan boutiques on Bedford Street, which will be closed to traffic for the weekend. Dine in our extended sidewalk cafes.

 

icon 2013 Arts & Crafts Vendor Application

 

 
Saturday, November 23, 2013  3-6 pm
SAC Capital Advisors, LP Giant Balloon Inflation Party
Hoyt Street at Summer
 
     


Inflation Party Entertainment

  Join us for this backstage look at the parade and watch the giant helium balloons come to life.
     
Sunday, November 24, 2013.  12 noon step-off, Parade Route: Summer to Broad to Atlantic
UBS Parade Spectacular
presented by Stamford Town Center and The Advocate


Elmo at the UBS Parade Spectacular

 

One of the largest helium balloon parades in the country, featuring everyone’s favorite giant balloon characters, award winning marching bands and fabulous floats. Fun for the whole family.

icon Click here to apply for participation in the 2013 parade

Sunday, December 8, 2013, 5 pm, Landmark Square & Latham Park
Heights & Lights

  HEIGHTS & LIGHTS, Rappelling Santa and Holiday Tree Lighting Presented by Reckson, A Division of SL Green Realty Corp.

From 22 stories high above Stamford Downtown, watch and cheer for Santa Claus as he makes his daredevil descent, twisting and flying from the top of one of Stamford’s tallest buildings, Landmark Square.

Then follow Santa up Bedford Street to Latham Park for an evening of holiday fun and music and join in the countdown of the annual lighting of Stamford's Holiday Tree.

Free Cocoa at the Unitarian Universalist Society.

Special thanks to The First Congregational Church of Stamford.

 
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