Mansfield Town News

  • 9/21 It's Time to Celebrate

    The Mansfield Downtown Partnership invites one and all to gather in Downtown Storrs for a day of celebrating the people, businesses, and organizations that make Mansfield a special place to live, work, study, and visit!

    Our 16th Annual Celebrate Mansfield Festival will be Saturday, September 21 from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Over 70 community organizations, local businesses, and UConn departments and programs will host activity booths with hands-on fun for all ages. There will be musical performances, cooking demonstrations, and a free climbing wall. Activity booths will be open from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. For the full entertainment schedule, please visit downtownstorrsfestival.org/2019-schedule.

    At 6:00 PM, the Partnership encourages everyone to pick up some dinner from one of the Festival food booths or one of our great downtown restaurants and head to Betsy Paterson Square for a special concert to cap the festivities: Parsonsfield will perform from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM.

    The Celebrate Mansfield Festival is free and open to everyone. For more information, please visit downtownstorrsfestival.org.

    Participating UConn entities include:

    • UConn
      • Gold Sponsor
    • UConn Foundation
      • Silver Sponsor
    • UConn Dining Services
      • Chefs Landolphi and Swiller will host cooking demonstrations
      • Dairy Bar Ice Cream Truck
      • Food for Thought Truck
      • General event support
    • Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
      • Activity booth
      • Community Puppet-Building Workshops (Sat, Sept. 14 and Sun, Sept. 15)
      • Community Puppet Pageant – Pollinators!
    • Barnes & Noble at Downtown Storrs
      • Platinum Sponsor
      • Activity booth
    • UConn Council for Family Relations (UCCFR)
      • Activity booth
    • UConn International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS)
      • Activity booth
    • UConn School of Nursing Center for Advancement in Managing Pain
      • Activity booth
    • WHUS
      • Activity booth
    • The William Benton Museum of Art
      • Activity booth
    For more information, contact: Kathleen M. Paterson, Mansfield Downtown Partnership, Inc. at downtownstorrsfestival.org