2024 - 2025 Events Schedule
Heemet Fescht - TBA for 2025
Indulge your interest in regional folk culture at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center’s Heemet Fescht: a celebration of the harvest and Pennsylvania Dutch farm life. Heemet Fescht is a free, fun, and educational event for the whole family, with live music in the barnyard, traditional arts, barn star painting, folklife demonstrations, hayrides, pumpkin painting, and children's crafts. Heemet (pronounced HAY-met), means “home” in Pennsylvania Dutch.
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Christmas on the Farm - December 7, 2024 - 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Christmas on the Farm 2024 on December 7 from 11 am-4 pm, features live music in the barnyard, traditional crafts, folklife demonstrations, hearth-cooking, live animals, children’s activities, and more.
Indulge your interest in regional folk culture at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center’s Christmas on the Farm 2024: a celebration
of the holiday season and PA German Christmas traditions. Located on the historic Sharadin Farmstead at 22 Luckenbill Road, Kutztown, the event is free, fun, and educational for the whole family.
Enjoy some of the region’s finest in traditional music in the barnyard featuring local Berks County folk musicians Mike and Linda Hertzog, Dave Kline, and Keith Brintzenhoff. The Belsnickel will pay visits to the schoolhouse at 1:00 and 2:30, so be sure to be on your best behavior!
Traditional artisans from the Reading-Berks Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen will share their expertise in fine crafts in the historic log cabins on site, along with folklife demonstrators in woodworking, tin smithing, blacksmithing, and more throughout the farm.
Grab lunch at Mattie’s Strudel house and find a selection of sweet and savory strudels - perfect for lunch or dessert!
Visit the Sharadin farmhouse where Becky Manley will demonstrate open-hearth regional cookery in the kitchen featuring traditional Pennsylvania Dutch food. Stop by the summer kitchen to taste Terry Berger’s ox tongue cookies baked in a wood stove.
Children can explore autumn craft activities including wax-dipped Moravian stars and corn husk angels. Puddin Heartland’s extraordinary potbellied pigs will also delight visitors of all ages. Enjoy a hay ride around the farm, starting behind the barn.
Don’t forget to visit our new headquarters at the DeLight E. Breidegam Building to explore our featured exhibition “Carved from our Roots: Selected Works of Marshall D. Rumbaugh.”
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Easter on the Farm - TBA for 2025
Celebrate Pennsylvania German Easter traditions and the vibrant folk culture of the region at Easter on the Farm at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University, Easter on the Farm is a free, fun, and educational event for the whole family featuring folklife demonstrations, live musical performances by some of the region’s finest folk musicians, kid’s activities, animals, local folk artists, and our annual Easter egg hunts
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