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OC Pride: Revolutionary Festival at the OC Fair and Event Center
September 27: March, dance, and celebrate unity with activities, speakers, and shows at OC Pride in Costa Mesa.
626 Night Market at OC Fair and Event Center
September 5-7: Enjoy 200+ food, merchandise, crafts, artists, games, live concerts, and entertainment attractions.
OC Fair “Find Your Happy”
July 18 – August 17: Carnival rides, fair food, animals, exhibits, and a special Read & Ride deal for kids who complete three books!
Repticon at OC Fair & Event Center
May 31 - June 1: See reptile vendors, live animal seminars, free raffles, and more. Exciting, educational, family-oriented fun for everyone!
Scottish Fest at OC Fair & Event Center
May 24-25: Explore and enjoy two packed days of family fun with bagpipes, drums, highland dancing, Scottish clans and genealogy, Scottish athletics, shopping, food and so much more!
Imaginology at OC Fair & Event Center
April 12-13: Imaginology is a free family event that focuses on STEAM education featuring unique experiences for all ages including makeshops, demonstrations, competitions, hands-on activities and entertainment, as well as food and fun.
OC Japan Fair
April 4-6: Celebrate one of the largest Japanese cultural festivals in Southern California. Enjoy shopping, tasting, and learning about Japanese culture.
Pacific Coast Sportfishing Show
March 6-9: Sportfishing show with 7 halls of fresh/salt water fish tackle, boats, travel, and more. Activities for kids include, trout fishing ponds, wildlife education, interactive activities, fish printing, and get up close to critters and reptiles.
World’s Greatest Hobby on Tour in Costa Mesa
February 15-16: Ride a Thomas the Tank Engine train, explore model railroads, and learn from industry experts at this interactive train show! Children under 16 are free.
Brick Convention: LEGO Fan Event at the OC Fair & Event Center
JANUARY 11-12: Enjoy a day filled with everything LEGO! The event features building areas, hundreds of displays, professional LEGO® artists and vendors offering new/rare/exclusive sets.
Winter Fest OC at OC Fair and Event Center
NOVEMBER 22 - JANUARY 5: Winter Fest OC is a celebration that brings the magic of winter to Southern California. Over a million lights, holiday decor, and activities, including a thrilling 150-foot ice tubing slide, ice skating, snow play area, carnival fun, festive food, and more.
Art of Service – Veterans Day Celebration in OC Fair and Event Center
NOVEMBER 9: The celebration includes swing dancing and musical performances, arts & crafts, a cookie decorating contest, opportunities to connect with local veterans’ organizations, free hot dogs and drinks, and more!
OC Pride Parade & Festival
OCTOBER 5: Join in for a day filled with love, acceptance, and celebration. Enjoy live music, drag performances, community zones, art, workshops and more! Kids Zone includes soccer inflatable, hair color station, festival games, drag story-time, and temporary tattoos.
Seasonal Adventures Pumpkin Patch at OC Fairgrounds
SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 31: Visit the OC Fair & Event Center for a pumpkin patch featuring kiddy rides, petting zoo, inflatable slides, bounce house, and obstacle course.
OC Fair in Costa Mesa
JULY 19 - AUGUST 18: The OC Fair is excited to welcome you back to "Always a Good Time”! Get up close with animals in the petting zoo, check out exhibits, go shopping, and enjoy local groups performing on community stages.
Central Valley Pet & Reptile Expo at OC Fair & Event Center
APRIL 6-7: Enjoy a day of exotic reptiles including lizards, snakes, arachnids, frogs, and more. Vendors will be displaying some of these animals and providing information about them.
New Year’s Eve at Winter Fest OC
DECEMBER 31: Ring in the new year with a special countdown, confetti canons, live performances, and all of the winter festivities offered with general admission at Winter Fest OC.
Repticon at OC Fair and Event Center
NOVEMBER 11-12: Repticon is coming to Costa Mesa with a mixture of vendors and breeders. Guests can shop for a new family pet among the hundreds of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, arachnids, and small exotic animals.
Maker Faire Orange County
OCTOBER 21: Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (an Tell) on Earth — a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies, experiments and projects.
OC Pet & Reptile Expo
MARCH 25-26: Family-friendly pet event featuring adoptable dogs and cats, vendors, and reptiles.
Bubble Run in OC
MARCH 25: Be showered with colorful, fluffy, foam, as you navigate through four colorful bubble cannon stations. Walk, run, and dance your way through this family-friendly 3-mile course.
Jurassic Quest in Costa Mesa
JANUARY 14-16: Visit one of the largest and most realistic dinosaur event. Walk through different time periods and experience what it was like living with dinosaurs.
Winter Fest OC at OC Fair and Event Center
SELECT DATES, NOVEMBER 25 - JANUARY 1: Winter Fest OC transforms the OC Fair and Event Center into a winter wonderland with oversized holiday decor, more than a million lights, and endless opportunities for memory-making. Activities include North Pole Journey, ice skating under the stars, 150-foot-long ice tubing slide, snowboard simulator, carnival thrills, food and drinks, holiday market, photo ops., and so much more!
New Year’s Celebration at Winter Fest OC
DECEMBER 31: Celebrate the new year not once, but twice with a special countdown, dazzling firework show, snow flurries and confetti cannons at both 6pm and midnight.
Bubble Run at OC Fair & Event Center
SATURDAY, APRIL 16: Participants run, walk, dance and play across 3 miles of rad real estate. Foam Bogs of colored suds are encountered along the course, bringing back memories of car washes and bathtub bubble beards.
Pacific Symphony Performs Toy Story in Concert
AUGUST 21: Live music is back in Orange County! Pacific Symphony returns to Pacific Amphitheatre at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa for the West Coast premiere of Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story” in Concert—Live with Orchestra.
Time for Fun at the OC Fair
JULY 16 - AUGUST 15: It’s Time for Fun!! The OC Fair will be held Wednesdays - Sundays with advance purchase of tickets only!
Flying Miz Daisy Outdoor Vintage Market at OC Fair & Event Center
SATURDAY, ARPIL 10: Shop Orange County’s premier Outdoor Vintage Market featuring more than 150 vendors offering vintage, antique, repurposed, European, farmhouse, industrial and hand-crafted artisan goods.
Urban Legends Drive-Thru Haunt – OC Fair & Event Center
Wednesday - Sundays, October 1 - November 1: Guests will be entertained by live performances throughout their drive, plus experience four interactive show zones with an immersive show of lights, sound, special effects and monsters that will come alive.
Fair Food Drive-Thru with OC Fair
THROUGH OCTOBER 25: The Fair Food Drive-Thru will offer treats from food vendors bringing a taste of the OC Fair to go.
UVSA Tet Festival in Costa Mesa
Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán, is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of a new spring where families reunite, enjoy each other’s company, forget about the troubles of the previous year and look forward to a better upcoming year.
NYE at Winter Fest OC in Costa Mesa
December 31: Ring in the New Year not once, but twice, with a special countdown, Orange Ball drop, fireworks and an unforgettable balloon drop at both 6pm and midnight. Multiple live bands will be playing to commemorate the end of the year, and the start of a new one.
Christmas Eve at the OC Market Place
Santa and his Reindeer will fly over the fairgrounds for the last time this year before heading to your home and then back to the North Pole for a much needed rest. Enjoy a holiday parade, tree lighting, fireworks and snow flurries.
TUBACHRISTMAS in Costa Mesa
Listen to traditional Christmas songs played by seasoned tuba players of all ages, arriving from throughout the Southland for this annual event.
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