What's going on in Berks

April

• April 4

  Reading Liederkranz Bockbier Fest

  Festival · Reading Liederkranz, Pennside (Lower Alsace Township) · Ticketed

  A German-American heritage celebration at the Reading Liederkranz club, built around the traditional spring Bockbier and a lighthearted goat parade.

• April 25

  West Reading Pretzel & Beer Festival

  Festival · Penn Avenue, West Reading · Free to attend

  A Penn Avenue street festival pairing regional breweries with soft pretzels, food vendors, and live music.

May

• May 7–9

  Apple Dumpling Festival

  Carnival · 94 Park Avenue, Sinking Spring · Free admission

  Sinking Spring's long-running community carnival, with rides, games, food, live music, a nightly pageant, and the namesake homemade apple dumplings.

• May 21–24 (to confirm) · to confirm

  Hamburg Family Festival

  Carnival · Etchberger Memorial Park, Hamburg · Free entry; ride tickets extra

  A Memorial Day-weekend carnival with amusement rides, food, and nightly entertainment.

• May 30

  Birdsboro Street Fair & Duck Derby

  Community · Mainbird Park, Birdsboro · Free

  A downtown street fair with vendors and food, capped by a charity rubber-duck race on the creek that benefits the Boone Area Library.

June

• June 3–6 (to confirm) · to confirm

  Womelsdorf Community Days Carnival

  Carnival · Womelsdorf Community Park · Free

  A fire-company carnival with a midway, homemade meals, and live music.

• June 20

  West Reading Art on the Avenue

  Festival · Penn Avenue, West Reading · Free

  West Reading's flagship outdoor arts festival: roughly 200 artists and makers across several blocks of Penn Avenue, with live music and food.

• June 20–21

  Pagoda Hillclimb

  Car show · Duryea Drive, Mount Penn · Free for spectators

  A timed SCCA sports-car hillclimb up the twisting road toward Reading’s Pagoda, run on Mount Penn since 1951.

• June 26–27 (to confirm) · to confirm

  Robesonia Carnival & Fireworks

  Carnival · Robesonia Fire Company · Free

  A community fire-company carnival capped with a fireworks display.

• June 26 – July 4

  Governor Mifflin Community Days

  Carnival · Governor Mifflin area (fireworks at Cumru Elementary) · Free entry

  A nine-day community carnival with rides and food, a parade (June 28), and a July 4 fireworks finale; proceeds support local fire, ambulance, and scouting groups.

July

• July 4–12

  Kutztown Folk Festival

  Festival · Kutztown Fairgrounds · Ticketed

  Billed as America’s oldest continuously running folk festival, a nine-day celebration of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) culture with traditional crafts, quilts, folklife demonstrations, music, and Pennsylvania German food.

• July 8–11

  The Berks County Fair

  Fair · 1216 Hilltop Road, Leesport · Free admission; $5 parking

  A classic county fair with a rodeo, tractor pulls, amusement rides, live music and entertainment, and fair food.

• July 11

  Deutsche Classic

  Car show · Oley Fairgrounds · Ticketed

  An all-German vintage automobile and motorcycle show with a swap meet, music, and food.

• July 14–18

  Fleetwood Community Carnival

  Carnival · Fleetwood Park · Free entry

  A five-day carnival with rides, games, homemade food, nightly entertainment, and Friday fireworks (July 17); proceeds are shared among the fire company, Lions, Rotary, and library.

August

• August 2

  Kutztown Day

  Community · Kutztown Park · Free

  A community celebration in Kutztown Park with civic groups, live music, games, food, and a fireworks finale.

• August 3–8

  Kutztown Fair

  Fair · Kutztown Fairgrounds · Ticketed

  A week-long community fair (its 155th in 2026) with agricultural exhibits, midway rides and games, live entertainment, circus acts, dirt-track racing, and fair food.

• August 15–16

  Duryea Hillclimb

  Car show · Skyline Drive, Mount Penn · Free for spectators

  An SCCA hillclimb run over the longer Duryea/Skyline course on Mount Penn.

• August 22 & 29

  Movie at the A-Field

  Community · Antietam Valley A-Field, Pennside · Free

  Free outdoor community movie nights on the Antietam Valley recreation field.

September

• September 5

  Taste of Hamburg-er Festival

  Festival · Downtown Hamburg · Free

  A one-day festival built around the hamburger: dozens of vendors over several blocks, four music stages, a burger-eating contest, and beer and wine gardens.

• September 5

  Duryea Day Antique & Classic Car Show

  Car show · Boyertown Community Park · $10 adults; free under 12

  The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles’ antique and classic car show and flea market, honoring automotive pioneer Charles Duryea.

• September 17–19

  Oley Valley Community Fair

  Fair · Oley Fire Company Fairgrounds · Ticketed

  A three-day community fair (its 79th in 2026) with agricultural and homemaking exhibits, contests, amusement rides, entertainment, and food.

• September 19 (to confirm) · to confirm

  Fall Fest on Main (Kutztown)

  Festival · West Main Street, Kutztown · Free

  A downtown Kutztown fall street festival with vendors, food trucks, crafts, and live entertainment.

October

• Early October (to confirm) · to confirm

  South Heidelberg Fall Festival

  Festival · South Mountain Park, Wernersville · Free

  A free township fall festival at South Mountain Park.

• Late October (to confirm) · to confirm

  Boyertown Halloween Parade

  Parade · Downtown Boyertown · Free

  A long-running community Halloween parade through downtown Boyertown.

November

• November 7 – January 2

  Koziar's Christmas Village

  Holiday · 782 Christmas Village Road, Bernville · Ticketed (ages 4–10 $11, 11–64 $13)

  The walk-through display of vintage Christmas lights and eleven decorated buildings near Bernville that has drawn visitors for generations; often called "Bernville’s Christmas Village."

December

• December 5

  Chillin' on Main

  Holiday · Downtown Boyertown · Free

  A downtown Boyertown holiday celebration.

• Early December (to confirm) · to confirm

  South Heidelberg Tree Lighting

  Holiday · South Mountain Park, Wernersville · Free

  A community holiday tree lighting at South Mountain Park.

Weekly & seasonal

Recurring markets and concert series that run through the season rather than on a single date.

• Wednesdays, year-round (monthly Sunday flea market)

  Leesport Farmers Market

  Market · 312 Gernants Church Road, Leesport · Free entry

  A long-running weekly market with produce, food, and goods every Wednesday, plus a farmers and flea market on the first Sunday of each month.

• Sundays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (in season)

  West Reading Farmers' Market

  Market · West Reading Park & Pavilion · Free

  A Sunday-morning outdoor farmers market.

• 1st & 3rd Thursdays, June–September, 4–8 p.m.

  Boyertown Farmers' Market

  Market · 129 S. Reading Avenue, Boyertown · Free

  A downtown evening market with growers, artisans, a featured food truck, and live entertainment.

• Select Mondays, July–September, 5–7 p.m.

  Antietam Valley Farmers & Artists Market

  Market · Antietam Valley Rec Center, Pennside · Free

  An evening farmers and artists market on select Monday evenings.

• Friday evenings, summer, 6 p.m.

  Muhlenberg Township Summer Concert Series

  Concert · Jim Dietrich Park, Muhlenberg Township · Free

  Free Friday-evening concerts on the riverside lawn of the Jim Dietrich Park farmhouse, with food vendors and the Schuylkill River as the backdrop.

• Sunday evenings, late spring, 6 p.m.

  Fleetwood Park Sunday Concert Series

  Concert · Fleetwood Park · Free

  Free Sunday-evening concerts in Fleetwood Park.

• First Fridays, summer, 5–9 p.m.

  Reading First Friday Block Parties

  Community · 600 block of Penn Street, Reading · Free

  Monthly summer street parties downtown with live music, DJs, vendors, and kids’ activities, alongside GoggleWorks’ Thorn Alley concerts the same evening.

• Second Fridays, May–October, evenings · to confirm

  West Reading 2nd Friday on Penn Ave

  Community · Penn Avenue, West Reading · Free

  A monthly evening celebration of West Reading’s independent shops and restaurants with live music.

• Summer evenings (2026 dates to be posted) · to confirm

  Wyomissing Summer Concert Series

  Concert · Wyomissing parks · Free

  Free outdoor community concerts presented by the borough.

• Summer (2026 dates to be posted) · to confirm

  Spring Township Creekside Concert Series

  Concert · Spring Township parks · Free

  A township summer concert series, part of Spring Township’s Parks & Recreation events.