Register Here For Our Annual Chili Cookoff

Our October First Friday, this year Oct. 4, is traditionally a celebration of the fall season — and what welcomes chilly weather with a hot bowl of chili? Better yet, a chili-cooking contest!

If you're hot to let the world know how great your personal recipe is, here's your chance. Click the button below to get to our easy online entry form, and you're done. But hurry — entries are limited.

Good luck,and good eating!
Vendor registration is filled for the season! For waiting list informatoin, email [email protected].

Fly, Lansdale, Fly, To First Friday Sept. 6!

This is our year — we just know it.

OK, so we say that pretty much every year, don’t rub it in. But you gotta start the sports season with optimism, and what better place than the Philly Sports-themed First Friday on Sept. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. Whether or not you’re a fan — and whatever teams you might cheer for — the September First Friday is your jawn.

And even if you’re not a sports fan, First Friday will keep you entertained, with amusements for kids, refreshments for all ages, great food, balloons, face painting and music with DJ Evans Entertainment and Juicy with Brianna Taylor on our main stage.

Since the August First Friday was canceled due to inclement weather, the September FF will feature two drawings for gift baskets worth more than $300 each for the Discover Lansdale Passport Program. If you don't yet have your passport, hurry because time is fading fast. Pick one up at the Discover Lansdale table or at the Chamber of Commerce office on Madison St.

Then collect stamps by shopping, dining, and playing at participating borough businesses; when you’ve collected eight stamps, turn it in at the next First Friday.
 
All your favorite features return to First Friday’s new location and layout along Madison Street:
  • The Photo Scavenger Hunt: this month sponsored by Lashes by Lindsey
  • Live on the Main Stage: Juicy Featuring Brianna Taylor.  
  • DJ at Railroad Plaza: Evans Entertainment
  • Food Vendors: Fiesta Churros, Sweet Thangs, Beach Beans Coffee Co., Moshava, Meat Wagon BBQ, Tot Rod, Rocco's, Clean Plate Club, Scratch Kitchen and more, including your local favorites.
  • In the Beer Garden: Well Crafted Beer, Ten7 Brewing, Local Tap / Favorite Child, Simple Days Beer, von C Brewing, Boardroom Spirits, Round Guys Brewing Company and Stove & Tap
  • Kids Zone: Baseball Moon Bounce, Giant Dual Slide, Shooting Stars, First Down
  • Entertainment: Face-painting by Josep and Morgan, balloons by Myers Designs
  • Free Valet Bicycle Parking at Main and Madison, courtesy Bike North Penn. Find more information by clicking here.
  • Dunk Tank featuring Lansdale Mayor Garry Herbert!
  • Plus about three dozen vendor tables along Madison and Wood Streets.
 
Discover Lansdale is grateful to our First Friday sponsors for 2024:  
Themes for the rest of the 2024 First Friday season:
  • October 4: Oktoberfest/Chili Cookoff; the annual tasty competition kicks off a weekend-long Oktoberfest celebration in the Borough culminating in Discover Lansdale’s popular annual Zer0.5K and Oktoberfest Sunday, Oct. 6. Chili cookoff registration is limited; click here for registration form.
  • November 1: Zombie Walk; stagger down Main with hundreds of your fellow Undead.

Music booked for the rest of the First Friday season (subject to change):
Participants in the Passport Program include Round Guys Brewing, Main Street Pizzeria, Pinnacle Ridge Winery, Oddy Knocks Tattoo, Modern Male Barber Academy, Chef Chipper/AAA Catering, Kub Kao, Comic Zen, Retroware Arcade/Classic Game Junkie, 365 Foundation, Hair N'Abstract, The Black Reserve Bookstore, The Hair Lounge, Arnold's Way, La Radiance O.N.E. Salon, Scent & Sip, Escapopolis, Stove & Tap, Anointed Expressions, Well Crafted Beer, El Limon Restaurant, and Philly Pretzel Factory.
 
GENERAL INFORMATION
 
First Fridays begin at 6 p.m. and end promptly at 9 p.m. Road closures include Madison Street from Main to Wood Streets — cars parked in that portion of the Madison lot will be towed.
 
Parking is available at Lansdale’s West Main Street, Walnut Street and Vine Street Lots as well as on-street parking. SEPTA is reinstituting fees for parking in the surface lot as well as the 680-spot SEPTA Parking Garage in September; check SEPTA for dates.

When inclement weather threatens, a decision will be announced by 1 p.m. Friday regarding whether the event will be held. First Fridays have no rain dates. For additional information, visit Discover Lansdale’s First Friday webpage and Facebook page. Questions, email [email protected].
 

Our 2024 FF Platinum Sponsors

Thank you for supporting Discover Lansdale's mission!

2024 Gold Sponsors

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