STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (WTAJ) — Happy Valley Adventure Bureau President and CEO Fritz Smith led a Zoom news conference Friday at which organizers of Central PA 4th Fest, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, People’s Choice Festival, and Philipsburg Heritage Days, announced the mutual decision to cancel their respective events as a result of lingering COVID-19 impacts and concerns.
This will be the first time in the event’s 54-year history that the Festival of Arts will not take place in July.
Organizers – who agreed early on to make the decision as a group – said the logistics of continued planning within a fluid environment, along with uncertainties about the status of large group gatherings by mid-summer were the driving factors behind the decisions.
Festival staff will turn their attention to presenting artists and musicians in a “virtual festival” in early July. As events for the “virtual festival” are scheduled, they will be listed on the Festival’s website.
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