Celebrating the Sea, Uniting Our Shores
Time | Event | Location |
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3:30 p.m. | Official Welcoming Ceremony. | New London Waterfront Park |
7:00 pm – 9:00 p.m. | Festival Kick-Off- Live Music by Unanchored – Come meet the Captains and Crews | City Dock Restaurant/Oyster Bar, Customs House Pier |
Time. | Event | Location |
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10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Ships/Fishing vessels available for tours. Includes U.S. Coast Guard vessels, U.S. Navy boats, US Merchant Marines Kingspointer , Replica of Dutch Explorer Adriaen Block’s Onrust, Top Sail Schooner Amistad, local fishing vessel (40′) and more. | City and Customs House Piers |
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Booths/Activities on the Waterfront Includes Coast Guard Auxiliary Exhibits, Children’s Activities, Vendors |
NL Waterfront Park |
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | New London Maritime Society Custom House Museum | 150 Bank Street |
10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Food Trucks | NL Waterfront Park |
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Kids Events hosted by New London Youth Affairs, Niantic Children’s Museum and Mystic Seaport’s Education Program. Hands on children’s activities and maritime themed children’s books for free for children to take home. | New London Waterfront Park |
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Mystic Seaport Sailor Skills Stations – Build a toy boat! – Children and adults alike can try their hand at building their very own toy boat souvenir. Ropemaking – Visitors will have a chance to make rope using a replica of a traditional 19th century ropejack and learn about the importance of rope manufacturing in New England for the maritime world. Knot-tying and lanyards – Visitors will have the opportunity to learn how to tie a variety of common knots used on land and at sea, such as a square knot, bowline, and clove hitch, and make their own lanyards to take home. | City Pier |
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | On-water Sailing Opportunities – New England Science and Sailing | City Pier |
10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. | Project Oceanology Touch Tank | City Pier |
11:00 a.m. – 12:00p.m. | Steve Elci and Friends- Children Music Performance Saturday, September 10th at 11 am Steve Elci writes and performs world-class music for kids – up there with Raffi, Laurie Berkner, Trout Fishing in America, Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants. “Imagination Nation.” The lyrics and images are as evocative as they are educational and, as Mom and Dad will quickly learn, the tunes are so buoyantly hooky that they appeal just as much to the older folks as the youngsters.” – Rick Koster The Day Paper, CT |
NL Waterfront |
11:00p.m. – 5:00 pm | Water Taxi available to Fort Trumbull for USCG Eagle Tours | City Pier |
1:00 p.m. | U.S. Coast Guard SAR (Search and Rescue) Demonstration with Helicopter at NL Waterfront (pending operational needs) | City Pier |
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Mermaids and Sea Monsters Parade | Bank Street to City Pier |
2:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Beer Trucks/Tents | NL Waterfront Park |
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Color of Rhythm | Entertainment Tent |
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Sea Shanties with Marc Bernier | Entertainment Tent |
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Live Music by the Hoolios | Entertainment Tent |
7:30 p.m. | Flock Theater “March of the Traitor” begins at Shaw Mansion to NL Waterfront | NL Waterfront Park |
8:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. | “Burning of Benedict Arnold in Effigy” – Flock Theater arrives at City Pier, burning done at Children’s Discovery Pier | City Pier/ Discovery Pier |
Time | Event | Location |
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8:30 a.m.- 9:45 a.m. |
Memorial 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony Led by U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard | Various Locations |
10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. | Maritime Skills Challenge Events, Navy vs. USCG Teams | NL Waterfront Park |
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Ships and Fishing vessels available for tours | City and Customs House Piers |
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Kids Events (hosted by New London Youth Affairs and Niantic Children’s Museum) Hands on children’s activities and maritime themed children’s books for free for children to take home. | NL Waterfront Park |
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Creative Dance with L’ana Burton- Children’s Interactive creative dance –Sunday, September 11th at 11 am L’Ana is a leading Dance Artist in Residence for The State of Connecticut, offering in-school programs which integrate DANCE into curricula areas. She is a member of The HOTS (Higher Order of Thinking) team of artists that uses ARTS INTEGRATION across the curriculum in public schools throughout the state. She has taught in over 50 public elementary schools over the last ten years. | Entertainment Tent |
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Project Oceanology Touch Tank | City Pier |
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | DEEP Fisheries Division Family Fishing Clinic with tons of fishing related giveaways! | New London Fishing Pier |
11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Water Taxi available to Fort Trumbull for USCG Eagle Tours | City Pier |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Sgott McKenzie reads his children’s book The Giant Squid and the SeaGull
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Reading Tent |
11:30 a.m. – 5:00p.m. | Food Trucks/Vendor Booths | NL Waterfront Park |
12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Beer truck/tents | NL Waterfront Park |
12:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m | New London Maritime Society Custom House Museum | 150 Bank St |
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Lighthouse Puppet Show by Arm of the Sea Theater
The New London Maritime Society is happy to bring the Arm-of-the-Sea Theater’s production of KEEP THAT LAMP TRIMMED ‘N BURNING to the CT Maritime Heritage Festival on Sunday, September 11 at 2 PM, at the Hygienic Art Park! It’s FREE & fun. KEEP THAT LAMP TRIMMED N BURNING is an original theater production featuring live music and larger-than-life mask and puppet characters in a historical drama about the 1869 Hudson River Lighthouse at Saugerties and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. This family-friendly performance is FREE and sponsored by the New London Cultural District at Hygienic Park. |
Hygienic Art Park |
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Live Music by the Franklin Brothers | Entertainment Tent |
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Live music with Darik & The Funbags | Entertainment Tent |
3:30 p.m. | New London Maritime Society uses water taxi to bring up to 30 passengers to Ledge Light. The $5 tickets for NL school children & parents. See Thames River Water Taxi for more information. | City Pier |
Transportation
- Water Taxi available between New London Waterfront Park and Fort Trumbull State Park