09/13/2025
🎉✨ Lake Street LawnFest 2025 is TODAY! ✨🎉
From 12–3 PM on Lake Street in Elmira, come celebrate the incredible nonprofit community that makes Chemung County such a wonderful place to live, work, and visit.
What to Expect:
➡️ Activities, food, live music, art, and more all along Lake Street
➡️ A chance to connect with more than 20 local nonprofits sharing their missions, including:
Elmira Tea & Coffee House/Capabilities, Inc. • Catholic Charities of Chemung/Schuyler Counties • Eldridge Park • Clemens Center • Friends of Elmira Civil War Prison Camp • Wings of Eagles Discovery Center • Friends of the Chemung River Watershed, Inc.. • Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum • Youth Mentoring of the Southern Tier / Family Service Society • Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chemung County • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Chemung County Library District • League of Women Voters of Steuben and Chemung • Glove House Family and Children's Services • Chemung County Health Department • Chemung County Youth Bureau • Runway for a Cause • John W. Jones Museum
✨ Special programming made possible by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and New York State Council on the Arts:
• Performance by 607 Unity Dance Unlimited
• Chemung County–themed Street Painting
• Discover Chemung County, NY Community Mural (help us paint!)
• Performance by Top Shelf
• Finn Academy: An Elmira Charter School’s Inspirational Hopscotch Path & Yoga Poses Trail
🌟 Don’t Miss the Parade!
We’ll be marching right down Lake Street — and you don’t want to miss it! 🎶🚶♀️ See the entertainment schedule below for specific times for all bands, performances, and the parade.
🌟 Our Founding Partners
This event was created by nine local nonprofits working together to celebrate our community:
Elmira Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. • Finn Academy: An Elmira Charter School • The Salvation Army, Elmira Citadel • Community Arts of Elmira • Meals on Wheels of Chemung County • Discover Chemung County, NY • Arnot Art Museum • YWCA Elmira and the Twin Tiers • Chemung County Historical Society.
🙌 Thank You to Our Sponsors
The Hilliard Corporation • The Dunn Group • Cook Painting • Wallin Insurance • F.M. Howell & Company • Southerntier Custom Fabricators • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 139 • MMB + CO • The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes • New York State Council on the Arts
📍 Join us TODAY between 12–3 PM on Lake Street and help celebrate the nonprofits that make Chemung County shine. We can’t wait to see you there!
