The annual Decatur Wine Festival, metro Atlanta’s largest outdoor wine festival, is held on the square in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Proceeds benefit the Decatur Arts Alliance, which produces the Decatur Arts Festival and many other arts events, free to the community each year.

Tickets are $32 and may be purchased in advance only at www.ticketalternative.com. A limited number are available in advance at Decatur Package Store. The Decatur CD store is a ticketalternative.com outlet.
For more information, visit  decaturwinefestival.com

To purchase tickets, visit http: www.ticketalternative.com

From The Decatur Art Alliance

New this year, Decatur galleries, shops and restaurants kick off the Decatur Wine Festival with a Friday evening ArtWalk. This single-night art experience, which is free and open to the public, features openings and receptions citywide. Visit each participating local businesses to view art of all kinds, meet artists, and enjoy complimentary food and beverages.

More than 100 of the finest local, American and international beers are showcased at this annual event sponsored by area distributors and Decatur’s restaurants and pubs. Enjoy live music on the Community Bandstand and food from local restaurants available for sale.

Decatur Focus

Wednesday, Sept. 22, is Car-Free Day in Decatur and the community is invited to gather at the Community Bandstand during the Blue Sky Concert (noon-1p.m.) for a special celebration. Decatur Active Living will issue Car-Free Day stickers to those who walk, bike or carpool
to the concert.

If you would like to participate, make a commitment to reduce your automobile use on Sept. 22. That might mean riding a bike to work, walking to the store, walking to the Blue Sky Concert, sharing a ride with friends, neighbors or co-workers or riding the bus.

Car-Free Day aims to reduce excessive automobile use for one day out of the year, and remind the community that the car is not the only or best way to make many kinds of trips. Most trips people take are less than three miles. Walking saves gas and contributes to
your health.

The Decatur Garden Tour is Saturday, Sept. 25, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 26, noon-5 p.m.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the original township of Oakhurst, many of the featured gardens are located in that area. Tour stops include the Oakhurst Community Garden Project (OCGP), a national model for successful community gardens; the residential garden of Stephanie Van Parys, OCGP executive director; and the famed “garden rooms” of designer and author Ryan Gainey.

Other gardens on the tour feature creative design, historic elements, unexpected
plant combinations and specimens, unique hardscaping and idyllic outdoor living spaces, serene water features and/or sustainable gardening techniques. Several gardens will be open Saturday evening to be enjoyed with wine and music.

Tickets are $20 in advance, online at www.decaturgardentour.com or at these
Decatur retailers:
Intown Ace Hardware
Smith Ace Hardware
The Seventeen Steps.

Tickets are $25 the day of the tour and will be sold at the Oakhurst Community Garden, 435 Oakview Rd., and at Ryan Gainey’s garden, 129 Emerson Ave.

Proceeds of the tour will benefit the Decatur Preservation Alliance and the Oakhurst Community Garden.

For additional information, visit www.decaturgardentour.com.
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Come and enjoy hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and live entertainment by Pioneer Chick’n Stand Band as you work your way around the businesses located in and around the 431 building.
Door prizes and other giveaways will include yoga and pilates classes by Decatur Yoga and Pilates and About Movement Pilates Studio; personal training and boot camp sessions by Total Fitness Control; massage gift certificates, bio-energetic health assessments, and thermography imaging consultations by Tuscan Sun Massage and Wellness Center; gift certificates from Feather Baby and giveaways from Dancing Goats, Fleet Feet and Twist ’n’ Scoot.

Rain location onsite at The Solarium
404-370-0888

FREE FOR ALL TO ENJOY!

321 West Hill St, Decatur, GA 30030

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The entries will be on view 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, just west of the Old Courthouse Square in downtown Decatur.

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