*2024 Community Events
*Please direct any questions or concerns to The Mathews County Visitors Center
(804) 725-4229
FEBRUARY
2/10: Rotary Chili Cook-off
2/16: Movie Night at the Museum: The Loving Story
2/21: Mathews Land Conservancy Lecture Series
2/22: Mathews Library & MCHS Present a Publisher & Politician Responds to Brown v. Board of Education
2/25: Ebenezer Baptist Choir at Cobbs Creek Art Center
2/29: Mathews Library: “What the Eyes Can’t See
MARCH
3/3: Concerts by the Bay: The Suits
3/7: Gwynn’s Island Civic League Dine to Donate
3/13: Bay School Wine Dinner at White Dog- Irish Culinary Experience
3/29: Gwynn’s Island Museum opens for season (Fri-Sun)
3/29: Ruritan Good “Fry” Day Fish Fry
3/30: Easter Egg Hunt
APRIL
Farmers Market begins.
Tompkins Cottage Museum opens for season (Saturdays)
4/13: Spring Community Litter Cleanup
4/14: Concerts by the Bay: The Rice Brothers
4/20: Markets on Main
4/20-21: Gloucester-Mathews Garden Week (no homes in Mathews this year)
4/20: Bay School Family Art Festival & Raku Firing Event
4/26: Party at the Wharf Summer Series
4/27: Bay School Art Speaks Juried Exhibition
4/27: Gwynn’s Island Race
MAY
Maritime Museum opens for season (Fri-Sat)
5/3: Main Street Night Market?
5/3-5: The Court House Players: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
5/4: May Faire: A Rural Life
5/17: Main Street Night Market?
5/18: Ruritan Great Big Flea Market and Yard Sale
5/18: Tour de Chesapeake
5/18: Party at the Wharf TDC Summer Series (free)
5/18: Markets on Main/ Art de Tour
5/18: Mathews Outdoor Club’s Kickball Tournament (tentative)
5/23: Flags for Heroes begins
JUNE
Riverball
MHS Graduation
6/1: Party with a Purpose
6/4: Mathews Paint Out (w/ Gloucester Arts Fest)
6/15: Micro-Triathlon #1
6/15: Markets on Main
6/19: Mathews Land Conservancy Lecture Series
6/22: MVFD 1st Annual Boat Docking Contest
6/28: Gwynn’s Island Chicken Dinner
6/28: Party at the Wharf Summer Series
6/29: Islander Regatta
6/29: Gwynn’s Island Festival
JULY
Fireworks Show @ MHS
7/18: Bay School Wine Tasting
7/19: Party at the Wharf Summer Series
7/20: Micro-Triathlon #2
7/20: Markets on Main
AUGUST
8/2-4: The Court House Players: The Hallelujah Girls
8/17: Markets on Main
8/17: Wharf to Wharf Swim
8/17: Bay School Kids’ Art Walk & Ice Cream Social
SEPTEMBER
Seafood Festival?
9/6: Party at the Wharf Summer Series
9/7: Main Street Night Market?
9/7-8: Mathews Market Days?
9/18: Mathews Land Conservancy Lecture Series
9/28: Bay School Gala Art Auction
OCTOBER
Farmers Market ends
Tompkins Cottage Museum closes for season
Autumn on Main/ Vintage Market?
Homecoming Parade?
10/4: Party at the Wharf Summer Series
10/11: Music on Maple
10/11: Ruritan Fish Fry
10/12: Rotary Oyster Roast
10/19: Mathews Marathon
10/26: Main Street Trick or Treat
10/31: Bay School Halloween Party
NOVEMBER
Maritime Museum closes for season
Holiday Farmers Market?
100x100 Gallery Show
Community Cleanup
11/2: Fall Community Litter Cleanup
11/3: Gwynn’s Island Museum closes for season
11/13: Bay School Wine Dinner at White Dog (tentative)
11/13: Mathews Land Conservancy Lecture Series
11/15-17: The Court House Players: Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
11/29-12/1: Made in Mathews Open Studio Tour
DECEMBER
12/7-8: Made in Mathews Open Studio Tour
12/8: Empty Bowls
12/13-14: MHM Christmas Bazaar
12/13: Main Street Night Market
12/14: Christmas Parade
12/14: Holiday Farmers Market
12/14: MHM Christmas Bazaar?
12/14-15: Rotary Rockfish Tournament
