{"id":365409,"date":"2026-08-07T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365409\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:24:08","slug":"happening-this-weekend-events-happening-around-the-big-bend-and-south-georgia-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365409\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND: Events happening around the Big Bend and South Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 We&#8217;ll have<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/weather\/first-to-know-forecast-scattered-weekend-showers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> scattered showers<\/a> throughout this weekend, with the bulk of it being in the afternoon, so morning plans should be safe. Below are some events happening around the Big Bend and South Georgia, Friday, August 7th through Sunday, August 9th.<\/p>\n<p>    Big Bend:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.railroadsquare.org\/first-fridays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Friday at Railroad Square:<\/a>\u00a0August 7th frohttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/824986580203671m 6:00-9:00 p.m. Come out and explore Railroad Square\u2019s vibrant art scene, live music, food trucks, vendors, and more.<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1742949949750665\/1742950039750656\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22extra_data%22%3A%22%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%7D%2C%7B%22extra_data%22%3A%22%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tallahassee Farmers Market: <\/a>August 8th from 8:00 a.m.-Noon off Kerry Forest Pkwy. Fresh produce, meats, baked goods, specialty beverages, jellies, jams, and pickled goods will be available. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tlhdowntown.com\/downtownmarket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Market in Tallahassee: <\/a>August 8th from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Ponce De Leon Park. There will be dozens of local artists, craft vendors, and food trucks.<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1069024478980008\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLAST Welcome Back Teachers:<\/a> August 8th from 11:00 a.m-1:00 p.m. at the Challenger Learning Center. Teachers are invited out to enjoy movies, prizes, resources, and more. Just bring your teacher ID.<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tlhbeerfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tallahassee Beer Festival: <\/a>August 8th beginning at 2:00 p.m. at Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. Tickets are available with all net proceeds benefiting United Partners for Human Services.<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1348265503191777\/1348265529858441\/?event_time_id=1348265529858441\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storytime Under the Stars: <\/a>August 9th from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at the Challenger Learning Center. A live narrator will be reading selected picture books with pages projected onto the Planetarium dome. Admission is free.<br \/>\n    South Georgia:<\/p>\n<p>*** There are several Back-to-School events also happening this weekend. Find those details <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/local-news\/2026-back-to-school-season-big-bend-and-south-georgia-events-giveaways-and-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 We&#8217;ll have scattered showers throughout this weekend, with the bulk of it being in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,509,511,232,234,233,1916,562],"class_list":["post-365409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-big-bend","tag-south-georgia","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-weekend-happenings","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}