Shellabration

Come celebrate oysters along the river in Downtown Hampton! This family-friendly festival includes interactive exhibits, demonstrations, entertainment, face painter and door prizes! Enjoy live music by Hard Times Band! Come meet an oyster farmer! See marine critters! Learn how to select, prepare, and cook oysters! Experience an oyster garden and more! Pick up an oyster treasure map to find oysteriffic merchandise and menu specials offered by Downtown Hampton businesses!

Participating Businesses:

• The Landing Hotel/Copper Barley Restaurant

• Pour Girls (oyster menu item)

• Stillwater Tavern (oyster roast)

• Benton Knight (pending delivery of oyster belt)

• Hampton Stationary

• Mint Julep

• The Virginia Store

• Hampton History Museum

• Cricket at 40 Wine

• Blue Skies Gallery

• Gray Goose

• BIBCO

• Hampton Harbor Tours/”Hampton Queen”

Exhibitors:

• Shored Up

• Chesapeake Bay Foundation

• Downtown Hampton Development Partnership

• Hampton City School Oyster Restoration Program

• Hampton History Museum

• Virginia Institute of Marine Science

• Hampton Roads Sanitation District

• Hampton University

• Resilient Hampton

• Virginia Tech Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center

• Ragged Island Oyster Company

• Bull Island Brewing

• The Landing Hotel (offering oysters from Big Island Oyster Company)

Mini-Experiences:

• “Shuck-n-Share”

• Oyster Gardening Demo

• What’s Cookin’?—a culinary primer of selecting, shucking and preparing oysters at home.

• Children’s Story Time

• Hampton University Treasure Hunt

• Chesapeake Bay Cocktail Mixology class

• Special Oyster Tour narrated by Chesapeake Bay Foundation staff
  

Parking: Available in The Landing Garage and in area lots.

Note: if we have inclement weather, event will be cancelled.