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Virtual Firefly Festival
June 27, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The 8th Annual PA Firefly Festival will be presented as the Virtual Stay-at-Home PA Firefly Festival.
This will allow people to still celebrate the joy of the firefly season as the Firefly Festival organization continues to educate the public. Firefly experts and artists will participate in a virtual by submitting photos, videos and slide show presentations that will appear at this website and on the PAFF YouTube Channel, Instagram and/or Facebook pages on June 27.
The public can also participate in the science of fireflies by becoming a “Firefly Watcher” on the Firefly Watch Citizen Science Project at the Massachusetts Audubon website. Information collected will add to the worldwide database and help to advance the science of fireflies. The virtual Art After Dark sponsored by the Elk County Council of the Arts and Pennsylvania Partners of Art will feature a presentation by the United Nations Ambassador of Art, Ibiyinka Alao; world-renowned photographer Radim Schreiber; and original music by troubadour, Matt Miskie.
