Primary Media Contact: Holly Walker, Director of Communications and Public Relations, 804-594-1530

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CHESTER and MIDLOTHIAN, Va. – The community is invited to take part in an evening of family fun at Brightpoint Community College’s Fall Fest. The event will take place Friday, October 25, 2024, from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., at the college’s Midlothian Campus, located at 800 Charter Colony Parkway. Admission is free.

Fall Fest will feature a wide variety of activities for all ages, including a haunted house, crafts, games, a trick-or-treat trail, a costume parade, face painting, bilingual story time, a DJ dance party, and food trucks. The college’s UNITY Project will also be open during Fall Fest. The UNITY Project is an interactive art installation that allows individuals to wind a piece of yarn around different poles that carry descriptors with which they identify. As more and more people participate and more strands of yarn are added, a beautiful web is created, showing us that even though we are each unique, we are connected in so many ways.  

Activities will be taking place indoors in Trailblazer Hall and Eliades Hall, as well as outdoors. All are welcome to stop by and take part in the fun! Fall Fest, organized by Brightpoint’s performing arts and visual arts departments, is part of the college’s inauguration celebration month.

For directions to Brightpoint’s Midlothian Campus, visit www.brightpoint.edu/locations. Questions about Fall Fest may be directed to theatreinfo@brightpoint.edu.

Brightpoint Community College, one of the largest institutions in the Virginia Community College System, envisions a success story for every student. Brightpoint offers students a high-quality, high-value education, with more than 80 majors that provide pathways to careers in in-demand fields; transfer opportunities to four-year colleges and universities; and industry credentials and licensures. The college, with campuses in Chester and Midlothian, online classes, and off-campus classrooms, served 12,097 students during the 2023-24 academic year. It also assisted 4,200 learners through Community College Workforce Alliance, the shared workforce division of Brightpoint and Reynolds community colleges.