Fluff Travels: All Roads Lead to Fluff returns to Union Square on Saturday, September 21 (rain date, Sunday, September 22).

Festival-goers will be treated to multiple performance areas, antics and escapades, games that are free to play and free to win, including Parkour, a community cooking contest, and more. Festivities are expected to attract 20,000 Fluff fans and traffic will be rerouted around Union Square to accommodate festival activities. Revelers are highly encouraged to walk, bike, or take public transit.

This year, Fluff Travels: All Roads Lead to Fluff celebrates one of the most culturally rich cities in the nation, paying homage to the many roads traveled to Union Square from all over the world. With 50+ languages spoken in its schools, Somerville is home to a mix of neighbors from El Salvador, Haiti, Portugal, Brazil, and beyond.

All roads lead to Fluff, so bike, bus, boogie, scooter, or jetpack to Union Square this September as Marshmallow Fluff journeys round the world and back again with deliciously diverse food, entertainment, and family-friendly activities.

LIVE MUSIC and Performances
On the Fluff’n Jam Stage
3:00pm Julia Bomfim Brazilian Quartet
3:45pm Flufferettes
4:00pm DJ L’Duke + MC Felicia
4:15pm Keytar Bear
4:45pm Red Shaydez & DJ TROY Frost
5:30pm Mayor Curtatone crowns
Cooking Contest victors
5:45pm Krush Faktory
brought to by Bull McCabe’s

On A’Nutter Stage
3:00pm Flufferettes
3:10pm Drum & Wellness Drum Circle
3:45pm Union Lesson Studio Showcase
4:40pm Villari’s Martial Arts Demonstration
5:10pm Forté
5:40pm Drum & Wellness Drum Circle
6:10pm Syhman Nepali with Saaj brought to you by Himalayan Kitchen

Get Sticky in Fluff Games at the Department of Shenanigans
3:00pm Marshmallow Toss
3:15pm Blind Man’s Fluff
3:30pm Fluff Jousting
4:00pm Fluff Lick Off
4:15pm Fluff on the Nose
4:30pm Fluff Musical Chairs
5:00pm Fluff Jousting
5:30pm Blind Man’s Fluff
5:45pm Fluff on the Nose
6:00pm Fluff Musical Chairs
6:15pm Fluff Lick Off
6:30pm Fluff Hair Do Contest

In Innovation Alley:
Somernova and its Village of Innovation host the Biggest Innovation Alley yet!
Greentown Labs Innovators, Somerville High’s Robotics Team + Fluff Screen Prints + Printing with Sarah Dudek
Magnet Making Station with Sarah Kramer
Robot Demos with Tim Butterworth
Scooter Demos on Scooter Lane!

At Participating Businesses:
3-5pm Craft Making with Play Union • 378 Somerville Avenue
3-5:30pm Family-Friendly Folk Show on Bloc Cafe’s Courtyard • 11 Bow Street
3-7pm Live Painting at Filomena Demarco Jewelry • #24 Bow Market Way
5-7pm Indian Illustration Coloring with Masala Square • 23 Union Square
5-8pm Disco Dance Party on The Neighborhood’s Patio • 25 Bow Street
5-8pm Free Concert at The Jungle Music Club • 6 Sanborn Court

Check out the website FluffFestival.com for vendor listings (craft and food) and even MORE Fluff fun!

NEW LOCATION: The zany festival honoring the invention of Marshmallow Fluff in Somerville will spread its sticky fun on Somerville Ave. east of Church Street to west of Warren Ave. and Bow Street from Summer Street to where it meets Somerville Ave. (See map below.) This newly activated area is the result of necessary construction in the Square.

What the Fluff? is produced by Union Square Main Streets and the Somerville Arts Council as part of the ArtsUnion series with funding from the City of Somerville.