2024 Harvesting Hope Las Vegas Fall Festival

Fall is finally here and there are lots of events planned around town to ring in the holiday season. But none more meaningful than a Las Vegas fall festival that gives back to the community in a big way. Las Vegas’ largest disability resource network, The Collaboration Center, is hosting its third annual "Harvesting Hope" festival. It's a free event and everyone in the community is invited to come.

The Harvesting Hope Las Vegas Fall Festival is designed to celebrate inclusion and disability awareness. As well as to showcase important disability resources available in Southern Nevada. The festival will be filled with inclusive activities and opportunities for valuable connections for attendees of all ages and abilities. Activities planned include a fun games, seasonal crafts and a petting zoo.

The Harvesting Hope Las Vegas Fall Festival also doubles as a resource fair. There will be over 40 vendors this year providing information on disability services and support available in Southern Nevada. The festival and resource fair will take place on the Collaboration Center's five acre campus. Which is designed with full wheelchair accessibility. There is even an ADA-accessible park for those who need a break from the excitement of the festival.

The 2024 Harvesting Hope Las Vegas Fall Festival and resource fair will be on Saturday, November 16 from noon to 3 p.m at the Collaboration Center. Located at 8390 W. Windmill Lane on the Corner of Windmill and Durango just west of The Crossing church. The Collaboration Center was established in 2019 and manages the largest disability network in Nevada.

The Collaboration Center’s comprehensive campus serves as a centralized hub for providers, agencies, and nonprofit organizations that specialize in serving individuals with disabilities. Partners include those from healthcare services, educational resources, community programs, supportive services. For more information about the Collaboration Center, visitors are invited to their website.

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It doesn't seem like it in Las Vegas, but fall really is right around the corner. That means some big new, very highly anticipated, restaurant and bar openings.

Las Vegas is looking ahead to the fall season, which is actually the most beautiful time of the year in Las Vegas.

And that last quarter of the year moves fast in Las Vegas. Raiders football, Formula One racing, a big implosion, and holiday celebrations galore. The last quarter of the year will also see a handful of exciting new restaurants making their debuts.

Caesars Palace has turned its food court into a bunch of very cool celebrity chef quick-service restaurants. The Forum Food Hall says they make it easy and affordable to feed the whole family. With a large variety of cuisine types to satisfy everyone's cravings.

Gjelina, a new Venice, California restaurant, is moving into the Venetian, and I peeked in when I was there this past weekend - it looks really nice. It opened in Venice Beach in 2008, and set the standard for sustainable restaurant practices. It is said to be a premier case study for sustainable dining today. Gjelina is moving into the Venetian's Restaurant Row area and will be open for lunch and dinner.

Tiki rooms are hot everywhere, and that includes Las Vegas. The Golden Tiki, and Frank's Tiki room are very popular Las Vegas bars. A new Tiki bar will open in downtown Las Vegas, and honestly - it's about time.

Glitter Gulch Tiki is finally here!. Glitter Gulch Tiki is local Mexican restaurant chain Nacho Daddy’s first venture into the tiki world. They offer traditional tiki drinks, signature cocktails with lychee puree. And their kitchen will also serve light bites of various items like coconut shrimp and poke nachos on crispy wonton chips.

Here are some other exciting new restaurants and bars, slated to open in Las Vegas in the next few months.

This is Top Chef Season 13 winner, Jeremy Ford's place. He opened in Miami, and is now opening a location at Resorts World in Las Vegas.  Stubborn Seed has a prix fixe menu.  The restaurant’s name refers to  the persistence it takes to open a restaurant - or any passion project, and  to flourish and grow.” Stubborn Seed will incorporate seasonal and local ingredients and a robust drink menu. Opening Winter 2024.

For over a year, Mandalay Bay has had sign on the doors of what will soon be an adults-only mini golf course. The space used to be Light nightclub. Swingers is supposed to have four different golf courses, each modeled after a quaint English countryside. They have locations in London, New York, and Washington D.C.. and they look really cool, and very unique. Cocktails will be delivered by caddies, and pizza, burgers, and tacos will be served at a parasol-covered sunken garden lounge. Las Vegas has a lot of trendy golf-and-play attractions, but Swingers promises to be the ritziest version yet.

Midday steak and eggs with homemade tortillas and salsa, bowls of pozole with heirloom corn, and American diner staples like eggs over-easy with bacon and smashed potatoes. Chamana’s will have a fancy beverage menu, with espresso drinks from supposedly, the most expensive expresso machine in the world, and sodas with fruit purees like watermelon-basil, guava, and lavender. their website says Chamana’s "draws inspiration from the spiritual and therapeutic practices of ancestral healers providing wholesome cuisine to promote harmony, showcasing culinary creativity in its purest form."

After 20 years, Charlie Palmer closed during the pandemic. Enter Bourbon Steak. This will be  Chef Michael Mina's sixth local restaurant.  A beautiful selection of premium beef cuts and fresh seafood. Fancy trolley carts with shellfish, caviar, chocolate fondue and cocktails will roam  the restaurant. Mina says the restaurant will reflect the energy and essence of Las Vegas.

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