Whoo’s Ready for the 10th Annual Festival of Owls!
Join us for the 10th Annual Festival of Owls at Humane Indiana Wildlife! Experience an exciting day full of activities, live owl encounters, and more!
📅 Saturday, November 15, 2025
🕘 9 AM – 4 PM
📍 Porter County Expo Center – 215 E Division Rd, Valparaiso, IN 46383
✨ Highlights: Don’t miss out on this hoot of an event!
🦉 Meet and greet live owls
🗣️ Presentations by Indiana Audubon Society and wildlife author and photographer, Paul Bannick
🎨 Fun kids' activities
🛍️ Local vendors and food trucks
Purchase Festival of Owls Tickets!
Ticket prices for Festival of Owls are as follows:
Ages 13+ : $15/each
Ages 4 - 12 : $10/each
Ages 3 & Under : FREE
Schedule of Events!
8:15am - Doors Open
9 - 9:45am - Humane Indiana Wildlife LIVE Owl Presentation
- Featured Owls: Great Horned, Barred, Eastern Screech
10 - 10:45am - Brad Bumgardner, of Indiana Audubon Society - ‘Hootin’ Up IN Owls’
- Learn owl calls and participate in a calling contest for prizes!
10:15 - 10:30am - Carrie Steinweg, author, book reading, Into The Night in Kids Activity Area
- Books available for purchase before and after the reading!
11am - 12pm - Humane Indiana Wildlife LIVE Owl Presentation
- Featured Owls: Barn, Short-Eared, Saw-Whet
12:30 - 1:15pm - Paul Bannick, author and photographer, Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls
- Learn how owls spend their year raising families and catching prey
- Books available for purchase before and after the presentation!
1:30 - 2:15pm - Humane Indiana Wildlife - Owl Power: Adaptions of Owls
- Learn what makes owls such unique and skilled hunters
2:30 - 3:30pm - Humane Indiana Wildlife LIVE Owl Presentation
- Featured Owls: Saw-Whet, Eastern Screech, Barn
All Day Activities: 8:30am - 3:30pm
- Kids Activities
- Food Trucks
- Vendor Marketplace
- Various wildlife ambassador animals will be available for up-close viewing at every hour for 30 minutes. Animal stations will be located in the 4H and East Room 2.