Kids and families will pack downtown Lynchburg Friday afternoon for the 24th annual Amazing Mile Children’s Run and Family Festival! 🎉

Amazement Square and the Taubman Museum are grappling with significant federal grant cuts, jeopardizing programs for underserved and disabled communities.

Amazement Square in Lynchburg helped children ring in the New Year in a fun way.

LYNCHBURG, Va. As school districts announce their reopening plans, Amazement Square in Lynchburg is supporting families with its new Scorpy Scholars. Scorpy Scholars is a set of in-person learning programs. The second is school age curriculum support where kids from kindergarten to 8th grade can get help with their virtual assignments. Amazement Square in Lynchburg offers Scorpy Scholars to help students with virtual learning. (WSLS 10-All rights reserved)Amazement Square currently has a camp to help fill the childcare gap for working parents and saw families need for more support in the fall.

LYNCHBURG, Va. Whether its your child at home or the child in you, Amazement Square in the Hill City is calling all sidewalk chalk artists for the sixth annual Riverfront Chalk Festival and Art Contest. When the festival is over, Amazement Square will post all the winners and their work online. During the festival and art contest, the museum will have an entry fee of only $5 the entire day. Inside will be other chalk and art activities. The festival is taking place outside of Amazement Square at the Mosaic parking lot.

On Friday night, be transported to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter without even leaving the Hill City. If you're not a Harry Potter fan, don't worry, we still have an activity for you on Friday night. You'll be free fallin' as you enjoy a night of classic songs performed 100% live with no backtracks. Head over to Poplar Forest for the last weekend of Rogue Prodcutions' presentation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Bring your blankets, lawn chairs and an awesome picnic dinner as you enjoy a night of comedy, love triangles and more.