Loveland Sweetheart Festival - Love Locks Lights is the nation’s largest Valentine’s Day festival. They have announced entertainment, art and experience details for the free festival February 8-9 in Downtown Loveland. The festival is presented by the Loveland Chamber of Commerce and Visit Loveland Colorado.

Schedule

Friday, February 8

  • 5:00 PM: Festival opens: Kids Zone, Beer/Wine Garden, Palace of Sweets, Food Court, Love Locks, Luminarias, Art projects, DJ playing music
  • 6:00 - 8:00 PM: Dotsero performs
  • 8:00 - 10:00 PM: Live DJ
  • 10:00 PM: Festival closes

Saturday, February 9

  • 2:00 PM: Festival opens: Kids Zone, Beer/Wine Garden, Palace of Sweets, Food Court, Love Locks, Luminarias, Art projects, DJ playing music
  • 2:00 PM: Little Miss Valentine and Mr. Cupid Contest
  • 2:30 PM: Sweetheart Classic 4 Miler race begins
  • 3:30 PM: Sweetheart Classic 4 Miler awards ceremony
  • 4:00 - 5:00 PM: Funky Business performs
  • 6:30 - 8:00 PM: Spinphony performs
  • 10:00 PM: Festival closes

Interactive Art Installations

Four interactive art installations are all free and open to the public and allow visitors to add their own creative flair.

  • “For the Love of the Earth” – Pinwheel Project: This Earth Friendly Up-cycled Art Piece will be made of 240 colorful pinwheels created out of post-consumer plastic bags fused and decorated by the attendees of the Sweetheart Festival.
  • Community Mural at 4th and Lincoln Ave. : The community will come together to create a mural out of 320 individually painted nine-inch-square tiles. Festival attendees will visit the tent to help paint the mural tiles throughout the festival and the mural will be built afterward.
  • Heart String Art: Sweetheart Festival attendees will work together to build a rainbow-colored heart art piece out of string.
  • Ceramic Raku-Firing Demos: Watch as Amy Joy Hosterman creates custom ceramic pieces to give away to the public during the Loveland Sweetheart Festival. She will make and give away 100 ceramic pieces that fit the love lock imagery and include words like "Loveland 2019", "Sweetheart City", or "Love, Locks & Lights".

For the Love of Beer and Wine tasting area

The “For the Love of Beer and Wine” area features Seagrams, Grimm Brothers Brewhouse and the Bleeding Heart valentine brew, Big Thompson Brewery, Verboten Brewing, Loveland Aleworks, Crow Hop Brewing, Rock Coast Brewery and Sweetheart Winery.

Palace of Sweets

Step inside the Igloo and enter Loveland’s own palace of sweets. Enjoy treats from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, B Sweet Cupcakes, Starlight Dessert Bar, Colorado Candy Company and Heaven’s Popcorn.

Live Entertainment

  • Spinphony: Crossover string quartet “Spinphony” is breaking down barriers between classical, rock, and pop music.
  • DOTSERO: Contemporary Jazz at its best, full of life energy and spontaneity that few artists in the genre have been able to match.
  • Funky Business: A fiery, energetic, party band in Northern Colorado.

Little Miss Valentine and Little Mr. Cupid Contest

Loveland's Little Miss Valentine or Little Mr. Cupid contest invites children ages 0-4 to dress up, ham it up on stage for a chance to win prizes. Dress your little Miss Valentine in all things LOVE or your little Mr. Cupid like the winged god of love and compete for the title. There are twi different age categories: 0-2 and 3-4-year-olds. Contestants will be judged on creativity of costume and personality. Contestants must register ahead of time. Cut off is Wednesday, Feb. 6. Register online at LovelandSweetheartFestival.com

Family Fun Zone

The family fun zone is anchored by Snowzilla Jr. the largest inflatable slide in the world, also includes face painting, Sweetheart glitter tattoos, and princess meet-and-greets on Saturday.

Art Gallery Walk

Take in Loveland art scene with shows, tours, and demos on this winter art gallery walk. At the heart of the festival, the 4th Street gallery will feature the “Love in a Steampunk World” art show coordinated by the Artists Collective.

Galleries for Art Gallery Walk

  • Independence Gallery, 10th Annual 65 Roses for Cystic Fibrosis
  • Loveland Museum, Black Valentine
  • Lincoln Gallery, Champagne, Love and Chocolate
  • Artspace Loveland Art Campus, two shows, Love letters in the Wind and L’Amour Illumine’
  • Artworks Loveland, with two shows, We are all MAD here an interactive installation by Becky Hawley and Altered Perspectives by Brandon Gellis and Billy Harris
  • Lamplight Studio/ Loveland Aleworks, Loveland Love + Light Event
  • Loveland CreatorSpace, No art show, but will be doing demos and tours
  • Rabbask Designs, Artist Demos and Decorate your own button station

Sweetheart Classic 4-miler

Sweetheart City Racing’s 4-mile race starts and ends at the Loveland Sweetheart Festival stage. Singles and couple registrations are available. The first 200 registrants get a complimentary love lock. Register online at SweetheartCityRacing.com.

Loveland Love Lock Sculpture at Loveland Visitors Center
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Love Sculpture

Anchoring the event is one of the largest love lock sculptures in the U.S. This 10-foot-tall, 30-foot-wide steel LOVE sculpture weighs 24,000 pounds and will be introduced during the festival. Attendees can purchase a customizable love lock to secure on the sculpture.

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