Some of you remember ARQ for specific event. Maybe you were laying in the orchard when the UFO zipped down from the roof of the barn. Maybe you remember the Panda dance through the second floor window. Maybe you got the first slice of the very best Pie of the night. Maybe you discovered your new favorite musician dancing on the barn lawn. However you remember us, we remember you just as fondly.

ARQ has been host to some truly phenomenal community gatherings and celebrations over the decades. Each celebration is somewhat different, but generally centered around community gathering, and eventually a BIG fire. Sometimes they are impromptu and include grilling and a shared meal. Sometimes they are planned out months in advance and have more coordination and active engagement with local art and music. We are NOT an event space, for the most part our celebrations have evolved out of parties for our friends, and sometimes they got bigger than anticipated (we do have LOTS of friends).

There is NO ONE who has attended every ARQ (or CRAQ) event - our founder David Van Nostrand, was the long reigning champion of Celebrations attendance, but since his passing in 2023 that title will never be filled again.

The parties have INSPIRED a number of artistic projects including Maddy Walsh & the Blind Spots music video “Nighttime in July” filmed in part at an ARQ (then CRAQ) summer party. The “party scene” in Zia Anger’s feature length film “My First Film”; her original film “Always, All Ways Anne Marie” was filmed during an actual summer party at ARQ in 2012. The Sweaty Betty’s BlueBird bus was painted during a CRAQ Barn party in the late 2000s.