Happy Thursday! Get your dancing shoes and your party hats on, ’cause we’ve got a weekend full of festivals and fun outings coming up!

Now thru Sept 18

Canstruction® Portland

Stop in at Pioneer Place in Downtown Portland anytime from now through Sunday to view the 2016 winners of Canstruction®, a food charity event in which teams build beautiful, intricate sculptures out of canned food! Vote for your favorite to determine the “People’s Choice” winner of the year. (Can’t get down there in time? You can vote by liking on FB!) Free, canstruction.org

Sept 17

18th Annual Children’s Book Fair

North Portland Library is inviting you and your family to Do the Right Thing and Read! There will be loads of fun stuff to do, including live performances, book making, button making, and arts and crafts tables. Also, every child will get a free book! Ideal for preschool through fifth grade. Free, multcolib.org

Sept 17

Portland Congenital Heart Walk

Come together this weekend to help raise funds for The Adult Congenital Heart Association and The Children’s Congenital Heart Foundation and honor those who have been impacted by congenital heart disease. Registration is at 10 a.m. and the family-friendly 1.1 mile walk starts at 11 a.m. at Laurelhurst Park. Free/donations, congenitalheartwalk.org

Sept 17-18

Hood River County Pear Celebration

The Hood River County Fruit Loop, 35 miles of orchard, forests, and farmlands, is the place to be this weekend. Celebrate the peak of pear harvest with locally grown fresh pears, pear desserts, wines, lavender farms, BBQ, alpaca babies, live music and more! Free, hoodriverfruitloop.com

Sept 17-18

Portland Polish Festival

Who couldn’t use more real, Polish pierogis and kielbasa in their lives?? Celebrate Portland’s Polish community this weekend at one of the largest Polish festivals in the Western United States. There will be Polish entrees, fruit-filled pastries, Polish beer and wine, music, dance and more. Free, portlandpolonia.org