Freedom Festival Events at SCERA
You will find a whole array of 4th of July events at SCERA Park and SCERA Center for the Arts. Make SCERA Park and SCERA Center for the Arts a big part of your 4th of July CELEBRATION! July 2-4. See map below for location of events.
Colonial Heritage Festival
The Colonial Heritage Festival offers something for every member of the family. Visit the village apothecary shop, blacksmith, cooper, broom maker, gunsmith, spoon maker, potter, various fiber artisans, chandler, baker, Isaiah Thomas Print Shop, frontier life, chocolate making, school & much, much more.
Cries of Freedom Musical
Presenting the 17th year of Cries of Freedom, the Musical–pleasing crowds with stirring music, emotional acting, and energetic dancing! America is celebrating, and so should you! To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr, “Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward,” and so it is at this event. You will hear historic words applicable today. Tyranny is on the run and patriotic Americans are cheering!
Live Swearing In Ceremony
It is exciting to watch new citizen candidates take the Oath of Citizenship and express their gratitude to America. The Department of Homeland Security will be conducting their annual swearing in ceremony of citizen candidates. Packed with patriotic musical numbers, speeches and new citizen testimonials, this is something that will super-charge your gratitude for America.
Military History Days
Exciting New Location & Expanded Event! Notice: The Military Outpost has moved from its previous location at SCERA Park in Orem to an expansive new home at Fold of Liberty Farms in Spanish Fork. With this new location comes a massive expansion! What used to be a short weekend display is now an immersive, six-day living history experience running from June 29 through July 4. Come walk through an incredible, hands-on lineup of authentic military vehicles, armor, and equipment spanning from WWI to the modern day.
American Heritage Museum
This year the following new items will be displayed: 1. An original 1776 Philadelphia copy of “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine; 2. A newspaper covering the passage of Richard Henry Lee’s July 2 “Resolution that these United colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states”; 3. A rare Connecticut document signed on July 4, 1776, sending troops to “…succor the Armies of the United Colonies”; and 4. The first magazine printing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. There will also be items in sports, entertainment, science, space, art and other areas of U.S., Utah, and local history. Come and learn from the master of history himself.
