Our History
Sensational Elora – Festival of the Senses is the brain child of an amazing woman: Rhoda Lipton. We lost Rhonda in June of 2012 and her husband (and Sensational Elora’s greatest supporter) Benny Di Zitti in 2019.
Sensational Elora began as a 2 week-long fall Festival of the Senses. Over the years it evolved to become a year-long series of events including Monster Month, Pumpkin Day, Empty Bowls Project, The Sensational Soup Off, Fergus Pub Night, Film on a Plate and Sensational Sounds.
Monster Month brings the Sensational Elora Monster March and our Twilight Zoo of monsters for a major local and visitor attraction.
The events also provide the opportunity for residents and visitors to experience and enjoy the charm and natural beauty of Elora and the surrounding area.
Our Mission:
Events To Entice The Senses
Our annual award-winning Festival organizes events throughout the year featuring the renowned music, art, drama, film, food, scenery and architecture of historic Elora, culminating in our core festival events running throughout Thanksgiving weekend, including our Empty Bowls project, Pumpkin Day, and the Sensational Soup-off, raising money and awareness for the fight against poverty and hunger throughout Centre Wellington.
We strive to work with a wide variety of community partners to create fabulous events that showcase what Centre Wellington area has to offer. All our programming is designed to entice all of the senses. To accomplish that our events incorporate food and drink, provided by local restaurants, caterers, growers and retailers.
About The Festival
We strive to work with a wide variety of community partners to create Fabulous events that showcase what Centre Wellington area has to offer. All of our programming is designed to entice all of your senses.
To accomplish that our events incorporate food and drink, provided by local restaurants, caterers, growers and retailers.
