Free samples of fish chowder, a scavenger hunt and the reading of a slave’s story aboard The Deliverance — will be just some of the festivities on offer in honour of St George’s Birthday next weekend.Last year, the town celebrated its 400th Anniversary with a bang by hosting the Island’s first ever Plough Weekend — named after the ship that arrived in July 1612 with the first settlers intended for Bermuda.Organisers will be at it again this year — as St George’s celebrates its 401st Birthday, next Saturday and Sunday.The St George’s Business Development Association (BDA), a group of business owners in the town, have decided to join forces with the museum community to make this year’s event a success.Organiser Kristin White said: “The St George’s BDA have been putting on various events throughout the year to get more residents and visitors to come down.“We don’t have any full-time event planners or anything like that here in St George’s, so we all just chip in to create some energy and buzz, and get people excited about our beautiful town.“Last year, as soon as ‘Plough’ was over, I thought, this should be an annual event, so I wrote up a plan and took it to the St George’s BDA. They agreed, and here we are.“The museums are all on board again to help pull it together, so it’s going to be amazing,” she said.Next Saturday, the events will take place from 10am until 6pm, and include a variety of historical and cultural activities — films, tours, lectures, quizzes and re-enactments.Entertainment will also be on offer, including a performance by youth poetry group ChewSLAM, and musicians Raven and Ishta.Local stores and restaurants will also be getting involved by featuring special demos, discounts, and samples — with Wahoo’s offering free fish chowder samples from noon until 3pm.If all that isn’t enough, the museums and galleries will be open and free of charge to the public.The day is also slated to end with a birthday song and cake, while the candles are blown out by parish MPs and the cake is cut by some of the area’s oldest residents.On Sunday, the celebration will continue inside the pews at some of the area’s churches. where people are invited to worship.Many of these churches will include a special acknowledgment of the town’s birthday in their service, explained Ms White.On Sunday afternoon, museums and galleries will open their doors, free of charge to the public.There will also be some exciting tours on, and the Olde Towne Market will be running from 2pm until 6pm as well.“We want to invite all of Bermuda to head east to celebrate,” Ms White said. “St George’s is truly an incredible town, full of history, the heritage, and culture; and on Plough Weekend, this will all be on display.”St George’s was founded in 1612, by a group of 50 families who formally named Bermuda as an English colony, before establishing the Town of St George’s three years after Sir George Somers’ and the Sea Venture and its crew were shipwrecked and stranded on our shores.A full schedule of the activities on offer will be available via the St George’s Bermuda Revitalize Facebook Page. The event is sponsored by The Department of Tourism, Tops Limited, and The Book Cellar.