CHAMPAIGN — C-U Oktoberfest, a music, dancing, beer and food festival to benefit Developmental Services Center and its work, is coming Oct. 11 to downtown Champaign.

It will be held from 3 p.m. to midnight in the parking lot area in front of the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum at the corner of Neil and Washington streets. Admission will be $5.

Modeled after the annual festival in Bavaria, it will feature live music, including polkas, waltzes and traditional German music, traditional German beer and beers from local brewers. An official C-U Oktoberfest beer will be unveiled that night.

Food vendors will be selling 1,000 pounds of authentic Oktoberfest sausages, sauerkraut, German potato salad and baked goods such as Bavarian pretzels and butterkuchen.

Steins, hats, beaded necklaces and T-shirts will be sold.

A free polka demonstration and lessons will be available at 4 p.m. under the big tent.

Proceeds will help DSC support children and adults with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities in the community.