
Old Louisville Farmers Market
Old Louisville's first official farmers market. Coming back summer 2025, join us on select Saturdays for fresh produce, local baked goods, live music, and more!

LFPL: End of Summer Family Playdate!
Celebrate the end of summer reading with tie dye, games, activities and music!
Please bring an item to dye.

LFPL: WAGS Read with Bailey the Dog!
Join a volunteer from WAGS—Wonderful Animals Giving Service. They bring a licensed therapy dog into the library that you can pet and read to. All ages and reading levels are welcome. 15 minute time slots available for reservation. Registration required. Call (502) 394-0379 or email northeastyouthservices@lfpl.org to register. Reading times limited to 15 minutes per child/family.

Art in City Hall Prospect - Summer Pop-Up Exhibit
Art in City Hall Prospect brings light to the city with this Summer Pop-Up Show. From the fun, fanciful work of ceramicist Lena Wolok and mixed media scupture of Jacque Parsley, to the beautiful landscapes and figurative work of painter John Michael Carter, there is something for everyone to love! The show features ten artists who work in painting and clay and mixed media sculpture.

Weekly Storytime at Carmicheals Kids Bookstore
Join Carmichael's Kids every Monday at 10:30am for our weekly storytime! It's free and open to all ages!

FridayFest at Highview Park
Local music, local food trucks, and community socializing every other Friday, throughout the Summer.

LFPL: Combintion Storytime
Our combined Storytime is perfect for all children ages 0-6. We will read new books each week, as well as incorporating songs, rhymes, and other educational and development focused activities.

LFPL: Bon Air Library Combined Storytime
Storytime is an opportunity for families to bond over shared stories and songs, as well as engaging in creative activities that reinforce a lifelong love of learning.

LFPL: Toddler Storytime
Foster a love of reading in your toddlers through this engaging story time! Join LFPL for books, songs, movement, and art activities that encourage the development of early learning skills.

Watermelon & Water Slides
Join with the St. Matthews neighborhood for an end-of-summer party! “Watermelon & Water Slides” is hosted by Highview’s Beechwood Campus on their front lawn. Bring a lawn chair and a friend! This is a free event, open to the community. They will have inflatable water slides, volleyball, and yard games for all ages.

Shakespeare in Dance: A Midsummer Night's Dream from Louisville Ballet
In the final week of the summer, Louisville Ballet returns for a ninth season to present an original dance piece by choreographer Roger Creel, inspired by Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy.
Nightly Schedule:
6:00 p.m. Food Trucks
7:00 p.m. Kids’ Globe, Will’s Gift Shop, Will’s Tavern
7:15 p.m. Community Pre-show Performance
8:00 p.m. Performance

KMAC Museum: Tiny Art Tales
Tiny Art Tales is a kindergarten-readiness program that promotes literacy, body awareness, and fine motor skills. The program strives to promote values of inclusivity, equality, positivity, and love through the act of reading, singing, moving, and art-making. Parental/Caregiver participation is encouraged! KMAC believes that children learn best from their caregivers when they model singing, reading, improvising, and moving with their children.
Join KMAC for movement, music, and art making. The event is free and open to the public and led by KMAC’s education team

St. Joe's Picnic for the Kids
Bring your family and friends to our annual St. Joe’s Picnic for the Kids continuing August 9th on the St. Joe’s campus in Crescent Hill located at 2823 Frankfort Avenue. The weekend event will feature games, food trucks, family fun, and live music. Picnic is from noon until midnight. More details are available here: sjkids.org/picnic.

Highview Park: FridayFest
Local music, local food trucks, and community socializing every other Friday, throughout the Summer.

Water Wars
Families can expect FREE admission, artist demos from Gregory King and Karen Boone, a Community Collage Mural in Studio 715 inspired by artist Harlan Hubbard, and nature-themed activities in the third floor studio. In addition, guest can enjoy treats from Gelato Gilberto and meet some folks from Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana!

Jammin in Jeff Night Market: Youth Night
Come celebrate Youth Night at the brand new Jammin in Jeff Night Market, an evening filled with fun, creativity, and community. From face painting to animal encounters, to bouncy houses. Don’t miss out on all the fun!!

Free Play Saturdays
Join us at Playcosystem, a 17-acre natural playground, for Free Play on Saturdays, presented by Aetna Better Health of Kentucky. Playworkers will be on-site with special materials (‘loose parts’), fun play challenges (how tall can you build?), and plenty of surprises to spark creativity and connection.

Waterfront Wednesday
Waterfront Wednesday is one of Louisville’s largest live music events every last Wednesday of the Month. Join them for their July 30th concert featuring artists : Sixpence None the Richer, Kashus Culpepper and Roadie'
Make sure to bring a blanket and some lawn chairs to relax and enjoy this amazing night!

KY Flea Market Labor Day Spectacular Admission
One of the nations best Flea Markets consisting of over 700 booths of antiques, collectibles, jewelry, clothes, bath & body, surplus and more. Free admission. Get 1/2 off parking with any purchase. Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5. Monday 10-5.

WorldFest
The 23nd annual WorldFest, Louisvilleʼs premier international festival, attracts more than 150,000 attendees over the four-day Labor Day weekend. WorldFest celebrates and showcases the international cultures and communities that make up the city of Louisville and neighboring areas. WorldFest is free to attend and open to all ages, featuring entertainment stages, Parade of Cultures, Global Village, and more!

LFPL: Highlands Baby Storytime
A storytime for developing pre-literacy skills and a love of reading through books, songs, movement and activities.

LFPL: Iroquois Library Preschool Storytime
Foster a love of reading in your pre-schooler through this engaging storytime! Join us for books, songs, movement, and art activities that encourage the development of early learning skills.

LFPL: Crescent Hill Baby Storytime
Baby storytime focuses on developing your baby's pre-literacy, motor, sensory, and social skills through librarian led, parent participation activities. Introduce your baby to a love of literature through books, songs, movement, rhythm, and rhyme followed by a short period of playtime

LFPL: Main Library Preschool Storytime
Foster a love of reading in your pre-schooler through this engaging storytime! Join LFPL for books, songs, movement, and art activities that encourage the development of early learning skills.

LFPL: Southwest Regional Toddler Storytime
Foster a love of reading in your toddlers through this engaging storytime! Join LFPL for books, songs, movement, and art activities that encourage the development of early learning skills.

LFPL: Northeast Reginal Baby Lap Sit Story Time
Baby Lap Sit is a special circle time that introduces the rhythm and beauty of language to babies. Join LFPL for a new offering specifically for parents and caregivers and their newborns. Story time will be 20 minutes followed by social and play time for participants.

LFPL: Little Dreamers’ Dress-Up
Bring your family and friends and join us for an hour of pretend play fun! This is the time for children to hang out, interact, and make connections with each other and their parents

LFPL: Iroquois Baby Storytime
Baby storytime focuses on developing your baby’s pre-literacy, motor, sensory, and social skills through librarian led, parent participation activities. Introduce your baby to a love of literature through books, songs, movement, rhythm, and rhyme followed by a short period of play time.

Backpacks and Blessings
Join Open Door Outreach for their Second Annual - Backpacks and Blessings Event is here!
Save the Date!
Free Backpacks, School Supplies, Haircuts, Activities and snacks!
Backpacks are limited to the first 100 children in line. Child must be present to receive a backpack. (They reserve the right to alter or deny services and giveaways at any time, including during the event)

55th Annual World Championship Dainty Contest & Festival
Come one, come all! To that same old street corner on the last Monday in July, for the 55th Annual World Championship Dainty Contest!
This is the weekend that Schnitzelburgers look forward to all year long, and this year we’ve got more to celebrate than ever before!
Full event schedule linked below:

LFPL: Wags, Read to a dog
Children can improve their reading skills by reading to a WAGS therapy dog.

LFPL: Main Library Baby Storytime
Baby storytime focuses on developing your baby’s pre-literacy, motor, sensory, and social skills through librarian led, parent participation activities. Introduce your baby to a love of literature through books, songs, movement, rhythm, and rhyme followed by a short period of play time.

New Albany Farmers Market
Join us every Saturday at the New Albany Farmers Market! Shop with us to find the best local produce, baked goods, and handmade products around. Open every Saturday from 8:00 AM to noon.

St. Matthews Farmers Market
Fresh produce and hot breakfast. Join your neighbors, purchase plant starts, fresh spring vegetables, pastured meat, and more. Enjoy the sounds of live music and stroll the grounds. Children's seek and find and special events. They can't wait to see you there!

Trolley Hop
All aboard the Trolley Hop! Hop on our charming red trolley for a magical evening exploring the Gaslight District!
Shop, dine, and discover all the treasures that make JTown special. The best part? It's completely FREE and happens every last Friday of the month!

Divine 9: Night at the Park
Kentucky Shakespeare and our Divine 9 team members invite you to our fourth annual "Divine 9 at the Park" at Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Central Park Friday, July 25 - welcoming the National Pan-Hellenic Council and member organizations of Louisville!
Schedule:
6:00PM: Food trucks open from the Louisville Food Truck Association
7:00PM: Free interactive Kids’ Globe tent will open
(7:00PM: For a special backstage tour experience, meet at the C. Douglas Ramey statue/memorial at the back right side of the amphitheater.)
7:15PM: Community pre-show performances begin - Divine 9 pre-show and Tonytopia.
8:00PM: Free performance of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

LFPL: Parkland Preschool Storytime
Join the Parkland Library branch for Preschool Storytime - where stories, songs, and smiles come to life for our littlest listeners!

LFPL: Newburg Preschool Story Time
Preschoolers listen to stories, get active with dancing, experience an easy craft, and have free play time!

Anime Con
Teens, ages 13-19 -- join the Louisville Main Library for an epic celebration of anime, manga, Asian pop culture, and cosplay! Learn more and register for this free event at www.LFPL.org/AnimeCon.

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival: Cymbeline
Join Kentucky Shakespeare for their run of the show Cymbeline. Cymbeline is Shakespeare’s inventive fairy tale of love, loss, and legacy, which features an evil stepmother, long-lost princes, a banished lover, dastardly villains, and a lion-hearted princess on a quest to Happily Ever After.

Kentucky Shakespeare: Hamlet
Shakespeare’s unparalleled masterpiece is a haunting tale of corruption, betrayal, and revenge. Follow Hamlet through an electrifying and unforgettable journey into the human soul.
All performances are presented free of charge at Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, the longest-running non-ticketed Shakespeare festival in the United States.

Kid’s Storytime at HalfPrice Books
Pack up your half-pint readers and join us at your Hustbourne Parkway HPB for Storytime Saturdays. Come sit criss-cross applesauce and enjoy a few fun stories read by staff at 2 p.m. every Saturday of the month. All ages are welcome! See you there.

E.C.O Kids Discovery Day
E-C-O stands for Every Child Outside, join this initiative to get your kiddo’s outside and discoverying the beauty of Bernheim Forest!
ECO days my include activities such as Hands-on Discovery Stations, Pop-up Story Cirlces, and a Hike of the Day

Nulu Summer Fest
NuLu's annual summer celebration, NuLu Summer Fest, will return to the 700 & 800 blocks of East Market Street on Saturday, July 19 from 12-7 pm with surf-inspired tunes, a watermelon eating contest, limbo contest, putt-putt, pickleball, summer yard games, local food trucks, 80+ vendors, and a tiki bar from Crowler Catering. Admission is free to NuLu Summer Fest.

The Vendors Markets at The Buechel Train Depot
Join the Buechel Train Depot for a vibrant Vendors Market at the historic Buechel Train Depot! Explore handmade crafts, local artisans, and some delicious food. Bring the family or your friends and enjoy a fun (and free!) weekend outing while supporting local businesses.

Playport Picnic
Join PlayPort for an amazing picnic at Waterfront Park!
Enjoy a day filled with kids’ activities, a touch-a-truck experience, entertainment, giveaways, and more. Come hungry—Gore’s Smokeout BBQ, Frosty’s, and AMiracle-Ade will be serving up delicious food and drinks, or feel free to pack your own picnic.
Let’s bring the community together for a joyful day of connection and play at the park!

Millanova Winery: Family Fun Day
Millanova Winery is kicking off their grand re-opening weekend with a full day of fun for the whole family!
Bring the kids, your friends, and your appetite for an evening packed with:
Inflatables & bounce houses, mobile petting zoo, face painting, fistful of tacos,Black Rock Grille, Kona Ice Slushy Truck, cornhole & family games.
Wine for the grown-ups, fun for the little ones!

Art in the Park
Celebrate National Recreation and Parks Month this July at Art in the Park! They are again partnering with Kentucky Shakespeare to host this event at Central Park on Thursday, July 17 from 6-8 p.m. Find free arts and craft activities under the pergola in the park before the showing of Cymbeline on the amphitheater stage. Make potions, leather keychains, flower crowns, beautiful beaded garden stakes and more. Kentucky Shakespeare will also have food trucks, Will's Tavern, Will's Gift Shop, Kids Globe and other entertainment

South Points Buy Local Fair
Find diversity and adventure in South Louisville with neighborhood independent businesses! Free parking and free admission.
Join us for music, kid’s area, food and local libations, as well as the heart of the Fair: shopping from local businesses!

Middletown Peddlers Mall's Summer Festival
Join our local Middletown Peddlers Mall for an event you don’t want to miss! With over 30 Outdoor Vintage Vendors, Mobile Petting Zoo, Food Trucks, Music, Dog Adoption, Games and Prizes! The list just goes on, they can’t wait for you all to join them this Friday!