It's fourth dimension to stretch that famous two-minute race into a month-long party! The Kentucky Derby Festival volition hold upwards inwards amount swing this weekend, providing a multitude of festivities (including Balloonfest, pictured above) to bolster your Derby spirit. In improver to the festival, other activities this weekend arrive at from outdoor together with indoor concerts, a celebration of Derby's past, a solar daytime of leadership for girls, together with more.
Check out our suggestions below for a memorable weekend:
- Gather your kids Lord's Day together with relish 2 Kentucky Derby Festival activities perfect for families. YMCA Healthy Kids Day is a gratis number amongst salubrious interactive activities, inflatables, together with a fun obstruction course of report that kids together with adults tin give notice both enjoy, all on the North Great Lawn at Waterfront Park within Kroger's Fest-a-Ville. Or your kid tin give notice wearing clothing similar a prince or princess together with attend the Children's Tea amongst the Kentucky Derby Festival Princesses at The Crowne Plaza Hotel. Today's Family periodical is a proud media sponsor of both events.
- Check here for data on all of the Kentucky Derby Festival events happening this weekend, including BalloonFest, the Waterfront Jam Concert Series, the Marathon & miniMarathon, Ken-Ducky Derby, GospelFest, together with more.
- Some of Equus caballus racing’s biggest names volition hold upwards on paw for the 2nd annual Fan Fest Day, Lord's Day at the Kentucky Derby Museum. The solar daytime volition pay tribute to Hall of Fame Trainer D. Wayne Lukas together with each of his iv Kentucky Derby-winning horses: Winning Colors, Thunder Gulch, Grindstone, together with Charismatic. Lukas volition hold upwards on-hand for activities such every bit a unique morning time rails side chat during a walking tour, green-screen photograph opportunities, together with more. Jockeys Pat Day together with Calvin Borel together with trainer Carl Nafzger volition every bit good hold upwards inwards attendance, together with lots of children’s activities volition hold upwards offered.
- Visit the New Albany Riverfront Skatepark on Sat for “Skate together with Create” amongst Hunger Skateparks, together with portion your ideas most how to ameliorate the common every bit a skating sense together with a run of downtown world art. Park schematics together with fine art materials including modeling clay volition hold upwards on paw to assistance y'all sketch out the possibilities for this skatepark, together with gratis pizza volition hold upwards available.
- Gear upwards for Crashing the Parklands, a free, family-friendly number Lord's Day at Broad Run Park. Shakespeare inwards the Park volition introduce Julius Caesar, together with the Louisville Crashers volition perform.
- Saturday nighttime is Opening Night at Churchill Downs. H5N1 ticketed number that nighttime volition hold upwards the Moonlight Masquerade, hosted by Mom's Closet Resource Center and featuring a alive together with soundless auction, dinner buffet, bar service, betting windows inwards room, together with racing program.
- Get cook for around BBQ, bourbon, together with beer at the 2nd annual Pig & Swig, Sat at Fourth Street Live! Entertainment District. It volition characteristic dozens of local arts and crafts beers together with bourbons, smoked meats, together with alive music.
- Old Louisville LIVE presents performances yesteryear the Louisville Leopard Percussionists Sunday at Central Park Amphitheater. Bring a picnic to the common together with enjoy.
- The terminal Louisville Orchestra concert of the flavor Saturday, Festival of American Music II: American Journey, features excerpts from Teddy Abrams' opera The Greatest: Muhammad Ali along amongst industrial plant yesteryear renowned American composers from Samuel Barber to Herbie Hancock.
- Louisville Girls Leadership (LGL) volition introduce the 4th annual Girls IdeaFestival, geared toward electrical current together with incoming high schoolhouse girls, the adults inwards their lives, together with manly mortal allies. The destination of Saturday's program, held at Bellarmine University, is to develop creative together with innovative solutions to challenges girls confront today, including self-care, women's history, college together with career readiness, together with more.