This weekend, relish a fourth dimension of civility at the 9th Annual Jane Austen Festival at Locust Grove (pictured above), sponsored past times the Jane Austen Society of Greater Louisville. Activities volition include a mode show, a bare knuckle boxing exhibition, afternoon tea, an encampment of His Majesty's Royal Navy, together with musicians, vendors, together with more. Also happening this weekend is about other tea-time gathering, a metropolis rivalry soccer match, a community celebration inwards Oldham Co., together with more.
Check out our weekend picks below:
Check out our weekend picks below:
- The 47th annual Oldham County Day volition accept house inwards historic downtown La Grange, Kentucky, to celebrate community pride together with supply fun for all ages. There volition live on a parade, alive entertainment, booths, nutrient vendors, giveaways, arts together with crafts, exhibits, together with more.
- While you lot produce that inevitable back-to-school shopping, you lot tin bring together amongst local businesses in The Highlands: The Corridor That Cares, a school supplies together with backpack campaign benefitting Family Scholar House. It runs at nowadays through July 23, when at that topographic point volition live on a closing celebration amongst nutrient together with drinks provided together with electrical current parent scholars together with graduates volition utter most their sense amongst Family Scholar House.
- Celebrate the migration of the monarch butterfly at the Monarch Festival at Hidden Hill Nursery & Sculpture Garden inwards Utica, Indiana. There volition live on fine art demonstrations, music, dance, booths, nutrient together with drink.
- Take the kids to the fifth annual Family Fun Day at Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve for door prizes, crafts, aspect upwardly painting, a parade, zoo animals, a firehose splashdown, an H2O ice cream eating contest, together with more.
- Louisville City FC soccer takes on FC Cincinnati on Saturday. Partial proceeds from each ticket sold volition larn to produce goodness Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana.
- Enjoy Zootopia at the Iroquois Amphitheater, or Finding Dory at Jeffersonville, Indiana, Riverstage.
- The Culbertson Mansion is offering a pause from the sweltering summertime oestrus at the Peach Tea, a traditional Victorian Tea amongst a summertime twist — peaches! Guests volition relish a peach-themed luncheon served amongst an assortment of iced teas, together with a tour of the mansion is included. (Traditional non-peach fare volition too live on served.) To brand an advance reservation (required), telephone telephone 812.944.9600.
Upcoming:
- The Louisville Zoo is offering ii more Teacher Tuesdays, with free admission for teachers, July xviii together with 25. Teachers who view the registration tabular array betwixt 9:30am-noon volition have a Teacher Resource Goodie Bag together with tin come inwards a raffle for a costless course of report champaign trip. To participate, teachers should convey a schoolhouse badge, paystub, or other shape of instructor identification to verify eligibility.
- Bestselling writer together with Golden Globe-winning histrion Chris Colfer volition live on making an appearance Mon at the Youth Performing Arts School. Colfer has written several books for immature readers including The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell, The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns, The Land of Stories: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Grimm Warning, together with more. Carmichael’s Bookstore volition live on offering raffle tickets to come inwards fans inwards a drawing for an exclusive VIP meet-and-greet amongst Chris similar a shot next the event.