Summer Classics: Raging Bull

The Kentucky Theatre

Wednesday, June 7th

1:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

A masterpiece by Martin Scorsese.

Art on the Town at Thursday Night Live

Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park

Thursday, June 8th

5:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

Art on the Town at Tandy Park for Thursday Night live 5PM - 8PM

Southland Jamboree

MoonDance Amphitheater

Thursday, June 8th

7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

Bring a lawn chair or a blanket, and join us for some bluegrass music!

Jazz at the Library

Farish Theater

Thursday, June 8th

7:00pm - 8:15pm EDT

Live jazz at Central Library

The Music Man

Woodford Theatre

Thursday, June 8th

7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT

Wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching - The Music Man is family entertainment at its best!

Michigander

The Burl

Thursday, June 8th

8:00pm - 2:00am EDT

w/ Abby Holliday | All-ages, doors at 7

String Theories

Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center

Friday, June 9th

11:00am - 8:00pm EDT

An exhibition of works expressed through the media of instruments by luthier Ben Mason, and artist J. Daniel Graham.

Dark Moon Hollow

The Void Sake Company

Friday, June 9th

6:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

A concert at Void Sake Co

Friday Flicks

Jacobson Park

Friday, June 9th

7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

Friday Flicks offers a great evening of entertainment for all ages, including a free movie and fun activities.

Summer Nights in Suburbia

MoonDance Amphitheater

Friday, June 9th

7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

What better way to unwind after a long week than at an open-air concert with friends. Especially when the concert is fre...

Drew Charron at Kenwick Table w/ Darron ...

Kenwick Table

Friday, June 9th

7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

Two independent artists hope to bring something a little different to Kenwick Table. Drew Charron - Keyboard and Synthes...

UK Opera Theatre presents: It's A Grand...

Singletary Center for the Arts

Friday, June 9th

7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT

For over 30 years, the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre has been delighting summertime audiences with the Emmy Awar...

ActOut Theatre Group Presents: 5 Lesbian...

Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center

Friday, June 9th

8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

It's 1956, and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein has its annual quiche breakfast.

Joslyn & The Sweet Compression

The Burl

Friday, June 9th

8:00pm - 2:00am EDT

w/ Casey Powell & Maggie Lander | All-ages show, doors at 7

Art on the Town Farmers Market

Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park

Saturday, June 10th

8:00am - 2:00pm EDT

Art on the Town presents local artists and craftspeople each Saturday at the downtown Farmer’s Market, 8 AM – 2 PM, in T...

Author Karen Katchur presents: The Greed...

Saturday, June 10th

11:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Join us for a panel discussion and signing with Author Karen Katchur and Editor Melissa Frain. Q&A session with the rela...

Southland Street Fair

Saturday, June 10th

3:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

Food, fun and crafts and music for the whole family

Born Cross Eyed

The Burl

Saturday, June 10th

8:00pm - 2:00am EDT

Indoor, 18+ show | Doors at 7

Barn Raisin' - Conservation, Culture & C...

Josephine Sculpture Park

Sunday, June 11th

4:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

Join us for an intimate dinner by Chef Ouita Michel of Holly Hill and concert by The Local Honeys in our historic tobacc...

Anand Wilder

The Burl

Sunday, June 11th

8:00pm - 2:00am EDT

w/ Dana Vogel | All-ages show, doors at 7

Big Band & Jazz

MoonDance Amphitheater

Tuesday, June 13th

7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

The return of spring means the return of one of Lexington's longest-running and most beloved concert series.

Summer Classics: Fiddler on the Roof

The Kentucky Theatre

Wednesday, June 14th

1:30pm - 4:30pm EDT

A lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation.

The Lex Trivia Night

Old North Bar

Wednesday, June 14th

7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

Enjoy LIVE musical performances from the LexFam, fun door prizes...AND, winning teams walk away with tickets to upcoming...

Seedtime on the Cumberland 2023

Appalshop

Friday, June 16th

3:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

Join us to see sets from Dori Freeman, Adeem the Artist, Don Rogers Music, Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, Travis Stuart, LIPS, ...

Freaky Fridays: Police Story

The Kentucky Theatre

Friday, June 16th

10:00pm - 12:00am EDT

Jackie Chan puts a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive cha...

Drew Charron DJ Set at The Roxy

The Roxy

Friday, June 16th

11:00pm - 2:00am EDT

Drew Charron DJ Set. EDM/House/DnB/Club Music

Kentucky River Clean Sweep

Proud Mary BBQ

Saturday, June 17th

8:30am - 1:00pm EDT

Volunteer with us as we clean up litter and trash from the 12 miles of the Kentucky River that touches Fayette County.

LASC Saturday

The Living Arts & Science Center

Saturday, June 17th

11:00am - 2:00pm EDT

Visit our galleries, and explore our hands-on learning exhibits!

Trashion Fashion Show

110 Luigart Court

Saturday, June 17th

6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

Submit your upcycled fashion items to Lex Creative Reuse for our gallery, or wear them to the event!

Shades of Compassion

Headley-Whitney Museum

Sunday, June 18th

10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

An international photography competition including works by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and forty renowned photograp...

Creating Art in Nature Sessions

Floracliff Nature Sanctuary

Sunday, June 18th

1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Broaden your skills as a naturalist and artist

Summer Classics: The Empire Strikes Back

The Kentucky Theatre

Wednesday, June 21st

1:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more de...

Cypress Productions Presents: Actual Thr...

Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center

Thursday, June 22nd

7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

This play is an exploration on the murky line between reality and unreality. How unreality becomes a haven when real lif...

Spring Break Forever

Al's Bar

Friday, June 23rd

6:00pm - 2:00am EDT

Spring Break Forever, Friday June 23rd 6PM at Al's Bar

The Lex Quartet

Kenwick Table

Friday, June 23rd

7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

It will be an incredible evening of instrumental show tunes and great times with great friends!

Youth Art Show

Art Center of the Bluegrass

Wednesday, June 28th

11:00am - 7:00pm EDT

The exhibit features over 100 pieces of artwork created by students from 9 local schools, showcasing their impressive sk...

Summer Classics: His Girl Friday

The Kentucky Theatre

Wednesday, June 28th

1:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Hildy (Rosalind Russell), the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), visits his office to...

AQUASCAPES, new work by Stephen R. Moore

Artist's Attic

Friday, June 30th

5:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

Drawing inspiration from being a tropical and freshwater aquarist, “Aquascapes” explores the color and movement of under...

Being Known: Identity and Expression of ...

Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center

Saturday, July 1st

11:00am - 8:00pm EDT

Students from Bryan Station Middle, Jessie Clark, and Lexington Traditional Magnet showcase their artistic self-expressi...

Consumption

Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center

Saturday, July 1st

11:00am - 8:00pm EDT

In this two-person exhibition Adrienne Dixon and Ciara LeRoy explore consumption and its effects.

First Sundays' At Julietta Market

Julietta Market

Sunday, July 2nd

1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Join Julietta Market on the First Sundays' of Every Month for Food, Art, Immersive Experiences, and Live Music Performed...

Summer Classics: Rebel Without A Cause

The Kentucky Theatre

Wednesday, July 5th

1:30pm - 3:30pm EDT

After moving to a new town, a troublemaking teen is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town b...

Sinners and Saints

UK Art Museum

Saturday, July 8th

12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Drawn from the permanent collection, this exhibition includes traditional Christian imagery as well as depictions of fal...

re:museum

Saturday, July 8th

12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

The re:museum exhibition is getting a re:fresh in 2023 with a new set of artworks and updated displays. 

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Georgetown Street

UK Art Museum

Saturday, July 8th

12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

In the early 1950s, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Van Deren Coke set out to photograph all the people, homes, and businesses...

Among Women

UK Art Museum

Saturday, July 8th

12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

This exhibition features works from the Museum's permanent collection showing women of various ages, backgrounds, and or...

Big Band & Jazz

Ecton Park

Tuesday, July 11th

7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

The return of spring means the return of one of Lexington's longest-running and most beloved concert series.

Northside Nights

Castlewood Park

Friday, July 14th

7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets for seating and enjoy a fun evening of great R&B, soul, funk and dance music.

LexArts Gallery HOP

Friday, July 21st

5:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

On HOP night, dozens of galleries, museums, artists’ studios, and creative spaces conventional-and-un, collectively thro...

Freaky Fridays: Tetsuo: The Iron Man

The Kentucky Theatre

Friday, July 21st

10:00pm - 11:30pm EDT

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out ...

Tahlsound

Oleika Temple Great Lawn

Sunday, July 23rd

5:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

Live music on Southland Drive

Don't Dilly Dali

Art Center of the Bluegrass

Saturday, August 19th

1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

It's about to get surreal

Drew Charron at The Burl w/ Urameshi, an...

The Burl

Thursday, August 24th

8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT

Drew Charron - Progressive/Psychadelic Rhythm and Bass. Urameshi - Math Rock/Punk Rock. Kinni Moon & Ground Control - Ps...

Kentucky Book Festival

Joseph-Beth Booksellers

Saturday, October 21st

10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

Celebration of reading, writing and publishing.

Google Arts and Culture

Remote Event

[Not Local, But Verry Cool] Discover artworks, collections and stories from all around the world in a new way.

The Public Art Commission

The Public Art Commission was formed to advise the Mayor and the Urban County Council on developing a long-range plan fo...

Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Members' Ex...

City Gallery at the PMDAC features a variety of sculptures from across the United States

Artists Thrive

Artists Thrive aims to identify the things that help artists pursue their vision and to enable communities to benefit fr...

Dream Wishes

Dream Wishes is a variety show featuring the most talented folks we can find

Americans for the Arts: COVID Resource a...

Up-to-date news and resources for the arts and culture field

Downtown Danville Public Art Map

Use our Public Art Map to explore 16 pieces of contemporary public art – including murals, sculptures, mosaics, and more...