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Need plans? We’ve got you covered. With Spring in full swing, there are plenty of fun things to do around Louisville.

THURSDAY, MAY 9 Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus Speed Cinema | 2035 S. 3rd St. | speedmuseum.org/cinema/ryuichi-sakamoto-opus | $8 members /$12 non-members | 6 p.m.From the hands of a master of musical score, “Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus” is a farewell between lifelong friends. Sakamoto ends a career spanning five decades with his final performance, an elegy shared between himself and his piano. This was Sakamoto’s final gift to the world. It is playing one night at the Speed Cinema and should not be missed. Sakamoto died in March 2023 from cancer.
FRIDAY, MAY 10Dog Days Kentucky Science Center | Cost of admission | 10-2 p.m. Kentucky Science Center’s annual Dog Days event is back and better than ever. This family and student favorite gives kids a chance to explore the ways dogs – and other animal friends, too! – are trained to help improve our lives both on the job and off. Stop by to meet some amazing creatures from a variety of animal care careers, then spend time exploring your Kentucky Science Center.
FRIDAY, MAY 10–11 Louisville Orchestra Creators Fest Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts | 501 W. Main St. | louisvilleorchestra.org/concerts | Free or $10 Louisville Orchestra Creators Fest will include two concerts featuring world premieres by the 2023–2024 Creators Corps composers Alex Berko, Nkeiru Okoye, and Tanner Porter. In addition to the main concerts, the festival will feature free performances by local musicians, artists, and storytellers that expand on the narrative themes of the Creators Corps works: grief, nostalgia, triumph, and love.
FRIDAY, MAY 10
Old Crow Medicine Show Old Forester’s Paristown Hall 91.9 WFPK presents Old Crow Medicine Show with special guest The Arcadian Wild. Old Crow Medicine Show got their start busking on street corners in 1998, from New York state and up through Canada, winning audiences along the way with their boundless energy and spirit. their classic single, “Wagon Wheel”, received the RIAA’s Double-Platinum certification in 2019 for selling over 2,000,000 copies while the band’s debut album O.C.M.S. has been certified Gold (500,000 copies). The band’s latest release is ‘Jubilee’ (Aug 2023) released via ATO Records.
FRIDAY, MAY 10 Snõõper, Deady, Fruit Loops, Plastics Portal | 1535 Lytle St. | portal-louisville.com | $10 adv/$15 door | 8 p.m. | All ages With their exceedingly high-energy, 80’s neon tracksuits, synchronized choreography, and assortment of papier-mâché props, Nashville’s Snõõper is quite unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before. Described as “a band who, in a 33 1⁄3 RPM world, make 45 RPM music they play at 78 RPM,” their sound is somewhere along the lines of Devo covering Black Flag covering The Ramones, and their songs are as catchy as their live show is fun. With a bill that also features the equally as energetic Deady, Fruit Loops (from Cincinnati), and Plastics, this is a show you’re just gonna need to catch!
SATURDAY, MAY 11
Schnitzelburg Walk & Flea Monnik | 1036 E Burnett Ave. | 11 a.m. It’s that time again for the Flea Off and Schnitzelburg Walk street fest at Monnik, MerryWeather and the surrounding locations! Flea Off starts at 11am and bands start at 4pm. As always, entry is FREE! Here’s the band lineup: King Kong, The Get Down, Zu Zu Ya Ya, The Golden Whip, Cphr Dvn, Charm School, and Some Swords.
SATURDAY, MAY 11 Kentucky Kingdom Opening Day Kentucky Kingdom | 937 Phillips Lane | kentuckykingdom.com | $30+ | 10 a.m. Join Kentucky Kingdom’s Opening Day this year on May 11 to take on huge coasters as the days heat up. Hurricane Bay is set to open on May 25, as well. Kentucky Kingdom
SATURDAY, MAY 11 How To Festival Main Library | 301 York St. | lfpl.org | 10 a.m. | Free Louisville Free Public Library’s How-To Festival will return for its 11th year on May 11. The annual tradition attracts thousands of Louisvillians in search of educational, entertaining, interactive — and free! The How-To Festival offers people of all ages the opportunity to learn how to do more than 50 different things through out the course of a five-hour program. Sessions last approximately 45 minutes and cover a diverse topics, from business to fitness to gardening.
SATURDAY, MAY 11 International Food Truck Festival Big Four Lawn | 1101 E River Rd. | ourwaterfront.org | Free | 11 a.m. The third annual international food truck festival is back in Louisville, where foods all around the world are gathered in one location. Try foods from all over including Hurrikanes Monster Dawgs, the sweet taste of My Ol’ Kentucky Lemonade, or the particular blend from 305 Cubano.
SATURDAY, MAY 11 Harbor History Cruise Belle of Louisville | 401 West River Rd. | belleoflousiville.org | $10 | 4 p.m. The first excursion of the season will be a narrated adventure learning all about the history and founding of Louisville, the significance of steamboats in the city and so much more. Kids are eligible for Free Adventure Passports for this journey.

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Sydney is a native Louisvillian who spent her twenties in Los Angeles working in Hollywood. When off duty, she blogs about her adventures at Sydney to Anywhere. An avid explorer, the only thing she loves...