10 Things To Do This Week & Weekend In Louisville (5/9-5/11)

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 10

Dog 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.

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.