Experience Art. Discover Downtown.
Every month on the Last Saturday, downtown Fort Wayne offers a wide variety of activities. The goal for the Cultural District is to attract visitors downtown to experience diverse social, arts, and cultural opportunities. There are events for every age and interest. Last Saturdays is a great way for individual artists and organizations to share their message with a large, built-in audience, and create vibrancy in downtown Fort Wayne. Let us know about your downtown event on a Last Saturday by filling out our online form. Watch a Discover Downtown video about Last Saturdays.
June, 2013, Last Saturdays Schedule:
Market offers fresh and unique local produce, plants, meats, baked goods and homemade crafts in a cultural setting.
9AM – 1PM
302 East Berry Street
The FWFM offers a variety of producer only vendors – Farm and Garden, Home-based Food, Natural Products, and Crafters. They strive to find a balance and good mix of food and product for the consumer.
9AM – 1PM
Corner of Barr & Wayne Street
Dick Stoner will give free magic demonstrations and show children how to do some of the magic tricks he sells in his fun store.
9:30am- 5:30pm.
FREE
www.stoners.com
Half price admission: $2.50 for adults; $1.50 for seniors and students; ages 2 and under and History Center members free
302 East Berry Street
(260) 426-2882
Butterflies with an African Beat
The Conservatory’s annual live butterfly exhibit returns, bringing with it the music of Africa! Showy butterfly specimens from the Old and New World join species imported from tropical Africa to mesmerize visitors as they get a close look in our display tent.
10am-5pm
$5 Adults
$3 Children (ages 3-17)
Free ~ Children age 2 & under
Members free
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
Animals are smarter than you think! In Wild Minds–What Animals Really Think, you will discover surprising and impressive thinking skills in a variety of animals.
Will offer half price admission!
10am to 5pm
Half Price Admission! $4.00 children and adults, $3.50 for seniors, free 2 and under.
1950 North Clinton Street
260-424-2400
www.sciencecentral.org
Yoga Basics
This class teaches the fundamentals of yoga. Focusing on alignment of Postures, breathing, and meditation/relaxation in a non-threatening format that is perfect for the beginner to roll out their welcome(yoga) MAT wherever they are in the present.
Noon – 1PM
218 Pearl Street
Pricing on website
Magic show honoring Dick Stoner featuring Ronald McDonald, Dick Stoner, Terry Owens and Magic Mary. Shoe concludes with a parade to BuskerFest.
2PM – 4PM
Downtown ACPL
Free
A Celebration of the Street Performer! Come downtown to Wayne & Calhoun Streets and One Summit Square to enjoy a festival featuring street performers, magicians, fire dancers and buskers of all kinds. No act is too eccentric!
4PM – 10PM
Free
Voices of Unity Youth Choir: Alive Again
Unity Performing Arts Foundation presents A Tribute to Michael Jackson & Whitney Houston featuring the World Champion Voices of Unity Youth Choir directed by Marshall White.
2PM and 7:30PM
TICKETS: $16 for Adults, $11 Seniors & students, $6 Children 12 & under
303 East Main St.
-f-Stops Here: Photography Exhibit
- Fiber Invitational
12noon-6pm
Suggested donation $2
300 E Main St.
Chihuly: Secret Garden & The Chihuly Effect: Pushing the Boundaries of Studio Glass
Dale Chihuly has changed the face of glass design and inspired other artists during his long career. In two connected exhibitions, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art is able to showcase glass artwork not generally found outside of larger cities
This exhibition will require an extra $7 ticket above the normal admission charge for viewing.
311 East Main Street
- AFROS: A Celebration of Natural Hair by Michael July
-Brilliant Optics: A Spectrum of Mediums and Color
-America’s Spirit: Evolution of a National Style
-The Myth of the Avant Garde: American Styles at the End of the Century
311 East Main Street
$5 adults, $3 students, $10 families, free for members.
Join the Allen County Public Library for Rock the Plaza each Saturday evening from June 1 through August 31. Bring your lawn chairs, a blanket, or dance the night away to music from some of the areas best groups.
Bands: Phils Family Lizard, Pink Droyd
6PM – 10PM
900 Library Plaza
FREE
Midnight Movies Series: Evil Intent
Every Last Saturday, Cinema Center shows cult and genre films.
437 E Berry St
11:59pm
$5
260.426.3456 (FILM)
Music by Joe Stabelli
6pm – 9pm
No cover
426-3411
Francie Zucco Quartet
9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
No cover
426-3442