Zoo Boo returns to the Detroit Zoo for four October weekends, and this year it starts an hour earlier and includes something that was not there last fall: the $49 million Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails. Here are the
One night in September, Detroit’s oldest market district trades produce trucks for projection art. Eastern Market After Dark returns Thursday, September 17, 2026, from 6 to 11 p.m., and it is free and all ages, according to the official event
The Detroit Jazz Festival is free, it runs Labor Day weekend, and this year the whole thing fits in one place for the first time. For its 47th year, the festival pulls all three main stages inside Hart Plaza, so
For seven weekends starting August 22, 312 acres of Holly stop being 2026. The Michigan Renaissance Festival returns for its run through October 4, plus Labor Day Monday and one Festival Friday, with jousting, turkey legs, seven themed weekends, and
Goodyear is opening its first retail concept store in Detroit, and it picked the loudest weekend of the year to do it. The Goodyear Motor City Garage opens to the public Saturday, August 15 at 8 a.m. at 3075 East
Brighton turns into Stars Hollow again this fall. Destination Stars Hollow returns September 26 and 27, transforming the Livingston County downtown into the Gilmore Girls town for a third year, with Kelly Bishop, Scott Patterson, and Sean Gunn meeting fans
Metro Detroit is sitting on a full calendar of free outdoor movies, and nobody has put the whole list in one place. Downtown, Movie Nights in the D runs every Friday at Campus Martius through August 28. On the west
The Woodward Dream Cruise is not one event. It is a week of them, and the official 2026 city lineup is now posted. Around the main cruise on Saturday, August 15, the towns along Woodward stack their own parades, car
Once a year, a stretch of Livernois Avenue on Detroit’s northwest side closes to through traffic and fills with runway models, open artist studios, boutique racks pushed out onto the sidewalk, and food vendors. That is Light Up Livernois, a
Detroit’s riverfront is about to turn into a three-day celebration of the whole African diaspora, and you are invited. The African World Festival 2026 takes over Hart Plaza from Friday, July 10 to Sunday, July 12, 2026, with live music,
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