In search of enjoyable and reasonably priced issues to do? Check out these neighborhood occasions

From farmers markets to festivals, wellness courses and block events, there’s all the time one thing to do in the course of the summer season in Milwaukee. 

Here are some free occasions taking place in Milwaukee neighborhoods:

(Check out our live performance collection listing right here.)

Markets

Walker Square Farmers Market

The South Side market runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays via Sept. 28 in Walker Square Park, 1031 S. ninth St, and options produce distributors, stay music, actions and extra. The Square Plaza Market, a makers market and automobile expo, will even be taking place within the park from 10 a.m. to three p.m. on Aug. 17. More information here. 

Fondy Farmers Market

The Fondy Farmers Market’s common season hours are 9 a.m. to midday Thursdays, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays via Oct. 30 at 2200 W. Fond du Lac Ave. More information here.

Jackson Park Farmers Market

From 3 p.m. to six:30 p.m. on Thursdays via Oct. 2, the Jackson Park Farmers Market is underway at 3500 W. Forest Home Ave. The market space is positioned on the Kinnickinnic River Parkway, subsequent to the pond and boathouse. More information here.

Enderis Park Farmers Market

The Enderis Park Farmers Market takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sundays via Oct. 27 at Enderis Park, 72nd and Locust streets. There’s a pay-what-you-can yoga class on the market from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 3 and Aug. 17. More information here. 

Other neighborhood occasions

Milwaukee Rec Summer Community Wellness

Milwaukee Rec has a number of free neighborhood wellness actions this summer season, together with free yoga and zumba within the park, neighborhood bike rides, meditation and forest bathing. Register for courses here. More information here. 

Rolling with Rina

Milwaukee Recreation is internet hosting a free summer season skate collection with teacher Rina at parks throughout town. Free skate leases shall be out there (whereas provides final) from 1:30 to three:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25 and Friday, Aug.15 at Burnham Playfield, 1755 S. thirty second St., and Friday, Aug. 8 at Franklin Square Playfield, 2643 N. thirteenth St. More information here.

Summer Park Jam

True Skool’s family-friendly Summer Park Jam returns from midday to eight p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 on the Peck Pavillion, 929 N. Water St. The occasion will characteristic stay performances by EPMD and DJ Scratch, distributors, graffiti, interactive artwork, breakin battles and extra. More information here.

National Night Out

There are a number of National Night Out occasions scheduled with the Milwaukee Police Department from Aug. 5 to Aug. 13, together with in District 7 from 3 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 5 at Harriet Tubman Park, 4750 N. forty eighth St.; District 5 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 1960 W. Atkinson Ave., District 6 from 5 to eight p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7 at 2200 W. Kinnickinnic River Parkway; District 3 at Johnson’s Park, 1919 W. Fond du Lac Ave., from 2 to six p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 13. More information here.

Shakespeare in the Park 

Returning this yr with performances of “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” video games and different actions is Optimist Theatre’s Shakespeare within the Park. This season, which runs on Saturdays and Sundays via Aug. 17, has dates at quite a lot of parks, together with at Mitchell Park on Saturday, July 26 and Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum on Sunday, Aug. 3. More information here.

Fond Du Lac Food Festival

Fond Du Lac BID 54 is internet hosting a celebration of meals from 10 a.m. to three p.m. on Saturday, July 26 on the Sherman Park Grocery Store, 4315 W. Fond du Lac Ave. More information here.

Movie Night at Davidson Park

Bring the household to free film nights at Davidson Park, 3725 W. Juneau Ave. In partnership with Near West Side Partners, the movies begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25, Aug. 15 and Sept. 12. More information here.

Caribbean and Latin American Festival

From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 10, the Caribbean and Latin American Festival shall be held at Humboldt Park, 3000 W. Howell Ave. The occasion encompasses a neighborhood useful resource truthful, limbo dance contest, native bands and meals from Caribbean and Latin American international locations and extra. More information here.

Hip-Hop Week MKE

Hip-Hop Week MKE is scheduled to return from Aug. 18 to Aug. 23, with occasions wanting “through the lens of health, financial literacy and civic engagement.” The annual celebration of hip-hop tradition will characteristic performances, seminars and different occasions. More information here. 

Meredith Melland is the neighborhoods reporter for the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service and a corps member of Report for America, a nationwide service program that locations journalists in native newsrooms to report on under-covered points and communities. Report for America performs no position in editorial choices within the NNS newsroom.

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