387 past events with the outdoor events tag
8 upcoming events with this tagJun 5, 2025
Thursday
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The Spring 2025 Muncie YART! 5pm to 8pm @ Canan Commons 500 South Walnut Street
#YART is a Yard Sale for Art held during ArtsWalk on the First Thursday of every June and October at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie! All Art priced under $40! The Spring 2025 Muncie YART will be from 5-8p on Thursday, June 5th during the Brink of Summer ArtsWalk! This is a HUGE event with hundreds of Artists!
YART Artist Sign Up is on May 1st on the Muncie YART Facebook page - it's FREE to all Artists! Signing up means you are IN!
YART has a zero-dollar budget and is proof that community members working together can create an extremely successful and fun experience! Volunteers are sought for the YART Artist Set-Up from 3-5p on June 5th, show up to HELP, thank you! ♥️
Learn More about YART:
https://www.facebook.com/Muncie-YART-156725934394407
Learn More about the Brink of Summer ArtsWalk:
First Thursdays with the Muncie Makers Market 5pm to 8pm @ Adams & Walnut in Downtown Muncie Adams & Walnut in Downtown Muncie
FIRST THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun community experience EVERY MONTH for First Thursdays in Downtown Muncie! ALL OUTDOORS! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, you can also have a great time with live geode/rock cutting with Wook's Workshop, check out Kat's Crystals & Curiosities along the path of our Market, and explore the many arty opportunities throughout Downtown Muncie's First Thursday Gallery Walks! The Muncie Makers Market is so happy to get back outside with the First Thursday community events, a popular local tradition, going many years back, with all sorts of vendors, artists, and entertainers set up throughout all of Downtown Muncie. Come shop with us and enjoy your community!
The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up DWNTWN throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/
First Thursday Gallery Walks:
https://www.downtownmuncie.org/first-thursday
Kat's Crystals & Curiosities:
https://www.katscrystalsandcuriosities.com
Advance Vendor Registration is required to be a Vendor at each selling event with the Muncie Makers Market. 🌿
Jun 14, 2025
Saturday
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Normal City Slickers 8pm @ The Guardian Brewing Co Outside in MadJax courtyard 514 E Jackson St, Muncie, IN 47305
Normal City Slickers are back at The Guardian as part of our Summer Concert Series! Saturday, June 14th from 8pm-10pm
Join them outside in the MadJax courtyard with craft beer and great food.
*No outside food or drinks allowed. Guardian drinks are restricted to MadJax courtyard and inside The Guardian*Jun 18, 2025
Wednesday
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Pollinator Week 3pm to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
June 16–22; 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
Location: Gardens
Free Community EventCelebrate Pollinator Week by embarking on a garden adventure at Minnetrista! We’re inviting the community to explore our beautiful garden spaces and learn about the important relationship between plants and pollinators.
Each day, a horticulturist will be stationed in a different garden—Bird & Butterfly Garden, East Lawn Rain Garden, Orchard Garden, or Four Seasons Garden—to share fascinating facts about the pollinators that call the area home and how they support our ecosystems. Find the gardener, learn something new, and receive a free seed packet as a reward for your discovery!
Jun 19, 2025
Thursday
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Pollinator Week 3pm to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
June 16–22; 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
Location: Gardens
Free Community EventCelebrate Pollinator Week by embarking on a garden adventure at Minnetrista! We’re inviting the community to explore our beautiful garden spaces and learn about the important relationship between plants and pollinators.
Each day, a horticulturist will be stationed in a different garden—Bird & Butterfly Garden, East Lawn Rain Garden, Orchard Garden, or Four Seasons Garden—to share fascinating facts about the pollinators that call the area home and how they support our ecosystems. Find the gardener, learn something new, and receive a free seed packet as a reward for your discovery!
Jun 20, 2025
Friday
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Pollinator Week 3pm to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
June 16–22; 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
Location: Gardens
Free Community EventCelebrate Pollinator Week by embarking on a garden adventure at Minnetrista! We’re inviting the community to explore our beautiful garden spaces and learn about the important relationship between plants and pollinators.
Each day, a horticulturist will be stationed in a different garden—Bird & Butterfly Garden, East Lawn Rain Garden, Orchard Garden, or Four Seasons Garden—to share fascinating facts about the pollinators that call the area home and how they support our ecosystems. Find the gardener, learn something new, and receive a free seed packet as a reward for your discovery!
Jun 21, 2025
Saturday
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Halteman Neighborhood Park Party
11am to 3pm @
Halteman Park
Note: Free parking available at Remedy City Church
4205 N Lancaster Dr
We have TONS OF FUN for all ages including:
FOOD TRUCKS • BOUNCE HOUSES • CORNHOLE • GIANT JENGA • OTHER GAMES • SPLASH PAD • BASKETBALL • PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT • PLAYGROUND • ROPE PYRAMID • MUNCIE POLICE & MUNCIE FIRE DEPTS • FACE PAINTING • BRACELET MAKING AND MORE!
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Live music will be provided by THE ROGER OSBURN TRIO (Roger Osburn, Lenen Nicola and Wade Terry). They will be playing a variety of music including songs by Sting, Prince, Van Morrison and others, in addition to acoustic, R&B, reggae. They have performed at the Slippery Noodle, VIP Stage at Ruoff, and various wineries, breweries, and other venues.
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Food trucks confirmed:
KONA Ice • Baskin Robbins • Smokey Drew’s BBQ • Outlaw’s Deep Fried Chicken-on-a-Stick • Eats, Sweets & Treats
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Plus the following vendors:
Backstage Beauty Spa • Michelle Tinch - Tastefully Simple Independent Ambassador • Southern Crafts by Linda • Eats Sweets & Treats • Muncie Public Library • Ball State FCU • Stitch Witch • MJ Creations • Whisk Taker • Blue Angel • Thyme for Tropicals • KRT Farms • Goddess Glow Candles • Naes Cozy Craft House • Isaiah 117 House and more!
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Bring your sunscreen and lawn chairs and come have some fun celebrating Halteman's 70th Birthday at this free community event!
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Parking available at Remedy City Church (4100 N. Oakwood). The park is a short walk from the church - take either Purdue, Barcelona or Sheffield to Lancaster. Also, there is a MITS bus stop at the entrance of the neighborhood on Wheeling Ave (just past Ruoff Mortgage). From there, take Sheffield down to Lancaster.
Pollinator Week 3pm to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
June 16–22; 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
Location: Gardens
Free Community EventCelebrate Pollinator Week by embarking on a garden adventure at Minnetrista! We’re inviting the community to explore our beautiful garden spaces and learn about the important relationship between plants and pollinators.
Each day, a horticulturist will be stationed in a different garden—Bird & Butterfly Garden, East Lawn Rain Garden, Orchard Garden, or Four Seasons Garden—to share fascinating facts about the pollinators that call the area home and how they support our ecosystems. Find the gardener, learn something new, and receive a free seed packet as a reward for your discovery!
Blue Blazes 8pm @ The Guardian Brewing Co Outside in MadJax courtyard 514 E Jackson St, Muncie, IN 47305
Jun 22, 2025
Sunday
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Pollinator Week 3pm to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
June 16–22; 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
Location: Gardens
Free Community EventCelebrate Pollinator Week by embarking on a garden adventure at Minnetrista! We’re inviting the community to explore our beautiful garden spaces and learn about the important relationship between plants and pollinators.
Each day, a horticulturist will be stationed in a different garden—Bird & Butterfly Garden, East Lawn Rain Garden, Orchard Garden, or Four Seasons Garden—to share fascinating facts about the pollinators that call the area home and how they support our ecosystems. Find the gardener, learn something new, and receive a free seed packet as a reward for your discovery!
Jun 28, 2025
Saturday
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White Lies & the Half Truth with Prairie Creek Sirens at GBC 7pm @ The Guardian Brewing Co Outside in MadJax courtyard 514 E Jackson St, Muncie, IN 47305
White Lies & the Half Truth make their Muncie debut with special guests, Prairie Creek Sirens!
Get some craft beer from The Guardian Brewing Company and some amazing food while kicking back in the MadJax courtyard!
*No outside food or drinks allowed. Guardian drinks are restricted to MadJax courtyard and inside The Guardian*Jul 3, 2025
Thursday
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First Thursdays with the Muncie Makers Market 5pm to 8pm @ Adams & Walnut in Downtown Muncie Adams & Walnut in Downtown Muncie
FIRST THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun community experience EVERY MONTH for First Thursdays in Downtown Muncie! ALL OUTDOORS! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, you can also have a great time with live geode/rock cutting with Wook's Workshop, check out Kat's Crystals & Curiosities along the path of our Market, and explore the many arty opportunities throughout Downtown Muncie's First Thursday Gallery Walks! The Muncie Makers Market is so happy to get back outside with the First Thursday community events, a popular local tradition, going many years back, with all sorts of vendors, artists, and entertainers set up throughout all of Downtown Muncie. Come shop with us and enjoy your community!
The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up DWNTWN throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/
First Thursday Gallery Walks:
https://www.downtownmuncie.org/first-thursday
Kat's Crystals & Curiosities:
https://www.katscrystalsandcuriosities.com
Advance Vendor Registration is required to be a Vendor at each selling event with the Muncie Makers Market. 🌿
Jul 4, 2025
Friday
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Fourth of July 2025 with America's Hometown Band 7pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens Front Entrance Canopy 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy
Jul 17, 2025
Thursday
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Crooner Myles Ogea + AHB = A Great Music Matchup 7pm to 8:15pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy
AHB Concert Band brings Guest Vocalist Myles Ogea back to Muncie - his hometown - to serenade us all with tunes in the Sinatra/Buble style. Join us on the lawn at Minnetrista’s main building, from 7- 8:15 pm, July 17.
Bring lawn chair & parasol 🎵Jul 24, 2025
Thursday
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"Havin' it Made in the Shade" by the AHB Jazz/Swing Band & bandleader Larry McWilliams 7:30pm @ Westside Park 801 S. Nichols Ave. and 2400 W. White River Pkwy
Aug 2, 2025
Saturday
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Fire Up DWNTWN 1pm to 10pm @ Downtown Muncie Walnut, Main to the Roundabout Many Locations throughout Downtown Muncie
Packed with engaging activities and attractions for the whole family, Fire Up DWNTWN is the can’t-miss, over-the-top-hot event of the season! With a mixture of hot air balloons, spicy foods, smokin’ ribs, live music, games, contests, and more, the summer’s peak extravaganza can’t come soon enough! 🔥
This is a TRULY HUGE EVENT, learn more here:
Muncie Makers Market @ Fire Up DWNTWN 1pm to 10pm @ Canan Commons & Throughout Downtown Muncie 500 South Walnut Street
Packed with engaging activities and attractions for the whole family, Fire Up DWNTWN is the can’t-miss, over-the-top-hot event of the season! With a mixture of hot air balloons, spicy foods, smokin’ ribs, live music, games, contests, and more, the summer’s peak extravaganza can’t come soon enough! 🔥
Special Shape Hot Air Balloons, Glow Show & Balloon Baskets
Meet larger-than-life hot air balloon characters, sponsored by Clubhouse Bar & Grill, MadSweets, Woof Boom Radio, and 3Rivers FCU, and watch as they glow in an exciting evening show, sponsored by MITS. Experience the heat up close as you pull the trigger on the flames of a hot air balloon basket, sponsored by The Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County and NASH FM.
Hot Air Balloon Tethered Rides
Purchase your ticket and reach for the sky! Take a tethered hot air balloon ride and get a one-of-a-kind view of the festivities.
NEW! Remote Control Hot Air Balloons
Get close to the action with four 20-foot-tall remote control hot air balloons, sponsored by Wealth Strategies, Inc. Watch with excitement as a “Cloudhopper” balloon attempts a dramatic ascent above the crowd.
Sizzlin’ Spectacles
Don’t miss the Liquid Fire Iron Pour, sponsored by Destination: Muncie, materials provided by Grede, as metals artisans practice their ancient craft. Check out the Just Jeepin’ Cruise-In, sponsored by Lamar Advertising, and motorcycle, and van shows. Enjoy plenty of fun activities for kids and adults alike. Finish off the night by taking in the fireworks finale.
Live Music & Entertainment
Enjoy local and regional music acts, the DWNTWN IDOL Round 2 performance, performance sponsored by First Merchants Bank, and more exciting events. Cardinal Community Stage sponsored by Ball State University, Canan Commons Stage sponsored by Ivy Tech Muncie.
Taste the Heat
Looking for some spice? We’ll have several food vendors serving up delectable ribs, delicious BBQ, and many more unique treats. Need to cool off? Stop in at one of our many fantastic restaurants DWNTWN and sample our local fare.
And So Much More…
Fire Up DWNTWN is the biggest event of the year. Shop with local vendors, get your thrill on the euro bungee and rock wall, and enjoy a variety of performances. Check out the Kid’s HotSpot and the Red Hot Children’s Express train, sponsored by The Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County.
Aug 7, 2025
Thursday
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First Thursdays with the Muncie Makers Market 5pm to 8pm @ MadJax Maker Force 515 East Main Street Muncie, In 47305
👉 SPECIAL APPEARANCE at MADJAX for AUGUST’s First Thursday at their OPEN HOUSE! 👈
FIRST THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun community experience EVERY MONTH for First Thursdays in Downtown Muncie! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, you can also have a great time with live geode/rock cutting with Wook's Workshop, check out Kat's Crystals & Curiosities along the path of our Market, and explore the many arty opportunities throughout Downtown Muncie's First Thursday Gallery Walks! The Muncie Makers Market is so happy to get back outside with the First Thursday community events, a popular local tradition, going many years back, with all sorts of vendors, artists, and entertainers set up throughout all of Downtown Muncie. Come shop with us and enjoy your community!The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up Muncie throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/
First Thursday Gallery Walks:
https://www.downtownmuncie.org/first-thursday
Kat's Crystals & Curiosities:
https://www.katscrystalsandcuriosities.com
Advance Vendor Registration is required to be a Vendor at each selling event with the Muncie Makers Market. 🌿
Aug 14, 2025
Thursday
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Halteman Neighborhood Park Party
11am to 3pm @
Halteman Park
Note: Free parking available at Remedy City Church
4205 N Lancaster Dr
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