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There’s always something fun going on downtown! Below you’ll find a list of events scheduled for today. Use the filters at the top to find events by date, keyword, and more. You can also view the calendar by month or as a list of 20 events at a time.

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Downtown Events Calendar

World Refugee Day Celebration

Dayton Metro Library – Main Library 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH

Dayton Metro Library partners with Welcome Dayton to host a World Refugee Day Celebration on Saturday, June 22, 11 am-2 ...

Exhibit: Andy Snow: Time Mends, Space Blends

The Contemporary Dayton 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, United States

The Contemporary Dayton presents a series of blended photographs from the Flood of 1913 and present day Dayton, Ohio by ...

Exhibit: Tess Cortés: Vanishing Point

The Contemporary Dayton 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, United States

Using digitized family movies, photographs, and computer-generated 3D models of heirloom objects, Cortés invites viewers to contemplate the intersection of ...

Gem City Expo Flea Market

Yellow Cab Tavern 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, United States

A marketplace celebrating entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and community in Dayton! Featuring vintage items, home decor, art, and more. Plus a ...

Experience the Exhibition: Riveting Metal Works

The Dayton Art Institute 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, United States

Featured Gallery / Exhibition: Special Exhibition: Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection Make a ...

Rock n’ Roll Paint Fest for Pride

Rabbit Hole Books 27 W. First St., Dayton, OH

Come on down to Rabbit Hole Books to paint some rocks, listen to old tunes, and enjoy ice cream outside ...

JAM Foodie Tour

Sueno 607 E. Third St., Dayton, OH

JAM Foodie Tours are currently walking, talking, and eating on select Fridays and Saturdays in June and July @3:00p starting ...

JAM Foodie Tour

Sueno 607 E. Third St., Dayton, OH

JAM Foodie Tours are currently walking, talking, and eating on select Fridays and Saturdays in June and July @3:00p starting ...

JAM Foodie Tour

Sueno 607 E. Third St., Dayton, OH

JAM Foodie Tours are currently walking, talking, and eating on select Fridays and Saturdays in June and July @3:00p starting ...

Superior Donuts

Dayton Theatre Guild 430 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH, USA

Arthur Przybyszewski, a former 1960s radical, owns a rundown donut shop in Chicago’s Uptown. His only employee, an energetic but ...

2024 Shine Dayton Celebration

America's Packard Museum 420 S. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH

Shine Dayton was founded in 2016 by a group of young professionals who wanted to engage more of their generation ...

Artist Talk with Katherine Kadish & David Leach

The Contemporary Dayton 25 W. Fourth St., Dayton, OH, United States

Artists Katherine Kadish & David Leach discuss their work, Crossroads, on display at The Contemporary Dayton. Exhibit runs through August 10, ...

David Payne Album Release

Yellow Cab Tavern 700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH, United States

David Payne is releasing his new honky tonk album, Last Call At The Yellow Horse Saloon, on Magnaphone Records. Join ...

Soundtrack Magic: John Williams And Friends

The Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center 1 West Second Street, Dayton, OH

Grab your popcorn for an evening of beloved musical works from the silver screen! Featuring familiar songs from movies like 2001: ...

Exhibit: What’s New?

Dayton Metro Library – Main Library 215 E. Third Street, Dayton, OH

As part of Dayton Metro Library’s celebration of Juneteenth, the Library welcomes a traveling exhibit, What’s New?, from the African ...

The Quiet World of Edward Hopper

The Dayton Art Institute 456 Belmonte Park N, Dayton, OH, United States

June 15–September 8, 2024 Few artists have been able to convey a distinct vision of the world as directly as ...

Church of Funk

Oregon Express 336 E. 5th Street, Dayton, OH, USA

Cooley the Curator, *Aka Pastor Cooley,* will be presiding over the wheels of steel between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. ...