Local Ann Arbor Events
January
Ann Arbor Restaurant Week - Extraordinary three course dinner menus and prix fare lunch menus from Ann Arbor's best restaurants. Experience cuisine that delights your palate and defines the art of dining in Ann Arbor. Now is your chance to discover new restaurants and enjoy favorites at a discounted price.
Ann Arbor Folk Festival
March
Ann Arbor Film Festival - The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 160 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works.
April
University of Michigan Commencement
June
Taste of Ann Arbor - This annual community event features local restaurants offering visitors bite size, and some not so bite size, tastes of what they do best. Family fun abounds with live entertainment throughout the day. Come for old fashioned outdoor fun with crafts, hoolahoops, and sidewalk art.
Ann Arbor Restaurant Week - Extraordinary three course dinner menus and prix fare lunch menus from Ann Arbor's best restaurants. Experience cuisine that delights your palate and defines the art of dining in Ann Arbor. Now is your chance to discover new restaurants and enjoy favorites at a discounted price.
Green Fair - Downtown Main Street will be open to pedestrians for free entertainment, food, and over 120 exhibits with environmental information, hands-on activities for youth, Clean Energy Expo, Green Commute Options, BikeFest, WasteKnot Business Partners, walking tours, and more.
July
The Ann Arbor Art Fair - This July, artists with amazing talents and unsurpassed skills will take over the streeets of Ann Arbor and exhibit their work in the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. They will engage the imaginations of more than 500,000 fairgoers and form an amazing impression of sound, color, mystery, and drama. Combined, these elements will create an intriguing event that will challenge the mind and engage the eyes.
The Rolling Sculpture Car Show - The Rolling Sculpture Car Show features more than 400 exotic, antique, classic and concept cars, all parked on the streets of downtown Ann Arbor.
Michigan Elvisfest - The world-renowned Michigan Elvisfest began in 2000 at Ypsilanti, Michigan's Historic Depot Town. Beautiful Riverside Park is the place where Elvis fans flock by the thousands every July to pay homage to the "King of Rock 'n' Roll" and to hear the most award-winning professional Elvis tribute artists in North America, as well as other talented legend tribute artists.
Thunder over Michigan Air Show - See demonstrations from the largest gathering of B-17s in the world. Meet legendary WWII veterans who flew and maintained them. See the U.S. Navy's top fighter and attack aircraft, the F/A-18F SuperHornet. Also witness a battlefield reenactment and much, much more!
Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival - The Michigan Brewers Guild proudly presents the 14th Annual Summer Beer Festival at Riverside Park in Depot Town, Ypsilanti. The festival is a showcase of more than 300 hand-crafted beers in a variety of styles from over 50 Michigan breweries.
Manchester Chicken Broil - The Chicken Broil provides a delicious chicken dinner complete with ½ chicken, roll with butter, fresh made cole slaw with secret local recipe, radishes, chips and beverage. Additional soft drinks, water and ice cream are available as extras. Entertainment and lots of camaraderie are provided for your enjoyment! An antique car show is included.
August
Dexter Daze - From 1975 until today, "Dexter Daze" has occurred every year. Enthusiasm, as well as community growth, has developed an event that includes over 100 booths of artisans and crafters, a community parade, historical tours, free entertainment and a sense of "community" with people knowing and caring for their neighbors.
Manchester Riverfolk Festival - Three stages with Cajun, Bluegrass, Blues entertainment, music and dance workshops, fiddle contest, songwriting contest, healthy kids area and juried art show. Free parking and shuttle all day and evening. Lawn chairs welcome, but please keep your pets at home.
November
Saline Craft Show - The annual Saline Craft Show is rated as one of the top 10 craft shows in Michigan! The event will include decorative painting, stoneware, rugs, birdhouses, holiday decorating ideas, ceramics, calligraphy and clothing. Crafters come from 14 states and 155 Michigan cities. Saline student organizations also will be working at the show's concession stand, bake sale and other activities.
December
2011 Saline Holiday Parade & Santa Village - The Saline Holiday Parade is starting at the corner of Michigan Ave. and Harris Street. Come and watch the 1,500 plus parade participants which include local bands, floats and vehicles. They usually have a variety of animals including reindeers, dogs, goats, burros, llamas, horses and other assorted animals.
Dexter's Home for the Holidays - Join the Village of Dexter for their annual Holiday celebration in and around downtown Dexter.