Events This Week: June 5-11
Great Times Start Downtown! Downtown is Wichita’s favorite place to go for great art, local flavor, vibrant nightlife and active adventures. Explore events happening this week and plan your visit to downtown Wichita.
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June 6
First Friday Gallery Crawl, throughout the city core
The First Friday Gallery Crawl is a unique opportunity for thousands of students, families and art lovers to engage with local art each month at unique locations in downtown and throughout the city. This grassroots event continues to thrive because of the collective vision and collaboration of galleries and artists.
June 6-July 20
CityArts Juneteenth Exhibition
In celebration of Juneteenth, this exhibition brings together the work of 28 artists from across the United States, each exploring the power, beauty, and complexity of Black identity. All featured artworks are created by people of color or center people of color, offering a vibrant and varied lens through which to reflect on history, liberation, and the present moment.
Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the United States—but its legacy is not confined to the past. This show honors the ongoing struggle for justice, the richness of cultural expression, and the enduring creativity that blooms in resistance and resilience.
Across media and styles, these pieces speak to lived experience, collective memory, joy, mourning, and pride. Together, they form a chorus of voices—diverse, powerful, and necessary. This show is not only a celebration of freedom, but a recognition that freedom is a practice, an art, and a right still being claimed.
June 7
Dragging Douglas Pride and Arts Festival at Chainlink Gallery
It is time to UNITE, NOT DIVIDE! The inaugural Dragging Douglas Pride and Arts Festival was created to expand LGBTQ+ programming for the greater Wichita area. This one-day festival seeks to expose and celebrate our LGBTQ+ community through arts centered programming in the heart of our City.
We will kick off with family themed programming during the day (10AM-5PM), which will include an Arts Market, Drag Queen Story Hour, and student centered arts activities with the goal of exposing, educating and celebrating LGBTQ+ culture through the arts.
Evening/night programming (6-11PM) will be a Pride Celebration which will include a drag show, fashion show, and outdoor pride party, along with other surprise activities!
May 30 through June 7
Wichita Riverfest in Downtown
Kansas’ biggest outdoor party comes to downtown Wichita May 30 through June 7, 2025.
Wichita Riverfest is overflowing with activities, contests, shows, food, and cultural experiences that you can’t find anywhere else.
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