Community Calendar

GINKGO GALORE™ is a daylong arts and music festival celebrating creativity and community in Wilmore, Kentucky, the Ginkgo Capital of America. Held Saturday, October 24, 2026, the festival features live music, juried art exhibitions, artisan vendors, food, storytelling, family activities, and the Ginkgo GO! 5K. Through a unique network of community event partners, the town itself becomes the festival experience as visitors explore Wilmore beneath its iconic golden ginkgo canopy. GINKGO GALORE™ invites guests to slow down, discover something unexpected, and experience one of Kentucky's most distinctive fall celebrations. Learn more at GinkgoGalore.com.

McConathy Farm Rescue Team 12th Annual Benefit & Horse Show — Saturday, October 24, 2026, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., 5032 Whites Lane, Lexington. Join us for a family-friendly day benefiting McConathy Farm Rescue Team, a local 501(c)(3) equine rescue. The event will include horses, horse rides, a horse show and games, vendors, food, live music and a large silent auction. Admission is $5; children 5 and under are free. Proceeds support our horse rescue, sanctuary and community outreach programs. For more information visit mcconathyfarmrescue.com.

Good and evil battle it out on the symphony stage this October! 🍿🎶

Heroes & Villains explores the most thrilling themes of the film world's most legendary composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, and more on October 24 & 25 at the Singletary Center for the Arts.

Enjoy frightful fun at the Phil—dress in your best cinema inspired attire, enter to win special prizes in our official costume contest, capture the evening at the photo booth, and much more as we explore the movie’s most iconic heroes and villains.

Grab your seat at 🔗 lexphil.org/heroes-and-villains.

Good and evil battle it out on the symphony stage this October! 🍿🎶

Heroes & Villains explores the most thrilling themes of the film world's most legendary composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, and more on October 24 & 25 at the Singletary Center for the Arts.

Enjoy frightful fun at the Phil—dress in your best cinema inspired attire, enter to win special prizes in our official costume contest, capture the evening at the photo booth, and much more as we explore the movie’s most iconic heroes and villains.

Grab your seat at 🔗 lexphil.org/heroes-and-villains.

Join us for German food, folksongs, beer, wine, silent auction and cash raffle, and entertainment by members of the Choir and friends

Summer Singers is a mixed choir singing for its 39th summer. Singers must be at least high school aged. There is no audition. The 2026 program will celebrate the variety of musical styles of choral music in this nation, from the Revolutionary period to the present.

What happens when love, obsession, and imagination collide?
Experience Hector Berlioz’s "Symphonie fantastique," one of the most dramatic and groundbreaking works in the orchestral repertoire.

Through five vivid movements, Berlioz takes listeners on a wild musical journey of passion, dreams, a ballroom, a march to the scaffold, and a fantastical witches’ sabbath.

Summer Singers is a mixed choir singing for its 39th summer. Singers must be at least high school aged. There is no audition. The 2026 program will celebrate the variety of musical styles of choral music in this nation, from the Revolutionary period to the present.

Amadeus Lex presents a "Shadow of the Curtain," a chamber music concert. The weight of the Soviet empire couldn't stop Russian composer Shostakovich and Armenian composer Babajanian from writing great chamber music. Featuring Sila Darville, violin, Bailey Yates, violin, Jonathan Crosmer, viola, Luke Darville, cello, and Madeline Rogers, piano. Free admission; donations welcome!

Amadeus Lex presents a "Shadow of the Curtain," a chamber music concert. The weight of the Soviet empire couldn't stop Russian composer Shostakovich and Armenian composer Babajanian from writing great chamber music. Featuring Sila Darville, violin, Bailey Yates, violin, Jonathan Crosmer, viola, Luke Darville, cello, and Madeline Rogers, piano. Free admission; donations welcome!