Fort Wayne's Downtown Improvement District Weekly Newsletter
Newsletter Date: April 27, 2017 - Newsletter Issue 375

Michiana Wine Festival


Sample over 100 wines from wineries and vendors across the region plus live music on the festival stage, a spring craft market, and food trucks! Buy your favorites, too!


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KickStart 2017
The Month of May

Kickstart your summer with this month long community celebration of bikes, art, music, and theater!

Mother's Day Downtown
Free Trolleys

Free trolleys and event guides will connect you to great retail locations, restaurants, and Mother's Day themed activities around Downtown. 

Fort Wayne Music Festival
Headwaters Park

The purpose of the Fort Wayne Music Festival  is to highlight the cities' rich musical tradition and the talent of the regional artist.
Tour boats to hit waterways
Friends of the Rivers

Friends of the Rivers, a local nonprofit, bought the boat and will launch it this summer, bulking up the local fleet that includes a new replica 1840s canal boat, which will also debut this year.

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The Forgotten Necessity of  Fort Wayne 's Bus System
By Kara Hackett

The fact is, the people you don't see every day, the people waiting at the bus stop, the people who don't look like you or act like you or dress like you, the people you might be afraid to approach, do need public transportation.
Cherry Blossom Festival
Allen County Public Library - Main

Join Ohio Kimono for the 11th annual Cherry Blossom Festival Fort Wayne, Indiana! This epic yearly Festival is rich in Japanese culture! Best of all, it's free to attend!


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BBQ Ribfest
Headwaters Park

BBQ Ribfest has twenty years of the very best in blues, brews, and barbeque with national award-winning BBQ teams competing for the covered people's choice and critics choice awards.
Hobnobben Preview Party
City Exchange Shops

You are invited to join the party at the City Exchange Shops! This is free and open to the public.
Star Wars 40th Anniversary
Fort Wayne Philharmonic

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars with your favorite themes from the groundbreaking film.

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Downtown Gateway Feature

Design Week Fort Wayne
May 8 - May 12

We are a city that celebrates talent and inspires unique design. Building on our momentum from last year, we're eager to host our second annual Design Week Fort Wayne, a weeklong showcase of fashion, architecture, urban planning, interior design, and graphic design.

 
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