Things to do in Detroit: Cinco de Mayo weekend
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This weekend is packed with horse racing, Star Wars parties and Cinco de Mayo.
🐎 The Kentucky Derby on Saturday is known as the most exciting two minutes in sports, but you can celebrate before and after the race at 6:57pm.
- Get gussied up for gourmet food stations, an open bar and live music at the 2024 Detroit Kentucky Derby Day Party from 4-10pm on the grounds of Marygrove Conservancy. Tickets: $70 general admission, $140 VIP.
- The Eastern Market Social Guild's Kentucky Derby event starts at 2pm at participating establishments in the area.
🚀 Embrace your inner Jedi at events celebrating May the Fourth, the annual Star Wars holiday:
- The Detroit Public Library's Redford branch has trivia, crafts and games from 1-4pm on Saturday.
- Saturday's also Star Wars day at the Southfield Public Library, where there's a morning droid scavenger hunt followed by a movie from the franchise — the selection will be based on visitors' votes — at 1:30pm.
🌮 Indulge in margaritas and tacos for Cinco de Mayo.
- Ferndale's free two-day festival features food trucks, lucha libre wrestling, live music and a kids zone. noon-11pm Saturday and 11am-8pm Sunday.
- El Club's Fiesta Detroit block party in Southwest has music, dancing, art and local vendors from 3pm-2am. Tickets, $10.
🖼️ Local artist Tiff Massey's new installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 7 Mile + Livernois, begins Sunday and runs through May 11.
- Admission is free for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb residents.
🏺 Pewabic Pottery's education studio students will be selling their ceramic works at the Pewabic Education pop-up on Saturday from 10am-5pm. Open to the public.