Your weekend plans: Jupiter Flights Balloon Festival, French Market, Opera in the Park and more
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Look to the sky this weekend as Indiana's largest hot-air balloon festival returns to Conner Prairie.
Driving the news: Dozens of balloons will take flight Friday through Sunday during the Jupiter Flights Balloon Festival.
- Expect live entertainment, food, carnival rides and family activities in Fishers throughout the weekend.
- The evening sessions are sold out, but tickets remain for morning launches headlined by pilots competing to drop markers on targets from the sky.
- Other morning activities include a barrel train ride, craft-making, face painting and the 1859 Balloon Voyage Exhibit.
If you go: Morning events run 7-9:30am Saturday and Sunday.
- Tickets are $10 for members and $20 for non-members.
- A ticket gets you access to Conner Prairie's museum and grounds later that day.
More weekend picks
🎷 Hear local jazz group The Jazz Mamas close out Indianapolis Propylaeum's 2026 Porch Concert Series with a free show, 6pm Friday.
💃 Experience an accessible, community-focused evening of dance and creative expression for free during Dance 2 Connect at 10 East Arts HUB, 6:30-8pm Friday.
🎤 Party with country-pop duo Dan + Shay as they bring The Young Tour to Ruoff Music Center with Tyler Hubbard and Josh Ross, 7pm Friday.
- Tickets start at $28.
⚾ Bid summer at the ballpark farewell when the Indianapolis Indians host the Omaha Storm Chasers in their final homestand of the season at Victory Field.
- Games start at 6:35pm Friday and Saturday, and 1:35pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $15.
🎼 Help the Indianapolis Opera kick off its season during the free Opera in the Park concert at Garfield Park's MacAllister Amphitheater, 7pm Friday.
🎭 Witness a two-person drama about love, responsibility and the future when LUNGS is presented at the District Theatre.
- Performances start at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday, and 4pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $25. Student and senior tickets start at $20.
🥐 Sample French food, shop an artisan market and hear live music at the St. Joan of Arc French Market, 12-10pm Saturday.
🏠 Explore 10 historic homes on a self-guided journey during the Lockerbie Square Home & Garden Tour, 12-5pm Saturday.
- Tickets start at $25. Children 12 and under are free.
🎤 See country singer-songwriter Niko Moon bring his talents to Fishers' Nickel Plate District Amphitheater, 7pm Saturday.
- Tickets start at $31.
❤️ Support HIV services across Indiana during the annual Indiana AIDS Walk at the Indiana History Center, 11am–2pm, with the walk beginning at 1pm.
🎶 Hear free, family-friendly outdoor music from Natural Information Society, A Bright Abyss, Harmony in Hamilton and others during Levitt VIBE Indianapolis at CAMi, 12-3pm Sunday.
😂 Laugh with "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness as he brings the "Hot & Healed Comedy Tour" to the Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 8pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $46.