Richmond's weekend has balloons, brews and garden tours

Friday

🎈 The Richmond Hot Air Balloon Festival is taking over Doswell's Meadow Event Park, offering tethered balloon rides and a nightly glow show, plus DJs and food and craft vendors. 5pm Friday and Saturday. Adult admission is $44.52.

🍻 Pop over to Benchtop Brewing in Manchester and try their Star Wars-inspired "smooth, dark and dangerously drinkable" Disturbance In the Schwarz brew. Tastes like revenge and daddy issues. Brewery open every day but Mondays.

Saturday

🌺 Church Hill Spring Fest is back at Libby Hill Park with music, dozens of vendors and food trucks. Noon-5pm. Free.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Decompress at Rest Fest at Dogwood Dell with yoga, meditations, breathwork, reflections and a song circle. 10am-8pm. Tickets start at $22.

🎤 Pocahontas Premieres, a music series at Pocahontas State Park, kicks off its new season with "American Idol" alum, Richmonder and country singer Carrie Brockwell. 7-10pm. $20.

🛋️ An interior design symposium and trade show — "Fancy This! Celebrating 250 Years of American Style" — is happening all day at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Doors at 10am. $259.77, includes lunch.

📐 "Imagining Best Products" opens at The Branch Museum of Design. The exhibit explores the experimental, architectural design that helped shape the Richmond-based store. Runs through June 21. $10 museum admission.

🖼️ "India's Great Mughals: Art, Power and Opulence," an exhibit featuring 200 objects from 16th- and 17-century India, opens at VMFA. Runs through Aug. 23. Adult tickets are $12.

Sunday

🌷 Agecroft Hall & Gardens is once again offering free admission to the gardens for Mother's Day. Noon-5pm. Free.

🏘️ Take mom to the Museum District Association's Mother's Day House & Garden Tour and wander through strangers' well-decorated homes (and gardens). 1-6pm. $33.85.

🫗 It's the last weekend to stop by Richmond's Stone Brewing tasting room before it closes on May 14. Open noon-9pm. Live jazz on Sunday.