The How-To Festival returns to the Main Library

Want to learn how to operate a steamboat? Can vegetables? Keep bees in your backyard? Appreciate modern art?

These are just some of the more than 50 things you can learn in five hours at the Library’s annual How-To Festival.

This year’s Festival is a mix of past favorites—how to do Tai Chi, plant a garden, or Flamenco dance—along with new lessons, such as how to draw on your iPhone, make a sugar scrub, and decorate a cake pop. Kid-friendly activities include how to make slime, draw zentangles, or make a smoothie on a bike. And thanks to a partnership with the Louisville Urban Agriculture Coalition, the Festival will feature twenty gardening how-to sessions presented by Urban Ag member groups, including Idlewild Butterfly Farm, Wild Ones, Master Gardeners, and others.

The How-To Festival is FREE and takes place throughout the Main Library and surrounding grounds on Saturday, May 11, 10:00 a.m–3:00 p.m. Food trucks will be available.

Check out photos of past Festivals here.