Around Town: July 29-31

Friday, JULY 29:

12:00PM Families First at Empower Place
1720 Wyoming Street

Join Families First Learning Lab in Empower every friday from 12-1 for crafts, coloring, and more!

2:00PM-3:00PM Lego Club at the Library
455 E Main St (Missoula Public Library)

Build to your heart’s content every Monday and Friday afternoon. Drop by anytime from 2-3:30 PM and create fantastic Lego structures!

2:00PM Hands on Science: Plants and Animals
SpectrUM Discovery Area 455 E Front St

Join spectrUM for guided science activities at our Discovery Bench from 2 to 6 Tuesday through Saturday. This week we are learning about plants and animals. No registration required.

4:00PM Pinocchio
Missoula Community Theatre

Geppetto fashioned the puppet in the image of a small boy. Even as the lonely and kind woodcarver worked far into the night, old Geppetto was not aware that the wood under the chisel had come from the trunk of an enchanted tree. But the Blue Fairy was aware, as she watched from afar and gave to that puppet the gift of life. Thus, begins the Missoula Children’s Theatre adaptation of one of the most beloved of all children’s stories–PINOCCHIO. Purchase tickets HERE

8:00AM Farmer’s Markets in Missoula
Caras Park and North End of Higgins by the Xs

Missoula Farmer’s Market: Missoula's original farmers' market. A gathering of food and friends since 1972. Local and loving it in downtown Missoula. Located at the north end of Higgins Avenue (by the XXXXs)-- and online! Welcome to our marketplace of locally grown and produced food. Saturdays May-September 8am-12:30pm, October 9am-12:30pm; Tuesdays June-September 5-7pm
Clark Fork River Market: The Clark Fork River Market provides a scenic setting for buying locally-grown fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, honey and plant starts from area farmers and ranchers. A variety of products such as fresh baked bread, pastries, kombucha, ferments, jam, wool goods, nursery plants, flowers, and other wares are available as well!

9:00AM-10:15AM Family Fun Time at Mismo Gym
2430 Benton Ave

This is a one-hour open gym time for kids walking to 12 years of age. You and your child will get to explore our facility in a supervised atmosphere. Come play in our gym, which features foam pits, trampolines, obstacle courses and so much more.
Preregistration on our website is necessary to participate each day.

10:00AM BackPack Giveaway
2506 Mount Ave / 610 E Broadway

Know a student who needs a backpack and school supplies for the upcoming school year?
Verizon-Cellular Plus in Missoula on the corner of Mount and Reserve is proud to be giving away FREE BACKPACKS filled with school supplies on Saturday, July 30 from 10am to noon.
No purchase necessary - this is a gift from us, to our students.
We are excited to be able to give back to our local community and make it a little easier for families to afford the essential supplies needed to start the school year off right.

12:00PM Failte Montana Irish Festival
Caras Park

The Fáilte Montana Irish Festival brings awareness to the University of Montana's Irish Studies program and the cultural and learning opportunities provided by the Friends of Irish Studies in the West. By increasing our visibility and bringing together our community, we are able to bolster our fundraising efforts to continue supporting scholars, athletes, artists and performers.

Fáilte Montana is meant to be inclusive and welcoming of those in and traveling to Montana while participating in the preservation and promotion of Irish cultural practices (many of them dating back to prehistoric times). Musicians, dancers, hurlers and vendors from Montana will be largely featured, with a special performance by our headlining band JigJam—an Irish-born group that fuses traditional Irish music with American folk music.

This is a free, family friendly community event!

2:00PM-8:00PM Bitterroot Brewfest
Daily Mansion 251 Eastside Highway, Hamilton, MT

Enjoy craft beer, food, and live music on the beautiful Daly Mansion grounds on Saturday, July 30th, 2022 from 2-8pm. A FREE shuttle service will be provided. More event details to come.

9:00PM Missoula Outdoor Cinema: Shrek
1001 Worden Ave

North Missoula Community Development Corporation presents our 19th season of Missoula Outdoor Cinema! Bring a chair or blanket, and join us on Saturdays in July and August for an outdoor movie night in the Head Start play field (1001 Worden Ave).

We scoured the internet but couldn’t quite find any family events for Sunday so here are a few ideas:

Check out this exciting event at Scheels on Tuesday, August 2nd: National Night Out