☀️ June 11 - 14 | Your Johnson County Weekend Plans

TOGETHER WITH

☀️ HELLO SUMMER

Summer Kickoff! | Saturday, All Day | 📍Historic and Main Street West Branch
☀️ Kick off summer with a day of family fun, local shopping, great food, cold drinks, and live music. Explore downtown with the new Discovery Passport, enjoy community bingo, and dance the night away with a free Birdchild concert. ♫

More summer fun this weekend:

• Thursday, 6:00pm: Back to Beaker Dance Party (Chauncey Swan Park)

• Thursday, 6:00 - 9:00pm: Farm Sessions (Wilson’s Orchard & Farm)

• Friday, 5:00 - 8:00pm: Family Fun Night (Wilson’s Orchard & Farm)

• Friday, 6:00 - 9:00pm: Live Music - Retro Rockits (Cedar Ridge)

• Saturday, 7:30 - 12:00pm: IC Farmers Market (Chauncey Swan Park)

• Sunday, 11:00 - 1:00pm: Art Play Sundays (The Iowa Children’s Museum)

• Sunday, 1:00 - 4:00pm: Live Music - Ryne Doughty (Cedar Ridge)

• Sunday, 3:00 - 6:00pm: Kickoff to Summer Sunday Funday (Field Day)

• Sunday, 5:00 - 8:00pm: Dessert Prix Fixe (Big Grove Solon)

• Sunday, All Day: Sundae Sundays (Big Grove IC and Big Grove Solon)

• All Weekend: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lower City Park)

🌈 HAPPY PRIDE

🌈 Pride Tie Dye Event | Sunday, 12:00pm | 📍Big Grove Iowa City
Celebrate Pride with color, creativity, and community at Big Grove! Pre-order an exclusive Hazel Sanchez-Belle Pride tee, then customize it with your own tie-dye design during this one-of-a-kind event. Your shirt purchase is your ticket. 🎨👕

Show your pride:

• Thursday, 6:00 - 9:00pm: Gaymers Gathering (Diversions)

• Saturday, 9:45am: barre3 - Pride Donation Class (Big Grove Brewery)

• Saturday, 11:00 - 3:00pm: Let Love Fly (Centennial Park North Liberty)

• Sunday, 7:30pm: Drag Bingo (Shakespeare’s Pub & Grill)

• June 16, 5:00pm: Big Gay Bar Crawl (Downtown Iowa City)

• June 19, 6:00 - 11:00pm: Pride Game Night (Diversions)

• June 20, 12:00 - 10:00pm: IC Pride Parade & Festival (Downtown Iowa City)

• June 20, 10:00pm: Psalm One (Pride Aftershow) (The Englert)

• June 21, 8:15 - 10:15am: Pride Sunday (Gloria Dei Lutheran Church)

• June 21: 10:00 - 11:30am: Pride Service (Trinity Episcopal Church)

• June 21, 2:00pm: Reading Queer Stories by Queer Authors (Sidekick)

• June 24, 3:00 - 4:00pm: Pride Party (North Liberty Library)

📅 NEXT WEEK

🍪 Cookies & Fights with Girl Scouts | June 18, 5:30pm | 📍Big Grove Iowa City
Raise a glass and support a great cause at Cookies & Flights! Enjoy expertly paired Big Grove beers and Girl Scout cookies, plus heavy appetizers, games, prizes, a silent auction, and plenty of sweet surprises throughout the evening. 🍺

Other happenings next week:

• June 15, 6:00pm: Reality TV Trivia (Big Grove Iowa City)

• June 17, 4:00 - 7:00pm: Coralville Farmers Market (Iowa River Landing)

• June 17, 6:00pm: Farm to Table Dinner (Walker Homestead)

• June 18, 7:30pm: The Wallflowers (The Englert Theatre)

And for the kiddos:

• June 15, 3:00pm: Movie Monday (North Liberty Library)

• June 16, 4:00 - 6:00pm: Family Fun Night (Field Day Brewing)

• June 17, 9:00 - 11:00am: Adorable Ducks (Calyx Creek)

• June 17, 10:00: Wildlife & Wanders (Conservation Education Center)

📅 MORE SUMMER PLANS

Looking for more to do? Check out The JoCo Know Summer 2026 Events & Activities Guide! The guide includes:

• 🎉 Top Events, Festivals & Live Entertainment

• 🥃 Sip Into Summer with Cedar Ridge ♫

• 🍻 A Night (Or Day) Out + ♫ Live Entertainment

• 🧒 For The Kiddos, 🎨 Gettin' Creative & 🏃‍♀️Gettin' Active

• 🛍️ Shopping Local, ❤️ Giving Back & More

Prefer a PDF version? Download the guide here.

And Who Are We?
We’re Hayley and Andy, parents of two toddlers and lovers of Johnson County. We’re always planning our next outing and exploring what’s new locally. Living in the area for almost 20 years, The JoCo Know is a passion project for us and is truly an extension of what we love to do - plan, explore, enjoy, and repeat.

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