DAY-LONG EVENT ON APRIL 19 AT NORTON HEALTHCARE SPORTS & LEARNING CENTER
April 17, 2025. Louisville, KY. – A community celebration of Derby-time traditions featuring local food, fare, family-friendly activities and more fun will be underway this weekend at the Kentucky Derby Festival’s Block Party Presented by Churchill Downs, Humana and Park Community Credit Union. The annual event is back for the fourth straight year and is set for Saturday, April 19 at the Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center. The day-long event is held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Block Party has become a new annual tradition on the Derby Festival’s line-up of more than 70 springtime events and shines the spotlight on talent and resources throughout Louisville, including minority-owned businesses in West Louisville. Guests can enjoy an all-day celebration featuring cuisine from local food trucks, live entertainment, a shopping marketplace, wellness activations, a vendor fair, and more.
Block Party 2025 highlights include:
- Attendees can enjoy a variety of cuisine from more than 20 local food trucks and vendors, including complimentary water from the Louisville Water Company.
- 40+ Vendors at the MELANnaire Marketplace highlighting Black entrepreneurs.
- Live outdoor entertainment on the Ford Philanthropy Music Stage with group and solo artists, as well as visual artists, DJs, dancers, poets, theater acts, spoken word, comedy and more.
- Kids’ activities in the ZEON Kids’ Zone featuring outdoor fun, inflatables and face painting.
- A Community Village featuring 20 local nonprofits, all with missions to help meet the needs of residents in the West Louisville Community.
- Park Community Credit Union will offer financial literacy expertise and loan information and have a 360 Photo Booth onsite.
- Norton Healthcare will be onsite offering complimentary health screenings. Heuser Hearing Institute will offer free hearing screenings and hearing protection.
- Pop-up Pickleball Courts thanks to Humana! Equipment will be provided, plus friendly volunteers will be on site to help explain the rules.
Admission to Block Party is FREE. (No outside food or drinks can be brought into the venue). Parking at the venue will also be FREE thanks to the partnership with Park Community Credit Union.
Sponsors: Churchill Downs, Humana and Park Community Credit Union. Contributing Sponsors: Brown-Forman, Ford Philanthropy, Heuser Hearing Institute, Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet and ZEON. Supporting Sponsors: BRAINFREEZE: Cones for a Cause, Erica Denise Entertainment, Louisville Parks & Recreation, MELANnaire Marketplace, The Hope Buss and The Hope Village.
