Community Calendar

Learn the ins and outs of throwing on the wheel, or use your registration to utilize our space and resources. Perfect for beginner, intermediate, and advanced potters alike. Even if you don't need guidance, there will be a Cat Clay staff member available in all sessions to provide support and answer questions!

Join us every Wednesday in the Boise Brewing taproom for trivia with Geeks Who Drink, hosted by Professor Truman. Stretch those brain muscles and test your knowledge of random trivia facts, including music and film clip rounds! Plus, you have a chance to win beer in every round! Top 3 finishing teams each week receive Boise Brewing gift certificates.

Looking to get better acquainted with the city you call home? Or introduce Boise to visiting family or friends?

ArchWalks (pronounced "ark-walks") are architecture-focused historical tours, with a theme that varies each month through the summer season. Each walk is written and guided by an expert historian, and each theme is very limited: only four tours are available each month - so don't miss out!

Tour themes for 2026 include:
May - From Bronze to Block: Downtown Boise Seen Through the Idaho State Seal
June - Rose Garden Ramble at Caldwell's Luby Park
July - Highland Park Uncovered
August - A More Complete Story: Boise's River Street
September - Into the Deep End: South Pool & Its Surroundings

Tickets are available now on the Preservation Idaho website, with all proceeds benefitting this amazing partner in historic preservation.

Book your tour today!

Boise State Public Radio’s Mountain West News Bureau reporter Murphy Woodhouse will be the featured speaker at the next edition of Another Round, hosted again by our friends at Boise Brewing from 6-8pm Thursday, May 28. Murphy will be discussing the well-underway 2026 wildfire season. As a former member of a federal Type 1 handcrew, Murphy brings a great deal of personal experience to his in-depth fire reporting.

Looking to get better acquainted with the city you call home? Or introduce Boise to visiting family or friends?

ArchWalks (pronounced "ark-walks") are architecture-focused historical tours, with a theme that varies each month through the summer season. Each walk is written and guided by an expert historian, and each theme is very limited: only four tours are available each month - so don't miss out!

Tour themes for 2026 include:
May - From Bronze to Block: Downtown Boise Seen Through the Idaho State Seal
June - Rose Garden Ramble at Caldwell's Luby Park
July - Highland Park Uncovered
August - A More Complete Story: Boise's River Street
September - Into the Deep End: South Pool & Its Surroundings

Tickets are available now on the Preservation Idaho website, with all proceeds benefitting this amazing partner in historic preservation.

Book your tour today!

Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated author of the international phenomenon, Braiding Sweetgrass, shares what she’s learned about reciprocal relationships in the natural world, from both a scientific and an indigenous perspective.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over five years. Her newest book, The Serviceberry, offers a bold vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. A SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, Kimmerer received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.

Step into the wild side of Idaho at Museum After Dark: Taps & Traps, our rugged 21+ evening where the mountains meet adventure. Join us in our galleries turned wilderness-lab as you navigate interactive survival stations, learn the lore of fur-trapping in Idaho, and test your knowledge of mountain-life skills. Sip local brews and see if you’ve got what it takes to live off the land. Stay tuned for more information!

Step into the wild side of Idaho at Museum After Dark: Taps & Traps—a rugged 21+ evening where the mountains meet adventure.

Enjoy live music and explore our galleries transformed into a hands-on wilderness lab as you navigate interactive survival stations, discover the history of fur trapping in Idaho, and put your mountain-life skills to the test.

Earn a wilderness badge at each station for a chance to win a raffle prize, sip on local brews, and see if you’ve got what it takes to live off the land. Food and drink will be available for purchase.

ISHS members are $27, and non-members are $32. Tickets include one drink ticket.

Learn more and register at history.idaho.gov/events!

Spend a magical spring evening under the stars at Foothills Heritage Park in Avimor!

Join us Friday, May 29th at 8:30 PM for a relaxing hour of Yin yoga paired with a soothing singing bowl sound bath, followed by moon viewing and stargazing with telescopes. This is a pre-donation event, contribute any amount to reserve your spot. Bring your own blankets, pillows, and yoga mat for maximum comfort (limited extras available). If the weather doesn’t cooperate, we’ll gather instead on Saturday, May 30th.

We are so thrilled to announce our returning to Lloyd Square Park in the heart of Downtown Nampa for the 37th season at the multi-award winning Nampa Farmers Market! EverySaturday from 9am until 130pm, Rain or Shine, april through November, we'll be here to bring you the best music, the best local produce, and the best locally made goods the Treasure Valley has to offer! With over 270 vendors on our roster in 2025, and Online Ordering Year Round, we anticipate our 2026 season to bring even more incredible local artisans, food vendors, craft vendors, farmers, or ranchers. Our Soft Opening is April 4, Grand Opening is April 18, and we'll be open later hours duing our WInter Wonderland for the entire month of November. Be sure to check out all the goodness that the Treasure Valley has to offer! This is our Happy Place! Head to nampafarmersmarket.com and check it out today!