Our local merchants plan exciting, engaging in-store events including food and beverage tastings, local art exhibits, retail trunk shows, live music, family activities, and entertainment in a special and unique way you'll only find in Downtown Boise. Stop into your favorite establishment or check out someplace new!
Events typically run from 5–9pm, but each merchant creatively plans their own event so check each listing below for individual hours and details.
Cactus Bar
517 W Main St • (208) 342-9732
Food & Beverage Activity
Bingo Nights every First Thursday and every 3rd Thursday of every month. Free to play. Multiple games played in a night. Starts at 7 and ends roughly around 9 pm. Prizes to be won.
Meriwether Cider House
224 N 9th St • (208)972-6725
Food & Beverage Activity
We will provide all the supplies you'll need for FREE to dye your very own Easter Egg while you sip cider! You can choose to leave it at the Cider House to help us decorate for the spring season or take it home to decorate your own space!
The Cider House is 21+ dogs are allowed on the patio.
Idaho Building
280 N 8th St •
Art Kid-Friendly Activity
Who: Third Shelf: A Placemakers’ Cooperative Library
What: Book Swap! Book swaps are opportunities for Third Shelf members to exchange books with each other, to browse some of our collecive placemaking library, and welcome new people to the community. All are welcome!
Where: Idaho Smart Growth 280 N 8th St. Suite #210
When: Every 1st Thursday starting March 6th 6-8pm
Why: Third Shelf was created as a resource sharing, agency building, and community networking infrastructure project for placemakers. Members use a booksharing app to connect and exchange their collective books becoming a physical library distributed on member bookshelves throughout the community.
Website: thirdshelf.org
Instagram: @third.shelf
Trailhead
500 S 8th St • 208-344-5483
Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly Activity
The Children's Book Drive is a powerful community initiative led by United Way of Treasure Valley in partnership with Book it Forward! Idaho. The Children's Book Drive brings together individuals, business leaders, and civic organizations to ensure more children in the Treasure Valley experience the joy of book ownership.
Join us in celebrating a decade of spreading the joy of reading! Since its inception, approximately 822,000 books have been distributed to high-need children across the Treasure Valley—from early learning centers to juvenile detention facilities.
Our 10th Annual Children's Book Drive is underway, and we need your help to reach this year’s goal of collecting and distributing 25,000 books for Idaho’s kids. Every donated book helps spark imagination, build literacy skills, and create lifelong readers.
Join us at 508 S 8th Street in downtown Boise on First Thursday for a special activity session from 5-9pm. Volunteers are invited to drop in to the location and clean/sort books, enjoy refreshments and community, and learn more about what United Way of Treasure Valley does to mobilize communities to action so all can thrive!
Stretch Zone Boise
112 S 6th St • 208-993-7979
Activity
Stop by Stretch Zone this 1st Thursday for a free stretch and feel the difference assisted stretching can make!
High Note Cafe
225 N 5th St • (208) 429-1911
Art Activity
An open mic event for written works including poetry, prose, and fiction. Signs- ups start at 5PM. Mic begins at 6PM. Vegan food, beer, and wine served all night.