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.
JUMP (Jack's Urban Meeting Place)
1000 Myrtle St • (208) 639-6610
Art Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly Activity
THURSDAY AUGUST 7TH | 5-8PM | JUMP BUILDING | ALL AGES | FREE
This month, we've got a sneak peek into our Local Artist Showcase happening on August 16th, as well as tons of fun, educational, interactive, and family-friendly activities! Plus, the official LAUNCH party for Boise Design Week will be happening from 5:00 - 10:30 PM in the sixth floor PIONEER Room!
JUMP Room:
Local Artist Showcase Preview: Artist Talks & Activities | 5:00 - 8:00 PM
• ANA ROBINS | Activity: Custom Tarot Card | Participants will paint on small card-sized canvases following writing and painting prompts geared towards a few selected tarot cards to create their very own tarot card.
• DAMON & MICHAEL BRADSHAW | Explore the world of mythical water creatures through three creative stations
- Station 1: Color-a-Creature (Ages 3+)
Activity: Pre-drawn sea monster coloring pages
- Station 2: Fold-a-Serpent (Ages 7+)
Activity: Origami sea serpent folding
- Station 3: Blank Page Challenge (All Ages)
Activity: Design your very own river monster from scratch
• DAVID COWAN | Through Space & Science
Participants will receive paper, coloring materials and craft supplies to design their own space habitat or closed system while learning about the four basic elements of an Environmental Control and Life Support System, the critical systems of a spacecraft that allow the astronauts to live to on board.
THE LOFT & 5th Level Lobby:
Sticker Making Contest | 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Local Dance Performance
• Watch performers from Starbelly Dancing
THE DECK
HAPPY[ness] Hour | 5:00 - 8:00 PM
• Live DJ: TENN∀NT (5:00 - 7:00 PM)
• BOGO Drinks (per person)
• $5 Bites by Chef Anna
• Trivia Challenge (start: 6:00 PM)
• Music Bingo (start: 7:00 PM)
• Slide Rides (5:30 - 7:30 PM)
MOVE STUDIO
Open Mic by Nick Badasci (Studio Community Project)
• A family-friendly open mic stand-up comedy event where aspiring comedians can perform 2-7 minute sets at a microphone as an accessible means of training/trying out comedy/storytelling in front of a live audience.
LOBBY (ALL MONTH):
Jaialdi Decor & Activities | 5:00 - 8:00 PM
• Basque Craft at the craft table
• Sheep Wagon from the Basque Museum
PIONEER Room:
Boise Design Week: LAUNCH | 5:00 - 10:30 PM
Join newly established Boise Design Week for the LAUNCH party of the future week-long inspirational, networking, and community-building event. With the goal to become a five-day event in 2026, Boise Design Week: LAUNCH brings together designers covering all industries and aspects of design, with the goal of bringing together the community in creativity, innovation, and design.
The LAUNCH party will feature local speakers, community exhibitors, refreshments, and more. Stick around after the lectures for and after party where we open the stage for creative leaders, play backyard games, sing karaoke, and more!
• 5:00 PM : DOORS OPEN
• 5:30 - 6:00 PM: OPENING REMARKS | Alex Caves | Boise Design Week Founder
• 6:00 - 9:00 PM: GUEST SPEAKERS | Hear from local experts in their industries
- Product Design & Development: Nate Pavitt | Product Developer / Entrepreneur | 6:00 - 6:30 PM
- Filmmaking: Greg Wilson | Director / Cinematographer / Photographer | 6:35 - 7:05 PM
- Environmental Graphic Design: John Yarnell | Creative Director / Public Artist / Placemaking Advocate | 7:10 - 7:40 PM
- Brand Design & Marketing | Jennie Meyers | Professor / Creative Strategist / Designer | 7:45 - 8:45 PM
• 9:00 - 10:30 PM: AFTER PARTY | After the Main Event the room will transition into a fun, game filled experience, designed to create the perfect networking atmosphere.
- Musical Performance by Tree City Soul | 9:00 - 9:30 PM
- Karaoke with DJ Pho-Tato (Viet Tran) | 9:30 - 10:30 PM
- Games
Ochos Craft Cocktail Bar
515 W Idaho St • (208)209-5522
Music Food & Beverage
Join us for First Thursday Flamenco. Performance starts at 8pm.
Art Source Gallery
1516 W Grove St • 208-331-3374
Art Shop Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly Activity
First Thursday opening reception of "Think Outside the Jewelry Box - Wearable Art", August 7, 2025 from 5:00 - 9:00 PM at Art Source Gallery, 1516 W Grove St. in Boise, in downtown Linen District. . Meet the artists and enjoy live music, snacks and great art. The exhibit will be open throughout the month of August.
“Think Outside the Jewelry Box - Wearable Art”, features six of the gallery’s jewelry artists. There will be a wide diversity of work showcasing individual styles. For this show each artist has created a completely unique and individual Jewelry Box that will be displayed along with displays of their jewelry.
ART HAUS BAR by KIN
999 W Main St •
Art Shop Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly Activity
NIGHT MARKET!
*State Fair Edition*
Come enjoy food, drinks, music, and over 20 vendors.
Featuring…
HOT ERIC HONEY
BANANA INK
FREE SPIRITS
FLYNN DAY POTTERY
CITY PEANUT
SHIFT BOUTIQUE
REDISCOVERED BOOKS
MAPS COFFEE
METAL & MALLET
CITY OF TREES REIKI & TAROT
SATORI SAKE
NOBLE HARDESTY
CITY OF GOOD
RACHEL TEANNALACH ART
AND MORE...
Radio Boise
1020 W Main St • 208-258-2072
Art Shop Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly
Radio Boise is having an "Open Station" in the basement of the Alaska Center on Main St. between 10th and 11th St where we will give guided tours, have live DJs Wendy Fox and Jason D on the air, share snacks and generally chat about the station and community radio from 5pm-8pm. It is hosted by Nichole Marie of The Rapture and Geek Goddess from the Rebel Alliance. This month we are joined by Leap Housing who believe that everyone should have an opportunity to access safe, stable and affordable housing.
The Flicks
646 Fulton St • (208) 342-4288
Music
BILL COFFEY & DAVE MANION LIVE ON THE PATIO 5:30-7:30
Grab your drinks and food at Rick's Cafe inside and head out to the patio for live music with Bill and Dave. No Cover Charge--it's a gift to our customers/!
The Lively
505 W Bannock St • 208.209.5503
Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly
Kick off your summer with First Thursdays at The Lively—where the drinks are fabulous, the food hits all the right notes and the music sets the mood. We’re turning up the energy with live music and an extended happy hour to make your Thursdays anything but ordinary. Come early, stay late, and let the good times flow!
Humpin' Hannah's
621 W Main St • (208) 345-7557
Music Activity
Hey Y'All! 1st Thursday in DT Boise, it's a "No Scrubs, Just Jams, A 90's Themed Early Bird Dance Party" starting at 5pm Do you miss dancing at a club with your friends, but don't miss being out till the wee hours and dealing with the late night club scene? If so, come out on 1st Thur Aug 7 for "No Scrubs, Just Jams, A 90's Themed Early Bird Dance Party" starting at 5pm at the one & only Humpin’ Hannah’s in Downtown Boise!
-Costume Contest for HUGE Prizes!
-Dance mix will be curated by DJ Feelings of Tropico FM
-NO cover charge
-The bar will be open for purchases of cocktails and mocktails!
- $3.50 Wells, Shots & Beers, plus ALL Seltzers ½ price
Dance and party and hang with your friends, and get home early enough to:
-be in your pjs by 8:30
-have time to watch your favorite show or read your book
-walk your dogs
-tuck in your kids
-not be totally wrecked the next day
1st Thursday, July 3, 5pm, it’s Wham! Bam! Thank You Glam, An 80's Themed Early Bird Dance Party!!!
THANK YOU, Steph Coyle & Friends!!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1866467224302470
Green Acres Food Truck Park
1401 West Shoreline Drive • 208-856-6157
Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly Activity
Karaoke Night @ Green Acres
Timeframe: 6-9pm
Time to Karaoke with Boise Rockeoke! Sing with a LIVE rock band to accompany your vocals! Choose from over 200 songs! It’s your time to shine on the Green Acres stage. Sign up the night of. Instead of instrumentals, the live band will play the song so you’ll really feel like a lead singer :) This is one our most favorite things to host at Green Acres.
Food truck lineup for the day:
Kanak Attack
Darjeeling Momo
Basilios Tacos
Sear + Savor: Craft smash burgers
The Fizzy Cow Ice Cream & Soda Shop
The Green Acres Bar
No cover or charges, Karaoke and Green Acres is free to the public
Find us off the Greenbelt at the intersection of 14th street and Shoreline Drive
We are dog and kid-friendly!
1401 Shoreline Drive Boise ID 83702
Barbarian Downtown Beer Bar
1022 W Main St • 208-387-2739
Music Food & Beverage Activity
Kick off your First Thor's Day with fresh new beers, Bingo, and Downtown Boise First Thursday!
ROCK'N BINGO starts at 7pm. Free to play for paying customers.
Prizes for the winners, including Jurassic Park Idaho Lottery scratchers!
Must be 21+ to enter Barbarian Downtown.
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New Beers:
~ SALUTE YOUR SCHWARZ ~
Traditional German style Schwarzbier dark lager.
5% abv.
Draft and 16oz cans.
~ MR. BOB MANALITA ~
West coast pale made with experimental Manalita and Southern Cross hops from Freestyle Hops in New Zealand, and a touch of Simcoe Abstrax hop oil added in the brite. Collaboration brew with The Handlebar Boise. Manalita hops have notes of gummy candy, red grapefruit and red berries.
5.5% abv.
Draft and 16oz cans.
The Warehouse Food Hall
370 S 8th St • 986-999-4081
Music
Make The Warehouse Food Hall your First Thursday spot... grab a bite, sip on something good, and settle in for live music. Each month, a local artist takes the stage, setting the vibe while you kick back with craft drinks and plenty of flavor to go around.
Chi E Shenam Westin Art
1020 Main St • 208-440-2107
Art Music Food & Beverage
We are excited to share three art collections including:
New! Plein Air paintings from Kathryn Albertson Park
And Oil paintings of the Sawtooth Mountains, one week before the 2024 fires.
Swing by and say hello and enjoy live music from John Ceccarelli!
Complimentary portraits downstairs with Allen Ansel.
Prost! Boise
274 N 8th St • (208) 336.9395
Music Food & Beverage
Prost! will be offering $1 off Liters and providing live music on the patio between 5pm-8pm
Fred Astaire Dance Studios Boise
1511 W Main Street • 208-514-0440
Music Food & Beverage Activity
"Swing" in for First Thursday and find out how much fun date night or a night out on the town can be!
7:00pm—7:45pm
Free Dance Demos & Newcomer Group Class
7:45pm—8:30pm
Free Guided Social Dancing
No partner required — or bring your friends. We love to see couples who want to dance together, too.
Everyone is welcome, no experience required!