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Your Weekly Guide to What's Worth Doing
LookoutChatt Newsletter
The weekend edition
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Hey Chattanooga 👋
It's a packed one. A 50-year community tradition hits its milestone year, Spain's national team makes Chattanooga its World Cup home, the market goes Bloody Mary, and downtown lights up with a free skate night for Black Music Appreciation Month. Plus new theatre, and free library programs running all week. Read on, pick your adventure.
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🎉 The Big One
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Five Decades of Chattanooga
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50th Annual Shepherd Community Fun Day, Picnic & Car Parade
Saturday, June 6 • 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM • Shepherd Community Center, 2124 Shepherd Road • FREE
Half a century of community, and the picnic isn't slowing down. The Shepherd Community Action Council celebrates 50 years this Saturday with games, music, food, family activities, and a car parade celebrating unity and neighborhood spirit. Bring a lawn chair, bring an appetite, and bring everyone you know. Free, family-friendly, and the kind of milestone that doesn't reach year fifty by accident.
Major sponsor: Chattanooga Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Activities provided by the city's Parks and Outdoors team.
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📅 Friday, June 5
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🛼 Summer Skate Night: Soul Roll
Celebrating Black Music Appreciation Month on wheels
📅 Fri, June 5, 6:00 to 9:30 PM
📍 Calvary Pavilion, 3333 St. Elmo Ave.
FREE
Lace up and roll out. Summer Skate Night returns with Soul Roll, a celebration of Black Music Appreciation Month featuring a live DJ spinning soul, hip-hop, and R&B classics all night. Four food trucks on site, free skate rentals for the first 30 guests, and a covered pavilion if it rains. Family-friendly and exactly the kind of Friday night you tell people about.
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🎭 New Play Festival
Original new theatre from local and regional playwrights
📅 Fri, June 5, 7:30 PM
📍 Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River St.
$25 TICKETED
The Chattanooga Theatre Centre and Next Exit Productions present a celebration of fresh, original voices. Friday's program showcases eight fully staged 10-minute plays from local and regional writers. The festival runs through June 21 with one-acts and staged readings on later dates. Catch new theatre before anyone else does.
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📅 Saturday, June 6
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⚽ Spain's National Team Trains at Baylor
A Chattanooga World Cup moment
📅 Sat, June 6, 6:00 PM
📍 Baylor School Soccer Complex
LOTTERY CLOSED
Spain, one of the world's top-ranked soccer programs, has chosen Chattanooga as its base camp for the 2026 World Cup. Saturday's public training session at Baylor was free but lottery-only, and the entry window closed June 1. If you got tickets, this is your night. If you didn't, the banners are up, the complex has been rebranded in Spain's red, and Chattanooga is hosting one of its biggest sports moments in years. La Roja is in town through the tournament.
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📅 Sunday, June 7
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🍅 Top Tomato Festival
A Bloody Mary tasting at the Chattanooga Market
📅 Sun, June 7, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
📍 First Horizon Pavilion, 1801 Reggie White Blvd.
$15 TASTING TICKET
Tomatoes are the feature produce, and that means Bloody Mary time. Six local restaurants put their own twist on the classic, and a $15 ticket gets you tastings from each plus a vote for the People's Choice. Non-alcoholic versions available on request. Browsing the market is free. Proceeds benefit the Finley Stadium Foundation. Sip, sample, sit in the sun.
🎸 Live music:
12:30 PM • Shani Palmer
2:30 PM • Chattanooguys
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📅 All Week, June 3 to 8
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📚 Library Programs Across Chattanooga
Free programs at branches citywide
📅 June 3 to 8, times vary
📍 Library branches citywide
FREE
The Chattanooga Public Library is running programs at branches all over town this week: story times, craft sessions, teen events, and adult workshops. All free. Check chattlibrary.org for the f | | |
