#downtown-first-thursdays

#downtown-first-thursdays

DFT is back for a full year of street parties in 2026! Kick off a brand new season and a brand new year of DFT on New Year's Day. DJs - Live Performances - Dancing - Drag - Food Trucks - Shopping - Fashion, and new surprises every month. It's your family-friendly (and hangover-friendly), FREE, all-ages alternative to start off 2026 right! Enjoy feel-good vibes, live music, mocktails (as well as the usual cocktails!) as we usher in the new year and celebrate the start of a new DFT season.

The success of the past year and a half of Downtown First Thursdays events has encouraged the event's backers to go full-throttle into next year, guaranteeing that the monthly street party will go on. Downtown First Thursdays had been funded through the end of 2025, last we heard. But now billionaire Chris Larsen has confirmed that DFT will go on past New Year's Day and New Year's Day falls on a Thursday this year, so that will be the year's first event.