31 things to do in Memphis this weekend

Today — Sunday, September 13

• MRTC Road Race Series — 1st 10K

  Shelby Farms Park · 7:00 AM · $27.50 for the single race (includes a $2.50 fee)

  The running club's series 10K, on a certified course, for less than thirty dollars.

• Miles of Miracles 5K and 1-mile kids' race

  Shelby Farms Park · 7:00 AM · $48.70 (includes a $3.70 fee)

  A 5K with a one-mile kids' race attached, raising money for Le Bonheur through Children's Miracle Network.

• Like You Children's Film Festival — Sunday

  Pink Palace Giant Screen Theater (MoSH) · 9:00 AM · Festival pass $60 ($50 each for 2-3, $45 each for 4+); VIP pass $125

  Sunday leans hands-on: paper stop-motion at 11, film a mini-doc at 1, a sound-design Mad Libs workshop at 3, and Dance Party Shorts in between.

• Memphis Thunder Racing Kids Triathlon

  St. George's Independent School (Collierville) · 10:00 AM · $55.49 individual / $44.79 per person as a relay

  Six-to-seventeen-year-olds swim, bike and run it themselves — or split it three ways as a relay — and sixteen spots were left as of Wednesday.

• Pink Society 901 — Yaps & Laps: Color Walk

  Shelby Farms Park · 10:00 AM · Free

  A free Sunday-morning color walk around Shelby Farms — dogs welcome, one hour, no entry fee.

• Memphis Yoga Festival (7th annual)

  Rhodes College · 11:00 AM · $45 advance ($49.19 all-in) / $55 at the door ($59.78 all-in); the $35 early-bird window has closed

  One ticket, fifteen-plus yoga classes taught by teachers from studios all over the city, spread across the Rhodes quad with food trucks and live music.

• Mural Workshop Series with Brandon "Nosey" Marshall

  Off the Walls Arts · 12:00 PM · Free

  A Memphis graffiti veteran walks a room through designing and painting a ten-by-ten mural, three hours at a time, and it costs nothing.

• Germantown Festival (53rd annual) — Sunday

  Germantown Civic Club Complex (Germantown) · 12:00 PM · Free

  Day two runs noon to six, which makes it the rare Sunday plan that costs nothing and still burns a full afternoon of kid energy.

• Germantown Festival - Day 2

  Germantown Civic Club Complex (Germantown) · 12:00 PM · Free

  The second day opens at noon, and the free shuttles keep looping until six.

• 90th Shellebration: The Gathering ft. Evvie McKinney

  Overton Park Shell · 12:00 PM · Free

  A free Sunday-afternoon gathering with liturgical dance, spoken word, the Tennessee Mass Choir and Evvie McKinney - the Memphian who won The Four.

• Ceramic Workshops with DaniSoulArt

  Germantown Community Library (Conference Room) · 1:00 PM · Free

  Three hours on the wheel with a working ceramicist; the fired piece comes back to you weeks later with a phone call.

• Get Outside! Fitness: Kidokinetics

  Shelby Farms Park · 1:00 PM · Free

  A free Sunday-afternoon class that runs little kids through the fundamentals of a half-dozen sports outdoors, deliberately non-competitive.

• Central Gardens 50th Annual Home & Garden Tour

  Central Gardens Historic District · 1:00 PM · $20-$30

  The fiftieth year of the one afternoon Central Gardens lets you inside the houses you've only ever driven past.

• Memphis Redbirds vs Norfolk Tides — final home game of the regular season

  AutoZone Park · 1:05 PM · Tickets start at $9.01

  The last regular-season home game of the year, an afternoon start, and kids get to run the bases when it's over.

• Redbirds vs. Norfolk Tides — last home game of the season

  AutoZone Park · 1:05 PM · from $9.01

  The final regular-season home game, a Sunday matinee, and then the only baseball left downtown is the playoffs they've already clinched.

• Buff Bagwell returns to Memphis Wrestling

  WrestleCenter · 1:30 PM · $14.90 general admission or bleachers · $20.75 VIP · $31.30 VIP ringside (ringside and ring entrance are sold out)

  A WCW and nWo name headlines a Sunday afternoon in Whitehaven, on a card that opens with a ten-bell salute to Superstar Bill Dundee.

• Artists' Link Autumn Showcase — opening reception

  Gallery Ten Ninety-One (WKNO) (Cordova) · 2:00 PM · Free

  Nearly sixty works by Memphis-area artists — paint, photography, clay, fiber, encaustic, fused glass — hung inside the public TV studios out in Cordova.

• America's 250th Trivia Contest for Adults

  B.J. Chain Public Library (Olive Branch) · 2:00 PM · Free

  Five questions about America; get them all right and you are in the drawing for a $25 gift card.

• Forrest Fest

  Overton Square Courtyard · 2:00 PM · $5

  Ten teams of kids run competing fundraising booths — crafts, games, face painting — and the courtyard becomes a two-hour scrappy little carnival for five bucks.

• Ramen After Brunch: Karaoke Edition

  The Living Room · 2:00 PM · $7.88-$13.73

  Ramen and daylight karaoke on a Sunday afternoon, for less than the cost of the bowl most places.

• The Sound of Music

  The Harrell Theatre (Collierville) · 2:30 PM · $20.00 - $25.00

  A Sunday matinee of The Sound of Music on the Collierville square's doorstep, curtain at 2:30 and nothing on the ticket over twenty-five dollars.

• 30 Days of Opera - Central Gardens Home Tour

  Beverly Hall · 2:30 PM

  Opera inside one of the Central Gardens houses on tour day - a Sunday-afternoon combination nobody else programs.

• United Festival: Cumbia en El Río

  Beale Street Landing · 3:00 PM · Free

  Five and a half hours of Latin music, food and a light show on the river for Hispanic Heritage Month — free to walk in.

• 2nd Sunday Drag Bingo

  Hi Tone (Big Room, upstairs) · 3:00 PM · $8.50-$13.50

  Drag bingo in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, doors at two.

• United Festival 2026 - Cumbia en el Rio

  Beale Street Landing · 3:00 PM · Free

  Five and a half hours of cumbia on the riverbank, with a dance-off for prizes, a burrito-eating contest, a low-rider show and the Hernando de Soto Bridge lit for Hispanic Heritage Month at the end of it.

• Pepe Tovar y Banda Clave Nueva

  Plaza Mexico TN · 4:00 PM · Free

  Seven hours of banda in the lot of a Jackson Avenue mercado -- free, and on no calendar in the city.

• Pepe Tovar, Banda Clave Nueva y más

  Plaza Mexico TN · 4:00 PM · Free

  Seven hours of banda and norteño on Jackson Avenue, free at the door — a Hispanic Heritage Month bill that no English-language calendar in town is carrying.

• 901 Wrestling: Rise & Fall

  Minglewood Hall · 4:00 PM · $11.45 general admission seated · $15.00 front row · $20.00 reserved party table for two · kids 12 and under free with a paid adult

  A live TV taping where a kid gets in free with a paying grown-up, and the 901 champ defends in front of a Midtown crowd.

• Sunset Jazz at Court Square Park

  Court Square Park · 5:00 PM · Free

  D'Monet plays the oldest public park in Memphis for free, food trucks on site, bring your own chair.

• Neil Hamburger / Major Entertainer / Hunter Sandlin

  Hi Tone (Big Room, upstairs) · 7:00 PM · $34.50

  America's most deliberately terrible lounge comic, live and upstairs on a Sunday.

• 90th Shellebration: Memphis Studio Super-Set

  Overton Park Shell · 7:00 PM · Free

  Sam Phillips Recording, Stax, Sun, American, Royal and Unapologetic all on one free stage - Boo Mitchell, Marcella Simien, Jerry Phillips and the Royal Studios house band among them.

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