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An exciting new Kentucky Derby week event meant to spotlight a diverse group of local designers and fashion collaborators is set to take place Tuesday, May 3 in downtown Louisville.

The "International Derby Travels the Runway" fashion event is curated by Christine Fellingham. (You know her as the creative force behind the annual Kentucky Derby Festival Macy's Spring Fashion Show.) For this new show, Fellingham has gathered an eclectic mix of fashion visionaries from Kentucky for a high-energy show set to strut down an elevated runway at Fourth Street Live.

Fourth Street Live! is helping raise money for the National Medal of Honor Museum.

The entertainment and retail complex in downtown Louisville is trying to raise a million dollars for the museum that broke ground in Arlington, Texas, on Friday.

The museum will offer an experience that draws on personal and emotional connections to Medal of Honor recipients and their stories. It hopes to shed light on the wars the recipients fought in.

Bringing people together for the holidays with food. That's the goal behind the annual "Boxes of Love" effort.

It's all part of a massive volunteer effort to provide families in need with a Christmas dinner.

The holiday season, which is also known as the festival of lights, is supposed to bring positive change to people and to the world.

MELANnaire Marketplace officially opened at its new indoor location in downtown Louisville on Black Friday — between Smoketown and the west end at 4th and West Liberty streets.

All merchants in the marketplace are Black-owned businesses, and more than 70 were set up Friday for the opening. The market includes a variety of items like clothes, art bath and body products, baked goods, jewelry and more. 

During the 10th Annual Day of the Dead Celebration presented by Louisville Downtown Partnership at Fourth Street Live, a few hundred children and their families gathered to reflect on those who are no longer with us.

What started as an experiment in May, is set to return on Saturday in time for Juneteenth. MELANnaire Marketplace had their inaugural event on May 15 which featured 50 pop-up Black-owned businesses on 4th Street Live. They had a huge turnout of residents and tourists in town for a convention. Organizer Nachand Trabue says the Juneteenth event is another true test.

The spirit of giving was on full display this holiday season as volunteers gathered at Fourth Street Live! in downtown Louisville to pack 1,400 holiday dinners for families in need on Friday, December 21, 2018.

On Sunday, May 19, 2019, Fourth Street Live! hosted the annual Clips for Kids event raising more than $58,000 to benefit the patients at the Children’s Cancer Institute at Norton Children’s Hospital.

Fourth Street Live!, in conjunction with UAW Ford and Metro United Way, banded together in April 2018  to create two new playgrounds for Wesley House Community Services.