Things To Do in Atlanta This Weekend
Published June 16, 2025
Here’s what’s going on in Atlanta this weekend, June 20, 21 and 22
Happenings
Watch FIFA Club World Cup at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Atlanta is hosting the first-ever FIFA Club World Cup matches in the United States starting this week at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Matches began June 15 and continue into July. Find out everything you need to know about FIFA Club World Cup 2025, then go watch some soccer. This week’s games occur Monday, Thursday and Sunday.
High Museum of Art Celebrates Juneteenth Plus Jazz on Friday
The High Museum of Art Celebrates Juneteenth on Thursday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The museum invites you to create art, enjoy performances and reflect on themes related to the Juneteenth holiday as manifested in art on view at the High. Admission is free. All programs are drop-in, first come, first served.
Every third Friday brings Friday Jazz to the High. This month features saxophonist Ryan Kilgore. Guests are invited to enjoy a drink and light bites, head to the galleries to explore the museum’s works on view and join a docent-led tour for a detailed look at the collection. The event will feature two musical areas where musicians will play throughout the evening.
Friday Brings Savanna Nights to Zoo Atlanta
Friday from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m., it’s Savanna Nights at Zoo Atlanta. What’s to do? Enjoy music, animal viewing, a live bird presentation plus adult beverages available for purchase. Masterpieces will come to life with live painting sessions from Atlanta artists Chris Veal, Ash Rader and Fawne DeRosia.
Atlanta Botanical Garden Celebrates Summer Solstice
Atlanta Botanical Garden celebrates this weekend’s summer solstice with a Summer Party Saturday from 6 until 10 p.m. Partiers may stroll through Storza Woods where glowing puppet lanterns will come to life in a magical parade, enjoy cocktails from cash bars, nosh on bites and soak up live music and other entertainment while exploring Alice’s Wonderland and Enchanted Trees by Poetic Kinetics.
City Slide Water Park Slips into Atlantic Station
The Pinnacle lot at Atlantic Station is the site of City Slide Water Park, starting Thursday and running through June 29. The all-inflatable pop-up water park features more than 20 inflatable attractions appropriate for all ages.
Head to Chattahoochee Nature Center for the Possum Trot 10K and Fun Run
Chattahoochee Nature Center is the site, Saturday, for the 47th annual Possum Trot 10K and Fun Run. The Peachtree Road Race-qualifier race bestows participants with T-shirts, medals for 10K finishers, pins for top award finishers, photos and race day free admission to Chattahoochee Nature Center.
Family
June at Children’s Museum of Atlanta
The Children’s Museum of Atlanta is focusing on Pride Month, Juneteenth and Father’s Day during June. Daily story times highlight books about love and inclusion; children design love-inspired art and festivities feature an annual show by the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus. Father’s Day is honored with themed crafts. Juneteenth is observed with a special, live performance.
Scooby Doo! Mansion Mayhem Open at Children’s Museum of Atlanta
Scooby Doo! Mansion Mayhem has opened at Children’s Museum of Atlanta. Kids can scour the mansion with the members of Mystery Inc., discovering its secrets and seeking out clues to unmask a jewel thief. The exhibit is open through Sept. 7.
Theater
‘The Comedy of Errors’ Showing at Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse
Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse is showing “The Comedy of Errors” through June 29. Remember the story? Two sets of twins, one case of mistaken identity and a nun walk onto the stage. The play takes Shakespearean funny to slap-happy heights. This tale of the merchant twins Antipholus and their attendant twins Dromio is full of errors, upsets and fun.
See ‘Laughs in Spanish’ at Horizon Theatre
“Laughs in Spanish” is on stage at Horizon Theatre through Sunday. Here’s the plot: High stakes Art Basel is about to begin in Miami, and the art has vanished from Mariana’s trendy modern gallery. Chaos and laughter erupt.
Sports
Atlanta Dream Plays at Home this Weekend
The Atlanta Dream plays the Washington Mystics at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Gateway Center Arena. On Sunday, the Dream plays the Chicago Sky at 3 p.m. at Gateway Center Arena. Friday’s halftime performance features Frank Ski. The Sunday game includes a halftime performance by J. Holiday. The Atlanta Dream is in second place in the Eastern Conference, the Mystics are in fourth place; the Sky is in fifth place.
Ongoing Events
High Museum of Art Opened Two Exhibitions
New Vision
The High Museum of Art has opened two exhibitions. “Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing” traces the impact of the New Vision movement from its origins in the 1920s to today. Photographs from that era by Ilse Bing, Alexander Rodchenko, Imogen Cunningham and Moholy-Nagy will be complemented by a multitude of works by modern and contemporary artists such as Barbara Kasten, Jerry Uelsmann, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Abelardo Morell to demonstrate the long-standing impact of the movement on subsequent generations. The New Vision movement refers to photographic exploration that took place in Europe, America and beyond in the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibit will be on display through Jan. 4, 2026.
Ezrom Legae
“Ezrom Legae: Beasts” focuses on Legae’s bestial compositions, featuring more than 30 drawings of contorted and anguished creatures, each imaginative studies and explorations of form and metaphors articulating the artist’s political consciousness. The exhibition features drawings from 1967 to 1996, foregrounding the 1970s and 1990s, each groundbreaking periods in South African political history. The exhibit runs through Nov. 16.
Fernbank Museum of Natural History Features Turtles Exhibit and Spirit Guides
Fernbank Museum of Natural History features the Turtles exhibit through Sept. 1. Featuring live turtles, the exhibit explores their natural history and survival challenges. Hands-on activities and live presentations will allow visitors to discover how turtles have evolved over time and to observe their unique anatomy and fascinating behaviors.
Ongoing at Fernbank through Aug. 3, Spirit Guides bridges ancient Mexican culture and contemporary art. “Spirit Guides: Fantastical Creatures from the Workshop of Jacobo and María Ángles” showcases the vision of Oaxacan artists Jacobo and María Ángles, giving visitors a journey into the landscape of Southern Mexico’s indigenous traditions. Step into Fernbank’s WildWoods to see eight mythic animal-themed works of art that explore the concepts of tona (spirit protectors) and nahual (spirit animals).
Georgia Aquarium Presents Glow Nights
Glow Nights continue at Georgia Aquarium through Aug. 17. What are Glow Nights? Beginning at 4 p.m., the aquarium’s atrium transforms into a space where you can take glow-themed photos, try specialty food and drinks, get temporary tattoos and be surprised with character performances. At 5 p.m., live performances begin and may include jugglers, aerialists, sway pole artists, unicyclists and a giant balloon that looks like a whale shark.
Flutter out to Chattahnoochee Nature Center to Enjoy Butterfly Encounter
The Butterfly Encounter is ongoing at Chattahoochee Nature Center through Aug. 31. Inside the outdoor tented Butterfly Encounter, you’ll keep company with hundreds of soaring and sleeping butterflies. Also, nectar and host plants are available for purchase if you want to start your own butterfly garden or add to one you already have.
Atlanta History Center Focuses on World War II
Atlanta History Center has opened the exhibit, “Their Finest Hour,” which which tells stories of Atlantans during during World War II, from the men and women who served overseas in Europe and the Pacific to the people who supported the war effort back home. Throughout, you’ll be able to hear stories directly from these Atlantans through oral histories collected by the Veteran’s History Project.
Cheshire Cat Meows at Atlanta Botanical Garden
Alice, you know, from Alice in Wonderland, has returned to Atlanta Botanical Garden. She brought all of her friends from last year’s “Wonderland” of giant plant sculptures. These include White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts. Alice’s Wonderland remains through Sept. 14. That’s not all.
Atlanta Botanical Garden has opened Enchanted Trees by Poetic Kinetics, 10 tree sculptures covered with dazzling acrylic leaves that cast reflective, shifting colors on everything around them. Enchanted Trees will remain open through Jan. 11, 2026.
World of Coca-Cola: See the New Exhibit
World of Coca-Cola has opened the new exhibit “Coca-Cola Stories.” What to expect: You may transform your look with AI magic at the “Tales from The Soda Fountain” mirror and become the star of a vintage Coca‑Cola ad with “Magic Billboards.” You can experience the birthplace of Coca-Cola at the early 20th century soda fountain and meet a virtual soda jerk who will guide you through Coca-Cola archives. You may step inside Bottling Co. and learn about the bottling partner system. Visit Coke Theater and test your movie trivia knowledge on where and when a Coke appeared in an iconic movie scene. Finally, you may snap a photo with a Coca-Cola delivery truck from 1939 and explore Coca-Cola history as you peruse displays of artifacts and story collections.
High Museum Exhibits Work of South Korean Artist
An exhibit of the works of South Korean artist Kim Chong Hak is open at the High Museum of Art. This is the first American museum exhibition featuring the work of the South Korean artist popularly known as “the painter of Mount Seorak” — the highest peak in the country’s Taebaek mountain range. With more than 70 works, the exhibition presents an aspect of Korean art in the late 20th century little known outside of South Korea. See it through Nov. 2.
‘Data-Verse’ on Exhibit at High Museum of Art
An exhibit, “Data-Verse,” is open at the High Museum of Art through Aug. 10. This work by Ryoji Ikeda, Japanese composer and artist, is a trilogy of immersive light and sound installations that represents more than two decades of research by the artist and reflects upon the progressive digitalization of an integrated global society. Ikeda’s immersive video projections, which are presented floor-to-ceiling onto the walls of the museum’s largest exhibition space, feature visualizations of data extracted from mathematical theories and the study of quantum physics.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Presents ‘Call and Response’
The “Call and Response” exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Sunday features five objects from five distinctive cultures, interpreted through a creative partnership between the museum and its communities, inviting collective consideration of how museum objects, invested with memory and meaning, “call” through time, inspiring subsequent generations who draw on them as sources of pride and communal affirmation — “responding,” reimagining and reinterpreting within a contemporary context.
Hats Off to Atlanta History Center Exhibit
An exhibit at Atlanta History Center pays tribute to Atlanta’s King Family. The “Hats of the King Family Women” exhibit, open all year, invites you to step into a world of faith, resilience and style through the inspiring stories of the King family women and their exquisite headpieces. As the exhibit notes, “From Sunday services to special occasions, these stunning headpieces were more than just accessories – they were symbols of identity, status and the enduring power of matriarchy.”
Hammonds House Exhibits ‘Sacred Space‘
Hammonds House opened the Brandywine Workshop and Archives with the exhibition “Sacred Space,” featuring the artwork of printmakers. The exhibit encourages a personal exploration of spiritual connection and invites viewers to reflect on the ancestral wisdom and memory passed down through generations. The exhibition serves as a portal into the interconnected realms of spirituality, time, space, memory and culture. See it through Sunday.
See ‘Fish Inside Out‘ at Fernbank Museum of Natural History
On exhibit at Fernbank Museum of Natural History, “X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out” features a chance to to peek beneath the scales to explore the intricate bony skeletons of fish, stingrays, eels and seahorses through black-and-white X-rays. Discover the secrets of fish evolution, anatomy and the impact of environmental changes on aquatic species in a level of detail reminiscent of fine engraving.
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