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2024 Cultural Events/Holidays

This calendar lists holy days, holidays, heritage, history, and awareness months that Louisville will commemorate and highlight for our staff and community members from various backgrounds. The Louisville community is encouraged to find opportunities to learn about and honor identities and cultures all year round as part of our ongoing commitment to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion. This is not an exhaustive list by any means and some variances of dates will exist due to regional differences. In future years, we hope to include additional days, holidays, and awareness months that are not represented below.

January 
New Year's Day
MLK Jr. Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 
National Law Enforcement Appreciation

February 
Lunar New Year
Black History Month 
President's Day

March
Ramadan
Women's History Month 
Easter

April
Earth Day 
National Volunteer Month 
Arab American Heritage Month 
Passover

May
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 
Jewish American Heritage Month
Older Americans Month 
Memorial Day 

June
Pride
Juneteenth 
National Indigenous People's Day

July 
4th of July 

August 
Italian American Month *

September 
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Labor Day 

October
Hispanic Heritage Month 
World Mental Health Day (10th)
National Coming Out Day (11th)
National First Responders Day 

November
Veteran's Day 
Transgender Day of Remembrance
National American Indian Heritage Day 

December 
Inclusively highlighting all the holidays 

*Italian American Heritage Month falls in October; however, La Festa in Louisville is celebrated in August 

Library Resources

The Library hosted an event on undoing diversity fatigue with Dr. Mosby Tyler. A recording of the event is available here.

If you want to learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Library is a great place to start. Thanks to recent fundraising efforts by residents, the Library has added more copies of popular titles about Black history and cultural diversity. The Library was able to purchase 180 copies of mostly non-fiction titles. Learn more.

Museum Resources

The Louisville Historical Museum is committed to collecting, preserving and sharing a full range and diversity of voices, perspectives and experiences in our community. The Museum invites you to share a story, memory, reflection on living in Louisville. Submit your story.

Police Department Practices

The Louisville Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the policy of the department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally, fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group consistent with the City’s mission and values.

This is reinforced through the culture of the department and formalized through policies that address such topics as force/response to resistance, bias-based policing, professional standards, body cameras, mental health services, etc.

Additionally, training is provided to officers on a variety of topics, including: implicit bias, anti-bias for law enforcement, civil rights, constitutional and community policing, proper use of force, report writing, less lethal weapons, defensive tactics, policy review, etc.

On June 16, 2020, the department shared an update with City Council on its efforts to maintain peace in the community while ensuring equality and justice. To learn more, you can read the meeting packet.