Things To Do In St Pete This Weekend: Best Festivals & Events Going On In St Petersburg

Padres vs. Tampa Bay Rays*
All Weekend, August 28-30, Various Times
The Rays close out August with a three-game homestand against the San Diego Padres at Tropicana Field, which is a perfectly good reason to spend some portion of your weekend in a ballpark watching baseball. Pick a game, show up, and root for the home team like it’s your civic responsibility, because at this point it basically is.

Sip & Stroll on Corey Avenue
📍Beyond the Burg: St. Pete Beach
Friday, August 28, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Corey Avenue in St. Pete Beach closes out the month with its last-Friday Sip & Stroll, a free, no-agenda evening of shop-hopping, drink-sipping, and discovering what the local businesses have put together for this particular edition, because the specials and experiences change every month. Show up, wander, and let a warm Florida evening on one of the area’s best little commercial strips do the rest of the work.

Marvel Trivia Night*
Friday, August 28, 7 p.m.
Voodoo Brewing Co. is launching a monthly themed trivia series with a Marvel edition that will reward everyone who has spent years storing comic book timeline knowledge in the part of their brain that could have been used for something practical. Bring a team, bring your most confidently wrong friend, and prepare to spend an evening arguing about the multiverse with strangers who are equally invested in being right about it.

Full Moon Reset
Friday, August 28, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
The Body Electric Yoga Company’s Full Moon Reset moves through moon salutations, Yin-style deep stretching with journaling prompts, and restorative postures accompanied by live flutes, chimes, gongs, and crystal singing bowls — a 90-minute sequence designed to put whatever the week threw at you firmly in the past. Bring a journal, bring crystals, bring whatever you need, and let the full moon do what full moons apparently do when given the proper context.

Yoga Poolside at The Hollander Hotel
Saturday, August 29, 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
A little stretching, a little sunshine, and a free mimosa if you stay for breakfast makes this feel less like a workout and more like a very clever life hack. Enjoy a breezy poolside flow, rotating teachers from The Body Electric, and the kind of Saturday morning energy that suggests you absolutely have your act together.

Clear the Shelters 2026*
📍Beyond the Burg: Largo
Saturday, August 29, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
SPCA Tampa Bay in Largo is waiving adoption fees for every available animal, including dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, pocket pets, reptiles, and birds, as part of the national Clear the Shelters campaign, with a goal of surpassing 300 adoptions in a single day. Adoptions are first-come, first-served, food trucks and photo opportunities are on site, and showing up is one of the more straightforwardly good things you can do with a Saturday.

Weekend Wake & Bake
Saturday, August 29, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Herban Flow is teaming up with Astro Bliss and Melipona Bakery for a free 21+ Saturday morning of THC seltzers, giveaways, and Melipona’s famously beloved homemade pop tarts, which is a combination of reasons to leave the house that is both specific and entirely persuasive.

15th Annual Great St. Pete Cupcake Contest
Saturday, August 29, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
The Morean Center for Clay’s 15th annual citywide cupcake competition hands you a 12-count box and asks you to fill it with mini cupcakes from youth, novice, professional, and specialty categories before voting for your favorite. Boxes historically sell out before the day of the event, so pre-registering is less a suggestion and more a personal responsibility.

¡Fuákata! Lager’s Not Dead: SkaFest Vol. 4
Saturday, August 29, 4 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Five bands, six and a half hours, fresh lagers, sour slushes, a misting tent, and vendors all converge on Grand Central Brewhouse’s beer garden for the fourth installment of SkaFest, which is the kind of outdoor Saturday lineup that makes a very direct and unambiguous argument for wearing your most comfortable dancing shoes. Butterbrain closes out the night at 9 p.m., meaning the back half of your evening is already accounted for and the only remaining question is how early you’re willing to show up.

Guitars Galore
Saturday, August 29, 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Five of Tampa Bay’s most dynamic guitarists take the stage at Seven C Music & Coffee for solo sets before coming together for a combined grand finale, backed by a rhythm section covering straight-ahead jazz with detours into Latin, blues, funk, and rock. Two hours of that caliber of playing in an intimate setting is the kind of Saturday afternoon that reminds you live music at a human scale hits differently than anything a larger venue can offer.

Dueling Pianos
Saturday, August 29, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Requests fly, voices rise, and chaos reigns as two pianists battle it out with crowd fueled singalongs at 3 Daughters Brewing. Bring cash, bring stamina, and prepare to shout your favorite song louder than everyone else in the room.

End of Summer White Party*
Saturday, August 29, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Juno & the Peacock is sending summer off with an all-white dress code, a welcome pour of bubbles, passed hors d’oeuvres, and DJ Fresh keeping the dance floor moving well into the evening, which is the kind of inaugural event that sets a standard it’s going to feel obligated to meet every year going forward. Arrive dressed accordingly, toast the season, and accept that this is simply the most elegant version of a Saturday night currently available to you.

Broadway Rave
Saturday, August 29, 8:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Bayboro Brewing transforms into a full Broadway dance party where costumes are encouraged, show tunes are mandatory, surprise guests from actual Broadway shows are apparently on the table, and nobody in the room is going to judge you for knowing every word to something from Wicked. If you have ever described yourself as a theatre kid, former theatre kid, or theatre kid in recovery, this is two hours specifically designed with you in mind.

US Open Brunch
Sunday, August 30, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Roses at St. Pete Athletic is hosting an à la carte brunch while the first round of the US Open plays around the club, which is a Sunday morning combination that requires absolutely no further convincing if you have any feelings whatsoever about tennis, brunch, or both simultaneously.

Whispering Souls Puzzle Championship
📍Beyond the Burg: Clearwater
Sunday, August 30, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Teams of four or six race to complete a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle at Aspirations Winery in Clearwater, with meat, cheese, crackers, and wine available to fuel the competition and the entry fee including the puzzle itself to take home, all benefiting the Whispering Souls African-American Cemetery Restoration Project. Teams are limited, the cause is a good one, and it turns out competitive puzzling with a glass of wine on a Sunday afternoon is a more compelling pitch than it has any right to be.

Craft Club Cinema: “50 First Dates”
Sunday, August 30, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Creative Pinellas, The Common Thread Yarn Shop & Café, and Green Light Cinema have combined forces to create a movie screening where knitting, crocheting, embroidery, doodling, and whatever else you’ve got going is actively encouraged, with lap desks, task lights, slightly brighter house lights, and lower volume provided so your stitches and your comfort film can coexist peacefully. Spaces are limited, the vibe is deliberately low-pressure, and 50 First Dates is the kind of movie that holds up perfectly well as background comfort while your hands are doing something productive.