The 4th-Annual Youngstown May Day Festival takes place on Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28, noon -6 pm each day, at the Calvin Center, on Mahoning Avenue, in Youngstown. The May Day Festival is a fun free celebration of labor, climate justice, human rights, social justice, and the honoring of Beltane. There will be music, maypole dancing, arts and crafts for young and old, workshops, demonstrations, speakers, and other merriments. There will also be a wide variety of community group and vendor tables.

There will also be a community meal and also a food truck offering vegan, vegetarian, and carnivore options.

The May Day Festival is a free, inclusive, family friendly celebration at the Calvin Center (755 Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown) that bring together many communities from across the Valley to celebrate human rights and the bounty of nature. May Day is both a historical celebration for organized labor and for many religious traditions who welcome the return of the spring with dance and song. This festival joins the red and green traditions to mingle together historical and present struggles of labor with celebrants of Beltane, those fighting for civil rights, workplace democracy, climate justice, and other supporters of justice, care, and support of a sustainable planet, fair workplace, and inclusive communities. The event opens with an AFL-CIO-sponsored Memorial to Fallen workers. Musical performances will include local favorites Crash the Great, LibCor, Grizzly, Emotional Labor, Johnathan Blackshire, Tom Cvetkovich, and Tim Raridon. Speakers and roundtables will include: legendary local civil rights and anti-death penalty activist Alice Lynd on the social justice method called accompanying, a presentation from Northeast Ohio Workers Center, a workshop from Bending Oak Permaculture, a talk on the next steps for Ohioans’ reproductive freedom after win of Issue One, and a presentation by local author Sean Posey.