UK HealthCare’s ‘Be Healthy Bash’ is Sept. 20
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 2, 2025) – UK HealthCare and UK Cooperative Extension Service is inviting community members to the annual “Be Healthy Bash,” a free festival dedicated to nutrition, fitness and emotional wellness. The event is 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Fayette County Extension Office, 1140 Harry Sykes Way in Lexington.
Activities include:
- Health screenings
- Wellness resources and activities
- Safety education
- Cooking demonstrations
- Taste testing
- Inflatables
- Smoothie bike
- Meet & greet with UK’s Wally Cat
- Petting zoo
- Free farm stand voucher
- Vaccinations
- Firetruck and the Operation Copsicle van
- Face painting
- Music
“The Be Healthy Bash is about empowering people to take charge of their health,” said Kristen Stakelin, M.D., medical director at the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center. “With access to nutritious foods, expert guidance, and fun activities, we’re making healthy living something everyone can achieve.”
This fun-filled event is presented by UK HealthCare and University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service in Coordination with:
- UK Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center
- UK HealthCare's Healthy Kentucky Initiative
- Fayette County Extension Office
- Lexington Farmer’s Market
- Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government - Department of Safety
“UK’s Be Healthy Bash is where knowledge, resources, and community come together for one incredible day,” said Trudi Matthews, UK HealthCare’s chief of value-vased programs, public policy and community initiatives. “By sharing what we know and do best, we’re helping Kentuckians live healthier, happier lives.”
Participation is free and open to the public. The first 500 attendees will receive free lunch. Register here to win a door prize.
UK HealthCare is the hospitals and clinics of the University of Kentucky. But it is so much more. It is more than 10,000 dedicated health care professionals committed to providing advanced subspecialty care for the most critically injured and ill patients from the Commonwealth and beyond. It also is the home of the state’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for the tiniest and sickest newborns and the region’s only Level 1 trauma center.
As an academic research institution, we are continuously pursuing the next generation of cures, treatments, protocols and policies. Our discoveries have the potential to change what’s medically possible within our lifetimes. Our educators and thought leaders are transforming the health care landscape as our six health professions colleges teach the next generation of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals, spreading the highest standards of care. UK HealthCare is the power of advanced medicine committed to creating a healthier Kentucky, now and for generations to come.