Cultural Calendar Dates For May 2025

Find out what's on in May 2025. With spring in full force, May’s cultural highlights include everything from the serious to the downright silly.

Cultural Calendar Dates For May 2025

📅 Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 | starts 1 May 2025

👉 Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is dedicated to talking about mental illness while pregnant or after having a baby. The week focuses on raising awareness of perinatal mental health issues, advocating for affected women and families, changing societal attitudes, and facilitating access to information, care, and support necessary for recovery.

📅 National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (US) | starts 1 May 2025

👉May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, which is celebrated by various institutions including the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and more. Join us in honouring the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and played a vital role in its future success. Meet our AAPI speakers.

📅 Star Wars Day | 4 May 2025

👉 Celebrating Star Wars day with the traditional greeting “May the 4th Be With You!” has been around since at least 1978.

📅 World Fairtrade Day 2025 | 13 May 2025

👉 World Fair Trade Day takes place on 13th May 2025. Organised by the World Fair Trade Organisation, the day aims to celebrate Fair Trade and encourage the public to, where possible, choose Fair Trade goods, becoming fair and ethical consumers. Fair Trade means fairness for goods and services that have been sustainably sourced and also engages in supporting the fight against economic crisis, poverty, gender inequality and climate change. Book speaker Jo Fairley, founder of Green & Black’s Chocolate and creator of the UK’s first Fairtrade chocolate bar.

📅 Learning At Work Week 2025 | starts 15 May 2025

👉 Learning at Work Week (LAWW) focuses on our human capacity to learn, how we can be great lifelong learners and the importance of connection and community for empowered people and dynamic organisations. Coordinated by the Campaign for Learning since 1999, the primary goal of Learning at Work Week is to spotlight the benefits of learning and development at work and build learning cultures at work.

📅 Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 | starts 15 May 2025

👉 Mental Health Awareness Week runs from Monday 15th May to Sunday 21st May 2025. This year, join the fight for mental health and support good mental health for all.

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📅 World Meditation Day 2025 | 21 May 2025

Life can often feel relentless and stressful. However, with the right tools, we all have the potential to lead healthier and happier lives. According to a study, individuals with anxiety who practised meditation regularly over three years experienced positive, long-term effects on their mental health. Explore meditation speakers at PepTalk.

📅 National Conversation Week 2025 | starts 24 May 2025

👉 National Conversation Week is about the simple, pleasurable, and rewarding art of simply talking to each other. This week is about opening inquisitive conversations to develop deeper knowledge, boost confidence, and expand human connection.

‍Of course, this is just a selection of dates! If we've missed any key days or events for your HR, Culture, or People team, be sure to let us know on LinkedIn.

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Key cultural calendar dates, weeks and observances for the rest of 2025:

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