diff --git a/gnovm/cmd/gno/test.go b/gnovm/cmd/gno/test.go
index 5884463a552..9a3be4526b5 100644
--- a/gnovm/cmd/gno/test.go
+++ b/gnovm/cmd/gno/test.go
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	gno "github.com/gnolang/gno/gnovm/pkg/gnolang"
 	"github.com/gnolang/gno/gnovm/pkg/gnomod"
 	"github.com/gnolang/gno/gnovm/tests"
+	teststd "github.com/gnolang/gno/gnovm/tests/stdlibs/std"
+	"github.com/gnolang/gno/tm2/pkg/colors"
 	"github.com/gnolang/gno/tm2/pkg/commands"
 	"github.com/gnolang/gno/tm2/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/gnolang/gno/tm2/pkg/random"
@@ -447,10 +449,25 @@ func runTestFiles(
 	n := gno.MustParseFile("main_test.gno", testmain)
 	m.RunFiles(n)
 
+	printedEvents := 0
+
 	for _, test := range testFuncs.Tests {
 		testFuncStr := fmt.Sprintf("%q", test.Name)
 
-		eval := m.Eval(gno.Call("runtest", testFuncStr))
+		res := gno.Call("runtest", testFuncStr)
+
+		eval := m.Eval(res) // NOTE: verbose prints get here
+		if verbose {
+			ctx := m.Context.(*teststd.TestExecContext)
+
+			events := ctx.EventLogger.Events()
+			for _, ev := range events[printedEvents:] {
+				printedEvents++
+				// XXX: print events with better formatting (e.g. JSON)
+				strEv := fmt.Sprint(ev)
+				io.ErrPrintfln("---       event: %s", colors.ColoredBytesOnlyAscii([]byte(strEv), colors.Magenta))
+			}
+		}
 
 		ret := eval[0].GetString()
 		if ret == "" {
diff --git a/gnovm/cmd/gno/testdata/gno_test/flag_print-events.txtar b/gnovm/cmd/gno/testdata/gno_test/flag_print-events.txtar
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cc53bf099fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnovm/cmd/gno/testdata/gno_test/flag_print-events.txtar
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# test verbose flag to print event
+
+gno test -v=true . 
+
+! stdout .+
+stderr '---       event: +'
+
+-- valid.gno --
+package valid
+
+import "std"
+
+func Hello() {	
+	std.Emit("emit_in_pkg", "k1", "v1")
+}
+
+-- valid_test.gno --
+package valid
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestHello(t *testing.T) {
+	Hello()
+}
+
+
diff --git a/tm2/pkg/colors/colors.go b/tm2/pkg/colors/colors.go
index 84a0353d880..e6dc0042c77 100644
--- a/tm2/pkg/colors/colors.go
+++ b/tm2/pkg/colors/colors.go
@@ -173,3 +173,15 @@ func ColoredBytes(data []byte, textColor, bytesColor func(...interface{}) string
 func DefaultColoredBytes(data []byte) string {
 	return ColoredBytes(data, Blue, Green)
 }
+
+func ColoredBytesOnlyAscii(data []byte, textColor func(...interface{}) string) string {
+	s := ""
+	for _, b := range data {
+		if 0x21 <= b && b < 0x7F {
+			s += textColor(string(b))
+		} else {
+			s += string(b)
+		}
+	}
+	return s
+}