EUREKA SPRINGS
CELEBRATES
25TH ANNUAL MAY ARTS FESTIVAL
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ach May, Eureka Springs boasts a calendar full of activities surrounding and celebrating the arts. With this year being the 25th anniversary of the festival, the city is gearing up for an even bigger showing with art around every corner! The city of Eureka Springs, Arkansas is home to more than 300 working artists and the galleries represent over 1,000 local, regional and national artists. With such a dense collection of artists, Eureka Springs is one of the premier art destinations in the nation. The festival kicks off May 1 with Art with the Animals at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge where local artists will be showing work in the refuge through May 8. This year, Turpentine Creek is celebrating their 20th anniversary and will have a night of live bands and fireworks on May 5th to conclude their anniversary celebrations. Month long events and exhibits are scheduled, including concerts in Basin Spring Park FridaySundays and holiday Mondays, A Taste of Art: A Visual Feast where art will be on display at many of the city’s restaurants, and downtown gallery strolls. Downtown banks will also get in on the action, with month long displays featuring local artists. Keel’s Creek Winery will present a basic course on the fundamentals of winemaking each Tuesday of the month. On the first Saturday of the festival, ARTrageous Parade will roll through town at 2 p.m. This colorful and exciting parade is one of the city’s premier events and will feature floats, bands, and more. After the parade, make sure to make your
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way to Basin Spring Park because Africa in the Ozarks will continue until 11 p.m. The crowd pleaser White Street Studio Walk is a free event where local artists open up their homes and studios to the public to view their latest works. This event is in it’s 22nd year and will take place May 18, from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. Later in the weekend is Books in Bloom. This Literary festival will host more than twenty authors on Sunday, May 20th at the Crescent Hotel. Authors from a variety of genres will attend and will be available to sign books and answer questions in the beautiful conservatory at the hotel. Stay and enjoy this culturally rich event! The festival’s schedule is so packed with events that it couldn’t all be contained in just one month. Therefore, the May Festival of the Arts wraps up June 10 with AvantGarde in the Ozarks. This experiential art installation is set to live music at the Enthios Art Venue Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays May 31-June 10. Also stretching into June is the Eureka Springs Blue Weekend. Concerts will be held at the Auditorium, The 1905 Basin Park Hotel’s Barefoot Ballroom, Basin Spring Park, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and other venues around Eureka Springs. For more information and the complete Blues Weekend schedule, go to www.eurekaspringsblues. com. For additional information, visit www.mayfestivalofthearts.com or www.eurekasprings.org