HUMAN - POWERED SCULPTURES STRUT DUVAL ON APRIL 22

The annual Papio Kinetic Sculpture and Art Bike Parade — a family-friendly, art-inspired, human-powered mobile sculpture and art-bike parade that celebrates creativity and innovation using recycled materials — is set to roll down the length of Duval Street on Saturday, April 22, which also happens to be Earth Day. Mobile sculptures and art bikes will launch at noon from the Key West Museum of Art & History, traveling the full length of Duval Street to the Southernmost Pocket Park where a block party and awards ceremony celebration will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Southernmost Beach Café will have a cash bar and food for purchase during the award ceremony.

The parade celebrates imagination and encourages the use of reused materials, all while honoring Stanley Papio, a pioneering Florida Keys folk artist whose recycled metal sculptures teem with satire, tenacity and innovation. The country’s first Kinetic Sculpture Race rolled out in Ferndale, California in 1969, igniting a craze that later grew to include national race events in Philadelphia, Baltimore and elsewhere. Since then, other communities, including Key West, have hosted