Community Art Carnival

On Sunday, July 31, from 12noon to 5pm, the Black Rock Arts Foundation will host the first annual Community Art Carnival at the Hayes Green. This festive, family-friendly event will feature puppetry and puppet-making, musical performances including soprano Marisa Lenhardt and One People Voice Balinese Gamelon Orchestra, origami and paper flower making, and interactive art installations and demonstrations.

They will be holding the first-ever M.O.O.P. Olympics, where kids of all ages can participate in a “leave-no trace” training and then begin foraging for “matter-out-of-place” or M.O.O.P. Prizes will be awarded for the most trash collected, the largest piece of trash, the strangest, the most colorful and more.

The Black Rock Roller Disco will provide roller skates and skating music at 2pm and the costume-clad Burning Man mobile art “pARTiciPARADE!” will join the festivities around 2:30pm. Everyone is invited to join in with the strolling clowns, musical performers and friendly people for a fun day in celebration of community-based art.

The Mayor digs in with the neighbors on opening day of Hayes Green

Photos: Bill Wilson