Urban Arts Festival

Urban Arts Festival

September 16th and 17th 2016 – at The Gallivan Center

Saturday 16th 2016 – noon – 10pm

Sunday 17th 2016 – noon – 8pm


ABOUT THE URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL

The Urban Arts Festival is a FREE community event organized by Utah Arts Alliance. Started in 2011, the Urban Arts Festival is one of the most unique and exciting events in SLC. The festival showcases hundreds of artists, performers, and musicians. In 2012 the readers of City Weekly voted the Urban Arts Festival as the BEST new Festival in Utah and in 2013 the Festival won an Arty award for the Best Indie Art Event in Utah. In 2016 it was named the Best Fest for the rest!

In 2017 the festival will be held at the Gallivan Center in Downtown SLC. It is a two day celebration of Salt Lake’s urban and artistic culture for the community, art lovers, and families. The festival features artists, music, dance performance, and skateboarding displays as well as art projects created at the festival by local artists.


Introducing the music and performing arts lineup for the 2017 Urban Arts Festival!!

Saturday, September 16th

Gallivan Stage

12p: Akoma

12:30p: WOFA Afro Fusion Dance

12:45p: Kanani Pua Dance

1p: Beaute Obscure

1:15p: Nepenthe with Desert Journey School of Dance

1:30p: Nick Weaver + Been A While Dance Company

1:45p: ArtsOfChaos

2p: Rhythm Against Society

2:30p: Mojave Jive

3:45p: House of Lewis

5p: The Bboy Federation

6:15p: Numbs

6:45p: Super Bubble

8p: MIX MASTER MIKE


Street Stage

12:30p: Music Garage

1:30p: Shanin Blake

2:30p: PIN UP CONTEST

3p: Version Two

4p: Penrose

5p: Waterloo Rats

6p: La Calavera

7p: Samba Fogo


Sunday, September 17th

Gallivan Stage

1p: All Hope Contained

2p: Talia Keys

3p: Conquer Monster

4p: MiNX

5p: INSATIABLE

6p: AFROLICIOUS


Street Stage

12:30p: Robyn Cage

1:30p: Downright Citizens

2:30p: Mojave Nomads

3:30p: Baby Jordan

3:45p: Lady Infinity

4p: Intimin8

4:30p: The Outsiders

5p: Orphans Cabaret


THE URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE, 2017

Over 200 artists displaying and selling everything from paintings, photography, and prints to jewelry, clothing, and sculpture.
Music on Three Stages from over 80 different groups—featuring hip-hop, rock, funk, and jazz.
Dance performances from top urban dance groups—featuring breakdancing battles and showcases throughout the day.
Live painting demonstrations from Utah’s top mural and street artists as well as a community wall for everyone to paint on.
Food vendors and booths from non-profit groups and sponsors.
The Voice Of The City Film Festival.

URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL CONNECTS THE ARTS TO COMMUNITY
The Urban Arts Festival benefits the community in Salt Lake in many ways, including giving the public an opportunity to experience some of the most relevant and current art in the state. Attendees will experience some of the newest and most innovative dance and music performances around. The public can also participate in the many projects at the festival, whether it is creating their own skate deck art, voting in the several audience-choice competitions at the festival, taking art workshops, or just enjoying the unique atmosphere that can only be found at the Urban Arts Festival.

The festival draws thousands of people, both from inside and outside the state, to downtown SLC for the day, supporting local businesses such as hotels, restaurants, shops, parking lots, and clubs. The benefits also extend to the artists that sell their unique works at the festival and the many musicians and performers that use this opportunity to increase their visibility and expand their audience. The festival and our patrons brings millions of dollars to the downtown economy and is supported by the Salt Lake City Corp. Salt Lake County and the State of Utah.

This festival is unique to the city as it provides the best opportunity for Urban Artists to be showcased and celebrated for the positive cultural impact they have on the society.

Urban Art is all about city life and culture and Salt Lake City has an amazingly diverse population, many of whom celebrate urban cultural/artistic expressions.

Join us at the 2016 Urban Arts Fest and see what is all about!