April 30 – May 1 event is sibling to venerable Festival in the Park
CHARLOTTE (April 1, 2016) — Kings Drive Art Walk (KDAW) continues its tradition of combining arts art and the outdoors. The annual event will be held Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 1, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Little Sugar Creek Greenway along Kings Drive, near the Metropolitan in Midtown. The festival will again feature fine arts for sale in numerous media, including paint and drawing; sculpture; pottery; and metal, stone, wood and glass works.
Admission to the festival will be free and open to the public. KDAW was founded by Festival in the Park, Charlotte’s popular fall event held in Freedom Park, a Charlotte tradition that started in 1964. This year’s KDAW event brings back the spacious location for the JazzArts Music Stage, again at the northwest corner of the Pearl Park Way bridge and S. Kings Drive, with free live jazz performances throughout the weekend.
KDAW guests can choose from varied food vendors. As patrons stroll the Greenway, they will encounter performances by aerial dancers and jugglers.
Parking is available in several lots and along neighborhood streets around Sugar Creek. The KDAW asks our visitors to refrain from parking at retail parking lots/decks and any of the parking decks near Carolinas Medical Center. Streets must remain open around CMC open to ensure passage of emergency vehicles. Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation serves as the host of the KDAW.
KDAW has partnered with uBack (www.ubackforgood.com), a free mobile app that makes it easy for donors to support the annual event with just a couple of screen taps. uBack is a Charlotte-based company that enables people to support their favorite charitable organizations with any size donation. Donors can find uBack in the App Store and on Google Play.
This project was made possible, in part, with funding from the Arts & Science Council, the N.C. Arts Council – a division of the Department of Cultural Resources – and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Festival organizers are thrilled to announce that Piedmont Natural Gas (PNG) will return as the 2016 Green Sponsor. PNG is focused on green initiatives within their own organization, making this a perfect partnership. With their support, recycling bins will be available for festival-goers to discard their recyclable waste.
Festival in the Park is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Charlotte.