Downtown Lawrence streets are set for a weekend of creative fun with the return of the Busker Festival and Art Tougeau.
The Busker Festival is set for Thursday through Sunday, and Art Tougeau will add to the fun on Friday and Saturday.
Art Tougeau is an annual parade celebrating creativity on wheels. Participants transform bikes, scooters, skateboards, cars and other wheeled things into pieces of art.
The parade’s kickoff street party is set for 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, May 22 next to the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., between Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets.
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Parade participants will begin to line up at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 23 in front of the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. People who wish to participate can still register at the parade.
The parade starts at noon and will go from 11th and Massachusetts streets north to Seventh Street, then turn and continue south back to the arts center.
Learn more on the event’s website at arttougeau.org.
The Busker Festival will kick off Thursday with a 7 p.m. screening of “The Unicycling Unicorn – A Film about the Busking Life” at the arts center’s 10th and Mass Studios, 1000 Massachusetts St. It’s free to attend, and Jamey Mossengren, the Unicycling Unicorn himself, will be there to answer questions from the audience.
The festivities continue starting at 5 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday across six stages, from the West Eighth Street Pitch at Eighth and Vermont streets to South New Hampshire, between Eighth and Ninth streets on New Hampshire street.
In between are the East Eighth Street Pitch, just east of Massachusetts Street; the Sorcerers Circle and Poetry Alley on Mass between Eighth and Ninth; and the Musicians Pitch, just east of Eighth and New Hampshire streets.
Many fan favorites will return, including aerial acrobats with Voler and fire artists with Tricks of the Light.
See the full schedule of performers at lawrencebuskerfest.com/schedule and find a printable PDF of the full schedule at this link.
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