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post, Neuman said.

“It’s a really cool concept,” she said, explaining participants can exchange items with the trading post for other items collected from throughout the country. No money changes hands, she said.

“It’s true to the name with the concept of that engagement with them,” Neuman said of the trading post’s format.

Barter Boat’s website describes the trading post as a carnival stand looking like a boat. The trading post has traveled to Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Baltimore and Atlanta.

Individuals who trade with the post are given an eco-friendly bag carefully curated with the small possessions of participants from another

city, the website states. In turn, items collected in Bentonville will become art as well and traded at the post’s next stop.

Meet the Momentary will also feature food trucks and live music by Hot 8 Brass Band, Neuman said.

“You can come, enjoy yourself and kind of see the type of experience you can get from live music, to art, to performances, engagement in a relaxed environment,” she said.

The Momentary’s green space will be fenced off from the museum, which will still be under construction.

Participants won’t be able to see the in the building at the time of the event, but they will be able to see the free-standing canopy on the green.

Installation of the canopy began Friday and is anticipated to take one to two weeks to complete, Neuman said.

“It’s from Sydney, Australia, and was transported to Northwest Arkansas by boat and train,” she said.

Neuman compared the canopy with the white canopy at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion in Rogers.

“It goes over our stage that will be there, so that will be kind of nice to have that up for the experience,” she said.

Limits haven’t been placed on the number of participants who can attend the event, but Neuman said she encourages people to register for the event on the Momentary’s website to streamline access to the venue.

“If you preregister, they just scan in your bar code, and then you’ll get your wristband to enter,” she said. “I think it just makes it a little quicker to enter.”