HSACA adds Art Interactive to Art Springs
The Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance’s annual Art Springs festival this weekend will include Art Interactive, which will offer activities ranging from interactive children’s art to the Hot Springs Renaissance Faire, a book giveaway and cultural dancing.
Art Springs will take place at Hill Wheatley Plaza and the adjacent portion of Spring Street from Malvern Avenue to Craighead Alley on Saturday and Sunday.
The Art Interactive area will “celebrate the love of the art of literacy” with an annual children’s book giveaway made possible through the Hot Springs Area Community Foundation and the Beta Phi Sorority. Hundreds of free children’s books are expected to be given away during the two-day festival, a news release said. It will also offer storytime sessions where volunteers from Leadership Hot Springs will read to children at the festival.
The Art Interactive area will also offer the annual Hot Springs Renaissance Faire. “The Faire will be bringing back its pirate ship as well as loads of games, activities, and fun from costumed Renaissance Faire performers,” the release said.
Hands-on arts and crafts will be provided by Emergent Arts and the Garland County Library in the Kids Creation Station. The crafty project will change hourly to offer a variety of creative activities for kids at no charge, it said.
Lanie Carlson will return with her pop-up children’s theater, allowing youths a chance for interactive storytelling fun, and Levi and Lace will perform the state dance, the Square Dance, alongside a clog dancing performance.
On Sunday, visitors will get a “special treat,” with a 90-minute stage performance by the Quapaw Tribal Dancers from Oklahoma, followed by a storytelling and pottery experience in the Art Interactive area.
Food and drink will be available for sale from area food trucks and as well as all the usual Art Springs Festival activities. Art Interactive at Art Springs will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.