Art festival, car rally enliven Kalispell weekend
Downtown Kalispell will be a happening place this weekend with a major art festival, parade and car and motorcycle show.
Arts in the Park
The Hockaday Museum of Art presents the 42nd annual Arts in the Park festival Friday through Sunday (July 23-25) at Depot Park in Kalispell.
This arts, crafts and music festival will feature more than 100 local and visiting artists and craftsmen offering quality, unique works for sale.
There will be a variety of food vendors along with music and dancing. Entertainment begins at 10 a.m. each day and the roster features a diverse spectrum, including Scottish bagpipes, Latin jazz and Celtic winds as well as cloggers, tappers and hula dancers.
For the complete entertainment schedule, check out Friday’s Intertainer in the Daily Inter Lake.
Purchase of a $5 Weekend Pass button gives the wearer unlimited admission to the festival all three days. Daily admission to the festival will be $3, and children age 6 and under are admitted free with their family.
The Weekend Pass also gives the wearer unlimited admission to the Hockaday Museum of Art during the festival.
The Hockaday Museum of Art is located in the cultural district of downtown Kalispell at 302 Second Ave. E. in Kalispell.
The museum continues its celebration of Glacier National Park’s Centennial with the ongoing exhibits of “John Fery: Artist of the Rockies” and “100 Years, 100 Days: Photography by Chris Peterson,” as well as a refreshed exhibit of Glacier National Park artists in the Crown of the Continent permanent exhibit.
Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
For more information, call 755-5268 or visit www.HockadayMuseum.org.
Rally in the Rockies
The Glacier Rally in the Rockies parade and car and motorcycle show and shine will be held Saturday, July 24, in downtown Kalispell.
The parade begins at 10 a.m. and will line up at the Flathead High School parking lot on the corner of Eighth Street West and Fifth Avenue West, then head north on Main Street to Center Street.
Classic vehicles 1975 and older and motorcycles of all years then will park on First Avenue West and in the bank parking lots between Center and Third Streets for the show and shine.
Food and drink concessions will be available in the alley behind Norm’s News. There will be prize drawings, a downtown poker walk and free weekend admission to the Arts in the Park arts and crafts show for all registered participants.
On Friday, July 23, there will be a benefit street dance from 6 to 10 p.m., for Flathead CARE, featuring live music by Andre Floyd & Mood Iguana, Alex Athy and The Ethan Thompson Band (the recent winners of the 2010 Folgers Jingle $25,000 grand prize). All registered Glacier Rally in the Rockies participants will be admitted free.
General admission is $5 per person or $20 per family. Car registrants may check in and pick up their registration goody bags at the street dance.
All car and motorcycle show events are free. Concessions and vehicle registration proceeds will benefit Flathead CARE, a local youth drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention organization.
Car and motorcycle registration costs $20 per vehicle. Registration forms and more information are available at www.flatheadcare.org by clicking on the “Glacier Rally in the Rockies” link.
For more information, contact Kari Gabriel, Flathead CARE executive director, at gabrielk@sd5.k12.mt.us or 751-3971.