Join us for the Community Arts & Funk Festival - 15 Year Anniversary!
Set against the backdrop of downtown Milwaukee at the longstanding outdoor pavilion stage of the Marcus Performing Art Center / Peck Pavilion, the Community Arts & Funk Festival provides an opportunity to promote an intergenerational dialogue between emerging, established and underground performing artists who each share common performance and musical roots. The funk genre of music, made popular by James Brown, Sly and the Family
Stone, and most notably Parliament-Funkadelic, was selected as the musical focus of our annual event to educate the broader listening public about the musical history, what inspired it, and how funk evolved from R&B, Jazz, Gospel, Rock and the influence it has on the Hip Hop generation.
And, when the power of funk music is combined with local, regional and national visual artists and their works, it provides the perfect combination for curating a cross cultural, demographically diverse, family-oriented community event rooted in authenticity and intentionality.
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Food, Drink & Art starting at 10am
'DJ Gid Money' spinning from 11:30am
Live Photobooth with The Booth MKE all day
Tshirt Design & Press with @FruitionMKE all day
Community Mural with Ken Brown all day
Live Poetry Slam 11:30-12:30
Live Art Competition throughout the day
Live Music starting at 4pm
Its gonna be a FUNKY good time!
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