Star City Arts Festival is an exciting new event to provide Roanoke with an Arts Extravaganza and promote the Arts in our area. This collaboration of the Arts and Culture community, presented in a one-day festival, has the opportunity and goal of becoming a new tradition that can multiply the awareness and participation in our organizations. Star City Arts Festival is the first of its kind in Roanoke, providing the community an opportunity to participate and share the performing, visual, culinary, literary and cultural arts together. Star City Arts Festival is the first of its kind in Roanoke, providing the community an opportunity to participate and share the performing, visual, culinary, literary and cultural arts together.

DURING THE AFTERNOON OF AUGUST 24TH, ELMWOOD PARK WILL LIGHT UP WITH THE ARTS!

Enjoy performances by Southwest Virginia Ballet and Roanoke Ballet Theatre, along with Mill Mountain Theater Conservatory, Roanoke Children’s Theater, The Grandin Theater, the Jefferson Center Music Lab, and with musical performances featuring an eclectic array of artists from Rhythm and Blues, Gospel, Latin and more, You will love the Roanoke Public Libraries book giveaway and The Taubman Museum of Art’s ArtVenture tent. The city’s top food,wine and beer trucks will be there too!