Allentown Art Festival

Allentown Art Festival

Allentown Art Festival is an annual arts festival held in the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Each June, this collective weekend sidewalk art display attracts tens of thousands of pedestrians to Buffalo. In 2007, it celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Controversy has surrounded the festival in recent years. Organizers were engaged in a long and public dispute with local merchants, ultimately barring them from displaying merchandise in front of stores during festival hours. Complaints have also been levied against the festival's organizers for the limited scope of presenters allowed to present, as well as the strict refusal to allow any creative street art, or music.

This controversy came to a head when in 2007 the Music is Art festival, a charity event founded by Goo Goo Dolls member Robby Takac, was successfully prevented from operating on adjoining streets by festival organizers as it had the previous three years. This alternative festival was created as a direct protest to the limited scope of what has become one of the largest "arts" festivals in the Great Lakes region.

External links

* [http://www.allentownartfestival.com/ Official website]


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