Open Frontier Fest: Creative District Showcase

Help us celebrate Chadron's new creative district!

Oct. 4, 5-8 p.m.

Join us in Downtown Chadron to celebrate the arts and Chadron’s newly-designated Open Frontier Creative District, where you can hear yourself think and see yourself create!

We’ll have: 

  • Live Practice Viewing at Consuming Fire Dance Studio (via monitors)
  • Live Screenprinting Demos at Outlaw Printers
  • Open Mic Music and Summer’s End Art Show at Chadron Open Art
  • Painting With Wool ($10 each) at Madison Quilting and Yarn
  • Mini Pumpkin Decorating ($5 each) and Fresh Flowers by Golden Acre Farms
  • Live Painting with Art Alley & The Wandering Lilac
  • Micro Tattoos and Permanent Jewelry Pop-up with Siren Tattoo
  • Panhandle Gymnastics Demos at Chadron Open Art and Pop-up Performances throughout Downtown
  • Cookies & a Surprise Sale by Friends of the Chadron Public Library
  • Sidewalk Chalk Art with the CSC Art Guild
  • Twisted Braids
PLUS:
Many of our other creative businesses will be open for shopping and dining!
  • Bean Broker
  • Bloom
  • Fryday’s 120 Bar & Grill
  • Inner Peace Holistic Healing
  • Just Love Coffee
  • Molcajetes
  • The Game Changer
  • The Ridge
  • The Wandering Lilac
  • Wild’s Bar & Grill (w/ Karaoke)

AND: 

  • Grandma’s Kettle Corn & Grumpy’s Lemonade & Freeze Dried Candy
  • Jimmy L’s BBQ
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The Chadron Creative District is an open, creative frontier destination where new audiences can discover, engage with, unite around and celebrate arts and culture. Its values include:

  • Downtown Revitalization – Preserving, utilizing and celebrating the historical assets present since the town’s founding
  • Collaboration – Working with organizations and entities representing a variety of groups
  • Inclusiveness – Highlighting artists and mediums from a diverse spectrum
  • Authenticity – Keeping the district true to western Nebraska’s frontier roots
  • Acceptance – Of art, visitors, and residents from all walks of life
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