The 12th Druid City Arts Festival returns Friday and Saturday at Government Plaza after being canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The event will feature over 70 unique vendors and live performances from 10 different musical acts. Here s everything you need to know ahead of visiting the festival, which promises to be the biggest and best yet.
When?
DCAF 2021 takes place Friday from 5-10 p.m., and Saturday from 10a.m. - 5 p.m. at Government Plaza in downtown Tuscaloosa.
Who?
With 72 vendors taking over the Plaza for the weekend, customers will surely find a variety of different fascinating items to browse and buy. A full list and map of participating vendors can be found below:
Remaining safe and separate canceled mingling, especially where one might bump elbows with strangers. After taking 2020 off, as did most of the pandemic-ridden world, the Druid City Arts Festival returns this weekend, outdoors and open to the public, Friday and Saturday in Government Plaza.
From 2010 to 2019, DCAF grew from a sparsely-attended one-day show to a two-day festival that draws crowds estimated at 12,000 and up. Just by being outdoors, it really gives us the freedom to do some of the things that we d planned on doing in 2020, said Alexis Clark, venue operations manager for the city of Tuscaloosa. Tents will be spaced apart, but that s just by nature of having a few less participants, and not really by design.
But there was laughter, too, as good memories were shared and recoveries from the virus were celebrated. It was hard seeing people lose people day after day, and they were unable to have funerals and were unable to grieve with other people, said Terri Ledbetter, a registered nurse educator, and one of the organizers of the memorial. So, we just thought we would offer an opportunity for some of the families of all these people that are on these signs out here (bearing photos of victims of COVID) to maybe come together. We just thought it would be a good time for them to grieve.
SHREVEPORT, La. As the homicide toll soared to 32 already this year, city leaders came together for a call to the community to help in a renewed effort to stop gun violence. It s called Safer Shreveport.
Mayor Adrian Perkins joined the chiefs of the police and fire departments, other elected leaders, as well as leaders in the business and religious communities in urging everyone in Shreveport to help in the effort.
Perkins told a crowd gathered outside Government Plaza about getting a call recently from a tee ball coach. The coach said he had to call off practice because of gunfire near their ballfield in the north part of the city.
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