Fremont Festival Of The Art: August 5-6th

Fremont Festival Of The Art: August 5-6th

•         Over 500 top-quality Art & Craft booths
•         Unique services and special deals on products in Business Marketplace
•         Artisanal prepackaged food sales in Gourmet Marketplace
•         Food booths benefiting non-profit organizations
•         Food trucks offering a variety of delicious street eats also benefiting non-profits
•         Beer, wine and margarita sales in branded glasses
•         Kids slushies in collectible cups
•         Continuous music featured on 2 stages
•         Street performers, including face painters, henna tattoos, balloons and more
•         2 sections of rides and games just for the young ones in Kid City & Kid City West
•         Kid friendly performances and demonstrations on the stage in front of Kid City

• 2023 marks the 39th anniversary of the Festival of the Arts. The first festival was held in 1983 in the Fremont Hub.
• 18,526 ice cream bars are consumed at the Festival.
• Approximately 13,230 glasses of wine are enjoyed during the two-day festival.
• 23,552 mugs of ice-cold beer are poured during the Festival.
• More than 35,000 frosty cans of soda and bottles of water are sold to thirsty festival attendees each year.
• Nearly 10,000 pounds of ice is used over the weekend to cool off the Summer heat.
• The Festival of the Arts generates averages 3.3 tons of recycle materials and 1.75 tons of organic materials.
• Over 3,000 volunteers are needed to run the festival.  The Chamber utilizes at least 800 for operations, 24 people sit on the Festival Planning Committee which is supported by 4 Chamber staff.  Other volunteers work at a variety of non-profit booths throughout the festival.
• The Festival of the Arts has served as one of the largest fund raisers for local non-profit organizations. Nearly $11,000,000 has been raised over the festival’s 35-year history.  Non-profits have used these monies to fund scholarships and medical research; support at-risk children and families in need; provide safe environments for high school children; fund after-school and sports activities.
• If you lined all the booths and attractions up in a straight line there’d be almost 4 miles of Festival fun.