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HONG KONG, NEW YORK, TORONTO, MIAMI and now SHREVEPORT—the internationally renowned FriendsWithYou Artist Collective of Arturo Sandoval, III and Samuel L. Borkson has taken RAINBOW CITY across the globe. Now this whimsical, colorful, wonderful, outdoor experience of 40 air-filled sculptures is coming to Northwest Louisiana. Presented by the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC), RAINBOW CITY Shreveport will be a place to make new friends and entertain families during a six-week, fun-filled festival, November 2 to December 8, 2019, as the people of Shreveport celebrate the grand opening of the City’s first urban greenspace—THE COMMON Park.
RAINBOW CITY is a magical place to play and make friends. It is a vibrant, imaginative, pop-art style city of giant inflatables, sometimes soaring 50 feet into the sky, where people can run, bounce and just enjoy life. It’s a Dance Party with live music on Friday night, PJs and Pizza on a Sunday evening and the annual SportSpectrum “Turkey Trot” Run Thanksgiving morning. It’s a PACE RAINBOW Weekend with “That Girl DJ,” a COMMON GROOVE Weekend with “Tipsey, the Band,” and Waffles with William (Bill) Joyce and Nicholas St. North the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
The public is invited to join hundreds of community marchers, bicyclers, and costumed characters, for one of the most exciting RAINBOW CITY events taking place on opening day, Saturday, November 2, 2019. All ages are invited to join artists @artspace at 708 Texas St. in downtown Shreveport to make masks, capes, banners, flags and other parade paraphernalia and get ready to march in the RAINBOW CITY SHREVEPORT OPENING DAY PARADE.
Academy Award-Winning Animation Artist William (Bill) Joyce says, ““RAINBOW CITY is not just balloons and bouncy houses. It’s a place about possibility, about heart, about innocence, and hope. RAINBOW CITY is about the power of art to open up and change everyone’s way of thinking about Art as a vital part of our community and culture. RAINBOW CITY is especially a place about the power to transform children into artistically attuned adults.”
“We are excited to bring the “Magic, Luck and Friendship” of FriendsWithYou and a RAINBOW CITY to the people of Shreveport and their new COMMON Park. Our goal is always to share the hope of personal, physical and community transformation through our Art. We plan to activate the entire city to e a part of this experience. We are excited about the possibilities and about making unique and experiential Art in Shreveport—pushing the Art to see the possibilities,” say Sandoval and Borkson.