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Downtown Burbank, Calif. is filled with colorful banners and storefronts any day of the year but on one special weekend the entire street lights up even more with art and music.  Downtown Burbank ARTS Festival hosts an annual event that attracts over 25,000 people to the free interactive street festival filled spanning for blocks and featuring more than 90 prominent artists and street painters.

Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, fiber art, fine glass, woodwork, mixed-media and photography set the state for a lively weekend with  street painting, art demonstrations and free workshops, plus plenty of live entertainment to keep everyone excited.

Highlights:

8 of Southern California's most talented street painters
90 regional artists 
paintings
sculptures
photographs
 jewelry
fine glass
ceramics
woodwork

Street painting is the act of creating visual art on paved urban surfaces using non-permanent materials such as chalk and soft pastels. Sometimes called Madonarii, it is an art form dating to the Italian Renaissance when itinerant artists often created images of the Madonna. Today's street painters treat a variety of subjects, from classical paintings to abstract art and their own creations. Participating artists include Chris Brake, Gus Moran, Juan Manuel Ramal, Lury Norris, Nick Gonzalez, Randall Williams, Ruth Villa and Theresa Knopf Morgan. They will be working all weekend creating ephemeral masterpieces, and the finished 10 X 10' paintings will be ready for viewing Sunday afternoon.

 Downtown Burbank is an award-winning urban neighborhood spanning 34-blocks. The District boasts more than 200 shops and 90 restaurants including IKEA, Flappers Comedy Club, The Colony Theatre, RA Organic Spa, AMC 16 Theaters and Burbank Town Center, with movie screens consistently rank in the top five of theatrical circuits nationwide. The area is bounded by Verdugo Avenue, Glenoaks Boulevard, Burbank Boulevard and the I-5 in Burbank, Calif., and contains more than 9,000 parking spaces. The District is managed by Downtown Burbank Partnership, a California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation.

Founded by Downtown Burbank Partnership in 2003, the Downtown Burbank ARTS Festival is a biannual event produced in partnership with West Coast Artists.