The Brandon Downtown Arts and Cultural Festival will bring together artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and showcase their activities downtown. This is a multi-organization event, part of a larger series of events called Culture Days to take place Sept. 24 to 26.

The event seeks to connect and build community involvement in the arts, in downtown activities and with one another. We are still accepting programming ideas from other organizations, groups and individuals.

An example of some of the activities are - Son Latino, playing music while members of both the Latin community and local dance schools teach festival attendees some dances. Another would be visual artists from China, the Ukraine, El Salvador and those of Canadian origin working together at the BFMAS studio space on collaborative drawings and paintings that festival attendees would also be invited to work on.

The festival seeks to bridge Cultural gaps using the arts as a common language, as well as bringing people into downtown to share this experience as a part of the Federal Program Culture Days.

For more information, email: brandonfolkfestival@gmail.com.