Festival of the Arts (Grand Rapids)

The festival typically involved nearly 20,000 community volunteers and over half a million visitors.

[3][4] Festival was first held in 1970, inspired by the installation of Alexander Calder's La Grande Vitesse previous year, featuring two stages and a few food booths.

[5] The event grew quickly, filling the Vandenberg Plaza by the 1980s, and subsequently expanding into nearby streets, with several performance stages, and more than two dozen food booths.

[7] On February 8, 2025, the event's organizers announced in a Facebook post that the Festival would cease operations.

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