3rd Annual Community Roots Art Festival
Saturday, August 26th, 2023 | VisionQuest Brewery, Boulder CO
Join us for the third annual Community Roots Art Festival!
The Community Roots Art Festival (CRAFt) is a grassroots operation with a mission to highlight local Black, Indigenous, and brown self-identified artists by celebrating their authentic expressions of art.
Explore our artist market with over 30 vendors showing off their visual art, jewelry, pottery, and more
Experience performances from up and coming musicians and big name local acts, dancers, comedians, and spoken word poets
Enjoy food and drinks from local vendors and craft beer from VisionQuest
Enter our raffle with tons of prizes from local businesses
Entry into the festival is free, or there are suggested donation tickets available to support our artists and ensure this festival continues next year.
Event Schedule
Saturday August 26th, 2023 at VisionQuest Brewery, Boulder, CO1:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Art market
See our Instagram page for a list of our 2023 art vendors. Products include original paintings, prints, jewelry, henna, stickers, apparel, pottery, laser cut woodwork, and more!
1:00 pm - 11:30 pm | Food and drinks
1:00 PM - Sellout | Joanna's Kitchen (Ghanian), Big Daddy's BBQ, Everbowl / I Heart Mac and Cheese, Don Martin Burritos (Mexican), Colorado Coco Pod (hand crafted chocolate)
3:00 PM - Sellout | Susan's Samosas (South Sudanese)
1:00PM - 11:30PM | VisionQuest (Craft beers and seltzer)
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM | Rae's and Kay's (Puerto Rican and Soul)
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Opening performances
1:00 PM | Disco Jesus (DJ)
2:00 PM | Earth to Nady (R&B)
2:15 PM | Enrique Tovar (Solo DJ/Singer)
2:35 PM | Shreya Venkatesh (Dance)
2:40 PM | FOCO FLAVA (Dance)
2:50 PM | Anthony Le (Dance)
3:00 PM | Luckiee B (R&B)
3:30 PM | 3Two (Hip Hop)
4:00 PM | Liza + Rebecca (Pole Dancers)
4:20 PM | Roxey Grant (Comedian)
4:45 pm | Raffle winners announced
You must be present to win, or give your tickets to a friend (or make a new friend) to collect your prize for you!
5:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Presented by Hyde Renewables: Headlining performances
5:30 PM | Kid Astronaut
6:30 PM | Any Given Thursday
7:30 PM | SMRT
8:30 PM | Watermelon Funk
9:30 PM | 2MX2
10:30 PM | Disco Jesus
Venue information
VisionQuest Brewery is located at 2510 47th St Suite A2, Boulder, CO 80301. The event will mostly occupy the VisionQuest parking lot where vendor tents, food trucks, and the main stage will be located. Beverages are available inside the brewery along with smaller performances.
Event parking
We highly encourage carpooling, biking, taking an Uber etc if possible as parking may run out at some point in the day. That said, attendees may park along Sterling Drive or Pearl Street. There is also parking north of the brewery - Please do not block any garage doors. See image below for details.
Accessibility and bathrooms
The VisionQuest brewery building and its parking lot are wheelchair accessible. There is one bathroom inside the brewery, three port-a-potties south of the brewery, and one in a separate building south of the brewery. See image above. All bathrooms are gender neutral. The bathroom inside the brewery is wheelchair accessible and meets ADA requirements, but does not have a changing station. The event will not have an ASL interpreter.
Audience
Children are absolutely invited to come. As an organization with the goal of supporting local BIPOC creatives, we will not censor or police people’s expressions of art. That said, the content of some performances may contain adult language and some art pieces may include nudity. Please read the intended audience statement in our “About Us” page to learn more.
Weather preparedness
Although VisionQuest is an indoor venue, the majority of the festival will take place outside on the brewery’s parking lot. Please dress appropriately for the weather. In the past, we continued with the festival rain, heat, cold, or shine. Vendors and our main stage will be sheltered under tents.
Food and non-alcoholic accommodations
Though VisionQuest is a brewery, the venue and other food vendors will be offering non-alcoholic drinks such as seltzer, kombucha, and tea. Some food vendors will be offering Gluten Free, Vegetarian, and Vegan meal options.
A sample of our creatives
Here is just a few of our artist vendors and performers who will be at this year’s festival. Be sure to follow our Instagram features for our full list of creatives.
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@akemictart
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@hennabyzoe__
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@jahna.rae.art
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@jitterbug_art
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@original__remix
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@brushbox.arts
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@jackietrejoart
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@farwest_laser
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@catnappottery
Presenting sponsors
Ally sponsors
Supporting sponsors
In-Kind sponsors
CRAFt funded in part by a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, an agency of the Boulder City Council
Interested in being a sponsor?
We see our event sponsors as true partners and supporters of Community Roots Art Festival and its community. We seek sponsors with similar goals of uplifting Black, Indigenous, creatives of color, and making our community more accessible and supportive. If this speaks to you, we want to work with you! Please send us a message and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
