Chapel Hill will be hosting the 45th annual Festifall Arts Festival from 12 to 6 p.m. this Sunday. The event will feature food trucks, local artists, performers and other forms of interactive entertainment. The festival welcomes people of all ages.
Conveniently, Festifall will take place on West Franklin Street, allowing visitors to roam the street and experience entertainment of all sorts.
Amanda Fletcher, festivals and community celebrations supervisor for the Town of Chapel Hill, has been organizing the event and is looking forward to it. She says that this year’s Festifall will be different from years past, because they brought in a variety of dynamic offerings that appeal to adults as well as kids.
“We’re constantly thinking of new, innovative and interesting things that younger people would like to see,” Fletcher said.
The festival will provide seven food trucks this year — three more than last year — as well as a giant chair for people to take pictures in, a kids zone and a large, interactive mural in the center of the festival for people to paint on.
Another one of the new features Festifall is including this year is a video game lounge from Baxter’s Barcade. Danny Miller, one of the owners of Baxter’s, is excited to offer a family-friendly event for the festival. Their plan is to bring out arcade games for the kids, and, of course, the adults.
“It’s cool because most of our games are retro, and some of the classics, so it’s great to see kids get to play the games that a lot of people grew up on, especially their parents,” Miller said.
The games they will offer range from vintage arcade games like Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man, to modern games, as well as pinball machines.
This is Baxter’s first year participating in Festifall.
