People in Wichita’s North End are organizing a creative uprising in their neighborhood. On October 4, artists, skateboarders, musicians, and chefs will take over the NoMar International Market at 21st and Broadway for The North End Urban Arts Festival; a cultural intervention in one of Wichita’s most diverse, yet under celebrated neighborhoods.

A project of the ICT-Army of Artists, the festival is part of a campaign of cultural interventions that build community identity by cultivating art from the ground up. During the festival, participants will work together to create the ICT-Army of Artists’ first mobile mural celebrating LGBTQ rights and the freedom of identity. This mural will travel around the city and state to churches and other sites that support acceptance of identity and the arts.

With street food, live music, and extreme sports featured throughout the festival, The North End Urban Arts Festival is broadening the horizons of community expression, and is setting the precedent for cultural interventions to come. In keeping with the ICT-Army of Artists’ tradition of participatory art, the festival will feature hands-on workshops and exhibitions from some of the cities brightest artists and collectives.