Greater Conroe Arts Festival to feature Film Festival on March 16 in Downtown Conroe

The Greater Conroe Arts Festival will take place Saturday, March 16, 2024 from 10am-4pm in Downtown Conroe at Founders Plaza on Metcalf St and Main St. Hosted by the Greater Conroe Arts Alliance, this free event will feature a wide variety of art activities for all ages, shopping with fine art vendors, live music, and food trucks. 

Activities will include mural painting, pottery making, live painters and plein air painting, theatre performances, film festival, chalk artists, living statues, quilt walk, lego building, a Kids Art Village, music petting zoo, prop petting zoo, facepainting, dance along, costume character photo ops, photo contest, art bench walking tour, and more. 

Set to perform on stage at Founders Plaza are Conroe Symphony Winds, Jazz Connection, Woodlands Show Chorus, Montgomery County Choral Society, Grace Pointe Dance, Judi Lanza & Friends, plus Live Performances by The Players Theatre Company and Stage Right Theatre Company. 

New at this year’s Festival, is a Film Festival at the Crighton Theatre from 10am-10pm featuring locally made films by local directors, producers, & actors. There will be several premier films shown including, The Invictus Chronicles, directed by Lynn Peverill and Marty Craig. Tickets can be purchased online at the Crighton Theatre or on the day of the Festival at their box office. 

The Conroe Art League International Show will be on display at the Conroe Art League Gallery and Texas State Poet Laureate Winner Hallie Moore will perform a poetry reading there at 2pm. 

Participants can bid on works of art that have been painted during the Festival, at a 3pm auction, as well as purchase $20 raffle tickets online or in person for over $4000 in prizes. Professional and hobby photographers can enter photographs from the event into the photo contest for their chance at $350 in prizes. 

Greater Conroe Arts Alliance is made up of twenty one arts organizations in Montgomery County, Texas representing performance, visual, literary & cultural arts. Our annual Festival on March 16th, is committed to providing an outstanding family event involving The Arts by Local Artists, Texas Artists, and beyond. 

Come and enjoy a fun day and help support the local Arts! 

Learn more at GreaterConroeArtsAlliance.com.

Source: Greater Conroe Arts Alliance

Update 3/8/24 at 1:18pm: Correction made for name of Poet Laureate winner.

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