FridaFest 2024
“VIVA LA MUJER!”
JULY 27
The City of Edinburg celebrates the 2024 FridaFest, a festival that honors renowned Mexican Artist, Frida Kahlo along with the spirit of perseverance and empowerment. This year, FridaFest is combined with the One Nation One Project Arts for EveryBody festival, celebrating arts & wellness. These events are free and are open to the public. Enjoy live art demonstrations and performances, a number of children’s activities, a 'Frida Look-A-Like' Contest, and much more. The evening is capped off by a great concert that will have the whole family dancing! The city of Edinburg's Frida-inspired festival is the largest gathering of people dressed as Frida Kahlo in the Rio Grande Valley.
FridaFest honors womanhood and celebrates the strong women in our lives! As such, the City of Edinburg invites all women to attend and join in the celebration. All activities are family and pet friendly.
Contact:
General Info: sgonzalez@cityofedinburg.com Vendor Inquiries: Eguevara@cityofedinburg.com
Chalk Art Festival
Individuals and teams of up to 4 people are invited to participate in a Chalk Art Festival with $500 in prizes! Register online. Bring your own chalk; waters & a shade tent will be provided. Spaces are 5’ x 5’ and work should be Frida inspired and fit into our family-friendly atmosphere. Awards will be given out at 8:30 p.m. on the day of the Festival.
*Award is by check after the event. Winner must provide a W9 and invoice to the City of Edinburg. Details will be provided to the winners.
Empowerment Panel & Art Exhibit
Join us as we celebrate women from the community who have made an impact and a difference in their respective fields with our Empowerment Panel - 5-6 p.m. in the Edinburg Municipal Auditorium. Curated by Tania Viveros, the 2023 FridaFest Art Exhibit will be in the City Hall Lobby, with the artist reception and artist talks beginning at 6:30pm. Come and hear the stories of inspiration and empowerment from these great women artists and leaders.
el arte en mi - Women’s Art Exhibit
This years art exhibit features local female creators who appreciate and are endlessly inspired by the late and great Frida Kahlo. Each artist brings her own unique touch and flare to the FRIDA Fest exhibit. However, they all lift the spirit of Frida through their confidence and own definition of what it means to be like Frida, a resilient, empowered, and self-aware woman unafraid to cross boundaries and overcome obstacles.
ABOUT FRIDA KAHLO
Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico's most famous artists and also a popular feminist icon, celebrated for her passionate indomitability in the face of life's trials. She's best known for her daring self-portraits depicting the suffering she experienced in her personal life. Frida Kahlo had polio as a child; at the age of 18 she broke her right leg and pelvis in a horrific bus accident, leading to a lifetime of chronic pain. Partially immobile after the accident, Kahlo began painting in the late 1920s.
She married famed muralist Diego Rivera in 1929 and together they traveled to the United States, staying in Detroit and New York City in the early 1930s. Kahlo had exhibitions of her paintings in New York City and Paris in the 1930s and associated with some of the most famous painters in the world. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were both known for their rocky marriage and in 1940 they divorced for a short time before remarrying. During the 1940s, Frida Kahlo gained international recognition for her colorful and sometimes graphic paintings (as well as for her bold public persona), but she continued to have health problems. She died in 1954, just after her 47th birthday.