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The Park City Kimball Arts Festival may be one of the oldest and most established events in Utah, but even it must move over to make way for bicycle traffic.
The 47th annual festival is running Aug. 12-14 on Park City's historic Old Main Street — a week later than its traditional time, the first weekend of August.
The change was made to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Tour of Utah bike race, which will pass through Park City Saturday and start and finish its final leg there Sunday.
"We wanted the city and the state to have both, because both bring in great national exposure and financial impact," said Robin Marrouche, executive director of the Kimball Art Center, which organizes the annual arts festival.
The change didn't keep away artists trying to show their wares on Main Street. Some 200 artists were selected, from about 1,000 applicants, Marrouche said.
"There is a very strong word of mouth network among festival artists" about the Park City event, Marrouche said. One returning artist told her the festival has a reputation among artists for generating strong sales and for being well organized.
The Kimball Art Center moved into new digs off of Main Street last fall, but festivalgoers may not notice — because the center is renting its old home, a converted auto shop at the corner of Main Street and Heber Avenue, for festival events.
One of the festival's new features, Live@Sky, will run across the street from the old center building, outside the Main & Sky hotel. Live@Sky will feature dance, spoken-word and Utah Opera performances, at two-hour intervals that alternate with shows on the festival's main music stage.
"We're envisioning Live@Sky to be something like Montmartre in Paris," Marrouche said.
Also new at the festival this year is a gallery stroll, with members of the Park City Gallery Association throwing special exhibit openings and serving refreshments.
And, even with the festival on a different weekend than usual, Marrouche said Park City's other arts venues have come together to create an arts-destination weekend.
The Sundance Institute is sponsoring a free outdoor screening Friday night in City Park of the documentary "Sonita," with an appearance by the movie's director, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami. Also, Saturday night at Deer Valley's Snow Park Amphitheater, folk-rock singer Brandi Carlile is performing. (Tickets for Carlile's show are $42 for lawn seats, $75 for reserved seats, via Ticketfly.)
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The 47th annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival.
Where • Old Main Street, Park City.
When • Friday through Sunday, Aug. 12-14.
Hours • Friday, 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission • A three-day pass is $12 for adults, $6 for children 6 to 17, and free for kids 5 and under; Summit County residents (with ID or proof of residency) get in free Friday night.