Booker Creek Arts Festival
The inaugural Booker Creek Arts Festival, debuting Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15, 2026, will transform the historic EDGE District in St. Petersburg into a four-day immersive arts experience celebrating creativity, culture, and community. Inspired by Booker Creek, the historic urban stream that winds through downtown St. Petersburg, the festival will feature juried works by hundreds of Florida artists displayed throughout participating venues.
Throughout this festival, the EDGE District will be a destination where art, culture, business, and community intersect in dynamic and unexpected ways. Festival goers will experience the district as a walkable living gallery featuring visual art, live plein air painting, live mural painting, a Chad Mize-curated “Go With the Flow” art show, glass blowing, dance, music and children’s activities. In addition to these outdoor activities, central to the festival is a fine art competition in which the artwork is displayed INSIDE district venues, including hotels, boutiques, retail shops, restaurants, cafes, and professional offices. Artists compete for up to $50,000 in jury-awarded prizes, among the largest prize purses for an inaugural arts festival in the region, and festival-goers participate directly by voting for the People’s Choice Awards. Festival-goers will also have the opportunity to purchase original works featured in the festival.
Opening night, Thursday, Nov. 12, will kickoff the festival with a very special state-of-the-art display, and that display will occur again on Friday and Saturday evenings, Nov. 13 & 14. Saturday evening will also feature the fine art competition awards ceremony, and Sunday noon will feature the People’s Choice Awards and Plein Air competition awards. For full schedule and other festival details, please see bookercreekarts.com.