Metro Moncton is getting more artistic thanks to a mural painting spree this week.
Executive Director of Festival Inspire Lisa Griffin says it’s part of their goal to make Moncton cooler.
She says in the second year of the Festival, they are putting up a total of 12 murals including one on Castle Manor.
“Local businesses have started to realize the value of art, and building owners have started to think, this will bring more attention to my wall,” says Griffin.
She adds the goal is to encourage artists to return to Moncton and make this a culturally vibrant city.
“The easiest way to put it is we want to make Moncton cool enough to stay,” says Griffin. “Creative people make the city more inspiring, more colourful, to make it more walkable, bikeable, to make ignored spaces feel a little safer.”
Griffin says events tonight and tomorrow are capping off a week of cultural and artistic endeavours.
She says tonight the festivities kick off with a Disco Bike ride touring the new murals around the City.
“And then that will end at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre, for the Vox Sambou show,” says Griffin. “We’re really, really excited to have them, they’re a Haitian activist reggae band, and we have a really interesting spoken word intro happening, and then a show that Moncton has never seen, and you’d usually have to go to Montreal for.”
Tomorrow, more events are taking place at Riverfont Park for the whole day.
A full schedule of events can be found HERE
