Festival Friday
Music, dancing, activities, and food to start the Festival weekend
Friday, May 29
6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Start your summer off right and visit the Ordway for the official beginning of the Flint Hills Family Festival Family Weekend! With music, dancing, activities, and food, there is something to please everyone in the family.
Rock out to Beyoncé & Soul Sisters For Kids at a free outdoor performance beginning at 6:00 PM
Circus-themed spectacle TILT! takes the stage at 7:00 PM—with tickets for just $8
Buy TicketsStart with a demo by the experts of Soul Ballroom, learn a few steps of your own—and then put it all together to the irresistible music of Salsa del Soul!
Free to attend
Outdoor performances

On Friday night, the park surrounding the Ordway comes to life with free, family-friendly acts! Bring your whole family for spectacular performances, live DJing, wandering puppet artists, face-painting, and more!
DJ Huh? What??
Rock and Roll Playhouse
Soul Ballroom
Free to enjoy
Activities
Learn and create at the Festival! During the Flint Hills Family Festival weekend, Rice Park—just across from the Ordway—bustles with fun, free art-making activities, educational games, and more.
Henna Body Art
Henna is a body art that can be done on all ages and is all-natural. It can feature very different, freehand creative designs, and will last 7–10 days on average.
Dragon & Fairies: Vietnamese Culture Through Folktales & Legends
There will be books, authors and artists, a dress up station, fun and interactive games, Vietnamese cultural and educational artifact displays, and Art By Nhat focused on Vietnamese culture and history. Visitors will meet and read the stories of the legendary characters the Moon Lady, and Tam and Cam from the Vietnamese Cinderella. Children and their families can craft a golden carp: a sacred creature in Vietnamese mythology that symbolizes perseverance, transformation, and good fortune.
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Critter Painting Party
Experience some of Minnesota’s native wildlife up close with some live animal ambassadors! You can paint, draw, or color the animals you meet.
Literacy, sound, and rhythm with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!
Particpants will search and find letter beads to spell out their names, then use them to make a shaker egg to explore rhythms to go along with letter sounds and syllabels. Led by CTC Teaching Artists, this activity is flexible and accessible to all ages.



