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On average, FestivALLs audience is nearly 50,000 people annually, with more than 300 performances across 50 venues.
Nearly 100 community arts groups take part, and visitors book more than 3,000 hotel room nights.
Organizers estimate the festival has at least a $1.5 million impact on the local economy each year.
A website features maps and walking tours of the citys four downtown arts districts.
Larry Groce, FestivALL founder and former director, is the host.
Torrington, Connecticut
Located on the Naugatuck River in northwestern Connecticut, Torrington was once a thriving mill town.
A flood badly damaged the city center in 1955.
As economic downturns and other changes followed, manufacturing jobs began to disappear, leaving factory sites vacant.
Thats changing, and art is playing its part.
Torrington city planner Martin Connor marshaled support for the zoning changes that made the live-work occupancies possible.
Artists, Connor says, help put feet on the street.
Enter JustKids, a creative house that produces art events all over the world.
A local website celebrated the event: We were rejuvenated.
The two festivals, she said, have been a catalyst for at least half a dozen new businesses.
It really woke up the town.
The only display rule: The art must be visible from the street.
(An extensive gallery of Yard Art creativity is on display atYardArtDay.org.)
For us to cross neighborhood, city boundaries.
Art can do this.
(Partners include the Fairbanks Storm Water Advisory Committee and the Downtown Association of Fairbanks.)
Improvements in water quality since the contest began have led to national recognition for the citys environmental eorts.
Embossed into the iron of the new drains are the words Dump No Waste because runoff Drains to River.
