The Arkansas Apple Festival in Lincoln (Washington County), held the first weekend of October, has been a feat...

The Arkansas Cornbread Festival, an annual celebration of Southern culinary heritage, was inaugurated in 2011...

The Arkansas Derby is the most lucrative thoroughbred horse race in Arkansas, currently offering a “purse”...

The annual Arkansas Folk Festival takes place on the third weekend in April in Mountain View (Stone County). H...

The first Arkansas Goat Festival was held in Perryville (Perry County) on the first weekend in October in 2016...

The Arkansas Rice Festival, held during the second weekend of October in Weiner (Poinsett County), was founded...

The Arkansas Scottish Festival is held every April on the campus of Lyon College in Batesville (Independence C...

The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (AST), Arkansas’s only professional Shakespeare theater company, was origin...

In observance of the centennial anniversary of the creation of the Arkansas Territory, Governor Charles Hillma...

The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) is held annually in Bentonville (Benton County), with the main focus of th...

The Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival celebrates the pink tomato industry in southeastern Arkansas. Origina...

Cabotfest, an annual celebration hosted by the city of Cabot (Lonoke County), was first held in 1978 to commem...

The Camden Daffodil Festival originated from a move to raise money for the restoration of a historic building ...

Arkansas’s centennial preparations launched early, expanded rapidly to a galaxy committee, descended into fi...

The Delta Symposium is an annual conference sponsored by the Department of English, Philosophy, and World Lang...

The Dermott Crawfish Festival is one of the longest continuously running festivals in Arkansas. Every third we...

From 1990 to 2023, Emerson (Columbia County) hosted an annual gathering for fans of purple hull peas. The Purp...

Arkansas hosts a variety of annual festivals, fairs, and parades throughout the year. Some of the more well-kn...

The small town of Fordyce (Dallas County) celebrates the railroad and its historical significance with the ann...

In Arkansas, one of the most acknowledged, anticipated, and attended wild game dinners is the annual Gillett C...

Hope (Hempstead County) annually celebrates its claim as the home of the world’s largest watermelons with a ...

Billing itself as the longest-running documentary film festival in North America, the internationally recogniz...

The Hot Springs Music Festival is a non-profit organization whose dual mission is, first, to provide exception...

Since 1984, Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro (Pike County) has been sponsoring John Huddleston ...

The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival is an annual event held in Dyess (Mississippi County), the small town where...

The Johnson County Peach Festival arose from the area’s successful peach industry, which got its start in t...

The Jonquil Festival takes place the third weekend of March each year at Historic Washington State Park in Was...

Juneteenth is a celebration held during the month of June in Arkansas and throughout the nation to commemorate...

The Lepanto Terrapin Derby is a festival that has been held in Lepanto (Poinsett County) every year since 1930...