HubFest, Artwork and Music Revue Saturday in downtown Hattiesburg

Tens of hundreds of individuals shall be flocking to downtown Hattiesburg on Saturday to get pleasure from HubFest actions, together with artwork, music and loads of meals.

Headlining acts embrace Kameron Marlowe and Ella Langley, who will carry out on the Important Avenue stage. Different musical performances will happen outdoors the downtown put up workplace, Walnut Avenue and City Sq. Park.

Along with the official occasion hosted by the Space Growth Partnership, different occasions within the downtown space will put a highlight on the expertise discovered within the Hub Metropolis.

One occasion, the Artwork and Music Revue — Expression is Our Ardour, shall be on the Swap Yard, a “dive bar, reside music and sports activities venue” within the former WWII Machine Store at 309 Cell St.

Organizer Ryan Hughes, a Moselle native and Southern Miss alum, stated he needed to share his journey with utilizing artwork and music as a approach of therapeutic from trauma and bettering psychological well being.

“I make artwork and music to precise my pleasure and confusion concerning the human expertise,” Hughes stated in an e mail. “After a lifetime of varied tough circumstances and struggles with extreme melancholy and anxiousness I’ve found artwork remedy to be about essentially the most optimistic factor I can do for my psychological well-being.”

Hughes invited different artists and musicians to affix him in displaying their artwork and performing on the revue.

Cash raised on the occasion will go to the Shafer Heart for Disaster Intervention, which supplies help and advocacy for folks affected by acts of violence together with sexual assault, rape and murder in addition to these affected by suicide or have ideas of suicide.

“The extra I thought of having so many artists and musicians in a single place throughout HubFest … that will be an ideal alternative to lift some cash for a neighborhood group,” Hughes stated. “I selected the Shafer Heart For Disaster Intervention as a result of the work they do is vital to me.”