(RAHWAY, NJ) -- The Annual Culture Crawl Arts and Music Festival is back this year on September 25, from 1:00pm-6:99pm, all throughout downtown Rahway. Canceled for 2020, one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s theme of “Emerge” recognizes that as we come out of this trying time of shutdowns and isolation, many of us are emerging in our own ways. Emerging from the cocoon of social distancing, emerging attention to social justice, emerging rights, emerging in our own personal or interpersonal growth, emerging with new hobbies or interests, the list goes on.

Openings for artists, acoustic musicians and dancers are still available. Participants are encouraged to bring their works around the theme of “Emerge” but all pieces are welcome. To apply to be a Culture Crawl Artist please click here. All Artists are encouraged to sell their work.

A few more spaces are available in the Vendor Village, located at the Train Station Plaza. A fee of $50 per table is required to set up in this central location near our Main Stage of music. Artists who wish to pay to be in this location are allowed, as well as any other entrepreneur that sells products not produced by their own hands. (Food sales prohibited.) To become a vendor, click here.

This year’s event is weather dependent, with no rain date, so save the date! More information about attendant the festival as a guest can be found online.