Event

2011 Art Car Ball

Come check out new rides and old favorites at the spectacular Art Car Ball. Take your pick of your favorite food from this years mobile food truck battle, and make sure you don't miss this event labeled as one of Houston's WILDEST parties.

Spectators will come together to celebrate and set the party mood for the weekend's events. The public can dance into the party as The Urban Gypsies lead the way and Picture Book starts the night off in the Orange Show. Then, enjoy incredible performances on the main stage by Los Skarnales, Come See My Dead Person, and Beans Barton & the Bi Peds.

The crowd is a wild mix of ages, of races, of artists and socialites, students and everyone in between. Men in prom dresses, women wearing car-part necklaces or giant hubcap belt buckles, all dancing around the maypole. The maypole? OK, we don't have a maypole. We do know that you often can't tell the ticket-buyers from the show, and that's the way we like it.

It's a block party, [the cars are the real stars), and some of them are parked on the land of the future Smither Park - high heels tend to sink so you might want to wear cowboy boots with that little black dress rather than those nine-inch heels. Anything goes!

Tickets are $25 pre-sale and $30 at the door.