CreATL Arts Fest, the first of two events within the Summer Movies Experience at TheHome Depot Backyard, is a celebration of the arts in Atlanta.
ATLANTA (August14, 2025) – ATLANTA (August14, 2025) – The Home Depot Backyard (HDBY), as part of its Arts and Culture collection presented by The Home Depot Foundation, is set kick off its Summer Movie Experience with CreATL Arts Fest on Saturday, August 23 from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m.
CreATL Arts Fest is a communitycelebration that will showcase Atlanta’s vibrant art scene through the variousforms of art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music,film, and theater.
Among the featured activations for CreATL will be an immersive community painting experience with Sway Art, fan making with Oriental Trading, dance performances by Manga African Dance and Moving in the Spirit, storytelling featuring The Wren’s Nest, sustainable arts and crafts station courtesy of Scraplanta, arts education with Children’s Museum of Atlanta, wood crafts workshop with Teenz on Point, and on-site programming courtesy of the Fulton County Art Van.
CreATL will also commemoratethe five-year anniversary of Monuments: Atlanta’s Immigrants, one of twomurals located at The Home Depot Backyard, with an artist talk featuring themural’s creator Yehimi Cambron. Cambron will lead a crafts workshop for attendees during the event as well.
An on-site vendor village will also be featured during the event,showcasing a uniquely curated collection of small businesses and vendors from acrossgreater Atlanta offering a wide variety of goods and services.
Entertainment for CreATL will be headlined by a center lawn primetime showing of Ratatouille, the 2007 Academy award-winning animated comedy-drama film starringthe voices of Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, PeterO'Toole, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn and Brad Garrett. Other activations include aVIP seating experience courtesy of Picnic Time, a beer garden presentedby Sweetwater Brewing, silent disco, gaming trailer, food trucks, immersive photo experiences,giveaways, and more.
Music willbe provided by DJ MuziSean with Atlantanative and influencer Arkeedah McCormick serving as theevent’s host.
CreATL Arts Fest at TheHome Depot Backyard is free and open to the public, but registration isrequired for entry. Tickets are now available via The HDBY Eventbrite pagefound HERE.
In 2024, The Home Depot Backyard’s Summer Movie Experience saw morethan 20,000 total registrants across two events (Backyard Bash and BackYARDFest). Additionally, both events in the HDBY’s Summer Movie Experiencecollective was honored with Silver (Backyard Bash) and Gold (BackYARD Fest) Stevie®awards earlier this year at the 2025 American Business Awards® ceremony.
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