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Roaring Youth Jam

2024 Theme: THE ART ERAS TOUR

Roaring Youth Jam: August 8, 9, & 10 2024

10am - 4pm each day

The Roaring Youth Jam is a fun-filled art festival along the Idaho Falls River Walk. The three-day festival includes art tents and community activities along the east side of the Idaho Falls River Walk where kids (and adults!) can get creative with paint and crafts. There are performances by local acts throughout each day. All activities and events are free! 

2024 Art Projects

  • Greek Vases - sponsored by Karin and Dave Brown
  • Baroque Flowers - sponsored by Raini Brown
  • Mondrian Modern Art
  • Street Art like Banksy
  • Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Letter
  • Pop Art Cupcakes and Sneakers
  • Roman Mosiacs
  • Op Art Illusion - sponsored by Dr. Larry and April Evans
  • Renaissance Perspective Farm - sponsored by Bingham Healthcare
  • Plein Air Landscape Painting

In addition, large collaborative projects will include Jackson Pollock inspired action painting and Andy Goldsworthy inspired land art.

2024 Special Actvities

Amazing Face Painting by Amber Deschamps will be from 11am until 3pm every day, located next to the Info Tent.

Incredible Balloon Twisting by Party Balloons and Face Paint will be from 1pm until 4pm each day, located near the Toddler Tent.

Don't miss eastern Idaho's own circus acrobatic troupe, the amazing Stasia Acrobats in front of the Greenbelt Stage at noon on Friday, August 9, and Saturday August 10.

Chuck G "the Irish Magic Guy" will be performing his fun and captivating magic on the Greenbelt Stage on Friday, August 9, at 2pm.

Performance Schedule

Live performances take place on the Greenbelt Stage daily!

Contact Georgina to book your 20 or 45 minute performance spot: ggoodlander@idahofallsarts.org or (208) 522-0471. Once your time has been confirmed, please complete a performer agreement.

Thursday

11am

Idaho Falls Service Mission Band*

Thursday

12pm

Idaho Falls Youth Symphony

Thursday

12:30pm

 

Thursday

1pm

ShowBiz Kids

Thursday

2pm

Ramsey Knudsen

Thursday 

2:30pm

 

Thursday

3pm

 

Friday

11am

Upstage Improv

Friday

11:30am

O Aois Caite Irish Dance Academy

Friday

12pm

Stasia Acrobats

Friday

12:30pm

Sophia Palmer

Friday

1pm

 

Friday

1:30pm

Music Studio of Cammy Harris

Friday

2pm

Chuck G the Irish Magic Guy

Friday

3pm

Madilyn McCall

Saturday

11am

Idaho Falls Service Mission Band*

Saturday

12pm

Stasia Acrobats

Saturday

12:30pm

Singers on Stage

Saturday

1:30pm

Upstage Improv

Saturday

2:00pm

 

Saturday

2:30pm

Arnold Pradhan

Vendors

All family-friendly vendors are welcome to participate in Youth Jam! Each non-food vendor must provide a free activity or item for kids at their booth. Just complete a vendor registration form before the end of July.

Sponsors

Youth Jam would not be possible without support from all of these amazing sponsors! Thank you!

2024 logo image credits (details, from left to right): Lekyos showing a Domestic Scene, unknown artist, Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard; Charing Cross Bridge, London, André Derain, National Gallery of Art, John Hay Whitney Collection; Madame Moitessier, Jean August Dominique Ingres, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection; Fermented Soil, Hans Hofmann, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.; Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat, unknown artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1956; La condition humaine, René Magritte, National Gallery of Art, Gift of the Collectors Committee; Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed, Rembrandt Van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection