Durham Parks and Recreation would like to thank our sponsors, specifically Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, city administrators and officials, our many community partners and the attendees that helped make the 50th Annual Award Winning Bimbѐ Cultural Arts Festival a huge success. Over 15,000 participants gathered to celebrate and enjoy a day filled with entertainment, food, shopping, and more!
It is our goal to provide family friendly events that the entire community can be proud of. We put a lot of work into the festival and were disappointed in the language used by one of the artists because of our goal and mission as well as the respect we have for our community. As always, prior to securing an artist we communicate the nature of the event along with the demographic that will be in attendance. Unfortunately, one of the artists did not adhere to the agreement that was made with him prior to the event.
We owe our sponsors, city administrators, elected officials and you, the community an apology. We hope that you will continue to support us as we offer our many programs, activities and events. We will be working to put stronger measures in place to ensure that this does not happen again. You deserve it! Thank you once again for your support.