EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The annual Chalk the Block will take over Downtown El Paso this weekend and will feature a treat big enough for King Kong.
Chalk the Block will run Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
If you’ve been to Chalk the Block in the years before, then you know you can expect live music, food vendors, chalk creations and unique art installations.
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This year, in the unique art installation department, the festival will showcase “Pequeña,” a 400-foot-long, 18-foot-tall inflatable banana.
The project, which is called “Banana for Scale,” will be at the Cleveland Square Park, right across the street from the Southwest ballpark.
Lead artist Caroline Kamm explained, “We made this culture for the Burning Man event last year, which takes place in the Black Rock desert… We thought it’d be funny to do a banana for scale out in the desert, where you really have no sense of how big it is.”
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