Third Thursdays

Third Thursday? WTF? Might as well have been Second Tuesday or Thirty-​fifth Wednesday, my husband and I went yesterday and we thought we went to the wrong city! We even drove around the area numerous times thinking we were mistaken — nope it just sucked! Where the heck were all the vendors? Art? Street people at all? We were there at 6:00 pm — 1 hour after it supposedly started. Granted there were a lot of cars in the area but they all seemed to be at the casino. Was there art in there? I saw some galleries that were open but was I supposed to walk in and say, «Happy Third Thursday!!» and proceed to browse in the aisles? I thought the idea of an Art Walk is to walk around art — OUTSIDE. No food vendors like they advertised unless they meant the restaurants that were open had Artsy Fartsy customers in it — WTF? Give me First Friday anyday even though the freaks tend to overrun the Art fest in LV at least you know you are at an Artwalk when you see one.

The idea for Third Thursdays is a great one, but I don’t think it is catching on like First Fridays in downtown Las Vegas. Third Thursdays occurs every third Thursday of the month on Water Street, a few blocks north of the convention center. It was around 5:45pm when I went, and the street seemed to be dead. I couldn’t find the art gelleries at first, but after a bit of walking around jail bond businesses and antiques stores, one appeared. Why aren’t they advertising?! So frustrating. Anyway, once I went inside there was a nice table complete with store bought brownies and bean dip. Surrounding this table was a small art exhibit. I am assuming the only four people there were the artists themselves. A man played (tinkered with) a guitar and another man was making some piece of jewelry. There was a box to place a vote for you favorite piece of art you saw, so I participated. I think I was the first vote in the box. The funny thing is that if Third Thursdays was advertised or marketed AT ALL, I believe a nice size crowd would show. City of Henderson, please listen: we need more events like this, with bigger crowds and more excitement. This is a great launching point, but give it a bit more «oomph» and let peeople know about it!

Third Thursdays is such a good idea in theory! Henderson is really such a cute downtown area, and with so much change impending and high hopes for the future one day this third Thursdays will be really great and busy. The last time I went, I was the only one walking around. Also, art needs to be down there because A6 is the only gallery that is really doing it right! It will take a couple years to catch on! Keep on working!