Arkansas’ largest free family festival is returning to downtown Conway for the 44th annual Toad Suck Daze Festival from May 2-4, 2025.
More than 100,000 will travel to the City of Colleges to experience the festival, which offers live music, food, local vendors, carnival rides and arts and crafts—fun for the whole family.
The festival is owned and operated by the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce. The main sponsors for the festival are Baptist Health – Conway, Genesis of Conway and Chris Crain Hyundai.
“We’re really excited this year. There are a lot of new opportunities,” said April Bennett, President of Baptist Health – Conway. “We are once again supporting arts, culture and entertainment.”
Festival organizers announced April 10 the festival is contributing more than $140,000 to local community initiatives and educational opportunities:
– $25,000 to the Conway Downtown Partnership.
– $25,000 to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
– $18,000 in college scholarships for Faulkner County students.
– $10,000 to the Toad Suck Daze Emerging Scholars.
– $10,000 to the Conway Public Schools Foundation.
– $5,000 to the Reynolds Performance Main Stage Series.
– $4,000 to the Conway Art Walk.
– $3,140 to Conway Public Schools STEAM Nights.
– Funding trips to the Little Rock Zoo for Faulkner County schools.
– Funding the Faulkner County Library’s Summer Lunch Program.
– Funding high-demand goods at area food pantries.
– Providing 120 laptops to at-need students in central Arkansas.
Lee Hogan, Chief Marketing Officer for the Conway Chamber said, “It’s every walk of life that comes out to have a corndog and enjoy some music or go for a ride or just kind of peruse the arts and crafts and look for something cool and quite to shop and find—and you can’t find that anywhere else.”
For more information and a schedule of events, visit toadsuck.org.
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