As a way of involving citizens in the growing arts community in Fall River, the Lower Highlands Historic Downtown Neighborhood Association held its first "Arts Around the Block" event along Purchase Street on Sunday, September 17, 2006. A variety of visual artists, musical performers and dancers from the Fall River Area entertained neighbors and others who strolled along the three blocks from Franklin to Cherry Street that were closed off for the event. This is the first public event of the newly-formed group which hopes to sponsor more events in the North Main Street and Lower Highlands area.
 

(Top row, left) Ben Gilbarg of 3rd Eye Unlimited performed a number of original hip-hop pieces for the assembled crowd on Purchase Street. (Top row, center) Monica Silva and her grandfather, father Joao, brother Kevin and mother Urania, listen to the music from their porch on their house on Purchase Street. (Top row, right) Samantha Costa, Leah Benoit and Morgan Costa look over the hand-made jewelry on display among the other artwork on the street. (Middle and Bottom row, left) Britney Lecomte, Danielle Dragon and Elizabeth Stackhouse perform Fascination, a ballet routine choreographed by Lisa J. Bibeau, Artistic Director of the Spindle City Ballet, in the courtyard of the First Congregational Church. (Middle row, center) Marcus Pereira and his brother Alexis transport balloons down Purchase Street. (Middle row, right) Julie Cleare directs First Baptist Church hand-bell players Maureen Rounds, Marge Ghilarducci, Cathy Cleare, Luce Cabral and Chris Ghilarducci in the Church of the Ascension sanctuary. (Bottom row, center) Mike and Ann Keane, Tiffany Carpenter, and Connie and Jim Soule, President of the Fall River Preservation Society, display a self-guided walking tour map of the historic downtown district. (Bottom row, right) Carroll Brown and Nick Soule stop in front of the Battelle-Warner House, c. 1843, on the walking tour.