Music festival

• On November 4-5th, the Offside Music Festival, Asia's largest post-rock music festival, will be held in Anji Zhejiang.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231028254614/en/
  2023 Offside Music Festival poster (Graphic: Business Wire)
  The Offside Music Festival is different from the performance lineup of the traditional music festival.
• The goal of the music festival is to connect everyone with the sensation by music and body instead of words and to get "offside" from the status quo.
• Let's rip off the labels, throw ourselves into the music wave, and find a life which is not defined.

• Hosting more than 400 guests, One Mind raised $3.3 million on September 9 at One Mind’s 29th Annual Music Festival for Brain Health, presented by Bank of America.
• At the annual Music Festival, these researchers have a chance to present directly to those supporting the funding of their ongoing studies.
• This year’s Music Festival for Brain Health featured award-winning country singer/songwriter Martina McBride.
• The work One Mind is doing to help those facing brain health challenges is crucial.

• iHeartMedia today announced the all-new House of Music at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival, a mixed-reality immersive experience inspired by the artists performing that weekend at the festival main stage.
• Each night, the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival will broadcast live for fans via iHeartMedia radio stations throughout the country across more than 150 markets.
• The House of Music at the iHeartRadio Music Festival is free and open to the public.
• Tickets for the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival mainstage event are on sale now at AXS.com.

• And after multiple summers without large in-person gatherings and reduced capacities, many people are returning to their favourite music festivals to have a good time.
• But these gatherings, especially independent and artist-run music festivals, do more than entertain.
• To help us tackle these questions, we organized a conference about music festivals and had conversations with scholars, practitioners, artists, organizers and festival-goers who shared their insights about curating, programming and imagining music festivals.

Curating for change

• In her book, The Work of Art in the World, she encourages readers to trace the “ripple effects” of the arts into our daily institutions and practices.
• She asks readers to think about ways to “test, stretch and refine” how we teach, learn and curate.
• Simply put, what does it mean to curate for change?

Staging diversity, challenging power

• Music festivals are important not only in terms of programming matters, but also as forms of community-based education and activism.
• In other words, festivals can build alternative visions of social co-operation and can question static relations of power and taken-for-granted representations.
• Another example, the Guelph Jazz Festival, launched in 1994, aims to reinvigorate public life with the spirit of dialogue and community.

Everyday utopias

• While it may be tempting to think about festivals as an escape from everyday life, we also see them as transformative possibilities for society.
• We are drawn to legal scholar Davina Cooper’s notion of everyday utopias.
• “Everyday utopias,” she writes, “don’t place their energy on pressuring mainstream institutions to change, on winning votes, or on taking over dominant social structures.