7 May
2015
7 May
'15
2:24 p.m.
Fyi,
Looking for volunteers to help with this event.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:29 PM
Subject: Stay Brown, Stay Down
To: commons <commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org>rg>,
"booking(a)lists.omnicommons.org"
<booking(a)lists.omnicommons.org>rg>, "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <
discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
I'm including the discuss list on this email because we are looking for
volunteers to help steward this 2-day event before we can confirm with
them. Please forward this invitation to your member collectives!
If we're not able to find enough volunteers, we will have to turn this
event down.
Here's a description of the event:
Stay Brown Stay Down Fest is a three-day music, culture and arts festival
happening in the Bay Area in August 2015. The festival is a celebration
recognizing the contributions of Latinxs/Chicanxs/Indigenxs in punk. While
we encompass multiple intersecting identities, we recognize that they are
the end products of colonization and we use punk not only as an artistic
manifestation but as a tool of resistance against systemic oppression.
The festival has been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio, and
New York. This year, the Bay Area will take over.
Originally conceived as Latino Punk Fest in Chicago and held annually all
over the US, we decided to take the basic framework and transform it. We
plan on hosting around 20 bands, a number of community organizations who
will teach workshops and offer free services for the community, and invite
a number of vendors to table within those two days.
Money charged for admission will go directly back to the bands, many of
which will be traveling from out of town/state/country. If we can make
enough, we would also hope to be able to give back to the organizations who
come to teach a workshop. We do not plan on making any revenue. Our goal is
to break even and to help out those who are helping us.