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.