{"id":232,"date":"2011-10-09T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicurbanism\/?p=232"},"modified":"2012-11-10T03:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T03:51:45","slug":"photodump-of-o-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/2011\/10\/09\/photodump-of-o-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"photodump of O+ Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wall<\/a>\"illuminated<\/a>\"Willy<\/a>\"Nicole<\/a>\"Kingston<\/a>\"ticket<\/a><\/p>\n

\"the<\/a>\"milling<\/a>\"visage\"<\/a>\"Rick<\/a>\"behind<\/a>\"a<\/a>
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O+ Festival, Kingston, NY<\/a>, a set on Flickr.<\/p>\n

I caught a bit of the scene over the weekend at Kingston, NY’s second annual O+ Festival, a “festival of art, music and wellness… wherein artists barter their contributions directly for medical, dental, and other wellness services from art-loving health care providers.”<\/p>\n

Admittedly, I missed almost all of the performances (except for a great opening-night show by Nicole Atkins and Willy Mason) even though it was located only 30 minutes away from where I live. However, I made some contacts and have been intrigued enough by the festival and its mission to want to write about it further. In a nutshell, the event seems familiar enough as an initiative in arts-based urban revitalization, with all its familiar promises and shortcomings.\u00a0 But while it’s unclear whether the event is a significant step toward revitalizing an old rustbelt city, it seems very interesting as an alternative to the increasingly predictable and commoditized urban music festival.<\/p>\n

More on these questions later; until then, here are the photos I took. You can find many, many more pictures and media at\u00a0the O+ Festival Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0 And do take a look at its website for\u00a0more of their story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

O+ Festival, Kingston, NY, a set on Flickr. I caught a bit of the scene over the weekend at Kingston, NY’s second annual O+ Festival, a “festival of art, music and wellness… wherein artists barter their contributions directly for medical, dental, and other wellness services from art-loving health care providers.” Admittedly, I missed almost all of the performances (except for a great opening-night show by Nicole Atkins and Willy Mason) even though it was located only 30 minutes away from where I live. However, I made some contacts and have been intrigued enough by the festival and its mission to want to write about it further. In a nutshell, the event seems familiar enough as an initiative in arts-based urban revitalization, with all its familiar promises and shortcomings.\u00a0 But while it’s unclear whether the event is a significant step toward revitalizing an old rustbelt city, it seems very interesting as an alternative to the increasingly predictable and commoditized urban music festival. More on these questions later; until then, here are the photos I took. You can find many, many more pictures and media at\u00a0the O+ Festival Facebook page.\u00a0 And do take a look at its website for\u00a0more of their story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43643,722],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arts-based-urban-revitalization","tag-hudson-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}