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9TH Annual Free Music and Arts Fest Set For September 8th
in Golden Gate Park
On Saturday September 8th, renowned and outspoken musician and filmmaker
Michael Franti and his group Spearhead – along with Guerrilla
Management –present the 9th Annual 911 Power to the
Peaceful Festival at Speedway Meadow in San Francisco’s
Golden Gate Park. The free music and arts festival is dedicated
to social justice, non violence, coexistence and environmental sustainability
and aimed to educate, enrage, enlighten and inspire. It drew over
60,000 attendees in 2006.
Artists confirmed to appear alongside Anti-recording artists and
headliners Michael Franti and Spearhead at the
event include Indigo Girls, Hot Buttered
Rum, Bassnectar and DJ Spooky.
The event will be hosted by Hard Knock Radio and
broadcasted live on Pacifica station KPFA. Special guests and speakers
will count journalist, author and Democracy Now! host Amy
Goodman and more to come!
In addition to the mains stage of International Musical Artists
and award-winning speakers, the PTTP Festival will also feature
morning yoga, an open-air art gallery, a healing arts tent, vendors
and food booths, eco village, bicycle coalition and social, environmental
& political organizations tabling and forums. Festival Ambiance
by dalabil and the Visual Consciousness. This years DJ Tent will
be headlined by DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid and Bassnectar.
A family-friendly kid’s zone will boast arts and crafts with
an amazing peace flag-making workshop with Daily Acts, live theater
with the Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, games, story-telling, face-painting,
organic “snack time,” and exhibit from the Museum of
Children’s Art and a mid-afternoon Kids Parade. A favorite
in the kid’s zone is the sing-a-long with Michael Franti,
where the festival founder visits and sings with the youth. An exciting
addition to this year’s festival will focus on Franti’s
new children’s book, What
I Be.
Since 1998, the free, outdoor 911 Power to the Peaceful
Festival has been a fun, educational, hip and diverse annual
experience. The first event was held in a neighborhood park and
drew 6,000 people. In recent years, it has grown to draw over 60,000
people to the spacious Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Past
artists and speakers have included String Cheese Incident, John
Butler Trio, KRS-One, Digital Underground, Woody Harrelson, Angela
Davis, Dennis Kuciich, Ram Das, Blackalicious, Alice Walker, Talib
Kweli, The Coup, Saul Williams, Keller Williams, Lyrics Born and
many others.
In a year that is shaping up to be his most active year yet in support
of the peace movement, Michael Franti visited and performed for
injured soliders at Washington’s Walter Reed Army Medical
Center this past April, before participating in a fundraiser for
Iraq Veterans Against the War. In May 2007, he performed an extremely
rare San Quentin Prison concert, extolling the virtues of peace
in a performance before some 2,000 inmates.
The award winning filmmaker Franti, who is responsible for I
Know I’m Not Alone, the heralded 2005 documentary about
the Iraq War, and the subsequent 2006 Anti- debut Yell
Fire!, which was inspired by his travels to the war-torn area,
has been praised for his commitments to peace, tolerance and co-existence
from journalists and formal and informal leaders throughout the
globe.
Franti and Spearhead will celebrate the success of their breakthrough
2006 Anti- debut Yell Fire! by releasing a live,
digital-only version of the acclaimed disc this October. In advance
of its extensive U.S. autumn tour, the group is currently at work
with producer Matt Wallace (The Replacements, Faith No More, John
Hiatt) on its next album, due via Anti- in 2008.
For more information contact Hilary Villa at Anti- hilary@epitaph.com
Getting to the Festival:
Carpool, BART, Bike or Walk with Your Neighbors
Power is in Community, so travel to the festival with your neighbors!
Whether you drive, walk, bike or BART, SpaceShare's
travel & neighbor-match will connect you with peace-loving
folks in your neighborhood. You tell us where you live, how you're
traveling here, and the issues you care about. We'll connect you
with neighbors who want to go to the same parties or heal the world
on the same path you do.
MORE INFO TO BE ANNOUNCED... STAY TUNED!
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