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Comfest Volunteer Party at Hot Times Friday, September 9 Hot 6 PM to Midnight Wear Your 2016 T-Shirt Times Check in at the Comfest Table Festival in Volunteer Central COMFEST.COM COMMUNITY FESTIVAL 2016 3 Welcome to ComFest 2016 WHAt’s INSIDE? Welcome to ComFest! Welcome ........................................................ 3,4 In a world that claims to offer many “alternatives”—music, media, food, Festival Rules .................................................... 5 you name it—this festival is unlike any in Columbus and unique among Spirit and Purpose ...................................7, 24-27 similar festivals across the country. Who We Are ...................................................... 8 It began as Community Festival in 1972 in the University District as an artistic and political celebration of alternatives to mainstream culture. It ComFest Principles/Meeting Schedule ............... 9 grew from an early coalition of counter-cultural organizations—food co-op, Honored Community Activist .............................11 health center, tenants union, underground newspaper, and phone information This Year's Slogan: Powered By Community.......13 center—addressing needs not being met by the larger culture. Working with Honored Community Organization ...................15 owners of small businesses such as import and clothing stores, head shops, Information Station/Field Guide .......................16 and jewelers, the group organized a two-day festival at 16th & Waldeck in Clean-up & Recycling ........................................17 the University area. Volunteer Thank Yous ................................18 - 23 The principles around which the coalition organized remain the guiding ideals of ComFest (read them on page 9). Healing Arts/Living Wages .............................. 23 ComFest celebrates the ways in which individuals can collectively take Workshop Schedule ......................................... 24 control of their own lives. This focus on collective work—in which people Special Speakers ............................................ 25 subsume their own needs to the larger purpose—is the core of the festival, Workshop Highlights.................................. 26, 27 which is run totally by volunteers and accepts no corporate sponsorships Honored Artist ................................................ 29 that might compromise its independence. Grants ............................................................. 30 There’s no doubt that over the past five decades political struggles to Featured artist Guante ..................................... 31 redefine mainstream norms have produced successes, most notably in areas of gender rights, healthier food, and alternative energy. These changes might Fun Map ..................................................... 32-33 seem to have happened almost overnight, but this overlooks decades of Stage Schedules.....................34-35, 38-39, 42-43 work in communities and courtrooms, as well as the evolving attitudes of Wine ............................................................... 34 new generations who recognize that diversity is not a threat to either them or 3 Word Descriptions ............................. 36, 40, 44 society. Comedy ........................................................... 38 But these gains are by no means secure. The cultural revolution Solar ............................................................... 39 spawned by reproductive rights, racial integration, and a more Beer ................................................................ 42 communitarian consciousness is under continuous attack by right-wing groups and politicians who have simply become less open about their efforts KiDSART/Kid Friendly Performances ................ 47 to roll back progress. ComFest Booth/Logo Contest ........................... 48 Street Fair/Sculpture Garden ........................... 49 …the only word you'll ever need Honored Volunteers ....................................51, 53 to know in life is "why" Community Organizations/Food ...................... 55 —Sturgill Simpson "Keep It Between The Lines" In Memoriam .............................................57, 59 Parking Tips & Information .............................. 59 As we seek alternative solutions to obvious problems, the questions Leave Your Dog At Home ..................................61 “Why?” and cui bono? (“who profits?” in Latin) define how difficult self- First Aid/Bike Corral ........................................ 62 determination is. The Citizens United decision, which defines money as a Heads Up Information ..................................... 64 form of speech, allows what Paul Simon’s song “The Boy in the Bubble” once called “a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires” to buy comfest.com their own legislators, or at least to anonymously slander candidates whose ComFest™ is a registered trademark of politics threaten these oligarchs’ interests. Gerrymandering of legislative Community Festival, Inc. districts produces a right-wing Congress that refuses to work and right- 4 COMMUNITY FESTIVAL 2016 COMFEST.COM wing Republican state legislatures even in purple states. Collective action can produce change. Locally and State and local governments create obstacles to voting nationally the Black Lives Matter movement, while by racial minorities and the poor. Charter schools run by not yet scoring major gains, has pushed racial bias in politicians’ friends suck billions out of public schools and law enforcement into the public eye. Citizen groups are produce worse results. challenging the waste and environmental destruction of “More guns” is touted as the response to poverty fracking. Bernie Sanders’ avowedly socialist presidential and lack of education. A political party that claims campaign, originally dismissed as a Children’s Crusade, moral values lines up behind a candidate who degrades has demonstrated that it’s possible to compete without women and ethnic groups, decries the rule of law, and becoming beholden to large donors eager to protect their believes that throwing punches is diplomacy. Documents business interests. hacked from a Panamanian law Every promise don’t work out that way firm reveal how shell companies, —Beyonce limited-liability corporations, and “Sandcastles” anonymous overseas accounts allow ComFest originated over the super-wealthy to avoid millions 40 years ago because many of of dollars in taxes. the promises of Freedom and Locally, a City Council Democracy and Equality had shown elected at-large produces a smug themselves hollow, exclusive, and Democratic lock on government, destructive to both spirit and life; it providing massive tax abatements continues today for the same reason. to developers in thriving areas of It has survived through many ups the city while ignoring development and downs because everyday people incentives in poor neighborhoods. believe in its underlying principles Like who got your best interest? of volunteering to work together. ...And who pretending? You can be part of it. —Kendrick Lamar Even if just for three days, “Mortal Man” ComFest is your community, and Photo by Michael Gruber Faced with these well- being part of it requires no special organized, well-funded attacks on democracy, working skills. Volunteers make it happen. You and/or a group of to change things might seem pointless. Everything is too friends can ensure ComFest’s survival, get a t-shirt and corrupt, too hopeless, too difficult, and these attitudes can tokens good for food and beverages, and earn the right to stop meaningful progress before it begins. The Occupy boast, “I volunteer at ComFest.” The Information Station movement raised public consciousness, but its refusal near the Park Street entrance can show you how. to create organization and develop a set of specific Forming and being in community is messy. It takes goals doomed its noble intent and incredible energy to time. Like any other relationship, it can sometimes be irrelevancy. The movement had the eyes and ears of frustrating and disappointing and emotionally draining. millions and then sadly squandered the opportunity to Ultimately, though, it’s spiritually nourishing. And it’s the make something happen because so many of its adherents only way we meaningfully live together. despised the idea of structure. —Steve Abbott • Edited by Mimi Morris, Steve Abbott, Michael Gruber • Design and Layout by Michael Gruber, Jonathan Johns, David Browning • Illustrations by Paul Volker and Jodi Kushins - Fun Map by Max Ink - www.maxinkcomix.com. • Photos by Michael Gruber, Mara Gruber, Michael Weber, Shanna Harrell, David Breithaupt • 2016 ComFest logo design by Julie Macala • Writers: Michael Weber, Mimi Morris, Shanna Harrell, Connie Everett, Jonathan Johns, Marty Stutz, Leslie Zak, Curt Schieber • Distribution by Jim McNamara, Jim & Alice Irwin, Jodi Kushins, Harry Farkas • All photos copyrighted by the photographers • ComFest TM is a registered trademark of Community Festival, Inc. COMFEST.COM COMMUNITY FESTIVAL 2016 5 IMPORTANT FESTIVAL RULES NOTE: No coolers, please. Don't leave backpacks unattended. Bags subject to being checked. • No bottles or cans/NO BYOB. No glass of any kind. • ComFest encourages following all city, county, state and federal laws. • No weapons of any kind are allowed at the event. • No unauthorized parking inside the park. • Walk bikes inside the park. • No roller skates/blades/skateboards/Segways or scooters except medical mobility devices. • No vending, distribution of arts, crafts, literature or petitioning except at an authorized booth space. • No unauthorized motor vehicles. • Animals must be leashed and owners
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