2024 O+ Festival

The full festival schedule is LIVE at opositivefestival.org/schedule

With 55+ live music performances, dance, film, art activations, spoken word, public murals, ExplO+re Wellness workshops, a BlO+ck Party, comedy, cycling, mural tours, and late night dance parties, this year’s festival has something for everyone. You won’t want to miss this!

The festival kicks off Friday, with galleries opening throughout the afternoon and our wild and wonderful parade stepping off from Keegan Ales at 6pm. From there, it’s a choose-your-own-adventure tour de Kingston! We’ll see you out there.

A few can’t-miss highlights:

The parade will arrive at SO+mewhere Stage (52 Main St) around 6:30pm to a set by 10-piece Funk band EMEFE

Festival Headliner Neko Case at the Old Dutch Church Friday, 9:15pm with opening sets from Hannah Cohen (8:15pm) and Imaad Wasif (7:15pm)

Clouds From a Crumbling Giant, by inkBoat, international dance, performance art and theater company (6-time Isadora Duncan Awardees) at Old Dutch Church, Saturday 1-2:30pm

Find Man On Wire Philippe Petit performing at the BlO+ck Party Saturday afternoon (1-6pm, Wall Street between Main & John St)

This is thy hour (for Walt Whitman) performance by the London-based Stephen Pelton Dance Theater (6:30), followed by a screening of the impressionist hybrid documentary Holding Back the Tide (7:15) featuring a panel with the filmmakers, at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center

Local legend Kate Pierson of the B-52‘s in the Old Dutch Church, Saturday, 9:15pm with opening sets from Rhett Miller and the All Stars (8pm), Tall Juan (7pm)
and NAIMA (6pm)

A 25th Anniversary screening of The Blair Witch Project in the Old Dutch Church, followed by a panel with the director and actors, moderated by Amanda Seyfried Sunday, 7pm (presented in partnership with Woodstock Film Festival and Upstate Films)

The GONG Supreme gong bath, Fair Street Reformed Churchyard, Saturday 2-4pm

WO+rd, our beloved literary salon, at Chleo on Sunday, 4-6 PM

A night of Hip-Hop at Tubby’s featuring Kingston’s own The Freequency Collective, DAP The Contract, and Gabe ‘Nandez

The Underberg Record-Breaking Toast Saturday, 8pm at Keegan Ales

Pick up a festival program at local businesses around town including Rough Draft, Camp Kingston, Rosie General, Hamilton & Adams, Red Owl Collective, Rocket No. 9 Records, The D.R.A.W., Unicorn Bar, and the Radio Kingston kiosk, or check it out online. For real-time updates and/or schedule changes, be sure to follow us on IG: @opositivefest.

Festival wristbands grant access to ALL O+ Festival programming and can be purchased at Will Call (52 Main Street, Kingston) during the festival, or online at opositivefestival.org/wristbands. All wristbands are donation-based and attendees are encouraged to pay what they can. Every dollar we make on wristband sales helps sustain our year-round work providing care to artists and musicians.

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ABOUT O+
In 2010, a group of local artists, doctors, and a dentist came together around a simple idea: Bring a band to town in exchange for dental work. Three months later, the O+ Festival was born. What started as a conversation between a dentist and an artist has grown into a nonprofit organization working to help creatives of all stripes access health and wellness services, amplify the arts, and build more resilient communities in Kingston and beyond. We do this through our annual festival and at the O+ Exchange Clinic in Midtown Kingston, which provides health and wellness services, classes, and art/performance space 365 days a year. Visit opositivefestival.org for more information.