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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/o-festival/
SUMMARY:O+ Festival
DESCRIPTION:Get your wristband at opositivefestival.org\nThe O+ Festival r
 eturns to the streets of Kingston October 10-12th\, 2025 for the 15th Annu
 al celebration of art\, music\, and wellness. But this isn’t just anothe
 r music festival. O+ provides no-cost \, on-site healthcare to artists and
  volunteers in exchange for participating and sharing their work with the 
 public throughout the festival weekend. We call this “exchanging the art
  of medicine for the medicine of art” and this work is needed now more t
 han ever.\nThe three day schedule kicks off with O+’s beloved parade\, o
 ver 50 live music events\, dozens of visual and performance art activation
 s\, spoken word\, comedy\, film\, dance\, cycling\, and over 20 public fac
 ing wellness workshops throughout the weekend. The beloved BlO+ck Party re
 turns to Wall Street on Saturday afternoon\, filling two blocks with vendo
 rs\, entertainment\, local organizations\, health information and screenin
 gs.\nHeadlining the 2025 O+ Festival is legendary rap pioneer Kool Keith\,
  who’s iconic\, genre-bending career has spanned over three decades. As 
 bold and unpredictable as ever\, don’t miss Kool Keith takes the stage a
 t Assembly on Sat\, October 11th at 9pm. Also at the top of this year’s 
 bill is the long-awaited reunion of the celebrated cult experimental indie
  sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces and other music highlights include Hudson 
 Valley-based soulful songstress Rachel Yamagata\, Grammy Award winner Lesl
 ie Mendelson\, and New York indie rockers Wild Pink. The explosive music l
 ineup fills out with more than 45 other music acts filling venues all over
  Kingston.\nEvery year\, O+ Festival presents a multimedia program\, curat
 ed around a theme\, full of sights\, sounds and experiences that offer som
 ething for everyone. This year’s theme is POWER. The work presented\, th
 rough an array of art programming\, examines how power is wielded\, challe
 nged\, harnessed\, distributed and transformed.\nDocumentary film and danc
 e sit in the spotlight of this year’s art lineup bringing innovation\, s
 ubversion and representation to explorations of the human experience\, his
 tory and language as well as the importance of speaking truth to power. Th
 e Chase Brock Experience\, a rollicking resident company at Theatre Row on
  42nd St and Modern Accord Depot in Accord\, NY\, will perform an excerpt 
 from the dance narrative COME HOME\, set to shanties and songs of the seas
 . Accomplished duo Laura Coe (choreographer) and Liv Butowsky will present
  These Words\, a movement based performance highlighting the 198 words the
  Trump Administration seeks to “remove” that explores the relationship
  between language and power.\nThe documentary short\, One Story At a Time 
 (2024)\, will be screened throughout the afternoon on October 11th at The 
 Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Center\, in partnership with TMI Project and in celeb
 ration of National Coming Out Day. Directed by Eva Tenuto and Natalia Iyud
 in\, this 10-min film tells the story of Celeste Lecesne (co-founder of Th
 e Trevor Project and The Future Perfect Project) whose life is a reminder 
 of the ability for each of us to change the world by speaking our truth\, 
 one story at a time.\nTwo feature length documentary films\, Beautiful Los
 ers and Chile Estyle\, will be screened as a double feature in partnership
  with Upstate Films. Both films highlight transformative moments in the hi
 story of street art and the subcultures through which creative innovation\
 , belonging and movements were formed. Chile Estyle (2022)\, directed by P
 ablo Aravena\, explores the past and present of Chile’s unique street ar
 t tradition that took hold in the 1960’s in reaction to an oppressive po
 litical regime. Beautiful Losers (2008)\, by filmmaker/artist Aaron Rose\,
  and co-directed by Joshua Leonard\, focuses on the work and evolution of 
 a group of young artists - including Mike Mills\, Barry McGee (aka Twist)\
 , Steve ESPO Powers\, Harmony Korine\, Shepard Fairey\, Claire Rojas\, Mar
 garet Kilgallen and Mark Gonzales - who began a new art movement(s) in the
  1990’s that pulled from the DIY aesthetics at the intersection of skate
 boarding culture\, graffiti\, punk and hip-hop.\nThe wellness and communit
 y focused BlO+ck Party will return to Wall Street in Uptown Kingston on Sa
 turday Oct 11th from 1-6pm\, which is open to the public\, no wristbands r
 equired. ExplO+re\, the public facing wellness offerings at O+ Festival\, 
 will round out the weekend’s schedule with opportunities for attendees t
 o deep dive into a range of topics and modalities set to include sound hea
 ling\, yoga\, dance\, presentations from health experts\, hands-on activit
 ies for families and more.\nO+ will close the festival weekend with a nigh
 t of music and comedy at Assembly featuring breakout artist Charlene Kaye\
 , bringing her celebrated Work-In-Progress show on the heels of a recent m
 ulti-page feature in Rolling Stone Magazine. With sharp wit\, soaring voca
 ls\, and a magnetic stage presence\, Kaye’s musical comedy set is not to
  be missed!\nAt the heart and behind the scenes of O+ is the Artists’ Cl
 inic. All artists\, musicians\, and volunteers access a variety of healthc
 are services through this pop-up clinic in exchange for their contribution
 s to the festival – everything from dental care to acupuncture\, chiropr
 actic\, reiki\, dermatology\, nutrition counseling\, physical exams\, conn
 ection with mental health professionals and so much more.\nAt O+\, we beli
 eve that everyone deserves equitable access to healthcare as well as the h
 ealing power of art in all of its forms. O+ Festival wristbands are availa
 ble for presale now! Proceeds from every by-donation wristband sold direct
 ly supports O+ in expanding the year round exchange\, providing preventati
 ve healthcare for artists and building healthier\, more resilient communit
 ies through the arts.\nThe O+ 2025 Lineup including music\, art\, writing\
 , comedy and wellness is now available @opositivefest/ opositivefestival.
 org.
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