Open Signal Fest
- Cost: $8.00
- Capacity: 200
Bring the entire family to Open Signal Fest, a day-long party celebrating new digital art and video, collaboration and community!
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Open Signal Fest is a day-long celebratory explosion of media arts and community. Join us for a blowout of live performances, local bands, comedy, media workshops, large-scale video projections, an interactive phone both, a 36-foot wide geodesic dome, food and drink carts, and much more—both inside and outdoors at Open Signal’s media arts facility on Northeast Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.
This event is for makers and curious media fans of all shapes and sizes to interact directly with media art and production. If you're new to Open Signal, you can also learn more about our unique public facilities and educational resources, and how to get involved.
Open Signal members get in free! Find more information about our membership program here:
https://opensignalpdx.org/membership
Festival artists include:
Jodi Darby and Open School middle school students
The experimental media artists from Open Signal's 2018-19 New Media Fellowship:
- May Cat
- Jaleesa Johnston
- Sharita Towne
- Lynn Yarne
- Jen Tam
- Tabitha Nikolai
There are also two paid workshops taking place during Open Signal Fest, and the workshop fees include full festival admission:
12:00pm - 2:00pm: Performance Through the Lens with Jaleesa Johnston
2:30pm - 4:30pm: Virtual Bob Ross with Tabitha Nikolai
Live music from:
- DJMyrie
- DJ Chuckk Pasta
- Autonomuse
- The Social Stomach
- Midwest Nice
And comedy from:
- Laura Anne Whitley
- Ashley Padron
- Stephanie Patricio
- Melody Awesomazing
You will also be able to see these media installations onsite all day:
- An Open Signal community micro-cinema, showing the works of our producers
- Sharita Towne's “Untitled (Black Wanderings, a work in progress)
Two installations from artist Jodi Darby & the students of
Open School:
- An interactive storytelling telephone booth titled “HELLO, VOYAGER / Futel Telephone Booth," and
- A video projection inside a geodesic dome titled "PLANETARIUM," provided by Dotdotdash with support from Savory Lighting Design.
Food and drinks will be available from Bochi Truck and MexiRican PDX, respectively.
Parking will be available across the street at DaVita Kidney Care, located at 2737 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
Open Signal Fest is supported by mediaThe Foundation and the Oregon Community Foundation
Dates
Aug 10
Saturday
12:00pm – 8:00pm
Location
Open Signal, Portland Community Media Center
2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr BlvdPortland, OR 97212 Get Directions
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For More Information
Interested in getting involved and utilizing one of our many resources? Start by completing this form and we will connect you with a staff member to get you started: Inquiry Form.
For questions about your registration, please contact our Director of Community Media, KatMeow García, via phone at (503) 288 1515 x411 or via email at katmeow [at] opensignalpdx.org.
Community Membership
Join our community! Open Signal's membership program includes absolutely everyone.
This program will not only strengthen our community and deepen your experience as a community member, but it will also help diversify our funding streams, ensuring that our resources will be around to serve Portland for decades to come.
To sign up, make a contribution of at least $5 online.
Open Signal is a Safer Space
Open Signal is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for the community. Open Signal is a Safer Space for people of color, immigrants, gender non-conforming, low/no income groups, houseless, people with disabilities, linguistically diverse and other marginalized communities who have experienced systemic racism, sexism, classism and/or oppression. We encourage the creation and sharing of content that expresses a wide variety of cultural, social, political and spiritual perspectives. Treating all people with respect and kindness is expected - even if you don’t agree with all perspectives.
We require all members of our community to agree to our Safer Space Community Guidelines and to be accountable for the impact of their actions on others who use the space. Physical and verbal abuse will not be tolerated. All threats will be taken seriously, and will result in removal from the facility.
If you have a safety concern to report, please talk to any member of our front desk staff, or complete our online form at bit.ly/opensignalsafetyconcern.
Accessibility Requests
Open Signal is committed to hosting meetings, events and gatherings that are accessible and inclusive. Ensuring that all members of our community can fully engage in our activities not only benefits the individual, but strengthens our community as a whole.
We will do our best to accommodate your needs for equitable access to our facilities, however some requests may not be within our means to meet at this time.
Please submit your request using this form: Accessibility Request Form.