Purpose
The ComFest Program Committee produces the Program Guide which is distributed free to ComFest attendees each year. The Program Guide is filled with vital information about the Statement of Principles of ComFest and Rules to make ComFest enjoyable and respectful for all who attend. Each year we write articles about some of the special volunteers who tirelessly work to create three days of our celebration with a purpose.
The Program Guide has entertainment and workshop schedules as well as feature articles about some of the performers and workshop presenters. The Program Guide is filled with photos from the previous year’s festival that try to capture the spirit of ComFest and the volunteers who make it all happen.
The Program Committee is an all volunteer publishing powerhouse. The committee pulls together advertising, writers, photographers, editors, and layout wizards that turn scattered ideas and notes into a 64 page publication that we are all proud of. The Program Guide is a treasured collectible commemorative of each year’s ComFest. The shelf life of the Program Guide is much longer than the three days of ComFest.
Distribution of the Program Guide at ComFest is another task that this committee needs help with. Distribution points include the ComFest Booth, Beer Booths and the barricade locations around the perimeter of Goodale Park.
Get Involved – The ComFest Program Committee Wants You!
If you enjoy tracking down advertisers for updated and new ads, writing, editing copy, photo editing, layout and meeting a publishing deadline, the ComFest Program Committee would be a good place to put your talents to work. As we work towards our finished publication we do tend to put in some long hours but we always sit back and admire the completed Program Guide.
If you are ready to let that frustrated journalist inside you go to work for the ComFest Program Guide contact: program@comfest.com
To submit photos email photos@comfest.com For placing an ad in the Program Guide – ads@comfest.com
Program Committee Updates:
2019 Program Guide is ONLINE! - The 2019 Program Guide is live and online! Get a head start reading up on this year's Grant Recipients, Honored Volunteers, Honored Artist, Honored Activist, and Honored Community Organization. We're really proud of the work that was put into the Program this year, and we hope that you enjoy it. As always, we'll have plenty of the at the festival, so don't forget to pick up your copy. We can't wait to see you there! ...
2013 Program Introduction - The basic necessities of life are a right, not a privilege If the statement on the back of the 2013 ComFest volunteer T-shirts sounds familiar, there’s good reason. The slogan chosen by organizers for the themeof this year’s fest leaps straight off the page of Community Festival’s Statement of Principles: The basic necessities of life are a right, not a privilege. That seems entirely reasonable, doesn’t it? Healthy food on the table, a sturdy roof overhead, a safe place to study, work worth doing. Access to affordable healthcare, an inclusive culture based on common good, safe and well-funded public schools, knowing that… ...- 2012 Program Introduction - “The People, Yes!” Welcome to Comfest! In the words of the great TV dramatist Rod Sterling, you have entered “a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.” Beyond being the nation’s largest independent volunteer-run festival, ComFest is an engine of change. It consciously and unabashedly provides a voice for progressive politics as well as a showcase for independent businesspeople. It offers a smorgasbord of local music. It creates a space where you can be yourself regardless of what others think. It presents a landscape of possibility – of What Can Be. Here you’ll find a classroom for… ...
- 2011 Program Introduction - Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights ComFest has always been politically progressive, explicitly celebrating the struggle for social justice together with the wealth of local talent. So when thousands of citizens were locked out of the Statehouse last winter during hearings on legislation to strip away the right of public employees to bargain for wages and safe working conditions, ComFest organizers had no hesitation answering the challenge, “Which side are you on.” After all, Community Festival’s governing Statement of Principles says, “The basic necessities of life are a right and not a privilege. People have the collective right to control the… ...
- 2010 Program Introduction - LIVE EVERY DAY THE COMFEST WAY Welcome to Community Festival-three days of alternative politics,arts & crafts, music, reunions with old friends and introductions to new ones, sunshine (OK rain…), shared dreams and shared work in a shared space. Those repetitions are intentional. The underpinnings of this annual festival were birthed in the cultural civil war of the early 1970’s, frictions that have continued to be at the core of America’s political and social change. These core conflicts in American culture developed out of the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era, the second great wave of 20th… ...
2009 Program Introduction - IN COMMUNITY WE TRUST educate advocate organize The most powerful words in any language, anywhere on earth, are “How can I help?” Even more than “Yes we can!”, the offer to help has power to weave people together. Especially in hard times, this deceptively simple question, a reflexive expression of empathy, is the very essence of community building. So this is the question ComFest organizers try to answer every year. As honorees are nominated, grant applications considered, street fair vendors juried, slogans selected for volunteer T-shirts — at every step, the question is, does this choice help sustain the community… ...
2008 Program Introduction - Be the ChangeYou Wish To See in the World As volunteers go through their annual discussion of how best to capture the spirit of ComFest in a short statement/slogan, it’s always an effort to include the linked concepts of struggle and celebration that are integral to a full life. This year (2008), no one needed to mention the obvious issues of war, economic hardship, collapsing infrastructure or a declining health care system to recognize that most people believe we’re at one of those periodic tipping points when things have to be done differently, when there’s a palpable need to re-assert… ...
2017 Logo! - The winner of the 2017 ComFest Logo Contest is this submission by David Browning. Congratulations to David and all our great artists who entered the logo contest this year. ...
