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How Bonnaroo?s Elevated Campground Experiences Are Taking the Festival Beyond the Lineup


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   Negativity   51.00%
The New York Times
SOURCE: http://fortune.com/2019/06/12/bonnaroo-2019-campgrounds-safe-spaces/
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Summary

This year’s Bonnaroo will feature elevated sprawling campgrounds and curated unique and safe experiences for different factions of festivalgoers, as part of a continued effort to celebrate individuality and embrace its roots.“I think that Bonnaroo was headed in the direction of homogenization,” says Emily Cox, founder of visual design and event production firm Formation and former director of visual design for AC Entertainment (one of the fest’s organizers). The sense of community that the fest has perpetuated for nearly two decades has only grown and organizers felt it was time to bring some quality programming to the camp plazas.In 2018, Bonnaroo took the normal festival camping areas from bare bones—toilets, showers, some shade—to give campers unique experiences and around-the-clock programming that included a circus created by New York’s nightclub collective House of Yes, surprise performances and activities curated by Cage the Elephant’s Matt Shultz, ambient sound baths and healing, a Nashville-centric cultural center, and more.This year will see the Bonnaroo team upping the ante in terms of dedicated safe space, unique programming, and world building for the plazas, which are open to everyone—essentially turning each of them into their own retreat or mini-festival.“We really have a responsibility to create a world for [the campers] for four days instead of, you know, our standard programming,” Lobl explains about the expanding world of Bonnaroo. [I’m interested to see if patrons] really grab onto the idea of celebrating themselves and [seeing that] everyone’s struggling, that’s a common thing and it’s okay.”Over the last couple of years, Bonnaroo has been reaching out to all of its community through specialized camping areas like SheROO for women-identifying and non-binary patrons and festival-long support systems like SoberROO.

As said here by Bailey Pennick