Incubate brings open sourcing to festival

 

The Incubate festival, a Dutch festival in Tilburg, is going to let the public speak. Literally. In what they call Open Source Programming the festival will allow the people to join the banquet with their own movies, radio shows, art works, and dance routines. In terms of the art, everyone can send in their own works of art, and that will be judged and then the people curating this part of the event will try and make a coherent exhibition out of it (and good luck with that).

You can also send in your own radio show as of a few days back. These shows will be played during the festival, and at the festival site there will be a spot with all kinds of equipment to host your own show. You can also go the director/actor route and send in your movie (with a running time of less than an hour).  At the festival site there will be a stage where one can strut their dance stuff. Not everything can/will be accepted in all events though, so be sure to read up on that.

I really like the idea of operating this kind of open source program alongside the professional event, and it kind of nudges everyone into the modern debate of how much the public has an effect on and can join in the Arts. Curious to see how it will pan out. The Incubate festival will run from the 11^th until the 18^th of September, and for more information you can go to their official website www.incubate.org.