Please come out to their show this weekend if you are in town.

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July 2, All Ages, No Cover

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

www.space1520.com

To benefit:

 www.visionsforthefuture.org

With:

www.plasticgod.com

www.mandolinfilms.com

www.maximillianchow.com

www.ashkahn.com

http://michaelchsiung.livejournal.com

DJs:

John Eastwood all the way from Geneva, Switzerland

Dirty Dave 

Ben Barnes

Our fiscal sponsoring agent is the 501(c)(3) non-profit Allied Cultures Against Discrimination.  Together, we endeavor to make creative arts accessible to everyone, regardless of their race or socio-economic status.

We can now take your donations online. Please add note “Form and Function”.

We are exploring sponsorship and grants.

We are making the new paradigm: CONCERN is the new COOL. 

Hey you, you can’t control whether you’ll get that recording contract, that modeling gig, or movie deal, but you in your hands, you can cultivate the good in yourself and others.

We’ve been to Coachella, to SXSW, to Glastonbury, to Reading, to WMC, to CMJ.  We had tons of fun, but we barely noticed the charities and non-profits who had their tables hidden somewhere. 

FFF is where the focus is on these do-gooders who help people, and how you can join in.  Our performers, bands, and filmmakers will choose a humanitarian organization to which a portion of the proceeds of the festival ticket sales will be donated.  We will put on shows for and screen films of beneficiaries of arts non-profits also.

It’s that simple.  That’s our concept- cool and concerned artists, along side up and comers with a vision.

FFF will be held in The Triangle, no not the Bermuda Triangle- The Research Triangle- where Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill are.  It’s gorgeous there.  It’s like Austin, Texas - hip and with dogwood trees, magnolia trees, organic farms, smart people who read… with its 3 major universities and array of near-by four-year colleges. 

 4.5/5.5 hrs on a plane from Los Angeles, 2 hrs from New York City, and a fun road trip.

FFF will have something else other festivals don’t have- non-fair food.  There are amazing restaurants in downtown Raleigh.  The Triangle has a wealth of local farms, see here.  It has been called heaven for foodies. 

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• The Triangle [Form and Function Festival]:  {TUFFF} (c)

Where are “U” in The Triangle Form and Function Fest?

Toward, Upward, Forward, Fairness, The Future (c)

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Hollywood and New York are known for producing bright and shiny entertainment. With sleek concepts– they have form down.

The Triangle area of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill is known for its awesome basketball rivalries and top notch brains, being a mecca for PhD’s. With amazing research institutions and the home of The Institute for Non-Profits at NC State– these guys have function down.

Wouldn’t it be great if these cornerstones could merge and show the world that there is a convergence?– where there will be presentations of such as:

•Hip-hop that is not just about bitches and bling

•Rock that is not just for the hair and tight clothes

•Films that are not just shells for product placement

•Art that is not merely for art’s sake

… and not excluding other hybrid ideas of entertainment with a focus on social issues to create awareness to generate solutions to collective action problems.

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There are groups already showing the power of people coming together to explore important issues through artistic expression, and the academic brainstorming that goes along with getting things done, but there is not one single annual event where different people can get together in one place to generate more than one positive outcome and make the face to face connections needed to facilitate public service through the arts and vice versa.

“Art in any form, is and has been and always will be our universal language, and we should do everything we can to protect its survival.” This was stated by Penelope Cruz, who already has a great platform from which to speak about causes. The same goes for Brad Pitt and his belief in the rebuilding of New Orleans and his wife, Angelina Jolie for the plight of children from third world countries.

There are so many other voices that want to tell the world something that do not have such a loud megaphone as current celebrities yet.

They include acts like:

•X Plastaz. “At first glance, X Plastaz seems to be a fairly typical hip hop group: the dreads, the slouch, the too-cool-for-school chin tilt. But when lead rapper Godson Rutta (aka Gsann) starts to talk about his music, his eyes light up…. [X Plastaz] use their Swahili hip hop to encourage Tanzanian children and adolescents to reject the nation’s dominant youth culture, in which violence is the norm.”

•Flow, The Film by UNC alumnus Gill Holland about clean water supplies.

There are many projects of expression and concern like this, but they do not have a stage that solely promotes their inter-linked causes.

— In today’s age we are inundated with what is flashy and “cool”. There are too many magazines, television programs, websites telling us what to buy, where to be seen, and how to appear like a celebrity. The next generation is being trained to be the perfect homogenous consumer clones. The voices that are the most prevalent and loudest are the ones coming from corporations backing entertainment conglomerates.

— There are many youth oriented festivals and functions that are immensely popular and have some tables set up about causes, but still the main reason for the crowds is to see the “hippest” acts, to emulate their style, and pad the pockets of record companies. The big awards shows are for entertainment companies to display their biggest money makers from that year in hopes of reminding people to buy more of whatever these persons are part of.

—This is something that’s going to have entertainers adopting non-profits, showing the next generation that it’s cool to make yourself feel worthwhile in other ways that copying the look of the person next to you– that being useful to others and yourself feels good. 

Hey, we’re going to show that it’s even more important to care about each other than to care about what outfit you’re prepping for tonight or your next profile picture on your social networking site of choice.

• There’s no one event for young people and the young at heart to say, “I’m ‘with it’ and I’m aware too.”