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11Welcome to BEYOND! The art//tech//culture experimental program@Bumbershoot created to play with, look at, learn about, andeven make the future - in Seattle and BEYOND. Drawing on bigdreams and small t technology, we hope to ignite yourimagination toward new possibilities for experiencing art andmusic, sharing the value we create together, supporting yourfavorite musicians and bands, making a living as a careerartist, and humanizing the machine to facilitate thesepossibilities. You'll find BEYOND integrated at dedicated locations on and offSeattle Center Campus - artists and creative technologists whoare pushing the edges of immersive media, data visualization,projection mapping, wearable technologies and more. Togetherwe'll attend concerts and workshops, listen to speakers andpresentations, play with bots and tokens, be immersed in kineticlight, meditate on deep listening, and explore big questions -how do we dream about, believe in and actually forge thepossibility of a beautiful world in earnest right now.Look for a Welcome Center to get started and jump IN!Artist/Musician: Seattle crowds are lit. I love the crowd-sourced light show thatwe're designing for my set. And I'll make extra money in tips fromfans having easy ways to believe in me. Can't wait.First Time Attendee, new to seattle (mid 20's):I'll spend all weekend at the festival and still have FOMO - haveyou seen this program? I'll here Pussy Riot play AND be there whilethey talk about their DAO and new economy! Can't wait to sing onthe giant Karaoke Machine with friends from all over the world, andI'll learn how to make a song with an AI bot - from Reggie Watts!The BUMBERbands make the experience seamless. Seattle is killing it- watch out SXSW, this looks incredible.Attendee from 1990's, lived in seattle 40 years (mid 60's):This festival feels local again but with a contemporary new twist.I hear they will be playing with data and lights, old and newtechnology visualizing what remains in the ghosts and dreams ofartists then and now - there will be weather balloons floatingabove reporting RT festival data - how valuable it is to experiencethis TOGETHER - the data created during BUMBERSHOOT by artists,musicians and audience wearing the BUMBERBANDS. Hey, if it's goodenough for Disney, it is better when it's information WE own andcan invest in a thriving performer-driven future. Can't wait.Sponsor, mid size audio technology company: We are investing in BEYOND because of the smart, ground-breakingand diverse programming, from thought-provoking presentations tofun interactive engagements to hanging out learning about what'snew and gobsmacking about spatial immersive sound in the mostinteresting place to be while holding a cocktail. It'll providevisibility for our brand in a range of integrated contexts. BEYONDis a fresh look at the intersection of music technology and thefuture of sound.Wired Magazine: Create 3.0 launches at Seattle Festival. In the backyard of some ofBig Techs biggest players, artists and musicians experiment withtools to forge a future of co-creation, co-investment, co-ownership."Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." Laurie Anderson Why I love BeyondWELCOMEPROPOSED PROGRAM 1.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23

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10What you'll DO @BeyondEat dinner with 1,000 other dinners around the InternationalFountain; or 100 neighbors in your neighborhood. Sing karaoke with one of the featured bands.Feed a song bot with your favorite poems, song lyrics and memes.Get inspired to Humanize The Machine.Meditate in a sound bath.Experience music moving through your body.Look up at the night sky to see the weather balloons bright withcolor and movement, representing the value of the connections wemake at the festival.Going to festivals to hear music, see art, taste food - this issomething we all know and do. But what does it mean to push beyondthese activities? What's most important is what it means for YOU -how should you approach DOING the BEYOND portion of the program?For one thing, it’s more like bowling than the going to the movies.You may:Opening Night:Ring the Bell, Call the City toDinner - 10 dinners at Seattle Center and thousandsmore in neighborhoods across the city will celebratethe opening of the festival and gathering togetheragain Giant Sing Along: Sing your heart out with 32 of yourfriends, and maybe even your favorite musicianDeep Listening at Laser Dome: Experience theimmersion of music enhanced by lasers, spatialspeakers and projection mappingData Is Us: Our festival, Our data, let's light upthe night sky with our connectionsME/WE + The Machine: Feed the machine with the bestof our local art, culture and imaginationRe-Launch Entros: A one of a kind 21+ evening of LiveImmersive + Theater Games @ The Space NeedleHighlights @BeyondPROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23

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3What you'll DO @BeyondEat dinner with 1,000 other dinners around the InternationalFountain; or 100 neighbors in your neighborhood. Sing karaoke with one of the featured bands.Feed a song bot with your favorite poems, song lyrics and memes.Get inspired to Humanize The Machine.Meditate in a sound bath.Experience music moving through your body.Look up at the night sky to see the weather balloons bright withcolor and movement, representing the value of the connections wemake at the festival.Going to festivals to hear music, see art, taste food - this issomething we all know and do. But what does it mean to push beyondthese activities? What's most important is what it means for YOU -how should you approach DOING the BEYOND portion of the program?For one thing, it’s more like bowling than the going to the movies.You may:Opening Night: Ring the Bell, Call the City toDinner - 1000 dinners at Seattle Center and thousandsmore in neighborhoods across the city will celebratethe opening of the festival and gathering togetheragain Giant Sing Along: Sing your heart out with 32 of yourfriends, and maybe even your favorite musicianDeep Listening at Laser Dome: Experience theimmersion of music enhanced by lasers, spatialspeakers and projection mappingData Is Us: Our festival, Our data, let's light upthe night sky with our connectionsME/WE + The Machine: Feed the machine with the bestof our local art, culture and imaginationRe-Launch Entros: A one of a kind 21+ evening of LiveImmersive + Theater Games @ The Space NeedleHighlights @BeyondPROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23

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DEEP LISTENING - The Art + Technology of SoundA fresh look at old and new ways to record, hear, and re-imaginemusic: experiences and perspectives that enhance our understanding ofmusic and sound itself. ME/WE + MACHINE Artists, musicians and attendees teach the machine about ourcommunity and what it means to be humans, creators, fans in Seattlein 2023.CREATE 3.0 - Showing, playing with, learning about everything 3.0A maker/workshop track to explore the new tools and thinking that areushering in peer to peer, collectively owned and distributionfutures.WELCOME CENTERSWe're here to help! Learn about the BEYOND program. Get a lesson onactivating your BUMBERBAND. Play with small t tech. Recharge. INTERSECTIONS WITH MUSIC + ARTS PROGRAMMING + EDUCATIONRE-ENTROS Special ticket 21+ immersive theater games starting and ending @SpaceNeedle. ME/WE + The Machine: Humanizing The Machine When every news headline is about how the chatbots are taking over,and the frankensteins unleashed, we want to create a new narrativewhere festival goers “feed the machine” with the creativity andimagination of our arts and culture communities. Inspired by theArt + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, an annual global activitywhere volunteers come together to create and update Wikipediaentries on female artists, Humanize The Machine is a hackathon-likeactivity at Cornish Playhouse where we will bring togethermusicians to teach the machine about writing music, poets to teachthe machine about writing poems and lyrics, community organizers toteach the machine about justice, Bumbershoot founders to teach themachine about a city’s 50 year commitment to celebrating art andculture, Wa Na Wari art collective speaking about public art as avehicle for creating generational wealth for black homeowners. Create 3.0: The Future of Making + Earning / Fandom + Investing What exactly is web 3.0 and its potential for creating new economicmodels to sustain the careers of musicians, artists and makers inour community, and beyond? This day-long program of workshops,speakers, presentations looks at the future of making and earning.Participants will learn about the tools - tokens, smart contracts,micropayments - for creating peer to peer relationships betweenartists and fans that are collectively invested in and co-owned.Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova (who is playing at the festival)will speak about forming Unicorn DAO and its mission to supportwomen and non-binary artist and work with local artists to createan affinity group. Program Overview 8DLBEYOND ProgramREISWCC3MWPROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23

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9BEYOND Program BEYOND ProgramPROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23Opening Night/Call The City To Dinner On Friday September 1st 2023, we will ring a dinner bell heard around the entire city of Seattle. It’s an invitation to the city to come together to share a meal, celebrate the opening of Bumbershoot, the 50th anniversary of the festival, and dream big about the future of our city and the critical role of arts and culture in reinvigorating it. Seattle's premiere chefs will prepare dinners at Seattle Center around the International Fountain and in neighborhoods throughout the city. Dinner guests will be invited to respond to conversation prompts and participate in an after dinner group sing-along, led by musicians playing at the festival. Digital portals will connect the Seattle Center dinner to the neighborhood dinners for the beginning ringing of the bell and the closing sing along.Giant Sing Along Created by Daily Tous Les Jours, a Montreal based art group, Giant Sing Along invites people of all ages and backgrounds to sing their hearts out, karaoke style, sharing in a collective musical experience. A large LED screen projects lyrics and up to 32 microphones can be activated, with the capacity for individual mics to soloed. Festival musicians will make special appearances and local arts organizations and community groups will DJ.Re-Entros Inspired by Seattle's own 1990s immersive theater Entros and BLAST THEORY's (UK) interactive Hide Me experience, this 21+ Live Immersive + Theater Games pop-up sends participants out to the city to collect clues and brings them back to share wins and adventures over drinks @ The Space Needle. * This is a separate ticket program. PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23Deep Listening: The Art + Technology of Sound at Pacific ScienceCenter Laser DomeDesigned for the 1962 World’s Fair by Buckminster Fuller’s firm, thePacific Science Center’s 76-foot-diameter Laser dome is the largestfacility in the US dedicated to laser shows. It's also the longestrunning laser dome since the debut of laser shows in the early1970s. Come experience the laser experience enhanced with projectionand a spatialized sound. Watch the Bumershoot 50-year history lookback. Experience your favorite band illuminated in a choreographedshow of color, images and light. On your way out look up at thescience center arches to see the DATA IS US data light show. Augmented! Experience the Seattle Center's public art tour in augmentedreality. Local augmented reality artists will create digital visualand audio layers of existing public art, capturing the artist'sreflections about their work, and even adding aesthetic layers. Keymoments from Bumbershoot's local arts history will be geolocated andadd gamification to the tour through unlocking clues. A prototype ofAugmented! will launch at this years festival and be enhanced forfuture festivals. Stop by a Welcome Center to pick up a map and getstarted. Data Is Us DATA IS US is a nightly light performance – from the Pacific ScienceCenter arches to the weather balloons in the sky, and screens on thestages – of festival data created together throughout the day - howmany festival goers, how many songs played, how loud we cheered andsang, etc. The data measured will be voted on by ticket holdersleading up to the festival and/or at the Welcome Centers at thestart of each day.

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4BEYOND Program BEYOND ProgramPROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23Opening Night/Call The City To Dinner On Friday September 1st 2023, we will ring a dinner bell heardaround the entire city of Seattle. It’s an invitation to the cityto come together to share a meal, celebrate the opening ofBumbershoot, the 50th anniversary of the festival, and dream bigabout the future of our city and the critical role of arts andculture in reinvigorating it. Seattle's premiere chefs willprepare dinners at Seattle Center around the InternationalFountain and in neighborhoods throughout the city. Dinner guestswill be invited to respond to conversation prompts and participatein an after dinner group sing-along, led by musicians playing atthe festival. Digital portals will connect the Seattle Centerdinner to the neighborhood dinners for the beginning ringing ofthe bell and the closing sing along.Giant Sing Along Created by Daily Tous Les Jours, a Montreal based art group, GiantSing Along invites people of all ages and backgrounds to singtheir hearts out, karaoke style, sharing in a collective musicalexperience. A large LED screen projects lyrics and up to 32microphones can be activated, with the capacity for individualmics to soloed. Festival musicians will make special appearancesand local arts organizations and community groups will DJ.Re-Entros Inspired by Seattle's own 1990s immersive theater Entros and BLASTTHEORY's (UK) interactive Hide Me experience, this 21+ LiveImmersive + Theater Games pop-up sends participants out to the city to collect clues and brings them back to share wins andadventures over drinks @ The Space Needle. * This is a separateticket program. Deep Listening: The Art + Technology of Sound at Pacific ScienceCenter Laser DomeDesigned for the 1962 World’s Fair by Buckminster Fuller’s firm, thePacific Science Center’s 76-foot-diameter Laser dome is the largestfacility in the US dedicated to laser shows. It's also the longestrunning laser dome since the debut of laser shows in the early1970s. Come experience the laser experience enhanced with projectionand a spatialized sound. Watch the Bumershoot 50-year history lookback. Experience your favorite band illuminated in a choreographedshow of color, images and light. On your way out look up at thescience center arches to see the DATA IS US data light show. Augmented! Experience the Seattle Center's public art tour in augmentedreality. Local augmented reality artists will create digital visualand audio layers of existing public art, capturing the artist'sreflections about their work, and even adding aesthetic layers. Keymoments from Bumbershoot's local arts history will be geolocated andadd gamification to the tour through unlocking clues. A prototype ofAugmented! will launch at this years festival and be enhanced forfuture festivals. Stop by a Welcome Center to pick up a map and getstarted. Data Is Us DATA IS US is a nightly light performance – from the Pacific ScienceCenter arches to the weather balloons in the sky, and screens on thestages – of festival data created together throughout the day - howmany festival goers, how many songs played, how loud we cheered andsang, etc. The data measured will be voted on by ticket holdersleading up to the festival and/or at the Welcome Centers at thestart of each day.

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DEEP LISTENING - The Art + Technology of SoundA fresh look at old and new ways to record, hear, and re-imaginemusic: experiences and perspectives that enhance our understanding ofmusic and sound itself. ME/WE + MACHINE Artists, musicians and attendees teach the machine about ourcommunity and what it means to be humans, creators, fans in Seattlein 2023.CREATE 3.0 - Showing, playing with, learning about everything 3.0A maker/workshop track to explore the new tools and thinking that areushering in peer to peer, collectively owned and distributionfutures.WELCOME CENTERSWe're here to help! Learn about the BEYOND program. Get a lessononactivating your BUMBERBAND. Play with small t tech. Recharge. INTERSECTIONS WITH MUSIC + ARTS PROGRAMMING + EDUCATIONRE-ENTROS Special ticket 21+ immersive theater games starting and ending @SpaceNeedle. Program Overview 5DLBEYOND ProgramME/WE + The Machine: Humanizing The Machine When every news headline is about how the chatbots are taking over,and the frankensteins unleashed, we want to create a new narrativewhere festival goers “feed the machine” with the creativity andimagination of our arts and culture communities. Inspired by theArt + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, an annual global activitywhere volunteers come together to create and update Wikipediaentries on female artists, Humanize The Machine is a hackathon-likeactivity at Cornish Playhouse where we will bring togethermusicians to teach the machine about writing music, poets to teachthe machine about writing poems and lyrics, community organizers toteach the machine about justice, Bumbershoot founders to teach themachine about a city’s 50 year commitment to celebrating art andculture, Wa Na Wari art collective speaking about public art as avehicle for creating generational wealth for black homeowners. Create 3.0: The Future of Making + Earning / Fandom + Investing What exactly is web 3.0 and its potential for creating new economicmodels to sustain the careers of musicians, artists and makers inour community, and beyond? This day-long program of workshops,speakers, presentations looks at the future of making and earning.Participants will learn about the tools - tokens, smart contracts,micropayments - for creating peer to peer relationships betweenartists and fans that are collectively invested in and co-owned.Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova (who is playing at the festival)will speak about forming Unicorn DAO and its mission to supportwomen and non-binary artist and work with local artists to createan affinity group. REISWCC3MWPROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23

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2Welcome to BEYOND! The art//tech//culture experimental program@Bumbershoot created to play with, look at, learn about, andeven make the future - in Seattle and BEYOND. Drawing on bigdreams and small t technology, we hope to ignite yourimagination toward new possibilities for experiencing art andmusic, sharing the value we create together, supporting yourfavorite musicians and bands, making a living as a careerartist, and humanizing the machine to facilitate thesepossibilities. You'll find BEYOND integrated at dedicated locations on and offSeattle Center Campus - artists and creative technologists whoare pushing the edges of immersive media, data visualization,projection mapping, wearable technologies and more. Togetherwe'll attend concerts and workshops, listen to speakers andpresentations, play with bots and tokens, be immersed in kineticlight, meditate on deep listening, and explore big questions -how do we dream about, believe in and actually forge thepossibility of a beautiful world in earnest right now.Look for a Welcome Center to get started and jump IN!Artist/Musician: Seattle crowds are lit. I love the crowd-sourced light show thatwe're designing for my set. And I'll make extra money in tips fromfans having easy ways to believe in me. Can't wait.First Time Attendee, new to seattle (mid 20's):I'll spend all weekend at the festival and still have FOMO - haveyou seen this program? I'll here Pussy Riot play AND be there whilethey talk about their DAO and new economy! Can't wait to sing onthe giant Karaoke Machine with friends from all over the world, andI'll learn how to make a song with an AI bot - from Reggie Watts!The BUMBERbands make the experience seamless. Seattle is killing it- watch out SXSW, this looks incredible.Attendee from 1990's, lived in seattle 40 years (mid 60's):This festival feels local again but with a contemporary new twist.I hear they will be playing with data and lights, old and newtechnology visualizing what remains in the ghosts and dreams ofartists then and now - there will be weather balloons floatingabove reporting RT festival data - how valuable it is to experiencethis TOGETHER - the data created during BUMBERSHOOT by artists,musicians and audience wearing the BUMBERBANDS. Hey, if it's goodenough for Disney, it is better when it's information WE own andcan invest in a thriving performer-driven future. Can't wait.Sponsor, mid size audio technology company: We are investing in BEYOND because of the smart, ground-breakingand diverse programming, from thought-provoking presentations tofun interactive engagements to hanging out learning about what'snew and gobsmacking about spatial immersive sound in the mostinteresting place to be while holding a cocktail. It'll providevisibility for our brand in a range of integrated contexts. BEYONDis a fresh look at the intersection of music technology and thefuture of sound.Wired Magazine: Create 3.0 launches at Seattle Festival. In the backyard of some ofBig Techs biggest players, artists and musicians experiment withtools to forge a future of co-creation, co-investment, co-ownership."Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."Laurie AndersonWhy I love BeyondWELCOMEPROPOSED PROGRAM 1.15.23PROPOSED PROGRAM 3.15.23

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