Festival 2008
Cayuga Festival Collective
2008 Media Sponsor: Cayuga Radio Group
May 17, 2008
New Ithaca Festival Map for Review!
By now, most everyone knows that we have just expanded Ithaca Festival to include programming at Stewart Park AND on the Commons throughout festival weekend. While on your travels between both locations, please make sure to stop by and visit our famous Farmers' Market on the waterfront!
Enjoy the fun of celebration and discovery at various "festive" locales on Solstice weekend. Now with even more to love!
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May 12, 2008
PROGRAM TO BE RELEASED ON MONDAY, MAY 19!
Thank you to everyone for applying to be a part of Ithaca Festival! We have received applications from hundreds (and hundreds) of area participants representing the best of Ithaca music, dance, theatre, youth activities, food, education, environmentalism, and so much more! We are busy crunching all of the data we have procured and will have a preliminary program for review by this Monday; stay tuned!
May 06, 2008
Ithaca Festival welcomes Orleans!
I-Fest is happy to announce that we are reuniting Ithaca with a hugely popular band with strong roots in town! Enjoy an evening of dancing and swaying with Orleans on Sunday June 22 as headliners at the Sunset Concert Series at Stewart Park on Cayuga Lake.
If you were in town before '72, you probably got turned onto their music during pre-Orleans days, however. The band actually got its start in Ithaca and played a lot of shows in I-Town as a group called Buffalongo, regularly playing weekend gigs at the Salty Dog (now Castaways) in the early 70s.
The quartet's music evolved and refined in a more mainstream direction as they developed their unique pop/rock sound, which led Rolling Stone magazine to christen them "the best unrecorded band in the country."
April 30, 2008
STAND UP FOR WORLD PEACE ITHACA!
Click here to find out all about how you can Stand Up for World Peace! Join Ithaca High School's Trevor Dougherty in contributing blogs and videos leading up to the record breaking event at I-Fest 08!
The youth truly are the future!
April 15, 2008
April 10, 2008
Video Blogs up from LACS, YAP & TC Boces
As part of the I AM ITHACA theme, we have asked people from the community to submit blog comments to our website about what Ithaca means to them. We have just received a handful of video submissions from our friends at the Youth Advocate Program, Lehman Alternative Community School and TC Boces. Check them out here and feel free to submit some of your own!
April 01, 2008
Foundation Grants Gorges Green Expo
Today, I-Fest recieved news that an anonymous foundation has approved a grant for $10,000 to help produce the Gorges Green Expo, an interactive learning lab where emerging green innovation and philosophy intersect with the festival community . Thanks in part to this generous gift, the planning and execution of the festival itself will be a showcase Sustainability in Action in 2008!
In addition to composting food waste, using 100% organic cotton for festival T-shirts, employing solar cells for power, promoting pedal-power and public transportation, and more, our overall goal is to infuse effective environmental, economic and social principles into the very DNA of the event.
Be the change you want to see in Ithaca!
