ITSTOPIA 2022
The second annual festival encourages creativity and presence through an immersive experience
ITSTOPIA is a large-scale, Black owned, youth-led arts education & cultural immersive experience celebrating its 7th year. The concept is to create a place of joy, reflection, playful curiosity, and connection through a multitude of art forms and participatory activities.
Intro To Success Festival aka ITS FEST will take place on Saturday, Aug 27th, 2022 from 2-10pm on the Northrup King Building Campus at 1500 Jackson St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
FEATURED ARTISTS
Full artist line-up to be announced. The festival will feature installations, immersive art and experiences by Inayah Elamin, Ben Farmer, Zak Khan, Awa Mally, Samson Melkamu, Philli Irvin, Angela Perez, Papa Mbye.
ABOUT ITS
Intro to Success (ITS) is a youth built organization committed to providing positive life experiences for Black and Brown artists & their surrounding community.The goal is an ecosystem of spaces, events, and resources that enhance Black and Brown careers & overall wellness through investment in the arts. Our purpose is to offer opportunity, funding, and education for young BIPOC artists to live their best lives.
Philli Irvin, born and raised in the Northside, recognized the undying need for Black owned spaces like those - ones that spark purpose. To feel truly alive, connected, and vibrant in this world. He gathered a team dedicated to reawakening the creative possibilities of his neighborhood. Intro To Success was born - offering bi-monthly pop-up events, cultural programming, and arts education throughout the community.
This year, our events and programs are led by a conceptual framework we are calling ITS TOPIA. Our goal is to create an inner and out-of-body experience for the audience to release, be present, connect, express, and grow within themselves and each other through music, texture, technology, space,and literal voices of community via interactive installations. The themes were chosen to address recent events—COVID-19 and racial reckoning–that have disproportionately impacted our community. The main installation does not begin or end at a specific structure. The ITS FEST location, on the Northrup King Campus, will be divided into three spaces, each representing a state of consciousness, bringing awareness to forgotten histories/moments with ourselves and our city.
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