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IMAGINE ZERO MUSIC Festival

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IMAGINE

Zero

Imagine Zero: An aspiring zero waste and zero carbon emissions Music Festival

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FestivaL DETAILS

Location

Main Stage @ Solar Fest

144 Steinberg Rd

Brandon, VT 05733

Dates

Saturday

May 13, 2023

Time

Gates open at 11:30am

Performances from

12pm - Sunset

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Performances


DAWES

KAT WRIGHT

MYRA FLYNN

BEN KOGAN BAND

MICHAEL DAVES

BRANDON HEISLER

BILLY WYLDER

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tickets

ALL DAY PASS $50

Exclusive of taxes and booking fees

All tickets sales are final and non transferable

Event is rain or shine

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PARTNERS

We’re always looking for like-minded cultural partners. If you're interested in sponsorship or to be a vendor, please contact us below.

Alcohol provided by

Food Vendors Include

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Ana's Empenadas

Taco Truck All Stars

Sustainable Eats

Mr Foods Fancy

Ice Cream

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FAQs

What happens if it rains

Weather is weather! The festival goes on rain or shine! We will provide consistent weather updates and prepare all our fans and artists in advance.


Ticketing Issues/Questions

Once you purchase a festival ticket you will receive a confirmation email from our ticket partner, Bookitbee. Your ticket will be attached to that email confirmation. We don’t like wasting paper so please plan to print the ticket at home or have it easily accessible on your smartphone. For ticketing technical issues click here - https://help.liveit.io/support/home


Festival Hours/Run of Show

Gates open at 11 and the first band will start at noon. There will be 15min set changes between each performance with the festival ending around 8pm following the last set. We hope you stay all day and evening, but if you have to leave for any reason, you will be allowed re-entry with a valid Imagine Zero wristband.


Accessibility

  • There will be designated handicap parking spaces available
  • Accessible restrooms will be available
  • Please note we are on private naturally flat and rolling farm grounds. Imagine Zero has attempted to make the area as accessible as possible, however, some areas are beyond our abilities to make completely accommodating.


Parking

SolarFest has roughly 1500 parking spaces including those reserved for handicap. Ticket sales cap at 3000 so it is highly encouraged that you carpool or use ride share apps! It’s better for the environment and you get more time to hang with your friends! The town of Brandon is approximately 1 mile from the venue and you will need to park and walk or use a ride share app if spaces run out.


RIdeShare

Check out GoVT (https://govermont.agilemile.com/?agile_tp=true&trip_type=3&event_id=1682402 ) for options to ride share to the festival!


Food & Drink

There will be a wide selection of food vendors within the venue so come hungry! We do allow small snack bags or snacks that fit in your pocket. What we don’t allow are coolers or picnic baskets. We will have plenty of amazing food options to choose from. We encourage you to bring your own reusable water bottles (water stations will be available onsite) . There will be no outside alcohol allowed in the venue. There’s plenty of alcohol for purchase inside the festival though. We will have security checking IDs and all fans who wish to consume alcohol will be provided a 21+ wristband. All vendors should accept credit cards. ATMs will be be available onsite, so if you wish to pay with cash, please come prepared.


What to/not to bring

Small backpacks, lawn chairs, reusable water bottles and small blankets are allowed.

No outside alcohol, no knives, weapons or fireworks of any kind, no illegal substances or drugs, no tents, and no bikes, scooters or skateboards allowed past the gates.


Pets

Pets, Emotional Support Animals and Therapy dogs are not permitted on the grounds, Service animals are permitted.


Is it a family friendly event?

Family-friendly, fun-friendly, friend-friendly! Children 2 years and under are FREE to enter with a parent or guardian. There will be lawn games throughout the venue and a kids corner with face painting and crafts.


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About Imagine Zero

How was Imagine Zero born?

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Two friends who are passionate about helping the environment, Ben Kogan and Cliff Johnson, talked about how to bring two of their favorite things (music and eco-friendly iniatitives) together in the fall of 2022. By December, they decided to turn that dream into reality and create Imagine Zero.

What is the point of imagine zero?

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To bring people together to enjoy great music in a way that minimizes the impact on the environment and allows us all to learn together how to foster a better path forward for environmental stewardship.

Some of our ASPIRATIONS

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Imagine Zero’s Music Festival Mission Statement


Imagine Zero Music Fest’s mission is to have a festival that is zero carbon and zero waste. That means having the show entirely powered by renewable energy and have no trash. We know it’s unlikely to get all the way there for now, but we think it’s worth a shot to try and see how close we get. Here is a breakdown of the carbon footprint of a tour (credit to Carboncredits.com ) and on the pages that follow you'll find some of the initiatives we are pursuing to get there in each key area.

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For production/venue (34% of carbon impact):

Power the stage, lights, and sound reinforcement with renewable energy. In our case, that’s a trailer with solar panels on top and a battery inside for power storage. It may also include an electric car that has power outlets.


Zero Waste for food and drinks

Replace Single Use cups with Reusables

Eliminate trash from beer and wine cups

Only have kegged beer and wine

Eliminate waste from cans or glass wine bottles

Water refill stations

Eliminate Plastic Bottle Waste

Provide reusable plates for food

Eliminate paper plate and compostable waste from food

Provide Composting

Less food that goes to landfill which ultimately produces

methane, a greenhouse gas.

Power the stage, lights, and sound reinforcement with renewable energy. In our case, that’s a trailer with solar panels on top and a battery inside for power storage. It may also include an electric car that has power outlets.


Zero Waste for food and drinks

Replace Single Use cups with Reusables

Eliminate trash from beer and wine cups

Only have kegged beer and wine

Eliminate waste from cans or glass wine bottles

Water refill stations

Eliminate Plastic Bottle Waste

Provide reusable plates for food

Eliminate paper plate and compostable waste from food

Provide Composting

Less food that goes to landfill which ultimately produces

methane, a greenhouse gas.

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Decarbonize Travel (42% of carbon impact):


For Artists we aspire do some of the following:

Get artists to the venue with zero or limited emissions.


Here’s some of the steps to accomplish that:

Provide them with an Electric No Emissions Vehicle during the time of the festival

Give local bands a ride from home to site and back again

Encourage them to take public transportation such as rail or buses with financial incentives.

Make sure they have a place to charge their EV locally to make the trip easier. Provide a valet service to move the car from charging station when it’s full and shuttle them back and forth from charging station to event site.


For Fans: Get fans to the venue with limited or zero emissions. Imagine Zero is added to GoVT ride share site



Decarbonize Travel (42% of carbon impact):


For Artists we aspire do some of the following:

Get artists to the venue with zero or limited emissions.


Here’s some of the steps to accomplish that:

Provide them with an Electric No Emissions Vehicle during the time of the festival

Give local bands a ride from home to site and back again

Encourage them to take public transportation such as rail or buses with financial incentives.

Make sure they have a place to charge their EV locally to make the trip easier. Provide a valet service to move the car from charging station when it’s full and shuttle them back and forth from charging station to event site.


For Fans: Get fans to the venue with limited or zero emissions. Imagine Zero is added to GoVT ride share site



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For Vendors (12% of carbon footprint):


Providing Carbon Free transportation to the reusable cup vendor from NYC to Brandon (One of the festival organizers is doing this)

Attempt to procure electric vehicles for production team to tow the stage to the site, and bring in equipment for sound reinforcement, and band equipment

Have food vendors offer composting or provide that service for them

In the gaps where we can’t provide low carbon transportation, we will buy carbon offsets or provide ways for fans and vendors to buy carbon offsets.

This festival attempts to provide a living example of what is possible for sustainable festivals. We want people to use all their senses to see, touch, smell, taste and most importantly hear what sustainability sounds like. We want bands, fans, and venues to point to this festival and say hey they did it, why can’t we do the same? Music has the incredible power to bring people together and create change.


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NET ZERO MUSIC FESTIVAL, LLC

PO BOX 134 WOODSTOCK, VT 05091

For inquiries and accessibility arrangements, please reach out to us at:

Phone

(503) 679-5502

Email

imaginezero23@gmail.com

©2023 NET ZERO MUSIC FESTIVAL

All Rights Reserved.

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